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Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Section Symposium

Insects in a Changing World: Urban Systems as a Model for Disturbance

Sunday, October 31, 2021
1:30 PM – 2:50 PM MT
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room 111-113

In-Person

    Organizer(s)

  • Jacqueline Buenrostro

    Masters Student & Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Department of Agricultural Biology
    Colorado State University
    Fort Collins, Colorado

  • RH

    Ruth Hufbauer

    Colorado State University
    Fort Collins, Colorado

Entomologists and ecologists have begun to recognize the value of urban areas, the world’s fastest-growing habitat type, in forecasting plant-insect interactions under anthropogenic disturbance. This hybrid symposium highlights the transformative work analyzing urban ecosystems as models for insects in a changing world and the adaptive management resulting from this research. 

Presentations:

  • 1:30 PM – 1:33 PM MT
    Introductory remarks
  • 1:33 PM – 1:48 PM MT
    Light pollution affects plant-insect interactions and alters community composition

    Presenting Author: Dhaval K. Vyas – University of Denver

    Co-Author: Shannon M. Murphy – University of Denver

    Co-Author: Kylee Grenis – University of Denver

    Co-Author: Cesar R. Nufio, Jr. – BioInteractive, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Co-Author: Gina Wimp – Georgetown University

  • 1:48 PM – 2:03 PM MT
    Tree species richness around urban red maples reduces pest abundance but does not enhance biological control

    Presenting Author: Caleb J. Wilson – University of Kentucky

    Co-Author: Kristi Backe – Oregon State University

    Co-Author: Michael Just – US Army

    Co-Author: Eleanor Lahr – Earlham College

    Co-Author: Annemarie Nagle – North Carolina State University

    Co-Author: Lawrence Long – Duquesne University

    Co-Author: Steven Frank – North Carolina State University

  • 2:03 PM – 2:18 PM MT
    Do behavior and physiological adaptation mitigate ectotherm responses to urban warming?

    Presenting Author: Elsa Youngsteadt – North Carolina State University

    Co-Author: Sara Prado – North Carolina State University

  • 2:18 PM – 2:33 PM MT
    Urban abiotic factors: Implications for insect herbivores and their hosts

    Presenting Author: Adam Dale – University of Florida

    Co-Author: Steven D. Frank – North Carolina State University

  • 2:33 PM – 2:48 PM MT
    Understanding patterns of variation in insect abundance, diversity, and foraging activity across a gradient of urbanization

    Presenting Author: Mary A. Jamieson – Oakland University

    Co-Author: Kyla Scherr – Oakland University

    Co-Author: Anna Tawril – US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service

    Co-Author: Caleb J. Wilson – University of Kentucky

  • 2:48 PM – 2:50 PM MT
    Closing remarks