Ecology and Evolution Spring 2001 retreat

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Three Village Garden Club, March 10, 2001

Ecology & Evolution Spring Retreat

Program

8:00 Breakfast

Session I. Heather Throop, Chair

9:00 Interactions Between Atmospheric N Deposition and Herbivory and Consequent Effects on Plant Production Heather Throop

9:20 Allee Effects and Species' Borders Tim Keitt

940 Genetic Variation in Rates of Energy Acquisition and Growth: Trade-offs with Vulnerability to Predation in Menidia menidia David Conover

10:00 The Population Genetics of Middle Pathway Genes: Searching for the Interesting Efe Sezgin

10:20 Coffee

Session II. Geeta Barathan, Chair

11:00 Field Response of Scolytid Bark Beetles to 2-methyl-3-ol, a Novel Alcohol Emitted by Ponderosa Pine Dennis Gray

11:20 The life history metabolism cascade: Reproductive Diapause in Drosophila melanogaster Walter Eanes

11:40 Simple Leaves, Complex Leaves: Which Way and How? Geeta Barathan

12:00 How to Compute Phylogenetic Autocorrelations (and Why They Probably are not Worth the Effort) Jim Rohlf

12:20 Lunch

Session III Laura Hyatt, Chair

2:00 Capuchins: Space, Time and Energy Charles Janson

2:20 Does Mile-a-Minute weed really grow a mile a minute? Laura Hyatt

2:40 Morphometric Diversity in Iraqi Male Faces Waleed AlGharaibeh

3:00 Claws, Closing Speeds and Correlations Jeff Levinton

3:20 Coffee

Session IV Luciano Matzkin, Chair

4:00 The once and future Ophraella Douglas Futuyma

4:20 Natural Selection and Rates of Evolution in the Fossil Record Matthew Travis

4:40 Sucking on a Spiked Rotten Cactus: The Life of a Cactophilic Drosophila

5:00 Population Dynamics and Body Mass:Is There a Correlation? Janos Hajagos (& Ginzburg)

5:20 The Ecology of Blue-Stripe Disease: A Significant Source of Conifer Mortality in the Western United States

6:00 Entertainment

6:30 Awards

7:00 Dinner

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Updated 3/12/01 by F. James Rohlf.