1:30 PM: Debeljak, Marko^*,1, Demsar, Damjan¹, Cortet, Jérôme ², Dzeroski, Saso¹, Krogh, Paul Henning ³, ¹ Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia² Institut Mediterraneen d'Ecologie et Paleoecologie, Aix en Provence, France³ National Environmental Research Institute, Silkeborg, Denmark, Effects of genetically modified Bt maize on earthworms and Collembola functional groups.

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1:50 PM: Poveda, Katja^*,1, Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf¹, Scheu, Stefan², Tscharntke, Teja ¹, ¹ Agroecology, Göttingen, Germany² Institut für Zoologie, Darmstadt, Germany, Effects of farming practice and soil organisms on aboveground plant-herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions.

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2:10 PM: Moore, Sian^*,1, Jones, Thomas¹, Symondson, William¹, ¹ Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, GM derived Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxins in the soil.

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2:30 PM: O'Neill, Bridget^*,1, Zangerl, Arthur¹, DeLucia, Evan², Berenbaum, May¹, ¹ University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA² University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, Effects of soybean foliage grown under elevated CO₂ on the Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica (Newman).

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2:50 PM: Forbes, Andrew^*,1, Ives, Anthony¹, ¹ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Source-sink dynamics and the subsidized biological control of aphid pests.

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3:20 PM: Laughlin, Karen^*,1, Power, Alison¹, ¹ Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Interspecific virus competition in squash (Cucurbita pepo) and its implications for genetically engineered virus resistance in crops.

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3:40 PM: Baker, Mitchell^*,1, ¹ Biology Department, Flushing, NY, 11367, Dispersal at multiple scales and the evolution of resistance: Leaf beetles enter the matrix.

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4:00 PM: Veddeler, Dorthe^*,1, Klein, Alexandra-Maria¹, Tscharntke, Teja¹, ¹ University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, Contrasting responses of bee communities to coffee flowering at different spatial scales.

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4:20 PM: Brosi, Berry^*,1, Daily, Gretchen¹, Ehrlich, Paul¹, ¹ Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, Bee communities in human-dominated tropical landscapes.

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