Community Ecology III

Session 39 (Contributed)
Saturday, May 31, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM, Georgia West
Moderator: Vance-Chalcraft

8:00 (263) Do interactions between tubificids influence infection of Tubifex tubifex by Myxobolus cerebralis, the causative agent of salmonid whirling disease?
L.C. Steinbach¹, B.L. Kerans¹, and C. Rasmussen². ¹Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA, 59717, ²Western Fisheries Resarch Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 6505 Northeast 65th St., Seattle, WA, USA 98115

8:15 (264) Fish diversity enhances stream productivity.
C.W. Hargrave². ¹Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, ²University of Oklahoma Biological Station, Kingston, Oklahoma 73439

8:30 (265) Fish and benthic invertebrate community structure in a headwater stream - Annie Creek, South Dakota, USA.
S.P. Canton. Chadwick Ecological Consultants, Inc., 5575 S. Sycamore St., #101, Littleton, CO 80120 USA

8:45 (266) The effect of fish on benthic community structure in arctic lakes.
K. Fortino¹, A.E. Hershey¹, W.J. O'Brien¹, P.W. Lienesch², and C.M. Mayer³. ¹University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, ²Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, ³Syracuse Unversity, Syracuse, NY

9:00 (267) Vertebrate assemblages and life cycles in parafluvial floodplain ponds.
S.D. Chilcote and J.A. Stanford. Flathead Lake Biological Station, Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Montana, Polson, MT 59860-9659

9:15 (268) Contrasting foraging strategies of stonefly nymphs under the risk of predation.
F.K. Edwards and J. Lancaster. Institute of Cell Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

9:30 (269) The influence of prey density on the prevalence of non-additivity for multiple predator species in an aquatic system.
H.D. Vance-Chalcraft^1,2 and D.A. Soluk^1,2. ¹School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, ²Center for Aquatic Ecology, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL 61820