Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA · August 9-15, 2008
Final Program - Oral Sessions
Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday
SUNDAY AUG. 10
| Bailey | Plenary Session I |
| 8:30 | Announcements |
| 8:40 | Suzanne Alonzo: When theory meets data: what we don't know about sexual selection and mating systems |
| 9:25 | Nico Michiels: Hermaphrodites: Sexual opportunists with a long term problem |
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 1-6
| Statler | 1. Carotenoid colors and fitness |
| 10:40 | Toomey, Matthew: Variation in and correlates of retinal carotenoid accumulation in wild house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) |
| 11:00 | Hőrak, Peeter: Exogenous and endogenous antioxidants in immune activation and immune suppression |
| 11:20 | Mowles, Sophie: Effects of respiratory pigment and whole body performance capacity on agonistic signals in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus |
| 11:40 | Dubiec, Anna: Environmental and genetic determinants of carotenoid-based plumage coloration and immune function in blue tit nestlings |
| 12:00 | Arnold, Kathryn: Antioxidant-mediated signals of quality in birds |
| Ballroom | 2. Communication in spiders |
| 10:40 | Stoltz, Jeffrey: Variation in female sexual signals constrains the opportunity for polyandry in redback spiders |
| 11:00 | Rundus, Aaron: Multimodal courtship efficacy of Schizocosa retrorsa wolf spiders: implications for near-field communication |
| 11:20 | Li, Daiqin: UVB-based mate choice cues used by females of the jumping spider Phintella vittata |
| 11:40 | Elias, Damian: Complex signal evolution in a diverse group of jumping spiders |
| 12:00 | Uetz, George: Communication in complex environments: active space of multi-modal spider signals on the forest floor |
| Uris | 3. Cooperative breeding |
| 10:40 | Eggert, Anne-Katrin: A fatal lack of synchrony: proximate mechanisms of reproductive control in burying beetles |
| 11:00 | Madden, Joah: Does manipulating grooming interactions change antagonistic interactions in meerkats? |
| 11:20 | Port, Markus: Reproductive skew among males in a gregarious lemur: empirical evidence and some reflections on the application of reproductive skew theory to male mammals |
| 11:40 | Cant, Michael: Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses |
| 12:00 | Hodge, Sarah: Offspring competition and reproductive skew in cooperative meerkats |
| Ives | 4. Evolution of personality |
| 10:40 | Dochtermann, Ned: The maintenance of behavioral variation in natural populations of Merriam's kangaroo rat: a test of competing mechanisms |
| 11:00 | Adriaenssens, Bart: The advantage of being shy: do personality traits predict fitness of brown trout (Salmo trutta) in the wild? |
| 11:20 | Dingemanse, Niels: Generalist and specialist personality traits in stickleback |
| 11:40 | Biro, Peter: How and why fishing selects on life-history traits via fish behaviour: the cost of a bold personality |
| 12:00 | Wolf, Max: Evolutionary emergence of responsive and unresponsive personalities |
| Malott | 5. Predator/parasite strategies |
| 10:40 | Katzir, Gadi: Motor patterns during prey capturing strikes in herons (Aves, Ardeidae): Interspecific differences are related to foraging patterns |
| 11:00 | Barnett, Craig: Avian predators change foraging tactics to manage their body toxin levels: the mind rules the belly |
| 11:20 | Kroiss, Johannes: Playing "hide-and-seek" with the wolves--the role of cuticular hydrocarbons for the interaction between a cuckoo wasp and the European beewolf (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae and Chrysididae) |
| 11:40 | Mäntylä, Elina: From plants to birds: higher avian predation rates in trees responding to insect herbivory |
| 12:00 | Foellmer, Matthias: Sex-specific foraging strategies and growth rates in early juveniles mediate the development of extreme female-biased sexual size dimorphism in a spider |
| Kennedy | 6. Learning and decision-making |
| 10:40 | Hirvonen, Heikki: Quantitative genetics of antipredator behavior: phenotypic plasticity, innate behavior and learning |
| 11:00 | Belmaker, Amos: Learning to choose among social foraging strategies in adult house sparrows |
| 11:20 | Aronsson, Marianne: The role of internal color patterns in avoidance learning |
| 11:40 | Stamps, Judy: Effects of a 'happy childhood' on disperser preferences for new habitats that are comparable to their natal habitat |
| 12:00 | LaDage, Lara: Food-caching mountain chickadees preferentially respond to color over spatial cues in an associative learning test |
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 7-12
| Statler | 7. Sensory ecology of vertebrates |
| 14:00 | Ord, Terry: "Attention-grabbers": using robots to study alerting components of Anolis displays in challenging natural environments |
| 14:20 | Vercken, Elodie: Experimental evidence for overdominance in the maintenance of a polymorphism of strategies in the common lizard |
| 14:40 | Ophir, Alexander: Energetic constraints on acoustic signaling: a broad comparative view |
| 15:00 | Cunningham, Susan: Sensory systems and foraging behaviour in kiwi and shorebirds: convergent evolution? |
| 15:20 | Knott, Benjamin: Seeing the light: diet-related variation in the vision of Platycercus elegans? |
| Ballroom | 8. Communication in insects |
| 14:00 | Grether, Greg: Sympatric shifts in competitor recognition in rubyspot damselflies |
| 14:20 | Evison, Sophie: Communication of foraging direction via antennation in an ant |
| 14:40 | Théry, Marc: Dusk light environment optimizes visual perception of conspecifics in a crepuscular horned beetle |
| 15:00 | Bergman, Martin: Visual mate detection and mating success by resident and non-resident males in a territorial woodland butterfly, Pararge aegeria |
| 15:20 | Sheehan, Michael J.: Frequency-dependent selection imposed by social interactions |
| Uris | 9. Cooperative breeding |
| 14:00 | Shen, Sheng-Feng: Mechanisms of maintaining stable cooperation in unrelated cooperative breeding, joint-nesting Taiwan yuhinas: simple rules solve free-riding problems |
| 14:20 | Tanner, Jaime: Effects of social rank on feeding performance and morphology in spotted hyenas |
