Session: Resource Allocation and Partitioning (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

COS 61 - Resource Allocation and Partitioning

Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

102 B, Midwest Airlines Center

8:00 AM

COS 61-1

An experimental assessment of soil-based resource partitioning in understory palms
Kelly M. Andersen, San Diego Zoo Global

8:20 AM

COS 61-2

Modeling sectored resource allocation in patchy soils: A new perspective on root precision and nutrient foraging by plants
Alexandra M. Thorn, University of New Hampshire; Colin Orians, Tufts University

8:40 AM

COS 61-3

Legume host effects on resource-hoarding in rhizobium bacteroids
Ryoko Oono, University of Minnesota; R. Ford Denison, University of Minnesota

9:00 AM

COS 61-4

First evidence for hydraulic fragmentation in an herbaceous aridland perennial: Cryptantha flava
Roberto Salguero-Gomez, The University of Queensland; Brenda Casper, University of Pennsylvania

9:20 AM

COS 61-5

Evidence of competition in a Plethodon community: Divergence, convergence, and competitive exclusion
Jennifer M. Deitloff, Iowa State University

9:40 AM

COS 61-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 61-6

Environmental control over male and female sex allocation in California oaks
Johannes M. H. Knops, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Walter D. Koenig, Cornell University; William J. Carmen, Hastings NHR

10:10 AM

COS 61-7

Rodent biomass changes in the Chihuahuan Desert, Mexico
Lucina Hernández, SUNY Oswego; John W. Laundré, SUNY Oswego; Alberto Gonzalez-Romero, Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.

10:30 AM

COS 61-8

Variation in plant- and leaf-level traits of Dicerandra (Lamiaceae) congeners native to sandhill communities and Florida scrub
Amethyst G. Merchant, Grand View College; Stephen S. Mulkey, University of Florida

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