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

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

B117, Oregon Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 144-1

Generalist vs. specialist pathogens: Consequences of insect vectoring of fungal pathogens in wild chili peppers
Noelle J. Machnicki, University of Washington; Catharine Adams, University of Washington; Josh Tewksbury, World Wide Fund for Nature

8:20 AM

COS 144-2

Moving facilitation out of its niche: Tree merging, supertrees, and the limits to the stress-gradient hypothesis
Eliot J.B. McIntire, Natural Resources Canada & Laval University; Alex Fajardo, Centro de Investigacion en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia

8:40 AM

COS 144-3

Predator diversity affects vector abundance and movement: Conflicting implications for pathogen prevalence?
Elizabeth Y. Long, University of Missouri; Deborah L. Finke, University of Missouri

9:00 AM

COS 144-4

Consumer responses to resource density affect species coexistence in consumer-resource systems
Nicholas Kortessis, University of Arizona; Charlotte T. Lee, Duke University

9:20 AM

COS 144-5

Phylogeographic structure of the Neotropical epiphytic orchid Epidendrum firmum corresponds to differences in symbiotic fungal communities
Tyler R. Kartzinel, University of Georgia; Richard P. Shefferson, University of Tokyo; Dorset W. Trapnell, University of Georgia

9:40 AM

COS 144-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 144-6

Cascading effects from bears to plants via a protection-service mutualism
Joshua B. Grinath, Florida State University; Brian D. Inouye, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; Nora C. Underwood, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

10:10 AM

COS 144-7

Dynamics of interactions between slavemaking ants and their hosts: Spatial, temporal, and genetic patterns
Jennifer L. Apple, SUNY Geneseo; Sara L. Lewandowski, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Sarah A. Dzara, SUNY Geneseo; Daniel D. Kane, SUNY Geneseo; Jeffrey L. Levine, SUNY Geneseo; Bridget E. Neary, University of Rochester Medical Center

10:30 AM

COS 144-8

Seed performances from casts of different earthworm species and different soil types
Julia Clause, Laboratoire ECODIV, Université de Rouen; Benoit Richard, Laboratoire ECODIV, Université de Rouen; Sébastien Barot, IRD, Bioemco; Thibaud Decaëns, Laboratoire ECODIV, Université de Rouen; Marc Legras, BioSol, Esitpa - Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Agriculture; Estelle Forey, Laboratoire ECODIV, Université de Rouen

10:50 AM

COS 144-9

Neither floral nor fungal mutualists help to explain the persistence of females in a gynodioecious plant
Alison K. Brody, University of Vermont; Jonathan Breen Gonzalez, University of Vermont; Gretel L. Clarke, University of Vermont

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