Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize, SEB: Biodiversity (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Monday, December 14, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:00 AM

Room 107, First Floor (Convention Center)

Moderators:

Jacqueline Miller
Jason R. Cryan

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:05 AM

Raiding the taxonomic toolbox: using integrative taxonomy to unravel Batesian mimicry complexes in the Taeniapterini (Diptera: Micropezidae)

Morgan D. Jackson, University of Guelph; Stephen Marshall, University of Guelph; Jeffrey H. Skevington, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes

8:17 AM

0409

Impacts of the invasive herb garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) on local ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) communities in northern temperate forests

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

8:29 AM

0410

Effects of environmental parameters on predacious diving beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) abundance and species richness among three habitat types in southern Mississippi

Kristopher Alexander Pitcher, University of Southern Mississippi; Donald Yee, The University of Southern Mississippi

8:41 AM

0411

Matthew D. Trager, University of Florida

8:53 AM

0412

Competitive effects of a dominant arboreal ant (Azteca instabilis) on ground foraging ant diversity and community structure in a coffee agroecosystem

Katherine Ennis, University of Michigan; Ivette Perfecto, University of Michigan; John Vandermeer, University of Michigan

9:05 AM

Break

9:17 AM

0413

The effects of fire on the community composition, diversity and abundance of Carabidae in an Artemisia filifolia Torr. habitat

Joy Newton, West Texas A&M University; Gj. Michels, Texas AgriLife Research Center

9:29 AM

0414

Novel patterns of diversification in Hawaiian bark lice

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

9:41 AM

0415

Biodiversity and evolution of rove beetles in the Euaesthetine subgroup (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Dave J. Clarke, The Field Museum

9:53 AM

0416

Biodiversity and spatial distribution of arthropods associated with a Salvinia minima mat

Katherine A. Parys, USDA - ARS; Seth Johnson, Louisiana State University

10:05 AM

0418

Biogeography of the Pepsis hymenaea-group: a new approach

Eduardo Fernando Santos, Universidade de São Paulo; Fernando Noll, UNESP

10:17 AM

0419

Aggregation mechanisms influencing spatial distributions of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae)

Justin G. Fiene, Arkansas State University; Tanja Mckay, Arkansas State University

10:29 AM

Concluding Remarks

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