COS 57 - Conservation Management III

Tuesday, August 7, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
D137, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Approximations to biocultural conservation of plants and birds in Puerto Saavedra, Chile: The Mapuche perspective
Betsabe Dianne Castro Escobar, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus; María Victoria Castro Rojas, University of Chile; Ricardo Rozzi, IEB-UMAG-UNT
2:10 PM
 If you build it, will they come? Using resource selection and satellite imagery to develop wildlife habitat reclamation strategies
Philip D. DeWitt, Matrix Solutions Inc.; Jonah L. Keim, Matrix Solutions Inc.; Clint R. Smyth, Summit Environmental Consultants Inc.
2:30 PM
 Fantasy football for community ecologists: Building hybrid ecosystems in Hawaiian lowland wet forests
Laura Warman, USDA Forest Service; Susan Cordell, USDA Forest Service; Rebecca Ostertag, University of Hawaii at Hilo; Jodie R. Schulten, University of Hawaii; Amanda Uowolo, USDA Forest Service; Peter M. Vitousek, Stanford University
2:50 PM
 Corridor conservation in southern California under climate change: Understanding mammalian carnivore response to burned landscapes
Megan K. Jennings, San Diego State University; Rebecca Lewison, San Diego State University; Erin E. Boydston, U.S. Geological Survey; Jutta C. Burger, Irvine Ranch Conservancy; Kevin R. Crooks, Colorado State University; Robert N. Fisher, U. S. Department of the Interior; Melissa Fowler, Irvine Ranch Conservancy; Lisa M. Lyren, U.S. Geological Survey; Dave Olson, Irvine Ranch Conservancy
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Using a coupled predator-prey PVA to direct efforts of controlling predation on at-risk populations
Orin J. Robinson, Rutgers University; Julie L. Lockwood, Rutgers University; Nina H. Fefferman, Rutgers University
3:40 PM
 Geographic coincidence of abundance, richness, conservation value, and response to climate of U.S. landbirds
Ralph Grundel, U.S. Geological Survey; Krystalynn J. Frohnapple, US Geological Survey; Tamatha A. Patterson, University of Notre Dame; Noel B. Pavlovic, U.S. Geological Survey
4:00 PM
 Movement and dietary preference of the sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla (Echinodermata) on a patch reef in Hawai‘i
Joanna K. Philippoff, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Eric Conklin, The Nature Conservancy; Celia Smith, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Cynthia Hunter, University of Hawaii at Manoa
4:40 PM Cancelled
 A prototype for comparing landscape scale conservation strategies in the South Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA
James B. Grand, USGS Alabama Cooperative Fisheries and Wildlife Research Unit; Max Post van der Burg, US Geological Survey; Tyler L. Kreps, Auburn University; Rua M. Mordecai, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service