Saskya
van Nouhuys
(Partially updated September 09)
saskya@cornell.edu
http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/sdv2/saskya%20www/index.htmlsdv2/
http://www.helsinki.fi/science/metapop
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Education
Ph.D. Entomology: Cornell
University 1997 Faculty advisor: Sara Via; Committee : Michael Hoffmann,
Richard Root, Thomas Seeley
B.A. Biology: University
of California at Santa Cruz 1987
Positions held
8/09-present: Academy Research Fellow, Metapopulation Reseach
group, Dept. of Biological and Environmental sciences,
University of Helsinki, Finland
5/03-7/09: Senior
Researcher in the Metapopulation Research Group, Dept. of Biological and
Environmental sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
10/02- present: Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
9/04 -12/04,
9/08 -12/08 Lecturer, Department of Entomology, Cornell University
4/01-5/03: Researcher in
the Metapopulation Research Group, Dept. of Ecology and Systematics, University
of Helsinki, Finland
4/97- 4/01: Post-doctoral Fellow with Ilkka Hanski,
Dept. of Ecology and Systematics, University of Helsinki, Finland
9/00-9/02: Visiting Fellow, Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
9/98-9/00: Visiting Fellow Department of Entomology, Cornell
University
9/90-1/97: Ph.D. support in Entomology at Cornell University:
3 year NSF pre-doctoral fellowship, 3 year teaching assistantships, 1 semester
departmental fellowship
88-90: Field assistant for California Agricultural Extension
Teaching
Introductory Entomology (Lectures & laboratory): Cornell
University (Fall 04, Fall 08)
Spatial Population Ecology Cornell University (Spring 01,
Spring 05, Spring 07), University of
Argentina (Spring 06)
Metacommunity Ecology Uppsala
University, Sweden (Co-instructor Spring 08)
Evolutionary Biology:
University of Helsinki, Finland (Co-instructor, Spring 98)
Guest lectures at Cornell University: Dispersal, Ecological Genetics, Insect Ecology,
Metacommunity ecology, Parasitoid Ecology
Graduate teaching assistant (TA): General
Evolution, General Ecology, Applied Entomology, Cultural Entomology,
Introductory Biology
Service
Journal peer reviews (15-20 per year): Acta Oecologica,
Annals of the Entomological Society of Ameriac, Annales Zoologici Fennici,
Australian Journal of Zoology, Basic and Applied Ecology, Behavioral Ecology,
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biological Control, Biology Letters, Crop
Sciences, Ecography, Ecological Applications, Ecological Entomology, Ecology,
Ecology Letters, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Entomologica Fennica,
Environmental Entomology, Ethology, European Journal of Entomology, Evolution,
Evolutionary Ecology, J. of Animal Ecology, J. of Applied Ecology, J. of
Chemical Ecology, J. of Insect Behavior, J. of Insect Science, J. of Natural
History, Molecular Ecology, Oecologia, Oikos, Proceedings of the Royal Society
B., Science
Grant proposal reviews: NSF (3), USDA-NRI proposals to “Biologically
Based Pest Management” program (8), and to the “Managed Ecosystems” program
(2), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (1), Heinz foundation
(1), BAnk of America (1)
Ph.D evaluations: Outside evaluator for J.
Elzinga, 2005, University Utrecht NL; Hugo von Zeipel, 2007, Stockholm
University
Symposiums organized: "The
ecology of parasitoids of butterflies" for the 5th Conference on Butterfly
Biology, Italy, 2007.
