P-IE Section Symposium: The Environment as the Sculptor: How Abiotic Factors Shape Plant-Insect Interactions

Sunday, November 10, 2013: 1:15 PM-5:15 PM
Meeting Room 12 A (Austin Convention Center)
Organizer :
Warren B. Sconiers


1:15 PM
Welcoming Remarks
1:20 PM
0245
Plant chemical variation and trophic interactions:  time is of the essence
M. Deane Bowers, University of Colorado ; Carolina Quintero, University of Colorado, Boulder
1:40 PM
0248
Stressed plants and herbivores: exploring the mechanisms of drought's impact on plant-insect interactions
Warren B. Sconiers, Texas A&M University ; Micky Eubanks, Texas A&M University
2:00 PM
0247
Drought stress alters plant chemistry, with contrasting responses of a generalist and a specialist herbivore
Silvia Dorn, ETH Zurich ; Bettina Gutbrodt, ETH Zurich ; Karsten Mody, ETH Zurich
2:20 PM
0246
Impact of drought and rainfall patterns on defoliation cycles of south Texas shrubs by their butterfly herbivores
Lawrence E. Gilbert, University of Texas
2:40 PM
Break
2:55 PM
0249
Habitat-dependent species interactions and population control of herbivores
Richard Karban, University of California-Davis
3:15 PM
0250
Tracking plant virus infections through multiple dimensions: A search for sources of nonpersistent virus vectors and reservoirs at local andregional scales
Gina M. Angelella, Purdue University ; Ian Kaplan, Purdue University
3:35 PM
0251
Predicting variation in behavioral, physiological, and developmental responses to predation risk
Jennifer S. Thaler, Cornell University
3:55 PM
0252
Abiotic factors and their potential influence on the geographic structure of host-associated differentiation
Raul F. Medina, Texas A&M University
4:15 PM
0253
Using a long term survey of grasshopper communities in the Colorado Rockies to understand insect herbivores and climate change
Cesar R. Nufio, University of Colorado
4:35 PM
Concluding Remarks
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