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

Friday, August 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

F2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 161-1

Explaining the persistence of less-mutualistic rhizobia despite legume host sanctions
R. Ford Denison, University of Minnesota; Will Ratcliff, University of Minnesota; Supriya Kadam, University of Minnesota; Ryoko Oono, University of Minnesota; Robert Rousseau, UC Davis; Lyistrata Munson, UC Davis; Alain Chapon, UC Davis; E. Toby Kiers, Vrije Universiteit

8:20 AM

COS 161-2

Genotype-dependence, partner choice, and local adaptation in mutualism: A study of natural plant and rhizobium populations
Katy D. Heath, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Peter Tiffin, University of Minnesota

8:40 AM

COS 161-3

Competitor- and herbivore-mediated indirect effects of elevated CO₂ on plant evolution
Jennifer A. Lau, Michigan State University; Ruth G. Shaw, University of Minnesota; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota; Peter Tiffin, University of Minnesota

9:00 AM

COS 161-4

Trophic cascades alter natural selection on plant populations: Resistance and tolerance to herbivory on Mimulus guttatus
Jon R. Haloin, University of California, Davis

9:20 AM

COS 161-5

A geographic mosaic of tri-trophic interactions: Bottom-up and top-down selection forces change across the landscape
David Solance Smith, Northern Arizona University; Joe Bailey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Jennifer A. Schweitzer, University of Tennessee - Knoxville; Stephen M. Shuster, Northern Arizona University; Thomas Whitham, Northern Arizona University

9:40 AM

COS 161-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 161-6

Convergence of ecological and evolutionary rates: Predator-driven evolution of population growth rate
Casey P. terHorst, California State University, Northridge; Thomas E. Miller, Florida State University

10:10 AM

COS 161-7

Predictable and severe disturbance from an ecosystem engineer controls aquatic insect phenology
Jonathan W. Moore, Simon Fraser University; Daniel E. Schindler, University of Washington; Justin Fox, University of California Santa Cruz; Jackie L. Carter, University of Washington

10:30 AM

COS 161-8

Evolutionary dynamics of aggregation behavior in zooplankton
Ariane Verdy, University of California, Los Angeles; Glenn R. Flierl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:50 AM

COS 161-9

Effects of intrapopulation genetic variation on adaptive niche expansion
Deepa A. Agashe, Harvard University

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