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

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

201 A, Midwest Airlines Center

8:00 AM

COS 116-1

Root trait diversity among AM and EM temperate trees: Partitioning ecological and phylogenetic variation
Louise H. Comas, Penn State University; Hilary S. Callahan, Barnard College, Columbia University

8:20 AM

COS 116-2

Elucidating biotic factors that influence fungal endophyte community assembly
Megan Saunders, University of California Santa Cruz; Anthony E. Glenn, USDA, ARS, SAA, RBRRC; Linda M. Kohn, University of Toronto

8:40 AM

COS 116-3

Both conspecific and heterospecific tree-soil feedbacks influence growth and survivorship of temperate tree seedlings
Sarah McCarthy-Neumann, Michigan State University; Richard K. Kobe, Michigan State University

9:00 AM

COS 116-4

Aphid secondary parasitoids can discriminate against hosts from plants associated with fungal endosymbionts
Simone A. Härri, University of Guelph; Jochen Krauss, University of Würzburg; Christine B. Müller, Institute of Environmental Sciences

9:20 AM

COS 116-5

Soil and mycorrhizal fungi origin influence the growth of Inga edulis seedlings transplanted into degraded pasture
Riley T. Pratt, University of California, Irvine

9:40 AM

COS 116-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 116-6

Plant resistance to bacterial pathogens in nature
M. Brian Traw, University of Pittsburgh

10:10 AM

COS 116-7

Association of bark beetle Hypocryphalus mangiferae Stebbing (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) with the pathogens Ceratocystis fambriata and Phomopsis sp in relation to mango sudden death in Pakistan
Shafqat Saeed, Bahauddin Zakariya University; Assad Masood, Bahauddin Zakariya University

10:30 AM

COS 116-8

Pooled samples bias estimates of fungal species richness and composition
Peter G. Avis, Indiana University Northwest; Greg Mueller, The Field Museum of Natural History; Sara Branco, The Field Museum of Natural History; Yaya Tang, Yale University

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