| Monday, 31 July 2006: 1:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
| Palladian (Omni Shoreham Hotel) | |||
| Symposium 2: Body size and natural history | |||
| Body size is one of the most important attributes for the life history of a species, influencing virtually all aspects of a species’ existence, including physiology, ecology, and reproduction. For example, among ants there are many associations between body size and life history, particularly with respect to the mode of founding new colonies. An increasing number of studies also report different sized queens within a nest that have different methods of nest founding. Lastly, several studies examine latitudinal patterns of body size, both at the individual and colony level. Overall, the literature on life history of social insects is underwhelming; even so only a fraction of this literature is linked to body size. This symposium will focus on two promising areas of research on body size: (1) body size and life history, and (2) local and latitudinal patterns of body size (both individual size or colony size). The underlying theme will be the link between the environment (at local or latitudinal scales) and body size and life history. | |||
| Organizer: | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 1:30 PM | 13 | Toward a biogeography of size: an homage to Walter Tschinkel Mike Kaspari | |
| 1:50 PM | 14 | Interactions between worker and larval genomes contribute to differences in body size among ant species Timothy A. Linksvayer | |
| 2:10 PM | 15 | Size-dependent worker suicide in relation to a body size - colony size trade-off in cavity-nesting Camponotus (cylindricus complex) Diane W. Davidson, Steven C. Cook, Christopher R. Bernau | |
| 2:30 PM | 16 | Limitations to colony size: testing an old idea in the leafcutter ant Atta colombica Juergen Liebig, Sebastian Diedering, Hubert Herz | |
| 2:50 PM | 17 | Queen presence determines female alate size in the queen-size polymorphic ant Temnothorax longispinosus Kenneth Howard | |
| 3:10 PM | 18 | Bergmann and the ants Jürgen Heinze | |
| 3:30 PM | Break | ||
| 4:00 PM | 19 | Latitudinal variation of seasonal cycle patterns may affect colony and body size in Myrmica ants Vladilen Kipyatkov, Elena Lopatina | |
| 4:20 PM | 20 | One size fits all?: The individual, the colony, and the factors underlying of superorganismal proportions Andrew Yang | |
| 4:40 PM | 21 | Body size and environment determine method of nest founding in seed-harvester ants Robert A. Johnson | |
| 5:00 PM | 22 | Dwarf wingless reproductives improve colony economy in Mystrium ants from Madagascar Mathieu Molet, Christian Peeters, Brian L. Fisher | |
| 5:20 PM | 24 | Per-capita Productivity in a Swarm-founding Social Wasp: No Evidence for an Effect of Colony Size Andrew M. Bouwma-Gearhart, Erik V. Nordheim, Robert L. Jeanne | |
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