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Tuesday 27 June

Symposium—Conservation in a Changing Climate

10:00 Climate and adaptation: assessment, governance, and practice

PULWARTY, ROGER

10:15 A challenge for conservation: climate and chemical consequences of carbon dioxide emissions

CALDEIRA, KEN

10:30 Managing California aquatic ecosystems under climate change

PURKEY, DAVID

10:45 Living on the edge: keeping coastal wetlands above rising seas

SAXON, EARL

11:00 Addressing the effects of climate change on coral reef ecosystems

HANSEN, LAURA

11:15 Adaptation options for invasive species management and monitoring to incorporate climate change effects

BIERWAGEN, BRITTA

11:30 A framework for biodiversity conservation under a changing climate

SHAW, REBECCA

11:45 Panel discussion

Chris Pyke, Joshua Lawler, Rebecca Shaw, Roger Pulwarty, and Chris Field

Symposium—Freshwater Invasive Species: A Double-Edged Sword?

10:00 The distribution of freshwater invasive species and their impacts: results from a global threat assessment

MOLNAR, JENNIFER and Carmen Revenga

10:15 Global linkages: forecasting the occurrence, spread and impact of freshwater nonindigenous species

LODGE, DAVID

10:30 Minimizing the effects on native fauna of introduced fish species for food security in developing countries

Bartley, Devin and DAVID COATES

10:45 Impacts and uses of exotic salmonids in Patagonia, from the pond to the ocean shelf

PASCUAL, MIGUEL

11:00 Ecology and economy: the trade-off in aquatic species introductions in Kenya

OGADA, MORDECAI

11:15 Classification and zoning of rivers: a tool for conserving threatened species and managing alien fish species with socioeconomic value

DE VILLIERS, PIERRE

11:30 Predicting the identity and impacts of freshwater invasive species

KELLER, REUBEN, David Lodge, David Finnoff, and John Drake

11:45 Uses and needs for codes of practice for the introduction of alien species

COATES, DAVID and Devin Bartley

Adaptive Management

10:00 Reaching a decision in an uncertain world: structured decision-making under the Endangered Species Act

CHI, DANIELLE, Karl Halupka, and Robin Bown

10:15 How are we saving species in the 21st century?

GROOM, MARTHA, Margaret Kinnaird, and Kent Redford

10:30 Village size and forest disturbance in Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary, western Ghats, India

KARANTH, KRITHI, Lisa Curran, and Jonathan Reuning-Scherer

10:45 Trials without tribulation: active learning for conservation management

MCCARTHY, MICHAEL and Hugh Possingham

11:00 Socio-economic monitoring of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary reserves and the local California spiny lobster fishery

GUENTHER, CARLA, Darren Hardy, Chris Miller, and Hunter Lenihan

11:15 Can aversive conditioning effectively reduce human-black bear conflicts?

MAZUR, RACHEL and Rosie Woodroffe

11:30 Experimental control of a native predator and breeding success of a threatened seabird on Santa Barbara Island, California

MILLUS, SARAH, Paul Stapp, and Paige Martin

11:45 Biodiversity science—what we know, what we don’t know and where do we go from here

Rodriguez, Jon Paul and TATJANA GOOD

Conservation Biogeography

10:00 Freshwater ecoregions of the world: a new map for freshwater conservation

NG, REBECCA, Robin Abell, and Michele Thieme

10:15 Insights into the circumstances leading to the extinction of the blue antelope, derived from modeling of historical mammal distribution and abundance

KERLEY, GRAHAM, Rebeca Sims-Castley, Andre Boshoff, and Richard Cowling

10:30 Distribution of rare vernal pool organisms across geologic formations and soils in eastern Merced County, California

HUNTER, JOHN and Kaylene Keller

10:45 Novel spatial methods for predicting centers of endemism of Andean birds

HERNANDEZ, PILAR, Lily Paniagua, Aldo Soto, Jennifer Swenson, Carolina Tovar, and Bruce Young

11:00 An assessment of the status and trends of Mediterranean-type ecosystems

UNDERWOOD, EMMA, Rebecca Shaw, Kirk Klausmeyer, Robin Cox, Scott Morrison, Matt Merrifield, Sylvia Stone, and James Quinn

11:15 Are vertebrates in the tropical Andes well protected?

