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

Thursday, August 9, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

F1, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 113-1

Rapid evolution and ecological host-parasite dynamics
Meghan A. Duffy, University of Michigan; Lena Sivars-Becker, Indiana University

8:20 AM

COS 113-2

Effects of host genetic variation on microparasite prevalence
Holly Ganz, University of California, Berkeley; Dieter Ebert, Zoologisches Institut der Universität Basel

8:40 AM

COS 113-3

Landscape influence on parasite distribution in wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) in the prairie pothole region of North Dakota
Eric E. Pulis, University of North Dakota; Robert Newman, University of North Dakota; Vasyl Tkach, University of North Dakota

9:00 AM

COS 113-4

Effects of surrounding land use and wetland spatial position on amphibian parasite communities
Richard B. Hartson, University of Idaho; Pieter T.J. Johnson, University of Colorado; Vanessa E. Keller, University Wisconsin - La Crosse

9:20 AM

COS 113-5

Temperature and host density influence susceptibility of frog eggs to disease
Gregory Russell Ruthig, Arizona State University

9:40 AM

COS 113-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 113-6

Effects of host migration and aquaculture on disease threats to wild fish populations
Martin Krkosek, University of Otago

10:10 AM

COS 113-7

Two-cycle dynamics of alpine Parnassius smintheus (Papilionidae) butterfly populations: Host-parasitoid or consumer-resource interactions?
Caroline J. Bampfylde, University of Alberta; Jens Roland, University of Alberta

10:30 AM

COS 113-8

Eating yourself sicker: Resource ecology of virulence in planktonic and plant systems
Spencer Hall, Indiana University; Claes Becker, Sweco Environment; Joseph Simonis, Florida State University; C. Adam Brown, Indiana University; Roger N. Nisbet, University of California, Santa Barbara; Alan J. Tessier, National Science Foundation; Carla E. Cáceres, University of Illinois

10:50 AM

COS 113-9

Testing a key assumption of host-pathogen theory: Density-dependent disease transmission
Amy L. Greer, Arizona State University; James P. Collins, Arizona State University

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