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

Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

410, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi

8:00 AM

COS 55-1

Plants 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 AM

COS 55-2

Characteristic mutual interference and the development of competitive ability
John P. DeLong, University of Nebraska; David A. Vasseur, Yale University

8:40 AM

COS 55-3

Killer 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 AM

COS 55-4

Competition among agricultural pest insects and its role in pest outbreaks associated with transgenic Bt cotton
Adam R. Zeilinger, University of California, Riverside; Dawn M. Olson, USDA-ARS; David A. Andow, University of Minnesota

9:20 AM

COS 55-5

Competitive 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 California, Santa Cruz; Ivette Perfecto, University of Michigan; John H. Vandermeer, University of Michigan

9:40 AM

COS 55-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 55-6

Plant-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 AM

COS 55-7

Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts
Matthew A. Bowker, Northern Arizona University; Santiago Soliveres, University of Bern; Fernando T. Maestre, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

10:30 AM

COS 55-8

Are 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 AM

COS 55-9

Testing 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 AM

COS 55-10

The role of multi-species competitive interactions in determining the structure of plant communities
Erik T. Aschehoug, North Carolina State University; Ragan M. Callaway, The University of Montana

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