SysEB Section Symposium: What Arthropods Reveal about the Biogeography of the American Southwest and Mexico; with a Report on Work from Joshua Tree National Park

Wednesday, November 13, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Ballroom G (Austin Convention Center)
Organizer :
Heidi Hopkins


1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
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Sky islands and Chrysina beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
Don Thomas, USDA Agricultural Research Service
1:55 PM
1841
Biogeography of the southwest, mayflies (Ephemeroptera) and stoneflies (Plecoptera) as examples
Boris Kondratieff, C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity
2:15 PM
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Biogeography and relationships of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of southwestern North America
Allen Sanborn, Barry University
2:35 PM
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Biogeography of Odonata of the American southwest and Mexico
John C. Abbott, University of Texas
2:55 PM
1844
Geographic patterns of North American grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids (Orthoptera)
David C. Lightfoot, The University of New Mexico
3:15 PM
1845
Withdrawn
3:35 PM
Break
3:45 PM
1846
Biogeography of a suprisingly speciose genus, Arenivaga (Rehn) (Blattodea: Polyphagidae)
Heidi Hopkins, University of New Mexico
4:05 PM
1847
Joshua Tree National Park Biodiversity:  a new synergy between the Smithsonion Institution and National Park Service
Michael W. Gates, USDA-ARS ; Elijah Talamas, USDA
4:25 PM
1848
Cynipoid wasp diversity in Joshua Tree National Park
Matthew Buffington, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL) ; Elijah Talamas, USDA
4:45 PM
1849
A million little brown wasps (Hymenoptera: Chyphotidae, Mutillidae, and Tiphiidae): a survey of Joshua Tree National Park
Emily A. Sadler, Utah State University
5:05 PM
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Citizen science and volunteerism at Joshua Tree National Park: boots on the ground
Paul Delaney, Copper Mountain College ; Andrea Compton, Joshua Tree National Park
5:25 PM
Concluding Remarks
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