ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB-4

Monday, November 14, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:20 AM
Room D2, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizer :
Jason R. Cryan
Moderator:
Alejandro A. Valerio
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:03 AM
0685
Evolution of the weevil rostrum (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea): internal structure and evolutionary trends
Steven Ray Davis, University of Kansas
8:15 AM
0686
An overlooked structure: the praying mantid egg case and its functional diversity (Insecta: Mantodea)
Julio Rivera, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola
8:27 AM
0687
Description of the ovipositor muscles and skeletal structures of Ceraphronoidea (Hymenoptera) using laser scanning microscopy for visualization
Andrew F. Ernst, North Carolina State University; István Mikó, Pennsylvania State University; Andrew Deans, North Carolina State University
8:39 AM
0688
Evolution of diet and correlated mouthpart morphology in the Hoplandriini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
K. Taro Eldredge, University of Kansas
8:51 AM
0689
Approximation to classification and diversity of Glyptapanteles (Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from the neotropics based on material from northwestern Costa Rica
Diana Carolina Arias Penna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at Urbana-Champaign; James B. Whitfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:03 AM
0690
Predicting occurrence of the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) in Nebraska's Sandhills region
Jessica D. Jurzenski, University of Nebraska; W. Wyatt Hoback, Oklahoma State University; Andy Bishop, US Fish and Wildlife Service; Roger Grosse, US Fish and Wildlife Service
9:15 AM
0691
Historical biogeography of the cosmopolitan spider wasp genus Ceropales (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Juanita Rodriguez, Utah State University; James P. Pitts, Utah State University; Carol D. von Dohlen, Utah State University
9:27 AM
0692
Non-congruent colonizations of remote islands by a specialized pollinating seed-predation mutualism (Phyllanthaceae: Glochidion; Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae: Epicephala)
David Hembry, University of California, Berkeley; Atsushi Kawakita, Kyoto University; Neil E. Gurr, American Samoa Community College; Mark Schmaedick, American Samoa Community College; Bruce Baldwin, University of California, Berkeley; Rosemary Gillespie, University of California, Berkeley
9:39 AM
Break
9:51 AM
0693
Withdrawn
10:03 AM
0694
Profiler of the bad guys: what are the characteristics of invasive ants?
Cleo Bertelsmeier, Université Paris Sud; Gloria M. Luque, Université Paris Sud; Franck Courchamp, CNRS - Université Paris Sud XI
10:15 AM
0695
Origin, diversity, and diversification of the native Hawaiian leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Nesophrosyne)
Gordon Bennett, University of California, Berkeley; Patrick M. O'Grady, University of California, Berkeley
10:27 AM
0696
Changes in carabid (Coleoptera: Carabidae) diversity and community structure in age structured forests
Kathryn Riley, Wake Forest University; Robert A. Browne, Wake Forest University
10:39 AM
0697
Diversity of saproxylic Coleoptera in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Michael L. Ferro, Louisiana State University; Christopher E. Carlton, Louisiana State University
10:51 AM
0698
Arthropod abundance and community structure in contrasting Amazonian forests
Greg PA. Lamarre, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA); Paul VA. Fine, University of California; Christopher Baraloto, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
11:03 AM
0699
Biodiversity of arthropods associated with a mat of Salvinia minima
Katherine A. Parys, USDA - ARS; Seth J. Johnson, Louisiana State University AgCenter
11:15 AM
Concluding Remarks
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