Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
411, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 41 - Mutualism and Facilitation
1:30 PM	COS 41-1		Competition for mutualists: Effects on plant performance and population dynamics in a facultative plant-ant mutualism Arietta E. Fleming-Davies, Duke University
1:50 PM	COS 41-2		Mosses facilitate forb species establishment and diversity in four rich fens in New York and Michigan:  Support for expansion of the hump-backed model of species richness Katherine F. Crowley, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Barbara L. Bedford, Cornell University
2:10 PM	COS 41-3		Trade-based mutualism: How stoichiometry, uptake efficiencies, population sizes, and resource availability affect the price and the benefit of trade Emily Grman, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Todd M.P. Robinson, Michigan State University, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michigan State University
2:30 PM	COS 41-4		Niche expansion and partitioning mediated by mutualism in a native grass-fungal endophyte symbiosis Michelle E. Afkhami, University of California, Davis, Patrick J. McIntyre, University of California Davis
2:50 PM	COS 41-5		Larval interactions between Phormia regina and Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) on different tissue types Christina L.M. Reid, University of Windsor, Sherah L. VanLaerhoven, University of Windsor
3:10 PM			Break
3:20 PM	COS 41-6		The effects of temperature on mutualist attendance in an ant-plant interaction Ginny M. Fitzpatrick, University of Arizona, Travis E. Huxman, University of Arizona, Judith L. Bronstein, University of Arizona
3:40 PM	COS 41-7		An interaction modification framework for mutualism Antonio J. Golubski, University of Toronto, Peter A. Abrams, University of Toronto
4:00 PM	COS 41-8		Living dangerously:  An orb-weaving spider potentially exploits an ant-acacia mutualism for enemy-free space John D. Styrsky, Lynchburg College, Jennifer N. Styrsky, Lynchburg College, Loriann C. Garcia, Lynchburg College, Helen A. Wolfe, Lynchburg College
4:20 PM	COS 41-9		Impact of aspen on subalpine fir establishment and succession Joshua R. Buck, Brigham Young University, Samuel B. St Clair, Brigham Young University, John Calder, Brigham Young University
4:40 PM	COS 41-10		Context-dependency of mutualism: Evaluation of responses of annual prairie plants to mycorrhizal fungi Sarah C. Richardson, DePaul University, Stephanie Hughes, DePaul University, Corey E. Palmer, DePaul University, Hemal Patel, DePaul University, Jake Schintgen, DePaul University, James D. Bever, Indiana University

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