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

Friday, August 6, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

411, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Henrik Pärn, Centre Conservation Biology, Norwegian University for Science and Technology

8:00 AM

COS 118-1

Variation in life history and demography in the American black bear
Julie A. Beston, United States Geological Survey

8:20 AM

COS 118-2

Integration benefits when transfer is costly: Dispersive phenotypes are superior competitors
Dries Bonte, Ghent University

8:40 AM

COS 118-3

Adoption of chicks as a selfish behavior in the Pied Avocet
Szabolcs Lengyel, University of Debrecen

9:00 AM

COS 118-4

Local adaptations of life history traits of a parasitoid: Climate or host distribution as agents of selection?
Joffrey Moiroux, Université de Rennes 1; Jacques J. M. van Alphen, Leiden University; Joan van Baaren, Université de Rennes 1

9:20 AM

COS 118-5

Environmental stressors and allocation tradeoffs between sexual and non-sexual traits
Andy R. Stiff, University of Pittsburgh; Rickey D. Cothran, University of PIttsburgh; Punidan D. Jeyasingh, Oklahoma State University; Rick A. Relyea, University of Pittsburgh

9:40 AM

COS 118-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 118-6

A twice-flowering life history strategy for annual plants
Glenn Ledder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Diana Pilson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Kevin Ahrendt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Kyle Harrison, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Emily Signor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Brenton Willoughby, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

10:10 AM

COS 118-7

How diet, season, and resource availability can affect the life history evolution of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)
Eugenia Zandonà, Drexel University; Sonya K. Auer, University of California; Susan S. Kilham, Drexel University; Jason L. Howard, Drexel University; Catherine M. Pringle, University of Georgia; David N. Reznick, University of California Riverside

10:30 AM

COS 118-8

Resource allocation favours growth over reproduction under decreasing food abundances in Daphnia pulicaria
Adriana M. Olijnyk, Queen's University; William A. Nelson, Queen's University

10:50 AM

COS 118-9

Size-dependent sex change can be the ESS when mortality is size-dependent, without any size advantage of reproduction
Mollie E. Brooks, University of Florida; Yoh Iwasa, Kyushu Univerity

11:10 AM

COS 118-10

An empirical test of bet-hedging in the heterocarpic desert annual Pectocarya heterocarpa (Boraginaceae)
Sara T. Felker, University of Arizona; D. Lawrence Venable, University of Arizona

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