2021 ESA Annual Meeting (August 2

Optimal allocation ratios: A square root relationship between the ratios of symbiotic costs and benefits
Brian Steidinger, University of Konstanz;

Nurse plants show potential in aiding chaparral restoration
Stephanie Ma Lucero, Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara;

Nitrogen fertilization affects plant decomposition both directly and through driving evolutionary shifts in rhizobium quality
Lauren Martin, Biology, Indiana University;

Hosts exert absolute and relative discrimination mechanisms against symbionts that differ continuously in quality
Stephanie Porter, Washington State University, Vancouver;

Mutualism And Facilitation - LB 6 - Live Discussion
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Standing genetic variation in the effect of a locus negotiating mutualism outcomes in wild rhizobia on their natural host plant
Camille Wendlandt, WSU;

The soil biotic community protects Rhododendron spp. across multiple clades from the oomycete Phytophthora cinnamomi at a cost to plant growth
Yu Liu, Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University;

Together or alone: Amphibian probiotic microbes are more successful against a skin pathogen in cocktails of related strains
Alexandra Alexiev, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder;

The effect of domestication on the legume-rhizobia mutualism
Niall Millar, School of Biological Sciences, Washington state university;

Across their species ranges, native legumes Acmispon wrangelianus and A. brachycarpus share a diverse species pool of nitrogen-fixing Mesorhizobium symbionts
Hanna Kehlet-Delgado, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University;

LB 6 Mutualism And Facilitation - LB 6