Friday morning, 22 March 2002 - Florida State University



Friday morning, 22 March 2002

|7:30-8:30 Continential Breakfast |

| |Session I (Superior) |Session II (Michigan) |Session III (Okeechobee 1) |Session IV (Okeechobee 2) |

| |Functional Morphology |Species Distribution |Human Impacts and Restoration |Feeding |

| |chair: Alexander G. Cheroske |chair: Linda Sedlacek |chair: David Eggleston |chair: Melissa A. Tillack |

|8:30 |Functional morphology of antennular setae of |Small-scale spatial variability in harpacticoid |Spawning and developmental success of horseshoe |Differential dissolution and sorption of 234Th, |

| |scyllarid lobsters. Dolores Weisbaum* and Kari |emergence on a continental shelf. Linda |crabs in Jamaica Bay, NY: a highly disturbed |210Pb, and 7Be in deposit-feeder digestive |

| |Lavalli |Sedlacek* and David Thistle |urban estuary. Mark L. Botton,* Robert E. |fluids. David H. Shull* and Lawrence M. Mayer |

| | | |Loveland, and Tomio Itow | |

|8:45 |The design of the decapod claw: inferring |Distribution and abundance of zooplankton at |Anthropogenic impacts and plant/plant |Lipid class and fatty acid profile of a benthic |

| |closing force from claw mechanical advantage. |three depth increments over a Florida coral |interactions. E. Irlandi,* M. Reiber, and K. |harpacticoid copepod, Heteropsyllus nunni; with |

| |Graeme M. Taylor* and Paul S. Schmidt |reef. K. L. O’Neil,* K. B. Heidelberg, and K. |Taplin |a comparison of pelagic copepod lipid classes. |

| | |P. Sebens | |Judith L. Williams* |

|9:00 |A vision in white . . . and blue?: flexibility |Size-class spatial distribution of the soldier |Mortality estimates of the southern bay scallop |Can whelks find food in flowing fluid?. Matthew|

| |in stomatopod color communication associated |crab Mictyris longicarpus Latreille. Francesca |(Argopecten irradians concentricus), in the Gulf|C. Ferner* and Marc J. Weissburg |

| |with different light environments. A. G. |Rossi* |of Mexico. J. M. Greenawalt,* T. K. Frazer, and| |

| |Cheroske* and T. W. Cronin | |Stephanie R. Keller | |

|9:15 |Burrow ventilation by thalassinid shrimp from |Spatial and temporal distribution of life |Long-term changes in intertidal oyster reefs and|Feeding methods of Balanus eburneus and Balanus |

| |the northern Gulf of Mexico: mechanics of |history variants in the red alga, Mastocarpus |the potential effects of boating activities. |amphitrite in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida. |

| |effluent plumes and effects on benthic |papillatus. Janna Fierst,* Janet Kübler, and |Raymond Grizzle,* Jamie Adams, and Linda Walters|Melissa A. Tillack* and Lee F. Braithwaite |

| |communities. Christopher Finelli* |Steve Dudgeon | | |

|9:30 |Life history phases and the biomechanics of |Factors controlling the distribution of the |The interacting effects of humans and nature on |Benefits and costs of fast food: feeding and |

| |Chondrus crispus. E. Carrington,* S. P. Grace, |green algal species Codium fragile at the Isles |marine populations: hurricanes and fishing |growth of southern oyster drills, Stramonita |

| |and T. Chopin |of Shoals. Adam C. Jones* and Larry G. Harris |contribute to population decline in the blue |haema-stoma (Gastropoda: Muricidae), on |

| | | |crab. David B. Eggleston,* L. E. Etherington, |sabellariid worm reefs. J. T. Watanabe* and C. |

| | | |and E. G. Johnson |M. Young |

|9:45 |Reconfiguration in intertidal Chondrus crispus |Spatial displacement of the snail Melampus |Fishing pressure and the blue crab, Callinectes |Gut passage times in penaeid shrimp: |

| |Stackhouse. Michael L. Boller* and Emily |bidentatus by a sympatric salt marsh snail. |sapidus: reproductive consequences. D. L. |differences between field and laboratory |

| |Carrington |Sarah Lee* and Brian Silliman |Wolcott,* A. M. Carver, T. Wolcott, and A. H. |measurements and relevance to aquaculture. |

| | | |Hines |Jennifer Beseres* and Robert Feller |

|10:00-10:30 Coffee break |

Friday morning, 22 March 2002

| |Session I (Superior) |Session II (Michigan) |Session III (Okeechobee 1) |Session IV (Okeechobee 2) |

| |Life History |Spatial Ecology |Human Impacts and Restoration |Feeding |

| |chair: Mark Hay |chair: John Vavrinec |chair: Sean P. Powers |chair: John D. Parker |

|10:30 |Fiddler crab fitness: exercise and the cost of |Mussel patch dynamics and spatial temporal |Testing the effects of crab predation cues on |Dietary preference for leaves of the red |

| |sex. Bengt J. Allen* and Jeffrey S. Levinton |heterogeneity. R. A. Coleman,* L. |enhancing clam restoration efforts. Lindsay |mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) as measured by leaf|

| | |Benedetti-Cecchi, J. Paula, N. J. Frost, and S. |Whitlow,* William Walton, and Beth Walton |damage and by mangrove tree crab (Aratus |

