COS 146
Mutualism And Facilitation

Friday, August 14, 2015: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
339, Baltimore Convention Center
8:00 AM
COS 146-1
 The role of resource mutualisms in plant adaptation to abiotic environments
Tomomi Suwa, Michigan State University and W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
8:20 AM
COS 146-2
 The influence of host outcrossing on symbiont vertical transmission rates
Michelle Sneck, Rice University; Tom E. X. Miller, Rice University; Jennifer Rudgers, University of New Mexico; Carolyn Young, Noble Foundation
8:40 AM
COS 146-3
 Non-additive interactions among symbionts are context-dependent
Elise Worchel, University of Texas; Christine V. Hawkes, University of Texas
9:00 AM
COS 146-4
 Relative importance of competition and epichloid endophyte mutualism for plant community composition and ecosystem processes within the Great Lake dunes
Lukas Bell-Dereske, University of New Mexico; Jennifer A. Rudgers, University of New Mexico
9:20 AM
COS 146-5
 Influence of environmental effects on Acacia-rhizobial community structure and plant productivity
Holly B. Vuong, CSIRO Agriculture Flagship; Luke G. Barrett, CSIRO Agriculture Flagship; Peter H. Thrall, CSIRO Agriculture Flagship
9:40 AM
COS 146-
 Break
9:50 AM
COS 146-6
 Canopy height and litter-derived spore sources affect composition and function of tropical endophyte communities
Natalie S. Christian, Indiana University; Edward Allen Herre, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Luis C. Mejia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Keith Clay, Indiana University
10:10 AM
COS 146-7
 Multiple mutualist interactions: Effects on plant fitness and arthropod communities
Kane R. Keller, Michigan State University; Felipe Navarro, Michigan State University; Sara Carabajal, Humboldt State University
10:30 AM
COS 146-8
 Partner choice in symbiotic mutualisms: The role of population structure
Erol Akçay, University of Pennsylvania
10:50 AM
COS 146-9
 Short-term costs may be long-term benefits: Using stochastic demographic models to understand a complex symbiosis
Teresa F Bohner, University of California, Riverside; Tom E. X. Miller, Rice University; Jennifer Rudgers, University of New Mexico; Alan Shadow, USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
11:10 AM
COS 146-10
 Multiple mutualist effects: Combining transcriptomics and experimental ecology to determine the genomic basis of synergistic interactions between mycorrhizal fungi, rhizobia, and legumes
Michelle E. Afkhami, University of Toronto; John Stinchcombe, University of Toronto
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