1:30 PM: Greathouse, Effie^*,1, Pringle, Catherine¹, McDowell, William², ¹ University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia² University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, Small-scale exclosure/enclosure experiments predict effects large-scale extirpation of migratory fauna.

FULL ABSTRACT

1:50 PM: Cauchie, Henry^*,1, Delgoulet, Sébastien¹, Jacquet, Véronique¹, Bonjean, Nicolas¹, Thys, Isabelle¹, Hoffmann, Lucien, ¹ Centre de Recherche Public-Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg, Incorporating bacterioplankton in the Plankton Ecology Group model of succession of planktonic groups in fresh waters: How bacterioplankton diversity and metabolism vary in relation to abiotic resources and predators?

FULL ABSTRACT

2:10 PM: Leech, Dina^*,1, Wetzel, Robert¹, ¹ Dept. of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, Bacterial and protistan responses to climate change.

FULL ABSTRACT

2:30 PM: Marty, Jérôme^*,1, Dolores, Planas¹, ¹ Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, The importance of autochthonous carbon for zooplankton in heterotrophic ecosystems.

FULL ABSTRACT

2:50 PM: Weithoff, Guntram^*,1, ¹ University of Potdsam, Potsdam, Germany, Intraguild predation and the inverse microbial loop.

FULL ABSTRACT

3:10 PM: , BREAK.

3:20 PM: Post, David ^*,1, Palkovacs, Eric¹, Dodson, Stanley², Skelly, David^{1, 3}, Winkworth, Cynthia¹, ¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Haven, CT, USA² Department of Zoology, Madison, WI, USA³ School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, USA, Ecological implications of life history differences in alewives, Alosa pseudoharengus.

FULL ABSTRACT

3:40 PM: Genkai-Kato, Motomi^*,1, ¹ Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga, Japan, Game between zooplankton and fish competing for macrophyte refuge and its consequences for water clarity in lakes.

FULL ABSTRACT

4:00 PM: McCauley, Shannon^*,1, ¹ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Dispersal limitation and local performance: Interactions across life-history stages and consequences for species' distributions in anisopteran odonates.

FULL ABSTRACT

4:20 PM: Krumins, Jennifer^*,1, Long, Zachary^{1, 2}, Steiner, Christopher^{1, 3}, Morin, Peter¹, ¹ Program of Ecology and Evolution, New Brunswick, NJ, USA² Institute of Marine Sciences, Morehead City, NC, USA³ Department of Animal Biology, Urbana, IL, USA, Direct and indirect effects of food web diversity on bacterially mediated decomposition.

FULL ABSTRACT

4:40 PM: Guénard, Gullaume^*,1, Legendre, Pierre¹, Boisclair, Daniel¹, ¹ Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Describing the habitat of Atlantic salmon parr (Salmo salar) using the common spatial dependancy between fish abundance and environmental variables: Validation and application of a new multi-scale method.

FULL ABSTRACT