94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

COS 66 - Amphibian Decline and Chytridiomycosis

Wednesday, August 5, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Ruidoso, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Kevin G. Smith, Washington University in St. Louis

1:30 PM

COS 66-1

Laboratory studies on the effects of roadway deicing and anti-icing salts to larval anurans
David A. Pillard, AECOM Environment

1:50 PM

COS 66-2

Selecting for extinction: Disease causes nonrandom extinction and homogenizes amphibian biotas
Kevin G. Smith, Washington University in St. Louis; Jonathan M. Chase, Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory; Karen Lips, University of Maryland

2:10 PM

COS 66-3

Topological and geometric properties of amphibian distribution for large scale conservation
Xiongwen Chen, Alabama A&M University

2:30 PM

COS 66-4

Seasonal and elevational patterns of chytrid infection in pond-breeding frogs in Central America
Sandra P. Galeano, Louisiana State University; Karen Lips, University of Maryland; Allan P. Pessier, Zoological Society of San Diego

2:50 PM

COS 66-5

An examination of amphibian sensitivity to environmental contaminants: Are amphibians poor canaries?
Jacob Kerby, University of South Dakota; Kathryn Richards-Hrdlicka, Yale University; Andrew Storfer, Washington State University; David K. Skelly, Yale University

3:10 PM

COS 66-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 66-6

Hanging out with the cool frogs: Operative and body temperature effects on population response to disease
Sarah N. Becker, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Karen Lips, University of Maryland; Michael Sears, Clemson University

3:40 PM

COS 66-7

Ontogenetic variation in resistance and tolerance of amphibian species to three trematodes
Callyn Hall, University of South Florida; Thomas R. Raffel, Oakland University; Jason R. Rohr, University of South Florida

4:00 PM

COS 66-8

Amphibian longevity predicts susceptibility to habitat alterations: A meta-analysis
Amber A. Burgett, Wittenberg Unibersity; Tiffany M. Knight, Washington University in St. Louis; James R. Vonesh, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jonathan M. Chase, Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory

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