2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 140 - Mutualism And Facilitation

Friday, August 10, 2018: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
340-341, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
8:00 AM
Investment versus trade in resource-exchange mutualisms: Lessons from the Serengeti
Mark E. Ritchie, Syracuse University; Nancy Johnson, Northern Arizona University; Anita Antoninka, Northern Arizona University; Geofrey Soka, Sokoine University; Ramesh Raina, Syracuse University
8:20 AM
Consequences of facilitation among prey for outcomes of apparent competition: An experimental analysis
Nicholas S Lorusso, Rutgers University; Cara A. Faillace, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
8:40 AM
It takes a network: Multispecies mutualism between rhizobia, mycorrhizal fungi, and a legume shifts gene coexpression networks within host, partners, and across the symbiotic boundary
Michelle E. Afkhami, University of Miami; Sathvik X Palakurty, University of Miami; John Stinchcombe, University of Toronto
9:00 AM
'Endobiome interference' as a strategy to curtail aggressiveness of invasive plant species
Kurt Kowalski, U.S. Geological Survey; Kathryn Kingsley, Rutgers University; Susan Butterworth, Rutgers University; Matthew Elmore, Rutgers University; Lara Brindisi, Rutgers University; James White, Rutgers University
9:20 AM
A coexistence theory of mutualism
Christopher A. Johnson, ETH Zurich
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
10:10 AM
Experimentally Increasing Frugivory by Birds Using Social Information
Sean Erroll MacDonald, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Michael Patrick Ward, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jinelle Hutchins Sperry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:30 AM
Rapid changes associated with fungal communities of decomposing tropical leaf litter
Natalie S. Christian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Edward Allen Herre, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
10:50 AM
The effects of ant competition on mutualist aphid demography
Annika S. Nelson, University of California, Irvine, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; Kailen A. Mooney, University of California, Ivine, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
11:10 AM
Water level and salinity drive community structure of baldcypress tree (Taxodium distichum) endophytes in southern Louisiana
Elizabeth R. Kimbrough, Tulane University; Mae Berlow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Sunshine A. Van Bael, Tulane University
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