COS 75 - Trophic Dynamics And Interactions

Thursday, August 11, 2016: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
220/221, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
8:00 AM Cancelled
 Aquatic mixotrophs: Are these jacks of all trades masters of some?
Holly V. Moeller, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Michael G. Neubert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Matthew D. Johnson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
8:20 AM
 The local structure of trophic interactions influences communities' biomass and productivity
Eva Delmas, Québec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences; Daniel B. Stouffer, University of Canterbury; Timothée Poisot, Université de Montréal
8:40 AM
 Species traits as drivers of food web structure: A new way to understand complex communities
Idaline Laigle, QCBS; Dominique Gravel, University of Sherbrooke; Isabelle Aubin, Natural Resources Canada
9:00 AM
 The nutritional ecology of urban ants: Prey availability, anthropogenic resources, and diet
Amy M. Savage, Rutgers University - Camden; Clint A. Penick, North Carolina State University; Danielle K Genay, Rutgers University - Camden; Robert R. Dunn, North Carolina State University
9:30 AM Cancelled
 Seasonal and foraging influences on tropical ant community diets in coffee agriculture
Katherine K. Ennis, University of California, Santa Cruz; Stacy M. Philpott, University of California, Santa Cruz
9:20 AM
9:50 AM
 Identifying the carbon sources of soil foodwebs in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
E. Ashley Shaw, Colorado State University; Byron J. Adams, Brigham Young University; Ross A. Virginia, Dartmouth College; Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University
10:10 AM
 Landscape diversity, broad-scale disturbance, and the eco-evo dynamics of pea aphids and parasitoids
Brandon T. Barton, Mississippi State University; Jason Harmon, North Dakota State University; Anthony R. Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kerry Oliver, University of Georgia; Volker C. Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Likai Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:30 AM
 From soils to webs: Effects of environmental heterogeneity on specialization of plant-herbivore-parasitoid ecological networks
Moria Robinson, University of California, Davis; Sharon Y. Strauss, University of California, Davis
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