Rodriguez, Jon Paul, MARIA OLIVEIRA-MIRANDA, Rodrigo Lazo, Sergio Zambrano, and Efrain Tapiquen

11:30 Effects of habitat quality and patch isolation on the decline of New Zealand robins in a fragmented landscape

RICHARD, YVAN, Rebecca Boulton, and Doug Armstrong

11:45 Bee communities and forest fragmentation in tropical countryside

BROSI, BERRY, Gretchen Daily, and Paul Ehrlich

Marine Conservation Practice

10:00 Morphological and behavioral correlates of population status in the southern sea otter: a comparative study

BENTALL, GENA, M. Tim Tinker, and James Estes

10:15 Marine conservation in Latin America. a review of marine protected areas

GUARDERAS, PAULINA

10:30 Gradients in fish biomass across the Itacolomis Reefs no-take area boundary (Abrolhos Bank, Brazil): baseline information and evidence of fish spillover

FRANCINI-FILHO, RONALDO BASTOS and Rodrigo Leao de Moura

10:45 Recovery from fishing effects of epifauna on hard substrates in the Gulf of Maine

TAMSETT, ALISON and Peter Auster

11:00 Community conservation agreements for sea turtle nesting beach protection

GJERTSEN, HEIDI and Richard Rice

11:15 The marine protected area networks learning partnership: an inter-organizational collaboration

CORRIGAN, COLLEEN

11:30 Galapagos sharks and Hawaiian monk seals: a conservation conundrum

ANTONELIS, GEORGE, Albert Harting, Brenda Becker, Susanne Canja, Daniel Luers, and Aaron Dietrich

11:45 Words matter: a functional classification system for MPAs illustrates their role in conserving US marine ecosystems

WAHLE, CHARLES, Kelly Chapin, Rikki Grober-Dunsmore, Lisa Wooninck, and Nicole Woodling

Protected Area Design

10:00 Conservation without participation: socioeconomic impacts of the establishment of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Indian Himalayas

HOWE, CAROLINE, Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland, and R Badola

10:15 Ecological ramifications of wildlife poaching in protected areas

BRODIE, JEDEDIAH and Warren Brockelman

10:30 Connectivity and reserve design in Galapagos Marine Reserve

Calvopina, Monica and Eliecer Cruz

10:45 A comparison of iterative and terminal stage procedures addressing multiple opportunity cost constraints in systematic conservation planning

CAMERON, SUSAN, Kristen Williams, and David Mitchell

11:00 Improving reserve design under uncertainty: adaptive decision rules for the acquisition of nature reserves

TURNER, WILL and David Wilcove

11:15 Evaluating spatial tools for marine conservation and biodiversity mapping on Ailinginae, Atoll

FULFROST, BRIAN

11:30 Sustainable patch-network criteria for a dispersal-limited endemic bird

CASTELLON, TRACI and Kathryn Sieving

11:45 Rainforest reserves for critically endangered Comorian fruit bats

SEWALL, BRENT, Amy Freestone, Mohammed Moutui, Ishaka Said, Nassuri Tolibou, Daoud Attoumane, and Saindou Mossa

Urban Ecology

10:00 Population structure and dispersal patterns of protected and exploited gray wolves in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

THIESSEN, CONRAD, Andrew Derocher, and David Coltman

10:15 Multi-taxonomic patterns and thresholds of biological diversity along a gradient of human development

MANLEY, PATRICIA, Dennis Murphy, Lori Campbell, Kirsten Heckmann, Susan Merideth, Monte Sanford, and Matthew Schlesinger

10:30 Distinguishing effects of urban development and human disturbance on landbird communities in the central Sierra Nevada

SCHLESINGER, MATTHEW, Patricia Manley, and Marcel Holyoak

10:45



11:00 Land use change and its impact on the butterflies of the “La Tula” watershed, Puerto Rico

