Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section P-IE7. Plant-Insect Ecosystems (2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008)

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

Room A13, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Moderators:

Andrew J. Storer
Matthew D. Ginzel

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:05 AM

0455

Characterization of the arthropod community in Nebraska switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.)

Sandra Schaeffer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Frederick P. Baxendale, Department of Entomology; Tiffany Heng-Moss, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Gautam Sarath, USDA - ARS ; Robert Mitchell, USDA-ARS

8:17 AM

0456

Random or non-random structure?: What species co-occurrence, spatial and temporal variation reveal about the psocoptera community associated with eastern hemlock in the southern Appalachians

Carla Dilling, University of Tennessee; Paris L. Lambdin, University of Tennessee; Jerome Grant, University of Tennessee

Audio File

8:29 AM

0457

Effects of severe inundation on a coastal marsh grass and its associated insect assemblage

Mark S. Fox, Tulane University; Lee A. Dyer, University of Nevada; Michael J. Blum, Tulane University; Kristen Butcher, Tulane University; Alex Kolker, Tulane University

Audio File

8:41 AM

0458

Multi-state comparison of aphid community composition in prairies

Wayne J. Ohnesorg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Thelma T. Heidel, Purdue University; Matthew E. O'Neal, Iowa State University; Claudio Gratton, University of Wisconsin; Cory Straub, Ursinus College; Clifford S Sadof, Purdue University; Bob O'Neil, Purdue University

Audio File

8:53 AM

0459

Ecological effects of an invasive social wasp on Hawaiian Hymenoptera

Erin E. Wilson, University of California San Diego; David A. Holway, University of California

Audio File

9:05 AM

0460

Landscape affects on soybean aphid and natural enemy abundances in Iowa

Nicholas P. Schmidt, Iowa State University; Matthew E. O'Neal, Iowa State University; Lisa Schulte, Iowa State University

Audio File

9:17 AM

Break

9:29 AM

0461

Herbivory induced spatial patterns in plant physiology and gene expression under predicted future climate conditions

Paul Nabity, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at Urbana-Champaign; Michael Hillstrom, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Richard L. Lindroth, University of Wisconsin; Evan H. DeLucia, University of Illinois

Audio File

9:41 AM

0462

Estimating carabid beetle population parameters in field corn to identify potential bioindicator species

Miles Lepping, University of Maryland; Galen Dively, University of Maryland; Paula M. Shrewsbury, University of Maryland

9:53 AM

0463

Feedback between invasive belowground herbivores and habitat composition in northern hardwood ecosystems

David R. Coyle, University of Georgia; William J. Mattson, USDA Forest Service; Alexander L. Friend, USDA Forest Service; Kenneth F. Raffa, University of Wisconsin

Audio File

10:05 AM

0464

Fire injury increases both host susceptibility and competitor load for the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins): Implications to population dynamics and outbreaks

Erinn N Powell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Kenneth F. Raffa, University of Wisconsin

Audio File

10:17 AM

0466

The use of arthropods as ecological measures of desert spring health classification

Alex M. Johnson, Michigan State University; Mark E. Whalon, Michigan State University

Audio File

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