Grad SysEB: Biodiversity and Ecology

Moderator(s)

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  Rebecca Simmons

  Professor
  Department of Biology
  University of North Dakota
  Grand Forks, North Dakota

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:12 AM PT

  Dynamic distribution modeling of the swamp tigertail dragonfly, Synthemis eustalacta, over a 20-year bushfire regime
  

  Presenting Author: Aaron M. Goodman – American Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Jamie Kass – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

  Co-Author: Jessica L. Ware – American Museum of Natural History
• 8:12 AM – 8:24 AM PT

  Environmental DNA as a tool for odonate biodiversity assessment in Lagos, Nigeria
  

  Presenting Author: Rhema C. Uche-Dike (he/him/his) – American Museum of Natural History
• 8:24 AM – 8:36 AM PT

  Establishing silphids as an iDNA tool: Diet analysis through genetics
  

  Presenting Author: Katherine Higdon (she/her/hers) – Michigan Technological University

  Co-Author: Tara L. Bal – Michigan Technological University

  Co-Author: Kristin Brzeski – Michigan Technological University
• 8:36 AM – 8:48 AM PT

  Genetic mixing facilitates adaptation to a novel environmental constraint
  

  Presenting Author: Lily F. Durkee – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Laure M. Olazcuaga – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Rachel Szymanski – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Brett A. Melbourne – University of Colorado

  Co-Author: Ruth A. Hufbauer – Colorado State University
• 8:48 AM – 9:00 AM PT

  Impacts of megafire on aquatic insect communities in Central Utah
  

  Presenting Author: Anna Eichert – American Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: C. Riley Nelson – Brigham Young University

  Co-Author: Paul B. Frandsen – Brigham Young University
• 9:00 AM – 9:12 AM PT

  Roles of ecology, climate, and geography in the macroevolution of insect pheromone diversity
  

  Presenting Author: Rowan French – University of Toronto

  Co-Author: Sarah Ravoth – University of Toronto

  Co-Author: Locke Rowe – University of Toronto

  Co-Author: Luke Mahler – University of Toronto
• 9:12 AM – 9:24 AM PT

  Top-down effects of damselfly larvae on the phylogenetic structure of the invertebrate community of bromeliads
  

  Presenting Author: Nadia B. Paez – The University of British Columbia

  Co-Author: Diane Srivastava – The University of British Columbia
• 9:24 AM – 9:36 AM PT

  Using frass to estimate lepidopteran biodiversity and biomass across an urban gradient
  

  Presenting Author: Lillian Khristina Hendrick – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Michael W. Belitz – Florida Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Asia Sawyer – Florida Museum of Natural History

  Co-Author: Robert Guralnick – Florida Museum of Natural History