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

Thursday, August 6, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Sendero Blrm II, Hyatt

Presider:

Bonnie K. Ellis, Flathead Lake Biological Station, The University of Montana

8:00 AM

COS 92-1

Allochthonous organic carbon in sediments: A subsidy to the benthic food web
Pia Bartels, Uppsala University; Peter Eklöv, Uppsala University; Cristian Gudasz, Umeå 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 AM

COS 92-2

Estimating methylmercury concentrations in aquatic food webs: Implications of variable biomagnification factors and primary consumer concentrations
Stephanie N. Schmidt, St. Olaf College

8:40 AM

COS 92-3

Marine derived nutrients in rvers of the north Pacific Rm
Bonnie K. Ellis, Flathead Lake Biological Station, The University of Montana; Jack A. Stanford, The University of Montana

9:00 AM

COS 92-4

Examining 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 AM

COS 92-5

Phylogenetically structured food-webs are interval in low- and high-dimensional niche spaces
Axel G. Rossberg, Queen's University Belfast; Åke Brännström, Umeå Universitet; Ulf Dieckmann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

9:40 AM

COS 92-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 92-6

The empirical nonlinearity of multispecies functional responses and the stability of generalist predator-prey interactions
Mark Novak, Oregon State University

10:10 AM

COS 92-7

Biotic 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 AM

COS 92-8

Wolves, elk and willows: Does reducing herbivory allow willow recovery on Yellowstone’s Northern Range?
Kristin N. Marshall, NOAA Fisheries; David J. Cooper, Colorado State University; N. Thompson Hobbs, Colorado State University; Jennifer A. Hoeting, Colorado State University

10:50 AM

COS 92-9

Mechanisms for compartmentalization in food webs
Roger Guimerà, Northwestern University; Daniel B. Stouffer, University of Canterbury; 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 AM

COS 92-10

Modeling food-web interactions in a metacommunity
Pradeep Pillai, Northeastern Unviversity; Andrew Gonzalez, McGill University; Michel Loreau, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis

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