| | |J. Hawkins | |pisonii) gut contents. A. A. Erickson,* M. |

| | | | |Saltis, S. S. Bell, and C. J. Dawes |

|10:45 |Fitness consequences of prey depletion for the |Factors determining the composition of infaunal |Sustainability of a new mechanical clam |Foraging ecology of Herring Gulls (L. |

| |common goby, Pomatoschistus microps. Angus C. |beach communities at large scales. M. T. |harvesting rotation plan to manage the hard clam|argentatus) and Great Black-backed Gulls (Larus |

| |Jackson,* Simon D. Rundle, and Martin J. Attrill|Frost,( M. J. Attrill, A. A. Rowden |(Mercenaria mercenaria) fishery in North |marinus) in New England. Michelle Rome* and |

| | | |Carolina. Eileen M. Vandenburgh,* Charles H. |Julie C. Ellis |

| | | |Peterson, Sean P. Powers, and Patricia L. | |

| | | |Murphey | |

|11:00 |Tough decisions—having sex or being dinner: the|Marine macroecology: evidence from patterns in |Estimation of expectation and uncertainty of |Does preferential herbivory of manatee grass |

| |dilemma for some tropical seaweeds. Mark E. |soft sediment fauna in the UK. Andy Foggo* |augmented fish production of artificial reef. |over turtle grass explain zonation of these two |

| |Hay* and Julia Kubanek | |Sean P. Powers,* Jonathan H. Grabowski, Charles |species in seagrass beds adjacent to the Belize |

| | | |H. Peterson, and William J. Lindberg |barrier reef? E. J. von Wettberg,* A. H. |

| | | | |Altieri, E. W. Boyd, M. D. Lage, C. P. Mullan, |

| | | | |B. R. Silliman, Y. Toyanaga, and M. D. Bertness |

|11:15 |Fitness consequences of allorecognition-mediated|Pen shell community patterns and assemblage: |Ecological impacts of artificial structures in |Predation on seeds of seagrasses by a tanaid |

| |agonistic interactions in the colonial hydroid |local and regional dynamics. Pablo Munguía* |estuaries. Fabio Bulleri* |crustacean Zeuxo sp.: impact on seed production|

| |Hydractinia [GM]. D. L. Ferrell* | | |of Zostera marina and Zostera caulescens. |

| | | | |Masahiro Nakaoka* |

|11:30 |The effect of substrate abundance on oviposition|Do regional assembly rules determine the |Assessing the roles of habitat complexity and |Specialization on Spartina alterniflora by a |

| |behavior and the consequences of communal |structure of coral reef assemblages in the |scale in oyster reef restoration. Mark |detritivorous amphipod. John D. Parker,* Mark |

| |egg-laying in the apple murex snail, Phyllonotus|Indo-Pacific Ocean?. Camilo Mora,* Paul |Luckenbach,* P. G. Ross, Alan Birch, Stephanie |E. Hay, and Joseph P. Montoya |

| |pomum. Cheryl A. Swanson* |Chittaro, and Peter Sale |Bonniwell, and Susan Spears | |

|11:45 |Indiscriminate fusion of swimming sponge larvae.|Spatial and temporal complexity in the |Infaunal colonization and succession in a | |

| |Katie E. McGhee* |progression and perpetuation of alternate algal |21-acre disturbance: the creation of the | |

| | |states |Friendship marsh. S. Moseman,* C. Forder, and | |

| | |John Vavrinec,* Robert S. Steneck, Douglas C. |L. Levin | |

| | |McNaught | | |

|12:00-13:30 Lunch |

Friday afternoon, 22 March 2002

| |Session I (Superior) |Session II (Michigan) |Session III (Okeechobee 1) |Session IV (Okeechobee 2) |

| |Fertilization, Spawning, and Settlement |Symbionts |Ecosystem |Spiny Lobsters |

| |chair: Masayuki Saigusa |chair: Michael P. Russell |chair: Julien Lartigue |(Florida SeaGrant session) |

| | | | |chair: Mark J. Butler |

|13:30 |Fertilization success on a surface brooding |Digestive symbionts of the fiddler crab Uca |Consumer regulation of marsh primary production.|Everglades restoration and the effects of |

| |gorgonian. Howard R. Lasker* |pugnax: who, where, and why? Lara K. Gulmann* |Brian Reed Silliman* and Mark Bertness |changing salinity on hard-bottom communities in |

| | |and Lauren S. Mullineaux | |Florida Bay. Mark J. Butler,* Scott Donahue, |

| | | | |and Tom Dolan |

|13:45 |The effect of pre-settlement factors on life |Star-crossed sponges: the sponge-brittlestar |Linking habitat change and nutrient dynamics: |Quarantined! Ecological ramifications of disease|

| |history patterns in red algae (Rhodophyta). |association between Callyspongia vaginalis and |comparison of food webs and nitrogen fluxes in |in the caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus.|

| |Casey Terhorst,* Janna Fierst, Janet Kübler, and|Ophiothrix lineata. Timothy P. Henkel* and J. |burrowing shrimp- and oyster-dominated habitats.|Donald C. Behringer, Jr.*, Mark J. Butler IV, |

