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

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

J2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 84-1

Plant-rhizobia mutualism influences aphid abundance on soybean
Jennifer M. Dean, The Nature Conservancy; Consuelo M. De Moraes, The Pennsylvania State University

1:50 PM

COS 84-2

Mutualistic associations facilitate swainsonine production in species of Oxytropis from North America and China
Jose R. Valdez-Barillas, Colorado State University; R. Dennis Child, Colorado State University; Rebecca Creamer, New Mexico State University; Dale Gardner, USDA/ARS; Mengli Zhao, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University; Ping Lu, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University; Deana Baucom, New Mexico State University; Michael H. Ralphs, USDA/ARS Poisonous Plant Laboratory; Mark Paschke, Colorado State University

2:10 PM

COS 84-3

Evolutionary conflict over resource hoarding in the legume-rhizobium symbiosis
Will Ratcliff, University of Minnesota; Ryoko Oono, University of Minnesota; Andy Coffman, University of Minnesota; R. Ford Denison, University of Minnesota

2:30 PM

COS 84-4

How long-lasting are mutualistic interactions? A case study of a lichen-oak mutualism
Silke Werth, University of California, Los Angeles; Delphine P. Grivet, University of California, Los Angeles; Victoria L. Sork, University of California, Los Angeles

2:50 PM

COS 84-5

Florivores limit cost of mutualism in the yucca-yucca moth association
Kari A. Segraves, Syracuse University

3:10 PM

COS 84-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 84-6

Multiple partners confer higher lifetime fitness to host plants in an African ant-plant mutualism
Daniel F. Doak, University of Colorado; Todd M. Palmer, University of Florida; Truman Young, University of California, Davis; Maureen L. Stanton, University of California-Davis

3:40 PM

COS 84-7

Tropical keystone guild interactions: Fruit removal by a frugivore foraging guild and disperser attraction by a Ficus fruiting guild in Ankarana, Madagascar
Brent J. Sewall, Temple University; Amy L. Freestone, Temple University; Joseph Hawes, University of East Anglia

4:00 PM

COS 84-8

Testing the dispersal syndrome hypothesis on Ficus (Moraceae): The effect of color, odor, and size on fig preference by birds and mammals
Silvia B. Lomáscolo, Universidad de Cuyo

4:20 PM

COS 84-9

The adaptive diversification of mutualisms: Organism ecology drives macroevolutionary patterns
Regis Ferriere, Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superieure; Mathias Gauduchon, Ecole Normale Supérieure; James C. Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

4:40 PM

COS 84-10

Phylogenetic structure in mutualistic networks
Jessica E. Lavabre, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC; Enrico L. Rezende, University of Roehampton; Paulo R. Guimarães, Jr, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC; Pedro Jordano, Estacion Biologica de Donana, EBD-CSIC; Jordi Bascompte, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC

See more of: Contributed Oral and Poster Abstracts

<< Previous Session | Next Session >>

COS 84 - Ecology and evolution of mutualism