Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
102 B, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 31 - Scaling: Body Size and Allometry
8:00 AMCOS 31-1Macroecology of tree size distributions
Ethan P. White, Utah State University, Brian J. Enquist, University of Arizona, James C. Stegen, University of Arizona, Charles A. Price, Georgia Institute of Technology, Scott Stark, University of Arizona
8:20 AMCOS 31-2The scaling of leaf venation architecture: General laws, functional implications, and paleo-applications
Lawren Sack, UCLA, Christine Scoffoni, University of Bordeaux, Kristen Frole, University of Hawaii
8:40 AMCOS 31-3Body mass and temperature dependent functional response models - CANCELLED
Olivera Vucic-Pestic, Darmstadt University of Technology, Björn C. Rall, Darmstadt University of Technology, David Ott, Darmstadt University of Technology, Roswitha B. Ehnes, Darmstadt University of Technology, Ulrich Brose, Darmstadt University of Technology
9:00 AMCOS 31-4The metabolism of lake plankton does not support the metabolic theory of ecology
Francisco De Castro, University of Potsdam, Ursula Gaedke, University of Potsdam
9:20 AMCOS 31-5Ant colony size and the scaling of reproductive effort
Jonathan Z. Shik, University of Oklahoma
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 31-6Stabilization of omnivory by metabolic and foraging theory
Björn C. Rall, Darmstadt University of Technology, Florian D. Schneider, Darmstadt University of Technology, Ulrich Brose, Darmstadt University of Technology
10:10 AMCOS 31-7Evaluating scaling models in biology using a hierarchical Bayesian framework
Charles A. Price, Georgia Institute of Technology, Ethan P. White, Utah State University, Joshua S. Weitz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Kiona Ogle, University of Wyoming

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