ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

COS 49 - Food webs II: Analytic methods, applications

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Blrm Salon V, San Jose Marriott
1:30 PM
The importance of phylogeny in predator-prey body-size relationships
Louis-Félix Bersier, University of Fribourg; Patrik Kehrli, University of Fribourg
1:50 PM
Estimating the nonlinear strength of per capita species interactions: A new observational method for species rich food webs
Mark Novak, Oregon State University; J. Timothy Wootton, The University of Chicago
2:10 PM
Combining long-term surveys with structural equation modeling to examine kelp forest food webs
Jarrett E. Byrnes, University of California, Davis; Christy M. Bowles, American River College; Matthew E. S. Bracken, Northeastern University; Matthew C. Ferner, San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve; Daniel Gruner, University of Maryland; Cynthia G. Hays, University of California - Davis; Kerry J. Nickols, Stanford University; Karthik Ram, University of California, Berkeley; Cascade J. B. Sorte, University of Massachusetts - Boston; Susan L. Williams, UC Davis; David Kushner, National Park Service; James B. Grace, U.S. Geological Survey Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
2:30 PM
Allometry of soil food webs and C:N:P stoichiometry
Christian Mulder, Dutch National Institute for Public Health and Environment; Daniel C. Reuman, Imperial College Silwood Park; Joel E. Cohen, Rockefeller University and Columbia University
2:50 PM
Experimental venue and spatial scale in food-web manipulations
Clifton Ruehl, Columbus State University; Nathan J. Dorn, Florida Atlantic University; Joel Trexler, Florida International University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Evidence for niches in food web data: A likelihood-based approach
David Alonso, Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB‐CSIC), Spanish Council for Scientific Research; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute; Stefano Allesina, University of Chicago
3:40 PM
Niche width contraction induced by aquatic ecosystem fragmentation
Craig A. Layman, North Carolina State University