OOS 1
Ecosystem and Community Effects of Native and Invasive Diseases

Monday, August 11, 2014: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
202, Sacramento Convention Center
Organizer:
Noam Ross, UC Davis
Co-organizer:
Richard C. Cobb, University of Califorina Davis
Moderator:
Noam Ross, UC Davis
Disease structures many ecological communities and ecosystem processes, and invasive diseases can transform ecological communities. Many emerging and invasive diseases have escaped detection, control and eradication efforts and spread over large areas, leaving modified systems in their wake. In the past decade, such diseases have included Sudden Oak Death in Pacific Coast forests, White Nose Syndrome in eastern bat populations, and chytridiomycosis in amphibian communities worldwide. In other systems, native endemic diseases are a crucial component in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. This session aims to synthesize research on the cascading effects of both native and invasive diseases on other ecological processes such as behavior, species competition, trophic interactions, and nutrient cycling. It also aims to understand how these effects compare across systems and especially between outbreaks of invasive disease and endemic diseases. Speakers will present recent research including empirical work on secondary and tertiary effects of disease that occur at the community- and ecosystem-scale and models that link disease to other ecosystem processes. The talks will include research on a diverse set of systems with both plant and animal diseases.
1:30 PM
 Linking epidemiological and ecosystem process models to understand and minimize disease impacts
Richard C. Cobb, University of Califorina Davis; Noam Ross, UC Davis; David M. Rizzo, University of California, Davis
1:50 PM
 Competition and coexistence among three barley yellow dwarf viruses, and impacts on host plant communities
Erin A. Mordecai, University of North Carolina; Charles Mitchell, University of North Carolina; Kevin Gross, North Carolina State University
2:10 PM
 Changes in bat community composition driven by infection loads of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of white-nose syndrome
Kate E. Langwig, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Winifred F. Frick, University of California, Santa Cruz; Thomas H. Kunz, Boston University; Jeff T. Foster, Northern Arizona University; A. Marm Kilpatrick, University of California, Santa Cruz
2:30 PM
 Disease driven amphibian extinctions have weak effects on alpine lake communities in California’s Sierra Nevada
Thomas C. Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara; Cheryl J. Briggs, University of California, Santa Barbara; Roland A. Knapp, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, University of California
2:50 PM
 Examining why grazing mayflies do not functionally compensate for the top-down control of algal communities following disease-driven tadpole declines in a Neotropical stream
Thomas Barnum, University of Georgia; J. Timothy Wootton, University of Chicago; Rebecca J. Bixby, University of New Mexico; John M. Drake, University of Georgia; J. Checo Colon-Gaud, Georgia Southern University; David Stoker, University of Georgia; Amanda Rugenski, Southern Illinois University; Therese Frauendorf, University of Hawai'i at Manoa; Scott J. Connelly, University of Georgia; Susan S. Kilham, Drexel University; Matt R. Whiles, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Karen Lips, University of Maryland
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Ecology and impacts of vector-borne disease on native birds: California avian communities
Lisa A. Tell, University of California; Holly B. Ernest, University of California, Davis; Sarah Bahan, University of California; Ravinder N.M. Sehgal, San Francisco State University; Joshua M. Hull, University of California
3:40 PM
 Emerging pathogens in Microstegium-invaded plant communities: Biogeographic distribution, species richness, and disease severity
Kerry Bohl Stricker, University of Florida; Philip F. Harmon, University of Florida; Erica M. Goss, University of Florida; Keith Clay, Indiana University; S. Luke Flory, University of Florida
4:00 PM
 Complex plant-pathogen interactions maintain tropical forest diversity
Rachel Gallery, University of Arizona; Robert Bagchi, ETH Zürich; Sarah Gurr, University of Exeter; Owen Lewis, University of Oxford
4:20 PM
 Infection with a trematode parasite differentially alters competitive interactions and antipredator behavior in native and invasive crayfishes
Lindsey W. Sargent, University of Notre Dame; Iris Petersen, University of Notre Dame; Jing Sheng Hing, Bemidji State University; Ryan Davila, University of Notre Dame; David M. Lodge, University of Notre Dame
4:40 PM Cancelled
 Linking biodiversity and parasite transmission across spatial scales
Chelsea L. Wood, University of Colorado; Pieter T. J. Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder