Session: A focus on arthropods and global change: studying drivers of community structure and function (2014 North Central Branch Meeting)

A focus on arthropods and global change: studying drivers of community structure and function

Wednesday, March 12, 2014: 9:30 AM-12:35 PM

Davenport (Des Moines Marriott)

Organizer :

Scott Prajzner

9:30 AM

Welcoming Remarks

9:35 AM

145

Changing agriculture in Brazil: How on-farm practices deliver biological control services

James D. Harwood, University of Kentucky ; Dany Silvio S. L. Amaral, Federal University of Viçosa ; Madelaine Venzon, Agriculture and Livestock Research Enterprise of Minas Gerais (EPAMIG) ; Marcus Vinicius Alfenas Duarte, Agriculture and Livestock Research Enterprise of Minas Gerais (EPAMIG) ; Fernanda Freitas Sousa, Agriculture and Livestock Research Enterprise of Minas Gerais (EPAMIG) ; Angelo Pallini, Federal University of Viçosa

9:55 AM

146

Conversion of urban vacant land into gardens influences bee community structure without altering pollination services

Scott Prajzner, The Ohio State University ; Mary M. Gardiner, The Ohio State University

10:15 AM

147

Can studies of individuals and populations help inform how climate change may affect aphid-natural enemy communities?

Jason P. Harmon, North Dakota State University

10:35 AM

148

Reduced wind strengthens top-down control of soybean aphids

Brandon Barton, University of Wisconsin