94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

COS 7 - Herbivory

Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Picuris, Albuquerque Convention Center
Presider:
Michele A. Thorne
1:30 PM
Non-trophic effect of grazing on plant species in two-phase mosaic
Ofri Gabay, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University; Avi Bar-Massada, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion; Avi Perevolotsky, The Volcani Center; Yohay Carmel, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion; Moshe Shachak, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University
1:50 PM
Impact of invertebrate herbivory on montane European grasslands depends on plant species diversity
Claudia Stein, Bilogy Department; Sybille B. Unsicker, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology; Ansgar Kahmen, ETH Zurich; Markus Wagner, University of Jena; Volker Audorff, University of Jena; Harald Auge, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; Daniel Prati, University of Bern; Wolfgang Weisser, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
2:10 PM
Herbivores, density, and the population dynamics of the perennial herb Solanum carolinense
Nora Underwood, Florida State University; Stacey L. Halpern, Pacific University; Jessica Hines, EAWAG; Brian D. Inouye, Florida State University
2:30 PM
Gap-, stand-, and landscape-scale factors affecting tree regeneration in harvest gaps
Megan S. Matonis, Michigan State University; Michael B. Walters, Michigan State University; James D. A. Millington, Michigan State University; Jianguo Liu, Michigan State University
2:50 PM
Ecotypic differentiation in regeneratory plasticity
Michal Gruntman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Ariel Novolpansky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
The effects of elevation and climate on oak leaf herbivory: implications for fossil studies
Erin Leckey, University of Colorado; Dena M. Smith, University of Colorado
3:40 PM
Variation in seasonal-site affects on the contribution of root respiration to soil respiration associated with grazing across the Yellowstone grassland ecosystem
Michele A. Thorne, Syracuse University; C. Eric Hellquist, SUNY-Oswego; Douglas A. Frank, Syracuse University
4:20 PM
Herbivory and detritivory in the land snail Cepaea nemoralis
Paul J. Mensink, Victoria University of Wellington; Hugh Henry, University of Western Ontario