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Oral Session #6: Insect Population and Community Ecology: Interactions, foodwebs.
Presiding: M. Hunter
Monday, August 5. 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Apache Meeting Room, TCC.

[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] KAPLAN, IAN*,1, EUBANKS, MICKY1, 1 Auburn University, Auburn, AL. Keystone mutualisms and the ecological consequences of manipulation: cascading effects of an ant-aphid interaction.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] GRUNER, DANIEL*,1, 1 Univerity of Hawaii at Manoa:, Honolulu, HI. Top-down and bottom-up influences in a Hawaiian arboreal arthropod food web.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Suttle, Blake*,1, Sapp, Joseph1, Power, Mary1, 1 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. Resource limitation in a generalist grasshopper: the importance of resource abundance and diversity .

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Finke, Deborah*,1, Denno, Robert1, 1 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Vegetation complexity enhances multiple-predator impact on herbivore populations: An examination of behavioral mechanisms.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] PAULSEN, M.*,1, Pilson, Diana1, 1 University of Nebraska- Lincoln, Lincoln, NE. Interspecific competition and herbivorous insects: The importance of competition in the seed-feeding guild of wild sunflower.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Miller, Maisie*,1, Denno, Robert1, Dively, Galen1, 1 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Interspecific competition via induced resistance between Potato Leafhopper and Colorado Potato Beetle.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Wearing, Helen*,1, Rohani, Pejman1, Sait, Steven2, Cameron, Tom2, 1 University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia2 University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K.. Coexistence of competing insect populations via interaction with natural enemies.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Collier, Timothy*,1, Briggs, Cheryl2, Messing, Russell3, 1 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA2 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA3 University of Hawaii, Kapaa, HI. Intraspecific interference competition in a parasitoid of fruit fly pests.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Hall, Carmen1,2, Jones, Leslie1, Lund, JoAnne1,3, Russell, James1, Reynolds, Richard1,4, Egan, Scott1, Ott, James*,1, 1 Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas2 University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia3 USDA-Forest Service, Rhinelander, Wisconsin4 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Parasitoid community structure, interactions, and impacts on alternate generations of a host-specific gall former.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] BORER, ELIZABETH*,1, MURDOCH, WILLIAM1, SWARBRICK, SUSAN1, 1 University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Spatial vs. non-spatial mechanisms of parasitoid coexistence: Experimentally linking field pattern and mechanism.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Sait, Steven*,1, 1 University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. The ecology of competition between pathogens and parasitoids in co-infected insects.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] GIBB, HELOISE*,1, HOCHULI, DIETER, 1 The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Effects of a dominant ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus, on ant assemblages on rock outcrops.

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