Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

WEDNESDAY
1:30 pm-5 pm
4:40 PM COS 97-10 Brett, MT 1 , G Arhonditsis 2 , S Chandra 3 and
M Kainz 4 , (1)University of Washington, (2)University
of Toronto, (3)University of Nevada, Reno, (4)Donau-
Universität Krems. The potential importance of terrestrial
derived dissolved carbon inputs for lake zooplankton
production: A mass balance assessment.
COS 98 - Behavior: Foraging And Diet
B112, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 98-1 Crawford, TG1 , LR Gerber1 and CM Kurle2 ,
(1)Arizona State University, (2)University of California San
Diego. Intracolony niche partitioning among California
sea lions in the Gulf of California, Mexico.
1:50 PM COS 98-2 Tran, MV, Michigan State University.
Behavioral reactions to novel food odors by intertidal
hermit crabs.
2:10 PM COS 98-3 Boucek, RE and JS Rehage, Florida
2:30 PM
International University. No free lunch: Resource
partitioning among an estuarine and two freshwater
mesoconsumers at a marsh-mangrove ecotone in
response to a seasonal marsh subsidy.
COS 98-4 Bockoven, AA, CJ Coates and MD Eubanks,
Texas A&M University. Intraspecific behavioral variation
and the red imported fire ant foraging gene.
2:50 PM COS 98-5 Steensma, KMM and SA Utsumi, Michigan
State University. Is the grass always greener? Foraging
decisions of dairy cattle (Bos taurus) in a free-choice
pasture system.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 98-6 Riginos, C, Princeton University. Fear or
food? Climate alters the landscape of fear in an African
savanna.
3:40 PM COS 98-7 Harwood, GP, University of British Columbia.
How cooperation and colony size affect prey size use
among sympatric social spider species.
4:00 PM COS 98-8 Newbury, RK and KE Hodges, University of
British Columbia Okanagan. A dietary based energetics
model for bobcats (Lynx rufus) in a deep snow
environment.
4:20 PM COS 98-9 Russell, MC, JG Lambrinos and G Ellen,
Oregon State University. Carabidae in conservation
biological control: The distributions, activity patterns,
and feeding habits of common western Oregon ground
beetles, and their relation to pest predation risk across
agricultural landscapes.
4:40 PM COS 98-10 Fogarty, SP, UC Davis. Emergent frequencydependent
social foraging: Individual variation in shoaling
rules enhances social foraging success.
2:50 PM COS 99-5 Post, DM 1 , JK Bailey 2 , S des Roches 3 , AP
Hendry 4 , MT Kinnison 5 , EP Palkovacs 6 , J Schweitzer 2 ,
NE Turley 7 and M Vellend 8 , (1)Yale University, (2)University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, (3)University of Idaho, (4)McGill
University, (5)University of Maine, (6)Duke University, (7)
University of Toronto, (8)Université de Sherbrooke. The
ecological importance of diversity within species.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 99-6 Benavides, JC 1 and DH Vitt 2 , (1)Oregon
State University, (2)Southern Illinois University. The
changing face of Andean Peatlands: The effects of
climate and human disturbance on ecosystem structure
and function.
3:40 PM COS 99-7 Veldman, JW 1 , LA Brudvig 2 and WB
Mattingly 3 , (1)University of Wisconsin, (2)Michigan State
University, (3)University of Wisconsin-Madison. Differing
effects of savanna trees and forest trees on savanna
understory plant diversity.
4:00 PM COS 99-8 Freitas, H, S Costa, H Castro, AM Azul and
A Gouveia, Center for Functional Ecology. Land use and
biotic factors contribute to the ecological sustainability
of Montado Ecosystems.
4:20 PM COS 99-9 Sokol, ER 1 , JE Barrett 1 , JM Hoch 2 and
JC Trexler 2 , (1)Virginia Tech, (2)Florida International
University. The influence of ecological context over
community assembly processes and diversity patterns.
4:40 PM COS 99-10 Pattengill-Semmens, CV 1 , BX Semmens 2
and J Nichols 1 , (1)Reef Environmental Education
Foundation (REEF), (2)UC San Diego. Patterns of fish
biodiversity in the Salish Sea.
COS 100 - Biogeochemistry: Aboveground-
Belowground Interactions II
B115, Oregon Convention Center
COS 99 - Biodiversity II
B114, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 99-1 Gotelli, NJ
118 ESA 97th Annual Meeting, August 5 - 10, 2012, Oregon Convention Center
1 and AM Ellison2 , (1)University
of Vermont, (2)Harvard Forest (Harvard University).
Reconciling museum records and ecological surveys in
biogeographic analyses of New England’s ant fauna.
1:50 PM COS 99-2 Scheiner, SM, National Science Foundation.
A metric of biodiversity that integrates abundance,
phylogeny, and function.
2:10 PM COS 99-3 Letourneau, DK1 , SG Bothwell Allen1 and JO
Stireman III2 1:30 PM COS 100-1 Stolt, MH
, (1)University of California-Santa Cruz, (2)
Wright State University. Do perennial habitat fragments
support greater parasitoid diversity and pest regulation
in ephemeral crops?.
2:30 PM COS 99-4 Tan, J and L Jiang, Georgia Institute
of Technology. Temporal niche dynamics promote
biodiversity: An experimental demonstration.
1 , MC Ricker2 and M Richardson3 ,
(1)University of Rhode Island, (2)Auburn University,
(3)USDA-NRCS. Soil organic carbon flux in riparian
ecosystems.
1:50 PM COS 100-2 Nakayama, T, National Institute for
2:10 PM
Environmental Studies (NIES), and Centre for Ecology
& Hydrology (CEH). Toward better understanding of
heterogeneous succession process in mire.
COS 100-3 MacKenzie, MD, PT Sorenson, SA Quideau
and SM Landhausser, University of Alberta. Spatial
patterns of stand characteristics and soil nutrient
availability in reclaimed boreal forests.
2:30 PM COS 100-4 Martinez, NG, RL Sinsabaugh and DE
Northup, University of New Mexico. Extracellular enzyme
activities in soils and ferromanganese deposits from
several New Mexican caves.
2:50 PM COS 100-5 Pierfelice, KN1 , G Lockaby1 , WH Conner2 and KW Krauss3 , (1)Auburn University, (2)Clemson
University, (3)U.S. Geological Survey. Net primary
productivity of tidal freshwater forested wetlands along
a salinity gradient in South Carolina.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 100-6 Hawlena, D1 , MS Strickland2 , MA Bradford2 and OJ Schmitz2 , (1)The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
(2)Yale University. Fear of predation slows plant-litter
decomposition.
3:40 PM COS 100-7 Poinsatte, JP1 , JG Bishop1 , JL Smith2 and
RD Evans1 , (1)Washington State University, (2)USDA-
ARS, Washington State University. Carbon and nitrogen
mass balance during primary succession on Mount St.
Helens.
4:00 PM COS 100-8 Triebwasser, DJ1 , N Tharayil1 , CM Preston2