SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM - Saturday, February 27
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast (Food Service 7:30-8:15 a.m.)
9:00-9:25 a.m. Mass-dependent survival and dispersal in the California tiger salamander
Christopher Searcy, Department of Evolution and Ecology University of California, Davis
9:25-9:50 p.m. Can parasites enhance components of host fitness? Host manipulation of a sexual signal in the California fiddler crab, Uca crenulata
Adrienne B. Mora, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology University of California, Riverside
9:50-10:15 a.m. Demographics and eradication of a new invasive population of Batillaria attramentaria in Bodega Harbor, California

H.W. Weiskel, 1 Byers, J.E.,2 Huspeni, T.C.,3 Zabin, C.J.,4 Bowles, C.M.,1 Brown, C., 4 and E.D. Grosholz.1
1 University of California, Davis
2 University of Georgia
3 University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
4 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
10:15-10:35 a.m. Break
10:35-11:00 a.m. Rhizosphere bacterial and archaeal biogeography in a California annual grassland
Erin E. Nuccio, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology University of California, Berkeley
11:00-11:25 a.m. Below-ground interactions between annual seeds and fungal pathogens
Erin Mordecai, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology University of California, Santa Barbara
11:25-11:50 a.m. Islands of invasion: Dominance of exotic species near living and dead oak trees (Quercus spp.) in California grasslands
Karen A. Stahlheber, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology University of California, Santa Barbara
12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch (Food service 12:15-1:00 p.m.)
1:30-3:30 p.m. Tour of the Reserve
Suzanne Olyarnik and Jackie Sones
3:45-4:10 p.m.

Recruitment drivers in a California endemic oak, Quercus lobata
Blair McLaughlin, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

4:10-4:35 p.m. Range limits, climate change, and adaptive potential: Geographic variation in thermal tolerance in the copepod Tigriopus californicus
Morgan W. Kelly, Population Biology Graduate Group, University of California, Davis
4:35-5:00 p.m. Effects of global change on high elevation populations of Bromus tectorum in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California
Amy Concilio, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
5:00-5:25 p.m. Native vs. non-native grassland species: Who will win under future global change scenarios?
Nicole Molinari, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
6:15-7:30 p.m. Dinner (Food service 6:15-7:00 p.m.)
7:45-8:45 p.m. LECTURE: California grassland community and ecosystem responses to environmental change
Elsa Cleland, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution UC San Diego
8:45-9:45 p.m. Social


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