97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Portland Blrm 257, Oregon Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 117-1

The effects of arthropod galling on the physiological function of arctic willows
Rajit Patankar, University of Alabama; Gregory Starr, University of Alabama; Behzad Mortazavi, University of Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea Lab; Steven F. Oberbauer, Florida International University

1:50 PM

COS 117-2

Relative importance of plant communities and nutrient concentrations in regulating prairie herbivore communities
Chelse M. Prather, Radford University; Steven C. Pennings, University of Houston

2:10 PM

COS 117-3

Examining the mechanisms by which environmental and plant genetic variation influence tritrophic interactions in a simple food web
Luis Abdala-Roberts, University of California at Irvine; Kailen A. Mooney, University of California, Irvine

2:30 PM

COS 117-4

Linking bark beetle caused hydraulic failure to declining ecosystem fluxes in a high elevation Rocky Mountain (Wyoming, USA) forest
John M. Frank, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service; William J. Massman, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service; Brent E. Ewers, University of Wyoming

2:50 PM

COS 117-5

Are vine weevils influenced by the presence of mycorrhizae when feeding upon Rubus idaeus?
James Hourston, James Hutton Institute; Alison E. Bennett, The James Hutton Institute; Scott N. Johnson, University of Western Sydney; Alan Gange, Royal Holloway, University of London

3:10 PM

COS 117-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 117-6

Consequences of herbivore diet breadth for bird predation and parasitism
Michael S. Singer, Wesleyan University; Isaac Lichter-Marck, Wesleyan University; Timothy E. Farkas, University of Sheffield; Kailen A. Mooney, University of California, Irvine

3:40 PM

COS 117-7

Sticky plant traps insects to enhance indirect defense
Billy A. Krimmel, UC Davis

4:00 PM

COS 117-8

Differences in performance and herbivory along a latitudinal gradient for common burdock (Arctium minus)
Dasvinder Kambo, University of Toronto; Peter M. Kotanen, University of Toronto

4:20 PM

COS 117-9

Drought and insect attacks cause decline of piñon-juniper woodlands
Monica L. Gaylord, Northern Arizona University; Thomas E. Kolb, Northern Arizona University; Alison Macalady, University of Arizona; Jennifer A. Plaut, University of New Mexico; William T. Pockman, University of New Mexico; Enrico A. Yepez, University of New Mexico; Nathan G. McDowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory

4:40 PM Cancelled

COS 117-10

Shifts in reproductive strategy by Hemileuca eglanterina (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae): Adaptive response to host plant quality following a prescribed burn
Paul M. Severns, Washington State University-Vancouver

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COS 117 - Plant-Insect Interactions III