8:00 AM: Hardwicke, Kelly^{*,1, 2}, Detling, James^{1, 2}, ¹ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO² Shortgrass Steppe LTER Program, Fort Collins, CO, Interaction across three trophic levels: Cynomys ludovicianus colonies increase floral resources and insect visitation on the shortgrass steppe.

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8:20 AM: Lease, Hilary^*,1, Wolf, Blair¹, Harrison, Jon², ¹ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA² Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, Scaling of insect tracheal volume.

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8:40 AM: Richards, Lora¹, Coley, Phyllis¹, ¹ Dept. of Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, Contrasting arthropod biomasses between temperate and tropical sites.

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9:00 AM: Kluger, Emily^*,1, Hanks, Lawrence, ¹ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, Off with their heads! Effects of host plant diversity and selection on the population dynamics of the head-clipping weevil, Haplorhynchites aeneus.

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9:20 AM: Tall, Laure¹, Méthot, Ginette ¹, Armellin, Alain^*,2, Pinel-Alloul, Bernadette¹, ¹ Groupe interuniversitaire de recherche en Limnologie (GRIL), Montréal, Québec, Canada² St.Lawrence Center, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Influence of environmental factors at different scales on littoral benthic communities of Lake Saint-Pierre, Quebec.

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9:50 AM: Karel, Irene^*,1, Foster, Bryan¹, Ramspott, Matthew ¹, Price, Kevin¹, ¹ University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, Arthropod diversity responds to nutrient enrichment and disturbance in a grassland experiment.

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10:10 AM: Klawinski, Paul^*,1, Strickland, Michael¹, ¹ William Jewell College, Liberty, MO, USA, The role of invertebrate decomposers in the terrestrial decomposition of four tropical forest tree leaves: functional group comparisons.

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10:30 AM: Ngai, Jacqueline^*,1, Srivastava, Diane¹, ¹ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Indirect effects of detritivore insects on plant nutrition.

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10:50 AM: Kay, Adam^*,1, Haarstad, John², Hobbie, Sarah², Schade, John³, ¹ Department of Biology, St. Paul, MN, USA² Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, St. Paul, MN, USA³ Department of Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA, USA, Sex, body size, and the C:N:P stoichiometry of grassland insects.

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