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Monday 26 June

Symposium—Moving Beyond the Dotted Line: Donor Engagement with Conservation Science

10:00–12:00
presentation times will be posted soon

A taxonomy of donors to conservation science, policy and implementation

Vanderryn, Jack and MARY ROWEN

Mapping investment in conservation: results from a survey of donor priorities

HULSE, DAVID, Nick Salafsky, and Daniel Miller

How can and does conservation science inform foundation program strategies?

ZAVALETA, ERIKA, Daniel Miller, and Gary Tabor

From research to action: foundation strategies for funding conservation science that is relevant to conservation action

Gold, Barry and MICHAEL WEBSTER

Symposium—The Quadrupled Face of Biodiversity Conservation in Africa

10:00 Engendering the NEPAD environment initiative: linking policies to African womens’ local realities

BADIANKY, SOLANGE

10:15 The human-political economy, crossover methodological augmentation, and conservation

DOVIE, DELALI

10:30 Mapping forest cover conversion and fragmentation in Malawi, 1973–2000

MLOTHA, MCARD JOSEPH

10:45 Integrating indigenous knowledge in domestication trials of a native Tanzanian tree

MESHACK, CHARLES

11:00 Policies, politics and natural resources conservation in Uganda

MWAVU, EDWARD

11:15 Implementing optimal conservation actions for multiple stakeholders: a case example from the Taita Hills, Kenya

GITHIRU, MWANGI

11:30 Recent advances in regional biodiversity policy, mainstreaming priorities, planning, and monitoring

THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BOTANICAL INSTITUTE

Conservation Biogeography

10:00 Advancing the knowledge base for global-scale conservation biogeography—expert-based habitat models of the distribution of terrestrial vertebrates

JETZ, WALTER

10:15 Assessment of ecosystem extinction risk at multiple spatial scales

RODRIGUEZ, JON PAUL, Pablo Lacabana, Carlos Portillo, Fabian Carrasquel, and Alix Amaya

10:30 Molecular phylogeography suggests that vertebrate and plant-based conservation plans may not protect Hawaii’s unusual insect fauna

RUBINOFF, DANIEL

10:45 The distribution and conservation status of restricted range vascular plant families

MASSAD, TARA, George Schatz, and Eric Dinerstein

11:00 The distribution and conservation value of endemic genera and families

DINERSTEIN, ERIC, Wes Wettengel, John Morrison, John Lamoreux, Taylor Ricketts, David Olson, and Meghan McKnight

11:15 A critical assessment of endemic bird areas in the Americas

JENKINS, CLINTON and Stuart Pimm

11:30 Assembly of the Yellowstone species pool and implications for regional conservation planning

BRUZGUL, JUDSEN and Elizabeth Hadly

11:45 Predicting species’ distributions from small numbers of occurrence records: a test case using cryptic geckos in Madagascar

PEARSON, RICHARD, Christopher Raxworthy, Miguel Nakamura, and A. Townsend Peterson

Conservation Genetics

10:00 Purging of deleterious recessive alleles during historical inbreeding can limit the threat that inbreeding depression poses to population viability

BOUZAT, JUAN and William Swindell

10:15 The effects of historic translocations and habitat fragmentation on the genetic structure of a protected fish species, the White Sands pupfish

HEILVEIL, JEFFREY and Craig Stockwell

10:30 Genetic structure in the desert tortoise: conservation implications

Hagerty, Bridgette and C. RICHARD TRACY

10:45 Genetic structure in the endangered southern populations of the mountain yellow-legged frog, Rana muscosa

SCHOVILLE, SEAN, Tate Tunstall, Vance Vredenburg, and Robert Fisher

11:00 Genetics and the Endangered Species Act: a review of listing decisions

FALLON, SYLVIA

11:15 Swamping out rare genes: habitat fragmentation increases hybridization in a woodland eucalypt

