Population Ecology

Session 24 (Contributed)
Friday, May 30, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM, Athena GH
Moderator: Strayer

8:00 (160) Why not stay where you are? An evaluation of drift by mayflies in desert mountain stream. .
D.A. Soluk^1,2 and K.L. Moss¹. ¹Center for Aquatic Ecology, Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820, ²Dept. of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, 505 S. Goodwin Street, Urbana IL 61801

8:15 (161) Density dependent patch preference, resource abandonment, and dispersal in Chironomus riparius.
C. Brown and P. Silver. School of Science, Penn State Erie, Erie, PA 16563

8:30 (162) Movement of adult stoneflies between streams and major watersheds.
J.H.R. Gee, R.A. Briers, H.M. Cariss, and R. Geoghegan. Institute of Biological Sciences, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth

8:45 (163) Burrow fidelity and foraging behavior of the Devil crayfish (Cambarus diogenes).
J. Cashmore^1,2 and D.A. Soluk^1,2. ¹Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 286 Morrill Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, ²Illinois Natural History Survey, Center for Aquatic Ecology, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, USA

9:00 (164) Closing the larval loop: consequences of larval behavior in supply-side ecology.
J.T Fingerut¹, C.A. Zimmer², and R.K. Zimmer². ¹Patrick Center for Environmental Resarch, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA, 19103, ²Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095

9:15 (165) Temporal and spatial dynamics of the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) population in the Hudson River, 1991-2002.
D.L. Strayer and H.M. Malcom. Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY 12545