| 14:40 | Nelson-Flower, Martha: Group size influences female competition for reproductive fitness in the cooperatively breeding pied babbler (Turdoides bicolor) |
| 15:00 | Russell, Andrew: Maternal effects in avian cooperative breeders: a neglected problem |
| 15:20 | Richardson, David: Grandparent helpers: the adaptive significance of older, post-dominant helpers in the Seychelles warbler |
| Ives | 10. Personality and foraging |
| 14:00 | Minderman, Jeroen: Individual variation in exploratory behaviour of starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) on Fair Isle and its relationship to home range size |
| 14:20 | Wilkin, Teddy: Effects of absolute and relative personality type on foraging performance and risk taking in the wild |
| 14:40 | Schürch, Roger: Long term effects of a juvenile behavioural syndrome in the highly social cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher |
| 15:00 | McLaughlin, Robert: Personality and foraging behaviour in young brook charr |
| 15:20 | Harcourt, Jennifer: Uncovering the varying roles of personality in pairs of foraging fish |
| Malott | 11. Predation and signal evolution |
| 14:00 | Tso, I-Min: Signal design of a sensory exploiter: balancing foraging benefit and predation cost |
| 14:20 | Balogh, Alexandra: Learning and the mimicry spectrum - from quasi-Bates to super-Müller |
| 14:40 | Dimitrova, Marina: Concealed by conspicuousness: distractive prey and backgrounds markings |
| 15:00 | Martell, Christopher: Evidence for predator generalized avoidance in a polymorphic aposematic poison frog, Oophaga pumilio |
| 15:20 | Bulbert, Matthew: Do feather-legged assassin bugs use a multimodal signalling strategy to lure ants? |
| Kennedy | 12. Stress and development in birds |
| 14:00 | Spencer, Karen: Developmental stress in birds: adaptation or constraint? |
| 14:20 | Mizier-Barre, Emily: The role of the central position in food competition and temperature regulation by red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) broods |
| 14:40 | Glassey, Barb: The energetic cost of behavioural thermoregulation by common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) nestlings |
| 15:00 | Ardia, Dan: Experimental cooling during incubation reduces egg temperatures and nestling immune function |
| 15:20 | Donaldson, Christine: Corticosterone shapes cognitive ability in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) |
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 13-18
| Statler | 13. Function of color badges |
| 16:10 | Murphy, Troy: Female carotenoid based status signaling in a tropical elaborate-monomorphic oriole |
| 16:30 | Chaine, Alexis: Avian chameleons: coverable and uncoverable badges accommodate social complexity in the lark bunting |
| 16:50 | Laucht, Silke: Dynamics in testosterone, bill coloration, and badge size in male house sparrows, Passer domesticus |
| 17:10 | Eising, Corine: Breast-band size in the bar-throated apalis Apalis thoracica: a predictor of both male and female reproductive effort? |
| Ballroom | 14. Communication in insects |
| 16:10 | Mattila, Heather: Polyandrous honey bee queens gamble for dancers among wallflowers |
| 16:30 | Tibbetts, Elizabeth: The function, heritability, and condition-dependence of a visual signal of quality in a paper wasp |
| 16:50 | Izzo, Amanda: Cuticular hydrocarbons correlate with fertility, not dominance, in a paper wasp, Polistes dominulus |
| 17:10 | Harari, Ally R: The role of female pheromones as chemical ornaments that honestly advertise quality |
| Uris | 15. Environmental effects on color patterns |
| 16:10 | Berg, Elena: Is there an adaptive explanation for egg patterning and coloration in birds? |
| 16:30 | Wong, Bob: Masquerading in murky waters: eutrophication compromises socially-enforced signals of male quality in sticklebacks |
| 16:50 | Godin, Jean-Guy: Conspicuous body coloration and threat-sensitive mating tactics in male guppies |
| 17:10 | Gagliano, Monica: On the spot: the absence of predators reveals eyespot plasticity in a marine fish |
| Ives | 16. Sex ratio and allocation |
| 16:10 | Rypstra, Ann: Predator information has differential effects on sex ratio, intrasexual competition and fitness |
| 16:30 | Hoffer, Jeroen: Heritability of resource allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite |
| 16:50 | Webster, Michael: Offspring sex ratios are affected by competition rather than repayment in a cooperatively breeding bird |
| 17:10 | Leonard, Janet: Why not be an hermaphrodite? |
| Malott | 17. Inbreeding |
| 16:10 | Segoli, Michal: Host choice in a polyembryonic parasitoid wasp is affected by the relatedness to a previously parasitizing female |
| 16:30 | Gottlieb, Daphna: Evolutionary implications of high inbreeding rate in the beetle Coccotrypes dactyliperda |
| 16:50 | Thuenken, Timo: Function and mechanisms of active inbreeding in a cichlid fish |
| 17:10 | Hain, Timothy: Multiple mating and kin recognition mechanisms in bluegill |
| Kennedy | 18. Learning and evolution |
| 16:10 | Dukas, Reuven: Learning increases assortative courtship and mating in fruit flies |
| 16:30 | Brodin, Anders: Assortative mating by learning maintains the European crow hybrid zone |
| 16:50 | Katsnelson, Edith: Learning to play games - learned versus innate strategy choice, an evolutionary simulation |
| 17:10 | Dunlap, Aimee: Experimental evolution of learning and non-learning |
MONDAY AUG. 11
| Bailey | Plenary Session II |
| 8:30 | Announcements |
| 8:40 | Ben Hatchwell: Kinship, cooperation and population structure in social birds |
| 9:25 | Yael Lubin: Evolution of sociality in spiders |
| 10:10 | Dale Roberts: Announcement of next Congress in Perth |
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 19-24
| Statler | 19. Species recognition signals |
| 10:50 | Ribot, Raoul: Testing ring species predictions: vocal variation in a parrot, Platycercus elegans |
| 11:10 | Berg, Mathew: When parrots reveal their true colors: sexual selection and speciation in a ring species |
| 11:30 | Dingle, Caroline: Behaviour and speciation: character displacement in song of the gray-breasted wood-wren (Henicorhina leucophrys) |
| 11:50 | Eriksen, Ane: Song learning and sexual misimprinting in interspecifically cross-fostered great tits |
