ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)
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COS 73 - Predation and predator-prey interactions

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
San Carlos II, San Jose Hilton
8:00 AM
COS 73-1
Size selection by octopuses (E. dofleini) and its impact on intertidal crab communities
Tania L. Vincent, Alaska Pacific University; Courtney Lyons, Alaska Pacific University; Megan Sirr, Alaska Pacific University; David Scheel, Alaska Pacific University
8:20 AM
COS 73-2
Dead zones - good or bad?: Hypoxia provides a predation refuge for a vital fisheries species but decimates others
Andrew H. Altieri, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
8:40 AM
COS 73-3
Relationship between mandibular morphology and predator efficiency in omnivorous and carnivorous carabid beetles
Steven D. Frank, North Carolina State University; Robert F. Denno, University of Maryland; Paula M. Shrewsbury, University of Maryland
9:00 AM
COS 73-4
The influence of predators on the survival and abundance of isolated neighboring populations of the Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi)
Brian J. Halstead, University of South Florida; Earl D. McCoy, University of South Florida; Henry R. Mushinsky, University of South Florida
9:20 AM
COS 73-5
Long-term intraguild predator-prey dynamics among salamanders
Spencer A. Cortwright, Indiana University Northwest
9:40 AM
COS 73-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 73-6
Effects of grazing on population size and predation risk for rodents in a coastal California grassland
Matthew D. Johnson, Humboldt State University
10:10 AM
COS 73-7
Predator-prey space use as the emergent outcome of a behavioral response race: Effects of prey activity
John I. Hammond, University of New Mexico; Barney Luttbeg, Oklahoma State University; Andrew Sih, UC Davis
10:30 AM
COS 73-8
Interacting coexistence mechanisms: frequency-dependent predation in a variable environment
Jessica J. Kuang, University of Arizona; Peter Chesson, University of Arizona
10:50 AM
COS 73-9
Between discrete and continuous: Consumer-resource dynamics with synchronized reproduction
Elizaveta Pachepsky, UC Santa Barbara; Roger N. Nisbet, University of California, Santa Barbara; William W. Murdoch, University of California, Santa Barbara
11:10 AM
COS 73-10
Alteration of sensory abilities regulates the spatial scale of non-lethal predator effects
Delbert L. Smee, Dauphin Island Sea Lab; Matthew C. Ferner, San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve; Marc J. Weissburg, Georgia Tech
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