Wednesday, December 12, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Royal Palm Salon Five, Royal Palm Ballroom, First Floor (Town & Country)

Ten-Minute Papers, Section Cb. Apiculture and Social Insects, Cf. Quantitative Ecology

Moderator(s): Kenneth J Howard
David G. Hall
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM1252Ant communities of the Great Basin: Differences among sites and possible influence of Mormon cricket control efforts
Tim B. Graham, Evelyn Cheng
8:17 AM1253Ants as bioindicators: Does habitat edge affect community or social structure of north temperate deciduous forest ants?
Valerie S Banschbach, Becca Yeamans, Ann Brunelle, Annie Gulka, Maggie Holmes
8:29 AM 1254Habitat and stoichiometry predict density of litter-dwelling ants and other tropical rain forest arthropods
Terrence P. McGlynn, Steven F. Oberbauer, Deborah A. Clark
8:41 AM 1255Protein marking reveals foraging pattern in the odorous house ant, Tapinoma sessile
Grzesiek Buczkowski, Gary Bennett
8:53 AM1256Brood care in the leaf-cutting ant Atta texana: Task allocation and the regulation of individual behavior
Samuel N Beshers
9:05 AM1257Food preference of the European red fire ant, Myrmica rubra, throughout the field season in eastern Maine
H. Alejandro Arevalo, Eleanor Groden
9:17 AM1258The organization of foraging in fire ants (Solenopsis invicta): The next installment
Walter R. Tschinkel
9:29 AM1259Fire ant chemosensory proteins
Robert Renthal, Daniel Gonzalez, Cody McMahan, Aaron Cassill, Daniel Velasquez
9:41 AM Break
9:53 AM1260Genetic analysis of parentage of replacement reproductives and alates in a primitive termite, Zootermopsis nevadensis (Isoptera)
Kenneth J Howard, Philip M Johns, Nancy L Breisch, Barbara L Thorne
10:05 AM1261Group coordination in the tunneling behavior of subterranean termites
Paul Bardunias, Nan-Yao Su
10:17 AM1262Rounding a corner of a bent termite tunnel and tunnel traffic efficiency
Sang Hee Lee, Paul Bardunias, Nan-Yao Su
10:29 AM1263Reproductive changes in female swarmers of Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)
Ye Ye, Susan C. Jones
10:41 AM 1264Parentage analyses in eastern subterranean termite colonies
Mariam Lekveishvili, Susan C. Jones, Hong Chen
10:53 AM 1265Selecting flight behaviors in a simulation that explains Lygus population dynamics on a set of contiguous fields
Jay S. Bancroft, Peter B Goodell
11:05 AM1266Population levels of Asian citrus psyllid in Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico as indicated by yellow sticky traps deployed in citrus
David G Hall, Daniel Flores, David Alan Jenkins
11:17 AM1267Ensemble models for prediction in crop protection
Susan P. Worner, Gabriella, O. Lankin Vega, David AJ. Teulon
11:29 AM 1268Differential equation models of population dynamics: Aphid mortality rate estimation techniques in ecotoxicology
John E. Banks, HT. Banks, Sarah Lynn Joyner, John D. Stark

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