Programme Please note: subject to change

Sunday 5 January 2020 Pre-congress workshop: An open-source hardware GPS data logger for wildlife movement studies 09:00 - 16:00 Matt Cross Venue: Please meet at the front of the Department of Zoology building, 340 Great King Street Click here for more information Click here to book a space Taieri Ridge/ Macraes fieldtrip (ticketed event) 09:00 - 17:00 Venue: Please meet at University of Otago in the ISB Link Building Student paper judges meeting 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: St David A & B Registration open 16:00 - 18:00 Venue: ISB Link Building Monday 6 January 2020 Exhibition pack in 08:00 - 12:00 Venue: ISB Link Building Registration open 08:00 - 19:00 Venue: ISB Link Building Congress opening & Māori welcome (Mihi Whakatau) 12:00 - 13:30 Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed) Lunch amongst the exhibition 13:30 - 14:30 Venue: ISB Link Building Keynote: Slowly does it: working with reptiles that may outlive their researchers 14:30 - 15:15 Alison Cree Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed) Afternoon tea amongst the exhibition 15:15 - 15:45 Venue: ISB Link Building

1 Concurrent sessions Species Conservation Population & Landscape X-ray Microtomography in Amphibian Bioacoustic Adaptation & Evolution 2 Adaptation & Evolution 1 Novel Approaches to New & Innovative Genetics 1 Herpetology: A New Era of Symposium Science Communication & Technologies for Morphological Study Conservation Engagement Herpetological Research in Herpetology

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 16:00 Evaluating long-term Sex-biased dispersal in the Evolution of dermal armour Comparison of call First report of extracranial Digging into the When the world falls in love, Utilizing do-it-yourself open- population age structure Asp viper in monitor lizards (Squamata: properties, morphometrics calcified endolymph in diversification of the case study of a small frog source technologies to make changes of a critically- Sylvain Ursenbacher Varanidae) and genetics as clade Liopholis skinks (Scincidae) mantellid frogs of going global easier the life of the field endangered frog Chris Broeckhoven delineating tools in North- and its relationship with Madagascar (Anura: Teresa Camacho Badani herpetologist Sophie McCulloch Asian Hylid treefrogs burrowing Mantellidae) Patrick Cain Amaël Borzée Rocio Aguilar Angelica Crottini

16:05 The powerhouse of asexual cost? Endurance and mitochondrial efficiency in parthenogenetic whiptail lizards (genus: Aspidoscelis ) Randy Klabacka

16:10 The role of variable temperatures on acclimation of thermal and performance phenotypes Mitchell Hodgson

16:15 Lessons learned from 10 Salamander population Functional morphology and Identifying frog chorusing in Climate change drives reptile Transcriptional comparison Using social media to Lure, Trap & Retreat! years of Eastern Indigo Snake persistence from a spatially evolution of dorsal shields in environmental recordings community collapse and of MHC IIß1 in amphibians promote positive outcomes Development of a novel 'no- (Drymarchon couperi ) explicit cross-ecosystem horned frogs (Anura: using acoustic indices and adaptation on Orchid Island that are susceptible and for amphibians and reptiles dig' trap for terrestrial conservation perspective Ceratophryidae) false-colour spectrograms Wen-san Huang resistant to chytrid fungus Steven Allain herpetofauna Houston Chandler Kaori Takagi Genevieve Diedericks Sheryn Brodie Minjie Fu Trent Bell

16:30 Comparative phylogeography Biomechanics and Acoustic communication Microclimate, more than Evolution of antigen #Frogtraits and Swamp Citizens capturing cryptic of the Brazilian Atlantic morphological patterns in applied for the control of phylogeny, drives interspecific processing genes in Trolleys: new art and and charismatic chelonians Forest leaf litter lizards head-first burrowing frogs invasive cane toads Rhinella variation in heat tolerance salamanders creative strategies in for conservation: (genus Enyalius ) Marta Vidal-Garcia marina within a subtropical anuran Gemma Palomar amphibian conservation and photographic capture- Connor French Kiyomi Yasumiba community public outreach recapture and mobile app Gustavo Adolfo Agudelo CiCi Blumstein (Agent development Cantero Amphibian) Matt Cross

2 Concurrent sessions Species Conservation Population & Landscape X-ray Microtomography in Amphibian Bioacoustic Adaptation & Evolution 2 Adaptation & Evolution 1 Novel Approaches to New & Innovative Genetics 1 Herpetology: A New Era of Symposium Science Communication & Technologies for Morphological Study Conservation Engagement Herpetological Research in Herpetology

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 16:45 Using movement to inform Parasites driving host Using MicroCT to investigate The structural characteristics Alpine temperatures and sex Local adaptation to dietary The importance of film for Evaluation of a camera conservation corridors for divergence? Recent research morphological evolution of of anuran advertisement reversal of alpine Eastern toxins shapes poison frog communication and trapping system for Mojave Desert Tortoises in a long term study of elapid snake skulls calls in different habitats three-lined skinks in South chemical defenses outreach in the field of detecting Eastern Steven Hromada Australian sleepy lizards Emma Sherratt Mike Emmrich Eastern Australia Stephanie Caty herpetology Massasauga Rattlesnakes Mike Gardner Duminda Dissanayake Katherine Garrett Gregory Lipps

17:00 Proteus conservation project Genomic signatures of Comparative skull Beam forming as an acoustic Degrees of change: within and Investigating molecular Using social media to benefit CritterPic®: A new tool for in Croatia population structure and morphology of tool for population counts in between population variation adaptations in dendrobatid herpetology, your career, passive detection and Petra Kovac Konrad disease susceptibility in Leptotyphlopidae via Micro- amphibians in phenological reaction norms poison frogs and public perception of photography of herpetofauna common toads CT images Catharina Karlsson in a lizard Karen Siu-Ting reptiles and amphibians Katherine Muchna Robert Jehle Claudia Koch Erik Wapstra Jonathan Kolby

