Session: Species Interactions I (2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10))

1:30 PM

COS 86-1

An evolutionary model of interlinked obligate syntrophic mutualisms in microbial communities
Luca Rade, Princeton University

1:50 PM

COS 86-2

Warming and dominant species mediate direct and higher-order interactions in alpine plant communities
Michelle Marraffini, University of Canterbury; Nathan J. Sanders, University of Vermont; Aimee Classen, Radford University; Daniel B. Stouffer, University of Canterbury

2:10 PM

COS 86-3

What's driving increased rates of human-alligator conflict in Florida?
Morgan Golden-Ebanks, University of North Florida; Adam E. Rosenblatt, University of North Florida

2:30 PM

COS 86-4

Speciation by reinforcement: dynamics of choosiness evolution under asymmetric population sizes
Hidetoshi Inamine, The Pennsylvania State University; Stephen Ellner, Cornell University; Kerry Shaw, Cornell University

2:50 PM

COS 86-5

Effects of mangrove encroachment on fiddler crab diets: An assessment of preference and food quality
Janelle Goeke, Texas A&M University at Galveston; Anna Armitage, Texas A&M University at Galveston

3:10 PM

COS 86-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 86-6

The microbial ecology of hominid sleeping places
Megan S. Thoemmes, North Carolina State University; Fiona A. Stewart, University of Cambridge, Liverpool John Moores University, Ugalla Primate Project; Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Ugalla Primate Project, University of Oslo, Norway; Matthew A. Bertone, North Carolina State University; David A. Baltzegar, North Carolina State University; Russell J. Borski, North Carolina State University; Naomi Cohen, Ugalla Primate Project; Kaitlin P. Coyle, North Carolina State University; Alexander K. Piel, Liverpool John Moores University, Ugalla Primate Project; Robert R. Dunn, Museum of Natural History, University of Copenhagen, North Carolina State University

3:40 PM

COS 86-7

The effects of gut passage on the germinability of seeds: A meta-analysis
Jason C. Richardson, University of South Florida; Marc J. Lajeunesse, University of South Florida; Haley E. Hanson, University of South Florida; Peter Stiling, University of South Florida

4:00 PM

COS 86-8

When communities collide: biological soil crusts as a biological filter of dryland plant communities
Caroline A. Havrilla, U.S. Geological Survey; Anita Antoninka, Northern Arizona University; Jayne Belnap, U.S. Geological Survey; Matthew Bowker, Northern Arizona University; Bala Chaudhary, DePaul University; David J. Eldridge, University of New South Wales; Akasha Faist, New Mexico State University; Scott Ferrenberg, New Mexico State University; Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, A.C.; Alexander D. Leslie, University of Colorado Boulder; Fernando T. Maestre, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos; Yuanming Zhang, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nichole N. Barger, University of Colorado Boulder

4:20 PM

COS 86-9

MOVED TO: THURS COS 123 4:40 - The roles of lianas and vines in structuring tree communities: A general framework and a case study in a tropical forest
Helene Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Marco D. Visser, Princeton University

COS 86 - Species Interactions I