95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

COS 14 - Food Webs

Monday, August 2, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
320, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Lyne Morissette
1:30 PM
Energy flow and species persistence in a widespread pelagic food web module
Sabine Wollrab, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich; Sebastian Diehl, Umeå University; André M. de Roos, University of Amsterdam
1:50 PM
CANCELLED - Does adaptation maintain weak interactions in ecological foodwebs?
Gur Yaari, Yale University; David A. Vasseur, Yale University
2:50 PM
Complex roles of lungless salamanders and wolf spiders in forest floor food web dynamics
Owen M. Lockhart, Cleveland State University; Kimberly A. Thompson, John Carroll University; B. Michael Walton, Cleveland State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Herbivore physiological response to fear of predation alters ecosystem nutrient dynamics
Dror Hawlena, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Oswald J. Schmitz, Yale University
3:40 PM
Community stability threshold for parasite establishment and persistence in estuarine marshes
Tavis K. Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Michael V.K. Sukhdeo, Rutgers University
4:20 PM
Using isotopes to evaluate bottom-up and top-down forces in tropical streams
Steve A. Thomas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Alexander Flecker, Cornell University; Rana El Sabaawi, Cornell University; Thomas N. Heatherly, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Michael C. Marshall, University of Georgia; Tyler Kohler, University of Colorado; Catherine M. Pringle, University of Georgia; David N. Reznick, University of California Riverside
4:40 PM
Food web impacts of brook trout invasion in salmon rearing streams of the Snake River Basin, ID
Dana R. Warren, Oregon State University; Michelle McClure, NOAA Fisheries Service; Beth Sanderson, NOAA Fisheries