17:15 Conservation status of the Population genetic analyses The weird skull of The relevance of bioacoustic Extreme temperatures and Fluctuating toxins and the Indigenous culture and folk Fine-scale density modeling Floreana racer of the rediscovered Hula Xenotyphlops and a monitoring for reassessing developmental instability evolution of chemical taxonomy as communication of an endangered sand-dune (Pseudalsophis biserialis painted frog uncover reinterpretation of conservation status of bush across reptiles defenses in a poisonous and engagement tools in lizard with drone mapping biserialis ) in the Galapagos unexpected structure blindsnake origins frogs in Western Ghats Lisa Schwanz amphibian herpetology Ismael Brack Islands R.G. Bina Perl Mark D. Scherz Robin Suyesh Gary Bucciarelli Fortunate Phaka Luis Ortiz-Catedral (via video)

17:30 Artificial retreats increase Genetic pattern of the Skull anatomy of a rare mid- Let the little guys speak! Transcriptomics of viviparity Electric blue: novel toxins in Open Croaks: 'Q+A' session Experimental eradication of the abundance of the eastern golden frog Cretaceous tetrapod using Anuran community ecology and long egg retention in a long-glanded Calliophis Cici Blumstein (Agent invasive Brown Treesnakes endemic and endangered (Pelophylax plancyi ) in the HRCT data and calling acoustics in bimodally reproductive skink sidestep neurotoxic arms Amphibian) with an automated bait lizard Liolaemus lutzae from megacity, Shanghai Juan Diego Daza windfarms (Saiphos equalis ) race manufacturing and aerial Brazil Xu Wei Cory Trowbridge Camilla Whittington Daniel Dashevsky delivery system Carlos Rocha Shane Siers

17:45 Genetic population High throughput microCT Twofold stealth; a new assignment as a tool for scanning of small fossils: an perspective on anti- identifying geographic origin example using Australian predatory repertoires of trafficked freshwater herpetofauna Ashadee Miller turtles Christy Hipsley Matthew Young

Welcome reception amongst the exhibition (all delegates) 18:00 - 19:30 Venue: ISB Link Building

3 Tuesday 7 January 2020

Registration open 08:00 - 19:00 Venue: ISB Link Building Keynote: Ecology, behaviour and conservation of Southeast Asian amphibians: what can we learn from the Island of Borneo 08:30 - 09:15 Ulmar Grafe Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed) Concurrent sessions Behavioural Ecology 1 Taxonomy & Phylogenetics 1 Emerging Frontiers in Sex Ecological Interactions 1 Moving Herpetofauna in The Adaptation & Evolution 3 Ecophysiology 1 Amphibian Disease Chromosome Evolution Right Direction Part I: Susceptibility in a Changing Conservation Translocations World

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 09:30 Sticky fingers: microhabitat Chromosome diversity in Sex chromosome evolution Anuran larvae disperse seeds Challenges, desperation and Rapid differentiation of The future of Western Pond Global impacts of choice, adhesive Malagasy reptiles: an in snakes and lizards and enhance germination of hope: a review of sexual signals in Cane toads Turtles: what might climate chytridiomycosis on performance and toe-pad evolutionary perspective Tony Gamble aquatic plants herpetofauna conservation Rhinella marina change do? amphibians morphology in velvet geckos from available data and new Ivan Gomez-Mestre translocations Kiyomi Yasumiba David Germano Ben Scheele (genus: Oedura ) chameleon karyotypes Luke Linhoff Lin Schwarzkopf Marcello Mezzasalma

09:45 Which shade of yellow? A Integrative taxonomy of the Uncovering the mechanisms Putative mutualistic Modeling strategies and Evolution of caudal luring Metabolic heat in sea turtle The amphibian chytrid preliminary study of dorsal rock gecko Cnemaspis and drivers of the rapid symbiosis between an ant evaluating success during behavior in Crotalinae Oppel, nests: does it matter? fungus in New Zealand pattern determinants in siamensis species complex transitions among frog sex and a snake repatriations of elusive and 1811 (Serpentes: Viperidae) Malindi Gammon Phil Bishop aposematic salamanders (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in chromosomes Yosuke Kojima endangered species Aída Giozza Raoul Manenti southern Thailand Dan Jeffries Brian Folt Natee Ampai

10:00 Is rapid colour change in Integrative approach using Sex chromosomes in reptiles Nature’s pitfall trap: Learning from UK conservation Ecomorphological diversity in Can tuatara offset a male- Amphibian “silent spring”: Raukawa geckos phylogenomics and high- are more stable than thought salamanders as rich prey for translocations of Pelophylax natricine snakes biased sex ratio wtih the catastrophic collapse of a (Woodworthia maculata ) an resolution X-ray computed Lukáš Kratochvíl carnivorous plants in a lessonae Deepak Veerappan behavioural changes? mega-diverse community at adaptation to predator tomography for species nutrient-poor bog ecosystem Jim Foster Lin lin Liu La Planada Reserve, avoidance? delimitation in cryptic taxa Patrick Moldowan Colombia Florence Kelly Jane Melville Patricia Burrowes

10:15 Effect of moon phase on Integrative taxonomy Evolution of sex- Varanus rosenbergi and Preparing for reintroduction: A Neogene carettocheliid Endocrine disruption alters Linking host life history, nocturnal snake activity revealed 23 new taxa of chromosomes within species Nasutitermes exitiosis : behavioral and morphological turtle from Sarawak, Malaysia developmental body landscape ecology, and Kevin Messenger amphibians and reptiles in – a case study in the commensalism symbiosis? fitness of captive-bred Arthur White condition, energy allocation, climate to predict epizootics Eastern Panama Australian Marbled Gecko Peggy Rismiller amphibians produced from and juvenile performance in in Brazilian terrestrial- Milan Veselý Rebecca Laver cryopreserved sperm Rana temporaria breeding amphibians Sinlan Poo Katharina Ruthsatz C. Guilherme Becker

Morning tea amongst the exhibition 10:30 - 11:00 Venue: ISB Link Building

4 Concurrent sessions So Many Snakes (plus Citizen & Cultural Science Emerging Frontiers in Sex Climate Change & Shifting Moving Herpetofauna in the Phylogeography & Behavioural Ecology 2 Amphibian Disease Lizards & Toads) in so Little Chromosome Evolution Phenology in Amphibians: Right Direction Part I: Biogeography of Susceptibility in a Changing Time: Celebrating the Causes & Consequences Conservation Translocations Neotropical Herpetofauna World Career of Rick Shine

