ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Insect Research on the Urban Frontier: Biocontrol and Pollination Services in City Landscapes

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:55 AM
Room A1, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizers:
Mary M. Gardiner
Donald C. Weber
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:10 AM
1415
Urban ecosystem services and land use change: assessment and value
Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm University
8:35 AM
1416
Biodiversity and trophic dynamics in urban arthropod communities: patterns and causes
Stanley H. Faeth, University of North Carolina; Christofer Bang, Arizona State University; Susanna Saari, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
8:55 AM
1417
Response of arthropods to urban habitat structure and management
Thomas Sattler, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL; Martin K. Obrist, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL; Peter Duelli, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL; Marco Moretti, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
9:20 AM
1418
Bringing nature home: designing backyards to encourage beneficial insects as components of restored ecosystems
Douglas W. Tallamy, University of Delaware; Karin Burghardt, University of Delaware; Chris Phillips, University of Delaware
9:40 AM
1419
Patterns in arthropod taxa and ecosystem function in native and alien urban landscapes
Paula M. Shrewsbury, University of Maryland; Douglas W. Tallamy, University of Delaware; Michael J. Raupp, University of Maryland; Ellery A. Krause, University of Maryland
10:00 AM
Break
10:15 AM
1420
Converting vacant land to produce food in cities: influences on beneficial insects and arthropod-mediated ecosystem services
Mary M. Gardiner, The Ohio State University; Scott Prajzner, The Ohio State University; Caitlin Burkman, The Ohio State University, OARDC
10:35 AM
1421
Largest known occurrence of morphological anomalies of predatory beetles in an urban landscape
Kamal JK. Gandhi, University of Georgia; Daniel A. Herms, The Ohio State University
10:55 AM
1422
Below-ground biocontrol services in the urban environment: soil food web structure in vacant land and urban farming sites
Parwinder Grewal, The Ohio State University
11:15 AM
1423
Native bees in the urban environment, citizen science and monitoring efforts
Sam Droege, U.S. Geological Survey
11:35 AM
1424
Pollinator diversity and abundance in cities: using preferred food resources to monitor bee communities
Victoria Agatha Wojcik, University of California
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