| |Steve Dudgeon |R. Pawlik |Theodore H. DeWitt* and Peter M. Eldridge |and Jeffery D. Shields |

|14:00 |Influence of secondary metabolites from |Hitchhiking hydroids: assessing the |Measuring microphytobenthic production and |Marine reserves in the Florida Keys National |

| |Caribbean sponges on bacterial surface |relationship between the coquina clams Donax and|consumption using a spectrophotometric method. |Marine Sanctuary: are they protecting spiny |

| |colonization. Sarah R. Kelly* and Joseph R. |the hydroid Lovenella gracilis. Joanne R. |A. L. Dunsmuir* and J. Cebrian |lobsters?. Carrollyn Cox* and John H. Hunt |

| |Pawlik |Dougherty* and Michael P. Russell | | |

|14:15 |Responses of juvenile and adult Streblospio |Mining biodiversity: molecular profiles of |The relationship between surface water |The impact of sponge loss and recovery on the |

| |benedicti (Spionidae) to chemical cues bound to |eubacterial associates of Caribbean marine |nutrients, seagrasses and their associated |florida bay benthic community |

| |glass microbeads H. K. Mahon* and D. M. Dauer |sponges. Jose V. Lopez,* Cheryl L. Peterson, P.|epiphytes along Florida’s central gulf coast. |Michael J. Childress* |

| | |J. McCarthy, Holly Page, T. Pitts, and Shirley |S. R. Keller,* J. M. Greenawalt, and T. K. | |

| | |A. Pomponi |Frazer | |

|14:30 |Are we chronically underestimating the abundance|Possible sources for symbiont variation within |An ecophysiological approach to understanding |Behavior of grouped spiny lobsters, Palinurus |

| |of lobster postlarvae? Eric R. Annis,* Ruth |the genus Aiptasia over time and space. |patterns of nitrate reduction in estuarine |argus, under attack by piscine predators, |

| |Howell, and Robert S. Steneck |Meredith Dorner,* Scott Santos, Gemma May, and |macroalgae. Julien Lartigue* and Tim D Sherman |Balistes capriscus. K. L. Lavalli,* W. F. |

| | |Mary Alice Coffroth | |Herrnkind, M. Childress, and A. Evans |

|14:45 |Control of hatching in an estuarine crab: | |The variable effects of suspension feeders and | |

| |hatching program in the embryo, and a few | |nutrient enrichment on phytoplankton biomass in | |

| |chemicals as an analog of the “hatching-program | |intertidal pools on Swan’s Island, Maine. | |

| |inducing substance (HPIS)." M. Saigusa* and H. | |Elizabeth T. Methratta* | |

| |Ikeda | | | |

Friday afternoon, 22 March 2002, Ontario room

Alphabetical index to poster session

Adams et al. 27

Am. Acad. Underwater Sci. 29

Austin et al. 49

Aveni-Deforge and Wethey 15

Beach et al. 66

Becker et al. 92

Bevis et al. 48

Biber 42

Blackmon and Valentine 71

Bledsoe et al. 47

Borgeas et al. 101

Bortolus 46

Bourdeau 85

Bowles 98

Businski and Ambrose 65

Campbell and Szmant 64

Carpenter et al. 41

Cazalas et al. 13

Christian and Valentine 99

Chuck Fisher (RIDGE 2000) 25

Cleveland and Lavalli 12

Corsetti and Strasser 78

Costa et al. 40

D’Andrea and DeWitt 63

Darcy and Cox 26

Dijkstra and Gutt 72

Doerries and Van Dover 107

Donahue and Butler 74

Driscoll et al. 62

Duque et al. 61

Ehlinger and Tankersley 60

Ellis and Bell 45

Erwin et al. 59

Fioravanti and Valentine 75

Fitzhenry et al. 7

Fogarty and Szmant 17

Gelber et al. 100

Gielazyn et al. 58

Goecker and Kåll 86

Grabowski et al. 87

Greene and Grizzle 77

Gregalis et al. 24

Hagins and Feller 39

Hannes et al. 80

Harwell et al. 57

Hauser and Miller 28

Helies and Stancyk 88

Henry et al. 38

Hinchey and Schaffner 76

Hobbs 11

Jewett et al. 56

Johnson and Heck 37

Jones and France 94

Kahn et al. 70

Kilbane and Heck 82

Kim and O’Connor 10

Knick et al. 103

Kübler and Dudgeon 89

LePard and France 1

Lewis et al. 16

Lindsey et al. 73

Malcom and Lavalli 19

McCarthy 23

Mobley et al. 36

Moeser and Carrington 6

Morales et al. 44

Nelson et al. 35

Nemeth et al. 43

Nestlerode et al. 90

Noller et al. 31

Odate and Pawlik 55

Owens et al. 84

Parsons and Herrnkind 21

Partridge and Shardo 67

Pisut and Weissburg 4

Powers et al. 83

Rapoport et al. 54

Ratchford and Eggleston 20

Raulfs and Van Dover 108

Rezek et al. 91

Richardson et al. 95

Richardson 50

Roberts 97

Sale et al. 69

Salerno and Van Dover 109

Sánchez et al. 2

Sargent and Morin 8

Schiopu 81

Schwindt et al. 14

Shelton et al. 5

Stafford 96

Stephen et al. 18

Stutes et al. 102

Suderman et al. 68

Thacker and Starnes 79

Thistle et al. 53

Trott et al. 22

Turnipseed and Van Dover 104

Vogt 34

Vopel et al. 52

Wall et al. 33

Walters and Pawlik 93

Walters et al. 32

Wapnick et al. 3

Ward et al. 105

Webster et al. 51

West et al. 30

Wickliffe et al. 9

Ziebis et al. 106

Saturday morning, 23 March 2002

|7:30-8:30 Continental breakfast |

| |Session I (Superior) |Session II (Michigan) |Session III (Okeechobee 1) |Session IV (Okeechobee 2) |

