93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

1:30 PM

COS 103-1

Activity and structural complexity as possible mediators of a tadpole malformity
Matt J. Michel, Saint Louis University

1:50 PM

COS 103-2

Persistence of mountain yellow-legged frog populations infected with the amphibian chytrid fungus
Cheryl J. Briggs, University of California, Santa Barbara

2:10 PM

COS 103-3

Distributional dynamics in a declining amphibian: Testing the climate change and epidemic disease hypotheses
Richard M. Lehtinen, The College of Wooster; Elizabeth A. Wojtowicz, University of North Carolina; Sheldon L. Steiner, The College of Wooster

2:30 PM

COS 103-4

Changes in quality and quantity of stream algae and seston resulting from neotropical amphibian declines
Scott J. Connelly, University of Georgia; Catherine M. Pringle, University of Georgia; Susan S. Kilham, Drexel University; Piet Verburg, University of Georgia; Matt R. Whiles, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Karen R. Lips, Southern Illinois University; J. Checo Colon-Gaud, Georgia Southern University

2:50 PM

COS 103-5

Climate change, wetland degradation, and amphibian decline in the world's oldest national park
Sarah McMenamin, Stanford University; Chris Wright, USGS; Elizabeth A. Hadly, Stanford University

3:10 PM

COS 103-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 103-6

Ecogeographical patterns of body size in tropical regions: Water deficit and anuran body size variation in the Brazilian Cerrado
Miguel Angel Olalla-Tárraga, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares; J.a.F. Diniz-filho, Universidade Federal de Goias; Miguel A. Rodriguez, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares

3:40 PM

COS 103-7

Estimating stream occupancy and detection probability parameters of stream-associated amphibians in commercial forests of Oregon and Washington, USA - CANCELLED
Andrew J. Kroll, Weyerhaeuser NR; Ken L. Risenhoover, Port Blakely Tree Farms LP; Tim McBride, Hancock Forest Management Group; Eric Beach, Green Diamond Resource Company; Brian Kernohan, Forest Capital Partners, LLC; Jeff Light, Plum Creek; Janette Bach, Weyerhaeuser Company

4:00 PM

COS 103-8

Non-random breeding site selection is consistent with tadpole performance in neotropical pastures and forests
Tanya J. Hawley, University of Miami

4:20 PM

COS 103-9

Nest-site choice in tuatara (Reptilia: Sphenodontia) on Stephens Island, New Zealand
Jeanine M. Refsnider, University of California, Berkeley; Susan N. Keall, Victoria University of Wellington; Charles H. Daugherty, Victoria University of Wellington; Nicola J. Nelson, Victoria University of Wellington

4:40 PM

COS 103-10

Climate change and temporal variation in nesting biology of North American turtles
Fredric J. Janzen, Iowa State University; J. Whitfield Gibbons, University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory; Judith L. Greene, University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory; John B. Iverson, Earlham College; John K. Tucker, Illinois Natural History Survey

COS 103 - Reptiles and Amphibians