Graduate students supervised
Christelle Couchoux
(09- ) Helsinki, Finland- Spatial ecology of parasitoid foraging behavior (PhD)
Markku Ojanen
(05- 08) Helsinki, Finland- Multitrophic level interaction between a plant,
pathogen, herbivore, and parasitoid (MSc, co- advise with A.-L. Laine)
Anne Reichgelt (07) National University of Ireland (research in
Finland)- Density dependent hyperparasitism due to aggregation of adult female
hyperparasitoids (MSc)
Kaisa Torri (05-07)
Helsinki, Finland- Natural history of the marsh fritillary Melitaea athalia
in Åland, Finland (MSc,
co-advise with I. Hanski)
Riikka Kaartinen (03-06)
Oulu, Finland – Within patch searching behavior of an extremely mobile
parasitoid wasp, Hyposoter horticola (MSc,
co-advise with S. Rytkönen)
Maaria Kankare (99-04)
Helsinki, Finland- Phylogeny and host associations of Cotesia
parasitoids attacking checkerspot butterflies (Ph.D.,
informally co-advised with I. Hanski)
Lucie Salvaudon (02) Paris, France (research in Finland) – The
mechanisms by which the parasitoid wasp Hyposoter horticola lays eggs
in only1/3 of the hosts per host cluster (MSc)
Johanna Ehrnsten (01-03) Helsinki, Finland – Movement and
oviposition behavior of an extremely mobile parasitoid wasp, Hyposoter
horticola (MSc)
Christian Anton (00 - 01) Jena, Germany (research in Finland)
– Behavioral and developmental responses of a specialist parasitoid wasp to
host larvae feeding on two host food plant species (MSc)
Eeva Punju (00 - 02) Helsinki, Finland – Interspecific
competition between immature parasitoid wasps within host larvae (MSc)
Current collaborators (also see MRG)
Dr. Marcela Castelo, Dpto.
de Ecologia, Genetica y Evolucion Ciudad Universitaria de Buenos Aires,
Argentina - Olfactory responce of the parasitoid Hyposoter horticola to
host associated odors.
Prof. Tom Collett, University of Sussex,
UK- Insect nevigation
Dr. Juan Corley, Laboratory
of Insect Ecology, National Scientific Research Council of Argentina –
Dispersal rate and range of a wood wasp and parasitoid in pine plantations in
Patagonia
Prof. Ilkka Hanski, University of Helsinki, FI-
host-parasite spaitial population dynamics
Dr. Anne Liisa Laine, University of Helsinki, FI -
Phytopathogen, plant, herbivore, parasiotid interactions.
Prof. Raul Medina,Texas A & M, Multitrophic interactions
Prof. Donald Quicke,
Silwood Park, UK- Phylogenetic relationships among parasitoids in the genus
Cotesia that use checkerspot butterflies
Dr. Joanneke Reudler Talsma,
University of Jyväskylä- influence of host food plant
chemistry on parasitoids
Dr. Mark Shaw, National
Museum of Scotland, UK –Taxonomy of parasitoids and phylogenetic relationships
among parasitoids in the genus Cotesia that use checkerspot butterflies
Prof. Michael C. Singer, Dept. of Integrative Biology,
University of Texas, USA – Checkerspot butterfly ecology & Evolution
Dr. Constantí Stefanescu, Butterfly Monitoring Scheme,
Catalonya, Spain – Butterfly & parasitoid community Ecology
Memberships
Ecological Society of America;
Entomological Society of America; International Society of Hymenopterists;
International Organization for Biological Control; Xerces Society
Workshops attended and research visits
3/06 Research/teaching trip to
Bariloche, Argentina
11/05 Research trip to Masuala Peninsula, Madagascar
5/04 Research trip to the Urmuqi area of Xinjiang province, China
4/02 Research trip to the Montseny Mountain National Park in Catalonia, Spain
8/01 Research trip to the Orenburg region of the Ural steppe, Russia
4/01 Visitor in the Department of Multitrophic Interactions, Centre for
Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology
4/00 Taxonomy and biology of parasitic hymenoptera workshop, Imperial College
at Silwood Park, UK
Publications
(click on an underlined title
to download a pdf file)
Manuscripts in press
Castelo, M. K., van Nouhuy, S.
&. Corley, J. C.
Olfactory attraction of a parasitoid to plants infested with butterfly eggs
Journal of insect Science, in press
Shaw, M. R, Stefanescu, C., van
Nouhuys, S. 2009
Parasitoids of European Butterflies in Ecology of Butterflies of Europe
(eds. J. Settele, T. G. Shreeve, M. Konvicka & H. Van Dyck)
Cambridge University Press, in press
van Nouhuys, S. and Punju, E. 2009 pdf
Coexistence of competing parasitoids: which is the fugitive and where does it
hide?
Oikos, in press
van Nouhuys, S.
Metapopulation Ecology.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Chichester
http://www.els.net/, in press
Refereed Journals
Reudler Talsma, J., Biere, A.,
Harvey, J. A., van Nouhuys, S. 2008 PDF
Oviposition cues for a specialist butterfly: plant chemistry and size.
