COS 35 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses

Presentations:

• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM EDT

  CANCELLED - Tissue-specific divergent evolution in plant defense between nearby populations
  

  Presenting Author: Xosé López Goldar – Cornell University

  Coauthor: Anurag Agrawal – Cornell University
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM EDT

  Effects of resource availability and insect herbivore pressure on plant defense
  

  Presenting Author: Philip G. Hahn, n/a – University of Florida

  Coauthor: John Maron, n/a – Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana
• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM EDT

  A neutral model of herbivory: fundamental constraints on patterns and variation
  

  Presenting Author: Vincent S. Pan – Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University

  Coauthor: William C. Wetzel – Department of Entomology, Michigan State University
• 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM EDT

  Elevated ozone alters poplar phytochemistry and performance traits for an outbreak forest insect
  

  Presenting Author: Zhengzhen Li – Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

  Coauthor: Jian Yang – National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences

  Coauthor: Kennedy F. Rubert-Nason, chemical ecologist and educator – Division of Natural Sciences, University of Maine at Fort Kent

  Coauthor: Zhaozhong Feng – School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
• 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM EDT

  Host quality and does not matter to native or invasive cactus moth larvae: Grave implications for North American prickly pears and trophic webs they support
  

  Presenting Author: Colin R. Morrison – The University of Texas at Austin

  Coauthor: Robert Plowes – UT Austin

  Coauthor: Nathan Jones – UT Austin

  Coauthor: Lawrence Gilbert – The University of Texas at Austin