Session: Ten-Minute Papers, SysEB Section: Biodiversity and Conservation (2013 ESA Annual Meeting)

Ten-Minute Papers, SysEB Section: Biodiversity and Conservation

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

Meeting Room 5 ABC (Austin Convention Center)

Moderators:

Guinevere Z. Jones
Jesse A. Eiben

1:30 PM

Welcoming Remarks

1:32 PM

1499

Exploring cloud forest insect biodiversity: Morphological, molecular, and ecological approaches

Guinevere Z. Jones, University of Wyoming

1:44 PM

1500

Arthropod biodiversity baseline survey and monitoring methodology for conservation and land management in high alpine Hawaiian ecosystems

Jesse A. Eiben, University of Hawaii at Hilo ; Daniel Rubinoff, University of Hawaii

1:56 PM

1501

Insect conservation on the Hawaiian islands: Strategies and recommendations for land managers

Matthew J. Medeiros, University of California, Berkeley ; Jesse A. Eiben, University of Hawaii, Manoa ; William P. Haines, University of Hawaii ; Raina Kaholoaa, Haleakala National Park ; Cynthia B. A. King, State of Hawaii ; Paul Krushelnycky, University of Hawaii ; Karl Magnacca, Oahu Army Natural Resources Program ; Daniel Rubinoff, University of Hawaii

2:08 PM

1502

Habitat loss reduces parasitoid diversity only in highly fragmented landscapes

Diego Inclan Luna, University of Padova

2:20 PM

1503

Withdrawn

2:32 PM

1504

Eight legs in the North: The ecological structure of Arctic spider assemblages

Christopher Buddle, McGill University, Macdonald Campus ; Sarah Loboda, McGill University

2:44 PM

1505

The dune of a ghost town: Anthropogenically created biodiversity hotspot of sand wasps and their mutillid parasites

Justin Schmidt, Southwestern Biological Institute

2:56 PM

1506

Genetic correlates of morphological diversity in Costa Rican army ants (Eciton burchellii)

Max E. Winston, University of Chicago ; Corrie Moreau, University of California-Berkeley

3:08 PM

1507

Nested diversity: Mites associated with the ants of conservation grasslands

Kaitlin U. Campbell, Miami University ; Thomas O. Crist, Miami University

3:20 PM

Break

3:30 PM

1508

Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Meliponinae) abundance and diversity as affected by biotic and abiotic factor in fragmented neotropical habitats

Macario Fierro, Universidad Aut�noma de Chiapas

3:42 PM

1509

SWAMP MOTHS! The moths of Congaree National Park

Joseph Culin, Clemson University ; Brian G. Scholtens, College of Charleston ; John Snyder, Furman University ; Tom Smith, College of Charleston

3:54 PM

1510

Patterns of Ancient Colonization in Hawaii’s most diverse moths (Hyposmocoma: Cosmopterigidae)

Daniel Rubinoff, University of Hawaii ; William P. Haines, University of Hawaii ; Patrick Schmitz, University of Hawaii

4:06 PM

1511

Estimating the diversity of scarab beetles in South Carolina golf courses

Juang-Horng Chong, Clemson University ; Kevin Hinson, Clemson University

4:18 PM

1512

Coleoptera collected from rotting fishhook barrel cacti (Ferocactus wislizeni (Engelm.) Britton and Rose), with a review of Nearctic Coleoptera associated with succulent necrosis

Michael Ferro, LSU AgCenter ; Nhu Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley ; Alexey Tishechkin, Louisiana State University ; Jong-Seok Park, Louisiana State University ; Victoria Bayless, Louisiana State University ; Christopher E. Carlton, Louisiana State University

4:30 PM

1513

Ash mortality caused by emerald ash borer alters ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages

Kayla I. Perry, The Ohio State University, OARDC ; Rosemary Walker, SAIC ; Daniel A. Herms, The Ohio State University, OARDC

4:42 PM

1514

Diversity and distribution of Chironominae (Chironomidae: Diptera) larvae from Balaghat ranges in Maharashtra, India

Anant Gikwad, Research student

4:54 PM

1515

A tail of two assassins, the best of times in Proctacanthus robber fly distributions on a longitudinal gradient in the age of wisdom (Diptera: Asilidae)

C. Riley Nelson, Brigham Young University