Session: Behavior: Foraging And Diet (2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10))

8:00 AM

COS 91-1

Notes from underground: Experimentally induced stress reduces foraging precision
James F. Cahill Jr., University of Alberta; Megan K. Ljubotina, University of Alberta; Tan Bao, University of Alberta; Colleen C. St. Clair, University of Alberta; Garrett W. Melenka, York University; Jason P. Carey, University of Alberta

8:20 AM

COS 91-2

Plankton dynamics of a species-poor Bahamian saltwater lake: Are seahorses (Hippocampus erectus) diet generalists?
Heather D. Masonjones, The University of Tampa; Rebecca Waggett, The University of Tampa; Katie-Lynn Roberts, The University of Tampa; Elisabeth Pendergrass, The University of Tampa

8:40 AM

COS 91-3

Competitors and resource levels dictate belowground foraging effort in Helianthus annuus
Megan K. Ljubotina, University of Alberta; James F. Cahill Jr., University of Alberta

9:00 AM

COS 91-4

Assessing diet composition of axis deer (Axis axis) through DNA metabarcoding of fecal and rumen samples
Clint J. Fallon, Colorado State University; Tom Arsuffi, Texas Tech University

9:20 AM

COS 91-5

Foraging habitat selection of bats at a forest-urban interface in Dayton, OH
Molly Simonis, Wright State University; Volker Bahn, Wright State University

9:40 AM

COS 91-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 91-6

Ultraviolet reflectance and relative bird predation on plasticine caterpillar dummies
Chapin P Czarnecki, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Rea Manderino, SUNY - College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Dylan Parry, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

10:10 AM

COS 91-7

Functional and behavioral responses increase vulture carrion consumption with increasing scale of mass mortality events
Carolina Baruzzi, Mississippi State University; Brandon T. Barton, Mississippi State University; Heather R Jordan, Mississippi State University; Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Texas A&M University; Michael V Cove, North Carolina State University; Marcus A Lashley, Mississippi State University

10:30 AM

COS 91-8

Fitness trade-offs of predation: When to scavenge and when to steal
Ritwika VPS, University of California, Merced; Ajay Gopinathan, University of California, Merced; Justin D. Yeakel, University of California Merced

10:50 AM

COS 91-9

Individual variation in brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) foraging behaviors in the Gulf of Mexico
Brock Geary, Tulane University; Scott T. Walter, Texas State University; Paul L. Leberg, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Jordan Karubian, Tulane University

11:10 AM

COS 91-10

Experience in the landscape increases bumble bee efficiency as foragers
T'ai H. Roulston, University of Virginia; Devanie Harper, University of California Davis

COS 91 - Behavior: Foraging And Diet