PARENT SESSIONContributed Oral Session 8: Invertebrate Ecology: Butterflies; Soil Insects
Monday, August 8, 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Meeting Room 518 C, Level 5, Palais des congrès de Montréal
8:00 AM: O'Brien, Joshua*,1, Forister, Matthew2, Thorne, Jim1, Shapiro, Arthur, 1 University of California, Davis, Davis, California2 State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, Detection of long-term changes in an alpine butterfly community using non-parametric bootstrap methods.
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8:20 AM: Kuefler, Daniel*,1, Haddad, Nick1, 1 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, Local versus landscape determinants of butterfly movement.
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8:40 AM: Anderson, Kayce*,1, Forister, Matthew2, Shapiro, Arthur1, O'Brien, J, Thorne, J, 1 University of California - Davis, Davis, CA, USA2 State University of New York - Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA, Urban boundaries in a biodiversity hotspot: Declining butterfly diversity in California's modified Central Valley.
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9:00 AM: Thorne, James*,, Joshua, Obrien, Mathew, Forister, Arthur, Shapiro, , Butterfly community phenology across an altitudinal transect.
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9:20 AM: Johnson, Scott*,1, Gregory, Peter1, Zhang, Xiaoxian2, 1 Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom2 University of Abertay, Dundee, United Kingdom, What lies beneath: How do soil insects find host plant roots?
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9:50 AM: Donovan, Sarah*,1, Griffiths, Georgianne1, 2, Homathevi, Rahman3, Winder, Linton4, 1 University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, UK2 Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, UK3 Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia4 University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, Spatial aggregation of soil-feeding termites in primary and logged over forest in Malaysia.
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10:10 AM: Hooper-Bui, Linda *,1, Lafleur, Benoit2, Dash, Shawn3, Moser, John4, Mumma, Paul5, Geaghan, James6, 1 Fire Ant Entomology, Baton Rouge, Louisiana2 Researcher, Baton Rouge, Louisiana3 Ant Taxonomist, Baton Rouge, Louisiana4 Researcher, Baton Rouge, Louisiana5 Plant Pathologist, Baton Rouge, Louisiana6 Statistician, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Soil fertility and plant growth in soils from pine forests and pine plantations: Possible effect of red imported fire ants Solenopsis invicta (Buren) and Texas leafcutter ants Atta texana (Buckley).
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