38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology

August 7-11, 2005  Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A
   

Nematode Division Symposium

ECOLOGY OF ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODES
Organizer: Parwinder Grewal, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, USA

Patricia Stock, University of Arizona, USA
Biogeographic distribution and diversity of entomopathogenic nematodes: Natural patterns or human-biased trends?

Casey Hoy, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, USA
Relating entomopathogenic nematode presence and abundance to habitat variation in an agroecosystem

Ed Lewis, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, USA
Host-finding and infection decisions in the soil

David Shapiro-Ilan, USDA, ARS, Byron, Georgia, USA
Formulations and methods for enhancing post-application survival

Lawrence Lacey, USDA ARS, USA
Abiotic factors affecting success of entomopathogenic nematodes in the field

Mary Barbercheck, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Biotic factors and farming systems affecting persistence and recycling

Albrecht Koppenhofer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Recycling and long-term persistence of entomopathogenic nematodes

Harry Kaya, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, USA
Ecology of entomopathogenic nematodes: Past present and the future