Oral Session #63: Evolutionary Ecology.

Presiding: M.E. Ritchie, Utah State University.
Wednesday, August 9, 2000
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Magpie Room - Cliff Lodge

1:00 PM	Alligators, deer, and the evolutionary ecology of a native Louisiana iris. MOPPER, S. , C.J. CRINER, K.H. HASENSTEIN and E. MOUTON, M.A. TOBLER, Y. WANG, P.A. VAN ZANDT
1:15 PM	Genetic constraints and diffuse selection on resistance to deer herbivory in the Ivyleaf morning glory, Ipomoea hederacea. STINCHCOMBE, J.R. , M.D. RAUSHER
1:30 PM	The effect of feeding frequency on growth: Has the physiology of intermittent feeders co-evolved with an infrequent feeding strategy? WILMHOFF, C.D. , W.H.N. GUTZKE
1:45 PM	Safety in numbers: Evidence for Allee effects in rare and common species of Silene. MOYLE, L.C. , J. ANTONOVICS
2:00 PM	Population dynamics of species with haploid-diploid life cycles. THORNBER, C.S. , S.D. GAINES
2:15 PM	Ecological determinants of small-scale genetic structure in plants. LEE, C.T.
2:30 PM	Complex plasticity in complex environments: Early spring flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana. CALLAHAN, H. , N. KURASHIGE, C. ANCELL and M. PIGLIUCCI
2:45 PM	Genetic variation of Lepidium latifolium, an invasive plant species, across two spatial scales. PRINTZ, L. , G. HOELZER, G. TAYLOR
3:00 PM	Break
3:15 PM	Niche differentiation between diploid and tetraploid snow buttercups (Ranunculus adoneus). BAACK, E.J.
3:30 PM	Costs of plasticity in foraging characteristics of the clonal plant Ranunculus reptans. VAN KLEUNEN, M. , M. FISCHER, B. SCHMID
3:45 PM	High levels of gene flow and genetically-based differentiation in life-history traits between local subpopulations of the perennial yellow bush lupine, Lupinus arboreus. KITTELSON, P.M. , J.L. MARON
4:00 PM	Local adaptation in Colias butterflies along an elevational gradient: Consequences for reproductive isolation. ELLERS, J. , C.L. BOGGS
4:15 PM	Population genetic parameters vary latitudinally within species: Implications for variation in speciation and extinction rates. MARTIN, P.R. , J.K. MCKAY
4:30 PM	Genetic variation in and gene flow between San Joaquin kit fox Populations. SCHWARTZ, M.K. , K. RALLS, D.F. WILLIAMS and K. PILGRIM, R.C. FLEISCHER
4:45 PM	Predator functional response: Discriminating between handling and digesting prey. JESCHKE, J.M. , M. KOPP, R. TOLLRIAN