| |Blue Crab Ecology |Environmental Effects |Coral Reef Disease, Bleaching, and Stress |Species Distribution |

| |(Florida SeaGrant session) |chair: Steve Jury |chair: Joseph R. Pawlik |chair: Cliff Cunningham |

| |chair: Thomas G. Wolcott | | | |

|8:30 |Population dynamics and movement patterns of |Ecological consequences of El-Niño Southern |Redwoods of the reef? Demography of the |Physiology in the field: large and small-scale |

| |blue crabs in estuarine salt marshes. Eric G. |Oscillation to coral reef Foraminifera. F. |Caribbean barrel sponge Xestospongia muta. |gradients of photosynthetic performance in |

| |Johnson* and David B. Eggleston |Kelmo* and M. Attrill |Joseph R. Pawlik* |fucoid algae M. Lamote, Y. Lemoine, and L. E. |

| | | | |Johnson.* |

|8:45 |Environmental cues and secondary dispersal of |Catastrophic disturbance, ecosystem degradation,|Is mucus a primary means of ultraviolet |Discrimination of fish from mangroves and reefs |

| |blue crabs. Nathalie B. Reyns* and David B. |and population phase shifts in Chesapeake Bay. |radiation protection in reef building corals?. |using otolith microchemistry. Paul M. Chittaro*|

| |Eggleston |Romuald N. Lipcius* and Rochelle D. Seitz |S. A. Schopmeyer* and D. F. Gleason | |

|9:00 |Selective tidal-stream transport behavior of |Effects of hemichordate bioturbation on infaunal|Modeling the effects of chronic increases in |To drill or not to drill? Ecology and evolution|

| |ovigerous blue crabs Callinectes sapidus: role |abundance and composition on a sandflat in |seawater temperature on the population biology |of a latitudinally variable predator-prey |

| |of circatidal activity rhythms. Richard A. |southeastern North Carolina. Troy Alphin,* |of reef corals. Peter J. Edmunds* |interaction. Eric Sanford,* Melissa S. Roth, |

| |Tankersley,* Richard B. Forward, Jr., and |Martin Posey, and David Wells | |Glenn C. Johns, and George N. Somero |

| |Patricia N. Pochelon | | | |

|9:15 |Ultrasonic telemetry of blue crab nocturnal |The effect of dynamic hypoxia on the movement |Bleaching stress and photosensitivity in |Life at the edge: examination of the northern |

| |ebb-tide transport near a barrier island inlet. |patterns and depth distribution of adult blue |Amphistegina gibbosa, a reef-dwelling |geographic range limit of an intertidal snail. |

| |Sarah D. Carr,* Richard A. Tankersley, James L. |crabs within a highly eutrophic river. Geoffrey|foraminifer. D. E. Williams,* P. Hallock, G. |S. E. Gilman* |

| |Hench, Richard B. Forward, Jr., and Richard A. |W. Bell,* David B. Eggleston, and Thomas G. |McRae, and D. Otis | |

| |Luettich, Jr. |Wolcott | | |

|9:30 |Entrainment of the larval release rhythm of the |The influence of temperature on activity and |How will warming temperatures affect a |Ice age kelp forests: climate-driven changes in|

| |blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, by step changes |density relative to catch per unit effort in |gorgonian–coral-pathogen system? Experiments |kelp forest distribution and productivity since |

| |in salinity and the light:dark cycle. Tracy A. |lobster traps. Steve Jury,* Walter Golet, Hunt |with the sea fan (Gorgonia |the last glacial maximum. Michael H. Graham* |

| |Ziegler,* Richard A. Tankersley, and Patricia |Howell, and Win Watson |ventalina)–Aspergillus interaction. Jessica R. | |

| |Pochelon | |Ward,* Drew Harvell, and Kiho Kim | |

|9:45 |Migration of adult female blue crabs—do they |Antioxidant response of Leiostomus xanthurus |Size-specific rates and magnitude of inducible |A research coordination network to study the |

| |smoke after mating? |(spot) to hypoxia |antifungal defense in gorgonian sea fans |historical ecology of the trans-Atlantic marine |

| |Thomas G. Wolcott,* Donna L. Wolcott, Heather V.|Rebecca Cooper,* Lisa Clough, Mary Farwell, and |Laura Petes* and Drew Harvell |biota. Cliff Cunningham* |

| |Turner, and Anson H. Hines |Terry West | | |

|10:00-10:30 Coffee break |

Saturday morning, 23 March 2002

| |Session I (Superior) |Session II (Michigan) |Session III (Okeechobee 1) |Session IV (Okeechobee 2) |

