2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

INS 8 - New Directions in the Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Carnivorous Plants

Tuesday, August 7, 2018: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
244, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Organizer:
Aaron Ellison
Moderator:
Aaron Ellison
Carnivorous plants have fascinated biologists and the general public for centuries. This year’s publication of a new synthesis of carnivorous plant ecology, evolution, and physiology has sparked renewed interest in what Darwin called “the most wonderful plants in the world”, while a new generation of researchers is exploring novel questions with these plants that have become model systems for a wide range of ecological topics. This Inspire Session presents a diverse group of young and senior scientists and practitioners who are actively working on new research themes focused on the ecology, evolution, conservation, and management of carnivorous plants; provides an opportunity to discuss ongoing collaborations and new research, management, and policy directions for carnivorous plants; and invites a broader group of ecologists to join these collaborative projects.
Climate change and the disruption of ecosystem services: Big world problems occurring in small world microcosms
Sarah M. Gray, University of Fribourg; Elodie C. Parain, University of Fribourg, Yale University; Rudolf P. Rohr, University of Fribourg; Louis-Félix Bersier, University of Fribourg
Size matters: How good are bladderwort traps as suction feeding predators?
Ulrike Muller, California State University at Fresno; Otto Berg, California State University Fresno; Maxwell Hall, California State University Fresno
A stoichiometric niche approach to pitcher-plant food webs
Angélica L. González, Rutgers University; Katrina DeWitt, Rutgers University
Hysteresis in a teapot: Organic enrichment and eutrophic collapse of the pitcher-plant foodweb
Amanda C. Northrop, University of Vermont; Nicholas J. Gotelli, University of Vermont; Bryan A. Ballif, University of Vermont; Aaron Ellison, Harvard University
Conservation of carnivorous plants in the southeastern United States
Emily E. D. Coffey, Atlanta Botanical Garden; Ron Determann, Atlanta Botanical Garden
Cancelled
INS 8-8
Legal issues in carnivorous plant conservation (widthdrawn)
David E. Jennings, Vermont Law School; Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law School
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