Poster # 178. Bahn, Volker^*,1, ¹ University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA, Dispersal and the relative importance of local recruits versus immigrants in affecting animal distributions: a simulation study.

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Poster # 179. Baum, Nina^*,1, Milne, Bruce¹, ¹ The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, A possible explanation for the alpine treeline ecotone based on physiology and allometric theory.

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Poster # 180. Enquist, Brian^*,1, Kerkhoff, Andrew ¹, Boyle, Brad, McCarthy, Megan¹, Swenson, Nathan¹, ¹ Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, USA, Assessing local and global constraints on plant community structure: Quantifying small-scale distributions of size, functional traits, and phylogenetic affiliations.

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Poster # 181. Fitzgerald, Katherine^*,1, ¹ University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Unicoloniality, invasiveness, and evolutionary stability.

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Poster # 182. Ingersoll, Thomas¹, ¹ University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA, Divergent and convergent character suites and a new approach for investigating character displacement in bats.

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Poster # 183. Haefner, James¹, Lemasson, Bertrand^*,1, Rothlisberger, John², Bakin, Amanda¹, Walker, Jesse¹, Hansen, Kevin¹, ¹ Utah State University, Ecology Center, Logan, Utah² University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, Scaling the Niche: A New Synthesis.

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Poster # 184. Maurer, Eric^*,1, O'Brien, W. John², ¹ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States² University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, United States, Life history shifts and variation in resource availability and predation regimes.

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Poster # 185. Reagan, Karen^*,1, Tewksbury, Joshua¹, ¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Chemical Phenotypes of Ripe Fruit: The Importance of Microbial Pathogens.

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Poster # 186. Verdy, Ariane^*,1, Flierl, Glenn¹, ¹ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Evolution of aggregation behavior in marine plankton.

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Poster # 187. Whitbeck, Julie^*,1, Boswell, Gantt¹, ¹ University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA, Feed me! Evaluating plant strategy in low nutrient habitats with a pitcher plant model.

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Poster # 188. Reekie, Ed², Avila-Sakar, Germán^*,1, ² Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada¹ Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Is reproduction in plants always costly?

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Poster # 189. Doyle, Jacqueline¹, Whitman, Howard^{1, 2}, ¹ Murray State University, Murray, KY, USA² Rocky Mountain Biological Station, Crested Butte, CO, USA, Paedomorphosis in Ambystoma talpoideum: effects of initial body size variation and density.

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Poster # 190. Nakazawa, Takefumi^*,1, Yamamura, Norio¹, ¹ Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga, Japan, Does adaptive reproduction strategy stabilize population dynamics?

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Poster # 191. Phelan, Conan^*,1, ¹ Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, The role of reproductive overhead in determining developmental thresholds and rates of growth.

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Poster # 193. Useche, Antonio^*,1, Shipley, Bill¹, ¹ Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbooke, Québec, Canada, Plasticity in relative growth rate and its components following a decrease in nitrogen availability.

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Poster # 194. Brouillette, Larry^*,1, Rosenthal, David², Gebremedhin, Maheteme¹, Donovan, Lisa¹, ¹ University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA² Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, Shifts toward stress tolerance in Helianthus hybrid species.

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Poster # 195. Ishida, Kiyoshi^*,1, ¹ Kansai Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, Costs and benefits of asynchronous flowering in the beetle pollination of dichogamous trees.

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Poster # 196. Kobayashi, Yutaka^*,1, ¹ Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga, JAPAN, Joint evolution of seed dispersal and dormancy to avoid kin competition.

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Poster # 197. Raz, Asaf^*,1, Novoplansky, Ariel¹, ¹ Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel, Self / nonself discrimination in plant shoots.

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