| |Plant and Animal Dispersal |Nutrient Uptake and Effects |Hybridization and Coral Reproduction and |Community Ecology |

| |chair: Susan Bell |chair: Joseph Staton |Speciation |chair: Steve Dudgeon |

| | | |chair: David B. Carlon | |

|10:30 |Seed dispersal and landscape-scale dispersal |Analysis of Biscayne Bay sediments: do benthic |Asymmetric gametic incompatibility between the |How big is big enough? Modeling the |

| |limitation in the cobble beach plant |Foraminifera of the bay reflect trace metal |blue mussels Mytilus edulis and Mytilus |establishment of alternative states on rocky |

| |metacommunity. Jacqueline L. P. Gamiño,* |contamination? A. M. Hoare,* P. Hallock, B. H. |trossulus. Christin T. Slaughter,* Paul D. |intertidal shores in the Gulf of Maine. Peter |

| |Margaret A. Dolan, and John F. Bruno |Lidz, C. D. Reich, and E. A. Shinn |Rawson, and Phil O. Yund |S. Petraitis* and Steve Dudgeon |

|10:45 |Desiccation resistance during the sea-to-land |Effect of salinity variation and pesticide |Hybrid resistance in the tropical Pacific soft |The when, where and why of alternative states in|

| |transition in the land hermit crab postlarva. |exposure on an estuarine harpacticoid copepod, |coral Sinularia maxima x S. polydactyla: |rocky intertidal landscapes. Steve Dudgeon,* |

| |Renae Brodie* |Microarthri-dion littorale (Poppe), in the |chemical and structural defenses. Marc |Christin Slaughter, and Peter S. Petraitis |

| | |south-eastern US. J. L. Staton,* N. V. |Slattery, Valerie J. Paul, and Robert Thacker | |

| | |Schizas, S. L. Klosterhaus, R. J. Griffitt, G. | | |

| | |T. Chandler, and B. C. Coull | | |

|11:00 |Dispersal and recruitment in terrestrial versus |The effects of zinc on arm regeneration rates |Reproductive isolation among the Montastraea |Inclusion of facilitation into ecological |

| |marine environments: the benthos is not just an|and tissue development patterns in the |annularis species complex. Don R. Levitan* and |theory, models, and paradigms. John F. Bruno,* |

| |underwater landscape. C. Ashton Drew* and David|brittlestars Ophiothrix angulata and Amphipholis|Nancy Knowlton |John J. Stachowicz, Mark D. Bertness |

| |B. Eggleston |gracillima. Rosemary E. Hall* and Steve E. | | |

| | |Stancyk | | |

|11:15 |Seagrass dispersal: seeds, sediments, and |Nutrient limitation of benthic macrophytes in |Incipient speciation across a depth gradient in |Shifts in wetland community composition across |

| |serendipity. S. S. Bell,* M. S. Fonseca, |the upper Florida Keys: an in-situ nutrient |the tropical coral Favia fragum. D. B. Carlon* |estuarine salinity gradients: physical and |

| |Margaret O. Hall, Kamille Hammerstrom, W. J. |enrichment experiment. Meredith Ferdie* and |and A. F. Budd |biological determinants. Caitlin Mullan,* Mark |

| |Kenworthy, P. Whitfield, and M. Finkbeiner |James W. Fourqurean | |Bertness, and Brian Silliman |

|11:30 |Fragments of the seagrasses Halodule wrightii |Biogeochemical controls on the stable C and N |Sex expression of a Caribbean coral, Porites |Soft-bottom benthic assemblages associated to |

| |and Halophila johnsonii as potential recruits in|isotopic composition of marine sponges in the |astreoides. S. Tso* and D. F. Gleason |intertidal boulder fields: testing for |

| |Indian River Lagoon, Florida. L. M. Hall,* M. |Florida Keys. J. B. Weisz,* M. Southwell, C. S.| |generality of patterns across time and space. |

| |D. Hanisak, and R. W. Virnstein |Martens, and N. Lindquist | |J. J. Cruz* |

|11:45 |Movement of the green sea urchin, |Hydrodynamic characterization of shoal | |Biodiversity of Bear Seamount, New England |

| |Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, within three |communities in Florida Bay: implications for | |seamount chain: results of exploratory |

| |subtidal habitats of the Gulf of Maine. |nutrient uptake | |trawling. J. A. Moore,* M. Vecchione, K. E. |

| |Kristine E. Faloon* and C. E. Siddon |Chris D. Cornelisen* and Florence I. M. Thomas | |Hartel, B. B. Collette, J. K. Galbraith, R. |

| | | | |Gibbons, M. Turnipseed, M. Southworth, and E. |

| | | | |Watkins |

|12:00-13:30 Lunch |

Saturday afternoon, 23 March 2002

| |Session I (Superior) |Session II (Michigan) |Session III (Okeechobee 1) |Session IV (Okeechobee 2) |

| |Larval Dispersal and Recruitment |Predation |Coral Reefs |Community Ecology |

| |chair: Kevin B. Johnson |chair: Linda L. Stehlik |chair: Richard B. Aronson |chair: Lisa Levin |

|13:30 |Using automated sampling equipment and estuary |Spiny lobsters: a model for horn development in|Water flow effects on energetics of the |Variation in consumer interactions: the roles |