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 11:00 Introduction Use and traditional Six sex-chromosomes in a A global synthesis of Reintroduction efforts for two Biogeography and the timing Food, not friend: tadpoles of When chytrid fungus Tracy Langkilde knowledge of endemic Taiwanese frog phenological responses to species of Panamanian of anole lizard diversification the sandpaper frog, invades: Integrating theory chelonians of the Mapimi Ikuo Miura climate change in Harlequin frogs (genus: Richard Glor Lechriodus fletcheri , and data to understand Forays into understanding Bolson in northern Mexico amphibians and other animal Atelopus ) threatened by cannibalise conspecific eggs disease-induced amphibian mate choice in herps Rosalinda Palomo & Ana taxa chytrid fungus John Gould declines Tracy Langkilde Gatica Jeremy Cohen Blake Klocke Cherie Briggs

11:15 Shining the light on a career Documenting frog Shared ancient sex Large-scale monitoring of LIFE Trito Montseny: The Phylogenomics of the South Urban plums and toads: do Understanding amphibian full of sex, conflicts, and distributions using mobile chromosomes in varanids, breeding phenology in conservation toolbox for an American Liolaemus lizards fleshy fruits affect the post- declines in complex transgender tactics phones and citizen scientists beaded lizards and alligator tropical and temperate endemic newt (Calotriton demonstrates rapid radiation metamorphic growth of environments Mats Olsson (via video) Renata Platenberg lizards anurans: insights for climate arnoldi ) and rampant reticulation amphibians? Lesley Alton Michail Rovatsos change research Gerardo Garcia Damien Esquerré Mikołaj Kaczmarski Diego Llusia

11:30 The return to an aquatic life, Using citizen science to Sex chromosome homologies Warming, green-up, Survival and recovery of Phenotypic and life-history Metabarcoding as a tool to Anthropogenic changes in propulsive thrust of reduce detection times for across dragons (Squamata: breeding phenology and amphibian populations post diversification in determine feeding behavior distribution and severity of swimming in terrestrial and invasive reptiles and Agamidae) development in the wood Bd -emergence can inform Anomaloglossus despite past of the European pond turtle disease caused by marine snakes amphibians Shayer Alam frog: a 20-year study strategies for conservation introgressions Sylvain Ursenbacher ranaviruses affecting UK Xavier Bonnet Greg Pauly Andis Arietta & Dave Skelly translocations Antoine Fouquet common frogs Steven Whitfield Trenton Garner

11:35 Sex is determined by XX/XY sex chromosomes in Australasian side-necked turtles (Testudines: Chelidae) Sofia Mazzoleni

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11:45 Sea snake research in New ZZ/ZW sex chromosomes in Impacts of increasing Mitigating chytrid fungus: Winter ambushing site Impacts of the Caledonia the granite night lizard phenological variability on successful translocation of a fidelity of individual pit vipers developmental environment Claire Goiran (Scincoidea: Xantusiidae) salamander demography and highly susceptible frog species (Ovophis okinavensis ) over on amphibian disease Stuart Nielsen pond community dynamics to an environmental refuge 22 years susceptibility Thomas Anderson David Hunter Akira Mori Michel Ohmer

Lunch amongst the exhibition 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: ISB Link Building Film: Amphibians of the Appalachian Mountains 12:15 - 12:45 Venue: Castle 1

5 Concurrent sessions So Many Snakes (plus Editors' Symposium Climate Change & Shifting Moving Herpetofauna in the Adaptation & Evolution 4 Ecology 1 Amphibian Disease Lizards & Toads) in so Little Phenology in Amphibians: Right Direction Part I: (Colour) Susceptibility in a Changing Time: Celebrating the Causes & Consequences Conservation Translocations World Career of Rick Shine

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 13:00 Between a rock and a hard Presentations from editors Identifying climatic drivers of Can increased environmental The genetic basis of anole Comparison of population Tolerance and resistance in place: conservation of the on manuscript preparation, breeding and emigration salinity facilitate the dewlap color, a diverse trait and life-history traits of the defence against amphibian endangered broad-headed editorial processes, peer phenology in an imperiled reintroduction of a chytrid- in an adaptive radiation Western Pond Turtle across chytridiomycosis snake review and issues on salamander susceptible species? Pietro Longo Hollanda de its linear range Laura Grogan Jonathan Webb herpetological publishing. Katie O’Donnell Kaya Klop-Toker Mello David Germano Includes a Q & A session 13:15 The long-term impact of Hinrich Kaiser Shifting breeding phenology Temporary translocation to Experimentally testing the Highlights of long-term How does it end? Shifts in cane toads on Australia’s and the role of photoperiod dodge the chytrid bullet: the evolutionary drivers of a studies of endemic New chytridiomycosis disease large varanids as a developmental cue Honduras Amphibian Rescue colorful signal in Anolis Zealand frogs (Anura: dynamics over time Lachlan Pettit under climate change and Conservation Center lizards Leiopelmatidae) over several Jamie Voyles Michael Benard strategy John David Curlis decades Jonathan Kolby Ben Bell

13:30 Toads less travelled: an Do early phenological shifts Applying species traits that Crypsis or camaraderie: Ecological and genetic Integrating ecotoxicology overview of the ecology of affect growth and predict invasiveness to inform unlocking signals in the variation of the distribution and art to understand and cane toads in New South development across life probability of success for colour pattern polymorphism of various species of communicate how human Wales stages in a widespread herpetofauna conservation of an Australian lizard amphibians at the southern activities influence Matthew Greenlees amphibian? translocations Genevieve Matthews border of their distribution amphibian disease Hilary Rollins Melia Nafus Gad Degani susceptibility Jessica Hua

