8:00 AM

Singer, Michael*,1, 1 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Ecological trade-offs and the community structure of polyphagous forest caterpillars.

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8:20 AM

Zovi, Daniel1, Stastny, Michael*,2, Battisti, Andrea1, Larsson, Stig3, 1 University of Padova, Padova, Italy2 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY3 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, Local adaptation of an herbivore constrained by opposing selection from plants and natural enemies.

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8:40 AM

Barron-Gafford, Greg*,1, Rascher, Uwe2, Huxman, Travis1, Davidowitz, Goggy1, Bronstein, Judie1, 1 Dept of Ecology & Evol Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA2 Institute of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere, Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany, Quantifying a plant′s physiological costs in a common plant-insect interaction using chlorophyll fluorescence.

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9:00 AM

Alarcon, Ruben*,1, Bronstein, Judith1, Davidowitz, Goggy1, 1 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Agave palmerii facilitates mutualistic hawkmoth-plant interactions in the southwestern US.

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9:20 AM

Härri, Simone*,1, Müller, Christine1, 1 Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Grass endophytes mediate coexistence between aphid species.

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9:40 AM

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9:50 AM

Qvarnemark, Linda*,1, Huntly, Nancy2, 1 University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE2 Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, Granivores modify seed bank to plant community relationship.

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10:10 AM

McEvoy, Peter*,1, Karacetin, Evrim1, Bruck, Denny2, 1 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Corvallis, OR2 USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Research Lab, Corvallis, OR, Host plant use by the cinnabar moth is mediated by a parasite.

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10:30 AM

Lill, John*,1, 1 George Washington University, Washington, DC, Ecological and morphological determinants of parasitism in eastern slug caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae).

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10:50 AM

Shiojiri, Kaori*,1, Ozawa, Rika1, Kugimiya, Soichi1, van Wijk, Michiel2, Sabelis, Maurice2, Takabayashi, Junji1, 1 Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga, Japan2 Institute for biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Cabbage plants cry wolf after minor caterpillar attack.

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11:10 AM

Muth, Norris*,1, Niesenbaum, Richard1, 1 Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, Reduced herbivory of spicebush growing in proximity to black walnut: a case of associational resistance mediated by an allelopathic compound.

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