FIELD, DAVID, Andrew Young, David Ayre, and Rob Whelan

11:30 Conservation and management of San Miguel Island deer mice

PERGAMS, OLIVER

11:45 Mitochondrial DNA variation supports distinct population segment designation in US gray wolves (Canis lupus)

STRAUGHAN, DYAN and Steven Fain

Environmental Politics and Policy

10:00 Playing for keeps: prioritizing conservation for maximum biodiversity return-on-investment

HOEKSTRA, JONATHAN, William Murdoch, Stephen Polasky, Hugh Possingham, and Kerrie Wilson

10:15 A comparative assessment of biodiversity conservation on four federal land systems in the United States

CZECH, BRIAN

10:30 Diplomatic immunity and trafficking of endangered species: what’s the connection?

JACKSON, WENDY

10:45 Reaching beyond the boundaries: a discourse analysis of perceptions in biodiversity conservation

MALAN, LEON-C

11:00 Return of the scientists: research and conservation on the Osa Peninsula after Corcovado National Park’s creation, 1975–1990

CHRISTEN, CATHERINE

11:15 State fragility and biodiversity: strategic concerns and emerging responses

ROBINSON, DOREEN and Diane Russell

11:30 Biosafety issues and policies in China

MCBEATH, JENIFER and Jerry McBeath

11:45 Prioritizing actions within offset / mitigation policies through credit assignment under uncertainty

LANGFORD, BILL

Marine Conservation Practice

10:00 Shifting the baseline back: documenting community perceptions of marine resources along with the biological returns of MPAs

TUI, THOMAS, Loraini Sivo, Josh Drew, Jen Shaffer, and Linda Farley

10:15 Clustered networks of marine and watershed reserves find the balance for people and ecosystems in Kubulau, Vanua Levu, Fiji

OLSON, DAVID

10:30 Spearfishing in the Pacific Islands: current status and management issues with case study in Fiji exploring the role of MPAs

MOY, WAYNE, Robert Gillett, Loraini Sivo, and Thomas Tui

10:45



11:00 CITES related shifts in the live seahorse trade: Los Angeles as a case study

MAGERA, ANNA, Sian Morgan, Heather Koldewey, and Amanda Vincent

11:15 Assessing the effects of fishery entanglement in viability analyses for sea lions in the Gulf of California

UNDERWOOD, JARED, Claudia Hernandez Camacho, and Leah Gerber

11:30 Assessment of interactions between aquatic land use and endangered species for aquatic lands throughout Washington state

BLOCH, PHILIP, Carol Cloen, Cody Fleece, and Greg Reub

11:45 A decision support system for regional marine protected area planning in California

GLEASON, MARY, Will McClintock, Paulo Serpa, Chris Ball, Bob Sherwood, and Brad Pfefferle

Conservation Planning and Reserve Selection: Research by Smith Fellows

10:15 A national review of priority setting and decision making by land protection programs

PYKE, CHRIS

10:30 Can we conserve biodiversity without really trying? Capturing non-target biodiversity using community-based representative reserve designs

NEEL, MAILE, Bradley Compton, and Kevin McGarigal

10:45 Prairies under siege: strenghtening the science behind grassland protection efforts in the northern Great Plains

STEPHENS, SCOTT, Johann Walker, Darin Blunck, and Dave Naugle

11:00 Global threat analysis and impacts on marine ecosystems

HALPERN, BENJAMIN, Kimberly Selkoe, Mark Spalding, Shaun Walbridge, Caterina DAgrosa, Fiorenza Micheli, Carrie Kappel, and Hunter Lenihan

11:15 Establishment and effectiveness of marine protected areas: links between governance, biological, and socioeconomic factors

FOX, HELEN, Alfonso Lombana, Michael Mascia, and Louisa Wood

11:30 Using graph theory to estimate landscape-level connectivity for wide-ranging species

