94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)
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COS 112 - Scaling: Body Size and Allometry

Thursday, August 6, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Pavillion IV, Hyatt
Presider:
Fiona J. Clissold
1:30 PM
COS 112-1
The metabolic basis of diversity: Interactive effects of temperature dependent ecological, evolutionary and ecosystems rates
James C. Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Brian Enquist, University of Arizona; Regis Ferriere, Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superieure
1:50 PM
COS 112-2
Life history and limitations of metabolic ecology: Host-specific population growth rate, uncorrelated with body mass, explains local abundance of insect herbivores on a shared host plant species
Eric M. Lind, University of Minnesota; Pedro Barbosa, University of Maryland
2:10 PM
COS 112-3
Empirical evaluation of the external branching architecture of diverse trees in light of metabolic scaling theory assumptions
Lisa D. Patrick, University of Arizona; Philippe Grégiore, University of Arizona; Vanessa R. Buzzard, University of Arizona; William W. Driscoll, University of Arizona; Scott C. Stark, Michigan State University; James C. Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Kenyon College; Charles A. Price, University of Western Australia; Christine A. Lamanna, University of Maine; Ashley L. Wiede, University of Arizona; Evan Sommer, University of Arizona; Van M. Savage, UCLA; Brian Enquist, University of Arizona
2:30 PM
COS 112-4
The effect of below-ground resources on above-ground allometric relationships in tropical tree species
Katherine D. Heineman, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Ethan Jensen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Autumn Shapland, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Brett Bogenrief, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Sylvester Tan, Forest Department Sarawak; Richard Rebarber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Sabrina E. Russo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2:50 PM
COS 112-5
Metabolic scaling and energy equivalence are not universal but scale-dependent
Nick J.B. Isaac, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; Chris Carbone, Zoological Society of London
3:10 PM
COS 112-
Break
3:20 PM
COS 112-6
Food of life: Fire of life!
Chen Hou, Albert Einstein Medical College; Wenyun Zuo, University of New Mexico; Melanie Moses, University of New Mexico; William H. Woodruff, Los Alamos National Laboratory,; James H. Brown, University of New Mexico; Geoffrey B. West, The Santa Fe Institute
3:40 PM
COS 112-7
Metabolic scaling links the traits of individual ants to their colonies
Jonathan Z. Shik, North Carolina State University
4:00 PM
COS 112-8
Allometric density responses in lepidoptera: The response to small and large patches by small and large species
Peter A. Hambäck, Stockholm University
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