RODRIGUEZ, RODNEY and Carla Restrepo

11:15 Differences between marine communtiies on anthropognic structures and natural rocky benches and implications for conservation

PISTER, BENJAMIN and Kaustuv Roy

11:30 Modelling the effect of traffic noise on acoustic communication in birds

PARRIS, KIRSTEN

11:45 Determinants of spatial assemblages of bird communities on urban patches

HUSTE, AURELIE and Thierry Boulinier

Symposium—Market-Based Strategies for Marine Conservation

1:30 Reducing opposition to ocean conservation

FUJITA, ROD

1:45 Testing a new tool for marine conservation: protecting essential fish habitat through the acquisition of federal fishing permits and trawl vessels

COOK, CHARLES

2:00 Mitigation banking opportunities in the coastal and ocean environment

DENISOFF, CRAIG

2:15 Conservation leasing and ownership of submerged lands: new tools for marine conservation

BECK, MICHAEL

2:30 Discussion

Symposium—
The Great Migrations: Conserving migratory ungulates in a transboundary context


1:30 The great migrations of Serengeti

SINCLAIR, ANTHONY, John Fryxell, Kristine Metzger, and Michael Norton-Griffiths

1:45 Causes and consequences of herbivore migration: a theoretical perspective

FRYXELL, JOHN

2:00 Threats to the great migration: conserving the migratory wildebeest of the Serengeti

Hopcraft, Grant, Ephraim Mwangomo, and Simon Thirgood

2:15 Decision-making in a migratory ungulate: effects of human intervention in a dynamic system

MILNER-GULLAND, E.J. and Eric Morgan

2:30 Migration and conservation of the Mongolian gazelle

ITO, TAKEHIKO, Naoko Miura, Badamjav Lhagvasuren, Dulamtseren Enkhbileg, Seiki Takatsuki, Atsushi Tsunekawa, and Zhaowen Jiang

2:45 The faces of a migration corridor—beyond protected areas and the challenge of a conflicted populace

BERGER, JOEL, Steve Cain, and Kim Murray Berger

3:00 Migratory declines in partially migratory elk populations in the Canadian Rocky Mountains: a result of transboundary management conflict

HEBBLEWHITE, MARK and Evelyn Merrill

3:15 The last wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) migrations in Europe

STRAND, OLAV and Erling Johan Solberg

Community-Driven Conservation

1:30 An international comparison of incentives to poach saiga antelopes in post-Soviet central Asia

KUHL, ALINE, Natalia Balinova, Elena Bykova, Bekzhan Makashev, Yuri Grachev, Amankul Bekenov, Anna Lushchekina, and E.J. Milner-Gulland

1:45 Reconciling livelihoods and conservation through participatory research

Ballard, Heidi, Jonathan Long, and CARL WILMSEN

2:00 Seeds of change in fisheries management sprout across Malawi: will changes in management regimes save the fisheries?

DOBSON, TRACY, John Wilson, and Aaron Russell

2:15 A multi-sector framework for assessing community-based forest management: lessons from Madagascar

RAIK, DANIELA and Daniel Decker

2:30 Forest disturbance and understory bird community structure and composition in the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania: a 16-year study

NEWMARK, WILLIAM

2:45 Amigos de los monos: a primate conservation and Ngabe cultural preservation initiative

MANN, KATHRYN

3:00 Prioritization of threatened medicinal flora—a key to conserve sacred forests in western Ghats

SHIVALINGAIAH, RAGHAVENDRA and Cheppudira Ganapathy Kushalappa

3:15 Collective action for sustainable management of CPR (common pool resources) in two regions of Colombia

MAYA, DIANA and Daniel Castillo

Conservation Genetics

1:30 Not the quaking giant: evidence of small clone size in west coast aspen

DEWOODY, JENNIFER, Tom Rickman, Bobette Jones, and Valerie Hipkins

1:45 Population management of threatened taxa in captivity within their natural ranges: lessons from Andean bears (Tremarctos ornatus) in Venezuela

