96th ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2011)

Tuesday, August 9, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

12B, Austin Convention Center

8:00 AM

Effects of belowground herbivores on plant-pollinator interactions in cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
Nicholas A. Barber, Northern Illinois University; Lynn S. Adler, University of Massachusetts

8:20 AM

Apical dominance as an optimal strategy
Natalie M. West, University of Illinois; Brigitte Tenhumberg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

8:40 AM

Plant genotype, not nutrients, shape aphid population dynamics
Heather E. Tran, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Lara Souza, University of Oklahoma; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen; Aimee T. Classen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

9:00 AM

Chronic moose browsing impacts the architecture of balsam fir saplings
Bryan D. Murray, Purdue University; Christopher R. Webster, Michigan Technological University; John A. Vucetich, Michigan Technological University

9:20 AM

Responses of trembling aspen to simulated browsing and application of ungulate saliva
Ken M. Keefover-Ring, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Kennedy F. Rubert-Nason, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Alison E. Bennett, The James Hutton Institute; Richard L. Lindroth, University of Wisconsin

9:40 AM

Break

9:50 AM

Nutrient niche hypothesis: Investigating correlations between plant quality and generalist grasshopper communities
Paul A. Lenhart, Texas A&M University; Spencer T. Behmer, Texas A&M University; Micky D. Eubanks, Texas A&M University

10:10 AM

Influence of soil nitrogen availability on plant allocation patterns: Allelochemical response varies with developmental stage and among plant parts
Mary A. Jamieson, Oakland University; Tim Seastedt, University of Colorado at Boulder; M. Deane Bowers, University of Colorado

10:30 AM

Escaping costs of induced resistance in the invasive plant, Alliaria petiolata
Don Cipollini, Wright State University; Deah M. Lieurance, Wright State University

10:50 AM

Factors associated with the maintenance of a defensive chemical polymorphism in Xanthium strumarium
Jeffrey R. Ahern, Rice University

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