ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)
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COS 136 - Plant-insection interactions: Defenses against herbivory

Thursday, August 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
San Carlos I, San Jose Hilton
1:30 PM
COS 136-1
Leaf trait trade-offs and their implications for ecosystem dynamics in Hawaiian and continental floras
Sandra Díaz, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Peter M. Vitousek, Stanford University
1:50 PM
COS 136-2
Spatial variation in plant resistance and tolerance in successional habitats
Alyssa Stocks Hakes, Florida State University; James T. Cronin, Louisiana State University
2:10 PM
COS 136-3
Grasses bite back: Experimental demonstration of the effects of silica on foliar digestibility, insect mandible wear, and herbivore growth rates
Sue E. Hartley, University of Sussex; Fergus P. Massey, University of Sussex
2:30 PM
COS 136-4
Costs of sequestration in the buckeye caterpillar (Junonia coenia)
Angela M. Smilanich, University of Nevada, Reno; Lee A. Dyer, University of Nevada; Deane Bowers, University of Colorado; Jeff Q. Chambers, Tulane University; Grant L. Gentry, Samford University
2:50 PM
COS 136-5
Stem dimorphism and herbivory in goldenrod: Recurved (“candy-cane”) stems as a resistance mechanism against galling insects
Michael J. Wise, Bucknell University; Warren G. Abrahamson, Bucknell University
3:10 PM
COS 136-
Break
3:20 PM
COS 136-6
Synchronous flowering increases seed predation in small Silene latifolia patches: A field experiment
Giorgina Bernasconi, University of Lausanne; Jelmer A. Elzinga, University of Lausanne
3:40 PM
COS 136-7
Feeding of the coccinellid beetle, Curinus coeruleus, on extra-floral nectaries of Hibiscus brackenridgei as a mechanism for defense
Kyra Krakos, Washington University in Saint Louis; Gary Booth, Brigham Young University; John Gardner, Brigham Young University
4:00 PM
COS 136-8
Changing hiding patterns in sago pondweed tubers in response to predation by tundra swans
Bert Hidding, Université Laval; Bart A. Nolet, NIOO-KNAW; Marcel Klaassen, Deakin University
4:20 PM
COS 136-9
Associational resistance and susceptibility: Having right or wrong neighbors
Pedro Barbosa, University of Maryland; Ian Kaplan, Purdue University; Zsofia Szendrei, Michigan State University; Adrianna Szczepaniec, Texas A&M University; Jessica Hines, EAWAG; Holly Martinson, University of Maryland
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