93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

8:00 AM

COS 48-1

Dynamics and ecological functioning of ecosystem with different predator hunting modes
Chengjun Sun IV, McGill University; Oswald J. Schmitz, Yale University; Michel Loreau, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis

8:20 AM

COS 48-2

Territory provisioning in a foliage-gleaning bird community: The importance of direct monitoring versus structural cues
John M. Landosky, Western Michigan University; Robert Marquis, University of Missouri - St. Louis; Richard L. Clawson, Missouri Department of Conservation; Randy G. Jensen, Missouri Department of Conservation; Paul A. Porneluzi, Central Methodist University; Wendy K. Gram, NEON, Inc.; Julie A. Ryan, Western Michigan University; John T. Lill, George Washington University; Rebecca E. Forkner, George Mason University; Josiane Le Corff, Institut National d'Horticulture - UMR; John R. Faaborg, University of Missouri

8:40 AM

COS 48-3

Risk management in optimal foragers: The effect of sightlines on the vigilance and apprehension of foraging gerbils
Keren Embar, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research; Burt P. Kotler, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Shomen Mukherjee, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research

9:00 AM

COS 48-4

Using stable isotopes to investigate individual diet specialization in California sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis)
Seth D. Newsome, University of New Mexico; M. Tim Tinker, University of California, Center for Ocean Health; Daniel H. Monson, USGS Alaska Science Center; Olav O. Oftedal, National Zoological Park; Katherine Ralls, National Zoological Park; Michelle M. Staedler, Sea Otter Research and Conservation; Marilyn L. Fogel, University of California Merced; James A. Estes, University of California

9:20 AM

COS 48-5

Plants, animals, and universal foraging strategies: Plant root foraging supports the predictions of marginal value theorem
Gordon G. McNickle, Wilfrid Laurier University; James F. Cahill Jr., University of Alberta

9:40 AM

COS 48-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 48-6

Foragers with ecoparasites are more scared: The vigilance and patch use response of gerbils to foxes and fleas
Burt P. Kotler, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Ashael Raveh, Ben-Gurion University; Boris Krasnov, Ben-Gurion University; Zvika Abramsky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

10:10 AM

COS 48-7

Short term exposure to herbicide yields long term effects in map turtles (Graptemys)
Lorin A. Neuman-Lee Biggs, Iowa State University; Fredric J. Janzen, Iowa State University

10:30 AM

COS 48-8

Diet mixing in a parasitic plant: A choice or a constraint?
Emily S. Marquardt, University of Houston; Steven Pennings, University of Houston

10:50 AM

COS 48-9

Foraging behavior and habitat relationships in two sunbird species within a Brachystegia woodland
Joseph O. Oyugi, Wright College; Joel Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago; Christopher J. Whelan, University of Illinois at Chicago

11:10 AM

COS 48-10

How tasty are brachiopods? Examining predation on a "refugia" taxon
Lindsey R. Leighton, University of Alberta; John W. Huntley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Richard A. Krause Jr., Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Sandra J. Carlson, University of California, Davis

COS 48 - Behavior: Foraging and Diet