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Oral Session #55: Predator - Prey Interactions.
Presiding: R. Dueser
Wednesday, August 7. 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Cochise Meeting Room, TCC.

[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Laundré, John*,1, Hernández, Lucina1, Fowles, Gretchen2, 1 Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Aldama, Chihuahua, Mexico2 Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID. Testing the ecology of fear: do prey operate with imperfect information on the whereabouts of their predators?

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Eklov, Peter*,1, Svanback, Richard1, 1 Uppsala University, 752 36, Uppsala, Sweden, Sweden. Mechanisms of resource polymorphism: Responses to differences in predation risk among habitats.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Steinmetz, Jeff*,1,2, Soluk, Daniel1,2, Kohler, Steven3, 1 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL2 Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL3 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. Facilitation between herons and bass on common minnow prey: death from above and below.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Vance, Heather*,1, Soluk, Daniel1,2, 1 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL2 Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL. Evaluating the prevalence of non-additivity for multiple predator species in aquatic systems.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] SCHOEPPNER, NANCY*,1, RELYEA, RICK1, 1 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. You are what you eat: How prey discriminate among predator diets.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Hall, Spencer*,1, Leibold, Mathew1, Dwyer, Greg1, 1 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Do multi-resource models outperform uni-resource models? Testing competing hypotheses using autotroph-grazer dynamics in plankton communities.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Essington, Timothy*,1, Hansson, Sture2, 1 Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook, NY2 Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm, Sweden. Donor-control, Lotka-Volterra, and the functional response of baltic sea cod.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Nelson, Erik*,1, Rosenheim, Jay1, 1 Univ. of California - Davis., Davis, CA. Non-consumptive effects of predators on aphid population growth.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] WEISS, MARTHA*,1, WILSON, ERIN1, CASTELLANOS, IGNACIO2, 1 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.2 University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Predatory wasps learn to overcome the shelter defenses of their larval prey.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Stireman, John*,1, Singer, Michael2, Dyer, Lee1, Gentry, Grant3, 1 Department of Ecology and Evolution, New Orleans, LA2 Department of Entomology, Tucson, AZ3 Department of Entomology, College Park, MD. Ecological, morphological, and behavioral determinants of Lepidoptera parasitism across a latitudinal gradient.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Preisser, Evan*,1, 1 University of California, Davis, Davis, CA. Field evidence for a strongly cascading underground food web.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] MOYA-LARAÑO, JORDI*,1, WISE, DAVID1, 1 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY. Ants influence the distribution of forest-floor generalist predators and Collembola.

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