2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008: Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section SEB1. Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section SEB1. Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

Moderators:

Richard L. Brown and Michael Irwin

Introductory Remarks

The effects of plant community diversity on insect dynamics and ecosystem stability
Angela G. Brommit, University of Windsor; Sherah VanLaerhoven, University of Windsor; Dave R. Gillespie, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada; Les Shipp, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

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Moth diversity along an elevational gradient in southeast Arizona
Cristina L. Francois, California State University, Fullerton; Sean Walker, California State University, Fullerton

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Effects of adjacent land use on benthic macro-invertebrates in eastern Oregon
Melissa Scherr, Oregon State University

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Baseline inventory of invertebrates at Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site: What is the effort and cost to collect and identify six target taxa?
Joy Newton, West Texas A&M University; G. J. Michels, Texas A&M University

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Break

Thirty years of aquatic insect sampling in Four Holes Swamp (South Carolina)
Amanda M Nelson, Clemson University; John Morse, Clemson University

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Survey and database of kissing bugs (Reduviidae: Triatominae) within the Inland Empire
Wei Song Hwang, University of California Riverside; Christiane Weirauch, University of California Riverside

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Effective population sizes and temporal stability of genetic structure in the invasive species Solenopsis invicta Buren, the red imported fire ant
Rajesh.B Garlapati, Mississippi State University; Miachel.A Caprio, Mississippi State University; David.C Cross, Mississippi State University; Omaththage P. Perera, USDA-ARS

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Leaf litter ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species richness and composition along an urbanized forest edge
Kaloyan Ivanov, Cleveland State University; Joe B. Keiper, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

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Habitat complexity or random chance: What affects the distribution of urban ants?
T. Aurora Toennisson, University of Tennessee; Karen M. Vail, University of Tennessee

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Repeated island colonization by Hawaiian bark lice
Emilie Bess, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Kevin P. Johnson, Illinois Natural History Survey

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