ICCB 2013 Program - Society for Conservation Biology

08:30 Rethinking corruption in conservation crime: insights from Madagascar
Meredith Gore, Michigan State University
08:45 Poaching risks in community-based natural resource management
Jessica Kahler, Michigan State University
09:00 Modeling behavior to understand patterns and drivers of illegal resource use
Aidan Keane, Imperial College London
Monday
09:15 Conservation during global conflict: opportunities to curtail wildlife trade through work with the U.S. military
Heidi Kretser, Wildlife Conservation Society
09:30 The WILD LEO Project: Using technology to combat poaching in Uganda
Andrew Lemieux, Netherlands Institute Crime & Law
09:45 Science-based enforcement to conserve commercially-valuable species
Elizabeth Bennett, Wildlife Conservation Society
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Student Awards Finalists: Session I
Room 308
Monday, July 22, 8:00 to 10:15 (Note, this session runs 15 minutes longer than others)
08:00 Plenary: Doing the business of conservation: non-traditional approaches for the next generation of practitioners
Brett Dickson, Conservation Science Partners
08:30 Predicting extinction risk for threatened island vertebrates due to impacts from invasive alien mammals
Erin McCreless, Univ. of California Santa Cruz; Stuart Butchart, BirdLife International; Don Croll, Univ. of California
Santa Cruz; Nick Holmes, Island Conservation; Kelly Newton, Univ. of California Santa Cruz; Bernie Tershy, Univ. of
California Santa Cruz; Dena Spatz, Univ. of California Santa Cruz; Chris Wilcox, CSIRO
08:45 Predicting the conservation status of Data Deficient species
Lucie Bland, Zoological Society of London; Ben Collen, Zoological Society of London; Jon Bielby, Zoological Society of
London; C. David L. Orme, Imperial College London
09:00 Do Ethiopian church forests provide ecosystem services on a landscape scale
Ashley Massey, University of Oxford; Shonil Bhagwat, University of Oxford; Sara Hamann, University of Oxford
09:15 Understanding and influencing landholders´ options for conserving dry Chaco forests at the agricultural frontier
Matias Mastrangelo, National University of Mar del Plata and National Research Council of Argentina; Michael Gavin,
Forestry 231,Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, WCNR, CSU, USA; Pedro Laterra, Faculty of Agrarian
Sciences, National University of Mar del Plata, ARG; Wayne Linklater, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of
Wellington, NZ; Taciano Milfont, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
09:30 When is enough, enough Using capture-recapture to inform optimal population monitoring for the endangered
pink pigeon Nesoenas mayeri
Lianne Concannon, The University of Reading; Malcolm Nicoll, The University of Reading; Ken Norris, University of
Reading; Carl Jones, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust/ Mauritian Wildlife Foundation; Vikash Tatayah, The Mauritian
Wildlife Foundation
09:45 Collaboration among countries in marine conservation can achieve substantial efficiencies
Tessa Mazor, The University of Queensland; Salit Kark, The Hebrew University of Jersualem; Hugh Possingham, The
University of Queensland
10:00 Landscape genetics of American pika at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: evaluating the use of Mantel tests in a
causal modeling framework
Jessica Castillo, Oregon State University; Clinton Epps, Oregon State University
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Symposium: The U.S. Endangered Species Act at 40: Measuring Success and the Critical Role
of Stakeholders
Room 309
Monday, July 22, 8:00 to 10:00
Organizer(s): Noah Greenwald, Center for Biological Diversity
This symposium will mark the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Endangered Species Act by evaluating the success of the Act towards
saving species from extinction and putting them on the road to recovery, assessing implementation of the Act, and discussing
the role of diverse stakeholders in aiding implementation and recovery. Focusing on one of the oldest and strongest laws for
protecting biodiversity of any nation, this symposium fits squarely into the theme for this year’s meeting, “connecting systems,
disciplines, and stakeholders.” Under the umbrella of the Act, scientists, policy makers and advocates from government agencies,
academia and non-governmental organizations all work towards the conservation of endangered species across the full diversity
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