28- Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition: SysEB

Monday, November 11, 2013: 8:24 AM-12:00 PM
Meeting Room 8 C (Austin Convention Center)
Moderators:
Gavin J. Svenson
Manpreet Kohli


8:24 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:36 AM
The impact of prescribed burning on native bee diversity in longleaf pine savannas in the sandhills of North Carolina
Heather M.C. Moylett, North Carolina State University ; Clyde E. Sorenson, North Carolina State University ; Andrew R Deans, Pennsylvania State University
8:48 AM
How measured richness is affected by species delimitation: An example from Guyanese cockroaches
Dominic Evangelista, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ; Jessica L. Ware, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
9:00 AM
A qualitative taxonomic insect survey and similarity analysis of streams in the Chihuahuan Desert of west Texas
Sanjeev Mahabir, Midwestern State University ; Roy Vogtsberger, Midwestern State University
9:12 AM
Factors influencing grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) subfamily distribution along a vegetation gradient in northern bobwhite habitat
Kenneth E. Masloski, Oklahoma State University ; Mark Payton, Oklahoma State University ; Michael Reiskind, North Carolina State University ; Carmen M. Greenwood, Oklahoma State University
9:24 AM
Carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of temporally inundated and non-flooded upland lowland forest in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Kathryn Riley, Wake Forest University ; Robert A Browne, Wake Forest University ; Terry Erwin, Smithsonian Institution
9:36 AM
Diversity of urban ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in central Illinois, with reference to house-infesting species after 87 years
Andrea Walker, University of Illinois ; Andrew V. Suarez, University of Illinois ; May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois
9:48 AM
Projecting distribution and dispersal of subtropical tamarisk beetles, Diorhabda sublineata, towards habitat of the endangered southwestern willow flycatcher
James Tracy, Texas A&M University ; Robert Coulson, Texas A&M University ; Allen Knutson, Texas A&M University
10:00 AM
Break
10:10 AM
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10:22 AM
A survey of the Lepturinae of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Kari Gullickson, University of Wisconsin ; Daniel K. Young, University of Wisconsin
10:34 AM
Macroinvertebrate community convergence between natural, restored, and created wetlands on the Delmarva Peninsula
Elanor Spadafora, University of Maryland ; Alan Leslie, University of Maryland ; Lauren E. Culler, Dartmouth College ; William O. Lamp, University of Maryland
10:46 AM
Ant biodiversity in arid urban environments: effects of fragmentation and habitat modification
Javier G. Miguelena, University of Arizona ; Paul B. Baker, University of Arizona
10:58 AM
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11:10 AM
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11:22 AM
Effect of multi-stressors on ant community in coastal dunes of Gulf of Mexico
Xuan Chen, Louisiana State Univeristy ; B. Hesson, Louisiana State University ; Rachel M. Strecker, Louisiana State University ; L.M. Hooper-Bùi, Louisiana State University
11:34 AM
Modeling endemic parasitic wasp elevational range shift as a result of climate change
Jordie Ocenar, University of Hawaii ; Mark Wright, University of Hawaii
11:46 AM
Concluding Remarks