Journal of Chemical Ecology, 34: 2102-1212
Reudler Talsma, J., Torri, K. van
Nouhuys, S. 2008 pdf
Host plant use by the Heath fritillary butterfly, Melitaea athalia: plant
habitat, species and chemistry.
Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2: 63-75
van Nouhuys, S. Kaartinen, R. 2008 pdf
A parasitoid wasp uses landmarks while monitoring potential resources.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275: 377-385
van Nouhuys, S. and Laine, A-L. 2008 pdf
Population dynamics and sex ratio of a parasitoid altered by fungal infected
diet of host butterfly.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275: 787-795
Elzinga, J. A., van Nouhuys, S., van Leeuwen, D. J., Biere, A. 2007 pdf
Distribution and colonization ability of three parasitoids and their herbivorous
host in a fragmented landscape.
Basic and Applied Ecology, 8: 75-88
Saastamoinen, M., van Nouhuys, S., Nieminen, M., O’Hara, B., Suomi, J. 2007pdf
Development and survival of a specialist herbivore, Melitaea cinxia, on host
plants producing high and low concentrations of iridoid glycosides.
Annales Zoologici Fennici, 44: 70-80
Tscharntke, T., R. Bommarco, Y. Clough, T. Crist, D. Kleijn, T. Rand, J.
Tylianakis, S. van Nouhuys, S.Vidal 2007 pdf
Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale.
Biological Control, 43: 294-309
Harvey, J.A., van Nouhuys, S., Biere, A. 2005 pdf
Effects of quantitative variation in allelochemicals in Plantago lanceolata on
development of a generalist and a specialist herbivore and their endoparasitoids
Journal of Chemical Ecology, 31: 287-302
Kankare, M., Stefanescu, C., van Nouhuys, S., Shaw, M. R. 2005 pdf
Host specialization by Cotesia wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitising species-rich
Melitaeini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) communities in north-eastern Spain.
The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 86: 45-65
Kankare, M., van Nouhuys, S., Gaggiotti, O., Hanski, I. 2005 PDF
Metapopulation genetic
structure of two coexisting parasitoids of the Glanville fritillary butterfly.
Oecologia, 143: 77-84
Kankare, M., van Nouhuys, S.
Hanski, I. 2005 pdf
Genetic divergence
among host-specific cryptic species in Cotesia melitaearum agg., a
parasitoid of checkerspot butterflies.
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 98: 382-394
van Nouhuys, S. 2005 pdf
Effects of habitat fragmentation at different trophic levels in insect
communities.
Annales Zoologici Fennici, 42: 433–447
van Nouhuys, S, Ehrnsten, J. 2004 pdf
Parasitoid behavior
that leads to uniform parasitism of a host available only a few hours per year
Behavioral Ecology, 15: 661-665
See a short summary "Waspish
Behavior" Nature (2004) 430:31
van Nouhuys, S., G.C. Lei 2004 pdf
Parasitoid and host
metapopulation dynamics: the influence of temperature mediated phenological
asynchrony
Journal of Animal Ecology, 73: 526-535
Nieminen, M., J. Suomi, S. van
Nouhuys, P. Sauri, M. Riekkola 2003 pdf
Effect of iridoid glycoside content on oviposition host plant and parasitism
in a specialist herbivore.
Journal of Chemical Ecology, 29: 823-844
van Nouhuys, S., M.C. Singer, M.
Nieminen 2003 pdf
Spatial and temporal patterns of caterpillar performance and the suitability
of two host plant species.
Ecological Entomology, 28: 193-202
van Nouhuys, S., & I. Hanski.
2002 pdf
Colonization rates
and distances of a host butterfly and two specific parasitoids in a fragmented
landscape
Journal of Animal Ecology, 71: 639-650
Hoffmann, M.P., P.R. Ode, D.L.
Walker, J. Gardner, S. van Nouhuys & A. M. Shelton. 2001pdf
Performance of Trichogramma ostriniae
(Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) reared on factitious hosts including Ostrinia
nubilalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
Biological Control, 21: 1-10
van Nouhuys, S. & W.T. Tay.
