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THURSDAY
1:30 pm-5 pm
COS 147 - Behavior I
A103, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 147-1 Kauffman, MJ, United States Geological
Survey, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research
Unit. Moose migrations track summer range phenology:
Implications for trophic mismatch.
1:50 PM COS 147-2 De Jager, M 1 , A Kölzsch 2 and J Van de
Koppel 1 , (1)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
(NIOZ), (2)Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-
KNAW). Darwin or Einstein, who is making them move?.
2:10 PM COS 147-3 Parker, TH, Whitman College. A case study
of impediments to progress in behavioral ecology.
2:30 PM COS 147-4 Hull, V 1 , J Zhang 1 , S Zhou 2 , J Huang 2 ,
Z Ouyang 3 , H Zhang 2 and J Liu 1 , (1)Michigan State
University, (2)Wolong Nature Reserve, (3)Chinese
Academy of Sciences. Giant panda behavior across a
coupled human and natural system.
2:50 PM COS 147-5 Shik, JZ 1 , AD Kay 2 and J Silverman 3 , (1)North
Carolina State University, (2)University of St. Thomas,
(3)NCSU. Energy subsidies from aphid mutualists fuel
establishment of Argentine ant propagules.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 147-6 Spiegel, O 1 , WM Getz 2 and R Nathan 1 , (1)
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (2)University of
California at Berkeley. A comparison of movement
ecology and search efficiency between vulture species
in Etosha National Park, Namibia.
3:40 PM COS 147-7 Donaldson-Matasci, MC, S Powell and A
Dornhaus, University of Arizona. Soldier deployment
in ants: Do colonies respond optimally to changing
defensive needs?.
4:00 PM COS 147-8 Arner, AJ 1 , XE Bernal 1 and RA Page 2 , (1)
Texas Tech University, (2)Smithsonian Tropical Research
Institute. Behavioral changes as a result of experience:
The curious case of the cane toad.
4:20 PM COS 147-9 McMichael, CC and MD Eubanks, Texas
A&M University. Family ties and fluroescent dyes:
Searching for nepotism in Solenopsis invicta.
4:40 PM COS 147-10 Schuttler, S and LS Eggert, University
of Missouri. Fine-scale genetic structure and inferred
sociality in African forest elephants.
COS 148 - Biodiversity IV
B112, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 148-1 Klingbeil, BT 1 , KR Burgio 1 , LM Cisneros 1 ,
LM Dreiss 1 , BD Patterson 2 , SJ Presley 1 and MR
Willig 1 , (1)University of Connecticut, (2)Field Museum
of Natural History. Variation in multiple dimensions of
biodiversity along a tropical elevation gradient: Inter-taxon
comparisons.
1:50 PM COS 148-2 Dee, L 1 , L Peavey 1 , S Miller 1 and S Lester 2 ,
(1)University of California, Santa Barbara, (2)Sustainable
Fisheries Group, University of Santa Barbara. Biodiversity
is a poor predictor of fisheries production in large marine
ecosystems.
2:10 PM COS 148-3 Villanueva-Rivera, LJ, B Pijanowski, BK
Pekin and J Jung, Purdue University. Soundscape of a
neotropical soundscape: Temporal and spatial patterns.
2:30 PM COS 148-4 Theobald, EJ, LM Berg, HK Burgess,
AK Ettinger, HE Nelson, NR Schmidt, C Wagner, J
HilleRisLambers, JJ Tewksbury and J Parrish, University
of Washington. Global change calls for global change:
Biodiversity research and citizen science data.
2:50 PM COS 148-5 Minchin, PR, AS Fritzgerald and JL Laquet,
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The effect
of changes in the spatial configuration of fragmented
temperate deciduous forests on current patterns of
biodiversity.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 148-6 Barbour, MA 1 , ES Jules 2 and GM Crutsinger 1 ,
(1)University of British Columbia, (2)Humboldt State
University. Plant architecture directly and indirectly
influences the abundance and diversity of arthropod
predators and parasitoids.
3:40 PM COS 148-7 Hughes, F 1 , GP Asner 2 and D Grossman 3 , (1)
USDA Forest Service, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science,
(3)Conservation Biology Institute. Recovery of native
species diversity and biomass following deforestation
of wet forests on Hawaii Island: The hope of native ohia
(Metrosideros polymorpha) populations and the curse of
alien and/or “novel” forests.
4:00 PM COS 148-8 Schuler, MS, Washington University in
St. Louis. The importance of interactions between
deterministic mechanisms that affect species diversity.
4:20 PM COS 148-9 Weisser, WW 1 , E Allan 2 , C Scherber 3 , N
Eisenhauer 4 , N Nitschke 5 , ST Meyer 6 , A Milcu 7 , S
Partsch 8 , ACW Sabais 8 and S Scheu 9 , (1)TUM Munich,
(2)University of Bern, (3)Georg August University,
(4)University of Minnesota, (5)Institute of Ecology,
Friedrich-Schiller-University, (6)TU Munich, (7)Imperial
College London, (8)Darmstadt University of Technology,
(9)University of Goettingen. Effects of exclusion of
above- and belowground insects along with molluscs in
a biodiversity experiment.
4:40 PM COS 148-10 Stier, A, University of Florida. Trophic
Island Biogeography.
COS 149 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along
Environmental Gradients II
B114, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 149-1 Bettez, ND and PM Groffman, Cary Institute
of Ecosystem Studies. Comparison of denitrification
potential in stormwater control measures and riparian
areas.
1:50 PM COS 149-2 Marklein, AR 1 and BZ Houlton 2 , (1)University
of California - Davis, (2)University of California, Davis.
N:P re-mineralization ratios across forest ecosystems.
2:10 PM COS 149-3 Smith, LC and RD Jackson, University
of Wisconsin-Madison. N-fertilizer addition and plant
community composition affect the nitrogen-use dynamics
of two contrasting bioenergy cropping systems.
2:30 PM COS 149-4 Ontl, TA 1 , B Sigmon 1 , KS Hofmockel 1 , LA
Schulte 1 and RK Kolka 2 , (1)Iowa State University, (2)
USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station. Root
dynamics of bioenergy crops: Scaling from the field to
landscapes.
2:50 PM COS 149-5 Luo, R 1 , D Li 2 , E Weese 2 and Y Luo 2 , (1)
the University of Oklahoma, (2)University of Oklahoma.
Global patterns of fire regime analysis based on fire
frequency.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 149-6 Castle, SC 1 , DR Nemergut 2 , SK Schmidt 2 ,
AS Grandy 3 and CC Cleveland 1 , (1)University of
Montana, (2)University of Colorado, (3)University of
New Hampshire. Microbial community succession and
biogeochemical cycling: A comparison across glacial
forelands.
3:40 PM COS 149-7 Keiser, AD 1 , JD Knoepp 2 and MA Bradford 1 ,
(1)Yale University, (2)USDA Forest Service Southern
Research Station. Reconciling potential nitrification rates
and site characteristics across the landscape.
154 ESA 97th Annual Meeting, August 5 - 10, 2012, Oregon Convention Center