Grad P-IE: Conservation and Ecology 1

Moderator(s)

• CP

  Cindy Perkovich

  Assistant Professor of Biology
  Ashland University
  Barberton, Ohio
• HG

  Hannah Gurholt

  Ithaca, New York

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM – 10:42 AM PT

  Developmental thresholds of eastern larch beetle Dendroctonus simplex LeConte
  

  Presenting Author: Rose Picklo – University of Minnesota

  Co-Author: Brian Aukema – University of Minnesota
• 10:42 AM – 10:54 AM PT

  Does niche partitioning explain spider richness in vacant lots?
  

  Presenting Author: Ellen Danford – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Yvan Delgado de la Flor – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Nicole Hoekstra – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Rodney T. Richardson – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Frances S. Sivakoff – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Mary Margaret Gardiner – The Ohio State University
• 10:54 AM – 11:06 AM PT

  Local and landscape drivers of bee taxonomic and functional trait diversity within vacant lots
  

  Presenting Author: Caralee Shepard – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Kayla I. Perry – Kent State University

  Co-Author: Sarah B. Scott – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Frances S. Sivakoff – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Katherine Turo – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  Co-Author: Mary Margaret Gardiner – The Ohio State University
• 11:06 AM – 11:18 AM PT

  Long-term effects of high and low intensity partial cutting on saproxylic beetle communities in aspen-dominated stands of the eastern boreal mixedwood forest
  

  Presenting Author: Urszula Deregowski – Université du Québec

  Co-Author: Miguel Montoro Girona – Université du Québec

  Co-Author: Timothy Work – Université du Québec
• 11:18 AM – 11:30 AM PT

  Microarthropod effects on microbial carbon use efficiency
  

  Presenting Author: Allison Zahorec – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: Lisa Tiemann – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: Matthew Reid – West Virginia Wesleyan College

  Co-Author: Mauricio Tejera – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: Violeta Matus – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: Douglas A. Landis – Michigan State University
• 11:30 AM – 11:42 AM PT

  Reclaiming vacant land to support stormwater management and bee habitat
  

  Presenting Author: Michelle A. Pham – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: MaLisa R. Spring – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Frances S. Sivakoff – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Mary Margaret Gardiner – The Ohio State University
• 11:42 AM – 11:54 AM PT

  The reclamation history of formely mined land affects present-day plant-insect interactions
  

  Presenting Author: Anna N. Starkey – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Andrew C. McCall – Denison University

  Co-Author: Frances S. Sivakoff – The Ohio State University
• 11:54 AM – 12:06 PM PT

  Why can’t we be friends: Weed host interactions with spider mites in intermountain west corn production
  

  Presenting Author: Mercy A. Odemba – Utah State University

  Co-Author: Ricardo Ramirez – Utah State University

  Co-Author: Cody Lund Barnes – Utah State University

  Co-Author: Earl Creech – Utah State University

  Co-Author: Corey Ransom – Utah State University

  Co-Author: Matt Yost – Utah State University