| 12:10 | Uy, Albert: Multimodal signal divergence and behavioral isolation among endemic flycatchers of the Solomon Islands |
| Ballroom | 20. Communication in crickets |
| 10:50 | Weddle, Carie: Been there, done that: the role of cuticular hydrocarbons in facilitating polyandry in decorated crickets |
| 11:10 | Ting, Janice: V is for victory: the functional significance of victory displays in a territorial field cricket |
| 11:30 | Grace, Jaime: Sexual isolation via divergent phonotaxis preference in the Hawaiian cricket Laupala |
| 11:50 | Tinghitella, Robin: The strong, silent type: courtship interactions following the loss of a sexual signal |
| 12:10 | Leonard, Anne: Sex-based differences in the form and function of response to mating displays |
| Uris | 21. Interspecific cooperation and conflict |
| 10:50 | Meehan, Christopher: Exploitation by a predominantly vegetarian jumping spider (Bagheera kiplingi) of an ant-acacia mutualism through "clever" avoidance of ant-guards |
| 11:10 | Foitzik, Susanne: Slave rebellion: the escalation of the coevolutionary arms race between ant social parasites and their hosts |
| 11:30 | Tanner, Colby: Context modifies aggression between interspecific ant competitors differently |
| 11:50 | Bshary, Redouan: Marine cleaning mutualism evolves towards increased manipulation and exploitation |
| 12:10 | Jandér, Charlotte: Variability in host sanctions and cheating in the fig tree - fig wasp mutualism |
| Ives | 22. Personality in birds |
| 10:50 | Fox, Rebecca: Individual behavioral traits predict dominance status in mountain chickadees |
| 11:10 | Siefferman, Lynn: Plumage coloration correlates with personality in male and female eastern bluebirds |
| 11:30 | Schoech, Stephan: You've got personality: Early exposure to corticosterone shapes adult behavior |
| 11:50 | Patrick, Samantha: Personality and alternative mating strategies: how continuous behavioural differences can help explain variation in extra-pair behaviour in the great tit |
| 12:10 | Løvlie, Hanne: Personalities in male fowl and the effect of social status |
| Malott | 23. Anti-predator strategies in insects |
| 10:50 | Muratori, Frederic: Behavioral niche shift by a parasitoid larva in response to host mortality risk |
| 11:10 | Johansen, Aleksandra: From crypsis to aposematism: experimental evidence for an adaptive ontogenetic colour change in the striated sheldbug Graphosoma lineatum (Heteroptera). |
| 11:30 | Gish, Moshe: How do tiny insect herbivores avoid being eaten by large mammalian herbivores? |
| 11:50 | Nydam, Marie: Multimodal warning signals for a multiple predator world |
| 12:10 | Stobbe, Nina: Enhanced UV reflection increases camouflage in striped butterflies |
| Kennedy | 24. Mechanisms of complex cognition |
| 10:50 | Irie-Sugimoto, Naoko: Summation by Asian elephants |
| 11:10 | Wei, Cynthia: List linking in pinyon jays: a reflection of complex cognition? |
| 11:30 | Krützen, Michael: The mother of all cultures - the "Vertical Skill Transmission Syndrome" applied to tool-using bottlenose dolphins" |
| 11:50 | Benson-Amram, Sarah: Innovation in free-ranging spotted hyenas measured by problem solving in a novel puzzle box task |
| 12:10 | Krause, Jens: Consensus decision-making in fish |
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 25-30
| Statler | 25. Communication in mammals |
| 14:00 | Clucas, Barbara: The evolution of olfactory camouflage: integrating behavior, phylogenetics, and paleontology |
| 14:20 | Manser, Marta: Functionally referential alarm calls in meerkats are denotative and not imperative |
| 14:40 | Hare, James: Jump-yipping prairie dogs: contagious communication tests neighbors’ vigilance |
| 15:00 | Schulte, Bruce: Social group interactions and chemosensory behavior by dominant individuals in African elephant (Loxodonta africana) society |
| 15:20 | Blumstein, Daniel: Pup screams are designed to arouse listeners |
| Ballroom | 26. Sperm competition |
| 14:00 | Fromhage, Lutz: Sperm allocation strategies and female resistance: a unifying perspective |
| 14:20 | McNamara, Kathryn: Large spermatophores reduce female receptivity and increase male paternity success in the almond moth, Cadra cautella |
| 14:40 | Iyengar, Vikram: Z-linkage of female promiscuity genes in the moth Utetheisa ornatrix: support for the sexy sperm hypothesis |
| 15:00 | Dean, Rebecca: Ageing males: reproductive senescence at multiple stages in the fowl |
| 15:20 | Thüler, Karin: Genetic and condition-dependent variation in sperm storage organ investment among female yellow dung flies |
| Uris | 27. Cooperation and conflict |
| 14:00 | Pinto, Ana: Look who’s watching: cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus adjust audience effects to the quality of bystanders |
| 14:20 | Wong, Marian: Fasting to avoid conflict in a fish social hierarchy |
| 14:40 | Taborsky, Barbara: Early social environment determines social competence in a cooperative breeder |
| 15:00 | Le Vin, Ashley: Causes and consequences of kin recognition in a cooperatively breeding African cichlid, Neolamprologus pulcher |
| 15:20 | Balshine, Sigal: Neuropeptides, social status and behaviour in Neolamprologus pulcher, a cooperatively breeding cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika |
| Ives | 28. Extra-pair mating in birds |
| 14:00 | Lyon, Bruce: Social versus genetic mating systems: the complex mating system of the lark bunting |
| 14:20 | Hall, Michelle: Fidelity in a duetting fairy-wren: the role of paternity-guards |
| 14:40 | Chapman, Joanne: A genetic basis for extra-pair paternity in the great tit? |
| 15:00 | Forstmeier, Wolfgang: Do promiscuous males have promiscuous sisters, mothers and daughters? |
| 15:20 | Reudink, Matthew: Non-breeding season carry-over effects influence polygyny and extra-pair paternity in a Neotropical migratory bird |
| Malott | 29. Predation/parasitism in three-species systems |
| 14:00 | Abbott, Kevin: A three-player game theoretical analysis of the co-evolution of predators, pollinators, and flowers |
| 14:20 | Jones, Emily: The effect of predation risk on pollinator foraging |
| 14:40 | Raveh, Ashael: Driven to distraction: the vigilance and patch use response of gerbils to foxes and fleas |
| 15:00 | Koivisto, Elina: Predation alters competitive interactions between two co-existing vole species |
