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

COS 120 - Seed Production, Dispersal, and Predation

Friday, August 8, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

101 B, Midwest Airlines Center

8:00 AM

COS 120-1

Effects of vertebrate seed dispersers, insect seed predators, and pathogens in seed survival at the pre-dispersal stage of several tropical woody plants
Noelle G. Beckman, The Ohio State University; Helene Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

8:20 AM

COS 120-2

Seed limitation aggravated by establishment limitation in an unsaturated late-successional old field: The effects of water, adults, litter, and small mammals on seeds and seedlings
Ray Dybzinski, Princeton University; David Tilman, University of Minnesota

8:40 AM

COS 120-3

Recruitment dynamics of Guettarda viburnoides (RUB.): Connecting patterns of seed dispersal with seedling establishment in a neotropical savanna
Andrea P. Loayza, Universidad de La Serena; Bette A. Loiselle, University of Missouri - St. Louis

9:00 AM

COS 120-4

Colonization of shade coffee agroecosystems: Genetic insights into historical seed dispersal processes
Shalene Jha, University of Texas at Austin; Christopher W. Dick, University of Michigan

9:20 AM

COS 120-5

The impact of bird loss on seed dispersal in the forests of Guam
Haldre S. Rogers, Iowa State; Joshua J. Tewksbury, Future Earth; Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, University of Washington

9:40 AM

COS 120-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 120-6

Effects of insect herbivory on patterns of seed set in platte thistle (Cirsium canescens Nutt.)
Natalie M. West, University of Illinois; Svata M. Louda, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

10:10 AM

COS 120-7

The effect of temperature and humidity on seed release in the invasive species Carduus nutans and Carduus acanthoides
Katherine Myers Marchetto, The Pennsylvania State University; Eelke Jongejans, Radboud University; Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University

10:30 AM

COS 120-8

The effect of vertical and horizontal wind speeds on seed abscission
David F. Greene, Concordia University; Mauricio Quesada, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Cory Alder, Concordia University

10:50 AM

COS 120-9

Scale-dependent seed predation and survival in Bolivian lowland forests
Rodrigo S. Rios, Saint Louis University; Gerardo R. Camilo, Saint Louis University

11:10 AM

COS 120-10

Investigating seed longevity of big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
Upekala C. Wijayratne, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center; David A. Pyke, U.S. Geological Survey

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