THEOBALD, DAVID, John Norman, and Melissa Sherburne

11:45 Assessing conservation-planning approaches in a changing climate

LAWLER, JOSHUA, Sarah Shafer, and Dennis White

Wetland Ecology

10:00 Fire and grazing effects in California vernal pool grasslands

MARTY, JAYMEE

10:15 Genetic structure and landscape fragmentation: planning the recovery of a critically endangered salamander

SAVAGE, WESLEY

10:30 Factors affecting anuran community structure along an urban–rural gradient

PILLSBURY, FINN and James Miller

10:45 Effects of UVB on tadpole diets: choice tests and growth rates

SCHEESSELE, ERIN, Betsy Bancroft, and Andrew Blaustein

11:00 A multifactorial characterization of pond turtle habitat

HARMS, HILLARY, Daniel Pavuk, and Karen Root

11:15 Fidelity and dispersal in the pond breeding amphibian Ambystoma opacum: implications for spatial population dynamics and conservation

GAMBLE, LLOYD, Kevin McGarigal, Bradley Compton, and Sai Ravela

11:30 Desert wildlife restoration: monitoring wildlife populations in the Chanan Remington Memorial Wetland

Busby, Darin and MELISSA BUSBY

11:45 Effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on growth and survival of aquatic and marine organisms: a meta-analysis

BANCROFT, BETSY, Nick Baker, and Andrew Blaustein

Symposium—Connectivity and Reserve Design

1:30 The best laid plans of beasts and men: ecological connectivity in conservation planning requires connectivity amongst conservation plans

TABOR, GARY, Carlos Carroll, and Joel Clement

1:45 Planning for biodiversity processes in the context of anthropogenic landscape dynamics: history and recent developments

PRESSEY, BOB

2:00 Overview of new mathematical methods for incorporating connectivity into reserve design

WILLIAMS, JUSTIN

2:15 Mathematical methods for selecting contiguous reserve networks

Alagador, Diogo, J. ORESTES CERDEIRA, Kevin Gaston, and Leonor Pinto

2:30 Comparing reserve design approaches that account for connectivity

CABEZA, MAR and Atte Moilanen

2:45 Dissecting habitat connectivity

Schumaker, Nathan, Madhura Niphadkar, and CARLOS CARROLL

3:00 Multispecies issues in the design of marine reserve networks

GAINES, STEVE, Brian Gaylord, Brian Kinlan, and Sarah Lester

3:15 Incorporating connectivity into the design of marine reserves

HASTINGS, ALAN

Symposium—Management for Spatial and Temporal Complexity in Ocean Ecosystems

1:30 Comprehensive ocean zoning: a new paradigm for ocean management in the United States

NORSE, ELLIOTT

1:45 Evolving property rights, the public trust, and ocean zoning

OSHERENKO, GAIL and Oran Young

2:00 The Great Barrier Reef: a working example of ecosystem-based management and ocean zoning

DAY, JON

2:15 Discussion

2:30 The international perspective: lessons from 30 years of marine spatial planning

DOUVERE, FANNY and Charles Ehler

2:45 Mapping foraging areas of seabirds at risk from longline fishing: a tool for assessing international conservation responsibilities

HYRENBACH, K. DAVID, John Croxall, Deon Nel, Cleo Small, and Frances Taylor

3:00 Assessing shallow water Hawaiian reef fish stocks through the use of a spatially heterogeneous management regime

NOWLIS, JOSHUA, Alan Friedlander, Edward DeMartini, and Eric Brown

3:15 Discussion

Adaptive Management

1:30 Using abundance and behavior as tools for assessing a management strategy for an endangered butterfly

PICKENS, BRADLEY and Karen Root

1:45 Mission blue and callippe silverspot butterfly distribution and habitat changes on San Bruno Mountain after 23 years of monitoring

Kobernus, Patrick and AUTUMN MEISEL

2:00 Evaluation and conservation of heritable adaptive trait variation in Maine’s endangered Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar

WILKE, NATHAN, Michael Kinnison, and Timothy King

2:15 Land use changes and oil exploitation effects on aquatic biodiversity nearby a protected area in tropical lowlands

CARRERA REYES, CARLOS and Rube�Ln Carranco

2:30 Do small mammal pest species impacts increase on farms when adjoining lands are converted to habitat?

