Meeting Abstract 126-4  Sunday, Jan. 7 11:00 – 11:15  Resolving Constraints and Opportunities for Behavioral Rescue in Response to Rapid Environmental Change FEY, SB*; VASSEUR, DA; LOGAN, ML; ALUJEVIC, K; O’CONNOR, MI; CLUSELLA-TRULLAS, S; Reed College; Yale University; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama; Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University; University of British Columbia; Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch […]

Meeting Abstract 126-6  Sunday, Jan. 7 11:30 – 11:45  Pollen out all the stops: How bumble bees modify sonication behavior in response to pollen rewards SWITZER, CM*; RUSSELL, AL; PAPAJ, DR; COMBES, SA; HOPKINS, R; Harvard Univ.; Univ. of Pittsburgh; Univ. of Arizona; Univ. of California, Davis; Harvard Univ. callin.switzer@gmail.com A well-studied behavior in bee pollination biology […]

Meeting Abstract 126-7  Sunday, Jan. 7 11:45 – 12:00  Integrating Modeling and Fieldwork to Explore How Behavior Moderates Salamander Sensitivity to Climate MCENTIRE, K D*; MAERZ, J C; HOWARD, J S; University of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Georgia mcentire@uga.edu Models are a useful tool to understand the mechanisms driving organisms’ interactions with climate. Biophysical models […]

Meeting Abstract 126-2  Sunday, Jan. 7 10:30 – 10:45  Examining Microhabitat Structure and its Use by Wolf Spiders ROSENTHAL, MF*; KESSLER, B; MEZA, P; ELIAS, DO; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Berkeley malcolm.rosenthal@berkeley.edu Ecological theory predicts that species will partition their habitat use to limit competition. For […]

Meeting Abstract 126-1  Sunday, Jan. 7 10:15 – 10:30  Differential evolution of gestural display complexity across the tropical-temperate divide MILES, MC*; CHENG, S; FUXJAGER, MJ; Wake Forest University milemc16@wfu.edu http://fuxjagerlab.com Among animals that use displays for courtship and competition, visual signals incorporating gesture— or body movements used specifically for communication—are widespread. These displays vary widely in complexity, […]

Meeting Abstract 126-5  Sunday, Jan. 7 11:15 – 11:30  Behavioral Adaptations of Trinidadian Killifish to Experimental Introduction of an Intraguild Predator GOLDBERG, JF*; FRASER, DF; REZNICK, DN; Univ. of California, Riverside; Siena College; Univ. of California, Riverside joshua.goldberg@email.ucr.edu Intraguild predation (IGP), where two consumer species compete for a shared resource and also prey upon each other, commonly […]

Meeting Abstract 126-5  Monday, Jan. 7 11:15 – 11:30  The influence of demographic history on heterogeneous patterns of genomic divergence in an incipient Heliconius species COLE, JM*; VAN BELLEGHEM, SM; COUNTERMAN, BA; Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS jmc675@msstate.edu Identifying the forces responsible for driving genomic divergence between […]

Meeting Abstract 126-3  Monday, Jan. 7 10:45 – 11:00  Systematics and Species Delimitation of the Clownfish-Hosting Sea Anemones: Are There Really Only 10 Host Species? TITUS, BM*; MEYER, C; BERUMEN, ML; BARTHOLOMEW, A; REIMER, JD; YANAGI, K; RODRIGUEZ, E; American Museum of Natural History; National Museum of Natural History; King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology; American […]

Meeting Abstract 126-4  Monday, Jan. 7 11:00 – 11:15  Plasticity, hybridization and speciation on the Dogface butterfly wing COUNTERMAN, BA*; FENNER, JL; Mississippi State University bcounterman@biology.msstate.edu When two species successfully hybridize, there is potential for the hybrids to be isolated from the parental species, ecologically and/or reproductively, and to establish themselves as a new, hybrid species. Here, […]

Meeting Abstract 126-1  Monday, Jan. 7 10:15 – 10:30  Holobiont species delimitation in the sponge genus Ircinia KELLY, JB; Stony Brook University joseph.b.kelly@stonybrook.edu Microbiomes are quickly gaining recognition as ubiquitous and integral components of multicellular organisms whose imprints are found in the biology of their hosts. In the sponge genus Ircinia, evolutionary responses to host-microbial symbioses abound […]