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

COS 181 - Competition II

Friday, August 10, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
C124, Oregon Convention Center
8:20 AM
The effects of interspecific interactions among dwarf mistletoe species on their population dynamics
Mónica E. Queijeiro-Bolaños, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Carlos Martorell, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Zenón Cano-Santana, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
8:40 AM
Plant facilitation: The importance of diversity and seedling ontogeny
Alexandra J. Wright, Bard College; Stefan A. Schnitzer, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota
9:00 AM
The role of phenotypic plasticity for species coexistence
Oscar Godoy, Universidad de Cadiz; Noelia Gonzalez-Muñoz, University of Alcalá; Jonathan M. Levine, ETH Zurich
9:20 AM
Are snail-insect interactions important in tropical streams?
Alex Chee Yu Yeung, The University of Hong Kong; David Dudgeon, The University of Hong Kong
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Can disturbances increase plant competition?
J. Stephen Brewer, University of Mississippi; Jeffery B. Cannon, University of Georgia
10:10 AM
Cohort dynamics give rise to alternative stable community states
Magnus Huss, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; André M. de Roos, University of Amsterdam; Anieke Van Leeuwen, Princeton University; Michele Casini, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Anna Gårdmark, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
10:30 AM
Untangling intraspecific and interspecific changes in leaf nitrogen across nitrogen availability gradients in forests
Ray Dybzinski, Princeton University; Caroline E. Farrior, Princeton University; Stephen W. Pacala, Princeton University
10:50 AM
Welcome to the club?  Assessing the competitive ability of a new mosquito invader, Culex coronator, across diverse resource environments
Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi; Jeffrey Skiff, University of Southern Mississippi
11:10 AM
Kin recognition and inter-sexual competition in a dioecious grass
Sarah Eppley, Portland State University; Sally Rogers, Portland State University; Charlene Mercer, Portland State University