13:45 Testing the enemy release The toad's year: Conservation of the Galapagos Being cool is hot: substrate Nonlinear body size cline in a Amphibian immunity, hypothesis: the global spread environmental cues of land iguana (Conolophus heat capacity influences salamander: patterns due to temperature, and disease: A of Cane Toads as an amphibian phenology subcristatus ) ventral color evolution in latitudinal compensation and balancing act between host accidental experiment David Green Luis Ortiz-Catedral lizards its prevention and pathogen Crystal Kelehear Jonathan Goldenberg Hisanori Okamiya Louise Rollins-Smith

14:00 Revealing patterns in cane Effects of experimental Looking back and leaping Using frog genomes in Evaluating aerial descent in Early-life microbiota can toad chorusing using long- warming on hibernation forward: New Zealand native evolutionary genomics: the flap-legged geckos mediate the effect of term acoustic monitoring behavior of amphibian frog translocations and future understanding the genetics (genus Luperosaurus ) of the pesticides on later-life Lin Schwarzkopf populations priorities and evolution of poison-dart Philippines infection risk Yiming Li Sally Wren frog coloration Matthew Heinicke Sarah Knutie Roberto Marquez

6 Concurrent sessions So Many Snakes (plus Editors' Symposium Climate Change & Shifting Adaptation & Evolution 4 Ecology 1 Amphibian Disease Lizards & Toads) in so Little Phenology in Amphibians: (Colour) Susceptibility in a Changing Time: Celebrating the Causes & Consequences World Career of Rick Shine

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 14:15 Apex reptilian predators in Presentations from editors Discussion Fine-scale evolution of Population structure of the Proactive conservation: Northern Australia: can on manuscript preparation, Michael Benard aposematism in poison frogs Morelet’s Crocodile developing strategies to landscape CTA training curb editorial processes, peer Rebecca Tarvin (Crocodylus moreletii ) in the combat the salamander- cane toad impacts review and issues on region of Calakmul, eating fungus Georgia Ward-Fear herpetological publishing. Campeche, Mexico Molly Bletz Includes a Robert Jehle Q & A session continued Hinrich Kaiser 14:20 Ecological aspects of Gerrhonotus infernalis in Parque Ecológico Chipinque, Nuevo León, México Margarita García Bastida

14:25 Aspects of the ecology of two freshwater turtle species in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Cormac Price

14:30 Influence of incubation Antipredator defenses Predicting future range shifts An interaction between environment on lizard promote morphological of a stream indicator species, climate change and learning evolution in uropeltid snakes Rhyacotriton variegatus , infectious disease Martin Whiting Vivek Cyriac under climate change drove widespread amphibian Gwendolynn Bury declines Jeremy Cohen

14:45 Adaptive responses of the Diversification of A comparison of eDNA field Anuran thermal preferences embryos of oviparous melanosome shape is linked sampling methods to in health and disease: reptiles to spatial and to physiological shifts in characterise amphibian considerations on a complex temporal variations in nest vertebrate taxa communities in turbid problem temperatures Matthew Shawkey aquatic environments Carlos Arturo Navas Weiguo Du Bastian Egeter

Afternoon tea amongst the exhibition 15:00 - 15:30 Venue: ISB Link Building

7 Concurrent sessions So Many Snakes (plus Behavioural Ecology 3 Adaptation & Evolution 5 Adaptation & Evolution 6 Conservation Biology 1 Amphibian Disease Lizards & Toads) in so Little (Behaviour) (Morphology) Susceptibility in a Changing Time: Celebrating the World Career of Rick Shine

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 15:30 High-country herpetology: Proximate factors that elicit Metamorphosing strategy of Comparative embryology of Assessing avian predation on Genomic approaches to insights from a 20-year centipede-eating behavior of stream tadpoles the VNO and associated New Zealand’s lizard fauna amphibian conservation ecological study of alpine a Japanese Pit Viper Noriko Iwai structures in squamate using 3D-printed replicas Tiffany Kosch lizards Kyosuke Hamanaka reptiles: a 3D approach Brittany Florence-Bennett Melanie Elphick Paweł Kaczmarek 15:35 Foraging strategy of feeding on sea turtle hatchlings and eggs on Okinawa Island Kazumasa Matsumoto

15:40 Life on the edge - Green and Golden Bell Frogs in a coastal lake Francis Lemckert

15:45 Effects of population density Using camera traps Evolution of terrestrial Variation on the atlas- axis The necessity of long-term MHC associated differential and timing of hatching on (NEWTRAP) to produce reproduction in Old World complex in Gekkota data for quantification of survival to infection of two phenotypic selection in an efficiently high-resolution Tree Frogs (Anura: Brittany Cornell recovery of long-lived strains of Batrachochytrium invasive lizard time series of newt Rhacophoridae) species of conservation dendrobatitis in common Daniel Warner observations Madhava Meegaskumbura concern toads Xavier Mestdagh Jacqueline Litzgus Jacob Hoglund

15:50 Morphology, performance, and ecology of three sympatric turtles in a tropical dry forest Taggert Butterfield

15:55 Quantity discrimination of an Asian freshwater turtle (Geoemydidae: Mauremys sinensis ) Feng-Chun Lin

8 Concurrent sessions So Many Snakes (plus Behavioural Ecology 3 Adaptation & Evolution 5 Adaptation & Evolution 6 Conservation Biology 1 Amphibian Disease Lizards & Toads) in so Little (Behaviour) (Morphology) Susceptibility in a Changing Time: Celebrating the World Career of Rick Shine

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 16:00 Is Rick Shine really a Hide or escape? Variations in Phenotypic plasticity and rapid Snakelike forms, a buried Captive incubation boosts Bad neighbours? Amphibian cognitive neuroscientist in escape behaviour of three adaptation drive response to diversity: head shape recovery of a relict tuatara chytrid fungus infection disguise? North East Asian anurans invasive predators in a evolved in association with population dynamics in three frog James Shine Yoonjung Yi threatened frog burrowing substrate in Susan Keall species of Sydney Andrea Melotto fossorial lizards Jordann Crawford-Ash Vinicius Anelli