| |scale modeling to investigate the |ceratopsian dinosaurs. Samuel F. Tarsitano,* |scleractinian coral Agaricia tenuifolia in |of multiple predators and time. Christopher E. |

| |physical-biological coupling of larval |Kari L. Lavalli, Francis Horne, and David |Belize. Kenneth P. Sebens,* Brian Helmuth, |Siddon* and Jon D. Witman |

| |transport. J. F. Hamilton,* R. B. Whitlatch, |Rodriguez |Emily Carrington, and Brad Agius | |

| |and R. W. Osman | | | |

|13:45 |Where have all the larvae gone? Inferring |Anti-predation strategies in marine worms: to |Scale-dependent effects of flow on coral reef |Trophic interactions between bacteria and |

| |patterns of larval dispersal in an intertidal |hide or be distasteful, that is the question. |primary production. Robert C. Carpenter* |meiofauna in the Gulf of Mexico deep-sea: sink |

| |crab using microsatellite markers. Robert J. |C. E. Kicklighter* and M. E. Hay | |or link for carbon secondary production?. J. |

| |Toonen | | |Baguley,* P. Montagna, L. Hyde, J. Deming, and |

| | | | |S. Carpenter |

|14:00 |Avoiding offshore transport of competent larvae |Hydroid defenses against predators: importance |The results of monitoring hard corals restored |Food-web structure in introduced and native |

| |during upwelling events: the case of the |of secondary metabolites vs. nematocysts. R. |following the installation of telecommunication |mangrove communities; a Hawaii-Puerto Rico |

| |gastropod Concholepas concholepas in Central |Channing Jones,* John J. Stachowicz, and Niels |cables off Hollywood, Florida. Donald R. Deis* |comparison. A. W. J. Demopoulos,* L. A. |

| |Chile . Elie Poulin,* Alvaro T. Palma, Diego |Lindquist | |Crawford, and C. R. Smith |

| |Narvaez, Sergio A. Navarrete, and Juan C. | | | |

| |Castilla | | | |

|14:15 |Brachyuran megalopal availability in the Lower |Effects of predator presence on nematocyst |When bad things happen to a good reef: multiple|Sliding baselines, stealth predators, and |

| |Cape Fear River estuary. Russell W. Barbour,* |uptake in the nudibranch Flabellina verrucosa in|disturbances and the recent history of Channel |cascading impacts to functional responses in |

| |Martin H. Posey, Troy D. Alphin |the southern Gulf of Maine. Kinsey Frick* |Cay, Belize. W. F. Precht* and R. B. Aronson |Gulf of Maine benthic communities. Larry G. |

| | | | |Harris* |

|14:30 |Photoresponses of Müller’s larvae of the |Attack and avoidance behavior during attempted |The coral that dies beneath the waves: species |Green turtle grazing: effects on structure and |

| |flatworm Maritigrella crozieri. Kevin B. |cannibalism by blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, |turnover on Caribbean reefs during the last |productivity in seagrass beds. Kathleen Moran* |

| |Johnson* and Richard B. Forward, Jr. |in the laboratory. Linda L. Stehlik* and Carol |3,000 years. R. B. Aronson,* W. F. Precht, I. |and Karen Bjorndal |

| | |J. Meise |G. Macintyre, T. J. T. Murdoch, and C. M. | |

| | | |Wapnick | |

|14:45 |Do more oyster larvae settle in rough |Is shell color polymorphism in Littorina | |Can trophic interactions drive salt marsh |

| |neighborhoods?: The influence of small-scale |obtusata influenced by selective predation by | |succession? Using restoration and invasion |

| |topography on oyster recruitment. M. Lisa |crabs?. Lauralyn Dyer* | |research to untangle the trophic web. L. |

| |Kellogg* and Rita B. J. Peachey | | |Levin,* T. Talley, P. McMillan, C. Neira, G. |

| | | | |Mendoza, S. Moseman, C. Forder, C. Whitcraft, C.|

| | | | |Currin, R. Michener |

|15:00-15:30 Coffee break |

Saturday afternoon, 23 March 2002

| |Session I (Superior) |Session II (Michigan) |Session III (Okeechobee 1) |Session IV (Okeechobee 2) |

| |Recruitment |Predation and Parasitism |Gulf of Mexico and Florida Keys |Community Ecology |

| |chair: Daniel A. McCarthy |chair: Michael L. Judge |(Florida SeaGrant session) |chair: Rochelle Seitz |

| | | |chair: Margaret W. Miller | |

|15:30 |Recruitment into disturbed vs undisturbed |Predation rates on juvenile oysters: laboratory|Patterns of herbivory and seaweed abundance in |De-coupling of top-down and bottom-up regulation|

| |sediments in the field, ammonium as a cue? Erin|interactions between exotic and native crabs on |Florida Keys no-take reserves. Margaret W. |due to hypoxic distur-bance in Narragansett Bay,|

| |Wolfe* and Sarah Woodin |prey size selec-tivity. M. L. Judge,* and A. A. |Miller* |Rhode Is-land. A. H. Altieri* and J. D. Witman |

| | |Forbes | | |

|15:45 |Effects of seagrass shoot dynamics on |Oyster predator-prey interactions: roles of |Monitoring changes in the fully protected zones |What drives variation in benthic abundance along|

