Tentative Schedule of Topics

Date

Speaker

 

Category*

Topic

Readings

 

 

 

 

 

Sept 18

Dawn Adams

p

Something about pollination

 

Sept 25

Sally Chess

p

Extra-floral nectaries and ant attendance

Tilman

Oct 9

Paola Bouley

s

Recruitment limitation/enhancement of marine animals by marine plant communities

Carr

Gaines and Roughgarden

Oct 16

Jacqueline Levy

h/p/d

Phenological interactions between plants and animals

Jones

Oct 23

Amy Langston

 

Vicki Martinez

h

Tritrophic interactions

 

Plant-herbivore-fungi interactions

Harvill and Raffa

Raps and Vidal

 

Oct 30

Tom Parker

 

Mike Faden

d

 

d

Primary dispersal of seeds

 

Secondary dispersal of seeds

Passos

Harms

Godoy

Nov 6

Agata Kamler & Diana Benner

h

Plant defense against herbivores

Andres&Connor

Williams&Gilbert

Stinchcombe&Rauscher

Nov 13

Vicki Lee Moore

 

 

Quinn McFrederick

p/h

 

 

h

Mimicry and deception in plant-animal interactions

 

Sequestration and use of plant chemicals by animals

 

Johnson

 

Camara

Nov 20

Julie Nygard & Katrina Strathmann

h

Impact of herbivores on plant: negative and positive

Maschinski&Whitham

Lennartsson et al.

Frank et al.

Nov 27

 

 

 

 

Dec 4

Alec Hoffman & Renny Talianchich

p/h/d

Interactions of pollinators, herbivores, and seed dispersers with invasive plants

Barthell et al.

Bossard

Dec 11

Rich Hatfield

 

 

Geoff Smick

p

 

 

p

Tongue in flower: mechanical constraints to flower use by bees

 

Pollen carryover

Inouye

Ranta

Harder and Barrett

Craig

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

p = pollination, h = herbivory, d = seed dispersal, s = habitat structure