94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)
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COS 60 - Mutualism and Facilitation

Wednesday, August 5, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Sendero Blrm III, Hyatt
Presider:
Amy M. McKinney
8:00 AM
COS 60-1
Characterization of endophytic fungi of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Nathan M. Kleczewski, Purdue University; Jonathan T. Bauer, Michigan State University; James D. Bever, Indiana University; Keith Clay, Indiana University; Heather L. Reynolds, Indiana University
8:20 AM
COS 60-2
Competition for shared mutualist ants may influence plant performance
Arietta E. Fleming-Davies, University of Chicago
8:40 AM
COS 60-3
Diverse ecological consequences of plant-microbe symbiosis
Jennifer Rudgers, University of New Mexico
9:00 AM
COS 60-4
Context-dependency of a symbiotic mutualism: Benefits of fungal endophytes to the native, wild grass Festuca subverticillata depend on water availability and herbivore identity
Michelle E. Afkhami, University of Toronto; Jennifer Rudgers, Rice University
9:20 AM
COS 60-5
Plant sanctions cannot prevent parasitism by cheating mycorrhizal fungi
Emily Grman, Michigan State University
9:40 AM
COS 60-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 60-6
Context-dependency in plant response to mycorrhizal fungi: A meta-analysis of the mutualism-parasitism continuum
Jason D. Hoeksema, University of Mississippi; Veer B. Chaudhary, Loyola University Chicago; Catherine Gehring, Northern Arizona University; Nancy Johnson, Northern Arizona University; Justine Karst, University of Alberta; Roger T. Koide, Brigham Young University; Anne Pringle, Harvard University; Catherine A. Zabinski, Montana State University; James D. Bever, Indiana University; John C. Moore, Colorado State University; Gail Wilson, Oklahoma State University; John Klironomos, University of British Columbia; James Umbanhowar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
10:10 AM
COS 60-7
Getting by with a little help from their friends?  Tracing the impacts of partner abundance in facultative mutualisms
Jennifer C. Geib, Appalachian State University; Candace Galen, University of Missouri-Columbia
10:30 AM
COS 60-8
Context-dependent variation in a plant-pollinator mutualism
Suann Yang, Presbyterian College; Matthew J. Ferrari, Penn State University; Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University
10:50 AM
COS 60-9
Do kangaroo rats indirectly facilitate harvester ants? Implications of inter-specific spatial patterns
Andrew J. Edelman, University of New Mexico
11:10 AM
COS 60-10
Myrmecochorous dispersal services along soil moisture gradients
Robert Warren II, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; Itamar Giladi, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology
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