| |distribution and recruitment of epifaunal |different predators, seasonality, spatial |of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. |an environmental gradient—physical, recruitment,|

| |encrusting bryozoa. N. Kouchi,* M. Nakaoka, and|variation and deterrents. Kenneth M. Brown,* |Brian D. Keller* |top-down, or bottom-up factors?. Rochelle D. |

| |H. Mukai |Gary Peterson, Mike McDonough, and Charles | |Seitz,* Romuald N. Lipcius, and William T. |

| | |Ramcharan | |Stockhausen |

|16:00 |Does the relationship between microhabitat and |The functional response and behaviours of sea |Interaction strength at the coral reef-seagrass |Invertebrate community structure in the Gulf of |

| |rates of recruitment of young-of-year coral reef|stars and rock crabs preying on juvenile sea |interface: has overfishing diminished the |St. Lawrence: the effect of algal canopies on |

| |fishes explain recruitment variation? |scallops. Melisa C. Wong* and Myriam A. Barbeau|importance of seagrass habitat production for |recruitment and growth. Chantale Bégin,* Ladd |

| |Unfortunately, no. Peter F. Sale,* Bret S. | |coral reef food webs? John F. Valentine* and |E. Johnson, and John H. Himmelman |

| |Danilowicz, Peter J. Doherty, and David McB. | |Kenneth L. Heck, Jr. | |

| |Williams | | | |

|16:15 |A fugitive keystone species? The important role|Predation by Great Black-backed Gulls (Larus |Caging—an ecologist’s friend or foe? Leslie J. |Crab predation as a structuring factor of |

| |of an inconspicuous coralline alga in coral |marinus) on crabs in the New England rocky |Gallagher* and Kenneth L. Heck, Jr. |soft-bottom benthic communities in a subarctic |

| |recruitment on the Great Barrier Reef. Robert |intertidal and shallow subtidal. Julie C. | |Newfoundland fjord. Pedro A. Quijon* and Paul |

| |S. Steneck,* Emre Turak, Lindsay Harrington, and|Ellis,* Walter Chen, and Myra Shulman | |V. R. Snelgrove |

| |Terry Done | | | |

|16:30 |The role of post-settlement mortality in |Predatory-induced variability in the composition|Distribution and composition of nearshore |Blue crabs, grazers, and epiphytes in seagrass |

| |recruitment of encrusting organisms associated |of decapod crustacean assemblages in the |benthic communities of the Florida Keys. L. M. |communities: a new marine trophic cascade? |

| |with intertidal and subtidal sabellariid reefs |subtidal of central Chile. Alvaro T. Palma,* |Rutten,* J. W. Fourqurean, and T. Philippi |Melanie A. Spring,* J. Emmett Duffy, and Romuald|

| |in Boynton Beach, Florida. Daniel A. McCarthy* |Mauricio Arriagada, Cael Orrego, and Anna | |N. Lipcius |

| | |Astorga | | |

|16:45 |Population age structure as a record of |Direct evidence for a strong impact of | |Biodiversity and ecosystem function: the |

| |recruitment history: How large a grain of salt |ectoparasites on the demography of a small reef | |consumer connection. J. E. Duffy,* J. P. |

| |do we need? Jacob P. Kritzer* and Peter F. Sale|fish. R. J. Petrik-Finley* and G. E. Forrester | |Richardson, and K. France |

|18:30-22:00 Banquet |

Sunday morning, 24 March 2002

|7:30-8:30 Continental breakfast |

| |Session I (Superior) |Session II (Michigan) |Session III (Okeechobee 1) |Session IV (Okeechobee 2) |

| |Growth |Sea Grass and Salt Marsh |Invasive Species | |

| |chair: Lee Ann J. Clements |chair: Robert W. Virnstein |chair: Carol Thornber | |

|8:30 |Age determination in high latitude crustaceans: |Fooled by sampling frequency: an example using |Effects of disturbance on invasion success in | |

| |the lipofuscin approach. B. A. Bluhm,* T. C. |demise and recovery of seagrass in Indian River |marine communities. Safra Altman,* Jeffrey | |

| |Shirley, T. Brey, M. Klages |Lagoon, FL. R. W. Virnstein,* L. J. Morris, E. |Terwin, and Robert Whitlatch | |

| | |W. Carter, and L. Hall | | |

|8:45 |Grow fast and avoid predators: why common |Habitat utilization by tidal creek nekton: |Invasive green porcelain crabs, Petrolisthes | |

| |periwinkles are most abundant in the low |seasonal and spatial patterns of associated |armatus, on oyster reefs in the South Atlantic | |

| |intertidal. |fauna within intertidal oyster reefs, marsh and |Bight: friend or foe? Amanda L. Hollebone* and| |

| |Rose L. Carlson,* Myra J. Shulman, and Julie C. |mudflats. |Mark E. Hay | |

| |Ellis |L. D. Coen,* and J. A. Stephen | | |

|9:00 |Growth rates of juvenile pinfish (Lagodon |Habitat characteristics affecting fish and |Effects of the invasion of the Asian shore crab | |

| |rhomboides): effects of habitat and predation |decapod assemblages of seagrass (Zostera marina)|Hemigrapsus sanguineus on resident crab | |

