2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 72 - Behavior

Wednesday, August 8, 2018: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
355, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
1:30 PM
Activity trade-offs in a warmer world: Body size determines how herbivores balance thermoregulation, predation risk and food requirements
Michiel P. Veldhuis, University of Groningen, Princeton University; Guy Balme, Panthera; Dave Druce, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife; Tim Hofmeester, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Joris PGM Cromsigt, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
1:50 PM
Group size and decision-making: Experimental evidence for minority games in fish behavior
Anshuman Swain, University of Maryland; William F. Fagan, University of Maryland
2:10 PM
A test of a test: investigating the use of laboratory open field tests to measure exploratory behavior in a lizard
Renee L. Rosier, Pennsylvania State University; Esra Tekdal Yilmaz, Pennsylvania State University; Francis Derby, Pennsylvania State University
2:30 PM
Allee effects link the evolution of cooperation and the evolution of group size
Brian A Lerch, Case Western Reserve University; Karen C. Abbott, Case Western Reserve University
2:50 PM
Comparative energetics and responses to feeding of terrestrial and semi-aquatic vipers
McKayla M. Spencer, Iowa State University; C. M. Gienger, Austin Peay State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Simulated birder playback and pishing reduce foraging behavior of wintering birds
Terri J Maness, Louisiana Tech University; Joshua M Johnson, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
3:40 PM
Long-term costs of post-natal glucocorticoid exposure: Evidence of trade-offs between growth, antipredator behavior, and survival in the house sparrow
Jacquelyn K. Grace, Texas A&M University; Frédéric Angelier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4:00 PM
Using metabolic and thermal ecology to predict temperature dependent ecosystem activity: A test with prairie ants
Rebecca M. Prather, University of Oklahoma; Karl A. Roeder, University of Oklahoma; Nathan J. Sanders, University of Vermont; Michael Kaspari, University of Oklahoma
4:20 PM
Social information supports a scavenger mutualism between corvids and raptors
Matthew R Orr, Oregon State University-Cascades; Jon D. Nelson, High Desert Museum; James W. Watson, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
4:40 PM
Effects of vegetation type on Callinectes sapidus predation success and predator behavior
Rachael M. Glazner, Texas A&M University; Jade T. Blennau, Stony Brook University; Anna Armitage, Texas A&M University at Galveston
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