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Sunday 25 June

Symposium—Policy and Management Implications of Large-Scale, Interdisciplinary Studies of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem

10:00 Management and conservation implications of multi-scale patterns of variation in kelp forest ecosystems

CARR, MARK, Jennifer Caselle, Craig Syms, Mark Readdie, and Dan Malone

10:15 Long-term monitoring of intertidal resources and implications for the management of coastal ecosystems

READDIE, MARK, Pete Raimondi, Carol Blanchette, and Bruce Menge

10:30 Determining connections among marine populations: implications for management

WARNER, ROBERT

10:45 The geography of recruitment in the coastal ocean: the challenges for management

GAINES, STEVEN, Bernardo Brotiman, Brian Kinlan, and Carol Blanchette

11:00 Spatial and temporal patterns?f oceanographic processes across the California Current large marine ecosystem: implications for scales of management

BARTH, JOHN

11:15 Impact of climate cycles on supply of food and recruits to rocky intertidal habitats

MENGE, BRUCE

11:30 Effects of warming waters on marine species: an ecophysiology approach to assessing effects of climate change

HOFMANN, GRETCHEN

11:45 Spatial structure and climate change: accounting for spatial patterns in marine reserve design

Halpern, Ben and BRIAN KINLAN

Symposium—Integrative Conservation Problem Solving: the Policy Sciences

10:00 Improving conservation biology through integrating biology and the social sciences: needs, methods, examples, and opportunities

CLARK, TIM, Murray Rutherford, Richard Wallace, and David Mattson

10:15 Conservation conundrums: unraveling social process in community-based conservation

WILSHUSEN, PETER

10:30 What the history of the Marine Mammal Protection Act teaches us about innovation in U.S. government conservation

WALLACE, RICHARD and Kathryn Semmens

10:45 Oversight to insight: the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission as a prototype of government evaluation

SEMMENS, KATHRYN and Richard Wallace

11:00 Searching for Greater Yellowstone’s science policy: a preliminary investigation into the relationship between science, society, and nature

CHERNEY, DAVID

11:15 Interdisciplinary problem solving for grizzly bear conservation in the Banff–Bow Valley region of Alberta, Canada

RUTHERFORD, MURRAY and Mike Gibeau

11:30 Conflict over carnivores: a window on natural resources governance

MATTSON, DAVID

11:45 Lessons from integrative conservation

WALLACE, RICHARD, Tim Clark, Murray Rutherford, and David Mattson

Conservation Education

10:00 Participatory planning for park outreach and recreation in the Bahamas

JACOBSON, SUSAN, Lisa Marks, Taylor Stein, Lynn Gape, and Monique Sweeting

10:15 Researcher-community collaborations in a critically threatened Chihuahuan desert biodiversity hotspot in Mexico

HENDRICKSON, DEAN

10:30 Of teens and tubeworms: diversity in Hawaii’s intertidal zone

ZABIN, CHELA and Erin Baumgartner

10:45 Educating for engagement: high school environmental science curriculum in a diverse, rural, New Mexico community

GAHL COLE, ANNA

11:00 Choices and change in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: adventures in interdisciplinary education on complex conservation issues

SECORD, DAVID, Nathan Mantua, and Terry Rustan

11:15 Beyond training: assessing the implementation of an environmental education program for wetlands in the Sonoran coast

DE LA GARZA, MEREDITH

11:30 Thinking about dolphin thinking: the impact of social narratives regarding dolphins on public attitudes toward conservation

FRASER, JOHN, Diana Reiss, and Paul Boyle

11:45 Cross-country comparison of national red lists with the IUCN Red List and implications for conservation planning

BRITO, DANIEL, Matthew Foster, David Knox, Naamal De Silva, Adriano Paglia, Jose Vicente Rodriguez, Ruth Grace Ambal, and Jon Paul Rodriguez

Invasive Species

10:00 Human activity linked to spread of pathogen that causes sudden oak death

CUSHMAN, J. HALL and Ross Meentemeyer

10:15 Control of nonnative grasses enhances growth and survival of endangered Bakersfield cactus

CYPHER, ELLEN

10:30 Management techniques for control of molasses grass (Melinis minutiflora) in the Brazilian cerrado

HAY, JOHN and Carlos Martins

10:45 Temporal, spatial and ecological patterns of bioinvasions in the Mediterranean Sea

RILOV, GIL

11:00 Measuring performance of invasive plant eradication efforts in New Zealand

HOLLORAN, PETE

11:15 Self-fertility in invasive cordgrass hybrids overcomes pollen limitation and generates rapid spread

SLOOP, CHRISTINA, Debra Ayres, Heather Davis, and Donald Strong

11:30

11:45 Controlling spatial spread of the introduced cordgrass Spartina alterniflora: a Bayesian decision analysis

BUHLE, ERIC, Blake Feist, and Ray Hilborn

Inventory and Monitoring

10:00 Gabon’s national park system: baseline wildlife and human impact surveys

MAISELS, FIONA, Aaba Rostend, Gaspard Abitsi, Martha Bechem Ebot, Nicolas Bout, Hjalmar Kuehl, Stephanie Latour, Peter Walsh, and Marc Ella Akou

10:15 Seasonal abundance and habitat-use patterns of parrots in Guatemala using a canopy-based survey method to estimate density

BJORK, ROBIN, Fred Ramsey, and David Whitacre

10:30 Evaluating restoration trajectories using similarity indices: dam mitigation in the Pacific Northwest, USA

HALLETT, JAMES, Margaret O’Connell, and Ray Entz

10:45 Documenting San Diego County’s flora: a partnership between the public and scientific communities

Rebman, Jon and MARY ANN HAWKE

11:00 Recent anthropogenic changes within the northern boreal, southern taiga, and Hudson plains ecozones of Quebec

STANOJEVIC, ZORAN, Peter Lee, and Jennette Gysbers

11:15 Temporal changes in species evenness as an indicator of disturbance

ROSSON JR., JAMES

11:30 Adaptive cluster sampling of rare species

MORRISON, LLOYD, Craig Young, and David Smith

11:45 Identifying threats to elephants in Central Africa using spatial modeling of survey data

BEYERS, RENE and John Hart

Predictive Conservation Ecology

10:00 Reconstructing the historical demography of an endangered seabird to diagnose causes of decline

BEISSINGER, STEVEN and M. Zachariah Peery

10:15 Simulations comparing the performance of techniques used to assess variable importance: implications for analysis of noisy ecological data

MURRAY BERGER, KIM and Mary Conner

10:30 Modelling bird species distributions to inform landscape planning for biodiversity management

THOMSON, JIM, Ralph Mac Nally, Erica Fleishman, and Greg Horrocks

10:45 A multispecies risk assessment for rare and imperiled species in Florida

Barnes, Jami and KAREN ROOT

11:00 A comparison of the predictive accuracy of spatially and non-spatially explicit species distribution models

LIESKE, DAVID and Darren Bender

11:15 Model without age structure may overestimate risks: using scalar models for precautionary assessments of threatened species

DUNHAM, AMY, H. Resit Akcakaya, and Todd Bridges

11:30 Predicting biodiversity pattern using multi-spectral satellite imagery

HOOKER, JOSH

11:45 Does extinction risk scale from a local to global level?

COLLEN, BEN, Andy Purvis, and Georgina Mace

Protected Area Design

10:00 Fish responses to five neighboring marine reserves in the Philippines: similarities and differences

Samoilys, Melita, Keith Martin-Smith, Brian Giles, Brian Cabrera, Jonathan Anticamara, Erwin Brunio, and AMANDA C.J. VINCENT

10:15 Five miles, or one? How survey protocols can effect landscape-scale conservation

WESTPHAL, MICHAEL and Richard Seymour

10:30 Will bees be left behind by traditional conservation planning in rapidly changing landscapes?

