Session: Mutualism And Facilitation I (2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11))

1:30 PM

COS 66-1

Sagebrush facilitation of pinyon pine juveniles varies by life stage and along a gradient of aridity
Alexandra K. Urza, University of Nevada, Reno; Peter J. Weisberg, University of Nevada, Reno; Benjamin W. Sullivan, University of Nevada, Reno; Jeanne C. Chambers, USDA Forest Service

1:50 PM

COS 66-2

Why are some plant-pollinator networks more nested than others?
Chuliang Song, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rudolf P. Rohr, University of Fribourg; Serguei Saavedra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:10 PM

COS 66-3

The ecology of cheating: Why nectar-rob a flower more than once?
Judith Bronstein, University of Arizona; Elinor M. Lichtenberg, University of Arizona, University of Texas at Austin; Rebecca E. Irwin, North Carolina State University

2:30 PM

COS 66-4

Fungal endophyte effects on grass host demography and population dynamics
Marion Donald, Rice University; Thomas Miller, Rice University

2:50 PM

COS 66-5

How the timing of snowmelt affects plant phenology and reproduction in the Swiss Alps
Christopher A. Johnson, ETH Zurich; Mimi Sun, ETH Zurich; Jonathan M. Levine, ETH Zurich

3:10 PM

COS 66-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 66-6

Endosymbiont plasticity in Jatropha curcas
Kimberly L. Mighell, Tulane University; Kristin Saltonstall, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Jaime Espinosa, Instituto de Investigación Agropecuaria de Panamá; Sunshine A. Van Bael, Tulane University

3:40 PM

COS 66-7

Plant polyploidy enhances nodule traits and host benefit from the legume-rhizobia mutualism
Nicole Forrester, University of Pittsburgh; Joel Sachs, University of California Riverside; Tia-Lynn Ashman, University of Pittsburgh

4:00 PM

COS 66-8

Economy of scale: Cryptic partner strengthens a keystone ant-plant mutualism
Kirsten Prior, Binghamton University (SUNY); Todd M. Palmer, University of Florida

4:20 PM

COS 66-9

Hermaphrodites in arms: Facilitated defense in two perennial shrubs against an invasive, fungicidal annual forb
Benjamin M. Schlau, UC Irvine; Travis E. Huxman, University of California, Irvine

4:40 PM

COS 66-10

Can long term nutrient enrichment cause persistent disruptions of resource mutualisms?
Maria Cristina Portales Reyes, University of Minnesota; Forest Isbell, University of Minnesota; Richard Lankau, University of Wisconsin

COS 66 - Mutualism And Facilitation I