COS 56: Vital Connections in Ecology: Breakthroughs in Understanding Species Interactions 3

Moderator(s)

• Melissa DeSiervo

  Botany, University of Wyoming

Presentations:

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  A keystone gene underlies the persistence of a food web
  

  Presenting Author: Matthew A. Barbour – Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich
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  Does plant chemistry mediate eco-evolutionary feedbacks in the rhizosphere?
  

  Presenting Author: Lauren Carley – University Program in Ecology, Duke University
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  Epidemiological modelling of snakebite dynamics in Colombia disentangles the relationships between rainfall and envenoming cases in the country
  

  Presenting Author: Carlos Andrés Bravo-Vega – Biomedical engineering, Universidad de los Andes
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  Evidence for a fungal loop in shrublands: Nutrient exchange networks connecting dryland producers
  

  Presenting Author: Niko Carvajal Janke – Biology, Middlebury College
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  From specialist to generalist: A community ecology approach to understanding the disease dynamics of the amphibian-killing pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
  

  Presenting Author: Tatum Katz – Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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  I'll be there for you: Microbe-mediated resilience to abiotic stress in Sorghum bicolor
  

  Presenting Author: Elle Barnes – DOE Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley National Lab
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  On linking mechanism to invasive species impact
  

  Presenting Author: Marc Cadotte – Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto - Scarborough
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  Plant traits across space: Does co-occurrence of related host plants drive variation in herbivory and defenses across populations?
  

  Presenting Author: Katherine Holmes – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University