REYNOLDS, MARK, Gretchen LeBuhn, Matt Merrifield, Erin Rentz, and Emily Heaton

10:45 The role of ethnographic research in protected area design: experiences from Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

BRODNIG, GERNOT and Sultana Bashir

11:00 Assessing the relative contribution of protected areas to the conservation of key biodiversity features in Mpumalanga, South Africa

VICKERS, KAREN, Matheiu Rouget, Mervyn Lotter, and Morne du Plessis

11:15 Saving the family jewels: prioritizing species in a national context

MANNE, LISA and Paul Williams

11:30 Assessing the effectiveness of protected area management: a case study from Nepal

BASNET, KHADGA

11:45 Identifying globally important sites for conservation within a West African biodiversity hotspot

Diallo, Mammadou Saliou, MAMADE KOBELE, David Knox, and Soua Nema Loua

Transboundary Conservation

10:00 Conservation of wild tigers in transboundary Asia

GINSBERG, JOSHUA, Gosia Bryja, Jessica Forrest, Andrea Heydlauff, Eric Dinerstein, Sybille Klenzendorf, Peter Leimgruber, Colby Loucks, Tim O’Brien, John Seidensticker, Eric Sanderson, Melissa Songer, and Eric Wikramanayake

10:15 A prioritized assessment of transboundary conservation opportunities in Latin America

TOLISANO, JAMES, Jeff Silverman, Carrie Brown-Lima, and Christine Ageton

10:30 Collaborative modeling to support biodiversity conservation across ownership boundaries: the Manitou Forest modeling project in Minnesota

MANOLIS, JAMES, Meredith Cornett, Cheryl Adams, D. Lawson Gerdes, Anthony Starfield, Daryl Peterson, Mark White, and Thomas Crow

10:45 A global analysis of internationally adjoining protected areas: current extent and future potential for transboundary approaches

Besancon, Charles and CONRAD SAVY

11:00 Priority conservation areas from Baja California to the Bering Sea

TSAO, FAN and Lance Morgan

11:15 The promise and peril of transboundary protected areas

PICARD, CATHERINE

11:30 The last of the transboundary wild areas: opportunities for conservation and international cooperation

GOMEZ, ANDRES, Kevin Olival, Malanding Jaiteh, and Marc Levy

11: 45 Nongovernmental transboundary conservation in North America: the effectiveness of civil society conservationists working across international borders

CHESTER, CHARLES

Symposium—Conservation Along the United States–Mexico Border

1:30 Ecosystem services cross the Mexico–United States border

LOPEZ-HOFFMAN, LAURA, Karl Flessa, and Patty Balvanera

1:45 An idea in development: a conceptual history of conservation in the United States –Mexican border region

WARD, EVAN

2:00 Conservation across the United States–Mexico border: historical–geographical insights

SAYRE, NATHAN

2:15 Finding water to sustain and restore the Colorado Delta: sources, amounts, and future prospects

FLESSA, KARL and Francisco Zamora-Arroyo

2:30 Conservation of biodiversity in the Colorado River delta: acknowledging the role of local communities

CARRILLO, YAMILETT

2:45 International challenges for water conservation in the Colorado River delta: understanding and promoting water use change in a booming coastal tourist community

TURK BOYER, PEGGY

3:00 Conservation in the Colorado River delta and upper Gulf of California through an ecosystem-based management approach

CALDERON AGUILERA, LUIS

3:15 Escalera Ecologica: a staircase of reserves through the Gulf of California–Sonoran Desert region

FELGER, RICHARD, Exequiel Ezcurra, Wallace Nichols, Laura Lopez-Hoffman, and Adrian Quijada-Mascarenas

3:30 Binational cooperation for community based conservation and sustainable development in the Gulf of California

VALDES-CASILLAS, CARLOS

3:45 Convergence of stressors on protected desert ecosystems in the border region of Arizona

MORRISON, PETER

Symposium—From Political Enmity to Ecological Cooperation

1:30 Seeking the ecological dividends in the Middle East process

TAL, ALON

1:45 Human societies and rodent community structure along the Israeli–Jordanian border

SHANAS, URI, Yunes Abu Galyun, Mohammed Alshamlih, Jonathan Cnaani, Fares Khoury, Shacham Mittler, Khaled Nassar, Idan Shapira, Danny Simon, Hatem Sultan, Elad Topel, Dalit Ucitel, and Yaron Ziv

2:00 Reptile diversity across the political border of the Arava Valley

Nassar, Khaled, RAMI SALEH, and Uri Shanas

2:15 The effect of agricultural development on fox abundance and gerbil foraging behaviors in the Arava Valley desert ecosystem adjoining Israel and Jordan

