ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

COS 120 - Agricultural ecology II: Agricultural systems as habitat, diversity

Thursday, August 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Blrm Salon II, San Jose Marriott
1:30 PM
Effects of plant diversity and width of farm shelterbelts on woodland birds and bats
Cilla M. Kinross, Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University; Geoff M. Gurr, Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University; Ronald S. Bonifacio, The University of Sydney; Sagrario Gámez-Virués, The University of Sydney
1:50 PM
Hedgerows: Enhancing conservation biological control potential in California annual vegetable systems?
Tara L. Pisani Gareau, Pennsylvania State University; Carol Shennan, University of California-Santa Cruz; Deborah K. Letourneau, University of California-Santa Cruz
2:30 PM
Arthropod biodiversity in an intensively managed agricultural landscape
Daniel M. Pavuk, Bowling Green State University; Alan Sundermeier, The Ohio State University
2:50 PM
A harrowing experience: Management effects on a diverse pasture beetle community
A. Andrew M. MacDonald, University of British Columbia; Kathleen R. Aikens, McGill University; Sheena M. Townsend, Cape Breton University; Christopher G. Majka, Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History; David B. McCorquodale, Cape Breton University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Life on the edge: Response of native bees to insect pest management programs
Julianna Tuell, Michigan State University; Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University
3:40 PM
Effect of the method of transition to organic on naturally occurring soil-dwelling entomopathogenic fungi
Randa Jabbour, University of Wyoming; Andrew G. Hulting, The Oregon State University; Mary E. Barbercheck, The Pennsylvania State University
4:00 PM
Non-target effects of Bacillus thuringiensis transgenic corn on soil microarthropod community
Yiwen Zhao, University of Vermont; Deborah Neher, University of Vermont; Galen P. Dively, University of Maryland