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Tuesday, December 11, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Pacific Salon Six, Golden Pacific Ballroom, Second Floor (Town & Country) |
Symposium: The Role of Landscape Heterogeneity in Insect Metapopulations and Metacommunities |
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| Organizer(s): | Kavitha Damal, kdamal@ilstu.edu
Paul Leisnham, pleisnh@ilstu.edu
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| 8:00 AM | | | | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:05 AM | | 0815 | | A mosquito 'Hitchhiker's Guide' to south Florida: Human-aided dispersal of Aedes aegypti via tire movement?
Kavitha Damal, kdamal@ilstu.edu, Sabine Loew |
| 8:25 AM |  | 0816 | | Effects of encroaching forest on the dispersal and dynamics of the Rocky Mountain Apollo butterfly, Parnassius smintheus
Stephen Matter, mattersf@email.uc.edu, Jens Roland, Nusha Keyghobadi |
| 8:50 AM | | 0817 | | Dispersal ability and genetic structure in aquatic invertebrates: A comparative study in southern California streams and reservoirs
Andrew J. Bohonak, bohonak@sciences.sdsu.edu, Julianne M. Zickovich |
| 9:15 AM | | 0818 | | Spatial variation in grasshopper body size: patterns, mechanisms, and selection
Jason Jannot, jjannot@ilstu.edu, S.A. Juliano, S. Loew, O. Akman, T. Comar |
| 9:40 AM | | 0819 | | Landscape heterogeneity and ant invasions in southern California
David A. Holway, dholway@biomal.ucsd.edu, Sean Menke |
| 10:05 AM | | | | Break |
| 10:15 AM | | 0820 | | Metapopulation structure of insects and spiders in remote island communities: Why worry about history?
George K. Roderick, roderick@berkeley.edu, Rosemary Gillespie |
| 10:40 AM | | 0821 | | Time scales and metapopulation dynamics
Alan Hastings, amhastings@ucdavis.edu |
| 11:05 AM | | 0822 | | Biological constraints to adaptation by patchy metapopulations to use spatial heterogeneity
David Andow, dandow@umn.edu, Y. Hu |
| 11:30 AM | | 0823 | | Landscape characteristics shape population genetic structure in Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Stenopelmatus sp.)
Amy Vandergast, avandergast@usgs.gov |
| 11:55 AM | | | | Concluding Remarks |