SHAPIRA, IDAN and Uri Shanas

2:30 The impact of intensive agriculture on the bird community of a sand dune desert

Khoury, Fares and MOHAMMED ALSHAMLIH

2:45 Pit-building antlions (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae) in the south Arava Valley need the desert gazelle (Gazella dorcas) to complete their life cycle

MITTLER, SHACHAM, Danny Simon, and Uri Shanas

3:00 Green islands in arid environments: the effect of artificially productive patches on beetle assemblages in arid environment

TOPEL, ELAD, Uri Shanas, and Yaron Ziv

3:15 Building peace through environmental protection

MUHYAR, MUNQETH

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Symposium—Scaling up the Assessment of Bycatch

1:30 Bycatch of marine mammals, seabirds, and sea turtles in the world’s fisheries

READ, ANDREW

1:45 Capturing the spatial and temporal variability in bycatch data

SIMS, MICHELLE

2:00 Oceanographic features, fishing pressure and endangered species: an integrated spatial analysis framework to identify bycatch hotspots

HALPIN, PATRICK

2:30Quantifying the effect of human activities on natural populations with limited data: impact of longline fishery on adult survival of Black-footed Albatross

VERAN, SOPHIE, Olivier Gimenez, Elizabeth Flint, William Kendall, Paul Doherty, and Jean-Dominique Lebreton

2:45 Modeling the population history of a top predator: ecological restrictions and human-induced impacts

ARATA, JAVIER and Paul Sievert

?3:00 New approaches to examining the ecological consequences of bycatch

FITZGERALD, GRETCHEN

3:15 Mapping the bycatch landscape: considering bycatch risk across taxa and gear types

LEWISON, REBECCA, Bryan Wallace, Ramunas Zydelis, and Daniel Dunn

Capacity Building

1:30 Paradise disputed: an evaluation of decision making and moral authenticity in Hawaii’s land use commission

NAGLE, FIONA

1:45 Trans-Atlantic learning: shared conservation approaches from North America and Africa

MEADE, JONATHAN and Laly Lichtenfeld

2:00 Defining community training objectives for co-management of protected areas

BERNSTEIN, SCOTT

2:15 Fragmented forest of Cebu Island, Philippines: conservation status and prospects for recovery

PAGUNTALAN, LISA MARIE, Philip Godfrey Jakosalem, and Orlyn Orlanes

2:30 The Nature Conservancy’s conservation by design toolkit—capturing and sharing conservation knowledge

ESSELMAN, REBECCA and Jonathan Higgins

2:45 Community-based African wild dog conservation in the biodiversity hotspots of southeastern Kenya: results of a baseline attitude survey

Robbins, Robert and KIM MCCREERY

3:00 Catalyzing community conservation: a guide to developing socially sustainable projects

HORWICH, ROBERT, Scott Bernstein, and Jon Lyon

3:15 Group hug for lakes: the determinants and efficacy of social capital in lake associations

KRAMER, DANIEL

Conservation GIS

1:30 Melding planning and opportunity driven conservation using advances in spatial data models

MERRIFIELD, MATT, Mary Gleason, Dick Cameron, and Rebecca Shaw

1:45 Data building blocks for mapping high conservation value forests in boreal Canada

STRITTHOLT, JAMES, Peter Lee, John Bergquist, Mathieu Federspiel, and Nancy Staus

2:00 Assessment of habitat conditions for riparian brush rabbits on the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge in central California

KELLY, PATRICK, Scott Phillips, and Laurissa Hamilton

2:15 Use of habitat variables at multiple ecological scales to predict koala occurrence in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

JANUCHOWSKI, STEPHANIE, Clive McAlpine, John Callaghan, Carol Griffin, Michiala Bowen, Dave Mitchell, and Rolf Schlagloth

2:30 Impact of marine activities in British Columbia, Canada

BAN, NATALIE and Jackie Alder

2:45 Using GIS as a tool to predict the distribution of naturally fishless lakes in Maine, USA