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16:15 When research zeal collides Toads or fireflies? Which do Co-evolutionary history Skull variation within a clade Evaluating the effectiveness with family life Asian natricine snakes prefer matters: competition strength of miniaturized snakes from of a 15-year headstarting Terri Shine as a source of steroidal between introduced frogs and Australia (Squamata: programme for wood turtles toxins? native toads on Haida Gwaii, Typhlopidae: Anilios) (Glyptemys insculpta ) Masaya Fukuda Canada Rebecca Laver Damien Mullin Roseanna Gamlen-Greene

16:30 A life in science, as seen in Breaking the law: sexual Ontogeny of the anuran Restinga - the north coast of the rear-view mirror of an mate choice behavior of urostyle: the developmental Bahia sand dune increasingly slow-moving female European common context of evolutionary herpetofauna, Brazil vehicle frogs novelty Moacir Tinoco Rick Shine Carolin Dittrich Gayani Senevirathne

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16:45 - 17:00 Delegates move to plenary session Keynote: Adventures in amphibian conservation: from scientific expeditions to citizen science 17:00 - 17:45 Jodi Rowley Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed) Poster session, odd poster board numbers presented 18:00 - 19:00 Venue: The Common Room, ISB Link Building Australian Society of Herpetologists Annual General Meeting (members only) 19:00 - 20:00 Venue: Castle 1 WCH Executive and IHC joint meeting (members only) 19:00 - 20:30 Venue: St David A & B

9 Wednesday 8 January 2020 Registration open 08:00 - 19:00 Venue: ISB Link Building Keynote: Sound communication in aquatic turtles 08:30 - 09:15 Camila Ferrara Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed) Concurrent sessions Ecological Interactions 2 Taxonomy & Phylogenetics 2 New Perspectives on Biology Biology & Conservation of Ecophysiology 2 Moving Herpetofauna in the Diversity & Distributions 1 Education, Outreach & of Sea Snakes Paedomorphosis in Right Direction Part II: Citizen Science Amphibians Translocations & Tools To Mitigate For Development

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 09:30 Investigating patterns of History and geography Introduction Diversification via Ecophysiological variation in Mitigating for development: The role of paleogeographic The role of education in ecomorphological resolve a problem in African Harold Heatwole & Kate paedomorphosis in lizards better explained by where are we at and where history in the evolution of amphibian conservation diversification and Sand Frog taxonomy Sanders salamanders proximate or distal are we going? Afro-Arabian squamate Marcileida Maria Dos Santos convergence in savannas (Tomopterna ) Ronald Bonett environmental predictors? Jennifer Germano reptiles: a large-scale (via video) from Australia and Brazil Alan Channing Rodolfo AndersonIs perspective Jessica Fenker Hector Tejero-Cicuendez

09:45 Competition and resources An update and taxonomic The species status of the Lifetime fitness, sex-specific Maternal effect as an How can mitigation Diversification and Online instruction of shape multidimensional review of snakes housed in viviparous sea snakes life history, and the adaptation to drought in a guidelines be applied biodiversity dynamics of the herpetology for gifted trophic niche overlap in the herpetological collection Arne Rasmussen maintenance of a desert-dwelling oviparous effectively? Arabian squamate reptiles students Brazilian thin-toed frogs from Auckland Museum polyphenism lizard Lea Randall Jiri Smid Allison Metler (Leptodactylus sp) María Hoyos Howard Whiteman Yang Wang Travis Ingram

10:00 Disentangling the The status of caecilian Diversification dynamics in Conservation ecology of Thermal biology of Past and present status of Contribution to the Community engagement in mechanisms behind lizard- (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) viviparous sea snakes facultative paedomorphosis Pristimantis medemi along an development mitigation for herpetofauna of south- amphibian and reptile spinifex relationships collections at the Natural Kate Sanders in newts in a world of altitudinal gradient in the herpetofauna in the UK eastern Angola research as a path for the Kristian Bell History Museum, London, UK introduced alien species Colombian Andes Richard Griffiths Werner Conradie new century Rachunliu Gaiduwan Kamei Mathieu Denoël Andres Aponte Maureen Donnelly

10:05 Niche differentiation of two coexisting tadpoles on Emei Mountain Zhao Tian

10:10 Family specific herbivory in West-African Sabre-toothed Frogs Marvin Schäfer

10 Concurrent sessions Ecological Interactions 2 Taxonomy & Phylogenetics 2 New Perspectives on Biology Biology & Conservation of Ecophysiology 2 Moving Herpetofauna in the Diversity & Distributions 1 Education, Outreach & of Sea Snakes Paedomorphosis in Right Direction Part II: Citizen Science Amphibians Translocations & Tools To Mitigate For Development

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 10:15 Savanna survival: how fire Johann Gottlob Schneider’s The evolution and Rediscovering the axolotl as Climatic preferences of a sand A novel approach to Amphibians and reptiles in Using crowd-sourced data regimes, livestock grazing Historiae Amphibiorum development of a model for paedomorphosis lizard population (Lacerta addressing development two geothermal localities in for conservation: the Idaho and predation by feral cats (1799-1801), a seminal microcephalic sea snakes Randal Voss agilis Linnaeus 1758) in impacts on Triturus cristatus , the state of Puebla, México Amphibian and Reptile affects small - medium contribution to herpetology Emma Sherratt western Germany a strictly protected UK Jesús Mauricio Rodríguez iNaturalist Project reptile survival in north-west Aaron Bauer Dennis Rödder amphibian Canseco Charles Peterson Australian savanna. Jim Foster Eridani Mulder 10:20 Present and recent past habitat suitability ranges of northeast Asian treefrogs using maximum entropy models Desiree Andersen

10:25 The diversity of Short-legged Toad (Anura: Megophryidae: Megophrys) in China Yao Li

Morning tea amongst the exhibition 10:30 - 11:00 Venue: ISB Link Building

11 Concurrent sessions Beyond CTmax & CTmin: New Perspectives on Biology Biology & Conservation of Amphibian Conservation in Moving Herpetofauna in the Batrachochytrium Education & Outreach Advances in Studying the of Sea Snakes Paedomorphosis in the Anthropocene – Right Direction Part II: dendrobatidis 1 Thermal Limits of Reptiles & Amphibians Challenges, Priorities & Translocations & Tools to Amphibians Solutions for the Human Mitigate for Development Epoch

