Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
410, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 55 - Competition
8:00 AMCOS 55-1Plants and nitrogen: Direct measurement of competition along environmental gradients
Clare J. Trinder, University of Aberdeen, UK, Rob W. Brooker, The Macaulay Institute, David Robinson, University of Aberdeen, UK
8:20 AMCOS 55-2Characteristic mutual interference and the development of competitive ability
John P. DeLong, Yale University, David A. Vasseur, Yale University
8:40 AMCOS 55-3Killer seaweeds on coral reefs: Seaweeds poison corals with allelochemicals when not controlled by herbivores
Douglas B. Rasher, Georgia Institute of Technology, Sebastian Engel, Georgia Institute of Technology, Mark E. Hay, Georgia Institute of Technology
9:00 AMCOS 55-4Competition among agricultural pest insects and its role in pest outbreaks associated with transgenic Bt cotton
Adam R. Zeilinger, University of Minnesota, Dawn M. Olson, USDA-ARS, David A. Andow, University of Minnesota
9:20 AMCOS 55-5Competitive effects of a dominant arboreal ant (Azteca instabilis) on ground foraging ant diversity and community structure in a coffee agroecosystem
Katherine K. Ennis, University of Michigan, Ivette Perfecto, University of Michigan, John H. Vandermeer, University of Michigan
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 55-6Plant-soil feedbacks in the model system Arabidopsis thaliana
Anna G. Aguilera, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Richard V. Kesseli, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Adan Colon-Carmona, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Purdue University
10:10 AMCOS 55-7Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts
Matthew A. Bowker, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Santiago Soliveres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Fernando T. Maestre, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
10:30 AMCOS 55-8Are you what you eat? Development times, mass, and stable isotope ratios of the mosquitoes Culex restuans and Aedes albopictus grown on different detritus types
Anne E. Winters, University of Southern Mississippi, Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi
10:50 AMCOS 55-9Testing habitat selection theory with slough crayfish (Procambarus fallax) across two vegetated habitats
Craig van der Heiden, Florida Atlantic University, Nathan J. Dorn, Florida Atlantic University
11:10 AMCOS 55-10The role of multi-species competitive interactions in determining the structure of plant communities
Erik T. Aschehoug, University of Montana, Ragan M. Callaway, University of Montana

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