2001pdf
Causes and consequences
of small population size for a specialist parasitoid wasp
Oecologia, 128: 126-133
van Nouhuys, S. & I. Hanski
2000 pdf
Apparent competition between parasitoids mediated by a shared hyperparasitoid
Ecology Letters, 3: 82-84
van Nouhuys, S. & I. Hanski
1999 pdf
Host diet affects extinctions and colonizations in a parasitoid metapopulation
Journal of Animal Ecology, 68: 1248-1258
van Nouhuys, S. & S. Via 1999 pdf
Natural selection and genetic differentiation of behavior between parasitoids
from wild and cultivated habitats
Heredity, 83: 127-137
Fox L. R., D. K. Letourneau, J.
Eisenbach & S. van Nouhuys 1990 pdf
Parasitism rate and sex ratios of a parasitoid wasp: Effects of herbivore and
plant quality
Oecologia, 83: 414-419
Welch C. W., C. Pickel, D. Walsh
& S. van Nouhuys 1989
Cyclamen mite control in Strawberries.
California Agriculture, 43(3): 14-18
Chapters in edited volumes
van Nouhuys, S., Hanski, I. 2005 pdf
Metacommunities of
butterflies and their parasitoids. In Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and
Ecological Communities (M. Leibold, R. Holt and M. Holyoak eds.).
University of Chicago Press. pp. 99-121
van Nouhuys, S., Hanski, I. 2004 pdf
Natural enemies of
checkerspot butterflies. In On the Wings of Checkerspots: A Model System for
Population Biology (P. R. Ehrlich & I. Hanski, eds.)
Oxford University Press, pp. 161-180
Kuussaari, M., van Nouhuys, S.,
Hellmann, J., Singer, M. C. 2004 pdf
Checkerspot butterfly larval
biology. In On the Wings of Checkerspots: A Model System for
Population Biology (P. R. Ehrlich &
I. Hanski, eds.) Oxford University Press, pp. 138-160
van Nouhuys, S. & Hanski, I. 2002 pdf
Multitrophic interactions
in space: metacommunity dynamics in fragmented landscapes. In Multitrophic
level interactions (T. Tscharntke & B. A. Hawkins eds.) Cambridge University
Press. pp. 124-
Current and pending grants & project
funding
Title: Metapopulation Ecology of the Glanville Fritillary Butterfly
PIs: I. Hanski (head), M. Frilander, A. Moilanen, O. Ovaskainen, T. Roslin, S.
van Nouhuys
Funding agency: Academy of Finland, Centre of Excellence Program
Duration: 2006-2011 (6 years)
Title: Host-parasite Metacommunity Biology
PI: Saskya van Nouhuys
Funding agency: Academic Aacademy of Finland
Duriation: 2009- 2014 (5 years)
Pending:
Title Collaborative Research: Mating system
evolution in Cotesia
parasitoids
PIs: P. Ode, G.
Heimpel, J. Whitfield, L. vet, S. van Nouhuys
Funding agency: NSF
Potential duration: 2010-2013 (3 years)
Past grants, fellowships and awards
Title: Funding for the symposium Ecology of
parasitoids of butterflies in the 5th
International Conference on the Biology of Butterflies 2-7 July 2007 in Italy
PI: Saskya van Nouhuys
Funding Agency: ESF program for Behavioral ecology of insect parasitoids (BEPAR)
Title: Linking foraging behavior and
dispersal to explain spatial population dynamics in host-parasitoid
interactions
PIs:Saskya van Nouhuys, Juan Corley
Funding agency: Academy of Finland- research exchange program between Finland
and Argentina
Location: Helsinki, Finland/ Bariloche Argentina
Duration: 2004-2006
1997 - 2001 Ministry of Education
of Finland post-doctoral fellowship;1996 Griswold Fund award form the Dept. of
Entomology at Cornell; 1996 - 97 Cornell University Palmer Fellowship;1995
Rawlins Endowment award form the Dept. of Entomology at Cornell;1994 National
Sigma Xi grant-in-aid;1992 Local Sigma Xi grant-in -aid; 1991-94 NSF three-year
pre-doctoral fellowship;1987 Chancellors award for undergraduate research, UC
Santa Cruz; 1987 Honors for senior thesis with Dr. L.R. Fox, UC Santa Cruz
Invited departmental seminars
Oct. 09 Dept. of Biology,
Northern Arizona University
Jan. 09 Centre for Ecological
Reseach, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Two seminars "Butterfly-parastoid metacommunity ecology" &
"A parasitoid wasp uses landmarks while monitoring potential
resources"
Dec. 07 Department of Botany,
Stockholm University
April 05 Department of
Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin “Host specialization by Cotesia
parastoids of checkerspot butterflies."
