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

Thursday, August 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

San Carlos I, San Jose Hilton

1:30 PM

COS 136-1

Leaf trait trade-offs and their implications for ecosystem dynamics in Hawaiian and continental floras
Sandra Díaz, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Peter M. Vitousek, Stanford University

1:50 PM

COS 136-2

Spatial variation in plant resistance and tolerance in successional habitats
Alyssa Stocks Hakes, Florida State University; James T. Cronin, Louisiana State University

2:10 PM

COS 136-3

Grasses bite back: Experimental demonstration of the effects of silica on foliar digestibility, insect mandible wear, and herbivore growth rates
Sue E. Hartley, University of Sussex; Fergus P. Massey, University of Sussex

2:30 PM

COS 136-4

Costs of sequestration in the buckeye caterpillar (Junonia coenia)
Angela M. Smilanich, University of Nevada, Reno; Lee A. Dyer, University of Nevada; Deane Bowers, University of Colorado; Jeff Q. Chambers, Tulane University; Grant L. Gentry, Samford University

2:50 PM

COS 136-5

Stem dimorphism and herbivory in goldenrod: Recurved (“candy-cane”) stems as a resistance mechanism against galling insects
Michael J. Wise, Bucknell University; Warren G. Abrahamson, Bucknell University

3:10 PM

COS 136-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 136-6

Synchronous flowering increases seed predation in small Silene latifolia patches: A field experiment
Giorgina Bernasconi, University of Lausanne; Jelmer A. Elzinga, University of Lausanne

3:40 PM

COS 136-7

Feeding of the coccinellid beetle, Curinus coeruleus, on extra-floral nectaries of Hibiscus brackenridgei as a mechanism for defense
Kyra Krakos, Washington University in Saint Louis; Gary Booth, Brigham Young University; John Gardner, Brigham Young University

4:00 PM

COS 136-8

Changing hiding patterns in sago pondweed tubers in response to predation by tundra swans
Bert Hidding, Université Laval; Bart A. Nolet, NIOO-KNAW; Marcel Klaassen, Deakin University

4:20 PM

COS 136-9

Associational resistance and susceptibility: Having right or wrong neighbors
Pedro Barbosa, University of Maryland; Ian Kaplan, Purdue University; Zsofia Szendrei, Michigan State University; Adrianna Szczepaniec, Texas A&M University; Jessica Hines, EAWAG; Holly Martinson, University of Maryland

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