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Oral Session # 34: Plant Ecology II: Pollination and Dispersal.
Presiding: A McEuen
Tuesday, August 5. 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM, SITCC Meeting Room 202.

1:30 PM Feldman, Tracy *,1, 1 Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Can one plant species rescue another from low-density effects on pollinator visitation and fruit set?

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1:45 PM Greenberg, Cathryn*,1, Levey, Douglas2, 1 USDA Forest Service, Asheville, NC2 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Fruit production in mature and harvested cove and upland hardwood forest of the southern Appalachians.

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2:00 PM Muņoz, Alejandro*,1, Arroyo, Mary1, 1 Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, RM, Chile Negative impacts of vertebrate predators on insect pollinator visitation and seed output in Chuquiraga oppositifolia.

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2:15 PM Steets, Janette*,1, Ashman, Tia-Lynn1, 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA Vegetative herbivory affects the mating system of Impatiens capensis.

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2:30 PM Brown, Nina*,1, Raguso, Robert2, 1 SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY2 University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Targeting pollinators and evading herbivores: Floral scent emission in two species of Cirsium.

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2:45 PM Pascarella, John *,1, Buchmann, Stephen2, Donovan, Arthur 2, 1 Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, jbpascar@valdosta.edu2 The Bee Works, Inc., Tucson, AZ, steve@thebeeworks.com Bee biodiversity in the southeastern U.S.

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3:00 PM Smith, Sarah*,1, Kremen, Claire1, 1 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Native, free-living bees increase sunflower production by providing direct pollination and assisting honey bees.

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3:15 PM Break.

3:30 PM Carr, David*,1, Roulston, T'ai1, 1 University of Virginia, Boyce, VA Discerning pollinators and depraved plants: Inbreeding history alters bumblebee visitation frequencies to Mimulus guttatus.

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3:45 PM Dailey, Theresa*,1, Scott, Peter1, Liu, Xiao-Chuan1, 1 Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN Nectar sugar composition and quantities in insect-pollinated Midwestern spring herbs.

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4:00 PM Moeller, David1, Geber, Monica1, 1 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Coexistence among plants that share pollinators: Facilitation by conspecifics and heterospecifics in Clarkia.

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4:15 PM Marussich, Wendy*,1, 1 wendy.marussich@asu.edu, Tempe, AZ The effects of five ant species on the germination of Datura wrightii.

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4:30 PM Russo, Sabrina*,1, Stephen, Portnoy2, Augspurger, Carol2, 1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA2 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA Evaluating recruitment limitation of a neotropical tree using a mechanistic model of vertebrate seed dispersal.

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