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

Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

333, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Robert Ptacnik, Universität Wien

1:30 PM

COS 64-1

Niche saturation reveals resource partitioning among consumers
Tobin D. Northfield, University of Wisconsin; Gretchen B. Snyder, Washington State University; Anthony R. Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison; William E. Snyder, Washington State University

1:50 PM

COS 64-2

Restoring predator-pathogen evenness increases consumption of prey/host resources
David Crowder, Washington State University; Tobin D. Northfield, University of Wisconsin; Michael R. Strand, University of Georgia; William E. Snyder, Washington State University

2:10 PM

COS 64-3

Vernal pool microbial community responses to environmental change: A microcosm study
Sarah R. Carrino-Kyker, The Holden Arboretum; David J. Burke, The Holden Arboretum; Kurt A. Smemo, The Holden Arboretum; Juan Carlos López-Gutiérrez, University of Northern British Columbia

2:30 PM

COS 64-4

Impacts of native and exotic plant diversity in old-fields
Susan C. Cook, Cornell University; Anurag A. Agrawal, Cornell University

2:50 PM

COS 64-5

Landscape simplification and altitudinal variation affect biodiversity, herbivory, and Andean potato yield
Katja Poveda, Cornell University; Eliana Martinez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Maria A. Bonilla, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Teja Tscharntke, Georg-August-University Göttingen

3:10 PM

COS 64-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 64-6

Cascading diversity effects transmitted exclusively by behavioral interactions
William E. Snyder, Washington State University; Shawn A. Steffan, USDA-ARS

3:40 PM

COS 64-7

Fire, grazing, and patch structure: Do South African and American grasslands respond in the same way
Sally E. Koerner, Duke University; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico

4:00 PM

COS 64-8

Plant species diversity and genetic diversity interactively influence community properties and ecosystem processes
Kerri M. Crawford, Washington University in St. Louis; Jennifer A. Rudgers, University of New Mexico

4:20 PM

COS 64-9

The role of fire on the relationships between genotypic diversity of the dominant species, species diversity, and productivity in the tallgrass prairie
Cynthia Chang, University of Washington-Bothell; Melinda D. Smith, Colorado State University

4:40 PM

COS 64-10

Productivity, rather than diversity, controls stability of productivity in two restored plant communities
James M. Doherty, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Joy B. Zedler, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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