Predation

Session 16 (Contributed)
Tuesday, June 8, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM, IRC5
Moderator: B. Peckarsky

8:00 (105) Competitive interactions between the invasive gastropod Potamopyrgus antipodarum and baetid mayflies .
C.A. Cada and B.L. Kerans. Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana USA

8:15 (106) Do crayfish have a kids menu? The influence of ontogenetic stage on the ecology of the signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus in a small temperate stream.
C.A. Bondar and J.S. Richardson. Department of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4

8:30 (107) Temporal and spatial variation in top-down control in a tropical stream community .
M.M. Douglas¹, S.A. Kent¹, L. Wirf¹, and C.M. Pringle². ¹Centre for Tropical Wetlands Management, Charles Darwin University, Darwin NT, Australia 0909, ²Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2602, USA

8:45 (108) Stream productivity gradients: patterns and mechanisms through the eyes of predatory invertebrates.
D.C. Bradley, A. Hogan, and J. Lancaster. Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, Darwin Building, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, UK EH9 3JU

9:00 (109) The salad days of stream invertebrate predators: remarkable functional plasticity within a predator guild.
J. Lancaster¹, D.C. Bradley¹, A. Hogan¹, and S. Waldron². ¹Institute of Cell, Animal & Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JU, UK, ²Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride G75 0QF, UK

9:15 (110) Food-limited to habitat-limited: predator-prey uncoupled.
P. Zaradic. Stroud Water Research Center, 970 Spencer Road, Avondale, PA 19311

9:30 (111) Predatory interactions between insects and spotted salamanders, Ambystoma maculatum, in vernal pools.
E.P. Brunkhurst. Department of Plant Sceince and Entomology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881