94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Grand Pavillion I, Hyatt

Presider:

Nicholas J. Deacon, University of Minnesota

8:00 AM

COS 26-1

Specialized morphology corresponds to a generalist’s diet: an integrative approach to linking diet and morphological specialization in mantis shrimp
Maya deVries, University of California, Berkeley

8:20 AM

COS 26-2

Commercial crabbing as a selective pressure affecting diamondback terrapin growth rates in Georgia
Andrew M. Grosse, The University of Georgia; John C. Maerz, University of Georgia

8:40 AM

COS 26-3

Effects of early life history on lifetime fitness in wild sunflower
Kristin L. Mercer, The Ohio State University; Allison Snow, The Ohio State University; Helen M. Alexander, University of Kansas

9:00 AM

COS 26-4

Does avian nest site selection occupy an adaptive peak
Quresh S. Latif, U.S. Forest Service; Sacha Heath, University of California Davis; John T. Rotenberry, University of California, Riverside

9:20 AM

COS 26-5

Growth and survival of tropical live oak seedlings in fragmented dry forests of Costa Rica and the role of local adaptation
Nicholas J. Deacon, University of Minnesota; Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota

9:40 AM

COS 26-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 26-6

Plants predicting the future: Resource gradients as predictors of future growing conditions
Hagai Shemesh, Tel-Hai Academic College; Adi Arbiv, Ben-Gurion University in the Negev; Ofer Ovadia, Ben-Gurion university of the Negev; Ariel Novoplansky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

10:10 AM

COS 26-7

Adaptive characteristics of drought resistance and shade tolerance enhance invasive success of Elaeagnus umbellata Thunb
Spencer N. Bissett, Virginia Commonwealth University; Julie Naumann, US Army Corps of Engineers -ERDC; Donald R. Young, Alaska Department of Fish and Game; Jarrod Edwards, US Army Corps of Engineers; John E. Anderson, US Army Corps of Engineers

10:30 AM

COS 26-8

Plasticity of response in development in an invasive mosquito: Does degree of environmental variability play a role?
Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi; Steven Juliano, Illinois State University; Steven M. Vamosi, University of Calgary

10:50 AM

COS 26-9

Larval dragonflies scare the shape out of larval salamanders: Trait variation of an intermediate predator
Jon M. Davenport, Southeast Missouri State University; David R. Chalcraft, East Carolina University

11:10 AM

COS 26-10

Will trait plasticity across environmental gradients sink trait-based ecology?
Justin P. Wright, Duke University; Samir Arora, Duke University; Ariana Sutton-Grier, University of Maryland and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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