ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Insect Demography: Emerging Concepts and Applications

Tuesday, November 15, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:10 AM
Room A17, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizer :
James R. Carey
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM
0896
Estimating fitness variation within insect populations: how much and why
Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University
8:25 AM
0897
Estimating medfly population age structure using the death distributions of live captures
James R. Carey, University of California, Davis
9:05 AM
0898
Withdrawn
8:45 AM
0899
Competing risk in insect mortality analysis: rethinking efficacy in biological control
Robert K. D. Peterson, Montana State University
9:25 AM
Break
9:40 AM
0900
Are age-structure estimates in populations of univoltine insects useful? Case study of the checkerspot butterfly
Carol L. Boggs, Stanford University
10:00 AM
0901
Social dimensions of aging in honey bee workers
Olav Rueppell, University of North Carolina
10:20 AM
0902
Seasonal worker demography shapes colony-level labor allocation in the Florida harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex badius)
Christina Kwapich, Arizona State University; Walter R. Tschinkel, Florida State University
10:40 AM
0903
Towards a demographic framework in forensic entomology
Robert B. Kimsey, University of California, Davis
11:00 AM
Concluding Remarks
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