Extending the Food Web: Consumer-Resource Dynamics at the Aquatic-Terrestrial Interface I

Session 31 (Special)
Friday, May 30, 1:00 PM-2:45 PM, Athena F
Moderator: Steinmetz

1:00 (210) From stream processes to carnivore behavior, condition, reproduction, and populations; and then back .
M. Ben-David. Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA

1:15 (211) Relative importance of intrinsic vs. extrinsic factors for river otter dispersal: assessment with a spatially-explicit individual-based model.
N.P. Nibbelink¹, M. Ben-David², and G.M. Blundell³. ¹Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, ²Department of Zoology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, ³Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Douglas, Alaska 99824

1:30 (212) Modeled interaction strengths between dippers and benthic invertebrate prey in montane Wyoming streams.
J. Feck¹ and R.O. Hall, Jr². ¹Confluence, L.L.C., 995 Cliff St., Lander, Wyoming, 82520, ²Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, 82520

1:45 (213) Fear from above and below: nonlethal effects of herons and bass on common prey.
J. Steinmetz^1,2, D.A. Soluk^1,2, and S.L. Kohler³. ¹Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, ²Center for Aquatic Ecology, Illinios Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL 61820, USA, ³Environmental Research Center, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA

2:00 (214) The role of parasites in mediating predator-prey interactions between fish and birds.
I. Barber. Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK, SY23 3DA

2:15 (215) The other lotic vertebrates: case studies in biotic factors affecting species performance in larval and adult plethodontid salamanders.
J.R. Miller. Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

2:30 (216) Strong predation by wintering waterfowl on zebra mussels in the littoral zone of Lake Constance.
K.O. Rothhaupt and S. Werner. Limnological Institute, University of Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany