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NEWSLETTER Southwestern Research Station Portal, Arizona Number 25 Year 2010 From the Director Dawn S. Wilson encompassing some of the highest biodiversity of Improvements in Infrastructure plants and animals in the world. Reptiles and amphibians In the past seven years, the Southwestern Research contribute Station (SWRS) has made significant advances in prominently to this upgrading the station’s infrastructure. Improvements diversity. For thus far have provided scientists and students with example, the better quality working environments and equipment. southwest has the This year, I am pleased to report that we will continue world’s largest to move forward with additional infrastructure rattlesnake diversity upgrades that will provide more housing options for and some of the station users and will upgrade our cyber-infrastructure most rare and Black-tailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus to promote collaborations among both scientists and threatened frog molossus; Photo by D. S. Wilson educators. Our specific goals include: species. Drought and use of water resources, habitat Construction of student dormitories to provide destruction, and the introduction of non-native species affordable housing and increase space available to are some of the threats facing herpetofaunal diversity scientists and course participants. in Arizona and neighboring states. Renovation of older housing units to provide safer, Continuing our role as a leader in offering a more comfortable housing to senior scientists and diversity of educational courses and workshops, we scientists that bring their families to the station. will introduce a newly developed course – Field Replacement of aging, animal holding pens that are Herpetology of the Southwest – to be held from 24 used to temporarily house animals in ambient July to 3 August, 2011. For more information, see our conditions until their use in scientific projects. ad on page eight of this newsletter. Development of a Database Management System Our Chiricahua Leopard Frog head-starting project for archiving and providing access to historical and has grown from 19 tadpoles to 29 adult frogs. This past current data sets, aiding in facilitating future field summer we research, and helping scientists pursue questions completed the that involve change through time. construction of two Improvement of scientific collections of plants and outdoor enclosures, animals housed at the SWRS by upgrading cabinets each containing a and making the collections digitally available to the pool, plants, and broader community. basking sites. We will be keeping our Research and Education eyes open for egg Those of you reading this newsletter already Frog enclosure; Photo by D. S. Wilson masses that we appreciate the fact that the SWRS is located in one of anticipate our adult the most biologically diverse areas in the United States, frogs will lay in the enclosed pools this spring. SWRS News 1 The Southwestern Research Station field research and for their assistance in keeping the station running each season. The research station is a non-profit organi- Agard, Christopher. Howard Univ., Washington, zation under the direction of the Center for D.C. Effects of caudal autotomy on sympatric Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Sceloporus species. Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York. The SWRS enhances AMNH's diversity and Barton, Andrew. Univ. of Maine, Farmington. The strengths by providing scientists and educators role of re-sprouting in the recovery of chiricahua pine from the museum, other institutions, and around from a high severity wildfire. the world the opportunity to participate in research, workshops, and classes in one of the Bernard, Gary. Univ. of most biologically rich environments in the United Washington, Federal States. Way. Far red vision of Metal-Mark butterflies Staff: and close relatives. Dawn S. Wilson, Director Boersma, Kate. Oregon Geoff Bender, Operations Manager/Budget Officer State Univ., Corvallis. Barbara Roth, Bookkeeper Effects of predator presence/absence on colonization of Tresa Glore, Office Manager; Intern Coordinator novel habitats. P.D. Hulce, Chief Maintenance Jodi Kessler, Kitchen Manager/Head Cook Brown, Tracey. California State Univ., San Marcos. Chris Pope, Seasonal Cook Digestive physiology of Texas horned lizards. Juvy McEwan, Kitchen Assistant Cahan, Sara Helms. Univ. of Vermont, Burlington. Leesa Bunts, Head Housekeeper Genetic architecture of reproductive caste in harvester Beatrice Lopez-Falcum, Housekeeper ants. Lorraine Titus, Gift Shop Clerk John Jones, Gift Shop Clerk Campbell, Polly. