97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

COS 144 - Species Interactions II

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
B117, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
Generalist vs. specialist pathogens: Consequences of insect vectoring of fungal pathogens in wild chili peppers
Noelle J. Machnicki, University of Washington; Catharine Adams, University of Washington; Josh Tewksbury, World Wide Fund for Nature
8:20 AM
Moving facilitation out of its niche: Tree merging, supertrees, and the limits to the stress-gradient hypothesis
Eliot J.B. McIntire, Natural Resources Canada & Laval University; Alex Fajardo, Centro de Investigacion en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia
8:40 AM
Predator diversity affects vector abundance and movement: Conflicting implications for pathogen prevalence?
Elizabeth Y. Long, University of Missouri; Deborah L. Finke, University of Missouri
9:00 AM
Consumer responses to resource density affect species coexistence in consumer-resource systems
Nicholas Kortessis, University of Arizona; Charlotte T. Lee, Duke University
9:20 AM
Phylogeographic structure of the Neotropical epiphytic orchid Epidendrum firmum corresponds to differences in symbiotic fungal communities
Tyler R. Kartzinel, Princeton University; Richard P. Shefferson, University of Tokyo; Dorset W. Trapnell, University of Georgia
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Cascading effects from bears to plants via a protection-service mutualism
Joshua B. Grinath, Florida State University; Brian D. Inouye, Florida State University; Nora C. Underwood, Florida State University
10:10 AM
Dynamics of interactions between slavemaking ants and their hosts: Spatial, temporal, and genetic patterns
Jennifer Apple, SUNY Geneseo; Sara L. Lewandowski, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Sarah A. Dzara, SUNY Geneseo; Daniel D. Kane, SUNY Geneseo; Jeffrey L. Levine, SUNY Geneseo; Bridget E. Neary, University of Rochester Medical Center
10:30 AM
Seed performances from casts of different earthworm species and different soil types
Julia Clause, Laboratoire ECODIV, Université de Rouen; Benoit Richard, Laboratoire ECODIV, Université de Rouen; Sébastien Barot, IRD; Thibaud Decaëns, Laboratoire ECODIV, Université de Rouen; Marc Legras, BioSol, Esitpa - Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Agriculture; Estelle Forey, Laboratoire ECODIV, Université de Rouen
10:50 AM
Neither floral nor fungal mutualists help to explain the persistence of females in a gynodioecious plant
Alison Brody, University of Vermont; Jonathan Breen Gonzalez, University of Vermont; Gretel L. Clarke, University of Vermont