Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

(1)Lewis and Clark College, (2)University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Campus. Ectomycorrhizal (ECM)
root tip community structure and enzyme activity varies
between forest and clearcut plots, and there is evidence
of functional complementarity among dominant ECM
taxa in forest plots.
10:10 AM COS 90-7 Keymer, DP and RA Lankau, University
of Georgia. Linking structure and function in plant-soil
feedbacks during Alliaria petiolata invasion.
10:30 AM COS 90-8 McCormick, MK, DF Whigham and JP
O’Neill, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
Conservation of Isotria medeoloides, a tale of dormancy
and fungi.
10:50 AM COS 90-9 Phillips, WS 1 and EW Seabloom 2 , (1)Oregon
State University, (2)University of Minnesota. Arbuscular
mycorrhizal community assembly in the roots of two
endangered and two common prairie plant species.
11:10 AM COS 90-10 Ji, B, K Mack, E Koziol and JD Bever, Indiana
University. Reciprocal exchange of limiting resources
as a mechanism for the maintenance of mycorrhizal
mutualism.
COS 91 - Physiological Ecology IV
Portland Blrm 257, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 91-1 Via, SM
Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems
1 , JC Zinnert2 and DR Young1 , (1)
Virginia Commonwealth University, (2)US Army Corps of
Engineers. From cradle to grave: The impacts of RDX
across three life stages of Morella cerifera.
8:20 AM COS 91-2 Meinzer, FC1 , KA McCulloh2 , DM Johnson3 and DR Woodruff1 , (1)USDA Forest Service, (2)Oregon
State University, (3)Duke University. The dynamic
pipeline: Hydraulic capacitance and xylem hydraulic
safety in four tall conifer species.
8:40 AM COS 91-3 Goldsmith, GR1 and TE Dawson2 , (1)
University of California, Berkeley, (2)UC Berkeley. The
prevalence and significance of foliar water uptake in
tropical montane cloud forest plants.
9:00 AM COS 91-4 Coe, KK1 , J Belnap2 , SP Ellner1 and JP
Sparks1 , (1)Cornell University, (2)USGS. Predictions for
desert biocrust moss performance and decline under
future precipitation scenarios.
9:20 AM COS 91-5 van den Berg, FT, MB Thompson and DF
Hochuli, The University of Sydney. Being young and
hot: Fitness-related implications of thermal variation
associated with retreat site use across ontogenetic
stages in the spider, Morebilus plagusius.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 91-6 Creese, C1 , S Oberbauer2 and L Sack1 , (1)
UCLA, (2)Florida International University. New insights
into fern stomatal behavior based on leaf responses to
light, CO2 , and VPD in a common garden.
10:10 AM COS 91-7 Ambrose, AR1 , SC Sillett2 , TE Dawson3 , GW
Koch4 and SS Burgess5 , (1)University of California, (2)
Humboldt State University, (3)UC Berkeley, (4)Northern
Arizona University, (5)University of Western Australia.
Within-crown and whole-tree water use patterns in Giant
Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) trees.
10:30 AM COS 91-8 Ocheltree, TW, J Nippert, PVV Prasad and
MB Kirkham, Kansas State University. Drought tolerance
strategies of grasses: The trade-off between stress
tolerance and growth.
10:50 AM COS 91-9 Berry, ZC and WK Smith, Wake Forest
University. Effects of cloud immersion and elevation on
sapling photosynthesis and water status in relic sprucefir
(Picea rubens and Abies fraseri) forest, southern
Appalachian Mountains, USA.
8 am-11:30 am
11:10 AM COS 91-10 Schenk, HJ 1 , S Espino 1 , K Mocko 2 , H
Martinez-Cabrera 2 and CS Jones 2 , (1)California State
University Fullerton, (2)University of Connecticut.
Protections against drought-induced xylem embolisms
in shrubs: Resistance, repair, and redundancy.
COS 92 - Plant-Insect Interactions II
Portland Blrm 258, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 92-1 Barber, NA 1 , LS Adler 2 , ET Kiers 3 , N Theis 4
and RV Hazzard 5 , (1)Northern Illinois University, (2)
University of Massachusetts, (3)Vrije Universiteit, (4)
Elms College, (5)University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Linking agricultural practices, mycorrhizal fungi, and
traits mediating plant-insect interactions.
8:20 AM COS 92-2 Murphy, SM 1 , K Grenis 1 , TM Stoepler 2 and
JT Lill 2 , (1)University of Denver, (2)George Washington
University. Guild-specific parasitism of forest caterpillars:
Size matters.
8:40 AM COS 92-3 Erwin, AC, MA Geber and AA Agrawal,
Cornell University. Specific impacts of two root
herbivores and soil nutrients on plant performance and
insect-insect interactions.
9:00 AM COS 92-4 Olito, CJ, University of Calgary. Using
a bottom-up model of plant-pollinator interaction
networks to investigate the role of foraging decisions v.s.
topological constraints in determining network structure.
9:20 AM COS 92-5 Loewy, KJ and SM Murphy, University of
Denver. Trade-offs in host choice by an herbivorous
insect based on parasitism and host plant quality.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 92-6 Prado, SG and SD Frank, North Carolina State
University. Effect of parasitoid host choice on apparent
competition between pest and non-pest aphids.
10:10 AM COS 92-7 Garcia, LC and MD Eubanks, Texas A&M
University. Overcompensatory plant responses to
insect herbivory: A meta-analysis of the prevalence and
conditions.
10:30 AM COS 92-8 Briggs, HM 1 and BJ Brosi 2 , (1)University of
California, Santa Cruz, (2)Emory University. Pollinator
Losses and Plant Reproductive Function.
10:50 AM COS 92-9 Nelson, G 1 , M Kreiser 1 , PD Wragg 2 , P
Blum 3 , G Wilbrandt 4 and S Erlandson 2 , (1)University of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire, (2)University of Minnesota, (3)
Appalachian State University, (4)Cedar Creek Ecosystem
Science Reserve. Pollen-removing ants interfere with
pollination of Asclepias ovalifolia (Apocynaceae).
11:10 AM COS 92-10 McCall, AC 1 , S Jordan 1 and JL Bronstein 2 ,
(1)Denison University, (2)University of Arizona. Intruders
in a pollination mutualism: exploring the impacts of
florivores and honeybees on the floral biology of Datura
wrightii.
COS 93 - Population Dynamics And Regulation II
B117, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 93-1 van den Berg, E1 , RL Chazdon2 and BS
Corrêa3 , (1)Federal University of Lavras, (2)University of
Connecticut, (3)Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica
de Minas Gerais. Tree growth and death in a tropical
gallery forest in Brazil: understanding the relationships
among size, growth, and survivorship for understory and
canopy dominant species.
8:20 AM COS 93-2 Caughlin, TT1 , JM Ferguson1 and S
Bunyavejchewin2 , (1)University of Florida, (2)Royal
Forest Department. Seeds move but trees stand still:
quantifying the importance of spatial structure for plant
populations.
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