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

Thursday, August 7, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

201 A, Midwest Airlines Center

8:00 AM

COS 85-1

Sudden loss of sea urchins at Sunset Bay, Oregon, following documented presence for 40 years
Thomas A. Ebert, Oregon State University; Benjamin M. Grupe, University of California San Diego

8:20 AM

COS 85-2

Ecosystem functions of tidal fresh, brackish, and salt marshes
Kazimierz Wieski, University of Houston; Hongyu Guo, University of Houston; Steven Pennings, University of Houston

8:40 AM

COS 85-3

Exploring mangrove lifestyles through transcriptomics
Maheshi Dassanayake, University of Illinois; John Cheeseman, University of Illinois; Hans Bohnert, University of Illinois

9:00 AM

COS 85-4

Density-dependent stochasticity in the dynamics of rocky intertidal communities
James D. Forester, University of Minnesota; J. Timothy Wootton, The University of Chicago

9:20 AM

COS 85-5

Habitat selection and individual fitness of barnacle recruits
Jonathan N. Blythe, WHOI/MIT Joint Program in Biological Oceanography; Jesús Pineda, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

9:40 AM

COS 85-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 85-6

Passerine dispersal of the nitrogen-fixing root endosymbiont Frankia on a Virginia barrier island
Spencer N. Bissett, Virginia Commonwealth University; Donald R. Young, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

10:10 AM

COS 85-7

Differing effects of freezing and winter conditions in South Carolina on four Chinese tallow populations from its native and invasive range
Isaac W. Park, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Saara J. DeWalt, Clemson University; Evan Siemann, Rice University; William E. Rogers, Texas A&M University

10:30 AM

COS 85-8

Avian seed dispersal on Virginia barrier islands: The influence on vegetation community structure and patch dynamics
Sheri A. Shiflett, Virginia Commonwealth University; Donald R. Young, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

10:50 AM

COS 85-9

Linking individuals, communities, and macroecology to reveal the consequences of exploitation in coral reef fish
Thomas J. Webb, University of Sheffield; Nicholas K. Dulvy, Simon Fraser University; Nick V.C. Polunin, Newcastle University

11:10 AM

COS 85-10

Not the alewife you're used to: The politics of trophic interactions between sea-run alewife and naturalized smallmouth bass in the St. Croix River, Maine
Theodore V. Willis, University of Southern Maine

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COS 85 - Estuarine, Coastal, and Intertidal Systems