COS 158 - Predation And Predator-Prey Interactions 1

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM PDT

  CANCELLED - Investigating behavioral and fitness effects of frog-biting midges on a prey communication system
  

  Presenting Author: Brian C. Leavell – Purdue University

  Coauthor: Ximena E. Bernal – Purdue University; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PDT

  Refined prey selection models at the prey demographic level
  

  Coauthor: Eleesha Annear – Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University

  Presenting Author: Liaan Minnie – School of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Mpumalanga

  Coauthor: Kaeleah Andrew – Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University

  Coauthor: Graham Kerley – Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM PDT

  Scat Signatures Indicate Proactive Responses of Cape Fur Seals to White Shark Predation Risk
  

  Presenting Author: Natasha J. Gownaris – Gettysburg College

  Coauthor: Scott Creel – Montana State University

  Coauthor: Chris Fallows – Apex Shark Expeditions

  Coauthor: Les Kaufman – Boston University

  Coauthor: Stephen Kirkman – Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

  Coauthor: Deon Kotze – Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

  Coauthor: Michael Meyer – Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

  Coauthor: Robert Michener – Boston University

  Coauthor: Mduduzi Seakamela – Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

  Coauthor: Neil Hammerschlag – Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PDT

  The ethology of wolves foraging on freshwater fish in a boreal ecosystem
  

  Presenting Author: Dani Freund – University of Minnesota

  Coauthor: Thomas D. Gable, Ph.D. – University of Minnesota

  Coauthor: Sean Johnson-Bice – University of Manitoba

  Coauthor: Austin Homkes – University of Minnesota

  Coauthor: Steve K. Windels, Ph.D. – National Park Service

  Coauthor: Joseph K Bump – University of Minnesota
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM PDT

  Warming and top-down control of stage-structured prey: linking theory to patterns in natural systems
  

  Presenting Author: Andrew T. Davidson – Virginia Commonwealth University

  Coauthor: Charles R. Stunkle – Virginia Commonwealth University

  Coauthor: Joshua T. Armstrong – Virginia Commonwealth University

  Coauthor: Elizabeth Hamman – St. Mary's College of Maryland

  Coauthor: Michael McCoy – Florida Atlantic University

  Coauthor: James Vonesh – Virginia Commonwealth University
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM PDT

  Krill hotspot persistence drives Pygoscelis penguin biogeography & diet composition
  

  Presenting Author: Katherine Gallagher – Stony Brook University

  Coauthor: Michael Dinniman – Old Dominion University

  Coauthor: Casey Youngflesh – Michigan State University

  Coauthor: Christian Che-Castaldo – Stony Brook University

  Coauthor: Heather Lynch – Stony Brook University