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

Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Room D7, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Moderators:

Richard L. Brown
Michael Irwin

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

0493

The effects of plant community diversity on insect dynamics and ecosystem stability

Angela G. Brommit, University of Windsor; Sherah L. VanLaerhoven, University of Windsor; Dave R. Gillespie, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada; Les Shipp, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

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8:47 AM

0494

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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8:59 AM

0495

Effects of adjacent land use on benthic macro-invertebrates in eastern Oregon

Melissa Scherr, Oregon State University

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9:11 AM

0496

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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9:23 AM

Break

9:35 AM

0497

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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9:47 AM

0498

Survey and database of kissing bugs (Reduviidae: Triatominae) within the Inland Empire

Wei Song Hwang, University of California, Riverside; Christiane Weirauch, University of California

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9:59 AM

0499

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 Cross, Mississippi State University; Omaththage Perera, USDA - ARS

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10:11 AM

0500

Leaf litter ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species richness and composition along an urbanized forest edge

Kaloyan Ivanov, Virginia Museum of Natural History; Joe B. Keiper, Virginia Museum of Natural History

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10:23 AM

0501

Habitat complexity or random chance: What affects the distribution of urban ants?

T. Aurora Toennisson, University of Tennessee; Karen Vail, University of Tennessee

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10:35 AM

0502

Repeated island colonization by Hawaiian bark lice

Emilie Bess, University of Illinois; Kevin P. Johnson, University of Illinois

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