RODRIGUEZ-CLARK, KATHRYN and Ada Sanchez-Mercado

2:00 AFLP technology to save the world’s “living fossils”: a case study of a critically endangered cycad, Encephalartos latifrons, from South Africa

DA SILVA, JESSICA, Gail Reeves, John Donaldson, and Terry Hedderson

2:15 Population structure, genetic diversity, and dispersal behavior of an endangered Hawaiian bird: implications for conservation of the Oahu elepaio

BURGESS HERBERT, SARAH, Rebecca Cann, and Robert Fleischer

2:30 Development of genetic stocking guidelines for conservation of lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes

WELSH, AMY, Charles Krueger, and Bernie May

2:45 Patterns of genetic relatedness in a poached population of African elephants (Loxodonta africana)

Gobush, Kathleen Schuyler and Samuel Wasser

3:00 Small-scale genetic endemism in an endangered fairy shrimp

BOHONAK, ANDREW and Marie Simovich

3:15 Evaluating non-invasive hair and scat sampling methods for bobcat and other carnivore species

RUELL, EMILY, Seth Riley, John Pollinger, Lisa Lyren, Marlis Douglas, and Kevin Crooks

Invasive Species

1:30 What’s past is prologue: land-use legacies, present-day fragmentation, and invasive species

MCDONALD, ROBERT, Glenn Motzkin, and David Foster

1:45 Geographic patterns of introgressive hybridization between introduced rainbow trout and native Yellowstone cutthroat trout

GUNNELL, KELLY, Margaret Ptacek, and Ernest Keeley

2:00 Ecosystem-level consequences of Spartina invasion in west coast estuaries

GROSHOLZ, EDWIN, Lisa Levin, Carlos Neira, and A.C. Tyler

2:15 The contribution of reproductive technologies for management of conservation pests

MOLINIA, FRANK, Vaughan Myers, Susana La Falci, Cheryl OConnor, and Janine Duckworth

2:30 Restoration of lizard habitat by experimental removal of invasive ice-plant

COMENDANT, TOSHA, Annie Schmidt, Barry Sinervo, Ammon Corl, Kate Faulkner, Sarah Chaney, and Ken Kietzer

2:45 Interactions between crustacean feeding fishes and the invasive crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus in Long Island Sound

HEINONEN, KARI and Peter Auster

3:00 Factors predicting establishment of introduced oysters

WAGNER, ERIC, Jennifer Ruesink, Hunter Lenihan, Alan Trimble, Kimberly Heiman, Fiorenza Micheli, James Byers, and Matthew Kay

3:15 Protection and recovery of native species after a rat eradication on a California island

HOWALD, GREGG, Kate Faulkner, Holly Gellerman, Bernie Tershy, Eileen Creel, Matthew Grinnell, Steven Ortega, Araceli Samaniego, Brad Keitt, Oliver Pergams, Donald Croll, and Jacob Shepherd

Spatial Ecology

1:30 Landscape ethology: a case for sociality

BRADSHAW, G.A. and Sarah Mesnick

1:45 Diversity, dispersal and scale interactively affect predictability of ecosystem function

FRANCE, KRISTIN and J. Emmett Duffy

2:00 A patch-based spatial population viability analysis of Bank Swallows (Riparia riparia) nesting along the Sacramento River, California

GIRVETZ, EVAN

2:15 A comparison of regression-based methods for cetacean-habitat modeling

Ferguson, Megan, Jessica Redfern, JAY BARLOW, and Elizabeth Becker

2:30 Modeling habitat characteristics of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in the Gulf of Maine

GOOD, CAROLINE, Timothy Cole, Patrick Halpin, Andrew Read, Ben Best, Peter Duley, Brenda Rone, and Misty Niemeyer

2:45 Stable isotope analyses reveal aquatic food web complexity and conservation concerns at different spatial scales

GAINES, KAREN

3:00 The GHLT connection: a project to promote conservation and forest linkage in southern Bahia, Brazil

RABOY, BECKY and Gabriel Rodrigues dos Santos

3:15 Local and landscape determinants of forest herb diversity in hedgerows: a conservation perspective

ROY, VALERIE and Sylvie de Blois



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