Oral Session #5: Mutualisms.

Presiding: J.P. Cronin, University of Pittsburgh.
Sunday, August 6, 2000
8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Cottonwood Room I - Sports Event Center

8:30 AM	The role of ant nutrition in mediating a lycaenid-ant mutualism. WEEKS, J.A.
8:45 AM	The importance of ant-tending to maternal care in the treehopper species, Publilia modesta. BILLICK, I. , M. WEIDMANN, J. REITHEL
9:00 AM	Induced resistance in Catalpa bignoniodes (Bignoniaceae): The rallying of a biotic defense. NESS, J.H. , C.R. CARROLL, H.R. PULLIAM
9:15 AM	Food web structure controls stability of communities with embedded mutualisms. MCPHEARSON, P.T. , L. JIANG
9:15 AM	Genetic variation of Neotyphodium in Arizona fescue. SULLIVAN, T.J. , S.H. FAETH
9:45 AM	Specialization and species distribution in orchid-fungal symbioses. MCCORMICK, M.K. , K.L. O'MALLEY, D.F. WHIGHAM, J.P. O'NEILL
10:00 AM	Break
10:30 AM	Effects of microenvironment and tree characteristics on canopy vascular epiphyte distribution. CARDELUS, C.
10:45 AM	Host tree specificity of epiphytic bromeliads on trees in tropical experimental plots, La Selva, Costa Rica. RENTMEESTER, S. , N. NADKARNI, J. EWEL
11:00 AM	Mutualistic associations of branchiobdellids and their crayfish hosts: Evidence of a freshwater cleaning symbiosis. BROWN, B.L. , W.E. DOBSON, R.P. CREED
11:15 AM	Mutualism gone awry? Asexual endophytic fungi in native grasses. FAETH, S.H. , T.J. SULLIVAN