COS 88 - Life History Theory And Evolution

Wednesday, August 9, 2017: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
E142, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
 Comparative demography through a stochastic lens
Jennifer McDonald, University of Exeter; Miguel Franco, University of Plymouth; Stuart Townley, University of Exeter; David J. Hodgson, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
8:20 AM Cancelled
 Intraspecific competition can promote the evolution of ecological specialization
Abdel H. Halloway, University of Illinois at Chicago; Joel S. Brown, Moffit Cancer Center
8:40 AM
 Corticosterone prevents a paedomorphic life history strategy in the salamander Ambystoma talpoideum
Jason R. Bohenek, The University of Mississippi; Christopher J. Leary, The University of Mississippi; William J. Resetarits Jr., The University of Mississippi
9:00 AM
 The effect of nest type on shaping the initial avian microbiome
Felipe Campos-Cerda, University of Oregon; Jorge H. Vega Rivera, Estación de Biología Chamela, Instituto de Biología, UNAM; Brendan J.M. Bohannan, University of Oregon
9:20 AM
 Loggerhead sea turtle ontogenetic growth patterns deviate from theoretical predictions
Matthew D. Ramirez, Oregon State University; Larisa Avens, NOAA NMFS; Jeffrey Seminoff, NOAA NMFS; Lisa R. Goshe, NOAA NMFS; Selina S. Heppell, Oregon State University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 The evolutionary stability of partial migration under different forms of density dependence
Haley A Ohms, Oregon State University; Anushaya Mohapatra, Oakland University; David A. Lytle, Oregon State University; Patrick De Leenheer, Oregon State University
10:10 AM
 Sons or daughters? The impacts of maternal health on fetal sex ratios of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Jorista Van Der Merwe, Arkansas Tech University; Ralph Meeker, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
10:30 AM Cancelled
 Constructing a precise, continous measure of fitness in a long lived mammal
Caroline Glidden, Oregon State University; Brianna Beechler, Oregon State University; Anna E. Jolles, Oregon State University
10:50 AM
 On the latitudinal patterns of thermally varying life history traits in ectotherms
Daniel J. Smith, University California Los Angeles; Priyanga Amarasekare, University of California, Los Angeles
11:10 AM
 Costs of tolerance to pesticides in two wetland organisms, Lithobates sylvaticus and Daphnia pulex
Devin G. DiGiacopo, Binghamton University; Jessica Hua, Binghamton University
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