Oral Session #53: Terrestrial Invertebrate Ecology.

Presiding: R.T. Trotter III, Northern Arizona University.
Tuesday, August 8, 2000
1:15 PM to 5:15 PM
Cottonwood Room IV - Sports Event Center

1:15 PM	A habitat specialist in a naturally fragmented landscape: Thresholds and constraints. SCHOOLEY, R.L. , J.A. WIENS
1:30 PM	Relationships among porcupines, pinyon pines, and bark beetles in the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the Edwards Plateau in Texas. ILSE, L.M. , E.C. HELLGREN
1:45 PM	Competition and soil moisture influence the distribution of the endangered Coral Pink Sand Dunes Tiger Beetle (Cicindela limbata albissima). ROMEY, W.L. , C.B. KNISLEY
2:00 PM	Ground beetle community responses to experimental fire frequency. COOK, W.M. , R.D. HOLT, J.S. ASHE
2:15 PM	Non-indigenous Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Insecta) in Oregon: An analysis of occurrence and habitat. LATTIN, J.D
2:30 PM	Climate change and its effect on the range shift of Atalopedes campestris, the sachem skipper butterfly: Experimental evidence for a climatic range limiting factor. CROZIER, L.G.
2:45 PM	Biogeographical patterns of butterfly species richness. PORTER, E. , B. HAWKINS
3:00 PM	Break
3:30 PM	The matrix matters: Effective isolation in fragmented landscapes. RICKETTS, T.H.
3:45 PM	Weather-driven resource availability controls butterfly population dynamics. BOGGS, C.L. , D.W. INOUYE
4:00 PM	Influence of cold weather on the abundance of pinyon pine sawflies. SHOLES, O.D.V.
4:15 PM	Contingent community structure: How resource-dependent interactions influence desert ant communities. SANDERS, N.J. , D.M. GORDON
4:30 PM	The interaction of soil texture and vegetation as a determinant of ant diversity in semiarid landscapes. BESTELMEYER, B.
4:45 PM	Factors limiting the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis wagneri in its native range in Brazil. WACKFORD, K.M. , D.H. FEENER, JR.
5:00 PM	The phenology of a neotropical ant assemblage--Testing for segregation in time. KASPARI, M. , J. PICKERING, D. WINDSOR