2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008: Ecology of Soil Mites

Ecology of Soil Mites

Organizer:

Hans Klompen

Welcoming Remarks

This alkaloid's for you: Evolutionary and ecological aspects of opisthonotal gland chemistry in oribatid mites
Roy A. Norton, State University of New York

Patterns of diversity in arboreal and terrestrial oribatid mite communities
Zoe Lindo, University of Victoria

Audio File Recorded presentation

Soil mites above ground: Would the real canopy specialists please stand up?
Fred Beaulieu, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; David E. Walter, University of Alberta; Heather C. Proctor, University of Alberta; Roger Kitching, Griffith University

Audio File Recorded presentation

Break

Impacts of tillage on soil-dwelling microarthropod communities and entomopathogenic nematodes in winter wheat in Oklahoma
Trisha Dubie, Oklahoma State University; Carmen M. Greenwood, Oklahoma State University

Now you see it, now you don't: The microarthropod community in biotic crusts in the arid southwestern US
Sandra L. Brantley, University of New Mexico; Jessica T. Martin, University of New Mexico; Stephanie Moquin, University of New Mexico; Christy A. Tarleton, University of New Mexico; Ursula L. Shepherd, University of New Mexico

Audio File Recorded presentation

Climate change: Challenges and opportunities for mites of the High Arctic
Valerie Behan-Pelletier, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Audio File Recorded presentation

Landscape-scale distributions of boreal oribatid mites: The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Program 2007-2008
David E. Walter, University of Alberta

Concluding Remarks

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