Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

1:50 PM COS 67-2 Wetzel, WC and DR Strong, University of
California, Davis. Spatial heterogeneity and host-plant
preferences influence the abundances of an insect
herbivore.
2:10 PM COS 67-3 Lomáscolo, SB 1 , NP Chacoff 2 , R Castro-
Urgal 3 and DP Vázquez 4 , (1)Universidad de Cuyo, (2)
Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas
Áridas, (3)Group of population and community ecology,
Universitat de Les Illes Balears, (4)Centro Científico y
Tecnológico Mendoza. Trait convergence in a plantpollinator
network.
2:30 PM COS 67-4 Cummings, KA, NJ Divjak and LM Johnson,
Chatham University. Comparison of two populations of
Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis) for alkaloid production
and the phytochemicals’ effects on a specialist weevil
seed predator, Cleopmiarus hispidulus.
2:50 PM COS 67-5 Hajian-Forooshani, Z 1 , DJ Gonthier 1 , A
Iverson 2 , I Perfecto 1 , SM Philpott 3 and J Vandermeer 1 ,
(1)University of Michigan, (2)University of Mchigan, (3)
University of Toledo. Context-dependent benefits from
an indirect ant-plant mutualism: Competition for ant
attendance limits ant benefits to coffee.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 67-6 Kim, TN and NC Underwood, Florida State
University. The effect of neighborhood composition
on four mechanisms of associational resistance and
susceptibility.
3:40 PM COS 67-7 Clarke, GL and AK Brody, University of
Vermont. Effects of pollinators, seed predators, and
vertebrate herbivores on female and hermaphrodite sex
morphs and demography of the gynodioecious plant,
Polemonium foliosissimum.
4:00 PM COS 67-8 Stokes, KH and P Stiling, University of
South Florida. Effects of parasitism and competition on
Asphondylia borrichiae.
4:20 PM COS 67-9 Catton, HA 1 , RA De Clerck-Floate 2 and RG
Lalonde 1 , (1)University of British Columbia Okanagan,
(2)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Patch-level
nontarget attack by the biocontrol weevil Mogulones
crucifer: A temporary spillover effect requiring host plant
presence?.
4:40 PM COS 67-10 Long, JD and L Porturas, San Diego State
University. Scale insects: An emergent threat to Southern
California salt marshes.
COS 68 - Physiological Ecology III
Portland Blrm 257, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 68-1 Guo, W, Shandong University. Effects of
soil moisture and light intensity on ecophysiological
characteristics of Amorpha fruticosa seedlings.
1:50 PM COS 68-2 Hughes, NM, High Point University. The
physiological ecology of winter leaf reddening in
evergreen species.
2:10 PM COS 68-3 Coble, AP and MA Cavaleri, Michigan
Technological University. Investigating vertical gradients
of leaf morphology and anatomy in a sugar maple (Acer
saccharum) forest.
2:30 PM COS 68-4 Bronson, D 1 , X Song 1 , M Goulden 2 , KL
Clark 3 , P Bolstad 4 , T Meyers 5 , J Chen 6 , A Noormets 7 ,
D Dragoni 8 , DY Hollinger 9 , JW Munger 10 , S Wofsy 10 , TA
Martin 11 , RK Monson 12 , DD Baldocchi 13 , AR Desai 14 ,
E Euskirchen 15 , WJ Massman 16 and B Helliker 1 , (1)
University of Pennsylvania, (2)University of California,
Irvine, (3)USDA Forest Service, (4)University of Minnesota,
(5)NOAA, (6)The University of Toledo, (7)North Carolina
Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems
1:30 pm-5 pm
State University, (8)Indiana University, (9)US Department
of Agriculture Forest Service, (10)Harvard University,
(11)University of Florida, (12)University of Colorado,
Boulder, (13)University of California, (14)University of
Wisconsin, (15)University of Alaska-Fairbanks, (16)Rocky
Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service. Forest
canopy temperature: A comparison between an isotopic
approach, and photosynthesis-weighted air temperature.
2:50 PM COS 68-5 Heskel, MA1 , D Bitterman1 , O Atkin2 , M
Turnbull3 and KL Griffin4 , (1)Columbia University, (2)
The Australian National University, (3)University of
Canterbury, (4)Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.
Seasonal dynamics of photosynthesis and respiration in
Arctic tundra species under warming.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 68-6 Pivovaroff, A1 , L Sack2 and L Santiago3 ,
(1)UC Riverside, (2)UCLA, (3)University of California,
Riverside. Coordination of stem and leaf hydraulic
conductances in California chaparral and coastal sage
scrub: A test of the hydraulic segmentation hypothesis.
3:40 PM COS 68-7 Jaikumar, NS, S Snapp and JA Flore, Michigan
State University. Life history and physiology in perennial
cereals: Response to alterations of sink/source ratio.
4:00 PM COS 68-8 Che-Castaldo, C1 , C Crisafulli2 , JG Bishop3 and WF Fagan1 , (1)University of Maryland, (2)US Forest
Service, (3)Washington State Univeristy. Secondary
sexual dimorphism in willow across a resource gradient:
Is gender important in primary succession?.
4:20 PM COS 68-9 Barnard, DM and WL Bauerle, Colorado
State University. Residual stomatal conductance: an
underestimated parameter of global significance.
4:40 PM COS 68-10 Mendez Alonzo, R1 , F Ewers2 and L Sack3 ,
(1)University of California Los Angeles, (2)California
State Polytechnic University, (3)UCLA. Shifts in leaf
biomechanics across Californian plant communities, and
scaling with morphological traits.
COS 69 - Population Dynamics And Regulation I
Portland Blrm 258, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 69-1 Li, L 1 , J Weiner 2 , D Zhou 3 and L Sheng 1 ,
(1)Northeast Normal University, (2)University of
Copenhagen, (3)Chinese Academy of Science. Massdensity
relationships within and among self-thinning
populations of Fagopyrum esculentum.
1:50 PM COS 69-2 Haché, S 1 , MA Villard 2 and EM Bayne 1 ,
(1)University of Alberta, (2)Université de Moncton.
Numerical and functional responses of the Ovenbird
(Seiurus aurocapilla) to selection harvesting in northern
hardwood forests.
2:10 PM COS 69-3 Johnson, CA and P Amarasekare, University
of California, Los Angeles. Species coexistence in a
host-multiparasitoid community: The interplay between
biotic and abiotic environmental variation.
2:30 PM COS 69-4 Bin, Y 1 , W Ye 2 , HC Muller-Landau 3 , L Wu 2 ,
H Cao 4 and J Lian 2 , (1)South China Botanical Garden,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; School of Life
Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, China, (2)South China
Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China,
(3)University of Minnesota, (4)South China Botanical
Garden, CAS. Tree size distribution, population trend and
shade tolerance.
2:50 PM COS 69-5 van Leeuwen, A 1 , M Huss 2 , A Gårdmark 2 , M
Casini 2 , F Vitale 2 , J Hjelm 3 , L Persson 4 and AM de Roos 1 ,
(1)University of Amsterdam, (2)Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences, (3)Swedish Agency for Marine
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