MONDAY MORNING

AUGUST 7, 2000

SYMPOSIUM: INSECT BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS

ORGANIZERS: JOHN SIVINSKI & JIM LLOYD

 
10:00  John Sivinski, Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, USDA-ARS, Gainesville, FL
10:05 Phylogenetics as a tool for discovering patterns among higher level taxa- the evolution of bioluminescence in the non-firefly cantheroids. Marc Branham, Dept. of Entomology, Museum of Biological Diversity, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
10:25 Insect surveys in the Southeast: investigating relictual entomofaunas. Paul Skelly and Peter Kovaric, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Division of Plant Industry, Gainesville, FL
10:45 Identification and information storage and retrieval: old challenges with new solutions. Mike Sharkey, Dept. of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 
11:05  Trapping around the tropics: Using dung beetles to assess biodiversity and habitat integrity on a shrinking planet. Bruce Gill, Centre for Plant Quarantine Pests, Ottawa, Canada
11:25  What do firefliers need to know about taxonomic scale apropos of their species problems? Jim Lloyd, Dept. of Entomology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
11:45 To be announced
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5/22/00 Pat Greany and Richard Mankin