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| Session | Date/Time | Location | Title | Type | Authors | Keywords |
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Tuesday, July 28th |
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| ECO1001 | July 28th 10:00 am | Virtual/Virtual | Slowing Down and Speeding Up: Contrasting Phenological Responses of Two Vaccinium Species to Experimental Warming in the Year Before Flowering | Oral Paper | Mulder, Christa; Diggle, Pamela; Schaub, Eileen. | phenology
climate change
boreal forest
preformation |
| ECO1002 | July 28th 10:15 am | Virtual/Virtual | What creates patterns of variation in the flowering phenology of Linum bienne? | Oral Paper | Landoni, Beatrice; Suarez, Pilar; Habeahan, Rico; Brennan, Adrian; Perez-Barrales, Rocio. | flax
instraspecific variation
phenology
adaptation |
| ECO1003 | July 28th 10:30 am | Virtual/Virtual | Phenological shifts in the Arbutoideae (Ericaceae) indicate important transitions in the evolutionary selective context for seed ecology | Oral Paper | Parker, V. T.; Parker, V. T.; Stickrod, Morgan. | phenology
seed predation
Fire
Arbutoideae
Ericaceae |
| ECO1004 | July 28th 10:45 am | Virtual/Virtual | Region-specific phenological responses to climate change in Streptanthus tortuosus (Brassicaceae) | Oral Paper | Love, Natalie; Mazer, Susan. | phenology
herbarium specimens
climate change |
| ECO1005 | July 28th 11:00 am | Virtual/Virtual | Population differentiation along abiotic gradients determines flowering time in Lasthenia gracilis | Oral Paper | Olliff Yang, Rachael L.; Ackerly, David. | Lasthenia
Restoration ecology
phenology
genetc differentiation |
| ECO1006 | July 28th 11:15 am | Virtual/Virtual | Does earlier flowering impact plant community seed set? | Oral Paper | Xingwen, Loy; Morozumi, Connor; Schiffer, Annie; Brosi, Berry. | flowering phenology
Plant Community
pollination
reproduction
climate change |
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| PEC001 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Phylogenetic Diversity – A Potential Indicator of Invasion Resistance | Poster: Ecology | Knauf, Kyla; Ernst, Adrienne. | Ecology
Plant Community
Invasive species
prairie
phylogenetic diversity |
| PEC002 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Modeling Population Dynamics of the American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) Near the Historical Range Limit in west Tennessee | Poster: Ecology | Brookover, Zoe; Christman, Brian; Laport, Robert. | American chestnut
conservation
matrix model
population dynamics
fungal pathogens |
| PEC003 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Phenological responses to variable timing and frequency of herbivory in a native wildflower | Poster: Ecology | Suglia, Elena; De La Pascua, Danielle; Strauss, Sharon; Schmitt, Johanna; Gremer, Jennifer. | herbivory
phenology
life history
fitness
Ecology |
| PEC004 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | What determines species range size? Testing niche-breadth and niche-position hypotheses in North and Central American oaks (Quercus spp.) | Poster: Ecology | Wu, Yingtong; Wu, Yingtong. | range size
ecological niche modelling
oak |
| PEC005 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Biogeographic barrier testing methods suggest genetic differentiation within a morphologically-stable species of the Australian Monsoon Tropics | Poster: Ecology | Antoine, Ariel; Williams, Tanisha; McDonnell, Angela; Cantley, Jason; Jobson, Peter; Martine, Christopher. | Australian Monsoon Tropics
biogeographic barriers
speciation
Templetonia
gene flow
population structure
Fabaceae
Leguminosae |
| PEC006 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Drought stress: How long can plants remember? | Poster: Ecology | QUAN, JIAXIN; Munzbergova, Zuzana; Latzel, Vit. | Transgenerational memory
Epigenetic
DNA methylation
Memory time
Clonal plant |
| PEC007 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Stinging trichome density and morphology of three nettle species reflect mountain gorilla feeding behavior | Poster: Ecology | Nyandwi, Alphonse; Eckardt , Winnie; DeVore, Melanie. | |
| PEC008 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | The Evolution of Thermal Tolerance and Clines in Native vs. Invasive Populations of Mimulus guttatus | Poster: Ecology | Querns, Aleah; Wooliver, Rachel; Vallejo-Marín, Mario; Sheth, Seema. | Ecology
