Monday, August 2, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
409, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 9 - Ecological Impacts on Human Populations & Biofuel Ecology
1:30 PMCOS 9-1Effect of larval nutrition on the reproductive success of male Anopheles gambiae s.l. mosquitoes
Nnaemeka Francis Ezeakacha, University of Southern Mississippi, Daniel Boakye, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Delphina A. Gomez, University of Ghana, Legon
1:50 PMCOS 9-2Overshoot and Collapse Models for Human Populations
Dr. Max F. Kummerow, Curtin Unversity
2:10 PMCOS 9-3Rubella meta-population dynamics and importance of spatial coupling in the risk of CRS in Peru
C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Princeton, Gerardo Chowell, Arizona State University, Cesar Munayco-Escate, Direccion General de Epidemiologıa, Bryan T. Grenfell, Princeton University, Ottar Bjornstad, Pennsylvania State University
2:30 PMCOS 9-4Carbon budgets of harvested ecosystems that vary in form and function: From agro-ecosystems to diverse deciduous forests
Sarah C. Davis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:50 PMCOS 9-5Direct and indirect emissions of nitrous oxide from biofuel feedstock crops of Central Illinois
Candice M. Smith, University of Illinois, Mark B. David, University of Illinois
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 9-6Growth analyses of prairie and corn biomass cropping systems
Meghann E. Jarchow, Iowa State University, Matt Liebman, Iowa State University
3:40 PMCOS 9-7Impact of canopy nitrogen allocation on growth and photosynthetic properties of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) and miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus)
Dan Wang, University of Illinois, Mattew Maughan, University of Illinois, David LeBauer, University of Illinois, Xiaohui Feng, University of Illinois, Jindong Sun, University of Illinois, Michael Dietze, University of Illinois
4:00 PMCOS 9-8Missing pieces in the ecology of biofuel crops: Pathogen and vector interactions
Abbie C. Schrotenboer, Michigan State University, Robert Goodwin, Michigan State University, Nicholas Batora, Michigan State University, Carolyn Malmstrom, Michigan State University

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