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Contributed Oral Session 104: Predator - Prey Ecology: Communities; Defenses
Wednesday, August 10, 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Meeting Room 521 A, Level 5, Palais des congrès de Montréal

1:30 PM: Cameron, Thomas*,1, Wearing, Helen2, 3, Rohani, Pejman2, Sait, Steven 1, 1 Dept. of Ecology & Evolution, Leeds, UK2 Institute of Ecology, Athens, GA, USA3 Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge, UK, Emergent effects of multiple natural enemies.

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1:50 PM: Palkovacs, Eric*,1, Post, David1, 1 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, Coupling between predator phenotype and prey community structure for alewife populations and their zooplankton prey.

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2:10 PM: Hammond, John*,1, Luttbeg, Barney1, Sih, Andrew1, 1 University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA, Predator-prey space use as the emergent outcome of a behavioral response race.

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2:30 PM: Samhouri, Jameal*,1, Steele, Mark2, Forrester, Graham3, 1 University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA2 University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA3 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, The influence of predator refuges on selective mortality in a coral reef fish.

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2:50 PM: Chivers, Douglas 1, Kusch, Robin1, Michalk, Tracy1, Wisenden, Brian2, Mirza, Reehan 3, Brown, Grant3, 1 Biology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, CANADA2 Department of Biology, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, USA3 Biology Department, Concordia University, Montreal, CANADA, Manipulating predation risk and pathogens to understand the evolution of Schreckstoff.

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3:10 PM: , BREAK.

3:20 PM: Hoverman, Jason*,1, Relyea, Rick1, 1 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Indirect interactions within a freshwater community: The roles of predator identity, predator colonization, and community composition.

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3:40 PM: McCoy, Michael *,1, Bolker, Benjamin 1, Osenberg, Craig 1, 1 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA, Tradeoffs in phenotypic plasticity: consequences of induced defenses, prey size and predator constraints.

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4:00 PM: Rudolf, Volker1, 1 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, The influence of size-specific interactions in predator-prey systems.

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4:20 PM: Schoeppner, Nancy*,1, Relyea, Rick1, 1 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Fear and loathing in a mesocosm: Producing predator-induced defenses in a temporally variable environment.

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