COS 291 - Seed Production, Dispersal, And Predation

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT

  Intraspecific variation in masting patterns largely unrelated to climate
  

  Presenting Author: Jessie J. Foest – University of Liverpool

  Coauthor: Thomas Caignard – University of Bordeaux

  Coauthor: Ian S. Pearse – U.S. Geological Survey

  Coauthor: Andrew Hacket Pain – University of Liverpool
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

  Examining phenological synchrony and conspecific density as factors influencing individual variation in seed production and masting of chestnut oak (Quercus montana)
  

  Presenting Author: Tyler Arnold – Ohio University

  Coauthor: Rebecca S. Snell, PhD – Ohio University
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PDT

  A preliminary test of energy balance and crypsis hypotheses on persistent long-term chaparral seed banks.
  

  Presenting Author: V. Thomas Parker – San Francisco State University
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT

  Why keep investing in seed dispersal when the costs are high and resources low?: Ant preferences for elaiosome mass in the seeds of Datura wrightii
  

  Presenting Author: Alex Karnish – University of Arizona

  Coauthor: Judith L. Bronstein – University of Arizona
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PDT

  Interaction between genetic and environmental features determines seed traits of a wind-dispersed plant
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel Warner – Portland State University

  Coauthor: Elizabeth C. Scott – Portland State University

  Coauthor: Mitch B. Cruzan – Portland State University
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM PDT

  Does longleaf pine cone production correlate with seed production, size, and germination rate?
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel E. Nation – Auburn University

  Coauthor: Heather D. Alexander – Auburn University

  Coauthor: John L. Willis, PhD – Southern Research Station, U.S.D.A. Forest Service

  Coauthor: Michael J. Aspinwall, PhD – Auburn University

  Coauthor: Jeffery B. Cannon – Forest Landscape Ecology Lab, Jones Center at Ichauway