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26 - Graduate Ten-Minute Paper Competition: SysEB - Dispersal, Colonization, and Biogeography

Monday, November 16, 2015: 8:10 AM-12:30 PM
212 AB (Convention Center)
Moderators:
John Moeller Leavengood
Ainsley E. Seago


8:10 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:15 AM
Emergent wetland pollinators: An unknown story
Phillip Stephenson, University of Arkansas
8:27 AM
The evolution and biogeography of top Neotropical predators (Eciton spp.)
Max E. Winston, University of Chicago ; Daniel Kronauer, Harvard University ; Corrie Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History
8:51 AM
Measuring the effects of reduced snow cover on alpine arthropods: an Australian perspective
Rachel Slatyer, University of Melbourne ; Michael Nash, South Australia Research and Development Institute ; Ary Hoffmann, University of Melbourne
9:15 AM
9:27 AM
Turning over a new leaf: the temporal variation of Carabidae (Coleoptera) and Gnaphosidae (Araneae) in leaf litter
Fredericka Hamilton, University of Arkansas ; Ashley Dowling, University of Arkansas
9:39 AM
Forest disturbance increased ground beetle species diversity
Kayla I. Perry, The Ohio State University ; Kimberly F. Wallin, University of Vermont and USDA Forest Service ; John Wenzel, Carnegie Museum of Natural History ; Daniel A. Herms, The Ohio State University
10:03 AM
Biogeography of Cymatodera (Cleridae: Tillinae), for richer in North America and for poorer in South America
Alan Burke, Kansas State University ; Gregory Zolnerowich, Kansas State University
10:15 AM
Break
10:27 AM
Niche ecology across time in an adaptive radiation of Hawaiian spiders
Susan Kennedy, University of California ; Joanne Clavel, Université Paris 6 ; Rosemary Gillespie, University of California
10:39 AM
Biogeographical patterns in the hard-tick genus Amblyomma Koch (Acari: Ixodidae)
Matthew Seabolt, Georgia Southern University ; Lorenza Beati, Georgia Southern University ; Lance Durden, Georgia Southern University ; Hans Klompen, The Ohio State University
10:51 AM
Flying to the beat of a different drum: discordant patterns of butterfly dispersal across the Indo-Australian archipelago
Andrew Brownjohn, City College of New York--CUNY ; David J. Lohman, City College of New York--CUNY
11:03 AM
Environmental temperature gradients contribute to range limits for high-elevation butterflies
Dale Halbritter, University of Florida ; Jaret C. Daniels, University of Florida
11:27 AM
Withdrawn
11:39 AM
Exploring understudied fauna using systematics and presence-absence data; what can we learn from North American Monatractides (Hydrachnidiae, Torrenticolidae)?
Whitney Nelson, University of Arkansas ; Ray Fisher, University of Arkansas ; Joseph O'Neill, University of Arkansas ; Danielle Fisher, University of Arkansas ; Andrea Radwell, University of Arkansas ; Ian Smith, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada ; Ashley P. G. Dowling, University of Arkansas
11:51 AM
Aquatic macroinvertebrate and microbial community responses to salmon carrion introduction into a headwater stream
Courtney Larson, Michigan State University ; Courtney R. Weatherbee, Michigan State University ; Jennifer L. Pechal, Michigan State University ; Brandon Gerig, University of Notre Dame ; Gary Lamberti, University of Notre Dame ; M. Eric Benbow, Michigan State University
12:03 PM
On the origin of New World Pyrgomorphidae
Ricardo Marino-Perez, TEXAS A&M ; Hojun Song, Texas A&M University
12:15 PM
Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of two Caribbean centrotine treehopper tribes (Hemiptera: Membracidae) based on nuclear gene sequence and morphological character data
Brendan Morris, University of Illinois ; Christopher H. Dietrich, University of Illinois, llinois Natural History Survey