Jan. 05 Centre for Terrestrial
Ecology, Heteren, The Netherlands “Host specialization by Cotesia
parastoids of checkerspot butterflies."
Feb. 04 Ecology seminar series at
Pennsylvania State University “Dispersal and habitat structure in communities
of butterflies, their host plants and parasitoids.”
Nov. 03 Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology seminar series at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
"Spatial population dynamics in insect communities: butterflies and their host
plants and parasitoids."
March 03 Biology Department at Leiden University, Holland "A host and two
parasitoids that each experience the same habitat differently."
Feb. 02 Department of Entomology
seminar series at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. "Uniform
parasitism by a wasp with an extremely short opportunity for parasitism:
behavior within and among host populations."
April 01 Centre for Terrestrial Ecology, Heteren, The Netherlands
"Large-scale population dynamics and multitrophic level interactions of a
parasitoid wasp."
Sept. 00 Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Geneva, New York.
"Population dynamics of a herbivore and its parasitoids in a fragmented
landscape."
Jan. 99 Division of Organismal Biology and Ecology seminar series, University
of California at Santa Cruz. "Host diet affects extinctions and
colonizations in a parasitoid metapopulation."
Oct. 99 Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins,
Colorado. "Population dynamics of a parasitoid wasp: from individual to
metapopulation."
Feb. 98 Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
India. "Parasitoid wasp foraging behavior: variation caused by genetics
and by the environment."
Feb. 98 The Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research,
Bangalore, India. "The influence of habitat on the metapopulation dynamics
of a parasitoid wasp and its host, the Glanville Fritillary butterfly."
Dec. 97 Department of Ecology and Systematics seminar series, University of Helsinki,
Finland. "Natural selection on foraging behavior and genetic
differentiation between populations of a parasitoid wasp."
Nov.96 Department of Entomology seminar series at Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York. "Parasitoid wasps from wild and cultivated host plant habitats:
natural selection on foraging behavior and genetic differentiation between
populations."
Oral presentations at conferences/workshops/symposia (single presenting author unless indicated)
Dec 09 Annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Geographic population structure of the specialist parasitoid Hyposoter horticola and its hyperparasitoid Mesochorus sp. cf. Stigmaticus in the Åland Islands, Finlandids" M. Macone (speaker), S. van Nouhuys and R. Medina
Sept. 09 Conference on Behavioral
Ecology of Parasitoids, Palermo Italy
1) " Parasitoid sex ratio and local mate competition at a landscape
scale" S. van Nouhuys
2) "Competition among foraging adult female parasitoid wasps" C.
Couchoux, S. van Nouhuys
Aug. 09 Invited speaker
Symposium on multitrophic level interactions, Annual meeting of the Society for
Invertebrate Pathology, Utah
Nov 08 Annual meeting of the
Entomological Society of America. "Complex pattern of indirect interaction
between butterflies due to shared pupal parasitoids" S. van Nouhuys
(speaker) & T. Kraft.
June 08 Invited speaker
Symposium on- Genetic and Genomic Approaches for Parasitoid Behavioural
Ecology, Scotland UK
Oct. 07 Invited speaker
Symposium on- Recent Advances in Butterfly Biology - from Genes to
Communities,.Helsinki "Specialization by Cotesia parasitoids and
their checkerspot butterfly hosts
Aug. 07 Invited speaker
Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. "Parasitoids of
co-occurring checkerspot butterflies: Cryptic species groups and community
structure."
July 07 13th Symposium on
Insect-Plant Relationships, Sweden.
“Effects of iridoid glycosides on generalist and specialist herbivores
and parasitoids.” A. Biere, (presenter) J. H. Reudler-Talsma, S. van Nouhuys,
J. A. Harvey.
July 07 5th conference on The
Biology of Butterflies, Italy. “The diversity of ways that butterflies and
their parasitoids coexist- a case study using Melitaea cinxia.” (I
was a symposium organizer)
Nov. 06 Annual meeting of the
Entomological Society of America. "Host finding and monitoring by
aparasitoid wasp."
