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

Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

201 B, Midwest Airlines Center

1:30 PM

COS 41-1

Do slow trees grow old? Growth and longevity in old-growth ponderosa pine trees of the inland Northwest
Eric G. Keeling, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Anna Sala, University of Montana

1:50 PM

COS 41-2

Does light availability influence the trade-off between sexual and clonal reproduction?
David Matlaga, USDA-ARS

2:10 PM

COS 41-3

Evolutionary ecology of aging in the garter snake Thamnohis elegans
Anne M. Bronikowski, Iowa State University

2:30 PM

COS 41-4

Sustainable growth is inevitably slow: Lessons from plant carbon allocation strategies for structural defense and storage
Kaoru Kitajima, University of Florida

2:50 PM

COS 41-5

Life-history evolution of an invasive species
Kirk A. Moloney, Iowa State University; Katja Tielboerger, Tuebingen University; Frank Schurr, University of Potsdam; Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University

3:10 PM

COS 41-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 41-6

Stonefly life-history differences between runoff-dominated and spring-fed streams: A reciprocal transplant experiment
Asako M. Yamamuro, Oregon State University; David A. Lytle, Oregon State University

3:40 PM

COS 41-7

Evolutionary diversification and mechanisms of coexistence in desert annual communities
Andrea Mathias, University of Arizona, Tucson; Peter Chesson, University of Arizona

4:00 PM

COS 41-8

Three years of observations of the flowering phenology of the tropical dry forest tree Enterolobium cyclocarpum (Guanacaste)
Oscar J. Rocha, Kent State University; Carlos Gomez, Universidad de Costa Rica; James L. Hamrick, University of Georgia

4:20 PM

COS 41-9

Fishery, life-history change, and population dynamics of mantis shrimp in Tokyo Bay
Mifuyu Nakajima, Stanford University; Keita Kodama, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan; Toshihiro Horiguchi, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan; Yoshinari Tanaka, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan

4:40 PM

COS 41-10

Condition-dependent tenure at breeding sites by male sand fiddler crabs
Bengt J. Allen, California State University, Long Beach; Dominique DeLambert, Stony Brook University; Jeffrey S. Levinton, Stony Brook University

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