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Valles Caldera National Preserve: Plant, Animal, and Human Diversity On an Ancient Volcano

Tuesday, December 14, 2010: 1:10 PM-5:00 PM
San Diego (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizers:
Alma Solis
Robert R. Parmenter
1:10 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:15 PM
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Natural history of Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico:  Climate, geology, flora, fauna and human history
Robert R. Parmenter, Valles Caldera Trust
1:45 PM
1059
Surveying Hymenoptera of Valles Caldera National Preserve:  Discoveries from a little-sampled region 
Michael W. Gates, USDA, Systematic Entomology Laboratory; Matthew L. Buffington, USDA - ARS; Robert R. Kula, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory; David R. Smith, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
2:05 PM
1060
The Owlet moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae and Erebidae) of Valles Caldera:  What’s new and exciting?
Michael G. Pogue, USDA-ARS-PSI
2:25 PM
1061
Lepidoptera of Valles Caldera:  Patterns of species richness and seasonal phenology
John W. Brown, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI
2:45 PM
1062
Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of Valles Caldera National Preserve
Allen Norrbom, USDA - ARS
3:05 PM
Break
3:20 PM
1063
The caddisflies (Trichoptera), dragonflies (Odonata, mayflies (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies (Plecoptera), and lacewings (Neuroptera), from VCNP
Oliver Flint, Smithsonian Institution; Boris Kondratieff, Colorado State University
3:40 PM
1064
The lonely aquatic moth: Petrophila avernalis (Crambidae: Acentropinae)
Alma Solis, USDA, ARS
3:55 PM
1065
A first look at the aphid (Hemiptera:  Aphididae) fauna of Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico
Gary L. Miller, USDA - ARS; Andrew S. Jensen, Washington State University; Colin Favret, Illinois Natural History Survey
4:15 PM
1066
Three holarctic sedge-associated plant bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae) in grasslands of Valles Caldera, New Mexico
AG. Wheeler, Clemson University
4:35 PM
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Valles Caldera land management effects on insect populations:  Impacts of fire and elk-livestock grazing on ground-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera:  Carabidae, Tenebrionidae), crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera)
Robert R. Parmenter, Valles Caldera Trust
4:55 PM
Concluding Remarks
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