Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
324, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 75 - Trophic Dynamics and Interactions I
1:30 PMCOS 75-1The presence of road salt is related to novel food web patterns in urban stormwater detention ponds
Robin J. Van Meter, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Christopher M. Swan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1:50 PMCOS 75-2Warming and eutrophication strengthen trophic cascades in freshwater food webs
Pavel Kratina, University of British Columbia, Hamish S. Greig, University of British Columbia, Patrick L. Thompson, University of British Columbia, Ticiana C. Pereira, University of British Columbia, Jonathan B. Shurin, University of California- San Diego
2:10 PMCOS 75-3Influence of resource availability on the outcome of size structured interactions
Michael W. McCoy, University of South Florida, Justin C. Touchon, Boston University, Karen M. Warkentin, Boston University, James R. Vonesh, Virginia Commonwealth University
2:30 PMCOS 75-4The interaction of food quality, predation, and genotypic variation:  The effects of ribosomal DNA intergenic spacer length on Daphnia life history response
Torrance C. Hanley, Yale University, David M. Post, Yale University, Stephen C. Stearns, Yale University
2:50 PMCOS 75-5Trophic cascades and climate variability affect willow growth on Yellowstone's Northern Range
Kristin N. Marshall, Colorado State University, David J. Cooper, Colorado State University, N. Thompson Hobbs, Colorado State University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 75-6Resource distribution and species interactions drive trophic responses to a habitat edge
Gina Marie Wimp, Georgetown University, Shannon M. Murphy, George Washington University, Danny Lewis, University of Maryland, Leslie Ries, University of Maryland
3:40 PMCOS 75-7Interactions among herbivore guilds: Vertebrate herbivores affect grassland arthropods via plant compositional shifts
Kelly A. Farrell, Oregon State University, Elizabeth T. Borer, University of Minnesota
4:00 PMCOS 75-8Spatial distribution of a gall-making fly and its parasitoids
William C. Wetzel, University of California, Davis
4:20 PMCOS 75-9The implications of trophic competition among predators: A case study of coral reef fishes
Stuart A. Sandin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
4:40 PMCOS 75-10Decomposition of ecosystem models into smaller subnetworks while preserving system-wide behavior and function
Caner Kazanci, University of Georgia, Stuart J. Whipple, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Bernard C. Patten, University of Georgia

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