Inspiring Insect Biodiversity Conservation through Incorporation of Vital Habitat in Infrastructure

Organizer(s)

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  Ashley St. Clair

  USDA Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Department Of Entomology
  University of Illinois
  Champaign, Illinois
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  Tristan Barley

  University of Illinois
  Champaign, Illinois

Our symposiums focus is how attentive land management practices within infrastructural systems affects insect biodiversity and inspires industry, land managers, local communities, and researchers to more consciously consider how infrastructure can be used as a mechanism to create vital habitat amidst a global decline in insect biodiversity and habitat. 

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM PT

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Ashley L. St. Clair – University of Illinois
• 1:35 PM – 1:52 PM PT

  Can pollinator conservation pave the way for the protection of insect biodiversity in infrastructural systems
  

  Presenting Author: Ashley L. St. Clair – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Adam Dolezal – University of Illinois

  Co-author: Tristan A. Barley – University of Illinois
• 1:52 PM – 2:09 PM PT

  Solar parks: Refuges for pollinators and boosting pollination services
  

  Presenting Author: Hollie Blaydes – Lancaster University
• 2:09 PM – 2:26 PM PT

  Turning solar facilities into prairies: Can planting forbs under solar panels facilitate insect biodiversity?
  

  Presenting Author: Tristan A. Barley – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Ashley L. St. Clair – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Leroy J. Walston (he/him/his) – Argonne National Laboratory

  Co-author: Heidi Hartman – Argonne National Laboratory

  Co-author: Indraneel Bhandari – University of Illinois

  Co-author: Ben Campbell – University of Illinois

  Co-Author: Adam Dolezal – University of Illinois
• 2:26 PM – 2:43 PM PT

  Insect conservation and habitat management in desert solar facilities
  

  Presenting Author: Steven Grodsky – North Carolina State University
• 2:43 PM – 2:58 PM PT

  Break
• 2:58 PM – 3:15 PM PT

  Identifying win-win scenarios in pollinator conservation: Powerline right-of-ways as an example
  

  Presenting Author: Laura Russo – University of Tennessee
• 3:15 PM – 3:32 PM PT

  If you build it they will come: Interim result of monitoring insect diversity and abundance at solar facilities planted with pollinator-supportive habitat
  

  Presenting Author: Leroy J. Walston (he/him/his) – Argonne National Laboratory

  Co-author: Heidi Hartman – Argonne National Laboratory
• 3:32 PM – 3:49 PM PT

  Plant phenology and pollinator biodiversity at solar facilities in the Pacific Northwest
  

  Presenting Author: Maggie Graham – Oregon State University
• 3:49 PM – 4:06 PM PT

  Managing vacant land as habitat - what do the neighbors think?
  

  Presenting Author: Mary Margaret Gardiner – The Ohio State University

  Co-author: Katherine Turo – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• 4:06 PM – 4:10 PM PT

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Ashley L. St. Clair – University of Illinois