ICCB 2013 Program - Society for Conservation Biology

Tuesday
Speed Presentations
17:30 Adaptive Management of Golden Eagles on Wind Farms in the U.S.
Leslie New, US Geological Survey; Emily Bjerre, US Fish and Wildlife Service; Brian Millsap, US Fish and Wildlife Service;
Mark Otto, US Fish and Wildlife Service; Michael Runge, US Geological Survey
17:35 Pyrodiversity versus biodiversity: the influence of mosaic burning on bird species richness across multiple spatial
scales
Emma Burgess, University of Queensland; Martine Maron, University of Queensland; Patrick Moss, University of
Queensland; Murray Haseler, Bush Heritage Australia
17:40 Identifying drivers of abundance of an irruptive species, the Dickcissel (Spiza americana)
Brooke Bateman, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jessica Gorzo, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Anna Pidgeon,
University of Wisconsin-Madison; Volker Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison; H. Akcakaya, Stony Brook University;
Curtis Flather, USDA, Forest Service; Thomas Albright, University of Nevada, Reno; Stephen Vavrus, Center for Climatic
Research; Wayne Thogmartin, United States Geological Survey; Patricia Heglund, United States Fish and Wildlife Service
17:45 Forest fragmentation in Northwestern Ethiopia: Genetic effects on an endangered medicinal tree species
Haile Yineger Tariku, Australian Rivers Institute, School of Environment, Griffith University; Daniel Schmidt, Australian
Rivers Institute, School of Environment, Griffith University; Jane Hughes, Australian Rivers Institute, School of Environment,
Griffith University
17:50 Age structure and spatial distribution pattern of the rare and endangered plant Alcimandra cathcartii
Chun-ming Yuan, Yunnan Academy of Forestry
17:55 Drivers of change in Myanmar’s wild elephant distribution
Melissa Songer, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Myint Aung, Friends of Wildlife, Myanmar; Peter Leimgruber,
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
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Outreach, Community-Driven Conservation & Citizen Science
Room 309
Tuesday, July 23, 17:00 to 18:00
17:00 Renewable Energy Siting: Understanding the lay of the land and the sea on the U.S.’s Atlantic Coast
John Primo, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management; Brian Krevor, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
17:15 Community Conservation: A Powerful Solution to Environmental Degradation and Biodiversity Loss
Robert Horwich, Community Conservation
Speed Presentations
17:30 Crowdfunding for Conservation: Using Social Media to Build Support;
Rachel Wheat, University of California, Santa Cruz; Yiwei Wang, University of California, Santa Cruz; Jarrett Byrnes,
University of Massachusetts, Boston; Jai Ranganathan, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
17:35 How do you effectively incentivise and motivate local communities to adopt conservation behaviours A case study
of the Sumatran orangutan
Danielle Nilsson, University of Queensland
17:40 Understanding elephant distribution in a human-dominated transfrontier landscape
Sarah-Anne Selier, School of Life Sciences, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal; Rob Slotow, School of Life Sciences, University of
Kwa-Zulu Natal; Bruce Page, School of Life Sciences, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal; Enrico Di Minin, Finnish Centre of
Excellence in Metapopulation Biology, University of Helsinki
17:45 Zoo-based Teacher Professional Development - An Effective Means for Integrating Conservation Science and
Advocacy into Classrooms
James Danoff-Burg, San Diego Zoo Global; Maggie Reinbold, San Diego Zoo Global; Robin Keith, San Diego Zoo Global;
Samantha Young, San Diego Zoo Global; Corrin LaCombe, San Diego Zoo Global; Kirstie Ruppert, San Diego Zoo Global
17:50 It’s all in the name - public attitudes to the conservation of biodiversity, habitats and charismatic-sounding species
E.C.M. Parsons, Department of Environmental Science & Policy, George Mason University; A Shah, Dept of Environmental
Science & Policy, George Mason University; P. Karaffa, Dept of Environmental Science & Policy, George Mason University; C.
Scott, Dept of Environmental Science & Policy, George Mason University
17:55 A citizen army for conservation: quantifying participatory research on monarch butterflies and its impacts on
science, conservation, and behavior
Leslie Ries, National Socio-environmental Synthesis Center; Karen Oberhauser, University of Minnesota
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