ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Guadalupe, San Jose Marriott

8:00 AM

COS 59-1

Patterns of amphibian chytrid prevalence and mortality in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa and Lesotho
Kevin G. Smith, Washington University in St. Louis; Ché Weldon, North-West University; Leon Meyer, North-West University; Louis du Preez, North-West University

8:20 AM

COS 59-2

Changes in tadpole aggregation behavior induced by an infectious pathogen
Barbara A. Han, University of Georgia

8:40 AM

COS 59-3

Increased water flow and delayed onset of chytridiomycosis in the mountain yellow-legged frog Rana muscosa
Tate S. Tunstall, University of Maryland

9:00 AM

COS 59-4

Neotropical tadpole extirpations cause long-term changes in periphyton quantity and quality
Scott J. Connelly, University of Georgia; Catherine M. Pringle, University of Georgia; Karen Lips, University of Maryland; Susan S. Kilham, Drexel University; Matt R. Whiles, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Roberto Brenes, University of Tennessee; J. Checo Colon-Gaud, Georgia Southern University

9:20 AM

COS 59-5

The role of climate, spatial structure, and geography in disease-related amphibian extinctions in Central and South America
Jason R. Rohr, University of South Florida; Thomas R. Raffel, Oakland University; Hamish McCallum, University of Tasmania; Peter J. Hudson, Pennsylvania State University

9:40 AM

COS 59-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 59-6

Community ecotoxicology: When the dose doesn't make the poison for amphibians
Rick A. Relyea, University of Pittsburgh; Jason Hoverman, University of Pittsburgh; Nicole Diecks, University of Pittsburgh

10:10 AM

COS 59-7

Experimental susceptibility of two boreal toad populations to native Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Sarah Bruer, Idaho State University; Peter J. Murphy, Idaho State University; Sophie St. Hilaire, Idaho State University; Charles Peterson, Idaho State University

10:30 AM

COS 59-8

Density-dependence in the terrestrial stage of the wood frog, Rana sylvatica
Jessica E. Middlemis-Brown, University of Michigan; E. E. Werner, University of Michigan

10:50 AM

COS 59-9

Evaluation of terrestrial interactions between metamorphs of green frogs and American toads
Erin E. Sams, Miami University

11:10 AM

COS 59-10

Distributions of pond-breeding amphibians across wetland size and isolation gradients
James T. Julian, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus; Craig D. Snyder, USGS Leetown Science Center; Robert P. Brooks, Pennsylvania State University

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