COS 78 - Herbivory

Thursday, August 15, 2019: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
L015/019, Kentucky International Convention Center
Presider:
Michael Friedman
8:00 AM
Megaherbivores suppress liana infestation in a semi-arid African savanna
Tyler C. Coverdale, Cornell University; Ryan D. O'Connell, Princeton University; Matthew C. Hutchinson, Princeton University; Amanda Savagian, Princeton University; Tyler R. Kartzinel, Brown University; Todd M. Palmer, University of Florida; Jacob R. Goheen, University of Wyoming; David J. Augustine, USDA-ARS; Mahesh Sankaran, National Centre for Biological Sciences; Corina E. Tarnita, Princeton University; Robert M. Pringle, Princeton University
8:40 AM Cancelled
COS 78-3
Demographic networks: Including fitness in bipartite networks to discover cryptic specialization in insect-plant interactions (widthdrawn)
Carlos Garcia-Robledo, University of Connecticut; Carol C. Horvitz, University of Miami
9:00 AM
cis-3-hexenyl acetate mediated defense priming is independent of fitness costs
Grace Freundlich, University of Louisville; Christopher J. Frost, University of Louisville
9:20 AM
Aspen (Populus tremuloides) foliar condensed tannin quantity and quality covary with leaf age
Kennedy F. Rubert-Nason, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Maine at Ft. Kent, Madison Area Technical College; Emily Gleason, Madison Area Technical College, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jack S. Schaefer, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Richard L. Lindroth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Competition-mediated costs of defense and their consequences for aspen populations
Olivia L. Cope, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ken Keefover-Ring, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Eric L. Kruger, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Richard L. Lindroth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:10 AM Cancelled
COS 78-7
Foliar nutrient content mediates the effects of grazing on the relative abundance of dominant and subordinate species (widthdrawn)
Maowei Liang, School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University, University of Arizona; Elise S Gornish, University of Arizona; Pierre Mariotte, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research; Jiquan Chen, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University; Cunzhu Liang, School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University
10:30 AM
Geographic variation in the growth responses of common milkweed to damage
Emily Mohl, St. Olaf College; Jacqueline W. Nuzzo, St. Olaf College; Kate E. Noel, St. Olaf College
10:50 AM
Testing for trade-offs in varying plant defense strategies
Nicole Soper Gorden, Mars Hill University; Peter Maddaus, University of Minnesota Duluth; Gina McClanahan, University of Minnesota Duluth; Coral Foster, Mars Hill University; Andrew Disco, Mars Hill University; Julie R. Etterson, University of Minnesota-Duluth
11:10 AM
Susceptibility to specialist natural enemies may be both the cause and consequence of rarity
Simon M. Stump, Yale University; James H. Marden, Pennsylvania State University; Noelle G. Beckman, Utah State University; Scott A. Mangan, Washington University in St. Louis; Liza S. Comita, Yale University, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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