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Valles Caldera National Preserve: Plant, Animal, and Human Diversity On an Ancient Volcano

Tuesday, December 14, 2010: 1:10 PM-5:00 PM
San Diego (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizers:
M. Alma Solis
Robert R. Parmenter


1:10 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:15 PM
1058
Natural history of Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico:  Climate, geology, flora, fauna and human history
Robert R. Parmenter, Valles Caldera Trust
1:45 PM
1059
Surveying Hymenoptera of Valles Caldera National Preserve:  Discoveries from a little-sampled region 
Michael W. Gates, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory ; Matthew L. Buffington, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory ; Robert R. Kula, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory ; David R. Smith, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory
2:05 PM
1060
The Owlet moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae and Erebidae) of Valles Caldera:  What’s new and exciting?
Michael G. Pogue, USDA-ARS-PSI
2:25 PM
1061
Lepidoptera of Valles Caldera:  Patterns of species richness and seasonal phenology
J. Brown, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI
2:45 PM
1062
Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of Valles Caldera National Preserve
Allen Norrbom, USDA-ARS
3:05 PM
Break
3:20 PM
1063
The caddisflies (Trichoptera), dragonflies (Odonata, mayflies (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies (Plecoptera), and lacewings (Neuroptera), from VCNP
Oliver Flint, Smithsonian Institution ; Boris Kondratieff, Colorado State University
3:40 PM
1064
The lonely aquatic moth: Petrophila avernalis (Crambidae: Acentropinae)
M. Alma Solis, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS, USDA
3:55 PM
1065
A first look at the aphid (Hemiptera:  Aphididae) fauna of Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico
Gary L. Miller, USDA-ARS ; Andrew S. Jensen, Washington State University ; Colin Favret, AphidNet, LLC
4:15 PM
1066
Three holarctic sedge-associated plant bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae) in grasslands of Valles Caldera, New Mexico
AG. Wheeler, Clemson University
4:35 PM
1067
Valles Caldera land management effects on insect populations:  Impacts of fire and elk-livestock grazing on ground-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera:  Carabidae, Tenebrionidae), crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera)
Robert R. Parmenter, Valles Caldera Trust
4:55 PM
Concluding Remarks
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