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

COS 161 - Selection and adaptation II: Animals and interacting populations

Friday, August 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
F2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
8:00 AM
Explaining the persistence of less-mutualistic rhizobia despite legume host sanctions
R. Ford Denison, University of Minnesota; Will Ratcliff, University of Minnesota; Supriya Kadam, University of Minnesota; Ryoko Oono, University of Minnesota; Robert Rousseau, UC Davis; Lyistrata Munson, UC Davis; Alain Chapon, UC Davis; E. Toby Kiers, Vrije Universiteit
8:20 AM
Genotype-dependence, partner choice, and local adaptation in mutualism: A study of natural plant and rhizobium populations
Katy D. Heath, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Peter Tiffin, University of Minnesota
8:40 AM
Competitor- and herbivore-mediated indirect effects of elevated CO2 on plant evolution
Jennifer A. Lau, Michigan State University; Ruth G. Shaw, University of Minnesota; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota; Peter Tiffin, University of Minnesota
9:20 AM
A geographic mosaic of tri-trophic interactions: Bottom-up and top-down selection forces change across the landscape
David Solance Smith, Northern Arizona University; Joe Bailey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Jennifer A. Schweitzer, University of Tennessee - Knoxville; Stephen M. Shuster, Northern Arizona University; Thomas Whitham, Northern Arizona University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Convergence of ecological and evolutionary rates: Predator-driven evolution of population growth rate
Casey P. terHorst, California State University, Northridge; Thomas E. Miller, Florida State University
10:10 AM
Predictable and severe disturbance from an ecosystem engineer controls aquatic insect phenology
Jonathan W. Moore, Simon Fraser University; Daniel E. Schindler, University of Washington; Justin Fox, University of California Santa Cruz; Jackie L. Carter, University of Washington
10:30 AM
Evolutionary dynamics of aggregation behavior in zooplankton
Ariane Verdy, University of California, Los Angeles; Glenn R. Flierl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology