95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

334, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Blaine D. Griffen, University of South Carolina

1:30 PM

COS 95-1

Trace element assays of claw keratin to track fine-scale movement in elusive carnivores
Danielle M. Ethier, Trent University; Christopher J. Kyle, Trent University; T. Kurt Kyser, Queen's University; Joseph J. Nocera, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

1:50 PM

COS 95-2

The role of body mass in large mammalian herbivore parturition timing
Farshid S. Ahrestani, Columbia University

2:10 PM

COS 95-3

The influence of predation on trophic position, niche width, and carbon sources using the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) as a model organism
Caroline Anne Elizabeth Dennis, University of Windsor; Trevor Pitcher, University of Windsor; Indar Ramnarine, The University of the West Indies; Aaron T. Fisk, University of Windsor

2:30 PM

COS 95-4

The influence of predation risk and food abundance on space use by Apodemus sylvaticus
Benedict Godsall, Imperial College London; Tim Coulson, University of Oxford; Aurelio F. Malo, Imperial College London

2:50 PM

COS 95-5

Seed predators as optimal bad mothers in the Bolivian lowlands
Gerardo R. Camilo, Saint Louis Zoo; Rodrigo S. Rios, Saint Louis University

3:10 PM

COS 95-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 95-6

Playing with food (availability): State games between owls and gerbils
Burt P. Kotler, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research; Oded Berger-Tal, Ben-Gurion University; Shomen Mukherjee, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research; Joel S. Brown, Moffit Cancer Center

3:40 PM

COS 95-7

Bushbaby foraging ecology: walking the tightrope between predation risk and plant toxins
Clare McArthur, The University of Sydney; Paul A. Orlando, The University of Illinois, Chicago; Peter B. Banks, The University of New South Wales; Joel S. Brown, Moffit Cancer Center

4:00 PM

COS 95-8

Linking plant root foraging to natural community structure and function
Gordon G. McNickle, Wilfrid Laurier University; James F. Cahill Jr., University of Alberta

4:20 PM

COS 95-9

Fire and the isotopic niche: Quantifying resource exploitation by tree lizard populations among burned Arizona grassland habitats
Matthew S. Lattanzio, Ohio University; Donald B. Miles, Ohio University

4:40 PM

COS 95-10

Multivariate influences on forager decisions: A comparison of alternate models for frugivore diet selection
Brent J. Sewall, Temple University

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COS 95 - Behavior: Foraging and Diet