Schilling, Emily, CYNTHIA LOFTIN, and Katie DeGoosh

3:00 A deep-sea coral conservation strategy: using GIS to map coral distribution, human threats, and model predictive coral habitats in US waters

Guinotte, John, LANCE MORGAN, and Fan Tsao

3:15 Using conservation GIS to detect oak savannas and oak barrens in northwest Ohio

RICCI, MARCUS, Helen Michaels, and Karen Root

Conservation Psychology

1:30 Emotion 101: applying psychological theory and research to conservation conflicts

VINING, JOANNE

1:45 Values aren’t the problem: value similarity among stakeholders involved in environmental disputes

LAVALLEE, LORAINE

2:00 Creating a social science research agenda for protecting biodiversity in the Chicago region

MCCANCE, ELIZABETH and Carol Saunders

2:15 Sustaining the conservationist: the psychology of working with environmental degradation

Pantesco, Victor, Cynthia Harris, and JOHN FRASER

2:30 Using psychology to enhance snake conservation

CHRISTOFFEL, REBECCA and Shawn Riley

2:45 But, everybody’s doing it! Using social norms to promote conservation

NOLAN, JESSICA and P. Wesley Schultz

3:00 Synergy in conservation education: the importance of continuity and repetition in achieving attitude and behavioral change

DASHIELL, STEPHANIE, Kathryn Rodriguez-Clark, Maria Alejandra Faria Romero, Jon Paul Rodriguez, Rachel Neugarten, and Maria Cellamare

Ecological Restoration

1:30 Restoration without borders: a large-scale ESA-listed elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) transplant example from the Dominican Republic, year three

BEZY, M. BERNADETTE and Greg Matuzak

1:45 Instability versus stability of avian community composition in riparian habitats of the Intermountain West: what’s going on?

DOBKIN, DAVID, Susan Earnst, and Jeannie Heltzel

2:00 Conservation and mitigation banking: theory and practice in California

BARCOMB, LINDA and James Fine

2:15 Does excluding cattle from riparian areas improve bird richness and abundance? An experimental test

GRAY, ELIZABETH, Jim Evans, and Larry Serpa

2:30 Restoring resources for an endangered butterfly: what does a decade of monitoring tell us?

SCHULTZ, CHERYL and Elizabeth Crone

2:45 Understory plant responses to thinning and burning of ponderosa pine stands in eastern Washington, USA

NELSON, CARA, Charles Halpern, and James Agee

3:00 Habitat use of whitebark pine Pinus albicaulis forests by Clark’s Nutcracker Nucifraga columbiana: implications for restoration

MCKINNEY, SHAWN, Carl Fiedler, and Diana Tomback

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Marine Conservation Science

1:30 Patterns of genetic connectivity in marine species at multiple scales: implications for the management of coral reefs

DREW, JOSHUA, Les Kaufman, Gerry Allen, and Paul Barber

1:45 Conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem function in coral reef seascapes

MICHELI, FIORENZA, Peter Mumby, Craig Dahlgren, Alastair Harborne, Carrie Kappel, Daniel Brumbaugh, Katherine Holmes, Alan Hastings, Julie Kellner, Stephen Litvin, Kenneth Broad, and James Sanchirico

2:00 Social impacts of marine protected areas: a global review

MASCIA, MICHAEL

2:15 Where agencies fear to tread: incorporating socioeconomic data into the design of marine protected areas in central California

SCHOLZ, ASTRID, Charles Steinback, and Mike Mertens

2:30 Are rivers important for marine dolphins? Towards the conservation of two linked ecosystems in the Chilean northern Patagonian fjords

VIDDI, FRANCISCO, Loreto Balkenhol, Sandra Ribeiro, Rodrigo Hucke-Gaete, Ana de la Torriente, Juan Torres-Florez, Sonja Heinrich, and Maximiliano Bello

2:45 Do southern California fish populations depend on larval supply from Mexico?

