Thursday, August 6, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Sendero Blrm II, Hyatt
COS 92 - Food Webs
8:00 AMCOS 92-1Allochthonous organic carbon in sediments: A subsidy to the benthic food web
Pia Bartels, Uppsala University, Peter Eklöv, Uppsala University, Cristian Gudasz, Uppsala University, Mats Jansson, Umeå University, Jan Karlsson, Umeå University, Lennart Persson, Umeå University, Katrin Premke, Uppsala University, Anja Rubach, Umeå University, Kristin Steger, Uppsala University, Lars Tranvik, Uppsala University
8:20 AMCOS 92-2Estimating methylmercury concentrations in aquatic food webs: Implications of variable biomagnification factors and primary consumer concentrations
Stephanie N. Schmidt, St. Olaf College
8:40 AMCOS 92-3Marine derived nutrients in rvers of the north Pacific Rm
Bonnie K. Ellis, Flathead Lake Biological Station, The University of Montana, Jack A. Stanford, Flathead Lake Biological Station, The University of Montana
9:00 AMCOS 92-4Examining how isotopic variability in primary producers and an atypical coastal upwelling system combine to affect kelp forest consumers in Big Sur, California
Melissa M. Foley, University of California Santa Cruz
9:20 AMCOS 92-5Phylogenetically structured food-webs are interval in low- and high-dimensional niche spaces
Axel G. Rossberg, Queen's University Belfast, Åke Brännström, University of Umeå, Ulf Dieckmann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 92-6The empirical nonlinearity of multispecies functional responses and the stability of generalist predator-prey interactions
Mark Novak, University of California, Santa Cruz
10:10 AMCOS 92-7Biotic and abiotic factors combine in nonlinear ways to affect tritrophic interactions in a model plant,  grasshopper, spider food chain
Angela N. Laws, Kansas State University, Anthony Joern, Kansas State University
10:30 AMCOS 92-8Wolves, elk and willows: Does reducing herbivory allow willow recovery on Yellowstone’s Northern Range?
Kristin N. Marshall, Colorado State University, David J. Cooper, Colorado State University, N. Thompson Hobbs, Colorado State University, Jennifer A. Hoeting, Colorado State University
10:50 AMCOS 92-9Mechanisms for compartmentalization in food webs
Roger Guimerà, Northwestern University, Daniel B. Stouffer, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Marta Sales-Pardo, Northwestern University, Elizabeth A. Leicht, University of California, Davis, Mark E. J. Newman, University of Michigan, Luis A. N. Amaral, Northwestern University
11:10 AMCOS 92-10Modeling food-web interactions in a metacommunity
Pradeep Pillai, McGill, Andrew Gonzalez, McGill, Michel Loreau, McGill

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