Talks
Talk Number: 1
Title: Transgenerational Effects of Predator Stress on the growth and Behavior of Pardosa milvina
Author(s); Institution: Alexander Berry, Ann Rypstra; Miami University
Theme Areas: Behavioral Ecology
Talk Number: 2
Title: Grassland bird responses to bison disturbances in tallgrass prairies in Illinois and Indiana
Author(s); Institution: Antonio Del Valle, Holly P. Jones, Northern Illinois University
Theme Areas: Conservation and Restoration Biology, Population and Community Ecology
Talk Number: 3
Title: Cover Crop Application Increases Corn Yields when Grown in Dredged Sediments
Author(s); Institution: Ashley N. Julian, Louise Stevenson, Megan A. Rúa; Wright State University
Theme Areas: Agroecology
Talk Number: 4
Title: Single-tree level microhabitat influence on plant invasion
Author(s); Institution: Ellen Oordt, Marion Holmes, and Sara Kuebbing; University of Pittsburgh
Theme Areas: Population and Community Ecology, Invasion Ecology
Talk Number: 5
Title: Butternut throughout space and time: examining a rare tree using genetic methods, species distribution modeling, and fossil pollen records
Author(s); Institution: Emily Schumacher, Alissa Brown, Sean Hoban; The Morton Arboretum
Theme Areas: Ecosystem Ecology, Genetics
Talk Number: 6
Title: Beyond Burned and Unburned: A New Approach to Quantifying the Impacts of Prescribed Fire on Prairie Small Mammals
Author(s); Institution: Erin Rowland, Holly Jones, Elizabeth Bach, Bill Kleinman; Northern Illinois University
Theme Areas: Conservation and Restoration Biology, Landscape Ecology
Talk Number: 7
Title: Experimental evidence for evolutionary trap in larval lake sturgeon
Author(s); Institution: Joseph Riedy, Kim Scribner; Michigan State University
Theme Areas: Population and Community Ecology, Evolution and Development
Talk Number: 8
Title: Phylogeny tree accuracy impacts co-evolution analyses
Author(s); Institution: Julia Zheng, Kevin Liu, Gregory Bonito, Michigan State University
Theme Areas: Genetics, Computational Biology
Talk Number: 9
Title: East or West, Nests are Best: Similar nestedness patterns in larval odonate communities can arise from different ecological factors
Author(s); Institution: Karen H. Gaines, Maria Aliberti Lubertazzi PhD; University of Kansas, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Theme Areas: Population and Community Ecology, Ecosystem Ecology
Talk Number: 10
Title: The Four Causes of Adaptation: How do students construct biological explanations about natural selection?
Author(s); Institution: Lucy Delaney; University of Illinois at Chicago
Theme Areas: Evolution and Development, Evolution Education and Outreach
Talk Number: 11
Title:Differences in Intraspecies Aggression Observed in Invasive Cellar Spiders Pholcus phalangioides and Pholcus manueli
Author(s); Institution: Sarah Strack, Alex Berry, Ann Rypstra; Miami University
Theme Areas: Ecosystem Ecology, Behavioral Ecology
Talk Number: 12
Title: Increasing the performance of native parasitoid wasps on the invasive fly, spotted wing drosophila, using experimental evolution
Author(s); Institution: Shelley Linder, Benjamin J. M. Jarrett, Philip Fanning, Rufus Isaacs, and Marianna Szűcs; Michigan State University
Theme Areas: Population and Community Ecology, Evolution and Development
Talk Number: 13
Title: Bison decrease tree cover and increase plant diversity within a woodland state in the Central Great Plains
Author(s); Institution: Sidney Noble, Zak Ratajczak, Keith Gido, and Brynn Ritchey, Kansas State University
Theme Areas: Conservation and Restoration Biology, Ecosystem Ecology
Talk Number: 14
Title: Limb Proportions and Locomotor Behavior in Prosimians
Author(s); Institution: Toyosi Adesinasi; Xavier University
Theme Areas: Evolution and Development