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Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM |
Room D7, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center) |
Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section SEB1. Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity |
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| Moderator(s): | Richard L. Brown
Michael Irwin
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| 8:30 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:47 AM |  | 0493 | | The effects of plant community diversity on insect dynamics and ecosystem stability
Angela G. Brommit, Sherah VanLaerhoven, Dave R. Gillespie, Les Shipp |
| 8:59 AM | | 0494 | | Moth diversity along an elevational gradient in southeast Arizona
Cristina L. Francois, Sean Walker |
| 9:11 AM | | 0495 | | Effects of adjacent land use on benthic macro-invertebrates in eastern Oregon
Melissa Scherr |
| 9:23 AM | | 0496 | | Baseline inventory of invertebrates at Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site: What is the effort and cost to collect and identify six target taxa?
Joy Newton, G. J. Michels |
| 9:35 AM | | | | Break |
| 9:47 AM | | 0497 | | Thirty years of aquatic insect sampling in Four Holes Swamp (South Carolina)
Amanda M Nelson, John Morse |
| 9:59 AM | | 0498 | | Survey and database of kissing bugs (Reduviidae: Triatominae) within the Inland Empire
Wei Song Hwang, Christiane Weirauch |
| 10:11 AM | | 0499 | | Effective population sizes and temporal stability of genetic structure in the invasive species Solenopsis invicta Buren, the red imported fire ant
Rajesh.B Garlapati, Miachel.A Caprio, David.C Cross, Omaththage P. Perera |
| 10:23 AM | | 0500 | | Leaf litter ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species richness and composition along an urbanized forest edge
Kaloyan Ivanov, Joe B. Keiper |
| 10:35 AM | | 0501 | | Habitat complexity or random chance: What affects the distribution of urban ants?
T. Aurora Toennisson, Karen M. Vail |
| 10:47 AM | | 0502 | | Repeated island colonization by Hawaiian bark lice
Emilie Bess, Kevin P. Johnson |
