ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

N, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 26-1

Genetic basis of the seed size/seed number trade-off in Arabidopsis thaliana
Cloé Paul-Victor, University of Zürich; Lindsay Turnbull, University of Zürich; Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich

8:20 AM

COS 26-2

Herbivore-mediated ecological costs of reproduction shape the life history of a desert cactus
Thomas Miller, Rice University; Brigitte Tenhumberg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Svata M. Louda, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

8:40 AM

COS 26-3

No growth/reproduction tradeoff in California oaks
Johannes M. H. Knops, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Walter D. Koenig, Cornell University; William J. Carmen, Hastings NHR

9:00 AM

COS 26-4

Maintenance of genetic diversity: Protected polymorphisms and stochasticity
Jessica E. Metcalf, Duke University; Mark Rees, University of Sheffield; Dylan Z. Childs, University of Sheffield; Andy W. Sheppard, CSIRO Entomology; Peter Grubb, Cambridge Universiy

9:20 AM

COS 26-5

It’s what’s underneath that matters: Big roots, not height, enhance competitive ability in a grassland
Michael Rawson Clark, University of Alberta; Eric G Lamb, University of Alberta; Steven W Kembel, University of Alberta; James F Cahill, University of Alberta

9:40 AM

COS 26-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 26-6

Relationships between population size and the mating system in natural populations of Sabatia angularis (Gentianaceae): Implications for population persistence
Rachel Spigler, Temple University; James L. Hamrick, University of Georgia; Shu-mei Chang, University of Georgia

10:10 AM

COS 26-7

Inbreeding depression in resistance to herbivores, and life-history traits in Datura stramonium
Rafael Bello-Bedoy, Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Juan Nuñez-Farfan, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

10:30 AM

COS 26-8

Co-occurrence of multiple life history strategies in fire-prone landscapes
Peter D. Cowan, University of Calfornia at Berkeley; David Ackerly, University of California

10:50 AM

COS 26-9

Trade-offs repel temptation: Evolutionary dynamics of exploitation in the rhizobia-legume mutualism
Andrea Mathias, University of Arizona, Tucson; Maren L. Friesen, University of California, Davis

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