| 15:20 | Johnson, Christine: Competition for a shared host: inter- and intra-species interactions of two slave-making social parasites and the effect on tripartite co-evolutionary dynamics |
| Kennedy | 30. Neural mechanisms of behavior in vertebrates |
| 14:00 | Santangelo, Nicholas: Angry dads: modulation of male parental aggression via the neuropeptide arginine vasotocin |
| 14:20 | Wong, Ryan: Identifying a neural network for female mate choice in Xiphophorus nigrensis |
| 14:40 | Reddon, Adam: Cerebral lateralization and individual behaviour in the convict cichlid |
| 15:00 | Roth, Timothy: The relationship between environmental conditions and hippocampal structure in the black-capped chickadee |
| 15:20 | Lange, Henrik: Seasonal changes in food-hoarding behaviour and brain structure in willow tits (Poecile montanus) |
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 31-36
| Statler | 31. Olfactory signals in mammals |
| 16:10 | Jordan, Neil R.: Marking and mating in wild banded mongooses |
| 16:30 | Johnston, Robert: Contact is necessary for complex odor memories of individuals in hamsters |
| 16:50 | Dechmann, Dina: Social foraging via passive information transfer in group-living bats |
| 17:10 | Hurst, Jane: Scent signals of individual genetic identity used in mate choice |
| Ballroom | 32. Alarm calls in birds |
| 16:10 | Sathischandra, Harsha: Re-evaluating “false alarms”: observational and experimental data on Greater Racket-tailed Drongos (Dicrurus paradiseus) in a Sri Lankan mixed-species bird flock system |
| 16:30 | Colombelli-Negrel, Diane: Adaptive plasticity in the behaviour and alarm calls of superb fairy-wrens in response to predators |
| 16:50 | Magrath, Robert: Interspecific communication about danger: does alarm-call similarity promote understanding? |
| 17:10 | Griesser, Michael: Referential alarm calls signal predator behavior in a group-living bird species |
| Uris | 33. Cooperation |
| 16:10 | Stojan-Dolar, Mojca: Vigilance in mixed-species groups of tamarin monkeys |
| 16:30 | Kutsukake, Nobuyuki: Group decision-making in eusocial naked mole-rats |
| 16:50 | Shizuka, Dai: Aggressive participation by parents in sibling competition compensates for hatching asynchrony in American coots |
| 17:10 | Chaves-Campos, Johel: The effect of local dominance and reciprocal tolerance on group feeding in ocellated antbirds |
| Ives | 34. Sexual selection in fish |
| 16:10 | Taborsky, Michael: Sperm gourmands: post-mating sexual selection via induced sperm competition in the mouths of female cichlids |
| 16:30 | de Jong, Karen: OSR, density and mating competition: insights from the two-spotted goby |
| 16:50 | Schwartz, Amy: Sexual selection opposes divergent natural selection in Trinidadian guppies |
| 17:10 | Schädelin, Franziska: Closing the quality gap between mates: compensating by increased breeding effort |
| Malott | 35. Variable male courtship tactics |
| 16:10 | De Luca, Paul: Mate searching tactics vary with age in treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae, Umbonia crassicornis) |
| 16:30 | Gumm, Jennifer: Sex recognition by Comanche Springs pupfish: who are female mimics fooling? |
| 16:50 | Kolluru, Gita: Food availability and parasite infection influence mating tactics in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) |
| 17:10 | Ward, Jessica: Divergence in female criteria of mate assessment leads to asymmetric assortative mating between two lineages of a freshwater fish |
| Kennedy | 36. Cognition and complex behavior |
| 16:10 | Olson, Lucretia: A trait-based approach to the evolution of complex coalitions in male mammals |
| 16:30 | Botero, Carlos: Unpredictable environments drive the evolution of more complex sexual displays |
| 16:50 | Keagy, Jason: Male intelligence influences male mating success in the satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) |
| 17:10 | Boogert, Neeltje Janna: Are the singers of more complex songs better problem solvers? |
TUESDAY AUG. 12
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 37-42
| Statler | 37. Communication networks |
| 8:30 | Skierczynski, Michal: Acoustic communication network of territorial ortolan buntings: a microphone array study |
| 8:50 | McDonald, David: Social networks in a lek-mating manakin: opposites attract and friendship is thicker than blood |
| 9:10 | Foote, Jennifer: Black-capped chickadee dawn choruses as communication networks |
| 9:30 | Mennill, Daniel: Eavesdropping and communication networks in black-capped chickadees revealed through an Acoustic Location System and stereo playback |
| 9:50 | Seppänen, Janne-Tuomas: Community ecology of information |
| Ballroom | 38. Kinship and cooperation |
| 8:30 | Scheiber, Isabella: "Girls United": female-centered clan structures in greylag geese (Anser anser) |
| 8:50 | Montgomerie, Bob: Kinship relations influence both helping behaviour and extrapair paternity in white-winged fairy wrens |
| 9:10 | Hirsch, Ben: Spoiled brats and unselfish sisters: the influence of demography and genetic relatedness in shaping the dominance system of ring-tailed coatis |
| 9:30 | Ruckstuhl, Kathreen: Buddies for life: male associations and coalitions in bighorn sheep |
| 9:50 | Reynolds, Sheila: Aggregation of related males mitigates the effect of bower destruction in satin bowerbirds |
| Uris | 39. Interspecific cooperation and conflict |
| 8:30 | Fiorini, Vanina: Different female shiny cowbird behaviors associated with host characteristics |
| 8:50 | Zanette, Liana: Experimental evidence that brood parasitic cowbird nestlings skew host offspring sex ratios |
| 9:10 | Clinchy, Michael: Why you can’t beat a cowbird with added food |
| 9:30 | Oates, Jennifer: Spatial variation in cheating behaviour of the cleaner wrasse Labroides bicolor |
| 9:50 | Goodale, Eben: Species roles in mixed-species bird flocks: what makes a species nuclear? |
| Ives | 40. Female mating strategies |
| 8:30 | Minton, Kelly: Social interaction and mate preference plasticity in female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) |
| 8:50 | Welke, Klaas: Cryptic female choice in a sexually cannibalistic spider |
| 9:10 | Bolund, Elisabeth: Compensatory investment in zebra finches: females lay larger eggs when paired to sexually unattractive males |