Sept. 06 Conferenece on
Behavioural Ecology of Insect Parasitoids, France. "Keeping track of host
locations by learning landmarks."
Sept. 06 Conferenece on Behavioural Ecology of Insect Parasitoids, France.
"Direct and indirect defence; compatible or conflicting plant
stratagies?." J. H. Reudler-Talsma (presenter), A. Biere, J. A. Harvey, S.
van Nouhuys
Sept. 05 Congreso Argentino de
Entomologia, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. "Respuesta olfatoria del
parasitoide Hyposoter horticola (Ichneumonidae: Campoplaginae) hacia
claves asociadas con su hospedador, Melitaea cinxia (Lepidoptera:
Nymphalidae)" M. K. Castelo (presenter), S. van Nouhuys and J. Corley
Nov. 04 Invited speaker
Workshop on Spatial ecology of insect-plant interactions, Helsinki, Finland.
"Habitat fragmentation at different trophic levels- a literature
review"
Aug. 04 Invited speaker International Congress of Entomology,
Brisbane, Australia.
1) "butterfly metapopulation dynamics from the parasitoids perspective"
S. van Nouhuys
2) "Host-parasitoid dynamics in fragmented landscapes: patterns of
dispersal and genetic variation" I. Hanski (presenter), M. Kankare, and S.
van Nouhuys
April 04 Invited speaker at a the workshop on multitrophic
level interactions above and below ground, Lund, Sweden
Oct. 03 Annual meeting of the
Entomological Society of America, Cincinnati, Ohio. "Effects of iridoid
glycosides on the development of herbivores and their endoparasitoids" J.
Harvey (presenter), A. Biere and S. van Nouhuys
July 03 XIII International Entomophagous Insect workshop in Tucson, Arizona.
"Spatial learning (or something) allows a parasitoid to use a host that is
available for an extremely short time"
March 03 Invited speaker at the Symposium on Habitat
Fragmentation and Trophic Interactions in Wageningen, NL. "A host and two
parasitoids that each experience the same habitat differently"
Feb. 03 Invited speaker at the Symposium on Metapopulation
Biology - Achievements and Challenges, University of Helsinki, Finland.
"Mechanisms behind the population dynamics of the parasitoids of the
Glanville fritillary butterfly"
Dec. 00 Annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Montreal,
Quebec. "The affect of relative dispersal ability on the population
dynamics of two parasitoids and their shared host"
Sept.99 at the XII International Entomophagous Insect workshop in Asilimar,
California. "Population dynamics of a parasitoid wasp: from individual to
metapopulation"
Nov. 98 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Las Vegas,
Nevada. "Host diet affects extinctions and colonizations in a parasitoid
metapopulation" (with I. Hanski)
Aug. 96 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Providence, Rhode
Island. "Parasitoid wasps that forage in wild and cultivated habitats:
Genetic differentiation between populations, and the magnitude of natural
selection on foraging behavior"
June 96 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, St. Louis,
Missouri. "Natural selection on aspects of foraging behavior of the
parasitoid wasp Cotesia glomerata from wild and cultivated host plant
habitats"
Dec.94 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Dallas,
Texas."Between-population variation in individual foraging behavior of the
parasitoid wasp Cotesia glomerata: Local adaptation?"
Dec.92 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Baltimore,
Maryland. "Searching behavior of individual parasitoid wasps in wild and
cultivated host habitats"
Dec.89 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, El Paso, Texas.
"Predatory mite population dynamics: colonization and localized dispersal
of Phytoseiids" (with C. Pickel)
Poster presentations at meetings
March 02 Fourth International
Conference on the Biology of Butterflies, Leiden, The Netherlands. "Stable
parasitoid population dynamics through dispersal and learning. "S. van
Nouhuys
"Variability of plant defensive chemistry: Does it affect host use of a
specialist herbivore?" By M. Nieminen, J. Suomi, S. van Nouhuys, P. Sauri
and M-L. Riekkola.
March 01 Annual meeting of the
TMR Fraglands research group, Leeds, UK.
"Larval performance and suitability of host plants in Melitaea cinxia" By M. Nieminen, S. van Nouhuys and M. Singer.