Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

TUESDAY
8 am-11:30 am
University of Wisconsin - Madison. Crowdsourcing
ecological research: Using the Trails Forward simulation
platform and video game to address conservation issues.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 42-6 Hart, EM and L Avilés, University of British
Columbia. The interplay between random catastrophes
and Allee effects on the dynamics of local populations in
a metapopulation.
10:10 AM COS 42-7 Smith, DM1 , DM Finch1 , DA Lytle2 and
DM Merritt3 , (1)USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain
Research Station, (2)Oregon State University, (3)USFS
Watershed, Fish, and Wildlife & CSU Natural Resource
Ecology Laboratory NRRC. Fire and flood in the bosque:
a cottonwood population model for flow-restricted
streams of the American Southwest.
10:30 AM COS 42-8 Scranton, K1 , J Knape2 and P de Valpine1 ,
(1)University of California - Berkeley, (2)University
of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. Estimating a
population model for stage-structured cohort data with
individual heterogeneity in development.
10:50 AM COS 42-9 Rodhouse, TJ1 , PC Ormsbee2 , KM Irvine3 ,
LA Vierling4 , JM Szewczak5 and KT Vierling4 , (1)National
Park Service, (2)US Forest Service, (3)US Geological
Survey, (4)University of Idaho, (5)Humboldt State
University. Annual turnover in bat occupancy patterns:
predictions from life history theory with implications for
conservation and monitoring.
11:10 AM COS 42-10 Morrison, TA1 , MJ Kauffman2 , AD Middleton1 and DE McWhirter3 , (1)University of Wyoming, (2)United
States Geological Survey, Wyoming Cooperative Fish
and Wildlife Research Unit, (3)Wyoming Game and Fish
Department. Heading for a cliff: Can dramatic declines in
elk recruitment cause lagged population declines?.
COS 43 - Mutualism And Facilitation II
Portland Blrm 255, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 43-1 Suwa, T1 , E Grman2 , R Prunier2 and JA Lau2 ,
(1)Michigan State University and W.K. Kellogg Biological
Station, (2)Michigan State University. Does speciesspecific
context-dependency in mutualisms explain
community response to environmental change?.
8:20 AM COS 43-2 Morales, MA1 and AG Zink2 , (1)Williams
College, (2)San Francisco State University. Mechanism
of agreggation in an ant-tended treehopper.
8:40 AM COS 43-3 Afkhami, ME and SY Strauss, University of
California, Davis. Mutualist-mediated niche expansion
and differentiation in a grass-fungal endophyte symbiosis:
Linking an experimental test of drought tolerance to
rangewide patterns of mutualist-mediated niche effects.
9:00 AM COS 43-4 Yoo, HJ and DA Holway, University of
California, San Diego. Ecological effects of multi-species,
ant-hempiteran mutualisms in citrus.
9:20 AM COS 43-5 Biswas, SR and HH Wagner, University of
Toronto. Temporal dimension of the Stress Gradient
Hypothesis at the intraspecific level.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 43-6 Hembry, DH, L Atkinson, C Guo, EA Newman
and RG Gillespie, University of California, Berkeley.
Coevolutionary diversification and network structure of a
specialized pollination mutualism on oceanic islands.
10:10 AM COS 43-7 Keller, KR, Michigan State University. The
role of resource mutualisms and intraspecific variation
during succession.
10:30 AM COS 43-8 Amato, KR1 , CJ Yeoman1 , AD Kent2 , N
Righini1 , F Carbonero1 , A Estrada3 , HR Gaskins1 , RM
Stumpf 1 , S Yildirim 1 , M Torralba 4 , M Gillis 4 , BA Wilson 1 ,
KE Nelson 4 , BA White 1 and SR Leigh 1 , (1)University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2)University of Illinois, (3)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, (4)J. Craig
Venter Institute. Spatial and temporal variation in the gut
microbiome of wild, black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra).
10:50 AM COS 43-9 Brown, BL 1 , RP Creed Jr. 2 , J Skelton 1 , KJ
Farrell 2 and M Thomas 2 , (1)Virginia Tech, (2)Appalachian
State University. Fickle food on a shifting plate: Variable
benefits and partner control mechanisms in a crayfishannelid
cleaning symbiosis.
11:10 AM COS 43-10 Hannon, LE and DL Finke, University of
Missouri. A role for generalists in the pollination of
Krameria erecta oil flowers in central Arizona?.
COS 44 - Parasitism And Host-Parasite Interactions
Portland Blrm 256, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 44-1 Torchin, M 1 , O Miura 2 and R Hechinger 3 ,
(1)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, (2)Kochi
University, (3)UC Santa Barbara. Parasite species
richness in marine snails increases with latitude in both
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
8:20 AM COS 44-2 Nabity, PD 1 , MR Berenbaum 1 and EH
DeLucia 2 , (1)University of Illinois, (2)University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. Testing the extended phenotype
hypothesis as phylloxera induce stomata and reorganize
metabolism in grapes.
8:40 AM COS 44-3 Malfi, RL and TH Roulston, University of
Virginia. Patterns of parasite infection in bumble bees
(Bombus spp.) of the northern Shenandoah Valley in
Virginia.
9:00 AM COS 44-4 Wood, CL 1 , F Micheli 1 , M Fernández 2 ,
S Gelcich 2 , JC Castilla 2 and J Carvajal 3 , (1)Stanford
University, (2)Universidad Católica de Chile, (3)
Universidad de los Lagos. Epidemiological and
ecological effects of fishing on parasites of fished host
species.
9:20 AM COS 44-5 Mordecai, EA 1 , AG Jaramillo 2 and JE
Ashford 2 , (1)University of California-Santa Barbara, (2)
University of California, Santa Barbara. Competition –
colonization tradeoffs promote coexistence in salt marsh
trematode parasites.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 44-6 Hersh, MH 1 , MA Previtali 2 , SL LaDeau 3 , F
Keesing 4 and RS Ostfeld 3 , (1)Bard College and Cary
Institute of Ecosystem Studies, (2)Universidad Nacional
del Litoral, (3)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, (4)
Bard College. Effects of variable larval tick burdens on
survival of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus).
10:10 AM COS 44-7 Koprivnikar, J and JC Redfern, Brandon
University. Life history and ecological aspects of larval
amphibian behavioral consistency.
10:30 AM COS 44-8 Arnold, E 1 and G Devevey 2 , (1)University of
Illinois at Chicago, (2)University of Pennsylvania. From
the perspective of a parasite: What factors determine
success for a tick?.
10:50 AM COS 44-9 Smith, NF 1 and JH Cohen 2 , (1)Eckerd
College, (2)University of Delaware. Light-mediated
behavior of marine parasitic larvae: Adaptations to
enhance transmission success.
11:10 AM COS 44-10 Sargent, LW, K Towle, L Callahan and DM
Lodge, University of Notre Dame. Host manipulation by
a trematode parasite (Microphallus sp.) favors invasive
rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) in competition with
congeners.
74 ESA 97th Annual Meeting, August 5 - 10, 2012, Oregon Convention Center