2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 69 - Seed Production, Dispersal, And Predation

Wednesday, August 8, 2018: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
338, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
8:00 AM
Seed to seedling transition shows distance-based mortality effects but no strong Janzen-Connell patterns for tree species at Barro Colorado Island (Panama)
Philippe Marchand, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue; Liza S. Comita, Yale University; S Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Richard Condit, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Stephen P. Hubbell, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Noelle G. Beckman, Utah State University
8:20 AM
No monkey business: Howler monkey reintroduction restores ecological interactions and processes
Luisa Genes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Fernando A.S. Fernandez, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso; Patricia da Rosa, Centro Nacional de Conservacao da Flora; Eduardo P. Fernandez, Centro Nacional de Conservacao da Flora; Alexandra S. Pires, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
8:40 AM
9:00 AM
Effects of hunting and logging on tree fecundity and seed dispersal in Afrotropical forests
Chase L. Nuñez, Duke University; John R. Poulsen, Duke University; Connie J. Clark, Duke University, Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux; James Clark, Duke University
9:20 AM
Mast seeding in pinyon pine varies across physiographic gradients of water deficit
Andreas P. Wion, Colorado State University; Miranda D. Redmond, Colorado State University; Peter Weisberg, University of Nevada-Reno
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Influence of weather on masting events in chestnut oak and black oak
Sarah J. Smith, Ohio University; Rebecca Snell, Ohio University; Brian C. McCarthy, Ohio University; Todd F. Hutchinson, USDA Forest Service
10:10 AM
Seed dispersal drives large-scale legacies of past land use on contemporary plant communities
Angela L. Larsen, University of Wisconsin - Madison; John L. Orrock, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Ellen I. Damschen, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lars Brudvig, Michigan State University
10:50 AM
Do plants adjust their fruit traits as a response to changes in frugivore communities?
Brittany R. Cavazos, Iowa State University; Haldre S. Rogers, Iowa State University; Evan C. Fricke, Iowa State University
11:10 AM
Revisiting the role of Australian mammals as seed predators
Charlotte H Mills, UNSW; Mark Ooi, UNSW; Katherine Tuft, Arid Recovery Reserve; Mike Letnic, UNSW
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