evolution |
| PEC009 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Synchrony of phenology of leaf bud burst and flowering in animal and wind pollinated trees | Poster: Ecology | Van Natto, Alyson; Friedman, Jannice; Kim, Natalie. | leaf bud burst
flowering
pollination
synchrony
climate change
phenology
global warming
spring variability |
| PEC010 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | How do weeds affect insects in mango farms of South Florida? | Poster: Ecology | Kleiman, Blaire. | Insects
Weeds
Mango
Agriculture
pollinators
Parasitoid
Pest
Agroecology |
| PEC011 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | How does growth and reproduction of spicebush (Lindera benzoin) vary over three seasons? | Poster: Ecology | McCall, Andrew; Banta-Long, Wendy; Brennan, Aedin; Cain, Ethan; Hurst, Philip; Fiegel, Haley; Karkut, Max; Ngo, Hang; O'Neill-Dee, Conner; Postema, Elizabeth; Sok, Rebecca; Smith, David S.. | Natural Selection
herbivory
Lindera
understory |
| PEC012 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Effects of Invasive Aphids on Common Milkweed Ecology | Poster: Ecology | Deecher, Elizabeth; Billman, Brittany; Siryani, Nijmih; Rollinson, Emily. | Asclepias syriaca
Aphis nerii
Danaus plexippus
Plant-Animal Interactions
biological invasions |
| PEC013 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biorepository Plant and Algal Samples Available for Ecological and Evolutionary Research | Poster: Ecology | Yule, Kelsey; Steger, Laura. | natural history collection
Herbarium
algae
aquatic plant
lichen
bryophyte
microbe
canopy foliage
Foliar Chemistry
Belowground Biomass
literfall
genomics
Macroecology
Ecology
evolution
population dynamics
Plant Community
Biodiversity
bioinformatics
Ecosystem
phenology
Invasive species
climate change
global change |
| PEC014 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Role of Fire on Regeneration from Seed of Two Pioneer Species of a Tropical Wetland | Poster: Ecology | Soares, Vanessa; Scremin-Dias , Edna; Daibes, Luís Felipe; Damasceno-Junior, Geraldo; Pott, Arnildo; De Lima , Liana. | Brazilian wetland
Fire ecology
seed viability
seed hardness
Guazuma
Plant ecology
Pantanal
Sesbania
seed germination
seed physiology
heat shock |
| PEC015 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Ecosystem services provided by the urban forest of the Mesa Community College Arboretum | Poster: Ecology | Coleman, Jovan; Grimes, Alexander; Whitcomb, Sean. | Ecology
Arboretum
ecosystem services
Urban forests
Urban ecosystems
Public garden |
| PEC016 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Invasive shrub increases forest resilience to drought and fire disturbances | Poster: Ecology | Crandall, Raelene; Crandall, Raelene; Crandall, Raelene; Crandall, Raelene; Knight, Tiffany. | |
| PEC017 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Altered calcium cycling in the forest understory in the context of flowering dogwood decline | Poster: Ecology | Borer, Catherine; Leathers, Jack. | Flowering dogwood
Calcium cycling
Mineral nutrition
Cornus florida
understory |
| PEC018 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Presence of N-fixing neighbors increases leaf N and water use efficiency in Castilleja applegatei, a root hemiparasite | Poster: Ecology | Haynes, Audrey. | Artemisia tridentata
Ceanothus prostratus
host-mediated effects
parasitic plant
stable isotope ecology
leaf δ13C
leaf δ15N
Orobanchaceae |
| PEC019 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Intraspecific variation in big bluestem Andropogon gerardii populations across a precipitation gradient of the Central US grasslands: Response to experimental drought | Poster: Ecology | Johnson, Loretta; Wiebe, Paige; Galliart, Matt; Alsdurf, Jacob; Keenan, Megan. | |
| PEC020 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Project Baseline: A genetic time capsule for studying plant evolutionary responses to global change | Poster: Ecology | Etterson, Julie; Franks, Steven; Mazer, Susan; Schneider, Heather; Shaw, Ruth; Soper Gorden, Nicole; Weber, Jenn; Weis, Arthur. | resurrection method
Ecology
Seeds
evolution
seed bank
genetics |
| PEC021 | July 28th 5:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | High aqueous salinity exposure does not preclude germination of invasive Iris pseudacorus | Poster: Ecology | Gillard, Morgane; Castillo, Jesús M. ; Mesgaran, Mohsen B. ; Futrell, Caryn J.; Grewell, Brenda J.. | Invasive species