| |risk. Stacey L. Harter* and Ken Heck, Jr. |beds around the coast of Jersey (English |populations. N. J. O'Connor* | |

| | |Channel). E. L. Jackson,* M. J. Attrill, S. J. | | |

| | |Bossy, M. B. Jones, and A. A. Rowden | | |

|9:15 |Measuring estuarine habitat quality: ribbed |Changes in the abundance and distribution of SAV|Green crab (Carcinus maenas) situation in the | |

| |mussel (Geukensia demissa) growth and survival |along Florida’s springs coast: a comparison |southeastern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada: the | |

| |across tidal creek habitats. Keith Walters* and|based on aerial photography acquired in 1992 and|Prince Edward Island situation. Dominique | |

| |Loren Coen |1999. Jason A. Hale* and Thomas K. Frazer |Audet,* Gilles Miron, and Mikio Moriyasu | |

|9:30 |Interannual growth rate variation in the |Benthic communities associated with Spartina and|Zebra mussel invasion reveals a novel food web | |

| |soft-shelled clam, Mya arenaria, and its |Phragmites marshes: the relative importance of |link between zooplankton and benthic suspension | |

| |relation to interannual temperature differences |microhabitat versus marsh type. Martin Posey,* |feeders. Wai Hing Wong and Jeffrey S. Levinton*| |

| |and habitat at Maquoit Bay, Maine. K. R. |Troy Alphin, David Meyer, and Michael Johnson | | |

| |Meltzer* and W. G. Ambrose, Jr. | | | |

|9:45 |Environmental influences (food, current and wave|Nekton utilization of intertidal marsh |Reproductive ecology of the invasive Japanese | |

| |motion) on skeletal regeneration in the |interspersed with micro-rivulets in Chesapeake |kelp Undaria pinnatifida along the California | |

| |burrowing brittlestar Ophiophragmus |Bay. J. M. Johnson* and D. L. Meyer |coast. Carol Thornber,* Brian Kinlan, Michael | |

| |filograneus.. L. A. J. Clements,* B. Bryant, | |Graham, Jay Stachowicz | |

| |and E. Remily | | | |

|10:00–10:30 Coffee break |

Sunday morning, 24 March 2002

| |Session I (Superior) |Session II (Michigan) |Session III (Okeechobee 1) |Session IV (Okeechobee 2) |

| |Larval Ecology |Chemical Ecology |Sea Urchin Interactions | |

| |chair: John Commito |chair: Julia Kubanek |chair: Amanda V. Leland | |

|10:30 |The interaction of spatial variation and |Chemical ecology of reef and cave sponges of the|Crab predation prevents the successful | |

| |post-settlement density dependence in the |Bahamas: predator deterrent vs. antimicrobial |reestablishment of sea urchins in Maine. Amanda| |

| |intertidal porcelain crab, Petrolisthes |activity. D. J. Gochfeld* and M. Slattery |V. Leland* and Robert S. Steneck | |

| |cinctipes. Megan J. Donahue* | | | |

|10:45 |Ecosystem engineers alter benthic processes: |Chemical and molecular characterization of |Disturbance and recovery following catastrophic | |

| |power law transport of sediment, larvae, and |ontogenetic shifts in the chemical defense in |grazing: tudies of a successional | |

| |postlarvae in a spatially complex soft-bottom |Bugula neritina (Bryozoa). Nicole Lopanik,* |chronosequence in a seagrass bed. Bradley J. | |

| |mussel bed. John A. Commito,* Emily A. Celano, |Niels Lindquist, and Nancy Targett |Peterson,* Craig D. Rose, Leanne M. Rutten, and | |

| |Holly J. Celico, and Craig P. Johnson | |James W. Fourqurean | |

|11:00 | |“Where’s my sea whip?” Are defenses in |Diadema antillarum effects on benthic community | |

| | |Caribbean gorgonians physical or chemical? |structure in the Florida Keys National Marine | |

| | |William O’Neal* and Joseph R. Pawlik |Sanctuary (FKNMS): preliminary results. | |

| | | |Charles Fasano,* Margaret Miller, Alina Szmant, | |

| | | |and Nicole Fogarty | |

|11:15 | |More bang for your buck: multiple defensive |Experimental evidence that recovery of Diadema | |

| | |roles of sponge triterpene glycosides. Julia |antillarum populations on Florida coral reefs is| |

| | |Kubanek,* Kristen E. Whalen, Sebastian Engel, |in part predation-limited at the juvenile stage.| |

| | |Sarah R. Kelly, Timothy P. Henkel, William |Alina M. Szmant,* Margaret W. Miller, Tom Capo, | |

| | |Fenical, and Joseph R. Pawlik |Ken Nedimyer, Nicole Fogarty, Kathleen Morrow, | |

| | | |and Charles Fasano | |

|11:30 | |Localization of ecologically active secondary |The influence of Diadema antillarum recovery on | |

| | |metabolites in two Caribbean sponges. Kristen |the growth and survivorship of scleractinians on| |

| | |Whalen,* Julia Kubanek, and Joseph R. Pawlik |a Jamaican coral reef. Joshua A. Idjadi* and | |

| | | |Nick Haring | |

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