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PARENT SESSION
Wednesday, August 9, 8:00-11:50 am
OOS 8 - When does fear matter? A road map to the implications of trait-mediated effects to ecology
Ballroom D, Ballroom Level, Cook Convention Center
Organized by: EL Preisser (preisser@psis.umass.edu), G Trussell, and E Werner

This session synthesizes mathematical theory, conceptual work, and empirical research to explore the factors influencing the relative importance of trait- and density-mediated effects in ecological communities.

8:00 AMAbrams, Peter*,1, 1 University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, The dynamics of food web models containing dynamic traits; implications for defining and measuring interspecific interactions.

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8:20 AMHeithaus, Michael*,2, Dill, Lawrence1, Wirsing, Aaron1, 2, 2 Florida International University, North Miami, FL1 Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Non-lethal and indirect effects of tiger sharks in the seagrass community of Shark Bay, W Australia.

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9:00 AMPeacor, Scott1, 2, 1 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI2 Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA), Ann Arbor, MI, Context dependence of trait-mediated indirect interactions and implications for scaling up to long-term predictions.

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9:20 AMTrussell, Geoffrey*,1, 1 Northeastern University, Nahant, MA, Resources, refugia, and the relative importance of trait- and density-mediated indirect interactions.

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9:40 AM, Break.

9:50 AMPreisser, Evan*,1, Bolnick, Daniel2, 1 University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA2 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Quantitatively assessing how fear affects ecological communities.

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10:10 AMSih, Andrew*,1, 1 University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, Implications of the ecology of fear for invasion ecology.

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10:30 AMBrown, Joel*,1, 1 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, Using patch use behavior to study the ecology of fear.

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10:50 AMPangle, Kevin*,1, 2, Peacor, Scott1, 2, Johannsson, Ora3, 1 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI2 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Ann Arbor, MI3 Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada, Nonlethal effect of an invasive predator, Bythotrephes, on the population growth rate of zooplankton prey in Lakes Michigan and Erie.

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11:10 AMSteffan, Shawn*,1, Snyder, William1, 1 Washington State University, Pullman, WA, Cascading effects of prey intimidation: comparisons between a parasitoid and a predator attacking a shared prey species.

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11:30 AMAle, Som*,1, Brown, Joel2, 1 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, IL2 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, IL, Finding snow leopards in the fear of their prey.

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