Session: SysEB Section Symposium: Dynamics of the Tropical Ecosystems: A Bug's-Eye View of the Jungle (2013 ESA Annual Meeting)

SysEB Section Symposium: Dynamics of the Tropical Ecosystems: A Bug's-Eye View of the Jungle

Tuesday, November 12, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Meeting Room 6 A (Austin Convention Center)

Organizers:

Melissa Sánchez Herrera
William R. Kuhn
Manpreet Kohli
Jessica L. Ware

1:30 PM

Welcoming Remarks

1:33 PM

1247

Living architectures in army ants

Simon Garnier, New Jersey Institute of Technology

1:53 PM

1248

Lianas shape the ecology of tropical canopy ants

Stephen P. Yanoviak, University of Louisville

2:13 PM

1249

Population variation in sexual dimorphism in the damselfly Megaloprepus caerulatus: evidence for genetic divergence?

Ola Fincke, Univeristy of Oklahoma ; Mingzi Xu, University of Oklahoma ; Emily Khazan, Univeristy of Oklahoma ; Jessica L. Ware, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

2:33 PM

1250

Oil Company’s impact on the equatorial rainforest entomofauna of eastern Ecuador in the Yasuni region

Terry Erwin, Smithsonian Institution

2:53 PM

Break

3:03 PM

1251

Aquatic insects of the Guiana Shield

Andrew Short, University of Kansas

3:23 PM

1252

Measuring species richness of Blattodea in the Guyana Shield

Jessica L. Ware, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

3:43 PM

1253

The roles of phylogeny and ecology in shaping Cassidine beetle associations with diverse tropical vegetation

Caroline S. Chaboo, University of Kansas

4:03 PM

1254

Testing hypotheses for wing coloration in a Neotropical damselfly group through morphometric and phylogenetic analyses

Nikole Abkrom, N/A ; Melissa Sanchez Herrera, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ; William R. Kuhn, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ; Christopher Beatty, Santa Clara University

4:23 PM

1255

Scorpion biogeography: the Antilles

Lauren Esposito, Berkley

4:43 PM

1256

Neotropical foodwebs in bromeliads

Diane S. Srivastava, University of British Columbia

5:03 PM

1257

Postcopulatory sexual selection in tropical odonates

Adolfo Cordero-Rivera, Grupo de Ecoloxía Evolutiva e da Conservación