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 11:00 How temperature variation Using high throughput Spatiotemporal variability of Amphibian decline in the Lizard mitigation in New Cross-continental, Progress report on drives latitudinal differences sequencing to elucidate the paedomorphosis in Anthropocene: knowledge and Zealand interlineage competition and herpetological sampling and in ectotherm sensitivity to evolutionary history of sea Ambystoma talpoideum uncertainties Jennifer Germano virulence of oVert (Open Exploration of heat extremes during snakes across two metapopulations David Green Batrachochytrium Vertebrate Diversity in 3D) warming James Nankivell Thomas Anderson dendrobatidis Gregory Watkins-Colwell Alex Gunderson Trenton Garner

11:15 Will the world be too hot for Variations of jaw size across Ecological divergence of the Multiple kinds of success in Walking the line: balancing Resolving Batrachochytrium Urban herpetofauna and Lepidosauria to survive? genetically homogenous sea eastern newt, amphibian conservation the needs of wildlife and dendrobatidis lineage evaluation of public attitude Luisa Diele-Viegas snake populations reveal Notophthalmus viridescens Evan Grant development distribution and ecology in towards significance and phenotypic plasticity Mizuki Takahashi Jacqui Wairepo & Dylan Van South Africa conservation of amphibians Xavier Bonnet Winkel Pria Ghosh and reptiles Muhammad Rais

11:30 Adaptive radiation in the It came from the land: Functional diversity of Accounting for uncertainty: Does mandating mitigation Ancestral chytrid pathogen Positive perceptions of the multidimensional phenotype venom variation in aquatic predators drive variable trait- pathogen detection and translocations result in remains hypervirulent enigmatic Eastern Brooke Bodensteiner snakes relative to terrestrial and density-mediated management of amphibian conservation benefits? following its long co- Hellbender Salamander: ancestors effects on prey life history disease Ox Lennon evolution with amphibian content analysis of historical Bryan Fry Jason Bohenek Brittany Mosher hosts to current media Bruce Waldman Shem Unger

11:45 Ecophysiology predicts the Does size structure in a The importance of scale in Is habitat enhancement for Habitat fragmentation Overcoming human- fundamental niche of native facultatively paedomorphic amphibian conservation: reptile conservation a viable reduces genetic diversity and herpetofauna conflict using and invasive populations of predator (Ambystoma species responses to strategy in pest-invaded increases susceptibility to snakebite as a case-study the African Clawed Frog talpoideum ) alter prey fragmentation landscapes? infections in frogs of the Allwin Jesudasan Dennis Rödder density and diversity? Staci Amburgey Sarah Herbert Brazilian Atlantic Forest Cy Mott Anat Belasen 11:50 The use of social media to educate and increase awareness of snakes Hiral Naik

11:55 Microscopic and macroscopic photography: bringing the small to the world Mark Smith

12 Lunch amongst the exhibition 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: ISB Link Building Film: Herpetological Namesakes 12:15 - 12:45 Venue: Castle 1 Concurrent sessions Beyond CTmax & CTmin: Taxonomy & Phylogenetics 3 New Perspectives on Biology Amphibian Conservation in Moving Herpetofauna in the Batrachochytrium Conservation Ecology 1 Advances in Studying the of Sea Snakes the Anthropocene – Right Direction Part II: dendrobatidis 2 Thermal Limits of Reptiles & Challenges, Priorities & Translocations & Tools to Amphibians Solutions for the Human Mitigate for Development Epoch

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 13:00 Factors affecting the thermal Expedition in search of Asian The paradox of stenotopy Optimising habitat Salvage, translocation and Did Bd-CAPE drive the Distribution, occupancy, and tolerance of reptile embryos: pit-vipers through China: and eurytopy in the Yellow- management for amphibians: radio-telemetry of ngahere Kihansi spray toad habitat associations of lessons from Anolis lizards field survey and systematic Lipped Sea Krait, Laticauda from simple models to geckos (Mokopirirakau (Nectophrynoides asperginis ) grassland-associated reptile Joshua Hall study (Viperidae, Crotalinae) colubrina complex decisions 'southern North Island') to to extinction in the wild? and amphibian species in Jingsong Shi Harold Heatwole Geoff Heard Mana Island, NZ Thomas Sewell Northwest Arkansas Trent Bell Ethan Royal

13:15 Low embryonic heat Phylogenetic relationships in Sea snakes of the Sahul Understanding probabilities of Assessing wildlife Understanding limits to Species diversity, distribution tolerance increases the slug-eater snakes, Shelf: spatial temporal movement at different scales translocation proposals: the recruitment can help inform and microhabitat vulnerability to climate Duberria (Lamprophiidae) changes and threats, 1993 to to inform conservation Victorian experience chytrid fungus mitigation preferences of anurans in change in low-latitude lizards Shelley Edwards 2017 strategies Kim Miller strategies Mount Kalatungan, Baojun Sun Mick Guinea Erin Muths Matt West Bukidnon, Central Mindanao Philippines Von Carlo Dela Torre

13:30 Behavioral and physiological Phylogenetics and Discussion Leiopelma conservation: Role of research Associations between the The contribution of wetland responses of desert lizards to undiscovered diversity of the Harold Heatwole & Kate progress and key uncertainties reintroductions in successful fungal and bacterial succession to declines of climate change Mexican leopard frogs Sanders Phil Bishop habitat restoration of microbiomes of frogs, with threatened amphibians Weiguo Du Anne Chambers threatened amphibians implications for disease Angela Burrow Michael Mahony management Donald Mcknight

