Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
San Carlos II, San Jose Hilton
COS 73 - Predation and predator-prey interactions
8:00 AMCOS 73-1Size selection by octopuses (E. dofleini) and its impact on intertidal crab communities
Tania L. Vincent, Alaska Pacific University, Courtney Lyons, Alaska Pacific University, Megan Sirr, Alaska Pacific University, David Scheel, Alaska Pacific University
8:20 AMCOS 73-2Dead zones - good or bad?: Hypoxia provides a predation refuge for a vital fisheries species but decimates others
Andrew H. Altieri, Northeastern University
8:40 AMCOS 73-3Relationship between mandibular morphology and predator efficiency in omnivorous and carnivorous carabid beetles
Steven D. Frank, University of Maryland, Robert F. Denno, University of Maryland, Paula M. Shrewsbury, University of Maryland
9:00 AMCOS 73-4The influence of predators on the survival and abundance of isolated neighboring populations of the Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi)
Brian J. Halstead, University of South Florida, Earl D. McCoy, University of South Florida, Henry R. Mushinsky, University of South Florida
9:20 AMCOS 73-5Long-term intraguild predator-prey dynamics among salamanders
Spencer A. Cortwright, Indiana University Northwest
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 73-6Effects of grazing on population size and predation risk for rodents in a coastal California grassland
Matthew D. Johnson, Humboldt State University
10:10 AMCOS 73-7Predator-prey space use as the emergent outcome of a behavioral response race: Effects of prey activity
John I. Hammond, University of California, Davis, Barney Luttbeg, University of California, Davis, Andrew Sih, University of California, Davis
10:30 AMCOS 73-8Interacting coexistence mechanisms: frequency-dependent predation in a variable environment
Jessica J. Kuang, University of Arizona, Peter Chesson, University of Arizona
10:50 AMCOS 73-9Between discrete and continuous: Consumer-resource dynamics with synchronized reproduction
Elizaveta Pachepsky, Microsoft Research, Roger N. Nisbet, University of California, Santa Barbara, William W. Murdoch, University of California, Santa Barbara
11:10 AMCOS 73-10Alteration of sensory abilities regulates the spatial scale of non-lethal predator effects
Delbert L. Smee, Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, Matthew C. Ferner, Univeristy of California, Davis, Marc J. Weissburg, Georgia Tech

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