Session: Evolutionary Ecology (98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013))

8:00 AM

Phylogenetic structure of an arthropod consumer community: Specialization, turnover and response to plant diversity manipulation
Eric M. Lind, University of Minnesota; Elizabeth T. Borer, University of Minnesota; John B. Vincent, University of Minnesota; George Weiblen, University of Minnesota; Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota

8:20 AM

COS 121-2

Adaptive radiation in food webs and the reality of trophic levels on macroevolutionary timescales
Travis Ingram, Harvard University; Anne K. Salomon, Simon Fraser University

8:40 AM

COS 121-3

Different trait-mediated effects of locally adapted guppies on stream ecosystems: In situ experimental evidence of top-down effects are reflected by ecosystem properties at landscape scales in Trinidad’s Northern Range
Troy N. Simon, University of Georgia; Andrew J. Binderup, University of Georgia; Michael C. Marshall, University of Georgia; Ronald D. Bassar, University of Massachusetts; Steve A. Thomas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Alexander Flecker, Cornell University; James F. Gilliam, North Carolina State University; David N. Reznick, University of California Riverside; Catherine M. Pringle, University of Georgia

9:00 AM

COS 121-4

Ongoing natural selection on morphology of two rapidly evolving lizard species in White Sands
Simone des Roches, University of Idaho; Luke Harmon, University of Idaho; Erica Rosenblum, University of California, Berkeley

9:20 AM

COS 121-5

Ecological, evolutionary, and allometric patterns of sexual size dimorphism in turtles
Lenka Halámková, Clarkson University; James A. Schulte II, Clarkson University; Tom A. Langen, Clarkson University

9:40 AM

COS 121-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 121-6

Effects of herbivory, intraspecific genetic variation, and rapid evolution in plants on ecosystem processes
Connor R. Fitzpatrick, University of Toronto at Mississauga; Michael Preston, Univrsity of Toronto; Nathan Basiliko, University of Toronto at Mississauga; Marc Johnson, University of Toronto

10:10 AM

COS 121-7

The relative importance of rapid evolution in plant-soil feedbacks depends on ecological context
Casey P. terHorst, California State University, Northridge; Jennifer A. Lau, Michigan State University; Jay T. Lennon, Indiana University

10:30 AM

COS 121-8

Ecological causes and consequences of variation in tadpole behavior
Bradley E. Carlson, Penn State University; Tracy Langkilde, The Pennsylvania State University

10:50 AM

COS 121-9

Exploring the ecological consequences of evolutionary change by resurrecting centuries-old Daphnia resting eggs
Punidan D. Jeyasingh, Oklahoma State University; Priyanka Roy Chowdhury, Oklahoma State University

11:10 AM

COS 121-10

Effects of competitors and time on the evolution of sexual dimorphism
Hernan Vazquez-Miranda, University of Minnesota; Matthew J. Dufort, University of Minnesota

COS 121 - Evolutionary Ecology