Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Sendero Blrm II, Hyatt
COS 41 - Evolution: Selection and Adaptation - Interactions
1:30 PMCOS 41-1Examining the Evolutionary Stability of Coexistence: Competition in Fluctuating Resource Environments
Colin T. Kremer, Michigan State University, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michigan State University
1:50 PMCOS 41-2Analyzing plant defense chemistry at the genus-level: patterns and processes in the tropical legume Inga
John Lokvam, University of Utah, Eric T. Murakami, University of Utah, Phyllis D. Coley, University of Utah, Thomas A. Kursar, University of Utah
2:10 PMCOS 41-3Selection on phenotypic plasticity in Elliott’s blueberry (Vaccinium elliottii), a species demonstrating demographic source-sink dynamics
Jill T. Anderson, Duke University
2:30 PMCOS 41-4Genetic tracking of changes in the relative importance of intra- and interspecific competition linked with habitat restoration
Luc De Meester, K.U.Leuven, Helen Michels, K.U.Leuven, Joost Vanoverbeke, K.U.Leuven
2:50 PMCOS 41-5Genetic variation and local adaptation at an invasion edge of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum)
Elizabeth A. Leger, University of Nevada, Reno, Erin K. Espeland, USDA ARS NPARL, Susan E. Meyer, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Keith R. Merrill, Brigham Young University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 41-6Adaptive evolution and plasticity define the distribution of European weeds across elevation gradients in Hawai'i
Gabi Jakobs, Univesrity of Hawaii at Manoa, Curtis Daehler, University of Hawaii
3:40 PMCOS 41-7Adaptation to invasion: Native lizards modify their behavior and morphology following fire ant invasion
Tracy Langkilde, Penn State university
4:00 PMCOS 41-8Local adaptation in the sea: Prey recruitment drives adaptive differentiation in a predatory snail
Eric Sanford, University of California Davis, David J. Worth, University of California Davis
4:20 PMCOS 41-9Magnitude, rate, and pattern of phenotypic trait changes in exploited prey
Chris T. Darimont, University of California, Santa Cruz, Stephanie Carlson, University of California, Berkeley, Michael T. Kinnison, University of Maine, Paul Paquet, University of Calgary, Thomas E. Reimchen, University of Victoria, Chris Wilmers, University of California, Santa Cruz
4:40 PMCOS 41-10Mammalian sex allocation: Testing adaptive hypotheses in a metatherian model
Kylie A. Robert, The University of Western Australia

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