Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
102 B, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 61 - Resource Allocation and Partitioning
8:00 AMCOS 61-1An experimental assessment of soil-based resource partitioning in understory palms
Kelly M. Andersen, University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana
8:20 AMCOS 61-2Modeling sectored resource allocation in patchy soils: A new perspective on root precision and nutrient foraging by plants
Alexandra M. Thorn, Tufts University, Colin M. Orians, Tufts University
8:40 AMCOS 61-3Legume host effects on resource-hoarding in rhizobium bacteroids
Ryoko Oono, University of Minnesota, R. Ford Denison, University of Minnesota
9:00 AMCOS 61-4First evidence for hydraulic fragmentation in an herbaceous aridland perennial: Cryptantha flava
Roberto Salguero-Gomez, The University of Pennsylvania, Brenda B. Casper, University of Pennsylvania
9:20 AMCOS 61-5Evidence of competition in a Plethodon community: Divergence, convergence, and competitive exclusion
Jennifer M. Deitloff, Iowa State University
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 61-6Environmental control over male and female sex allocation in California oaks
Johannes M. H. Knops, University of Nebraska, Walter D. Koenig, University of California, Berkeley, William J. Carmen, Hastings NHR
10:10 AMCOS 61-7Rodent biomass changes in the Chihuahuan Desert, Mexico
Lucina Hernández, SUNY Oswego, John W. Laundré, SUNY Oswego, Alberto Gonzalez-Romero, Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.
10:30 AMCOS 61-8Variation in plant- and leaf-level traits of Dicerandra (Lamiaceae) congeners native to sandhill communities and Florida scrub
Amethyst G. Merchant, Grand View College, Stephen S. Mulkey, University of Florida

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