97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

D138, Oregon Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 130-1

Experimentally testing an extinction predictor
Christopher F. Clements, The University of Sheffield; N.T. Worsfold, University of York; Phil H. Warren, University of Sheffield; Nick Clark, University of Sheffield; Ben Collen, Zoological Society of London; Tim Blackburn, Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research; Owen L. Petchey, University of Zurich

8:20 AM

COS 130-2

Biodiversity hotspots house most undiscovered plant species
Lucas Joppa, Microsoft; David Roberts, Montana State University; Stuart L. Pimm, Duke University; Norman Myers, Oxford University

8:40 AM

COS 130-3

Role of stakeholders in conservation of one horned rhinoceros in the world famous Kaziranga National Park: An analysis
Arup Kumar Hazarika, Post Graduate Department of Zoology; Prakash Chetry, Centre for Environment, Education and Economic Development

9:00 AM

COS 130-4

A framework for conservation based on primary productivity and habitat heterogeneity
Andrew Hansen, Montana State University - Bozeman

9:20 AM

COS 130-5

Estimating the value of information for habitat restoration: Using population models to prioritize research for the piping plover (Charadrius melodus) on the Missouri River
Kate E. Buenau, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Andrew J. Tyre, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

9:40 AM

COS 130-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 130-6

Progressive success of a restored forested wetland two decades after mitigation
Tasha Foreman, Howard University; George Middendorf, Howard University

10:10 AM

COS 130-7

Setting priorities for protected area planning in a conflict zone: Afghanistan's National Protected Area System Plan
McKenzie F. Johnson, Duke University; Nina Kanderian, Wildlife Conservation Society; Christopher C. Shank, Wildlife Conservation Society; Haqiq Rahmani, Wildlife Conservation Society; David Lawson, Wildlife Conservation Society; Peter D. Smallwood, University of Richmond

10:30 AM

COS 130-8

Niche models tell half the story: How life history traits, fire, and climate change interact
Rebecca Swab, the Wilds; Helen M. Regan, University of California Riverside; David A. Keith, Department of Environment and Climate Change New South Wales; Tracey J. Regan, The University of Melbourne; Mark Ooi, University of Wollongong

10:50 AM

COS 130-9

Relative brain size as a predictor for mammalian extinction vulnerability
Eric S. Abelson, Stanford University

11:10 AM

COS 130-10

Extinction risk and overfishing: Reconciling conservation and fisheries perspectives on the status of marine fish populations
Trevor D. Davies, Dalhousie Univerisity; Julia K. Baum, University of Victoria

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COS 130 - Conservation Planning, Policy, And Theory I