8:00 AM

Rice, Kevin*,1, Eubanks, Micky1, 1 Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, The effects of fire ants on an old field arthropod community.

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8:20 AM

Ginzburg, Lev1, Jensen, Christopher*,1, Harnett, Roberta1, 1 Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Predators versus parasites: a consumer-resource distinction?

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8:40 AM

Stireman, John*,1, Nason, John *,2, 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Dayton, OH, USA2 Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Ames, IA, USA, Between a rock and a hard place: parasites, population size, and fruiting asynchrony in the Sonoran Desert rock fig, Ficus petiolaris.

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9:00 AM

Miller, Tom*,1, 1 University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, Does having multiple partners weaken the benefits of facultative mutualism? A test with cacti and cactus-tending ants.

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9:20 AM

Lentz, Amanda*,1, 1 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, The effect of aphids in parasitoid-herbivore interactions.

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9:40 AM

, Break.

9:50 AM

Morse, Laura*,1, Faeth, Stanley1, Day, Thomas1, 1 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, Neotyphodium interactions with a native grass are driven by endophyte haplotype.

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10:10 AM

Newman, Jonathan*,1, Rasmussen, Susanne2, Parsosns, Anthony2, Popay, Alison2, 1 University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada2 New Zealand Pastoral Agriculture Research Institute Limited, Palmerston North, New Zealand, A multidimensional quantitative approach to endophytic fungi-host grass interactions: implications for herbivores.

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10:30 AM

Bruna, Emilio *,1, 2, 3, Darrigo, Maria Rosa 3, Furuya Pacheco, Angela 3, Vasconcelos, Heraldo 3, 4, 1 Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, Gainesville, FL, USA2 Center for Latin American Studies, Gainesville, FL, USA3 Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Manaus, AM, Brazil4 Instituto de Biologia, Uberlanida, MG, Brazil, Leaf volatiles and the defensive responses of Neotropical plant-ants: evidenced for host-plant specificity.

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10:50 AM

Jani, Andrea*,1, 2, Faeth, Stanley1, 1 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA2 University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA, Asexual fungal symbionts in native grass hosts: do they alter arthropod community structure?

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11:10 AM

Laird, Robert*,1, Addicott, John1, 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Can mycorrhizal fungi indirectly affect plant-ant mutualisms?

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