COS 23 - Conservation Ecology

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Sendero Blrm I, Hyatt
Presider:
Jeanne M. Fair, Los Alamos National Laboratory
8:00 AM
 Remarkable persistence of native fishes in small streams of the urbanized San Francisco Estuary, California U.S.A
Kristina M. Cervantes-Yoshida, University of California, Berkeley; Robert A. Leidy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Stephanie Carlson, University of California, Berkeley
8:20 AM
 Evaluating the population consequences of altered hydrologic regimes for foothill yellow-legged frogs (Rana boylii) using a population projection model
Wendy J. Palen, Simon Fraser University; Amy J. Lind, USDA Forest Service; Sarah J. Kupferberg, University of California at Berkeley
8:40 AM
 Downstream thermal effects of hydroelectric dams: Growth, development, and susceptibility to parasites of larval Foothill Yellow-legged frogs (Rana boylii)
Alessandro Catenazzi, Southern Illinois University; Sarah J. Kupferberg, University of California at Berkeley
9:00 AM
 Endangered Nicrophorus americanus prefer disturbed successional communities at military installation in western Arkansas
Douglas R. Leasure, University of Arkansas; Kristine A. Garner, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
9:20 AM
 Assessment of habitat, threats and population status for the federally-endangered wetland sedge, northeastern bulrush, Scirpus ancistrochaetus
Kendra Cipollini, Wilmington College; Douglas Burks, Wilmington College; Kendra Millam, Wilmington College; Sarah Girod, Wilmington College; Zachary VanGundy, Wilmington College; Don Cipollini, Wright State University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Reintroduction persistence and longevity of the federally threatened Pitcher's Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) varies with transplant number, habitat and drought severity
Timothy J. Bell, Chicago State University; Marlin L. Bowles, The Morton Arboretum; Kristin I. Powell, The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center
10:10 AM
 CANCELLED - On the razor’s edge: The importance of seasonal drying to the endangered Hine’s emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana)
Daniel A. Soluk, University of South Dakota; Colleen D. Satyshur, University of South Dakota
10:30 AM
 Resolving the taxonomic status of a state endangered butterfly
Emily S. Knurek, University of Maine; Frank A. Drummond, University of Maine; Judith M Rhymer, University of Maine
10:50 AM
 Disjunct phenologies allow the coexistence of a threatened and an invasive terrestrial snail species
Steven P. Campbell, University of Arizona; Jacqueline L. Frair, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; James P. Gibbs, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
11:10 AM
 The interacting effects of First Nation hunter preferences and sport harvest levels on the population dynamics of two northern ungulate populations
Victoria J. Bakker, James Madison University; Mary J. Goldman, University of California; John Ward, Taku River Tlingit First Nation; Kimberley S. Heinemeyer, Round River Conservation Studies
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