SELKOE, KIMBERLY, Steven Gaines, Crow White, and Giacomo Bernardi

3:00 Focusing regional marine conservation efforts with graph theory

TREML, ERIC and Pat Halpin

3:15 Large old females and the efficacy of marine protected areas

DE LEO, GIULIO, Fiorenza Micheli, and Ray Hilborn

Symposium—Scaling up the Assessment of Bycatch

4:00 Ocean life on the line: a review of bycatch mitigation from around the world

WERNER, TIMOTHY, Scott Kraus, and Andrew Read

4:15 Integrating the expertise of non-credentialed experts to improve the invention of bycatch reduction devices

JENKINS, LEKELIA

4:30 Mitigating the bycatch of sea turtles, seabirds, and marine mammals: from experimental evaluation to implementation in commercial fisheries

COX, TARA, Larry Crowder, Rebecca Lewison, Carl Safina, Andy Read, Ramunas Zydelis, and Bryan Wallace

4:45 Citizen science: a tool for bycatch monitoring and bottom-up change

PARRISH, JULIA

5:00 Population level impacts of small-scale fisheries bycatch on highly-migratory megavertebrates: a case study of loggerhead turtle mortality at Baja California

PECKHAM, HOYT and Wallace Nichols

5:15 Eliminating the incidental capture and mortality of leatherback turtles in tropical coastal waters

ECKERT, SCOTT and Karen Eckert

5:30 Sea turtles and longlines in the eastern Pacific: a continental-scale program to reduce incidental mortality

HALL, MARTIN, Erick Largacha, Takahisa Mituhasi, Manuel Parrales, Liliana Rendon, Vanessa Velasquez, Lilian Barreto, Luis Zapata, Michael Valqui, Jairo Calderon, Mariela Pajuelo, Nelly de Paz, Amado Cruz Garcia, Shaleyla Kelez, Camelia Manrique, Lucas Pacheco, Moises Mug, Alvaro Segura, Sonia Salaverria, Sara Perez, Erick Villagran, Ruben Lopez, Mario Jolon, Regina Sanchez, Kim Davis, Irene Kinan, Charles Bergman, Christofer Boggs, Jeffrey Seminoff, and Yonat Swimmer

5:45 Global bycatch assessment and mitgation: challenges, solutions, and new directions

CROWDER, LARRY

Symposium—Conservation Along the United States–Mexico Border

4:00 Landscape ecology and metapopulation dynamics of two large carnivores in the Chihuahuan Desert: challenges of cross-border wildlife conservation

HARVESON, PATRICIA

4:15 Trafficking with a Pandora Box: illegal wildlife trade in the Mexico–United States Border

QUIJADA-MASCARENAS, ADRIAN, Rodrigo Medellin, and Jon Paul Rodriguez

4:30 Conservation of the prairie dog grasslands in northern Mexico and southwestern United States

CEBALLOS, GERARDO and Rurik List

4:45 Rio Grande, water under fire—border patrols and boundary objects

KLAVER, IRENE

5:00 A binational collaborative effort to address the ecological decline of the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande / Rio Bravo

BRIGGS, MARK

5:15 Restoration of the Bahia Grande wetlands, south Texas

HEISE, ELIZABETH

5:30 Preserving natural and cultural resources along the border: a “two-fer”

KOERNER, ELAINE and Paul Ganster

5:45 The dialectics of “La Linea”: protecting cultural and natural diversity across the fence

EZCURRA, EXEQUIEL

Conservation at the Land-Water Interface

4:00 Current population and conservation status of the critically endangered dwarf carnivores of Cozumel Island, Mexico

MCFADDEN, KATHERINE, Rodrigo Medellin, and Matthew Gompper

4:15 An introduced predator alters Aleutian Island plant communities by thwarting nutrient subsidies from sea to land

CROLL, DONALD, John Maron, James Estes, Eric Danner, Sarah Elmendorf, and Stacey Buckelew

4:30 Regional characterization of riparian and upslope vegetation to guide stream habitat protection and restoration

BURNETT, KELLY, Janet Ohmann, Luca Moiana, and Ken Vance-Borland

4:45 The buck stops at the coast: utilizing a spatially-explicit threat analysis to determine land and sea conservation priorities

FERDANA, ZACH, Michael Beck, and Dan Dorfman

5:00 Posiedon meets Artemis: a method for integrating terrestrial and marine conservation planning

