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

Monday, August 6, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Blrm Salon II, San Jose Marriott

1:30 PM

COS 9-1

The elements of food web stability
Gabriel Gellner, Colorado State University; Kevin McCann, University of Guelph

1:50 PM

COS 9-2

Signatures of human-induced instability in food web architecture
Neil Rooney, University of Guelph; Kevin McCann, University of Guelph; John C. Moore, Colorado State University; Jason Rip, University of Guelph

2:10 PM

COS 9-3

Omnivory and food web stability: Omnivorous fish stabilize phytoplankton biomass and diversity, but destabilize composition
Michael J. Vanni, Miami University; Stephen J. Harper, Pinellas County; Martin J. Horgan, Miami University; Maria J. Gonzalez, Miami University

2:30 PM

COS 9-4

Food-web stability emerges from allometric link-degree distributions
Sonja B. Otto, Darmstadt University of Technology; Björn C. Rall, Darmstadt University of Technology; Ulrich Brose, University of Göttingen

2:50 PM

COS 9-5

Alternative prey and the dynamics of intraguild predation: Theoretical perspectives
Robert D. Holt, University of Florida; Gary R. Huxel, University of Arkansas; Michael Barfield, University of Florida

3:10 PM

COS 9-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 9-6

Predator/prey alteration and connectance modification in food webs
Jonathan L. Bowers, Western Kentucky University; Albert J. Meier, Western Kentucky University; Meridith L. Bartley, New Mexico State University

3:40 PM

COS 9-7

The effect of temperature on the relative importance of top-down and bottom-up effects
David Hoekman, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Gary E. Belovsky, University of Notre Dame

4:00 PM

COS 9-8

The effects of environmental stochasticity on population interaction webs
Samraat Pawar, University of Chicago; Oskar Burger, University of New Mexico

4:20 PM

COS 9-9

Testing for a transgenerational, behaviorally mediated trophic cascade
Leon Blaustein, University of Haifa; Marc Mangel, University of California at Santa Cruz

4:40 PM

COS 9-10

Where do they go when they die?
Meridith L. Bartley, New Mexico State University; Jonathan L. Bowers, Western Kentucky University; Albert J. Meier, Western Kentucky University

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