Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, P-IE: Forest Entomology & Invasive Species Management

Monday, December 13, 2010: 8:50 AM-11:50 AM
Royal Palm, Salon 5 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Moderator:
David G. Hall
8:50 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:55 AM
Insect and disease response to prescribed burning, harvesting and wildfire in pine forests in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Rita M. Koch, Michigan Technological University; Linda M. Haugen, USDA Forest Service; Linda M. Nagel, Michigan Technological University; Michael E. Ostry, USDA Forest Service; Andrew J. Storer, Michigan Technological University
9:07 AM
Utilization of a nutritionally refractive food source by the European woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, and its microbial symbiont community
Brian M Thompson, University of Maryland; Bo Liu, University of Maryland; Robert J. Grebenok, Canisius College; Sandra M Adams, Univeristy of WI; Garret Suen, University of Wisconsin; Elmer Haapala, University of Maryland; Cameron Currie, University of Wisconsin; Daniel S. Gruner, University of Maryland
9:19 AM
Kick ‘em while they’re down:  Do secondary bark beetles kill residual pines left by epidemic mountain pine beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae (Hopkins) in interior British Columbia?
Ewing Teen, University of Northern British Columbia; Allan L. Carroll, University of British Columbia; Brian H. Aukema, University of Minnesota
9:31 AM
Response of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) populations to fire-injured lodgepole (Pinus contorta) and ponderosa (P. ponderosa) pines:  Implications to disturbance interactions and bark beetle outbreaks
Andrew Lerch, University of Wisconsin; Barbara J. Bentz, USDA - Forest Service; Darren Blackford, USDA - Forest Service; Kenneth F. Raffa, University of Wisconsin
9:43 AM
Primary or secondary bark beetle? Behavior of endemic level populations of mountain pine beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae (Hopkins)
Jordan M. Koopmans, University of Northern British Columbia; Allan L. Carroll, University of British Columbia; Brian H. Aukema, University of Minnesota
9:55 AM
The acoustic ecology of bark beetles
Kasey Maria Yturralde, Northern Arizona University; Richard W. Hofstetter, Northern Arizona University
10:07 AM
The heritability of size and its effect on fecundity in two bark beetle species, Dendroctonus brevicomis and Ips pini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Christopher J. Foelker, State University of New York, ESF; Richard W. Hofstetter, Northern Arizona University; Thomas S. Davis, University of Idaho
10:19 AM
Break
10:55 AM
Development time and survivorship of Deladenus siricidicola (Tylenchida: Neotylenchidae) on different strains of Amylostereum areolatum (Russulales: Stereaceae)
E. Erin Morris, University of Copenhagen; Ann E. Hajek, Cornell University; Alexandra Jimenez, Cornell University
11:07 AM
A facilitated introduction?  A new specialist herbivore on Chinese tallow
Rebecca F. Hazen, Tulane University; Jianqing Ding, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Mark S. Fox, Tulane University
11:19 AM
Role of host plant and oral bacteria in the gypsy moth’s interaction with hybrid poplar
Charles Mason, Pennsylvania State University; Kenneth F. Raffa, University of Wisconsin
11:31 AM
Methyl jasmonate as a tool to investigate induced responses of ash to the emerald ash borer
Justin Whitehill, The Ohio State University; Don Cipollini, Wright State University; Jennifer Koch, USDA - Forest Service; Daniel A. Herms, The Ohio State University; Pierluigi Bonello, The Ohio State University
11:43 AM
Concluding Remarks