13:45 A new explanation for the Phylogenetic relationship of Finding needles in haystacks: Conserving Panamanian Outcome bias of auditory Elevated salinity blocks Context-dependent effects evolution of TSD provides Cyrtodactylus pulchellus using niche models to locate Harlequin Frogs by integrating survey methods may amphibian chytrid of non-native vegetation on broad insight into thermal complex in Thailand: previously unknown captive-breeding and research negatively affect transmission and improves amphibian development in limits of reptiles implication for taxonomic populations of sea snakes programs detectability of anurans host survival: implications for prairie ecosystems Njal Rollinson status Vinay Udyawer Brian Gratwicke Alex Callen translocations Chelsea Kross Korkhwan Termprayoon Simon Clulow

14:00 It’s getting hot in here: Independent evolution of Integrating underwater Facilitated discussion Use of photorecognition and A Wildlife Vaccine Campaign: Permanent water body predicting how diving habitat preferences in 238 surveys, telemetry and Evan Grant habitat manipulation in vaccinating amphibians provides micro-refuge for ectotherms will be impacted species of Cyrtodactylus citizen science to understand mitigation and post- against the chytrid fungus frogs in a fire prone by climate warming Gray, 1827 drivers of movement in sea development monitoring Taegan McMahon landscape Essie Rodgers Lee Grismer snakes Liam Russell Dean Lenga Claire Goiran

13 Concurrent sessions Beyond CTmax & CTmin: Taxonomy & Phylogenetics 3 New Perspectives on Biology Amphibian Conservation in Batrachochytrium Conservation Ecology 1 Advances in Studying the of Sea Snakes the Anthropocene – dendrobatidis 2 Thermal Limits of Reptiles & Challenges, Priorities & Amphibians Solutions for the Human Epoch

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 14:15 Unraveling the role of body A global phylogeny of Evolutionary loss of drinking Facilitated discussion Survival strategies of the Is vegetation mapping a size in thermal maxima monitor lizards, and the response in marine snakes continued chytrid Batrachochytrium suitable proxy for predicting Emily Taylor contribution of competition Harold Heatwole Evan Grant dendrobatidis within and occupancy of threatened to extreme size disparity outside its amphibian host frogs? Ian Brennan Michael San Francisco Grant Webster

14:30 What mechanism sets A new approach to building Discussion Indirect terrestrial Conservation status of the thermal tolerance in reptiles the amphibian tree of life Harold Heatwole & Kate transmission of chytrid world's skinks: geographic and amphibians? Ana Serra Silva Sanders fungus from reservoir to and taxonomic patterns in Rory Telemeco susceptible host species extinction risk causes fatal chytridiomycosis David Chapple Thomas Burns

14:45 Two tests of the hierarchical What have we learned from Variation of the skin bacterial Sister newt species facing mechanisms of thermal the tree of herps? community and landscape changes: limitation hypothesis in Luke Harmon Batrachochytrium comparing key landscape lizards dendrobatidis infection in features and resilience Eric Gangloff the frog Philoria loveridgei patterns Mariel Familiar Bernardo Antunes

Afternoon tea amongst the exhibition 15:00 - 15:30 Venue: ISB Link Building

14 Concurrent sessions Beyond CTmax & CTmin: Diversity & Distributions 2 Reproductive Biology Amphibian Disease & Amphibian Conservation in Population Ecology & Behavioural Ecology 4 Adaptation & Evolution 7 Advances in Studying the Ecology the Anthropocene – Monitoring Thermal Limits of Reptiles & Challenges, Priorities & Amphibians Solutions for the Human Epoch

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 15:30 Discussion and writing for Population trends of The evolution of direct A meta-analysis reveals Facilitated discussion Latest news of Seasonal dynamics and Biomechanical modeling of Special Issue European amphibians and development in Southeast temperature, dose, life Evan Grant environmental DNA calling behaviour of the turtle jaws: linking Rory Telemeco reptiles are jointly Asian Rhacophorid frogs stage, and taxonomy metabarcoding approach for terrestrial-breeding brevirostry and edentulism determined by multiple (Anura: Rhacophoridae: influence host susceptibility monitoring amphibian microhylid Cophixalus in Testudines drivers Philautus) to Batrachochytrium species in tropical forests australis Domenic D'Amore Mattia Falaschi Laurence Etter dendrobatidis Carla M Lopes Ross Alford Erin Sauer 15:45 What determines the range Optimising captive recovery Evaluating environmental- Social networking of the Diurnal calling behaviour in Evolutionary trajectories of a margins of the Delicate Skink for the critically endangered DNA as a tool for detecting Otago Skink (Oligosoma the nocturnal túngara frog shell-adapted respiratory (Lampropholis delicata) ? Baw Baw frog an amphibian pathogen otagense ) at Ōrokonui (Engystomops pustulosus ) on apparatus: the turtle Jules Farquhar Deon Gilbert using an optimized Ecosanctuary Isla Taboga, Panama dilemma(s) extraction method Vanitha Elangovan Heather Gray Markus Lambertz 15:50 Laura Brannelly Occupancy modeling as an approach to evaluate effectiveness of conservation translocations in a temperate-zone rattlesnake Jonathan Choquette

15:55 Conclusions and future The snake that made it back directions on its own: recolonization by Evan Grant the Puerto Rican Racer Renata Platenberg

16:00 Ecological and Sex or candy? Behavioral changes High variability in Red Tree The unexpected genetic Comparative studies of egg environmental drivers of Neuroendocrine throughout the span of Frog advertisement calls may mating system of a tooth development in global diversity patterns in mechanisms of seasonal life- Batrachochytrium act as buffer to terrestrial breeding toadlet squamate reptiles lizards history transitions in garter salamandrivorans (Bsal ) anthropogenic disturbance (Pseudophryne coriacea ) Mateusz Hermyt Alex Skeels snakes infection in various Brittany Mitchell Daniel O'Brien Deborah Lutterschmidt salamander species Gordon Burghardt 16:05 Conservation Project: uncovering the well-kept secrets of Lachesis stenophrys ecology Laura Ruysseveldt Bushmaster

16:10 Using red fox (Vulpes vulpes ) behaviour to protect Bell's turtle (Myuchelys bellii ) nests in Australia Geoffrey Hughes

15 Concurrent sessions Beyond CTmax & CTmin: Diversity & Distributions 2 Reproductive Biology Amphibian Disease & Population Ecology & Behavioural Ecology 4 Adaptation & Evolution 7 Advances in Studying the Ecology Monitoring Thermal Limits of Reptiles & Amphibians

