ICCB 2013 Program - Society for Conservation Biology

16:30 Modeling the recovery of the endangered black-footed ferret in a linked predator-prey-disease system
Kevin Shoemaker, Stony Brook University; Resit Akcakaya, Stony Brook University; Michelle Verant, USGS National
Wildlife Health Center; Philip Miller, IUCN-SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group; Damien Fordham, University
of Adelaide; Robert Lacy, Chicago Zoological Society; Travis Livieri, Prairie Wildlife Research; Barry Brook, University of
Adelaide
16:45 Size and Spacing Rules for Marine Protected Areas: Useful or Not
Rachel Fovargue, University of Tennessee Knoxville; Paul Armsworth, University of Tennessee Knoxville; Michael Bode,
University of Melbourne, Australia
17:00 Wildlife Connectivity Planning: A Practitioner’s On-line Guide
Mary Harkness, NatureServe; Patrick Crist, NatureServe; Patrick Comer, NatureServe
17:15 Selection of conservation areas under severe uncertainty of population dynamics in future
Hiroyuki Yokomizo, National Institute for Environmental Studies; Taku Kadoya, National Institute for Environmental
Studies
17:30 Modelling Mussel Population Dynamics with Fish Host Density Dependence: Research Needs to Answer
Management Questions
Jennifer Young, MSc., Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Marten Koops, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Todd Morris, Fisheries
and Oceans Canada
17:45 Population-level impacts of endemic disease on direct-developing frogs in the Caribbean
Penny Langhammer, Arizona State University; Karen Lips, University of Maryland; James Collins, Arizona State
University; Patricia Burrowes, University of Puerto Rico
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Behavioral Ecology and Conservation 2
Room 305
Monday, July 22, 16:00 to 18:00
Monday
16:00 Song variation in Grasshopper Sparrows (Ammodramus savannarum) with an emphasis on the critically endangered
Florida subspecies (A. s. floridanus)
Bernard Lohr, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Brian Rolek, University of Maine; Aymen Hussein, University of
Maryland Baltimore County
16:15 Behaviour and habitat associations of the Liben Lark Heteromirafra sidamoensis, Southern Ethiopia
Bruktawit Mahamued, Manchester Metropolitan University; Afework Bekele, Addis Ababa University; Paul Donald, Royal
Society for the Preservation of Birds
16:30 Identification of northern pike spawning sites in Riding Mountain National Park, using VHF telemetry
Christopher Malcolm, Brandon University
16:45 Linking social environment and stress physiology in feral mares (Equus caballus): group transfers elevate fecal
cortisol levels
Cassandra Nunez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; James Adelman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University; Daniel Rubenstein, Princeton University
17:00 Present and future landscape connectivity for bobcat and lynx in the northeastern United States
Laura Farrell, University of Vermont; Daniel Levy, University of Vermont; Terri Donovan, University of Vermont; Kim
Royar, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department; Mark Freeman, University of Vermont; C.William Kilpatrick, University of
Vermont
17:15 Assessing changes in the forest bird community after experimental prescribed burns, with a little insight from the
scarlet robin
Sarah Kelly, La Trobe University; Michael Clarke, La Trobe University; Andrew Bennett, Deakin University; Rowan Mott,
La Trobe University; Greg Holland, Deakin University; Anna Flanagan-Moodie, Deakin University
17:30 Exploring how light color affects nocturnal migrants in an urban landscape
J. Alan Clark, Fordham University; Christine Sheppard, American Bird Conservancy; Janet Starwood, Audubon
Pennsylvania
17:45 Behavior, hyperstability, and population declines of an aggregating marine fish
Scott Heppell, Oregon State University; Brice Semmens, Scripps Institute of Oceanography; Christy Pattengill-Semmens,
Reef Environmental Education Foundation; Phillippe Bush, Cayman Islands Department of Environment; Croy McCoy,
Cayman Islands Department of Environment; Bradley Johnson, Cayman Islands Department of Environment
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