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

1:30 PM

COS 6-1

Chaos in a long term experiment with a plankton community
Elisa Benincà, University of Amsterdam; Jef Huisman, University of Amsterdam; Reinhard Heerkloss, University of Rostock; Klaus D. Jöhnk, University of Amsterdam; Pedro Branco, University of Amsterdam; Egbert H. van Nes, Wageningen University; Marten Scheffer, Wageningen University; Stephen Ellner, Cornell University

1:50 PM

COS 6-2

Towards a general theory for mutualistic networks
Ugo Bastolla, Centro de Biología Molecular; Migel A. Fortuna, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC; Alberto Pascual-García, Centro de Biología Molecular; Antonio Ferrera, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; Bartolo Luque, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; Jordi Bascompte, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC

2:10 PM

COS 6-3

Predicting interaction strengths in complex food webs - CANCELLED
Ulrich Brose, University of Göttingen; Eric L. Berlow, University of California at Merced; Richard J. Williams, Microsoft Research Ltd.; Jennifer A. Dunne, Santa Fe Institute; Neo D. Martinez, University of Arizona

2:30 PM

COS 6-4

Googling food webs: Measuring species' importance in food webs
Stefano Allesina, University of Chicago; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute

2:50 PM

COS 6-5

Is food-web stability greater than the sum of its parts?
Daniel B. Stouffer, University of Canterbury; Jordi Bascompte, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC

3:10 PM

COS 6-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 6-6

May '72 was right: Universal diet partitioning by marine fish and squid
Axel G. Rossberg, Queen's University Belfast

3:40 PM

COS 6-7

Impact of marine subsidies on coastal food webs in the Bahamas
David A. Spiller, University of California, Davis; Jonah Piovia-Scott, Washington State University; Amber N. Wright, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Louie H. Yang, University of California, Davis; Gaku Takimoto, Toho University; Thomas W. Schoener, University of California, Davis

4:00 PM

COS 6-8

Deconstructing the forest-floor food web: Stable isotope analysis reveals food web compartmentalization
Erin E. Hladilek, University of Kentucky; David H. Wise, University of Illinois at Chicago

4:20 PM

COS 6-9

Stoichiometric constraints on secondary production in a headwater stream food web
Rasmus B. Lauridsen, Queen Mary University of London; Francois K. Edwards, Queen Mary University of London; Michael Bowes, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Guy Woodward, Queen Mary University of London; Alan G. Hildrew, Queen Mary University of London; John Iwan Jones, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

4:40 PM

COS 6-10

Investigating the plasticity of food webs and energy flows in stream-riparian ecosystems - CANCELLED
Mazeika S.P. Sullivan, The Ohio State University

COS 6 - Food Webs