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Winter/Spring 2015 Bioohio the Quarterly Newsletter of the Ohio Biological Survey Winter/Spring 2015 BioOhio The Quarterly Newsletter of the Ohio Biological Survey In This Issue A Note From the Executive Director Abstracts from the I am writing this column on an iPad we really do is describe life. In order to 2015 ONHC ...................... 2 among the clouds at 30,000 feet while preserve life we must understand life, and it traveling to visit family. I am not saying this is this mission that has driven OBS for over in order to brag, but to point out how times a century. We just completed our latest round have changed. Te technologies behind the of grant reviews, and it is encouraging to see MBI Announces 2015 ways in which we communicate and locomote the great projects that are carrying on the Training Courses............... 5 have drastically altered the world in which we tradition of natural history in the state and live, but there can be a stigma associated with the region. Tis year, we awarded $4,500 to refusing to embrace that which is new. If you nine worthy projects covering a variety of taxa CMNH Conservation don’t have an iPhone or an Instagram account and investigating a wide range of ecological, Symposium ....................... 7 or a Twitter handle, you are “old school”—a evolutionary, behavioral, and conservation Luddite; quaint, unimportant, and largely questions. I would encourage you and your irrelevant. Unfortunately, this is often how the students to consider submitting an application Exploring Life in science of natural history is viewed. Expensive for an OBS grant next year. You can fnd Vernal Pools ................... 11 equipment is not required, there may not more information on the Projects Page of our be immediate and direct applications for website. humanity as a whole, and recent discoveries in Humanity needs biodiversity, and we A Honey Bee Hive the feld usually don’t fnd their way into the cannot isolate ourselves from it. Tere is a big Tells All.............................. 11 national news. Even while we are reminded of world out there waiting to be explored, and the value of biodiversity, those institutions that world starts in our own backyards. It is tasked with cataloging and describing this important that we share this realization. Just threatened with extinction, EAB Confrmed as Threat biodiversity are as vinyl records have seen a resurgence in sales to White Fringetree ....... 12 and the next generation of scientists that due to the unique qualities of the sound they might take on this task are increasingly produce, I am optimistic that we will once undertrained. Some, perhaps much, of this again recognize the value of natural history Ohio University can be attributed to a shift in funding from and the unique role that it plays in discovering Researchers Discover traditional natural history (of the feld and lab and understanding the value of biodiversity. New Tanzanian variety) to newer molecular and biomedical Until then, OBS will continue to champion Dinosaur ........................... 8 research that would appear to have much more the cause. direct human applications. I am certainly not (By the way, I fnished this column on a suggesting that these areas are not important, desktop PC with a standard keyboard and Organizational but I am suggesting that much of the direction a wired mouse. I also plan to read a printed Contact Info .................. 12 in these felds is driven by basic knowledge of book later this evening. Go fgure.) the life around us. To pretend that we know all that we need to know from nature and can therefore move away from basic observing, collecting, describing, and classifying would be folly. By today’s high-tech standards, I suppose you could say that the Ohio Biological Survey is “old school.” Sure, we have branched out into social media, we have an online journal, Greg Smith and we will soon have e-books; but what Executive Director Volume 23 No. 1 Page 1 Abstracts from the 2015 Ohio Natural History Conference Amphibian and Reptile County contamination, and the introduction of we documented signifcant declines for the Records from Perry County, Ohio, USA disease. Surveying 11 populations across the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) and the species declining range in Ohio and Michigan, northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentionalis) Marc Behrendt we found that populations difer in terms of while red bats (Lasiurus borealis) show a Ohio University skin-associated microbial communities, and signifcant increase since the documentation AMP production, but did not signifcantly of WNS. We will also report on natural Several amphibian and reptile species common difer in terms of AMP bioactivity against history observations and discuss important to Perry County are unreported in recent amphibian chytrid (Bd). Te skin-associated habitat features for the conservation of Ohio feld guides. Perry County is located in microbial communities were predicted by the bat populations. Continued monitoring of southeastern Ohio. Te northern half of the latitude of the pond site and the amount of summer bats in