ICCB 2013 Program - Society for Conservation Biology

Poster session: 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Conservation at the Land-Water Interface
Monday
60 Tidal movement, gas exchange and conservation of sea turtle eggs
Shaya Honarvar, Drexel University; Gail Hearn, Drexel University; James Spotila, Drexel University; Michael O’Connor, Drexel
University
61 Proposal of a new conservation object for the selection of land-sea ecotones within a conservation portfolio
Karina Martinez-Tilleria, University of La Serena (ULS); Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB); Francisco Squeo, University of
La Serena, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity and CEAZA; Carlos Gaymer, University Catholic of the North
62 What Size Buffer Using a Landscape-Scale Experiment to Test How Buffer Width Affects Pool-Breeding Amphibian
Demography
Jessica Veysey Powell, University of New Hampshire; Kimberly Babbitt, University of New Hampshire
Conservation Capacity Building
63 Stakeholder’s participation in conservation of Rhinoceros in the Pobitora wildlife Sanctuary: the land of highest density of
Rhinoceros in the world.
Arup Hazarika, Cotton College; Prakash Chetry, Centre for Environment, Education, and Economic Development
64 Community based links between education, ecotourism and investigations of Melanosuchus niger and Podocnemis unifilis
in Yupukari Region #9 Guyana.
Michael Martin, Rupununi Learners Inc.; Fernando Li, Rupununi Learners Inc.; Rudolph Sr. Roberts, Yupukari Village; Rudolph
Roberts Jr., Yupukari Village, Rupununi Learners Inc.; Ashley Holland, Rupununi River Drifters
65 Collaborative capacity-building in the Southern Cone on behalf of endangered Pampas deer and habitat: An evolving
success story.
Donald Moore, Smithsonian National Zoo/Conservation Biology Institute; Mark Sturm, National Park Service
66 Conservation through study abroad: Joining indigenous and global stakeholders through mutual transdisciplinary
education in Guyana’s Rupununi region
David Morimoto, Lesley University; Michael Martin, University of Waterloo; Alice Layton, Rupununi Learners Foundation
67 Getting Your Article Accepted into a Leading Conservation Journal
Richard Primack, Boston University
68 Community Based Forest Conservation in Kenya
Chelsie Romulo, Virginia Tech; Miriam Westervelt, Virginia Tech; Amanda Miner, Virginia Tech; Dennis Sonkoi, Virginia Tech
69 Assessing and Developing Key Skills in Conservation Students through Classroom Exercises
Eleanor Sterling, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History; Ana Porzecanski, Center for
Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History; Adriana Bravo, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation,
American Museum of Natural History; Nora Bynum, Duke University
Conservation Genetics
70 Genetic Diversity and Conservation of the Misty Grouper (Hyporthodus mystacinus) in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Alexandra Avila, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
71 The story of a tough little West Texas oak, the threatened Quercus hinckleyi C.H. Mull.
Janet Backs, University of Illinois at Chicago; Mary Ashley, University of Illinois at Chicago
72 Monitoring Monitors: Genetic Structure of the Highly Exploited Nile monitor, Varanus niloticus
Stephanie Dowell, Fordham University
73 Using next-generation sequencing to investigate genetic health in a threatened primate
Kathleen Grogan, Duke University; Christine Drea, Duke University
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