| 9:30 | Wetzel, Daniel: Microsatellite markers used to analyze paternity bias results concerning heterozygosity |
| 9:50 | Schielzeth, Holger: Heritability of and early-environment effects on mating preferences |
| Malott | 41. Predation risk and foraging/habitat selection in fish |
| 8:30 | Dupuch, Angélique: Testing the effects of resource distribution and inherent habitat riskiness on simultaneous habitat selection by predators and prey |
| 8:50 | Ryan, Mary: Taking chances: factors affecting between-patch movement of juvenile Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua |
| 9:10 | Webster, Mike: Costly information: predation risk and social learning in fish |
| 9:30 | Ward, Jonathan: Dangers in the night: predation and the guppy |
| 9:50 | Kelley, Jennifer: Assortment by colour under risk of predation in the West Australian rainbowfish |
| Kennedy | 42. Life history tactics in variable environments |
| 8:30 | Schroeder, Julia: Identifying selective forces for contemporary evolution of sexually selected plumage traits: reduction of sexual dimorphism in the Black-tailed Godwit |
| 8:50 | Hinks, Amy: Reproductive performance of the great tit (Parus major) and blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus): the importance of phenological events at a local spatial scale |
| 9:10 | Schwanz, Lisa: Individual plasticity and climate change: can extreme sex ratios be prevented in a species with temperature-dependent sex determination? |
| 9:30 | Both, Christiaan: Long-distance migrants adapt timing of spring migration but not arrival to climate change, and consequently suffer enormous populations declines |
| 9:50 | Barta, Zoltan: Timing of breeding and modulation of the size of reproductive organs in fluctuating environments |
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 43-48
| Statler | 43. Structural color production mechanisms in birds |
| 10:40 | Shawkey, Matthew: Levels of organization as a framework for understanding the mechanics and evolution of bio-optical tissues |
| 11:00 | Hill, Geoffrey: Speculum coloration in mallards: a signal of condition or species identity? |
| 11:20 | Meadows Rader, Melissa: Iridescent ornamentation as a status signal in male Anna’s hummingbirds (Calypte anna) |
| 11:40 | Dakin, Roslyn: Iridescent eyespots and sexual signaling in peafowl |
| 12:00 | Jacot, Alain: A step towards re-uniting structural and pigment-based plumage colours: a field experiment with great tits (Parus major) |
| Ballroom | 44. Female choice in invertebrates |
| 10:40 | Bailey, Nathan: Acoustic experience shapes female mate choice in field crickets |
| 11:00 | Christy, John: Exaggeration of a sexual ornament – not by female choice |
| 11:20 | Morehouse, Nathan: Female choice for a nitrogen-rich color ornament in a nitrogen limited butterfly |
| 11:40 | Fedina, Tatyana: Cryptic female choice in flour beetles |
| 12:00 | Polak, Michal: Variability in the role of developmental instability in sexual selection: a potential resolution |
| Uris | 45. Cooperation |
| 10:40 | English, Sinead: How early social experiences influence later helping behaviour in the cooperatively breeding meerkat |
| 11:00 | Gough, Katie: Fences and fighting: causes and effects of elephant bull intraspecific killings in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa |
| 11:20 | McGowan, Andy: Communal roosting of long-tailed tits: a role for nocturnal hypothermia? |
| 11:40 | Raihani, Nichola: Parental aggression and task partitioning in cooperatively breeding pied babblers |
| 12:00 | Ridley, Amanda: The battle of the females: mate choice in the cooperatively breeding pied babbler |
| Ives | 46. Sperm design and copulation strategies |
| 10:40 | Fitzpatrick, John L.: Sperm competition promotes the evolution of faster swimming sperm |
| 11:00 | Immler, Simone: The evolutionary rate of a sexually selected trait: the case of sperm design |
| 11:20 | Brennan, Patricia: The role of female genitalia on waterfowl phallus and sperm length |
| 11:40 | Luepold, Stefan: Post-copulatory sexual selection shaping sperm and testes in birds |
| 12:00 | Lombardo, Michael: The sexual transmission of microbes during copulation in tree swallows |
| Malott | 47. Group living |
| 10:40 | Fletcher, Lynn: Benefits of buddies: gregarious living in an Australian sawfly larva |
| 11:00 | Patriquin, Krista: Social structure of female northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) |
| 11:20 | Naug, Dhruba: The role of individual and social behavior on disease dynamics within a group |
| 11:40 | Pope, Denise: Evidence of sexual conflict in the fiddler crab Uca princeps |
| 12:00 | Romey, William: Sexual segregation within selfish herds |
| Kennedy | 48. Parental care in birds |
| 10:40 | Kosztolanyi, Andras: Conflict and cooperation over parental care in the Kentish plover |
| 11:00 | Martin, Rowan: Parental care in a monogamous parrot: males and females differ in their response to a brood size manipulation |
| 11:20 | Hill, Davina: Loving thy neighbour? Males with increased mating opportunities care less for their partner’s clutch |
| 11:40 | Pogany, Akos: Sexual conflict in polygamous penduline tits: sex differences in parental care do not explain female-biased care |
| 12:00 | Tuttle, Elaina: Buffering the effects of climate with cooperation |
WEDNESDAY AUG. 13
| Bailey | Plenary Session III |
| 8:30 | Announcements |
| 8:40 | Ken Catania: A Sensory arms race? - The senses and predatory behaviors of shrews and moles |
| 9:25 | Ruth Mace: The behavioural ecology of fertility decline |
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 49-54
| Statler | 49. Song repertoires |
| 10:40 | Soma, Masayo: Strategic song learning in the Bengalese finch: how chicks learn to sing attractive songs |
| 11:00 | Taft, Benjamin: Procrustes analysis of temporal variation in tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) song repertoires |
| 11:20 | MacDougall-Shackleton, Elizabeth: Song complexity, song matching and vocal output in song sparrows: If you’ve got it, should you flaunt it or rest on your laurels? |
| 11:40 | Wheelwright, Nathaniel: Savannah sparrows: simple song, not so simple song-learning |
