8:00 AM

Orr, Teri*,1, Wolf, Blair1, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Rodents and cacti- a stable isotope investigation of a key plant functional group and its rodent consumers.

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8:20 AM

Hines, Jes*,1, Denno, Robert1, 1 Department of Entomology, College Park, MD, More than muck munchers: detritivores mediate predator-herbivore interactions.

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8:40 AM

Bastow, Justin*,1, 1 University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, Processing chain facilitation in a grassland detrital foodweb: the interaction between Porcellio scaber, a common macrodetritivore on soil nematodes.

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9:00 AM

Tanentzap, Andrew*,1, Vicari, Mark1, 1 York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, Drooling over fungal endophytes: the effect of ungulate saliva on the growth of Epichloë festucae.

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9:20 AM

Harvey, Chad*,1, Ives, Anthony1, 1 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Indirect interactions with multiple outcomes in a simple, multi-species food-web.

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9:40 AM

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9:50 AM

Ram, Karthik*,1, Strong, Donald 1, 1 Center for Population Biology and Section of Evolution and Ecology, Davis, CA, USA, Variation in dispersal and survivorship of a microparasite affects persistence of a subterranean trophic cascade.

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10:10 AM

Neale, Amanda*,1, Kerr, Jason1, Lyons, Eric1, Newman, Jonathan1, 1 University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, Interaction modification, tritrophic dynamics, and climate change: aphids, grass, and novel endophytes.

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10:30 AM

Solomon, Christopher*,1, Roth, Brian2, Hrabik, Thomas3, Vander Zanden, M. Jake1, 1 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA2 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA3 University of Minnesota - Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA, Small energy flux, big effect: comparing energetic and dynamic measures of interaction strength.

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10:50 AM

Kurle, Carolyn *,1, 1 University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, Introduced rats indirectly alter marine communities.

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11:10 AM

Philpott, Stacy*,1, 1 Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Washington, DC, Changes in ant predatory function across a gradient of coffee management complexity.

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