FERDANA, ZACH, Heather Tallis, and Elizabeth Gray

5:15 Limnological environment of northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) tadpoles: implications on growth strategies and wetland management

POULIOT, DANIEL and Jean-Jacques Frenette

5:30 Top ten most endangered river basins: global case studies highlighting the greatest threats

WONG, CARISSA, Chris Williams, Ute Collier, Patricia Schelle, and Jamie Pittock

5:45 Conservation significance of temperate floodplain springbrooks

ANDERSON, MICHELLE and Jack Stanford

Conservation of Wide Ranging Taxa

4:00 Corridors, elephant movements and social issues in western Ghana

KUMORDZI, BRIGHT BOYE, Ebenezer Daryl Bosu, Frank Tetteh-Kumah, Aba Odoi-Agyareko, and Beatrice Sakyibea Biney

4:15 Decline of charismatic mammals in western Tanzania: causes and solutions

CARO, TIM

4:30 The Terai Arc landscape: a paradigm for megafauna conservation in human-dominated landscapes

WIKRAMANAYAKE, ERIC, Sarala Khaling, Anil Manandhar, Mohan Wagley, Santosh Nepal, and Narayan Poudel

4:45 The effects of off-highway vehicles on American martens in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California

ZIELINSKI, WILLIAM and Keith Slauson

5:00 Ranch metrics improve scaling the real socioeconomic impact of gray wolf Canis lupus depredation on domestic livestock

HANEY, J. CHRISTOPHER and Gina Schrader

5:15 Population status and recovery trends for endangered species listed prior to 1980

NOWICKI, BRIAN, Kieran Suckling, Stephanie Jentsch, Rhiwena Slack, and Esa Crumb

5:30 Landscape conservation planning and source-sink dynamics in northern grizzly bear populations

HEINEMEYER, KIMBERLY and Daniel Doak

5:45 The influence of water, vegetation, and human activity on elephant

LOARIE, SCOTT, Rudi van Aarde, and Stuart Pimm

Environmental Economics

4:00 Valuing ecosystem services for use in cost-benefit analyses: sustainable development in the heart of Borneo

NAIDOO, ROBIN

4:15 A simple model of conservation investment: the Ruaha model

SANDERSON, ERIC and Pete Coppolillo

4:30 Assessing the non-use economic value of six endangered aquatic species in Canada

RUDD, MURRAY

4:45 Economic and ecological benefits of revegetating following fire in the sagebrush steppe ecosystem

NIELL, REBECCA, Jeffrey Englin, and Darek Nalle

5:00 Conflicts and wildlife harvest impacts within and adjacent to the extension of Sapo National Park, Liberia

HOYT, REGINALD, Richard Nisbett, and Jill Frayne

5:15 Measuring local community economic values of coral reefs to inform conservation policy and managment

HARGREAVES-ALLEN, VENETIA, Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland, and Susana Mourato

5:30 Development of participatory conflict reconciliation processes: the case of biodiversity conservation and aquaculture in the Sado Estuary (Portugal)

ANTUNES, PAULA, Rui Santos, Jorge Gomes, and Luisa Madruga

5:45 Conflict and livelihoods in the protected areas: a comparative case study of two VDCs of Royal Bardia National Park, Nepal

THAPA, SHOVA and Sigrid Stagl

Spatial Ecology

4:00 Niche-based distribution models to the rescue of rare species

LE LAY, GWENAELLE, Erika Franc, Robin Engler, and Antoine Guisan

4:15 Incorporating multiple pathways into connectivity analysis and corridor design using circuit theory

MCRAE, BRAD, Paul Beier, Brett Dickson, and Rick Hopkins

4:30 Conservation strategies for cougars in the land of Oz: from models to management

HOPKINS, RICK, Brett Dickson, and Brad McRae

4:45 An assessment of protected area status and distribution in relation to the human footprint in the transboundary northern Appalachian ecoregion

Woolmer, Gillian, STEPHEN TROMBULAK, Patrick Doran, Justina Ray, Mark Anderson, Alexis Morgan, and Eric Sanderson

5:00 Population and road components of alternative future human footprints: forecasting threat at the ecoregional scale

