COS 161 - Trophic Dynamics And Interactions 2

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM EDT

  Beetles, bunnies, and fungi: grassland plants face the same growth-defense tradeoffs across many consumer types
  

  Presenting Author: Max Zaret, n/a – University of Minnesota

  Coauthor: Eric W. Seabloom – University of Minnesota

  Coauthor: Linda Kinkel – University of Minnesota
• 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

  The role of birds in shaping arthropod communities
  

  Presenting Author: Jerilyn Jean Calaor – Iowa State University

  Coauthor: Susan Kennedy – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

  Coauthor: Haldre Rogers – Iowa State University
• 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM EDT

  The implicit assumptions of classic functional responses and their multi-species extensions
  

  Presenting Author: Gian Marco Palamara – Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC)

  Coauthor: José A. Capitán – Complex Systems Group, Department of Applied Mathematics, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

  Coauthor: David Alonso – Spanish Research Council (CEAB-CSIC)
• 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

  Early instar mortality of a forest pest caterpillar: Which mortality sources increase during an outbreak crash?
  

  Presenting Author: Anne-Sophie Caron – Concordia University

  Coauthor: Emma Despland – Concordia University
• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM EDT

  Experimental evidence of decoupled predator-prey dynamics in a multitrophic metacommunity
  

  Presenting Author: Susan C. C Gordon – University of Ottawa

  Coauthor: Jeremy T. Kerr – Department of Biology, University of Ottawa
• 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

  CANCELLED - Do herbivore-induced plant volatiles affect insectivorous bat activity in agricultural fields?
  

  Presenting Author: Lauren D. D. Maynard – Virginia Tech

  Coauthor: W. Mark Ford – USGS, Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

  Coauthor: John D. Parker – Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

  Coauthor: Susan R. Whitehead – Virginia Tech