Session: Herbivory II (99th ESA Annual Meeting (August 10 -- 15, 2014))

8:00 AM

COS 29-1

Effects of excluding aboveground herbivores of different body size on soil communities and processes in two vegetation types with different grazing history
Martijn L. Vandegehuchte, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Ursina Raschein, University of Zürich; Alan G. Haynes, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Dariusz J. Gwiazdowicz, Poznań University of Life Sciences; Martin Schütz, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Anita Risch, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

8:20 AM

COS 29-2

Herbivory in tropical trees: Relative influence of tree genotype diversity, tree species diversity, and herbivore identity
Luis Abdala-Roberts, University of California at Irvine; Kailen A. Mooney, University of California, Ivine; Teresa Quijano-Medina, Wagenigen University; Maria J. Campos-Navarrete, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan; Alejandra Gonzalez-Moreno, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan; Victor Parra-Tabla, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan

8:40 AM

COS 29-3

Ants determine plant herbivory along an elevational gradient
Zhang Shuang, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

9:00 AM

COS 29-4

Timing matters: Seasonality of defensive induction and herbivore community assembly in Asclepias eriocarpa
Marshall S. McMunn, University of California - Davis; Louie H. Yang, University of California, Davis; Ian Pearse, United States Geological Survey

9:20 AM

COS 29-5

Much ado about deer? 5-8 years of deer exclusion does not impact the understory plant community in temperate forests in northeastern Ohio
Sheryl M. Petersen, The Holden Arboretum; Sandra L. Albro, Cleveland Botanical Garden; Paul B. Drewa, Case Western Reserve University; Mike Watson, The Holden Arboretum; David J. Burke, The Holden Arboretum

9:40 AM

COS 29-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 29-6

Interactive effects of insects, mammals, and soil fertility on grassland plant community structure
Gregory Houseman, Wichita State University; F. Leland Russell, Wichita State University

10:10 AM

COS 29-7

Population differences in defense trait expression in Passiflora incarnata
Aline M. Waguespack Claytor, Duke University; William F. Morris, Duke University

10:30 AM

COS 29-8

Land use history, canopy thinning and consumers interact to affect seedling establishment
Philip G. Hahn, University of Wisconsin - Madison; John L. Orrock, University of Wisconsin - Madison

10:50 AM

COS 29-9

A shifting budget of grazing and production: Functional responses of a coral reef community to herbivore protection
Emily L.A. Kelly, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Russell T. Sparks, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources; Ivor D. Williams, NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; Jennifer E. Smith, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

11:10 AM

COS 29-10

Intraspecific variation in herbivory, density-dependence, and growth at the edge of a mangrove’s expanding range
Alexander J. Forde, University of Maryland; Daniel Gruner, University of Maryland

COS 29 Herbivory II

COS 29
Herbivory II