Wednesday, December 12, 2001: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Pacific Salon 1-2(Convention Center, Level 1) | |||
Program Symposium: Insects in Marine and Saline Environments | |||
| Session Chair(s): | Lanna Cheng William Wyatt Hoback | ||
| 8:00 AM | Introductory Remarks | ||
| 8:05 AM | 0708 | Insect densities reflect environmental quality in coastal habitats: three case studies Kathy S. Williams | |
| 8:25 AM | 0709 | Salinity-dependent changes in the organization of aquatic food webs in salt evaporation ponds in the Mojave Desert David B. Herbst | |
| 8:45 AM | 0710 | The legacy of Tethys: multicentric biogeography of marine water-striders in the Melanesian region Dan A. Polhemus, John T. Polhemus | |
| 9:05 AM | 0711 | Molecular genetics and distribution of the ocean-skater Halobates (Heteroptera: Gerridae) Felix Sperling, Nils M. Anderson, J. Damgaard, Lanna Cheng | |
| 9:25 AM | 0712 | Staphylinidae in saline habitats J. Howard Frank | |
| 9:45 AM | Break | ||
| 10:00 AM | 0713 | The enigmatic Telmatogetoninae - some new information on the basal chironomid midges Peter S Cranston | |
| 10:20 AM | 0714 | The adaptive mechanisms of diel and semilunar eclosion of the marine midge Pontomyia oceana (Diptera: Chironomidae) Keryea Soong, Yijye Lu, Juyin Chen | |
| 10:40 AM | 0715 | Reproductive biology of saltmarsh mosquitoes George F. O'Meara | |
| 11:00 AM | 0716 | Environmental effects of coastal mosquito control practices in Florida Jorge Rey | |
| 11:20 AM | 0717 | Health and nuisance factors associated with coastal Culicoides populations in southeastern North America Jonathan F. Day | |
| 11:40 AM | 0718 | Marine insects as a model system for teaching historical hypothesis-testing William Wyatt Hoback | |
| 12:00 PM | Concluding Remarks | ||
The ESA 2001 Annual Meeting - 2001: An Entomological Odyssey of ESA