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

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

D139, Oregon Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 131-1

Asymmetries in dispersal alter coevolutionary trajectories for host resistance and parasite virulence in a metapopulation
Michael G. Buhnerkempe, University of California - Los Angeles; Colleen T. Webb, Colorado State University; Mike Boots, University of Exeter

8:20 AM

COS 131-2

Disease ecology: New conceptual models to facilitate prediction
Felicia Keesing, Bard College; Richard S. Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

8:40 AM

COS 131-3

Ecological roles of parasites in food web structure, animal biomass and secondary production in pond ecosystems
Daniel L. Preston, University of Colorado; Sarah A. Orlofske, University of Colorado at Boulder; John P. McLaughlin, University of California at Santa Barbara; Jason P. Lambden, University of Colorado; Pieter T. J. Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder

9:00 AM

COS 131-4

Maintenance and transmission of the amphibian pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, during metamorphosis
Catherine L. Searle, University of Michigan; Gisselle Yang Xie, Oregon State University; Andrew R. Blaustein, Oregon State University

9:20 AM

COS 131-5

More hosts, more problems: Factors related to the distribution and abundance of a four-host trematode parasite in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA
Ian D. Buller, University of Colorado; Katherine L. D. Richgels, University of Colorado; Sarah A. Orlofske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Pieter T. J. Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder

9:40 AM

COS 131-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 131-6

Investigating within-population temporal variation in tick parasitism and immune function among rodent hosts: Why are some hosts consistently more parasitized?
Evelyn Rynkiewicz, Indiana University; Keith Clay, Indiana University

10:10 AM

COS 131-7

Explaining interspecific variation in host infection and disease: Experimental evidence that immunosuppression increases trematode infection success in amphibian hosts
Bryan E. LaFonte, University of Colorado; Pieter T. J. Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder

10:30 AM Cancelled

COS 131-8

Resources of hosts elevate disease in a planktonic host-parasite system
Spencer R. Hall, Indiana University; Claes Becker, Sweco Environment; Rachel M. Penczykowski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meghan A. Duffy, University of Michigan; Carla E. Cáceres, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:50 AM

COS 131-9

Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease
Taal Levi, University of California, Santa Cruz

11:10 AM

COS 131-

The population dynamics of pathogens and social groups
Andy Dobson, Princeton University

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