COS 9 - Conservation Management I

Monday, August 6, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
D137, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 A spatially-explicit population viability analysis for the desert tortoise
Steven P. Campbell, University of Arizona; Robert J. Steidl, University of Arizona; Erin R. Zylstra, University of Arizona
1:50 PM
 Threats to persistence of the rare orchid Erasanthe henrici in Madagascar
Kathryn E. Theiss, University of Connecticut; Kent E. Holsinger, University of Connecticut
2:10 PM
 Evaluating relative impacts of habitat loss and invasive species on an endemic songbird species to guide sustainable management decisions
Jill A. Awkerman, US EPA; Nathan H. Schumaker, US EPA; Ross S. Lunetta, US EPA; William A. Gould, International Institute of Tropical Forestry
2:30 PM Cancelled
 Using decision models to assist Vital Signs Monitoring in National Parks: A prototype using sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in coastal Alaska
Angela Romito, US Fish and Wildlife Service; Michael J. Conroy, University of Georgia; James T. Peterson, USGS Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Oregon State University; Nathan P. Nibbelink, University of Georgia
2:50 PM
 Population viability of an island endemic bird facing climate-related threats  
Victoria J. Bakker, James Madison University; Luke Caldwell, Colorado State University; Scott Sillett, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Scott A. Morrison, The Nature Conservancy
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Modeling the potential impacts of maternal age on recruitment variability: an exploration of two hypothesized portfolio effects
Carey R. McGilliard, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington
4:00 PM
 Enhancing models of species-habitat relationships with lidar remote sensing: A case study estimating the probability of burrow abandonment by the threatened gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)
Christopher P. Catano, Florida International University; James J. Angelo, University of Central Florida; I. Jack Stout, University of Central Florida
4:20 PM
 Moving across the border: A conservation modeling approach for migratory bat populations
Ruscena P. Wiederholt, University of Arizona; Laura Lopez-Hoffman, University of Arizona
4:40 PM
 Logging effects in tropical forests remain largely unknown due to a persistent methodological problem
Benjamin Ramage, Randolph-Macon College; Douglas Sheil, Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation; Hannah Salim, University of California, Berkeley; Matthew D. Potts, University of California, Berkeley