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

COS 139 - Selection and adaptation I: Plants under environmental selection

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

Santa Clara II, San Jose Hilton

1:30 PM

COS 139-1

Stress and domestication traits increase relative fitness of crop-wild hybrids
Kristin L. Mercer, The Ohio State University; David A. Andow, University of Minnesota; Donald L. Wyse, University of Minnesota; Ruth G. Shaw, University of Minnesota

1:50 PM

COS 139-2

Independent evolution of suites of leaf and root functional traits in grassland plants
Steven W. Kembel, Université du Québec à Montréal

2:10 PM

COS 139-3

Evolution of a native blueberry (Vaccinium elliottii) in a spatially and temporally heterogeneous landscape
Jill T. Anderson, University of South Carolina

2:30 PM

COS 139-4

Effects of gene flow and local adaptation on the distribution of an intertidal alga
Cynthia G. Hays, University of California - Davis

2:50 PM

COS 139-5

A change in climate causes rapid evolution of multiple life-history traits in an annual plant
Steven J. Franks, Fordham University; Arthur E. Weis, The University of California Irvine

3:10 PM

COS 139-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 139-6

Red stems in Apocynum cannabinum plants under stress: Plasticity, genetic variation, and function
Dana A. Dudle, DePauw University; Allison C. Barnes, DePauw University; Erica J. Ross, DePauw University; David T. Furman, DePauw University; Lauren M. Guggina, DePauw University; Nicole R. Stone, DePauw University

3:40 PM

COS 139-7

Drought-induced differences in gene expression in parental and hybrid plants of the Piriqueta caroliniana complex
Heather E. Machado, Portland State University; Mitchell B. Cruzan, Portland State University

4:00 PM

COS 139-8

Responses to salinity in the freshwater marsh plant, Iris hexagona: Local adaptation or plasticity?
Sharmila Pathikonda, Arizona State University; Susan Mopper, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

4:20 PM

COS 139-9

Seasonal timing of rainfall influences hydraulic and leaf trait evolution in evergreen shrubs
Radika Bhaskar, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Alfonso Valiente-Banuet, UNAM; Todd Dawson, University of California, Berkeley; David Ackerly, University of California, Berkeley

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