8:00 AM: Lopezaraiza-Mikel, Martha^*,1, ¹ University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, Alien plants: Friend or foe?

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8:20 AM: Cramer, Jennifer^*,1, Mesquita, Rita ², Williamson, G. ¹, ¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States² Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Manaus, AM, Brazil, Differential effects of forest fragmentation on the seed disperal of two rainforest trees.

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8:40 AM: ABBOT, PATRICK^*,, , Clonal variation and cheating at hierachical scales in eusocial aphids.

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9:00 AM: Styrsky, John^*,1, Eubanks, Micky¹, ¹ Auburn University, Auburn, AL, The benefit of an ant-aphid mutualism to its host plant: cotton aphids indirectly increase cotton plant fitness.

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9:20 AM: Morales, Manuel^*,1, ¹ Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Model selection analysis of conditionality and multiple mechanisms of benefit in an ant-treehopper mutualism.

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9:50 AM: Frederickson, Megan^*,1, ¹ Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Ecology and behavior of the devil's garden ant, Myrmelachista schumanni, in the rainforests of the western Amazon.

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10:10 AM: Golubski, Antonio^*,, Lussenhop, John, , Effects of association between dual plant hosts and an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus.

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10:30 AM: Sullivan, Terrence^*,1, Bultman, Thomas¹, Rodstrom, John¹, Van Dop, Joshua¹, Librizzi, James¹, Graham, Candace¹, ¹ Department of Biology, Holland, MI, Wound induced resistance in endophyte infected Tall fescue.

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10:50 AM: Laird, Robert^*,1, Addicott, John¹, ¹ University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Fungi→plants→herbivores: Mycorrhizal fungi indirectly benefit a specialist insect herbivore.

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11:10 AM: Krauss, Jochen^*,1, Müller, Christine B.¹, ¹ Institute of Environmental Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland, Food web responses to the presence of fungal endophytes.

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