8:00 AM: Candau, Jean-Noel^*,1, ¹ Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, France, Competition between invasive and naturalized species of seed insects in a Mediterranean forest ecosystem.

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8:20 AM: LeBrun, Edward^*,1, Tillberg, Chadwick³, Suarez, Andrew³, Folgarait, Patricia, Holway, David², ¹ University of Texas, Austin, Austin, Texas³ University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois² University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, Competition between native populations of fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) and Argentine ants (Linepithema humile): Results from reciprocal, removal experiments.

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8:40 AM: Altfeld, Laura^*,1, Stiling, Peter¹, ¹ University of South Florida, Tampa, Native herbivores affected more by invasive ants than by foliar quality or competition.

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9:00 AM: Holway, David^*,1, Thomas, Melissa ¹, Payne, Chris², Suarez, Andrew², Tsutsui, Neil³, ¹ Division of Biological Sciences, La Jolla, CA, US² Department of Entomology, Urbana, IL, US³ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Irvine, CA, US, Territorial aggression in a unicolonial and invasive social insect.

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9:20 AM: Knight, Kathleen^{1, 2}, Reich, Peter¹, ¹ Department of Forest Resources, St. Paul, MN, USA² Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, St. Paul, MN, USA, Overstory and understory plant competition inhibits Rhamnus cathartica, an invasive shrub.

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9:50 AM: Giani, Alessandra^*,1, Figueredo, Cleber¹, ¹ Dept. of Botany- ICB - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais-, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Allelopathic ability of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii inhibits growth of planktonic algae.

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10:10 AM: Strickland, Michael^*,1, Klawinski, Paul ¹, ¹ William Jewell College, Liberty, MO, US, Invasional meltdown?: Bottom-up facilitation of an introduced top predator (Eleutherodactylus coqui) caused by an introduced nitrogen-fixing tree (Falacataria moluccana) in the Hawaiian Islands.

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10:30 AM: Bampfylde, Caroline^*,1, Lewis, Mark¹, Drury, Kevin², ¹ University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada² University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, Perturbing a littoral-zone lake community to release a biological control predator from a competitive bottleneck.

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10:50 AM: Suttle, Kenwyn ¹, ¹ Department of Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA, USA, Engineering enemy-free space: An invasive pest that kills its predators.

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11:10 AM: Duyck, Pierre-François^{*,1, 2}, David, Patrice ², Quilici, Serge¹, ¹ UMR 53 Peuplements Végétaux et Bio-agresseurs en Milieu Tropical, St Pierre, La Réunion, France² UMR 5175, Montpellier, France, Interspecific competition and invasive ability. A case study of Tephritidae in La Reunion Island.

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