GOLET, GREGORY and John Hunt

2:45 The science of conservation project management

CHRISTIANSEN, SARAH, Miguel Jorge, Mariana Panuncio, Kate Newman, and Lauren Spurrier

3:00 Assessing population dynamics of secretive landscape species: long-term photographic sampling of tigers in India

KARANTH, ULLAS, James Nichols, Samba Kumar, and James Hines

3:15 Mitigation strategies for bats in bridges

JOHNSTON, DAVE

Conservation of Wide Ranging Taxa

1:30 Strategic planning: setting conservation priorities in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, India—land of highest density of one horned rhino in the world

HAZARIKA, ARUP KUMAR, Amalesh Dutta, and Prakash Chetry

1:45 Least cost path corridor analysis for evaluation of lynx habitat connectivity in the middle Rockies

JONES, ALLISON and Wendy Bates

2:00 Geographic variation in foraging strategies of western Pacific leatherbacks—implications for long term conservation

BENSON, SCOTT, Peter Dutton, Creusa Hitipeuw, and Vagi Rei

2:15 Space utilization patterns of bobcats (Lynx rufus) in the Santa Ana mountains in southern California

BOYDSTON, ERIN, Lisa Lyren, Robert Fisher, Greta Turschak, Jeff Tracey, Trish Smith, and Kevin Crooks

2:30 Selecting targets for landscape-scale conservation priority setting: do conservation NGOs disagree and does it matter?

BOTTRILL, MADELEINE, Jeff Baumgartner, Charlotte Boyd, Karl Didier, Colby Loucks, Judy Oglethorpe, David Wilke, and David Williams

2:45 Use of distinct foraging habitats by threatened Pink-footed Shearwaters: implications for interactions with fisheries

HODUM, PETER, K. David Hyrenbach, and Michelle Wainstein

3:00 Post breeding movements and fisheries overlap of Black-footed Albatross (2004–2005)

NEVINS, HANNAROSE, K. David Hyrenbach, Michelle Hester, Cheryl Baduini, Carol Keiper, and Josh Adams

3:15 Incorporating catastrophic risk assessments into recovery planning for Pacific salmonids

GOOD, THOMAS, Jeremy Davies, and Mary Ruckelshuas

Environmental Sociology

1:30 Ecological and sociological diversity of private protected areas in the little karoo, South Africa

PASQUINI, LORENA

1:45 A collective understanding of threats to forest resources of the midwest driftless area

KNOOT, TRICIA and Lisa Schulte

2:00 Are wildlife values changing in the United States?

MANFREDO, MICHAEL, Tara Teel, and Ashley Dayer

2:15 Wildlife value orientations in the United States

TEEL, TARA and Michael Manfredo

2:30 The importance of conservation attitude and past conflict on illegal forest resource harvesting in the protected areas of Sulawesi (Indonesia)

LEE, TIEN MING and Navjot Sodhi

2:45 Brownfields, green cities, and the future color of conservation

GAVIN, MICHAEL

3:00 Invasive weed management and the formation of new alliances and new divisions within the environmental movement

NORGAARD, KARI and Chris Fryefield

3:15 Is love of nature in the United States becoming love of electronic media?

