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

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

329, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Douglas B. Rasher, Georgia Institute of Technology

8:00 AM

COS 90-1

The effects of seed and carrion pulses on beetle (Coleoptera) assemblages in second growth, oak-hickory woodlots
Pei-Jen L. Shaner, National Taiwan Normal University; Stephen A. Macko, University of Virginia

8:20 AM

COS 90-2

Predator diversity impacts herbivore abundance and distribution: Consequences for a vector-borne plant pathogen
Elizabeth Y. Long, University of Missouri; Deborah L. Finke, University of Missouri

8:40 AM

COS 90-3

Quantifying indirect interactions among herbivores and their shared natural enemies in the field
Eleanor J. Blitzer, Cornell University; Stephen C. Welter, University of California, Berkeley

9:00 AM

COS 90-4

Resource quality alters bottom-up and top-down forces in an experimental food web
Jillian S. Cohen, Cornell University; Bernd Blossey, Cornell University

9:20 AM

COS 90-5

Linyphiid spiders and Azteca instabilis ants: A temporal association influenced by resource availability, plant structure and a disease
Linda Marín, University of Mchigan; Ivette Perfecto, University of Michigan

9:40 AM

COS 90-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 90-6

Plant adaptation to a resource cline has consequences for plant-herbivore interactions
Jessica D. Pratt, University of California, Irvine; Kailen A. Mooney, University of California, Irvine

10:10 AM

COS 90-7

Stable isotope and mercury analysis in the Mobile Bay, AL food web
Lauren M. Showalter, University of Alabama/Dauphin Island Sea Lab; Behzad Mortazavi, University of Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea Lab; David Evans, NOAA; John Dindo, Dauphin Island Sea Lab

10:30 AM

COS 90-8

Can blue crabs positively affect oyster reef stability? The role of blue crabs and their body size on non-consumptive effects (NCEs) in oyster reef communities
Jennifer M. Hill, Dauphin Island Sea Lab; Marc J. Weissburg, Georgia Tech

10:50 AM

COS 90-9

Beyond the trophic cascade: Indirect effects of extraction in reef fish assemblages
Brian J. Zgliczynski, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Ivor D. Williams, NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; Stuart A. Sandin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

11:10 AM

COS 90-10

The effect of grazers on the vertical distribution of phytoplankton
Dennis Ruppe, SUNY Geneseo; Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michigan State University

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