| 12:00 | Osiejuk, Tomasz: A presumably age-limited song learner oscine species may change repertoire size and contents under specific ecological conditions |
| Ballroom | 50. Sexual selection and communication |
| 10:40 | van Lieshout, Emile: Forceps under direct sexual selection exhibit negative allometry |
| 11:00 | Thomas, Melissa: Detection of female sexual promiscuity using cuticular pheromones |
| 11:20 | Symonds, Matthew: The evolution of complex signals: insect sex pheromones |
| 11:40 | Lindstrom, Jan: Sexual signalling games: a model and data on sticklebacks |
| 12:00 | Maan, Martine: Female preference for brighter males in an aposematic poison frog |
| Uris | 51. Ecology and sociality |
| 10:40 | Rayor, Linda: Adaptations for living with cannibals: a comparison of mother-offspring dynamics, prey sharing, and metabolism in social and solitary Australian huntsman spiders |
| 11:00 | Guevara, Jennifer: Sociality and resource use in a community of social spiders in Brazil |
| 11:20 | Avilés, Leticia: Intrinsic and extrinsic factors in social evolution and the geographical distribution of spider sociality |
| 11:40 | Llambias, Paulo: Causes of geographic variation in the house wren social mating system |
| 12:00 | Purcell, Jessica: Geographical patterns in the distribution of social systems in terrestrial arthropods |
| Ives | 52. Lek mating strategies |
| 10:40 | Neff, Bryan: Mate choice for non-additive genetic benefits: a resolution to the lek paradox |
| 11:00 | Hingrat, Yves: Alternative mating strategies in the North African houbara bustard, Chlamydotis undulata undulata |
| 11:20 | Durăes, Renata: Female mate choice among and within manakin leks: roles of lek size, vocalization rate, and genetic quality |
| 11:40 | DuVal, Emily: Fickle females and cryptic fidelity: repeated measures of mate choice in a lek mating system |
| 12:00 | Cockburn, Andrew: Depletion of age-specific additive variance for attractiveness confirms the lek paradox |
| Malott | 53. Human behavioral ecology |
| 10:40 | Courtiol, Alexandre: Height and attractiveness in humans |
| 11:00 | Lummaa, Virpi: The uselessness of men: towards explaining male longevity in humans |
| 11:20 | Rickard, Ian: Timing of birth influences plasticity in reproductive performance in rural Gambian women |
| 11:40 | Gillespie, Duncan: The force of natural selection on age-specific reproduction in pre-industrial humans |
| 12:00 | Barclay, Pat: Balancing group cooperation and conflict: status and manipulation of group threats |
| Kennedy | 54. Life history effects of developmental environment |
| 10:40 | Royle, Nick: Antioxidants mediate trade-offs during growth in red-winged blackbirds |
| 11:00 | Nager, Ruedi: Protein debt: why male offspring are more vulnerable to poor embryonic conditions |
| 11:20 | Monaghan, Pat: Early environment, phenotypic plasticity and life history trade-offs |
| 11:40 | Vedder, Oscar: Laying order can contribute to the superior performance of extra-pair offspring |
| 12:00 | Devevey, Godefroy: No evidence that neonatal parasitism induces a predictive adaptive response to adult parasitism |
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 55-60
| Statler | 55. Singing by female birds |
| 14:00 | Benedict, Lauryn: Vocal duetting: origins, persistence and evolution among New-World sparrows |
| 14:20 | Brunton, Dianne: A test of the dear enemy hypothesis in female bellbirds: female neighbors as threats |
| 14:40 | Enstrom, David: Structure, use and function of gender-specific song in the northern cardinal |
| 15:00 | Illes, Anya E: Female stripe-headed sparrows (Aimophila ruficauda) out-sing males in multiple contexts |
| 15:20 | Dahlin, Christine: Geographic variation in duets of the yellow-naped amazon: greater conservation of syntax than phonology. |
| Ballroom | 56. Genes and behavior in birds |
| 14:00 | Liu, Mark: A field test of female mate preference for plumage coloration and genetic complementarity in eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis) |
| 14:20 | Potvin, Dominique: Song, genetic compatibility and offspring performance in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) |
| 14:40 | Perlut, Noah: Habitat management and variable patterns of sexual selection in savannah sparrows |
| 15:00 | Lank, David: Crossdresser mating behaviour and preliminary genetic inheritance of permanent female mimic male ruffs, Philomachus pugnax |
| 15:20 | Dale, James: A test of assortative mating for a sexual dimorphic plumage polymorphism |
| Uris | 57. Ecology and social behavior |
| 14:00 | Doerr, Erik: Interactions between sociality and dispersal depend on landscape context |
| 14:20 | Lee, Jin-Won: The effect of nest aggregation and kinship on parental behaviour and juvenile recruitment in a non-cooperative, flock-living passerine |
| 14:40 | Lacey, Eileen: Diet, space use, and sociality in subterranean rodents: new insights from tuco-tucos and cururos |
| 15:00 | Smith, Jennifer: Social and ecological determinants of fission-fusion dynamics in the spotted hyaena |
| 15:20 | Lavalli, Kari: Defensive strategies of Caribbean spiny lobsters: effects of prey and predator group size |
| Ives | 58. Foraging in birds |
| 14:00 | Karubian, Jordan: Sex-specific reproductive strategies in a lek-breeding bird yield distinctive seed dispersal patterns |
| 14:20 | van Dongen, Wouter: Geographic variation in behavioral profiles across two populations of rayaditos inhabiting drastically different environments |
| 14:40 | Heath, Joel: Tradeoffs between short term and long term processes influence the ability of wintering eiders to adjust to environmental changes in sea ice habitats |
| 15:00 | Smulders, Tom: The function of short-term food hoarding: compensating for a small stomach |
| 15:20 | Bearhop, Stuart: A surprising cost to raising a family in a despotic herbivore |
| Malott | 59. Immune systems and behavior |
| 14:00 | Simone, Michael: Colony-level immunity benefits of resin collection and propolis use by honey bees |
| 14:20 | Sakaluk, Scott: Lovesick: reproductive and immunological tradeoffs in male sagebrush crickets |
| 14:40 | Martínez-Padilla, Jesús: Why show-off when you are alone? The effect of testosterone and parasites on honest signaling within a social context in red grouse, Lagopus lagopus scoticus |
