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Brookings, South Dakota, USA, (SCP), Department of Biology, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510 USA (GGK) THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS MOUNTAIN GORILLAS ELEPHANTS AND MAMMALOGY BIOLOGY, CONSERVATION, AND ETHICS ADAPTATION, DIVERSITY, ECOLOGY COEXISTENCE TOWARD A MORALITY OF third edition Gene Eckhart and Annette Lanjouw COEXISTENCE George A. Feldhamer, “The survival of edited by Christen Wemmer and Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, mountain goril- Catherine A. Christen Joseph F. Merritt, and Carey Krajewski las depends foreword by John Seidensticker “This attractive wholly on our “An important book will be knowledge, and timely welcome to interest, and contribution to those seeking compassion, the elephant a well-written, forever. This debate.” current text book, with its —Beth Stevens, to use in their vivid photo- Disney’s mammalogy graphs, brings Animal courses.” us up-to-date on the plight and the Kingdom —Journal of promise of mountain gorilla conser- and Animal Mammalogy vation.”—George Schaller, Wildlife Programs $99.50 hardcover Conservation Society $75.00 hardcover $34.95 hardcover THE RISE OF ANIMALS CHARLES DARWIN EVOLUTION AND DIVERSIFICATION THE SOCIAL BEHAVIOR THE CONCISE STORY OF AN OF THE KINGDOM ANIMALIA OF OLDER ANIMALS EXTRAORDINARY MAN Mikhail A. Fedonkin, James G. Gehling, Anne Innis Dagg Tim M. Berra Kathleen Grey, Guy M. Narbonne, and Patricia Vickers-Rich This theme-span- Published to foreword by Arthur C. Clarke ning study reveals coincide with the the complex 200th anniver- “It’s a beautiful nature of sary of Charles book and the maturity in scores Darwin’s birth, definitive ac- of social species this compact count of the pe- and shows that biography tells riod . I love animal behavior the fascinating it and expect often displays the story of the per- it to become a same diversity we son and the idea classic.” find in ourselves. that changed —New Scientist $35.00 hardcover everything. $75.00 hardcover $19.95 hardcover CHIMPANZEE POLITICS THE EVOLUTION OF POWER AND SEX AMONG APES VENOMOUS ANIMALS ARTIODACTYLS 25th anniversary edition OF THE WORLD edited by Donald R. Prothero Frans de Waal Steve Backshall and Scott E. Foss “This excellent A fascinating A team of book achieves the look at more distinguished dual goal which than 60 of the international eludes so many most venom- experts explore writers about ani- ous creatures evolutionary mal behavior—it across the topics and will both fascinate world’s conti- trends among the nonspecial- nents. all living artio- dactyl families ist and be seen $35.00 hardcover as an important as well as many contribution to science.” that are extinct. —Times Literary Supplement $120.00 hardcover $24.95 paperback SEE OUR BOOKS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING 1-800-537-5487 • www.press.jhu.edu DETAILED PROGRAM Saturday Board of Directors’ Continental Breakfast 8:00 Saturday Board of Directors’ Meeting 9-5 Saturday Registration--Performing Arts Center and Dormitory Check-In—Caldwell Hall 11-11 Saturday Opening Social—Performing Arts Center 6-11 Sunday Welcome—Performing Arts Center 8:40 Kevin D. Kephart, Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, South Dakota State University Plenary Session 1 –Performing Arts Center Anna M. Jackson Award Sunday 1. KINSHIP MEDIATION OF SOUTHERN FLYING SQUIRREL WINTER AGGREGATIONS 9:00 Katherine K. Thorington, Wake Forest University Elmer C. Birney Award 2. WHENCE AND WHEN? TESTING DIVERGENCE HYPOTHESES WITHIN PIKAS (GENUS OCHOTONA) USING RELAXED Sunday MOLECULAR CLOCKS 9:15 Hayley C. Lanier, University