Session: Behavior (101st ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2016))

8:00 AM

COS 64-1

Polarized versus unpolarized light pollution in triggering ecological traps for nocturnally-active insects
Bruce Robertson, Bard College; Desiree Campbell, Bard College; Colyer Durovich, Bard College; Ian Hetterich, Bard College at Simon's Rock; Julia Les, Bard College; Gábor Horváth, Eötvös University

8:20 AM

COS 64-2

Mechanisms of Apis cerana japonica coexistence with Apis mellifera: The role of color and nectar preference
Midzuho Tatsuno, Kyoto University; Naoya Osawa, Kyoto University

8:40 AM

COS 64-3

Forager viewsheds, information gathering, and resource matching in dynamic landscapes
William F. Fagan, University of Maryland; Eliezer Gurarie, University of Maryland; Sharon Bewick, University of Maryland; Allison Howard, University of Maryland; Stephen Cantrell, University of Miami; Chris Cosner, University of Miami

9:00 AM

COS 64-4

To climb or not to climb? A integrative individual-based biophysical model suggests facultative arboreality in salamanders may be linked to temperature across season and habitat type
Kira D. McEntire, University of Georgia

9:20 AM

COS 64-5

The influence of tidal currents, bathymetry, and prey density on the feeding hotspots of common and roseate terns (Sterna hirundo and S. dougallii)
Samuel S. Urmy, Stony Brook University; Joseph D. Warren, Stony Brook University

9:40 AM

COS 64-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 64-6

Host quality impacts colony-level aggression, survival, and the effectiveness of the defensive mutualism between Crematogaster mimosae (Santschi) and its host tree Acacia drepanolobium
Juan C Ruiz Guajardo, University of California Davis; Maureen Stanton, University of California Davis; Todd Palmer, University of Florida

10:10 AM

COS 64-7

Impacts of visual and social cues on exploratory behavior and boldness in the eastern fence lizard Sceloporus undulatus
Renee L. Rosier, Pennsylvania State University

10:30 AM

COS 64-8

Despite lower levels of neophobia, black-billed magpies (Pica hudsonia) lose resources to kleptoparasitism by nearby American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
Rhea M. M. Esposito, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Daniel J. Povinelli, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

10:50 AM

COS 64-9

Why cooperate when others go it alone? Costs and benefits of cooperation for males in a system with variable cooperative display coalitions
Megan A. Jones, Florida State University

11:10 AM

COS 64-10

Assessment of trophic positions for the seabirds of South Florida using ¹³C and ¹⁵N stable isotopes
Michael Young, Nova Southeastern University; Amy C. Hirons, Nova Southeastern University; Zara Martinez, Nova Southeastern University; David W. Kerstetter, Nova Southeastern University

COS 64 - Behavior