Session: Program Symposium: Environmental Determinants and Ecological Consequences of Invasions by Arthropod Disease Vectors (2013 ESA Annual Meeting)

Program Symposium: Environmental Determinants and Ecological Consequences of Invasions by Arthropod Disease Vectors

Sunday, November 10, 2013: 1:15 PM-5:15 PM

Meeting Room 16 B (Austin Convention Center)

Organizer :

Brian F. Allan

1:15 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:20 PM

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Vector invasion, range expansion, and models of habitat receptivity

Edward Walker, Michigan State University

1:40 PM

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Competition and coexistence among invasive Aedes: insights from ecological theory

Steven Juliano, Illinois State University ; Paul A. O'Neal, Illinois State University ; Joseph E. Fader, Illinois State University ; Ebony G. Murrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison ; Bruce H Noden, Polytechnic of Namibia

2:00 PM

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Predicting differences in the spread of blacklegged ticks and the Lyme disease bacterium in central and eastern North America: how does ecology matter?

Jean I. Tsao, Michigan State University ; Brian F. Allan, University of Illinois ; Sarah Hamer, Texas A&M University ; Graham J. Hickling, University of Tennessee, Institute of Agriculture ; Nick Ogden, Public Health Agency of Canada

2:20 PM

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Expected and observed effects on genetic diversity of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in a zone of invasion of Ixodes scapularis in Canada

Nick Ogden, Public Health Agency of Canada

2:40 PM

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The Landscape Ecology of Invasive Vectors and Invasive Plants

Michael Reiskind, North Carolina State University

3:00 PM

Break

3:20 PM

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