Session: Herbivory: Plant Defenses (95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010))

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

COS 57 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses

Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

412, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

John G. Bishop

8:00 AM

COS 57-1

Can optimal defense theory be used to predict the distribution of plant chemical defenses?
Andrew C. McCall, Denison University; James A. Fordyce, University of Tennessee

8:20 AM

COS 57-2

Influence of plant ontogeny on tolerance and resistance to leaf damage
Carolina Quintero, University of Colorado at Boulder

8:40 AM

COS 57-3

Consequences of plant viral infection on the performance of herbivores from different guilds
Monica F. Kersch-Becker, Cornell University; Jennifer S. Thaler, Cornell University

9:00 AM

COS 57-4

Evolutionary ecology of mutualistic plant traits in Viburnum: Extrafloral nectaries and leaf domatia
Marjorie G. Weber, Cornell University; Wendy Clement, Yale University; Anurag A. Agrawal, Cornell University

9:20 AM

COS 57-5

Relatedness to a native and leaf traits predict herbivory on non-native oaks
Ian Pearse, United States Geological Survey; Andrew L. Hipp, The Morton Arboretum

9:40 AM

COS 57-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 57-6

Ontogenetic variation in herbivore defense phenotypes in the introduced weed Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)
Christina Alba, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Dana M. Blumenthal, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Deane Bowers, University of Colorado; Ruth A. Hufbauer, Colorado State University

10:10 AM

COS 57-7

Chemical defenses in tropical fruits: Quantifying variation in toxicity across fruit development and within fruit of vertebrate- and wind-dispersed canopy plants
Noelle G. Beckman, The Ohio State University

10:30 AM

COS 57-8

Induction of phenolics by natural herbivores in the Neotropical tree genus Inga (Leguminosae)
Ryan J. Bixenmann, Montana State University; Phyllis D. Coley, University of Utah; Thomas A. Kursar, University of Utah

10:50 AM

COS 57-9

CANCELLED - Plant mating system variation and the chemical ecology of defence against insects
Stuart Campbell, Cornell University

11:10 AM

COS 57-10

Small bugs, big impacts: effects of aphids on cotton defenses against a chewing herbivore
Adrianna Szczepaniec, Texas A&M University; Micky D. Eubanks, Texas A&M University

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