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

Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

202 D, Midwest Airlines Center

8:00 AM

COS 54-1

Ploidy of symbiotic endophytes determine host response to environment
Cyd E. Hamilton, Arizona State University

8:20 AM

COS 54-2

Facilitation of sub-alpine fir and aspen regeneration by overstory aspen
William J. Calder, Brigham Young University; Samuel B. St Clair, Brigham Young University

8:40 AM

COS 54-3

Investigating population dynamics in the mutualistic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plants: Effects of different fungal densities on plant fitness
Sarah C. Richardson, DePaul University; James D. Bever, Indiana University; Rocio Hernandez, DePaul University

9:00 AM

COS 54-4

Context-dependent effects of Juncus effusus on survival and growth of native and exotic plants in Florida grazed wetlands
Elizabeth Hermanson Boughton, Archbold Biological Station; Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, University of Central Florida; Patrick J. Bohlen, University of Central Florida

9:20 AM

COS 54-5

Lack of mutualisms as barrier for Pinaceae invasion
Martin A. Nuñez, Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente, CONICET; Thomas R. Horton, State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Daniel Simberloff, The University of Tennessee

9:40 AM

COS 54-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 54-6

Bacterial associates of the bark beetle: The little dictators of insect-fungal interactions that drive landscape-level processes
Aaron S. Adams, University of Wisconsin; Kier D. Klepzig, Joseph W Jones Ecological Research Center; Kenneth F. Raffa, University of Wisconsin

10:10 AM

COS 54-7

Complex interactions between populations of native ants, non-native ants, and Japanese knotweed
Manuel A. Morales, Williams College; Elise N. Leduc, Williams College; Joshua H. Ness, Skidmore College

10:30 AM

COS 54-8

Costs of mutualism: Optimal defense theory predicts investment in extrafloral nectar resources in ant-plant interactions
J. Nathaniel Holland, Rice University; Scott A. Chamberlain, Rice University; Katherine C. Horn, Rice University

10:50 AM

COS 54-9

Ant protection and plant reproduction: A meta-analysis of mutualism strength and its ecological correlates
Matthew D. Trager, University of Florida; Smriti Bhotika, University of Florida; Jeffrey A. Hostetler, University of Florida; Gilda V. Andrade, Universidade Federal do Maranhão; Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal, INIBIOMA, CONICET; C. Seabird McKeon, University of Florida; Craig W. Osenberg, University of Florida

11:10 AM

COS 54-10

Pink methylotrophic mutualists: Facilitators of exotic plant invasion?
Irina C. Irvine, University of California, Irvine; Jennifer B.H. Martiny, University of California, Irvine; Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley

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