BALDWIN, ROBERT and Stephen Trombulak

5:15 Stream network topology may affect fish assemblage responses to stress

HITT, NATHANIEL and Paul Angermeier

5:30 Identifying critical ecological processes for biodiversity persistence: a bottom-up approach

BOYD, CHARLOTTE, David Hole, and Thomas Brooks

5:45 Intact natural habitat protects vineyards from lethal Pierce’s disease in Napa, California

GREENLEAF, SARAH and Kendra Baumgartner

Speed Presentations

1 How to design a wildlife corridor

BEIER, PAUL, Dan Majka, Kristeen Penrod, Claudia Luke, Wayne Spencer, Shawn Newell, and Clint Cabanero

2 Challenges of conserving a wide-ranging carnivore on community land: African wild dogs in northern Kenya

WOODROFFE, ROSIE

3 A step forward in mitigation of fragmentation by highways: predictability of terrestrial vertebrate use of crossing structures

MATA, CRISTINA, Israel Hervas, Jesus Herranz, Juan Malo, and Francisco Suarez

4 Continental conservation deficits: an ecosystem Gap analysis

DIETZ, ROBERT and Brian Czech

5 High-elevation populations act as genetic refugia as climate warms

EPPS, CLINTON, Per Palsboll, John Wehausen, George Roderick, and Dale McCullough

6 Feral livestock as a potential threat to treelike cacti-dominated arid landscapes: a case from the Argentinian Monte Arido

Acebes, Pablo, Juan Traba, Ramiro Ovejero, Carlos Borghi, Claudia Campos, Begona Peco, and JUAN MALO

7 Reducing seabird bycatch in longline fisheries using a natural olfactory deterrent

NORDEN, WENDY and Johanna Pierre

8 Changes in abundance and distribution for northern anchovy in the Pacific Northwest

EMMETT, ROBERT and Marisa Litz

9 Quantifying seabird-fisheries overlap and implications for population-level bycatch risk

HAMEL, NATHALIE and Julia Parrish

10 Potential effects of sea-level rise on terrestrial habitat and biota of the northwestern Hawaiian islands

BAKER, JASON, Charles Littnan, and David Johnston

11 Long-term demographic trends on high-diverse benthic communities in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea

NURIA, TEIXIDO and Joaquim Garrabou

12 Distribution patterns of flora and fauna in the Mediterranean central zone and in the temperate coastal range of southern Chile

SMITH-RAMÍREZ, CECILIA and Patricio Pliscoff

13 The effect of spatial scale on cetacean–habitat models

REDFERN, JESSICA, Megan Ferguson, Jay Barlow, Lisa Ballance, and Tim Gerrodette

14 Interactive impacts of keystone rodent species: implications for conservation and biodiversity

DAVIDSON, ANA and David Lightfoot

15 Maybe size does matter: coastal grassland response to management-scale fall burning, shading, and supplemental seeding

PICKERING, DEBBIE, Nathan Rudd, and Daniel Salzer

Sustainable Agriculture

4:00 Evidence-based risk analysis: learning from our experiences with genetically-modified crops

MARVIER, MICHELLE, Chanel McCreedy, and Peter Kareiva

4:15 Landscape scale conservation and science based land management across borders in central Idaho

O’SULLIVAN, MARY TESS, Michael Stevens, and Alan Sands

4:30 Assessing the sustainability of agroforestry system: a study from northeastern hill forests of Bangladesh

NATH, TAPAN KUMAR and Makoto Inoue

4:45 Modeling grazing capability and capacity for biodiversity conservation and livestock production across large, public–private landscapes

KARL, JASON and Alan Sands

5:00 Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there general patterns?

RICKETTS, TAYLOR, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Saul Cunningham, James Regetz, Barbara Gemmill, Sarah Greenleaf, Alexandra Klein, Margaret Mayfield, Lora Morandin, Alfred Ochieng, Rachel Winfree, and Claire Kremen

5:15 Environmental effects of the coffee crisis: a case study on land use in Agua Buena, Costa Rica

RICKERT, EVE and Martha Rosemeyer

5:30 The farmer and the oil sheik: the shift from food to bioenergy production in Germany’s countryside and its implications for landscape-level conservation

PLIENINGER, TOBIAS

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