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Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, P-IE: Ecology

Monday, December 13, 2010: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Sunset (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Moderator:
Robert L. Meagher


8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM
0384
Drought and herbivory interact on populations of the invasive weed Tamarix sp
Wyatt Williams, Colorado State University ; Andrew P. Norton, Colorado State University
8:47 AM
0385
Ovipositional preference and host shifting in the ash leaf coneroller, Caloptilia fraxinella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)/Fraxinus system
Tyler J Wist, University of Alberta ; Maya L. Evenden, University of Alberta
8:59 AM
0386
My enemy's enemy is still my enemy: The spillback of an endemic herbivorous insect from a weed onto endemic host plants
Scot M. Waring, Lincoln University ; Jon J. Sullivan, Lincoln University ; Simon V. Fowler, Landcare Research ; Roddy J. Hale, Lincoln University
9:11 AM
0387
Direct and indirect competition between two species of leaf-mining fly
Eleanor J. Blitzer, University of California-Berkeley ; Stephen C Welter, University of California-Berkeley
9:23 AM
0388
A simple plant mutation triggers a predator-diversity trophic cascade
Tobin D Northfield, Washington State University ; William E. Snyder, Washington State University ; Gretchen Beth Snyder, Washington State University ; Sanford D. Eigenbrode, University of Idaho
9:35 AM
0389
Sacrificial eggs protect viable eggs from egg parasitoids
Joseph Deas, University of Arizona ; Martha S. Hunter, University of Arizona
9:47 AM
0390
Do praying mantises preferentially hunt near flowers?
Heather S. Mallory, Georgetown University ; Martha R Weiss, Georgetown University
9:59 AM
0391
Description of the sexual generation of Disholcaspis quercusmamma (Walsh) (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)
Crystal L. McEwen, Colorado State University ; Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University
10:11 AM
0392
The role of vision in host selection of Warren root collar weevil, Hylobius warreni
Laura Machial, University of Northern British Columbia ; B. Staffan Lindgren, University of Northern British Columbia ; Brian H. Aukema, University of Minnesota
10:23 AM
Break
10:35 AM
0393
Do ambusher and cruiser entomopathogenic nematodes disperse differently in soil in the absence of hosts?
Harit K Bal, The Ohio State University ; Robin AJ. Taylor, The Ohio State University ; P. S. Grewal, The Ohio State University
10:47 AM
0394
Effects of land management history on the abundance and diversity of forest leaf-litter arthropods
José-Cristian Martínez, University of Illinois at Chicago
10:59 AM
0396
Aquatic insect emergence at a landscape scale: an example from the Icelandic “midge lake”
Jamin Dreyer, University of Wisconsin ; Phil Townsend, University of Wisconsin ; M. Jake Vander Zanden, University of Wisconsin ; David Hoekman, University of Wisconsin-Madison ; Claudio Gratton, University of Wisconsin
11:11 AM
0397
Manure inputs affect composition of predatory beetle assemblages in vegetable fields
Jessica Awad, University of Vermont ; Yolanda H. Chen, University of Vermont ; Scott Lewins, University of Vermont
11:23 AM
0398
Effects of mulches and weeds on predators (Carabidae and Staphylinidae) and their potential prey in highbush blueberries
Justin M. Renkema, Dalhousie University ; Sandra J. Walde, Dalhousie University ; G. Christopher Cutler, Nova Scotia Agricultural College ; Kenna MacKenzie, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada ; Derek H. Lynch, Nova Scotia Agricultural College
11:35 AM
0399
Understanding mechanisms underlying foraging behavior of lady beetle larvae
Swapna R. Purandare, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Brigitte Tenhumberg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
11:47 AM
Concluding Remarks
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