COS 195 - Seed Production, Dispersal, And Predation

Friday, August 10, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
B117, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
 Masting facilitates seed predator escape in white pine blister rust-infected landscapes
Vernon S. Peters, The King's University College; Matthew S. Gelderman, The King's University College
8:20 AM
 Seed-caching by heteromyid rodents enhances seedling survival of a desert grass, Indian ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides
Lindsay Dimitri, University of Nevada, Reno; William S. Longland, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
8:40 AM
 The contribution of vertebrates to the dispersal of mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)
Eric C. Niederhauser, Ohio University; Glenn R. Matlack, Ohio University
9:00 AM
 Declines in Pinyon Pine cone production associated with regional warming
Miranda D. Redmond, University of Colorado; Frank Forcella, USDA; Nichole N. Barger, University of Colorado Boulder
9:20 AM
 Beach almond (Terminalia catappa) seed resource size and resource partitioning between the seed predators scarlet macaw (Ara macao) and variegated squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides)
Jonathan H. Henn, St. Olaf College; Christopher Vaughan, Associated Colleges of the Midwest; Michael McCoy, East Carolina University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 The outcome of plant-scatterhoarder interactions changes with masting and environmental conditions
Rafal Zwolak, Adam Mickiewicz University; Elizabeth E. Crone, Tufts University
10:10 AM
 Pollination limitation, sex allocation, and masting in whitebark pine
Joshua M. Rapp, Tufts University; Elizabeth E. Crone, Tufts University
10:30 AM
 Facilitation and reproduction: Improving cone production thanks to conspecific tree neighbors in the alpine treeline
Sebastien M. Renard, Laval University; Eliot J.B. McIntire, Natural Resources Canada & Laval University; Alex Fajardo, Centro de Investigacion en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia
10:50 AM
 Soil nutrient and neighborhood competition influences on northern hardwood reproduction
David M. Minor, Michigan State University; Richard K. Kobe, Michigan State University
11:10 AM
 In search of sustainable seed harvest: Seed removal and establishment of an endemic African rainforest tree
Carrie E. Seltzer, National Geographic Society; Colin T. Kremer, Yale University; Henry J. Ndangalasi, University of Dar es Salaam; Norbert J. Cordeiro, Roosevelt University