| 15:00 | Merrill, Loren: Breeding strategy and immunity: a brood parasite and its closest non-parasitic relative |
| 15:20 | Brouwer, Lyanne: The role of MHC on the survival in the bottlenecked Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis) |
| Kennedy | 60. Mating systems in mammals |
| 14:00 | Schubert, Kristin: A life history puzzle: cost-free mammalian reproduction |
| 14:20 | Mabry, Karen: Geographic variation in the social and genetic mating systems of the prairie vole |
| 14:40 | Waterman, Jane: Love ‘em and leave ‘em…Intraspecific variation in male mating strategies in a highly promiscuous African ground squirrel |
| 15:00 | Stockley, Paula: Adaptive modulation of sperm production mediated by social experience in a mammal |
| 15:20 | Fisher, Heidi: Divergent mating systems drive sperm competition in deer mice |
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 61-66
| Statler | 61. Strategic singing in birds |
| 16:10 | Smith, Carolynn: Machiavellian fowl: subordinate males adjust signaling modality based on the alpha’s behavior |
| 16:30 | Roth, Tobias: Signalling patterns match receivers’ sampling behaviour in the nightingale |
| 16:50 | Scarl, Judith: Rapid vocal convergence in wild galahs (Eolophus roseicapillus) |
| 17:10 | Golabek, Krystyna: Group signalling: cooperative or selfish behaviour? |
| Ballroom | 62. Female visual signals |
| 16:10 | Doucet, Stephanie: The evolution of female plumage colouration in birds |
| 16:30 | Hanley, Daniel: Egg coloration in ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis): a test of the sexual signaling hypothesis |
| 16:50 | Cuthbert, Jessica: Honest advertisement and dual-sex ornamentation in neotropical royal flycatchers: implications for mutual sexual selection |
| 17:10 | Rutowski, Ronald: Mutual ornamentation in a butterfly: explanations for ultraviolet iridescence in females |
| Uris | 63. Mate choice in mammals |
| 16:10 | Lindholm, Anna: Wild house mice mate for genetic compatibility |
| 16:30 | Koenig, Barbara: Fitness consequences of social partner choice in female house mice |
| 16:50 | Ganem, Guila: Does habitat quality influence odour preference between two chromosomal races of the house mouse |
| 17:10 | Musolf, Kerstin: What's wrong with my mice? The problem with indirect mate preference assays |
| Ives | 64. Variable foraging tactics in birds |
| 16:10 | Rieucau, Guillaume: Group size effect is caused by competition in nutmeg manakins (Lonchura punctulata) |
| 16:30 | Ballard, Grant: Variation in foraging strategies among penguins at different-sized colonies compensates for highly variable biological and physical conditions – results of a long-term natural experiment |
| 16:50 | Mathot, Kimberley: Social foraging tactic preferences are correlated with basal metabolic rate in the zebra finch |
| 17:10 | Ratikainen, Irja: Social class influences variance-sensitivity in wild Siberian jays: gambling to survive vs to reproduce? |
| Malott | 65. Sex role reversal |
| 16:10 | Rosenqvist, Gunilla: An intimidating ornament in a female pipefish |
| 16:30 | Ratterman, Nicholas: Male preferences for female chemical cues in a sex-role-reversed pipefish, Syngnathus scovelli |
| 16:50 | Dijkstra, Peter: Females in combat: female aggression and colour polymorphisms in Lake Victoria cichlid fish |
| 17:10 | Mobley, Kenyon: Sneaking, sex role reversal and the genetic mating system of the two-spotted goby (Gobiusculus flavescens) |
| Kennedy | 66. Parent-offspring interactions |
| 16:10 | Dugas, Matthew: Condition-dependent colors and detectability of nestling birds |
| 16:30 | Thorogood, Rose: What do parents see? Interactions between carotenoid availability and the begging display of nestling birds |
| 16:50 | Kudo, Shin-ichi: Complementary provisioning in a burrower bug: trophic eggs and host nutlets |
| 17:10 | Dor, Roi: Parental investment and response to nestling begging in the house sparrow: heritability, repeatability, and parent-offspring co-evolution |
THURSDAY AUG. 14
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 67-72
| Statler | 67. Multiple-trait tradeoffs |
| 8:30 | Vortman, Yoni: The sexual signals of the East-Mediterranean barn swallow (Hirundo rustica transitiva): a different swallow tale |
| 8:50 | Safran, Rebecca: Sexual signal exaggeration affects physiological state in a social vertebrate |
| 9:10 | Bro-Jørgensen, Jakob: Multiple messages and backup signals in agonistic communication of eland antelopes: knee-clicks and visual traits as indicators of competitive ability |
| 9:30 | Patricelli, Gail: Tradeoffs among multiple sexually-selected display traits in greater sage-grouse: an experiment using a robotic female |
| 9:50 | Hasegawa, Mariko: Testosterone, multi-note calls, and mating success among peacocks |
| Ballroom | 68. Conservation and behavioral responses to landscapes |
| 8:30 | Burns, Catherine: The ecology of fear: herbivore habitat preferences in fire-managed savanna grasslands |
| 8:50 | Tremblay, Marie: Relative permeability of urban features to the movements of forest songbirds |
| 9:10 | Planckaert, Ophélie: Can spatial distribution of American marten be explained by movement costs? |
| 9:30 | Porlier, Melody: Influence of landscape on settlement patterns and resulting genetic diversity in tree swallows |
| 9:50 | Otter, Ken: The influence of topography on avian movement in ridge-top wind installations in BC |
| Uris | 69. Theory of cooperation |
| 8:30 | Taylor, Caz: Finding optimal behavior using decision rules in an individual-based model |
| 8:50 | Grodzinski, Uri: Parents and offspring in an evolutionary game: the effect of supply on demand when parental care becomes more costly |
| 9:10 | Koelliker, Mathias: The antagonistic co-adaptation process driving the evolution of family interactions |
| 9:30 | Benvenuto, Chiara: Precopulatory mate guarding behavior in clam shrimp: a case of intersexual conflict |
| 9:50 | Featherston, Rebecca: Sex ratios and maternal/paternal genome conflict |
| Ives | 70. Sexual conflict in invertebrates |
| 8:30 | Maklakov, Alexei: Ageing, sexual selection and sexual conflict: experimental evolution approach |
| 8:50 | Bilde, Trine: Males that play dead get to mate: thanatosis as a male mating effort in a spider with nuptial gifts |