Pergams, Oliver and PATRICIA ZARADIC

Predictive Conservation Ecology

1:30 Species’ responses to fragmentation and habitat loss: a global cross-taxonomic meta-analysis

PRUGH, LAURA and Karen Hodges

1:45 Species interactions bias complex but not simple PVA models

SABO, JOHN and Leah Gerber

2:00 Habitat associations of Siskiyou Mountains salamanders at multiple spatial resolutions in the Klamath–Siskiyou region at the Oregon–California border

SUZUKI, NOBUYA, Deanna Olson, and Edward Reilly

2:15 Improving conservation planning in Peru and Bolivia through the application of new tools and data

GROSSMAN, DENNIS, Pat Comer, Patrick Crist, Pilar Hernandez, Carmen Josse, Martin Timana, Jennifer Swenson, and Bruce Young

2:30 Barrier effects of US 331 to wildlife within the Nokuse Plantation–Eglin Air Force Base conservation corridor

SMITH, DANIEL and Reed Noss

2:45 An integrated approach to predicting the impact of human disturbance

SUTHERLAND, WILLIAM, Durwyn Liley, Jamie Tratalos, Robert Sugden, Jennifer Gill, Andy Jones, Ian Bateman, and David Showler

3:00 Linking population viability analysis to environmental drivers of vital rates for the island fox (Urocyon littoralis)

BAKKER, VICTORIA, Daniel Doak, Gary Roemer, David Garcelon, Scott Morrison, and Rebecca Shaw

3:15 Are trees important for grazing wildlife? Large trees improving grass quality in African savanna

TREYDTE, ANNA, Ignas Heitkonig, and Fulco Ludwig

Student Awards

1:30 Linking population viability analysis and habitat suitability for the conservation of Audubon’s Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway) in Florida

BARNES, JAMI and Karen Root

1:45 The “power” of science: confronting Type II error under the Endangered Species Act

MCGARVEY, DANIEL

2:00 Demographic consequences of buffer zone diameter for pond-breeding amphibian populations

HARPER, ELIZABETH, Tracy Rittenhouse, and Raymond Semlitsch

2:15 Effects of forest harvesting on juvenile amphibian dispersal

PATRICK, DAVID, Aram Calhoun, and Malcolm Hunter

2:30 Introduced rats indirectly transform island intertidal communities

KURLE, CAROLYN

2:45 Assessing the conservation benefits of sensitive land development

MILDER, JEFFREY, James Lassoie, and Barbara Bedford

3:00 What we learn from natural history of penguins

BOERSMA, DEE

Symposium—Connectivity and Reserve Design

4:00 Connecting the dots means more than lines: connectivity issues and approaches for regional freshwater species conservation

HIGGINS, JONATHAN

4:15 Connectivity design for island systems

SCHILL, STEVE

4:30 Optimizing connectivity under climate change: using network flow to design dispersal corridors for the Cape Proteaceae

PHILLIPS, STEVEN, Paul Williams, Guy Midgley, and Aaron Archer

4:45 Selecting corridors that insure persistence of wide-ranging species and ecological processes: examples from South Africa

ROUGET, MATHIEU, Richard Cowling, Amanda Lombard, and Andrew Knight

5:00 Building connected networks in a rapidly developing human landscape: an example from Florida

BREININGER, DAVID, Reed Noss, Pedro Quintana-Ascencio, Brean Duncan, and Eric Menges

5:15 Application of reserve design principles to real landscapes: lessons from the Northwest Forest Plan

NOON, BARRY

5:30 Network designs and political realities in tiger landscapes of Asia

MIQUELLE, DALE and Carlos Carroll

5:45 Summary: where next in connectivity-based conservation planning?

NOSS, REED

Symposium—Management for Spatial and Temporal Complexity in Ocean Ecosystems

4:00 Overview of ocean management in the United States: lessons from five case studies

AIRAME, SATIE

4:15 Management of spatial and temporal complexity in ocean ecosystems: panel discussion of case studies

Panelists: John Ogden, Andrew Rosenberg, Robbin Peach, Jim Wilson, and Julie Ekstrom. Moderated by Larry Crowder and Satie Airame.

