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

COS 31 - Scaling: Body Size and Allometry

Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
102 B, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
Macroecology of tree size distributions
Ethan P. White, University of Florida; Brian Enquist, University of Arizona; James C. Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Charles A. Price, University of Western Australia; Scott Stark, University of Arizona
8:20 AM
The scaling of leaf venation architecture: General laws, functional implications, and paleo-applications
Lawren Sack, UCLA; Christine Scoffoni, California State University; Kristen Frole, University of Hawaii
8:40 AM
Body mass and temperature dependent functional response models - CANCELLED
Olivera Vucic-Pestic, Darmstadt University of Technology; Björn C. Rall, Darmstadt University of Technology; David Ott, Darmstadt University of Technology; Roswitha B. Ehnes, Darmstadt University of Technology; Ulrich Brose, University of Göttingen
9:00 AM
The metabolism of lake plankton does not support the metabolic theory of ecology
Francisco De Castro, University of Potsdam; Ursula Gaedke, University of Potsdam
9:20 AM
Ant colony size and the scaling of reproductive effort
Jonathan Z. Shik, North Carolina State University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Stabilization of omnivory by metabolic and foraging theory
Björn C. Rall, Darmstadt University of Technology; Florian D. Schneider, Darmstadt University of Technology; Ulrich Brose, University of Göttingen
10:10 AM
Evaluating scaling models in biology using a hierarchical Bayesian framework
Charles A. Price, University of Western Australia; Ethan P. White, University of Florida; Joshua S. Weitz, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kiona Ogle, Arizona State University