Recently, many members of the iEcoLab presented their research at the Mid-Atlantic Ecological Society of America (ESA) Conference hosted at Longwood Gardens, a world-famous botanical garden. We had a fantastic time exploring the gardens and learned a lot from the hundreds of other presenters. See below for a list of our lab’s participants and photos from the event! Read their abstracts here.
Undergraduates:
Lilah Shtino: Green burial promotes important pollinator habitat: Arthropod Biodiversity in Green vs. Traditional Burial Sites (Poster)
Cameron Mann: Contrasting Exotic and Native Geckos to Explore Drivers of Caribbean Homogenization (Poster)
Jore Bagdonas: Does Greening Philadelphia’s Vacant Lots Result in Lower Arthropod Diversity? (Poster)
Jen Weigand: Residence Patterns and host use of female Tropical Lanternfly, Enchophora sanguinea, in Costa Rica (Poster)
Kenny Lam: Behavioral Insights into Residence Time and Site Fidelity of Male Enchophora sanguinea, the Tropical Lanternfly (Poster)
Claire Becker: Invasive spotted lanternfly planthopper (Lycorma delicatula) honeydew and its effects on U.S. forest ant assemblages (Poster)
Graduate Students:
Robbie Hendrickson: Quantifying and contextualizing spotted lanternfly speed of spread (Talk)
Stefani Cannon: Invasive spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) honeydew is a novel resource subsidy for Hymenoptera (Talk)
Post-Docs:
Joe Keller: Identifying transport hubs for invasive species jump dispersal using stakeholder derived spatiotemporal occurrences: Forecasting the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) invasion (Poster)
Owen Schneider: Context-Dependent Host Use by the Invasive Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) (Talk)
Research Techs:
Hannah Joseph: Mapping the risk of Lycorma delicatula (spotted lanternfly) invasion hubs across the U.S.A. with interactive web applications (Poster)
Hannah Slesinski: Evaluating the BirdWeather PUC for research-grade bioacoustic monitoring and potential applications (Poster)
Katie Gibson: Tracking Adult Spotted Lanternfly with Photo-Recapture in an Urban Environment (Talk)
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