COS 111 - Plant-Insect Interactions 1

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT

  Monarch butterfly host use across a patchy urban landscape
  

  Presenting Author: Atticus W. Murphy – Tufts University

  Coauthor: Karen Dooley – Tufts University

  Coauthor: Elizabeth Crone, PhD – Tufts University (currently UC Davis)
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

  A scale-dependent test of the resource concentration hypothesis with insect herbivores of contrasting diet breadths in a natural setting
  

  Presenting Author: Michael LaScaleia – University of Connecticut

  Coauthor: Robert Bagchi – University of Connecticut
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PDT

  CANCELLED - Investigating effects of nitrogen deposition on oak chemistry and insect herbivory across a deposition gradient in the Columbia River Gorge
  

  Presenting Author: Rebekah Gaxiola – Washington State University

  Coauthor: John Bishop, Ph.D. – Washington State University
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT

  CANCELLED - Investigating the use of pollen DNA metabarcoding to quantify bee foraging and effects of threshold selection
  

  Presenting Author: Katie A. Arstingstall – Oregon State University

  Coauthor: Sandra J. DeBano – Oregon State University

  Coauthor: Xiaoping Li – Virginia Tech

  Coauthor: David E. Wooster – Oregon State University

  Coauthor: Mary M. Rowland – United States Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station

  Coauthor: Skyler Burrows – Utah State University

  Coauthor: Kenneth Frost – Oregon State University
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PDT

  Modelling mountain pine beetle dynamics and spread under changing forest resilience
  

  Presenting Author: Micah Brush – University of Alberta

  Coauthor: Mark Lewis – University of Victoria
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM PDT

  Species and population specific responses of plants and their associated arthropod communities to contrasting water availability conditions in a coastal sage scrub ecosystem
  

  Presenting Author: Carla Vazquez- Gonzalez, Ph.D. – University of California, Irvine

  Coauthor: Lydia Dean – University of California Irvine

  Coauthor: Megan E. Lulow – UCI-Nature

  Coauthor: Julie Coffey – UCI-Nature

  Coauthor: Moises R. Perea-Vega – UCI-Nature

  Coauthor: Sarah Kimball – UCI - Center for Environmental Biology

  Coauthor: Priscilla Ta – UCI - Center for Environmental Biology

  Coauthor: Katharina T. Schmidt – UCI - Center for Environmental Biology

  Coauthor: Kailen A. Mooney, Ph.D. – University of California, Irvine