of Alaska Museum, University of Alaska Fairbanks A. Brazier Howell 3. ANTIPHONAL EXCHANGES ALLOW INDIVIDUAL DISCRIMINATION IN WHITE-WINGED VAMPIRE BATS (DIAEMUS Sunday YOUNGI) 9:30 Gerald Gunnawa Carter, Biology Department, B&G Sciences, University of Western Ontario Alma and Albert Shadle Award Sunday 4. PHYLOGENETICS AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE BROAD-NOSED BATS, GENUS PLATYRRHINUS (CHIROPTERA: 9:45 PHYLLOSTOMIDAE) Paúl M. Velazco, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago DETAILED PROGRAM ASM Fellowship 5. THERMAL BENEFITS OF CLUSTERING DURING HIBERNATION: A FIELD TEST OF COMPETING HYPOTHESES ON Sunday MYOTIS SODALIS 10:00 Justin G. Boyles, Department of Ecology and Organismal Biology, Indiana State University Sunday 10:15 Refreshment Break—Performing Arts Center Grinnell Award Sunday 6. THE NATURAL HISTORY CONUNDRUM REVISITED: MAMMALOGY BEGINS AT HOME 10:45 Peter D. Weigl, Department of Biology, Wake Forest University 7. YOUR JOURNAL Sunday Ed Heske, Jenny Duggan, and Joe Merritt, Illinois Natural History Survey 11:30 8. MAMMALIAN SPECIES: MONOGRAPHS WITH IMPACT Sunday David M. Leslie, Jr., and Meredith J. Hamilton, U.S. Geological Survey, Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit 11:45 (DMLJ) and Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State University (MJH) Sunday Lunch 12:00 Technical Session 1 –Genetics and Systematics Technical Session 2 –Biogeography Technical Session 3 –Population Ecology Rotunda A Rotunda G Rotunda D Chair: Vicki Swier Chair: Roxanne Larsen Chair: Elmer Finck 9. SPECIATION AT THE CREST OF 16. HOME ON THE PRAIRIE: A STUDY OF 23. ABANDONED THE MAMMALIAN CROWN: AMERICAN MARTEN (MARTES MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICA AUSTRALIAN AND NEW GUINEA AMERICANA) DISTRIBUTION AND MINES: LONG-TERM VIABILITY Sunday RATTUS HABITAT FRAGMENTATION FOR USE BY HIBERNATING BATS 1:30 Kevin C. Rowe, Peter R. Baverstock, and Amber Bagherian, Thomas L. Serfass, and Jeffrey Corcoran, Bradley J. Steffen, Craig Moritz Robert P. Brooks Timothy C. Carter, and George A.Feldhamer DETAILED PROGRAM 10. WHAT IS PEROMYSCUS? A 17. POTENTIAL PLEISTOCENE 24. ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF BATS PHYLOGENY BASED ON MULTIPLE DISTRIBUTIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS OF IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE DATA SETS NORTH AMERICAN SMALL MAMMALS Sunday Tamera D. Hartline, Raymond S. 1:45 Roy N. Platt and Robert D. Bradley Sean P. Maher Matlack 11. CHROMOSOME PAINTING IN 18. THE LATE QUATERNARY 25. SEASONAL VARIATION IN THE SIGMODON: A TEST OF PARSIMONY MAMMALIAN RECORD AND CLIMATE SIZE OF A COLONY OF FREE- AND ALTERNATIVE PHYLOGENETIC CHANGE IN COASTAL SOUTHEAST TAILED BATS Sunday HYPOTHESES ALASKA 2:00 Raymond S. Matlack, Tamera Hartline, Vicki J. Swier, W. Rens, F.F.B. Elder, Timothy H. Heaton, and Frederick Grady Naima Montacer, and Andrew Carrano Robert D. Bradley, and Robert J. Baker 12. GENETICS OF HYBRIDIZATION 19. TESTING JANZEN’S HYPOTHESIS 26. EFFECTS OF HABITAT IN TREE SQUIRRELS (GENUS “WHY MOUNTAIN PASSES ARE HIGHER CONVERSION ON TEMPORAL TAMIASCIURUS) FROM A CONTACT IN THE TROPICS” WITH VERTEBRATES ACTIVITY PATTERNS OF ZONE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST PHYLLOSTOMID BATS IN Sunday Christy M. McCain AMAZONIA 2:15 Andreas S. Chavez and Jim Kenagy Steven J. Presley, Michael R. Willig, Ivan Castro-Arellano, and Scott C. Weaver 13. GENETIC VARIATION AND 20. ELEVATIONAL PATTERNS OF 27. SCALE-DEPENDENT PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF RATTUS MAMMALS AND BIRDS OF MANU, AS RESPONSES OF PHYLLOSTOMIDS RATTUS AND REVISED BY EXPANDED SAMPLING TO LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE Sunday R. NORVEGICUS 2:30 Brian T. Klingbeil and Michael R. Elaine M. Fite and Ronald A. Van Den Bruce D. Patterson, Douglas F.Stotz and Sergio Willig Bussche Solari DETAILED PROGRAM 14. MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS 21. COMPARING CURRENT TO HISTORIC 28.THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS: AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF SOUTHERN DISTRIBUTION OF FRUIT-EATING BATS AS THE MESOAMERICAN FLYING OCHROTOMYS NUTTALLI IN FLORIDA. LAST LARGE-SEED DISPERSERS SQUIRRELS IN DEFAUNATED FOREST Sunday Sarah A. Smiley, Earl D. McCoy, and Henry R. FRAGMENTS 2:45 Nick Kerhoulas and Brian Arbogast Mushinsky Felipe Pimentel Lopes de Melo, Bernal Rodriguez-Herrera, Robin, L. Chazdon, Gerardo Ceballos, and Rodrigo A. Medellin 15. MOLECULAR 22. BIOGEOGRAPHY AND EVOLUTION OF 29. ROOST-SITE SELECTION OF CHARACTERIZATION OF CLASS II THE COTTENTAIL GENUS SYLVILAGUS EVENING BATS (NYCTICEIUS MHC LOCI IN THE BANNER-TAILED (LAGOMORPHA: LEPORIDAE) HUMERALIS) AT THE NORTHERN Sunday KANGAROO RAT (DIPODOMYS PERIPHERY OF THEIR RANGE 3:00 SPECTABILIS) Jorge Salazar-Bravo and Luis A. Ruedas Olivia M. Münzer and Allen Kurta Joseph D. Busch, Peter M. Waser, and J. Andrew DeWoody Sunday Poster Session 1—Performing Arts Center 3:15-5:00 30. MULTIPLE CAPTURES OF WHITE-FOOTED MICE (PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS) George A. Feldhamer, Eric M. Schauber, Leslie B. Rodman, and Timothy C. Carter 31. SMALL MAMMALS FROM THE CHELEMHA CLOUD FOREST RESERVE, ALTA VERAPAZ, GUATEMALA John O. Matson, Walter Bulmer, Ralph P. Eckerlin, Nicte Ordonez, Neal Moodma, and John Hanson 32. DISTRIBUTION OF EASTERN FOX SQUIRREL (SCIURUS NIGER) LEAF NESTS WITHIN A SUBURBAN/URBAN LANDSCAPE Carmen M. Salsbury 33. BODY SIZE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS IN AFRICAN MAMMALS ARE BIMODAL AT ALL SPATIAL SCALES Douglas A. Kelt and Marc D. Mayer DETAILED PROGRAM 34. TICK BURDENS OF PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS AND INFECTION RATES BY BORRELIA IN FRAGMENTED VIGINIA LANDSCAPE Chelyl L. Tanner, Frank K. Ammer, Ronald E. Barry, and Ellen Y. Stromdahl 35. LISTENING IN THE DARK: THE MORPHOLOGY OF FLYING SQUIRREL BULLAE Richard W. Thorington, Jr. and James F. Whatton 36. MITOCHONDRIAL DNA VARIATION IN THE EASTERN GRAY SQUIRREL (SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS) Nancy D. Moncrief, Ronald A. Van Den Bussche, and Jesus E. Maldonado 37. A REVIEW OF CETACEAN AND PINNIPED STRANDING IN GEORGIA, USA: 1977-2007 Daniel K. Odell, R. Clay George, Hans N. Neuhauser, Carol Ruckdeschel, and John H. Schacke 38. MULTI-SPECIES OCCUPANCY AND DETECTION OF SYMPATRIC MESOCARNIVORES IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS Damon B. Lesmeister, Clayton K. Nielsen, Eric M. Schauber, and Eric C. Hellgren 39. DISPERSAL IN A SOCIAL CARNIVORE (NASUA NARICA): TROPICAL VERSUS TEMPERATE TRENDS Maureen E. McColgin, John L. Koprowski, and Peter M. Waser 40. LIFE ON THE EDGE: PERSISTENCE OF THE MONTANE VOLE, MICROTUS MONTANUS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE. Dolly Crawford 41. SYSTEMATICS AND DISTRIBUTION OF SHORT-TAILED SHREWS (BLARINA) IN ALABAMA Jeremy A. White, Vicki A. Peterson, and Anne-Marie C. Hodge 42. MICROSATELLITE CHARACTERIZATION IN SPERMOPHILUS TERETICAUDUS Karan E. Munroe and John L. Koprowski 43. COMPARING ENERGETICS AND COST OF TRANSPORT OF GLAUCOMYS SABRINUS AND SCUIRUS NIGER Elizabeth A. Flaherty, Merav Ben-David, and Winston P. Smith 44. THE MATING SYSTEM OF CROCIDURA SHANTUNGENSIS IN A SALT MARSH IN NORTHERN TAIWAN Ting-Ting Lin and Yu-The K. 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