ICCB 2013 Program - Society for Conservation Biology

Spatial Ecology and Conservation 2
Room 306
Tuesday, July 23, 10:30 to 12:30
10:30 Conservation planning in Canada’s western boreal forest: Modeling and communicating cumulative effects
of large scale resource development
David Browne, Canadian Wildlife Federation; Matt Carlson, ALCES Group
10:45 Mapping ignorance: a method for assessing the completeness of datasets on flowering plants in Africa
Juliana Stropp, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission; Julien Gaffuri, Joint Research Centre of the European
Commission; Richard Ladle, Federal University of Alagoas; Ana Malhado, Federal University of Alagoas; William
Temperley, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission; Philippe Mayaux, Joint Research Centre of the European
Commission
11:00 Distribution mapping of world grassland types for biodiversity
Adam Dixon, World Wildlife Fund; Don Faber-Langendoen, NatureServe; Carmen Josse, NatureServe; John
Morrison, World Wildlife Fund - United States; Colby Loucks, World Wildlife Fund - United States
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11:15 Effect of GPS collar sampling intensity on habitat selection inference: Mountain lions as a case study
Kathy Zeller, UMASS, Amherst; Kevin McGarigal, UMASS, Amherst; Paul Beier, Northern Arizona University; Samuel
Cushman, USDA Forest Service; Andrew Whiteley, UMASS, Amherst; Winston Vickers, Wildlife Health Center,
University of California, Davis; Walter Boyce, Wildlife Health Center, University of California, Davis
11:30 A novel combination of habitat and threat models can reveal potential ecological traps
Kathryn Rodriguez-Clark, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas; Ada Sanchez-Mercado, Instituto
Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas; Jose Ferrer-Paris, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas;
Shaenandhoa Garcia-Rangel, Universidad Simón Bolívar; Edgard Yerena, Universidad Simon Bolivar; Bruce
Robertson, Bard College
11:45 Targeting collaborative conservation actions using novel spatial datasets: a case study from the Grand
Canyon’s North Rim
Matthew Williamson, Grand Canyon Trust; Brett Dickson, Conservation Science Partners; Christine Albano, University
of California - Davis; Thomas Sisk, Northern Arizona University; Ethan Aumack, Grand Canyon Trust
12:00 Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic Regions: management implications of a new bioregionalisation
approach for terrestrial Antarctica
Aleks Terauds, Australian Antarctic Division; Steven Chown, Monash University; Dana Bergstrom, Australian Antarctic
Division
12:15 Incorporating scale in habitat preference models improves prediction maps for elephants
Andrew Mashintonio, Rutgers University; Gareth Russell, New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Symposium: Roadless and Low Density-Transportation Networks as Permeable Landscapes
and Seascapes. Session II
Room 307
Tuesday, July 23, 10:30 to 12:30
Organizer(s): Dominick DellaSala, Geos Institute
A vast network of roads and marine highways crisscrosses the planet, transporting people and goods over global distances with
substantial environmental impacts. For instance, the ecological footprint of roads is known to extend up to a kilometer on
either side of an individual road (road effect zone) with cumulative effects of dense road networks in some regions impacting
up to 15-20% of total surface area (e.g., continental USA). Marine transportation networks and associated ship transport
lanes also create migration and other problems for wildlife, including acoustic pollution and collision-related mortality.
In contrast, areas with low road densities and/or low-traffic volume (marine and terrestrial) and those with no roads (e.g.,
roadless areas in the USA, South America, Asia, Africa) are a conservation priority globally because they provide habitat for
road-adverse wildlife, have characteristic ecological processes, are relatively resistant to weed invasions, act as strongholds for
aquatic species, and provide climatic refugia. In some terrestrial regions (e.g., western Europe), only low-density roads with
low traffic volume remain and these areas are building blocks for re-wilding landscapes. This symposium will provide a global
synthesis of impacts of vast transportation networks and a region by region and a global synthesis on the importance of intact
areas showcasing new intactness and human footprint technologies.
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