Sea level rise
Germination
wetlands |
Wednesday, July 29th |
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| ECO2001 | July 29th 12:30 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Intraspecific variation in seed dispersal strategies between annual and perennial ecotypes of Mimulus guttatus | Oral Paper | Velichka, Jenni; Friedman, Jannice. | life history
seed dispersal
reproduction
wind dispersal
morphology |
| ECO2002 | July 29th 12:45 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Understanding how Pooideae stress adaptations explain climatic distributions | Oral Paper | Das, Aayudh; Preston, Jill. | Grasses
drought tolerance
Abiotic stress |
| ECO2003 | July 29th 1:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Stomatal Size and Density Variations in the Polyploids of Larrea tridentata: Landscape Level and Areas of Co-Occurrences | Oral Paper | Laport, Robert; Aronson, Ellinor. | polyploidy
morphology
Larrea tridentata
water use
desert plants
co-ocurance |
| ECO2004 | July 29th 1:15 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Is local adaptation associated with long-term persistence beyond the range? | Oral Paper | Cross, Regan; Eckert, Christopher. | Range limits
range shifts
Local Adaptation
Reciprocal Transplant
beyond-range transplant |
| ECO2005 | July 29th 1:30 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Neopolyploidy exacerbates nutritional needs and affects resource capture and storage traits inHeuchera cylindrica | Oral Paper | Anneberg, Thomas; Segraves, Kari. | polyploidy
Saxifragaceae
Resource Economics Spectrum
Nutrient assay |
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| ECO3001 | July 29th 3:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Invaded Range Yellow Starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) Exhibit Increased Tolerance to Herbivory | Oral Paper | Mesa , Joshua Miles; Dlugosch, Katrina. | Invasive species
plant tolerance
herbivory
Trade-offs |
| ECO3002 | July 29th 3:15 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Variation in plant responses to grasshopper herbivory among the cultivars of the introduced Miscanthus sinensis | Oral Paper | Avanesyan, Alina; Lamp, William. | invasion ecology
herbivory
Plant-Animal Interactions
plant tolerance
plant resistance |
| ECO3003 | July 29th 3:30 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Using Robust Design Models to Assess Colonization and Extirpation Probabilities of Forest Plants in Illinois | Oral Paper | Janssen, Eric; Zaya, David; Molano-Flores, Brenda. | temperate forest
Colonization
Extinction
Robust Design Occupancy Model |
| ECO3004 | July 29th 3:45 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Weeds, Pollinators, and Parasitoids - Using Weeds for Insect Manipulation in Agriculture | Oral Paper | Kleiman, Blaire. | plant-insect interactions
pollinator
Parasitoid
Weeds |
| ECO3005 | July 29th 4:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Eco-evolutionary drivers of native and exotic range expansion in a weedy annual plant, Dittrichia graveolens (Asteraceae) | Oral Paper | Melen, Miranda; Lustenhouwer, Nicky; Parker, Ingrid. | Dittrichia graveolens
Asteraceae
population spread
range expansion
invasion biology
dispersal
phenology
evolution
Invasive species |
| ECO3006 | July 29th 4:15 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Seeding rates and site aridity explain global patterns of dryland restoration success | Oral Paper | Winkler, Daniel; Shackelford, Nancy; Paterno, Gustavo; Svejcar, Lauren; Leger, Elizabeth; Suding, Katharine. | Restoration
Restoration ecology
drylands
seeding rates
plant functional groups
global database
Global Arid Zone Project
arid
semi-arid
management
aridity
invasive speices
native plants
plant establishment |
| ECO3007 | July 29th 4:30 pm | Virtual/Virtual | A New Research Natural Area Website | Oral Paper | Devall, Margaret. | nonmanipulative research
education |
Thursday, July 30th |
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| ECO4001 | July 30th 10:00 am | Virtual/Virtual | Comparison of Seedbank Composition over a Gradient of Pyrophilic Vegetation | Oral Paper | Huebner, Cynthia; Thomas Van-Gundy, Melissa; Underwood, Christopher. | Pyrophilic
Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling
indicator species
Fire-adapted
Soil seed bank |
| ECO4002 | July 30th 10:15 am | Virtual/Virtual | In Search of the “Piedmont prairies”: Multivariate Analyses of Heliophilic Plant Communities of the Eastern Piedmont of North America | Oral Paper | Szakacs, Alexandria; Wentworth, Thomas; Krings, Alexander. | prairie
heliophilic vegetation
Eastern Piedmont
Plant Community |
| ECO4003 | July 30th 10:30 am | Virtual/Virtual | Plant species occupy different habitats on castle walls in Elbasan, Albania | Oral Paper | Titus, Jonathan; Gjeta, Ermelinda; Titus, Priscilla. | Colonization
urban ecology
wall flora |
| ECO4004 | July 30th 10:45 am | Virtual/Virtual | Ecological niche modeling of Australian Loranthaceae mistletoes using a novel haustorial perspective | Oral Paper | Trang, Kenneth; Wilson, Carol. | Australia
Biogeography
Ecology
haustoria
Loranthaceae
mistletoe
morphology
niche modeling |
| ECO4005 | July 30th 11:00 am | Virtual/Virtual | Ecological Niche Models for species of the genus Rhexia (Melastomataceae) | Oral Paper | Kwon, Youl; Melton, Anthony; Soltis, Pamela; Soltis, Douglas. | Rhexia
Melastomataceae
Ecological niche modeling
Species distributions
Allopolyploids
climate change |
| ECO4006 | July 30th 11:15 am | Virtual/Virtual | A broad-scale test of whether constraints on dispersal contribute to the northern range limit of a Pacific coastal dune plant | Oral Paper | Dungey, Michael; Eckert, Christopher. | Range limits
dispersal
metapopulation |
| ECO4007 | July 30th 11:30 am | Virtual/Virtual | Local-scale niche modeling of Stenanthium densum (Melanthiaceae), a fire-stimulated flowering plant endemic to the southeastern Coastal Plain | Oral Paper | Reed, Zachary; Bridges, Edwin; Orzell, Steve; Budach, Brett. | Ecological niche modeling
Stenanthium
Melanthiaceae
Fire-adapted
wetland
wetland specialist
seepage
LIDAR
Florida
Central Florida
pine savanna
flatwoods
herbaceous
depression wetlands |
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| ECO5001 | July 30th 12:30 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Could road salt explain the decline of Thuja occidentalis in urban fens? | Oral Paper | Molano-Flores, Brenda; Johnson, Sara; Janssen, Eric; Glass, Nicholas T; Whelan, Christopher J . | Urban ecosystems
Thuja occidentalis
Germination
reproduction
road salts |
| ECO5002 | July 30th 12:45 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Combined stressors of drought and invasion reduce Douglas fir performance | Oral Paper | Aiello, Erin; Parker, Ingrid; Haubensak, Karen; Grove, Sara. | Cytisus
invasion ecology
Drought
interactions
Mycorrhizae
plant stress
global change
compounding stressors
soil microbes |
| ECO5003 | July 30th 1:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Geographic variation in growth and compensation in common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca | Oral Paper | Mohl, Emily; McCall, Andrew; Scanga, Sara; Saunders, Patricia; Garneau, Danielle; Nuzzo, Jacqueline. | Growth
Damage
Compensation
Plant Defense
Asclepias syriaca
Milkweed
geographic cline |
| ECO5004 | July 30th 1:15 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Tree beta diversity explains changes in soil properties in cocoa agroecosystems in conjunction with shifting agriculture | Oral Paper | Vera, Roy; Cota-Sanchez, Hugo; Grijalva, Jorge. | Agroecosystems
Biodiversity
plant-soil feedback
ecosystem services
Beta diversity |
| ECO5005 | July 30th 1:30 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Herbicide drift reveals species-level variation in stressor resistance and weakens co-flowering interactions in 25 wild plant species | Oral Paper | Iriart, Veronica; Baucom, Regina; Ashman, Tia-Lynn. | resistance
network analysis
interactions
plant tolerance
anthropogenic
herbicide drift
Plant Community |
| ECO5006 | July 30th 1:45 pm | Virtual/Virtual | On the evolution of salt tolerance: divergence in fitness and physiology phenotypes between freshwater and marine populations of Cakile edentula | Oral Paper | Yakimowski, Sarah; Ferrish, Justin; Samis, Karen. | Salt stress
evolution
Biogeography
Ecophysiology |
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| July 30th 5:30 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Ecological Section Business Meeting | | | |
Friday, July 31st |
