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Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Room A13, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center) |
Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section P-IE7. Plant-Insect Ecosystems |
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| Moderator(s): | Andrew J. Storer
Matthew D. Ginzel
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| 8:00 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:05 AM | | 0455 | | Characterization of the arthropod community in Nebraska switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.)
Sandra Schaeffer, Frederick P. Baxendale, Tiffany M. Heng-Moss, Gautam Sarath, Robert Mitchell |
| 8:17 AM |  | 0456 | | Random or non-random structure?: What species co-occurrence, spatial and temporal variation reveal about the psocoptera community associated with eastern hemlock in the southern Appalachians
Carla Dilling, P. L. Lambdin, J. F. Grant |
| 8:29 AM | | 0457 | | Effects of severe inundation on a coastal marsh grass and its associated insect assemblage
Mark S. Fox, Lee A Dyer, Michael J. Blum, Kristen Butcher, Alex Kolker |
| 8:41 AM | | 0458 | | Multi-state comparison of aphid community composition in prairies
Wayne J. Ohnesorg, Thelma T. Heidel, Matthew E. O'Neal, Claudio Gratton, Cory Straub, Clifford S. Sadof, Bob O'Neil |
| 8:53 AM | | 0459 | | Ecological effects of an invasive social wasp on Hawaiian Hymenoptera
Erin E. Wilson, David A. Holway |
| 9:05 AM | | 0460 | | Landscape affects on soybean aphid and natural enemy abundances in Iowa
Nick Schmidt, Matthew E. O'Neal, Lisa Schulte |
| 9:17 AM | | | | Break |
| 9:29 AM | | 0461 | | Herbivory induced spatial patterns in plant physiology and gene expression under predicted future climate conditions
Paul Nabity, Michael Hillstrom, Richard Lindroth, Evan H. DeLucia |
| 9:41 AM | | 0462 | | Estimating carabid beetle population parameters in field corn to identify potential bioindicator species
Miles Lepping, Galen Dively, Paula Shrewsbury |
| 9:53 AM | | 0463 | | Feedback between invasive belowground herbivores and habitat composition in northern hardwood ecosystems
David R. Coyle, William J. Mattson, Alexander L. Friend, Kenneth Raffa |
| 10:05 AM | | 0464 | | Fire injury increases both host susceptibility and competitor load for the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins): Implications to population dynamics and outbreaks
Erinn N Powell, Kenneth Raffa |
| 10:29 AM | | 0466 | | The use of arthropods as ecological measures of desert spring health classification
Alex M. Johnson, Mark E. Whalon |