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson. Myotis Contact Information: californicus and M. ciliolabrum: P.O. Box 16553, Portal, Arizona 85632 a single polymorphic species or Phone: 520-558-2396; Fax: 520-558-2018 two very young species? E-Mail: [email protected]. Web: http://research.amnh.org/swrs/ Corcoran, Aaron. Wake Forest Univ., Winston Salem, N.C. Sonar jamming in the bat-moth arms race. RESEARCH Egan, Scott. Univ. of Notre Dame, IN. Population 2010 SCIENTISTS genetics of frugivorous flies (Ragoletis cingulata) species group. Scientists that come to the SWRS study a wide diversity of organisms in the surrounding forest and Gordon, Deborah. Stanford Univ., CA. Harvester desert habitats. The proportions of flora and fauna that ants: function of chemical signals; genetic analysis of microsatellite variation to determine relatedness. scientists studied in projects this past year were as follows: 40% invertebrates, 17% plants, 15% birds, Greene, Michael. Univ. of Colorado, Denver. Social 11% amphibians, 11% reptiles, and 6% mammals. interaction dynamics of harvester ants. Many of the scientists that conduct research at the Ignace, Danielle. Univ. of Arizona., Tucson. SWRS rely on student interns to assist them in their Community change in an arid ecosystem. field work. The SWRS would like to extend a huge Jablonski, Piotr. Seoul National Univ., Korea. THANKS! to these interns for their participation in Responses of insects to robotic displays imitating Mockingbird wing flashing. SWRS News 2 Johnson, Christine. Amer. Mus. Nat’l Hist., New Reed, Jay. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Functional York, NY. Behavioral ecology of Polyergus breviceps. significance of mite pockets in the lizard Sceloporus jarrovii and the effect of pockets on mite load and host Kay, Adam. Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. stress. Nutritional constraints on ant colony foundation. Scales, Jeffrey. Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu. Kureck, Ilka. LMU Munich, Germany. Internal The evolution of the locomotor system in conflicts, dispersal, and the consequences of Phrynosomatid lizards. inbreeding on an ant with alternative reproductive Schmidt, Emily. Univ. of North tactics. Carolina, Chapel Hill. Reproductive character displacement in spadefoot Leichty, Aaron. Univ. of toads. North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The genetic basis of adaptive Scott, Clare. Univ. of Florida, carnivory in spadefoot toad Gainsville. The phylogeny of the genus tadpoles. Lycomorpha and the subtribe Malusa, Jim. Univ. of Cisthenina (Lepdoptera: Noctuidae). Arizona, Tucson. Field Sherbrooke, Wade. Amer. Mus. Nat’l verification of firescape fuel Hist., New York, NY. Horned lizard anti-predator models. behaviors. Martin, Ryan. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Seal, John. Univ. of Texas, Austin. Physiological Hill. Do resource polymorphism and character constraints of symbiont switching. displacement shape community structure? Sloane, Sarah. Univ. of Maine, Farmington. The role Neuman, Antje. LMU, Munich, Germany. of male and female bushtits in nest building. Competition over the help of workers – a conflict among intermorphic queens in the ant Hypoponera Sturgis, Shelby. Stanford Univ., CA. The role of opacior. midden in early and onset foraging in the seed harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Nguyen, Tam. Amer. Mus. Nat’l Hist., New York, NY. Spittlebug flies in the southwest. Swanson, David. Univ. of South Dakota, Vermillion. Altitude effects on metabolic rates in small birds. Paull, Jeff. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Ontogenetic niche shifts under frequency Unckless, Robert. Univ. of Rochester, NY. dependent processes. Endosymbionts and parasites of Drosophila innubila. Pfennig, David. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Vea, Isabelle. Amer. Mus. Nat’l Hist., New York, NY. Evolution and development of character displacement Scale insects in Arizona and New Mexico and their in spadefoot toads. host plant relationships. Pfennig, Karin. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Weiss, Stacey. Univ. of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA. Hill. Hybridization and sexual selection in spadefoot The communication function of female striped plateau toads. lizards’ visual and chemical signals. Pinter-Wollman, Noa. Stanford Univ., CA. Correlated Woods, Art. Univ. of Montana, Missoula. Biophysics behaviors in harvester ant colonies. of plant-insect interactions. Check out our web site for information on courses and workshops offered at the SWRS!! http://research.amnh.org/swrs For a color version of this newsletter, please visit our website and click on Researcher then Publications SWRS News 3 2010 FEATURED SCIENTIST Deborah M. Gordon, Ph.D Stanford University I first came to SWRS to study harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) as a graduate student in the early 1980’s, and I have been back almost every summer since. I began working at a site in the desert that I chose arbitrarily, near the Portal road. After a few years I realized that there were interesting changes in a harvester ant
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