Session: Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB-5 (2012 ESA Annual Meeting (November 11-14, 2012))

Yaleaka B. Currie, Fayetteville State University ; Lieceng Zhu, Fayetteville State University ; Ming-Shun Chen, Plant Science and Entomology Research Unit

8:51 AM

0731

Statistical biodiversity: Analyses of carrion-feeding insects as a function of local climate and stage of decomposition

Michelle L. Lewis, Sam Houston State University ; Natalie K. Lindgren, Sam Houston State University ; Sibyl R. Bucheli, Sam Houston State University

9:03 AM

0732

Response of invertebrate diversity to habitat degradation in a wastewater effluent release site in Southeast Louisiana

Marc O. Weller, Southeastern Louisiana University ; Janice L Bossart, Southeastern Louisiana University

9:15 AM

0733

Community and population patterns of mosquito larvae in tire habitats across spatial and temporal axes in Mississippi, USA

Stephen David Flanagan, University of Southern Mississippi ; Francis N. Ezeakacha, University of Southern Mississippi ; Alisa A. Abuzeineh, University of Southern Mississippi ; Jeffrey Skiff, University of Southern Mississippi ; William C. Glasgow, University of Southern Mississippi ; Kevin Kuehn, University of Southern Mississippi ; Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi

9:27 AM

0734

Patterns of burrowing invertebrate communities in small and large agricultural drainage ditches

Alan Leslie, University of Maryland ; William O. Lamp, University of Maryland

9:39 AM

Break

9:51 AM

0735

Profile of the effects of a distinct precipitation gradient and land use practices on community composition of indigenous entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) in Oklahoma

Kyle Risser, Oklahoma State University ; Xandra Robideau, Oklahoma State University ; Mackenzie Jochim, Oklahoma State University ; Carmen M. Greenwood, Oklahoma State University

10:03 AM

0736

Is nesting behavior evolving in a stepwise evolution of increasing behavioral complexity in spider wasps? The case of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

Juanita Rodriguez, Utah State University ; Carol D. von Dohlen, Utah State University ; James P. Pitts, Utah State University

10:15 AM

0737

A coat of many colors: Quantification and analysis of bumble bee color patterns

Michelle A. Duennes, University of Illinois ; Sydney A. Cameron, University of Illinois ; Zoi Rapti, University of Illinois

10:27 AM

0738

Component wise variance in community profiles of Apis mellifera hives

Kirk J. Grubbs, University of Wisconsin ; Jarrod J. Scott, University of Wisconsin ; Kevin J. Budsberg, University of Wisconsin ; Harry Read, University of Wisconsin ; Teri C. Balser, University of Wisconsin ; Cameron Currie, University of Wisconsin

10:39 AM

0739

Relationship between reproductive mode and mitochondrial diversification inferred by cytonuclear disequilibria in the bark louse Echmepteryx hageni

Scott M. Shreve, University of Illinois ; Kevin P. Johnson, University of Illinois, llinois Natural History Survey

10:51 AM

0740

Multiscale patterns of ground-dwelling spider (Araneae) diversity in Northern Canada

Sarah Loboda, McGill University ; Christopher M. Buddle, McGill University

11:03 AM

0741

Changes in California Odonata communities since 1914

Joan E. Ball, University of California, Berkeley ; Vincent H. Resh, University of California, Berkeley