5:30 Synthesis

CROWDER, LARRY
5:45 Discussion

Conservation on Private Land

4:00

4:15 Conservation easements in context: a quantitative analysis of their use by The Nature Conservancy

KIESECKER, JOSEPH, Tosha Comendant, Elizabeth Gray, Peter Kareiva, Lynn Lozier, Adena Rissman, and Rebecca Shaw

4:30 Private use and biodiversity protection on The Nature Conservancy’s conservation easements

RISSMAN, ADENA, Tosha Comendant, Peter Kareiva, Joseph Kiesecker, Lynn Lozier, Rebecca Shaw, and Adina Merenlender

4:45 Conservation easements vs conservation acquisition: the illusory dichotomy

LOZIER, LYNN, Rebecca Shaw, and Adena Rissman

5:00 Conservation of fish and wildlife through the Farm Bill

GRAY, RANDALL

5:15 Integrating conservation with transportation and land use scenario planning through decision support tool interoperability

CHRIST, PATRICK, Lynn Scharf, Adrien Patane, and Doug Walker

5:30 Anadromous fish restoration with community partners-successes and challenges in the mid-Klamath River Basin

CURTIS, GARY, Jennifer Silveira, Dave Webb, and Rhonda Muse

5:45 Freshwater habitat conservation in the northern Sierra Nevada

GAITHER, JAMES, Paul Hardy, and Amy Upgren

Environmental Anthropology

4:00 Archaeology of the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Indonesia

NEIDEL, JOHN

4:15 Impact of spiritual beliefs on the protection of the Amazon River dolphin in northern Peru

Lynch, Diane, James Perry, and Thomas Fiutak

4:30 “They eat rhinos”: contrasting and changing perceptions of bushmeat in two Maasai sections of southeastern Kenya and implications for conservation

ROQUE DE PINHO, JOANA

4:45 Negotiating for nature: lessons learned from the implementation of conservation incentives agreements in Cambodia

MILNE, SARAH and Keith Alger

5:00 Daylighting the cultural currents of science-based salmon habitat restoration

BRESLOW, SARA JO

5:15 Counting on trees: community needs and conservation at the Maputo Elephant Reserve, Mozambique

SHAFFER, JEN

5:30 Principles and practice of substitution for rare and endangered species in Amchi medicine

YESHI CHODEN, LAMA and Amchi Gyatso Bista

5:45 Pseudorichness, community composition, and ecological preferences of ostracoda (Crustacea) in Lake Abant (Bolu, Turkey)

KULKOYLUOGLU, OKAN, Muzaffer Dugel, and Mustafa Kilic

Land Use Planning

4:00 Do priority regions put conservation resources in the right places?

Wilson, Kerrie, Bob Pressey, MATTHEW WATTS, Belinda Reyers, Richard Cowling, Amanda Lombard, and Mathieu Rouget

4:15 Status of mature and old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, USA

DELLASALA, DOMINICK, James Strittholt, and Hong Jiang

4:30 Beyond representation: gradient approaches to conservation reserve design

WEISS, ANDREW

4:45 Are national parks enough? The conservation value of lightly protected management areas in East Africa

GARDNER, TOBY, Tim Caro, Emily Fitzherbert, Tasila Banda, and Punit Lalbhai

5:00 Growth pressures on sensitive natural resources in the Twin Cities metropolitan region

PFEIFER, SHARON

5:15 Landscape change in a protected area of the Brazilian Atlantic forest

DOBROVOLSKI, RICARDO, Heinrich Hasenack, Andreas Kindel, and Paulo Luiz de Oliveira

5:30 Improving land development and stormwater management policies to protect imperiled aquatic species: a case study in the Etowah River Basin (Georgia, USA)

DREELIN, ERIN, Laurie Fowler, and Ron Carroll

5:45 Assessing the role of the National Wildlife Refuge system in conserving America’s bird diversity

RUPP, DAVID and J. Michael Scott

Marine Conservation Science

4:00 Contaminant-associated immune alteration in Black-footed Albatrosses (Phoebastria nigripes), North Pacific predators

FINKELSTEIN, MYRA, Keith Grasman, Donald Croll, Bernie Tershy, Bradford Keitt, Wally Jarman, and Donald Smith

