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

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Sendero Blrm II, Hyatt

Presider:

Tracy L. Langkilde, Penn State University

1:30 PM

COS 41-1

Examining the Evolutionary Stability of Coexistence: Competition in Fluctuating Resource Environments
Colin T. Kremer, Yale University; Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michigan State University

1:50 PM

COS 41-2

Analyzing 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 PM

COS 41-3

Selection on phenotypic plasticity in Elliott’s blueberry (Vaccinium elliottii), a species demonstrating demographic source-sink dynamics
Jill T. Anderson, University of South Carolina

2:30 PM

COS 41-4

Genetic tracking of changes in the relative importance of intra- and interspecific competition linked with habitat restoration
Luc De Meester, KU Leuven; Helen Michels, K.U.Leuven; Joost Vanoverbeke, K.U.Leuven

2:50 PM

COS 41-5

Genetic variation and local adaptation at an invasion edge of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum)
Elizabeth A. Leger, University of Nevada, Reno; Erin K. Espeland, USDA-ARS; Susan E. Meyer, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Keith R. Merrill, North Carolina State University

3:10 PM

COS 41-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 41-6

Adaptive 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 PM

COS 41-7

Adaptation to invasion: Native lizards modify their behavior and morphology following fire ant invasion
Tracy L. Langkilde, Penn State University

4:00 PM

COS 41-8

Local 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 PM

COS 41-9

Magnitude, rate, and pattern of phenotypic trait changes in exploited prey
Chris T. Darimont, University of California, Santa Cruz; Stephanie M. Carlson, University of California, Berkeley; Michael T. Kinnison, University of Maine; Paul Paquet, Raincoast Conservation Foundation; Thomas E. Reimchen, University of Victoria; Chris Wilmers, University of California, Santa Cruz

4:40 PM

COS 41-10

Mammalian sex allocation: Testing adaptive hypotheses in a metatherian model
Kylie A. Robert, The University of Western Australia

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