2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 33 - Plant-Insect Interactions II

Tuesday, August 7, 2018: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
354, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
8:00 AM
Soil legacy effects on plants and their associated aboveground insect herbivores are linked via plant functional and nutritional traits
Robin Heinen, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Institute of Biology Leiden; Feng Zhu, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); Martijn van der Sluijs, Netherlands Institute of Ecology; Jeffrey A. Harvey, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), VU University; Arjen Biere, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); T. Martijn Bezemer, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Institute of Biology Leiden
8:40 AM
Connecting a belowground mutualism to aboveground herbivory: Microbe-plant-insect interactions
Morgan N. Thompson, University of Maryland; William O. Lamp, University of Maryland
9:00 AM
Soil environment affects floral traits and pollinator disease
Julie K. Davis, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Nicholas A. Barber, Northern Illinois University; Philip C. Stevenson, University of Greenwich; Luis A. Aguirre, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Lynn S. Adler, University of Massachusetts Amherst
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Environmental stressors act synergistically to induce supernumerary instars in caterpillars
Martha R. Weiss, Georgetown University; Mariana Abarca, Georgetown University; John T. Lill, George Washington University; Leslie Ries, Georgetown University
10:10 AM
Localization of plant growth hormones within gall-inducing Diptera
Gabriela Elena Ponce, San Francisco State University; Edward F. Connor, San Francisco State University
10:30 AM
Turnover in insect herbivore community and chemical composition in Protium (Burseraceae) trees across 1500km in the Amazon basin
Diego Salazar, Florida International University; Milagros Ayarza Zuñiga, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia; Magno Vasquez Pilco, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia; Italo Mesones, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana; Emerson Merkel, Universidade Federal do Amazonas; Carlos Nogueira, Universidade Federal do Amazonas; Marcelle Sanches, Universidade Federal do Amazonas; Fabricio Baccaro, Universidade Federal do Amazonas; John Lokvam, University of California, Berkeley; Paul V.A. Fine, University of California, Berkeley
10:50 AM
Altering disturbance regimes for monarch butterfly conservation
Douglas A. Landis, Michigan State University; Nathan L. Haan, Michigan State University; Andrew Myers, Michigan State University
11:10 AM
The role of ants in novel plant community assembly
Maia Luz Raymundo, University of Queensland; Margie Mayfield, University of Queensland
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