ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)
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COS 9 - Food webs I: Structure and stability

Monday, August 6, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Blrm Salon II, San Jose Marriott
1:30 PM
COS 9-1
The elements of food web stability
Gabriel Gellner, Colorado State University; Kevin McCann, University of Guelph
1:50 PM
COS 9-2
Signatures of human-induced instability in food web architecture
Neil Rooney, University of Guelph; Kevin McCann, University of Guelph; John C. Moore, Colorado State University; Jason Rip, University of Guelph
2:10 PM
COS 9-3
Omnivory and food web stability: Omnivorous fish stabilize phytoplankton biomass and diversity, but destabilize composition
Michael J. Vanni, Miami University; Stephen J. Harper, Pinellas County; Martin J. Horgan, Miami University; Maria J. Gonzalez, Miami University
2:30 PM
COS 9-4
Food-web stability emerges from allometric link-degree distributions
Sonja B. Otto, Darmstadt University of Technology; Björn C. Rall, Darmstadt University of Technology; Ulrich Brose, University of Göttingen
2:50 PM
COS 9-5
Alternative prey and the dynamics of intraguild predation: Theoretical perspectives
Robert D. Holt, University of Florida; Gary R. Huxel, University of Arkansas; Michael Barfield, University of Florida
3:10 PM
COS 9-
Break
3:20 PM
COS 9-6
Predator/prey alteration and connectance modification in food webs
Jonathan L. Bowers, Western Kentucky University; Albert J. Meier, Western Kentucky University; Meridith L. Bartley, New Mexico State University
3:40 PM
COS 9-7
The effect of temperature on the relative importance of top-down and bottom-up effects
David Hoekman, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Gary E. Belovsky, University of Notre Dame
4:00 PM
COS 9-8
The effects of environmental stochasticity on population interaction webs
Samraat Pawar, University of Chicago; Oskar Burger, University of New Mexico
4:20 PM
COS 9-9
Testing for a transgenerational, behaviorally mediated trophic cascade
Leon Blaustein, University of Haifa; Marc Mangel, University of California at Santa Cruz
4:40 PM
COS 9-10
Where do they go when they die?
Meridith L. Bartley, New Mexico State University; Jonathan L. Bowers, Western Kentucky University; Albert J. Meier, Western Kentucky University
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