will help to better understand county is fat and primarily agricultural, located surrounding suburban and forested habitat. local and regional factors contributing to long- within the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, and AMP production difered by site and was term trends in bat populations. is privately owned, bordered to the northwest marginally predicted by pond water alkalinity. by Buckeye Lake and to the west by Rush AMP bioactivity against Bd in culture was Legs, Leaves, and Logs: A 21st Creek Lake. Te southern half of the county, surprisingly predicted by AMP production. Century Ohio Millipede Adventure within the Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau, is Te more AMPs produced, the faster Bd hilly and increasingly rugged with cleared and grew in culture, indicating that AMPs in this Derek Hennen forested terrain. Te purpose of this study was species are not bioactive against this pathogen, University of Arkansas to begin an efort to create an accurate record and may serve as a nutrient source to Bd. of the species of reptiles and amphibians that Tis study demonstrates that environmental Millipedes (class Diplopoda) constitute inhabit Perry County, Ohio. Te study began characteristics can infuence these amphibian a diverse assemblage of 12,000 species in July 2014. Tis presentation reports three immune defense traits and calls for research worldwide. Despite their ubiquity in various new county records observed during the into the relative efects of other, potentially less habitats and their role in nutrient cycling, frst four months of the study, plus 13 new benign, anthropogenic environmental changes however, they are often ignored by biologists. township records and 5 species that have not on immune defense trait expression. Accessible reference materials for the been reported since or before 1961. group are scarce, contributing to the lack of Long-Term Monitoring of Summer Bat popular knowledge of millipede ecology and What Can Assessment of Immune Populations in Summit County, Ohio identifcation. Te last major work on Ohio’s Defense Traits Across Ohio and (2004-2014) millipedes was published in 1928, and since Michigan Tell Us about Cricket Frog then millipede taxonomy has undergone Health? Marlo Perdicas1 and Ryan Trimbath1,2 major changes. In an efort to modernize our 1Summit Metroparks; 2University of Akron knowledge of the state’s millipedes, collecting Katherine Krynak1, Michael F. Bernard1, expeditions were made from June to July 2014, and David J. Burke2 Biologists at Summit Metro Parks have been funded by the Ohio Biological Survey. Te 1Case Western Reserve University; 2Holden monitoring local bat populations since 2004. objectives for this study were (1) to produce Arboretum Most long-term data on bat populations an updated listing of Ohio’s millipedes with focuses on surveys of hibernacula; here, we will current taxonomy, (2) update species range Amphibians are protected from pathogens present data from summer mist net surveys and habitat information, and (3) provide new by two key skin-associated immune defense throughout Summit County, Ohio. During identifcation resources and photos to allow traits: the microbial communities which this period the most obvious changes in bat accurate identifcation by both scientists and inhabit their skin and the anti-microbial populations are those associated with white- non-scientists alike. Focused collecting was peptides produced within the skin. Te extent nose syndrome (WNS). Pseudogymnoascus done at over 16 sites, mostly in southern Ohio, to which the environment may infuence destructans, the fungus responsible for WNS, and museum collections were examined for these traits is unknown. Specifc aspects of was frst detected in North America in the additional records. A total of 44 species were the environment including water quality winter of 2006-2007. Te frst documentation found to inhabit the state, fve of which are and land-use characteristics may alter these of death due to WNS in Summit County, Ohio endemic. New county records and multiple traits, potentially making amphibians more was in the winter of 2011-2012. Comparing range expansions were documented, especially susceptible to disease. Te Blanchard’s the number of bats caught/net night we found in southern Ohio. Notably, this study resulted Cricket Frog (Acris blanchardi) is a species a reduction in total bats caught between 2004- in the frst collection of Conotyla ocypetes in suspected to be in decline due to a variety 2011 (x2=5.08; SD=6.17) and 2012-2014 98 years. It is hoped that these results will be of anthropogenic environmental changes (x2=3.92; SD=3.75) but this diference was not used as a launching pad for future millipede including habitat degradation, chemical signifcant (S=21503; p=0.1478). As expected, research in Ohio and the surrounding region. Volume 23 No. 1 Page 2 Migrant Landbird Use of Urn Moss (Physcomitrium pyriforme) and voluntary eforts through a coalition Natural and Restored Riparian and Other Bryophytes at a Wet of multiple government and conservation Forest Habitats in Agricultural Prairie Restoration organizations.
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