COS 59 - Eco-Evolutionary Processes 3

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM PDT

  Cicada litterfall causes transient effects on early plant growth but has little longer-term impact
  

  Presenting Author: Mackenzie Caple – Indiana University

  Coauthor: Jennifer Lau, Ph.D. – Indiana University
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PDT

  No risk – no fun: How deciduous temperate trees can recover from damaging spring frost events
  

  Presenting Author: Frederik Baumgarten – UBC

  Coauthor: Yann Vitasse – WSL

  Coauthor: Arthur Gessler – WSL
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM PDT

  Collision risk, instead of rolling-off risk, may explain the form-function association between bird eggs and nests
  

  Presenting Author: Chih-Ming Hung – Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica

  Coauthor: Mao-Ning Tuanmu – Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

  Coauthor: Jia-Yang Juang – National Taiwan University
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PDT

  Evolution of complex traits through the lens of bioenergetics
  

  Presenting Author: Canan Karakoç – Indiana University Bloomington

  Coauthor: Jay T. T. Lennon – Indiana University Bloomington
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM PDT

  Competition-based eco-evolutionary interactions speed invasions while simultaneously reducing their severity
  

  Presenting Author: Amy C. Patterson – Univeristy of Wyoming

  Coauthor: Karen Abbott, Department of Biology – Case Western Reserve University

  Coauthor: Christopher Weiss-Lehman – University of Wyoming
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM PDT

  Expansion and convergence: the evolution of chemical diversity across the order Cycadales
  

  Presenting Author: Katherine Holmes – Florida International University

  Coauthor: Diego Salazar, n/a – Florida International University