8:00 AM Finke, Deborah^*,1, Denno, Robert¹, ¹ University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA Trophic cascades dampened in complex food webs with intraguild predation.

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8:15 AM Lövgren, Johan^*,1, Reinikainen, Marko¹, Persson, Lennart¹, ¹ University of Umeå, Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden Effects of heterogeneity within trophic levels and resource dynamics on a model aquatic food web.

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8:30 AM Denno, Robert^*,1, Gratton, Claudio², Dobel, Hartmut¹, Finke, Deborah¹, ¹ Department of Entomology, College Park, Maryland, USA² Department of Entomology, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Predation risk influences relative strength of top-down and bottom-up impacts in phytophagous insects.

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8:45 AM TBA.

9:00 AM Goeriz, Rachel^*,1, Fox, Mark¹, Denno, Robert¹, ¹ University of Maryland, College Park, MD Omnivory enhances growth and diminishes mortality in a marsh-inhabiting grasshopper.

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9:15 AM Chase, Jonathan^*,1, Knight, Tiffany², ¹ Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA² University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Drought-induced mosquito outbreaks in wetlands.

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9:30 AM Break.

9:45 AM Costanzo, Katie^*,1, Kesavaraju, Banugopan¹, Juliano, Steven¹, ¹ Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, USA The effects of habitat drying on competition of two container mosquitoes: Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti.

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10:00 AM Anderson, Wendy^*,1, Bethmann, Cory¹, Wait, Alexander², Allfree, Leslie³, ¹ Drury University, Springfield, MO, USA² Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, USA³ National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Boundary permeability to marine subsidies affects arthropod community structure on Gulf of California islands.

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10:15 AM Price, Jennifer^*,, Hamilton, Robert, Ravit, Elizabeth, Morin, Peter, Invasion success and the impact of microorganisms on a resident community.

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