| 9:10 | Perry, Jennifer: Sexual conflict and nuptial gifts: assessing the evidence in a ladybird beetle |
| 9:30 | Gay, Laurene: Costly sexual harassment |
| 9:50 | Hall, Matthew: Sexual conflict and the maintenance of genetic variation: the interplay between multivariate genetics and selection |
| Malott | 71. Social interactions among foragers |
| 8:30 | Pravosudov, Vladimir: Food-caching chickadees discriminate between potential cache pilferers and non-pilferers |
| 8:50 | Deygout, Chloe: Modelling the impact of feeding stations on the foraging behaviour of endangered avian scavengers |
| 9:10 | Villagra, Cristian: The impact of time budgets, behavior and floral characteristics on resource partitioning by insect flower visitors of the evening primrose Oenothera cespitosa (Onagraceae) |
| 9:30 | Robin, V. V.: The influence of core species on the presence and behaviour of associated species in mixed-species foraging flocks of birds |
| 9:50 | Brooks, Robert: Suboptimal Foraging: sex-specific fitness effects of nutrient intake generate sexual conflict over diet choice |
| Kennedy | 72. Brood parasitism tactics |
| 8:30 | Tuero, Diego: Parental investment and primary sex ratio of brood parasitic shiny cowbirds in two hosts that differ in body size |
| 8:50 | Tokue, Kihoko: Direct cuckoo nestling ejection by hosts: co-evolutionary arms race at nestling stage |
| 9:10 | Hauber, Mark: Multiple parasitism acts as a cognitive trap for hosts to increase the reproductive success of evictor brood parasites |
| 9:30 | De Mársico, María Cecilia: Host discrimination between own and parasitic young explains low frequency of shiny cowbird parasitism in bay-winged cowbird nests |
| 9:50 | Kuehn, Michael: Brood parasite-host coevolution: the significance of nest desertion behaviour as an antiparasite strategy in yellow warblers |
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 73-78
| Statler | 73. Sexual selection and speciation |
| 10:40 | Boughman, Jenny: Sex differences in mate recognition and conspecific preference in species with mutual mate choice |
| 11:00 | Mendelson, Tamra: Sexual selection and speciation in Etheostoma, a brightly colored genus of North American fish |
| 11:20 | Cocroft, Reginald: Host shifts and the evolution of communication in plant-feeding insects |
| 11:40 | Cole, Jeffrey: Is sexual selection driving speciation in shield-back katydids? |
| 12:00 | Wiley, Chris: Genetic architecture of male song and female preference: a test of genomic linkage in the rapidly speciating cricket genus Laupala |
| Ballroom | 74. Conservation |
| 10:40 | Stanback, Mark: Eastern bluebird exclusion results in competitive release of brown-headed nuthatches |
| 11:00 | Brazill-Boast, James: Competitive effects of breeding niche overlap on population decline in an endangered finch |
| 11:20 | Leonard, Marty: Effects of chronic noise on acoustic communication in nestling birds |
| 11:40 | Jakob, Elizabeth: Behavioral interactions with an invasive spider negatively affect bowl-and-doily spiders in coastal Maine |
| 12:00 | Baker, Mitchell: The behavioral ecology of insecticide resistance |
| Uris | 75. Theory of cooperation in social groups |
| 10:40 | Pollard, Kimberly: Benefits of individual discriminability in alarm signals |
| 11:00 | Buston, Peter: The evolution of animal societies from first principles: a reproductive skew model free of restrictive assumptions |
| 11:20 | Wey, Tina: Age-related patterns of sociality: social profiles stabilize with age |
| 11:40 | Johnstone, Rufus: Negotiation and helping effort in cooperative breeders - who helps whom? |
| 12:00 | Hamilton, Ian: The evolution of cooperation and the dynamics of group size under group augmentation |
| Ives | 76. Social conflict |
| 10:40 | Smith, Adrian: Disharmony in ant societies: fertility signals and policing behavior regulate reproductive conflicts |
| 11:00 | Henshaw, Michael: Queen number influences the timing of queen and male production in Ropalidia revolutionalis: a model system for understanding the evolution of queen cycles in the swarm-founding wasps |
| 11:20 | Lendvai, Adam: Conflict over biparental care in house sparrows: do females use a negotiation rule? |
| 11:40 | Jordan, Lyndon: Cheating honeybee workers produce royal offspring |
| 12:00 | Liebig, Juergen: Quantifying the costs of aggression triggered by selfish individuals in intracolonial conflicts of an ant |
| Malott | 77. Mechanisms of development and maternal effects |
| 10:40 | Loyau, Adeline: Manipulation of maternal investment in the Houbara bustard, a vulnerable species |
| 11:00 | Foote, Chris: Telomere dynamics in relation to pre and post hatching growth in the wild in the lesser black-backed gull Larus fuscus |
| 11:20 | Karell, Patrik: Maternal effects on offspring immunoglobulins and egg size in relation to natural and experimentally improved food supply |
| 11:40 | Weiss, Stacey: Maternal ornamentation and yolk antioxidants correlate in female striped plateau lizards |
| 12:00 | Hager, Reinmar: On the detection of epigenetic imprinting effects on growth in mice |
| Kennedy | 78. Life history strategies in fish |
| 10:40 | Imbert, Hélène: Ontogenetic shift in dispersal tactics of the European eel |
| 11:00 | Jørgensen, Christian: Fisheries-induced evolution of predation rates |
| 11:20 | McKellar, Ann: Do predators and resource levels influence sex ratio in guppies? |
| 11:40 | Metcalfe, Neil: The impact of dietary restriction and catch-up growth on reproductive investment and lifespan in sticklebacks |
| 12:00 | Kazancioglu, Erem: Costs of changing sex do not explain why sequential hermaphroditism is rare |
CONCURRENT ORAL SESSIONS 79-84
| Statler | 79. Performance constraints |
| 14:00 | Krakauer, Alan: A terrestrial microphone array reveals two-voiced sound production in the spatially structured courtship display of the greater sage-grouse |
| 14:20 | Wright, Timothy: Sources of selection on acoustic signal structure: a comparative analysis of the contact calls of Neotropical parrots |
| 14:40 | Winkler, David: flight ability, immunocompetence, laydate and fitness in tree swallows |
| 15:00 | Lijtmaer, Darío: Physiologic constraints at the syrinx determine song frequency variation in the dialects of the rufous-collared sparrow and its association with habitat |
| 15:20 | Verzijden, M |