COS 111 - Food Webs II

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
E144, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Sampling effects and patterns in food web structure
Aaron Thierry, The University of Sheffield; Owen L. Petchey, University of Zurich; Philip H. Warren, University of Sheffield; Andrew P. Beckerman, University of Sheffield
1:50 PM
 Interannual variability in trophic relationships of fish in a pristine northern temperate lake
Talia Young, Rutgers University Marine Field Station; Olaf P. Jensen, Rutgers University; Brian C. Weidel, US Geological Survey; Sudeep Chandra, University of Nevada, Reno
2:30 PM
 Influence of landscape complexity on the strength of predator-prey interactions
J. Ryan Bellmore, US Geological Survey; Colden V. Baxter, Idaho State University; Patrick V. Connolly, US Geological Survey
2:50 PM
 The food web of a severely contaminated site in Pennsylvania following restoration
Ned Fetcher, Wilkes University; Salvatore Agosta, Wilkes University; Jeffrey A. Stratford, Wilkes University; Michael A. Steele, Wilkes University; John C. Moore, Colorado State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Trophic basis of production and patterns of interaction strength in food webs of a river discontinuum: Toward prediction of ecological responses to river management
Wyatt F. Cross, Montana State University; Colden V. Baxter, Idaho State University; Robert O. Hall Jr., University of Wyoming; Emma Rosi-Marshall, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Theodore A. Kennedy, U.S. Geological Survey; Kevin Donner, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians; Holly Wellard Kelly, Loyola University Chicago; Sarah Seegert, Great Lakes Fishery Commission; Kate E. Behn, Idaho State University; Dustin Kincaid, Michigan State University
3:40 PM
 Stable isotopic analysis of the Upper Green River in Hart County, Kentucky
Elizabeth M. Malloy, Western Kentucky University; Albert J. Meier, Western Kentucky University; Victoria A. Gilkison, Western Kentucky University; Scott Grubbs, Western Kentucky University; Jennifer M. Yates, Western Kentucky University
4:00 PM
 Evolutionary and plastic rescue in multitrophic model communities
Caolan Kovach-Orr, McGill University; Gregor F. Fussmann, McGill University
4:20 PM
 Can spatial structure promote the evolutionary stability of food webs?
Susanna M. Messinger, Yale University; Annette M. Ostling, University of Michigan
4:40 PM
 Key drivers of river and wetland food webs in Australia’s wet-dry tropics
Michael M. Douglas, University of Western Australia