COS 18 - Invasion: Species Interactions 1

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT

  Impacts of yellow crazy ants and ant eradication on the seabirds and terrestrial crabs of a Polynesian atoll
  

  Presenting Author: Jayna L. DeVore – UMR 241 EIO, University of French Polynesia

  Coauthor: Miléna Philip – Tetiaroa Society

  Coauthor: Simon Ducatez – UMR 241 EIO (Institut de recherche pour le développement)
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

  The microbial associations of a widespread invader, Taeniatherum caput- medusae, across a precipitation gradient.
  

  Presenting Author: Susannah Halbrook – Tulane University

  Co-Author: Lauren M. Hallett – University of Oregon

  Coauthor: Emily Farrer – Tulane University
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PDT

  Plant diversity determines differences in plant-herbivory interactions in native and exotic plants
  

  Presenting Author: Andrea Cortegoso Cortegoso Galman, n/a – Michigan State University

  Coauthor: Phil G. Hahn – University of Florida

  Coauthor: Brian D. D. Inouye, PhD – Florida State University

  Coauthor: Nora Underwood – Florida State University

  Coauthor: Susan R. R. Whitehead – Virginia Tech

  Coauthor: the members of The Herbivory Variability Network – Michigan State University

  Coauthor: William C. Wetzel – Michigan State University
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT

  Indirect facilitation and unmeasured niche dimensions allow for species clustering in a semiarid grassland
  

  Presenting Author: Alejandra Martinez-Blancas – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

  Coauthor: Ian Xul Belaustegui – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

  Coauthor: Carlos Martorell, Ph.D. – National Autonomous University of Mexico
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PDT

  Aboveground enemy release increases grassland seedling survival
  

  Presenting Author: Joshua Brian – King's College London

  Coauthor: Harry Shepherd – King's College London

  Coauthor: Maria Angeles Perez Navarro – King's College London

  Coauthor: Jane Catford – King's College London