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Berlin, (2)Büro für Faunistik und Umweltbildung, (3)
University of Bayreuth. More than just environment?
Remarkable phenotypic plasticity in developmental
traits within a population of the common frog (Amphibia,
Ranidae, Rana temporaria).
PS 1-19 Ryberg, WA and LA Fitzgerald, Texas A&M University.
Applying a landscape community concept to lizards of
the Mescalero Sands.
PS 1-20 Strauss, AT 1 and KG Smith 2 , (1)Indiana University,
(2)Washington University in St. Louis. Invertebrate
community structure helps explain the distribution of
amphibian chytrid in Eastern Missouri.
PS 1-21 Burke, RL, Hofstra University. Why did terrapins cross
the runway?.
PS 1-22 Banka, MN and B Low, University of Michigan. Using
Bayesian modeling to predict nesting onset in a
population of midland painted turtles (Chrysemys picta
marginata).
PS 1-23 Geerdes, E 1 , SM Whitfield 1 , MA Donnelly 2 and J Kerby 1 ,
(1)University of South Dakota, (2)Florida International
University. Ranavirus infection in native amphibians at La
Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica: The first report of
ranavirus in Central America.
PS 1-24 Bowne, DR and JM Schoonmaker, Elizabethtown
College. Biased sex ratio and age distribution in a
suburban population of Chrysemys picta (painted turtle).
PS 1-25 Ousterhout, BH 1 and EB Liebgold 2 , (1)University of
Missouri, (2)University of Virginia. Dispersal versus site
tenacity of adult and juvenile red-backed salamanders
(Plethodon cinereus).
PS 1-26 Chestnut, T 1 , CW Anderson 1 , MA Voytek 2 and JD
Kirshtein 1 , (1)US Geological Survey, (2)National
Aeronautics and Space Administration. Spatial
and temporal patterns of Batrachochytrium
dendrobatidis occupancy in amphibian habitats.
PS 1-27 Mackey, MJ and RD Semlitsch, University of Missouri.
Using headwater streams and salamanders to test
hypotheses of golf course impacts.
PS 1-28 Crawford, JA and EM Wright, Lindenwood University.
Land management effects in Missouri conservation areas
on pond-breeding amphibians.
PS 1-29 Anderson, TL and HH Whiteman, Murray State University.
Overall competitor density, not species identity, affects
facultative paedomorphosis in the mole salamander,
Ambystoma talpoideum.
PS 1-30 Shirk, PL 1 , DA Patrick 2 , KM Howell 3 , EB Harper 4 and
JR Vonesh 1 , (1)Virginia Commonwealth University, (2)
Paul Smith’s College, (3)University of Dar es Salaam, (4)
State University of New York College of Environmental
Science and Forestry. Community and population-level
responses of an Afromontane chameleon assemblage to
forest fragmentation.
PS 1-31 Wright, EM 1 , JA Crawford 1 and AR Kuhns 2 , (1)
Lindenwood University, (2)University of Illinois. Evaluating
the quality of created wetlands through metamorphic
amphibian sampling.
PS 1-32 Pittman, SE, GM Connette and RD Semlitsch, University
of Missouri. Effects of habitat composition on movement
and optimal dispersal strategies in juvenile spotted
salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum).
PS 1-33 O’Donnell, KM 1 , FR Thompson III 2 and RD Semlitsch 1 ,
(1)University of Missouri, (2)University of Missouri-
Columbia. A hierarchical modeling approach to estimate
terrestrial salamander abundance prior to prescribed fire
and timber harvest.
Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems
PS 1-34 Aardweg, Z1 , JA Homyack2 and DR Chalcraft1 , (1)East
Carolina University, (2)Weyerhaeuser NR Company. Initial
effects of woody biomass removal and intercropping
of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) on herpetofauna in
eastern North Carolina.
PS 1-35 Brown, TK, California State University San Marcos.
Energetics of Blainville’s Horned Lizards, Phrynosoma
blainvillii, in disturbed and undisturbed habitat.
PS 2 - Aquatic Ecology
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PS 2-36 Handler, AM1 , IA Oleksy2 , DC Richardson3 , N Rigolino3 ,
T Hoellein4 , DC Arscott5 and CA Gibson6 , (1)Franklin &
Marshall College, (2)University of New Hampshire, (3)
SUNY New Paltz, (4)Loyola University, (5)Stroud Water
Research Center, (6)Skidmore College. Physiochemical
controls of the growth of the invasive freshwater diatom,
Didymosphenia geminata, in Rondout Creek, New York.
PS 2-37 Knudson, TM and AR Black, Eastern Washington
University. Factors affecting rainbow trout growth and
condition in eastern Washington lakes.
PS 2-38 Oele, DL1 , PB McIntyre2 and DJ Hogan2 , (1)University
of Wisconsin-Madison, (2)University of Wisconsin.
Assessing natal spawning site fidelity of northern pike
using otolith microchemistry.
PS 2-39 Semcheski, MR, TA Egerton and HG Marshall, Old
Dominion University. Seasonal variability in estuarine
planktonic and benthic algal populations.
PS 2-40 Brandon, CS and JL Dudycha, University of South
Carolina. Plasticity of eye development in a freshwater
crustacean, Daphnia.
PS 2-41 Lear, SC, M Wu and L Lee, Montclair State University.
Assessment of bloom-forming Cyanobacteria and algae
in selected New Jersey lakes.
PS 2-42 Holmes, CJ1 , KL Schulz2 , S Figary3 , JH Pantel4 and CE
Càceres1 , (1)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
(2)State University of New York College of Environmental
Science and Forestry, (3)SUNY-ESF, (4)University
PS 2-43
of Texas at Austin. Eco-evolutionary feedbacks on
colonization dynamics in newly formed ponds.
Crawford, JW1 , SR Hall2 and CE Cáceres1 , (1)University
of Illinois, (2)Indiana University. Linking allocation to
sexual reproduction with resource use efficiency in a
facultative parthenogen, Daphnia pulicaria.
PS 2-44 Black, AR and L Bridges, Eastern Washington University.
An investigation the potential impacts of an invasive
fish (brook stickleback: Culaea inconstans) on aquatic
wetland communities and waterfowl.
PS 2-45 Walz, KC1 , KL Schulz2 , ZY Lim1 , S Figary3 , JH Pantel4 and CE Càceres4 , (1)SUNY ESF, (2)State University
of New York College of Environmental Science and
Forestry, (3)SUNY-ESF, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign. Is any water good water? Clonal growth
and reproduction differences in response to abiotic and
biotic factors in vernal pools.
PS 2-46 Quist, DJ1 , MD Dixon1 , TC Cowman2 and DA Soluk1 , (1)
University of South Dakota, (2)Missouri River Institute.
Long–term trends and status of riverine mesohabitats,
channel complexity, and habitat turnover along the
Missouri River from Fort Benton‚ MT to Kansas City‚ KS
from 1890 to 2006.
PS 2-47 Jorgensen, JC1 , MM McClure1 , MB Sheer1 and NL
Munn2 4:30 pm-6:30 pm
, (1)Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National
Marine Fisheries Service, (2)National Marine Fisheries
Service, Habitat Conservation Division. Climate change
influences the footprint of anthropogenic habitat
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