4:15 Seascape-level correlates of coral community structure

KAPPEL, CARRIE, Fiorenza Micheli, Alastair Harborne, Peter Mumby, Craig Dahlgren, Katherine Holmes, Philip Kramer, and Daniel Brumbaugh

4:30 A characterization of pelagic habitat of loggerhead (Caretta caretta) turtles in the north Atlantic Ocean

MCCARTHY, ABIGAIL, Selina Heppell, Scott Heppell, Molly Lutcavage, and Thomas Dellinger

4:45 Remembering the Gulf: changes in the Sea of Cortez since Steinbeck and Ricketts

SAGARIN, RAPHE, Charles Baxter, Nancy Burnett, and William Gilly

5:00 Site fidelity and movement of fishes in California’s Channel Islands as determined by a large acoustic receiver array: implications for reserve design

LINDHOLM, JAMES and Michael Domeier

5:15 Compensatory mitigation can resolve economic inefficiencies in fisheries and biodiversity management

WILCOX, CHRIS and C. Josh Donlan

5:30 Fishing indirectly alters carbon flow through a temperate coastal ecosystem

SALOMON, ANNE, Nick Shears, Timothy Langlois, and Russell Babcock

5:45 Linking individual behavior and population health: a multidisciplinary approach to predicting risk of disease exposure in sea otters

TINKER, MARTIN and Christine Kreuder

Spatial Ecology

4:00 The spatial structure of forest songbird reproductive activity in a managed forest landscape

GUNN, JOHN, Marc-Andre Villard, and Jeff Bowman

4:15 Dynamic reserve-selection methods to maintain species’ spatial habitat requirements

RAYFIELD, BRONWYN, Marie-Josee Fortin, and Andrew Fall

4:30 Woodland caribou and landscape disturbance in Ontario: utility of spatial statistics

VORS, LIV and Bruce Pond

4:45 Identifying conservation gaps on the US–Mexican border: an opportunity to implement binational conservation strategies

Chapa-Vargas, Leonardo, GERARDO CEBALLOS, Carlos Gonzales-Rebeles, Gabriela Gomez-Rogriquez, and Giselle Oliva

5:00 Modeling the landscape niche characteristics of the red diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus ruber): implications for conservation planning

HALAMA, KENNETH, Adam Malisch, Michael Aspell, John Rotenberry, and Michael Allen

5:15 Evaluating sustainability of bushmeat hunting at the landscape scale

RIST, JANNA, Marcus Rowcliffe, Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland, and Guy Cowlishaw

5:30 Improving parameter estimates used in pvas with data from zoo populations: the Misiones, Argentina jaguar (Panthera onca) population

LONSDORF, ERIC, Joanne Earnhardt, Mario Di Bitetti, Laury Cullen, and Lisa Faust

5:45 The relative effect of habitat loss and traffic volume on anuran populations

EIGENBROD, FELIX, Lenore Fahrig, and Stephen Hecnar

Student Awards

4:00 Spatial ecology of fire in an East African savannah: effects of burn size and patchiness on the foraging ecology of grazers of varying body size

SENSENIG, RYAN, Emilio Laca, and Tag Demment

4:15 Amphibian disease: can landscape features of breeding pools distinguish wetlands at risk?

GAHL, MEGAN, Aram Calhoun, and David Green

4:30 Applied acoustic monitoring: African forest elephant population estimates from Kakum National Park, Ghana

THOMPSON, MYA, Katharine Payne, and Stephen Schwager

4:45 Indirect effects of fishing on coral-reef fish communities

STALLINGS, CHRISTOPHER

5:00 Polling for poachers: testing a unique method for estimating illegal resource use in protected areas

SOLOMON, JENNIFER

5:15 Identifying non-breeding habitat in mobile species: seasonal elevational movement in a Hawaiian honeycreeper

KUNTZ, WENDY

5:30 Cats? No way! Can we conserve biodiversity in rural landscapes?

SIMONETTI, JAVIER



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