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

8:00 AM

COS 43-1

More than the sum of their parts: Food web structure is not predictable from network motifs
Timothée Poisot, Université de Montréal

8:20 AM

COS 43-2

Functional diversity and food web interactions of soil fauna in salt marshes
Kristin Haynert, Georg August University Goettingen; Mirijam Kiggen, Georg August University Goettingen; Bernhard Klarner, Georg August University Goettingen; Mark Maraun, Georg August University Goettingen; Stefan Scheu, Georg-August University

8:40 AM

COS 43-3

How much does the persistence of ecological networks depend on their stability?
Serguei Saavedra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rudolf P. Rohr, University of Fribourg; Jens Olesen, University of Aarhus; Jordi Bascompte, University of Zurich

9:00 AM

COS 43-4

Predators suppress herbivore outbreaks and enhance plant recovery following hurricanes
David A. Spiller, University of California, Davis; Thomas W. Schoener, University of California, Davis; Jonah Piovia-Scott, Washington State University

9:20 AM

COS 43-5

DNA metabarcoding reveals fine-scale structure and change in large African herbivore food webs
Tyler R. Kartzinel, The Nature Conservancy, Princeton University; Robert M. Pringle, Princeton University

9:40 AM

COS 43-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 43-6

Characterizing size-structure and individual variability in North Pacific food webs
Clinton B. Leach, Colorado State University; Colleen T. Webb, Colorado State University

10:10 AM

COS 43-7

Identifying key species in the response of food webs to environmental stressors: The case of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Michael J. McCann, Rutgers University; Kenneth W. Able, Rutgers University; Robert R. Christian, East Carolina University; F. Joel Fodrie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Olaf P. Jensen, Rutgers University; Jessica J. Johnson, Louisiana State University; Paola C. López-Duarte, Rutgers University; Charles W. Martin, Louisiana State University; Jill A. Olin, Stony Brook University; Michael J. Polito, Louisiana State University; Brian J. Roberts, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium; Shelby L. Ziegler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

10:30 AM

COS 43-8

Dis/assembly of food webs through population dynamics
Jonathan J. Borrelli, Stony Brook University

10:50 AM

COS 43-9

Food web dynamics on branching river networks
Kurt Anderson, University of California, Riverside; Sean M. Hayes, University of California Riverside

11:10 AM

COS 43-10

Emergent aquatic insects provide a high quality fatty acid subsidy to a riparian insectivore
Cornelia Twining, Cornell University; J. Thomas Brenna, Cornell University; Peter Lawrence, Cornell University; Sara T. Gonzalez, Cornell University; Alexander Flecker, Cornell University

COS 43 - Food Webs