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| ECO6001 | July 31st 10:00 am | Virtual/Virtual | Pollinator traits are a better predictors of insect-carried pollen load attributes than the local floral resources | Oral Paper | Cullen, Nevin; Xia, Jing; Wei, Na; Kaczorowski, Rainee; Arceo-Gomez, Gerardo; O'Neill, Elizabeth; Hayes, Rebecca; Ashman, Tia-Lynn. | pollinators
serpentine
foraging behavior
heterospecific pollen transfer
networks |
| ECO6002 | July 31st 10:15 am | Virtual/Virtual | Patient Impatiens : partitioning and cooperativity in congeneric sympatric Impatiens spp. (Balsaminaeceae) In Kaas plateau, Maharashtra | Oral Paper | Vyas , Amal K; GOWDA, VINITA. | ecological niche partitioning
pollination competition
pollinator preference
Sympatric congeneric species
partitioning
Impatiens |
| ECO6003 | July 31st 10:30 am | Virtual/Virtual | Evolutionary trade-offs in the chemical defense of floral and fruit tissues across genus Cornus | Oral Paper | De La Pascua, Danielle; Smith-Winterscheidt, Corrinne; Dowell, Jordan; Goolsby, Eric; Mason, Chase. | chemical defense
Cornus
dogwood
evolutionary ecology
macroevolution
resources availability hypothesis
optimal defense hypothesis |
| ECO6004 | July 31st 10:45 am | Virtual/Virtual | The pollen virome revealed: interactions with pollinators and proximity to human disturbances shape the pollen virome of wild plants | Oral Paper | Fetters, Andrea; Cantalupo, Paul; Wei, Na; Saenz Robles, Maria Teresa; Stephens, Jessica; Pipas, James; Ashman, Tia-Lynn. | pollen
floral traits
virome
Metagenomics
human disturbance |
| ECO6005 | July 31st 11:00 am | Virtual/Virtual | Nectar secondary metabolites and pesticide exposure synergistically affect pollinator physiology and behavior | Oral Paper | Richman, Sarah; Maalouf, Isabelle; Smilanich, Angela; Leonard, Anne. | plant-pollinator
Plant ecology
nectar
pesticides
Secondary Metabolites |
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| ECO7001 | July 31st 12:30 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Defoliation in perennial plants: predictable and surprising results in Senna species | Oral Paper | Koptur, Suzanne; Primoli, Andrea Salas; Pimienta, Maria. | defoliation
Compensation
extrafloral
nectaries
legume
Fabaceae
Induction
defense |
| ECO7002 | July 31st 12:45 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Shifts in plant-microbe interactions over ecological succession and their effects on plants’ resistance to herbivores | Oral Paper | Howard, Mia; Kao-Kniffin, Jenny; Kessler, Andre. | chemical defense
herbivory
plant resistance
succession
microbiome
Plant-Animal Interactions
Soil
plant-soil feedback
oldfield
microbe
Rhizosphere |
| ECO7003 | July 31st 1:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Quantifying plant-pollinator interactions in the Prairie Coteau | Oral Paper | Vilella-Arnizaut, Isabela; Fenster, Charles. | pollinators
network analysis
Ecology
landscape heterogeneity
prairie
agricultural landscape
community
plant-pollinator interactions |
| ECO7004 | July 31st 1:15 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Effects of herbicide on floral and vegetative traits in rapid Brassica rapa: implications for ecological interactions | Oral Paper | Ramos, Sergio E.; Rzodkiewicz, Lacey; Turcotte, Martin; Ashman, Tia-Lynn. | |
| ECO7005 | July 31st 1:30 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Netleaf hackberry (Celtis reticulata) seeds are positively affected by ingestion by coyotes | Oral Paper | Veltkamp, Hannah; Houghton, Sydney; Stevens, Michael T.. | Hackberries
Ingestion
Germination
Coyotes
Plant-Animal Interactions
Celtis reticulata
Wasatch Mountains
Seed Biology
Seed
Seedling
Growth |
| ECO7006 | July 31st 1:45 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Deer herbivory alters plant community structure in the Edwards Plateau | Oral Paper | Collings, Jeremy; Arsuffi, Tom. | herbivory
Ecology
Comunity Ecology
Mycorrhizae
Deer |
| ECO7007 | July 31st 2:00 pm | Virtual/Virtual | The location of the rare Pitcher’s thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) along a dune community can influence weevil attack. Can it influence pollinators as well? | Oral Paper | Hakes, Alyssa. | pollinators
elevational gradient |
| ECO7008 | July 31st 2:15 pm | Virtual/Virtual | Neighbor, competitor: the role of resource availability and neighbor identity in plant susceptibility to herbivores | Oral Paper | Holmes, Katherine; Power, Alison. | herbivory
plant-insect interactions |
