COS 88 - Predation And Predator-Prey Interactions

Thursday, August 11, 2016: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Floridian Blrm D, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Consistent trophic ontogenies among local populations despite geographic heterogeneity in diets
Christopher D. Stallings, University of South Florida; Alejandra Mickle, Florida State University; James A. Nelson, University of Louisiana Lafayette; Orian E. Tzadik, University of South Florida; Gregory S. Ellis, University of South Florida; David J. Hollander, University of South Florida; Ernst B. Peebles, University of South Florida; Ethan A. Goddard, University of South Florida; Nathaniel K. Jue, California State University, Monterey Bay; Christopher C. Koenig, Florida State University
1:50 PM
 Consequences of predation stress in dragonfly larvae: Lethal and sub-lethal effects
Shannon J. McCauley, University of Toronto Mississauga; Tammy Duong, Carleton University
2:10 PM
 Emergent predatory effects of aggregative feeding by the southern oyster drill (Thais haemastoma) on eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica)
Timothy J. Pusack, University of South Florida; Matt Farnum, University of South Florida; Owen Stokes-Cawley, University of South Florida; Christopher D. Stallings, University of South Florida; David L. Kimbro, Northeastern University; J. Wilson White, University of North Carolina Wilmington
2:30 PM
 The biogeography of trophic structure and ecosystem functioning on U.S. oyster reefs
David L. Kimbro, Northeastern University; James E. Byers, University of Georgia; Jonathan H. Grabowski, Northeastern University; A. Randall Hughes, Northeastern University; Michael F. Piehler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:00 PM Cancelled
 Predator density and water-level mediate prey utilization of an intertidal estuarine highway
Kevin Boswell, Florida International University; Guillaume Rieucau, Florida International University; Julien Martin, University of Aberdeen; Matthew Kimball, Baruch Marine Field Laboratory, University of South Carolina; Dennis Allen, Baruch Marine Field Laboratory, University of South Carolina; Dale Jacques, Florida International University
2:50 PM
3:20 PM
 Dispersal can drive phase asynchorny in trophic metacommunities
Frederic Guichard, McGill University; Frithjof Lutscher, University of Ottawa; Yuxiang Zhang, Tianjin University
3:40 PM
 Reproductive costs of an induced morphological defense in the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica
Avery E. Scherer, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Christopher E. Bird, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Delbert L. Smee, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
4:00 PM
 Food webs: Physics and body size matter
Sebastien M. J. Portalier, McGill University; Mehdi Cherif, University of Umea; Gregor F. Fussmann, McGill University; Michel Loreau, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis
4:20 PM
 Predicting aggregrate predator effects in a rock pool foodweb
Michael McCoy, East Carolina University; Justin C. Touchon, Vassar College; Molly Albecker, East Carolina University
4:40 PM
 The influence of biological invasions and climate change on non-consumptive effects
Jason Sadowski, University of California, Davis; Edwin D. Grosholz, University of California
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