The 2005 ESA Annual Meeting and Exhibition
December 15-18, 2005
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

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Saturday, December 17, 2005: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Room 304 (Convention Center, Third Floor)

Symposium: Diversity of Trophic Relationships in the Carabidae

Organizer(s): Jonathan G. Lundgren, jlundgren@ngirl.ars.usda.gov
Donald C. Weber, weberd@ba.ars.usda.gov
1:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:35 PM0884Carabid predation: How important are the immatures?
Matthew H. Greenstone, greenstm@ba.ars.usda.gov
1:55 PM0885Microclimatic effects on ground beetle communities and predation
Alois Honek, honek@vurv.cz, Pavel Saska, saska@vurv.cz
2:15 PM0886Ectoparasitoid carabids and their beetle hosts
Donald C. Weber, weberd@ba.ars.usda.gov, Caroline Chaboo, chaboo@amnh.org
2:35 PMBreak
2:45 PM0887The role of gut microfauna in ground beetle feeding habits
Jonathan G. Lundgren, jlundgren@ngirl.ars.usda.gov, Joanne Chee-Sanford, cheesanf@uiuc.edu, Michael Lehman, mlehman@ngirl.ars.usda.gov
3:05 PM0888The ecology of seed-feeding carabids: A case study of Harpalus rufipes in Maine agroecosystems
Francis A. Drummond, frank.drummond@umit.maine.edu, Eric Gallandt, Amanda Shearin, Cristopher Reberg-Horton
3:25 PM0889Evaluation of the impact of transgenic Bt corn expressing Cry3Bb1 protein on non-target ground beetles
Jian-Jun Duan, jian.j.duan@stl.monsanto.com, Mark S. Paradise, mark.s.paradise@monsanto.com, Christopher R. Brown, christopher.r.brown@monsanto.com, Jonathan G. Lundgren, jlundgren@ngirl.ars.usda.gov, Robert N. Wiedenmann, rnwieden@uiuc.edu
3:45 PM0890The evolution of arboreal ground beetles
Karen Ober, kober@holycross.edu
4:05 PM0891The smell of a beetle: The natural history and evolution of carabid defensive chemistry
Kip Will, kiplingw@nature.berkeley.edu

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