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 16:15 Discussion and writing for Climate extremes, variability How to (un)make a sexy Look, that salamander is Agricultural intensification Genetic benefits of extreme Intertwined evolution of Special Issue continued and trade shape snake: suppression of female being eaten alive! driven landscape sequential polyandry in a swimming, morphology and Rory Telemeco biogeographical patterns of pheromone production via Debra Miller modification as determinants terrestrial-breeding frog microhabitat in tree frogs herpetological fauna in the steroid action of herpetofaunal abundance Phillip Byrne from the subfamily Hylinae Anthropocene Rocky Parker Deyatima Ghosh Itzue Caviedes- Solis Xuan Liu

16:20 Implementing of Habitat assessment for the environmental DNA reintroduction of the agile detection method in the frog in a human-dominated surveillance of amphibian landscape pathogen Batrachochytrium Louise Masters salamandrivorans David Lastra Gonzalez

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16:30 Cryptic diversity and Effects of polyandrous Bioacoustics reveal the Sexual dimorphism and How do lizards run evolution of Asian horned mating on fertilization, calling activity of an reproductive ecology of the bipedally? On the toads (Megophryidae) embryo survival and endangered frog (Philoria South-American rattlesnake, mechanisms for bipedal Jinmin Chen offspring development in the kundagungan ) in response Crotalus durissus in the locomotion in Australian emerald treefrog to climate Brazilian Cerrado agamids Yuan-cheng Cheng David Newell María Hoyos Nicholas Wu 1635 Breeding behavior of Indochinese Spitting Cobra (Naja siamensis ) in Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand Bartosz Nadolski

16:40 Re-regeneration to reduce negative effects associated with tail loss in lizards James Barr 16:45 - 17:00 Delegates move to plenary session Keynote: Life on the edge – unlocking the secrets of a Lost World 17:00 - 17:45 Phillipe Kok Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed) Poster session, even poster board numbers presented 18:00 - 19:00 Venue: The Common Room, ISB Link Building WCH Annual General Meeting & Presentations of Bids to Host WCH10 (all delegates) 19:00 - 20:00 Venue: Castle 1 & Castle 2 (video streamed)

16 Thursday 9 January 2020 Registration open 08:00 - 18:00 Venue: ISB Link Building Keynote: The evolutionary ecology of family living in lizards 08:30 - 09:15 Geoff While Venue: St Davids & Castle 1 (video streamed) Concurrent sessions Recovering Amphibian & Biology of the Frog Family Conservation Biology 2 Genetic & Genomic methods Temperature, Moisture & Taxonomy & Phylogenetics 4 Batrachochytrium Reptile Species from the Microhylidae Environmental Change: salamandrivorans Brink of Extinction: Conservation Physiology of Developing Best-Practice Lepidosaurs in an Age of Guidelines Climate Disruption

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 09:30 Better together: Introduction A review of the conservation Novel, cost efficient and Modeling incubation Detecting selection in urban Germany, the hotspot of collaborative planning in Marta Vidal - Gacia status of the Galapagos minimally destructive microclimates to predict dragons with a comparison Bsal emergence threatened species recovery Islands terrestrial snakes methodology for sequencing impacts of climate change on of neutral markers and Michael Veith Sally Wren (Pseudalsophis spp) mitochondrial genomes of embryonic development in quantitative trait divergence Luis Ortiz-Catedral historical museum specimens tuatara Nicola Kent Stephen Mahony Anna Carter

09:45 Archey's frog - an The past, present, and future Stream-riparian forest Benchmarking tissue Cellular and whole-organism Re-assessment of taxonomy Broad host range of evolutionarily distinct and of research on Madagascar’s management for preservation methods for ultra- effects of prolonged vs. and geographic distribution Batrachochytrium long-lived terrestrial frog at microhylids herpetofauna: Beyond Best high molecular weight DNA acute heat stress in a of Fejervarya cancrivora salamandrivorans equates risk in New Zealand Mark D. Scherz Management Practices and long-read genome montane, desert lizard complex from Thailand and to high invasion probability Ben Bell Deanna (Dede) Olson sequencing technologies Jeanine Refsnider nearby countries in North America Hollis Dahn Siriporn Yodthong Matthew Gray

10:00 The conservation Snakebite envenoming and A non-invasive in situ Crossroads or tipping points: Macroevolution and Winter is coming: management of Grand and rattlesnake conservation underwater DNA sampling does thermal melanism taxonomy of Oriental Brown temperature dependent Otago skinks as a case study vulnerability zones in the method applied to the olm hypothesis hold across Frogs (Rana spp.) across the virulence of James Reardon Baja California Peninsula, (Proteus anguinus ) lizards of different body size? East-Palearctic Batrachochytrium Mexico Judit Vörös Federico Massetti Siti Norhidayah Binti salamandrivorans Jesús Mauricio Rodríguez Othman Edward Carter Canseco

10:15 Restoring the Critically Analysis of ultraconserved Zoo-led collaboration for Surveying frogs from the Upper voluntary thermal Managing host density and Endangered mountain elements supports African conservation: gecko bellies of their parasites limit and water loss in a habitat structure could chicken in the face of origins of narrow-mouthed monitoring on Matiu/Somes Timothy Cutajar temperate viviparous gecko: influence contact rates and chytridiomycosis frogs Island an interactive effect transmission of Jeff Dawson Jeffrey Streicher Chye-mei Huang Christian Chukwuka Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Matthew Gray Morning tea amongst the exhibition 10:30 - 11:00 Venue: ISB Link Building

17 Concurrent sessions Recovering Amphibian & Biology of the Frog Family Reproductive Technologies Ecology 2 Temperature, Moisture & Early Detection Rapid Taxonomy & Phylogenetics 5 Reptile Species from the Microhylidae & Biobanking for Amphibian Environmental Change: Response (EDRR) for Brink of Extinction: Conservation Conservation Physiology of Invasive Reptiles & Developing Best-Practice Lepidosaurs in an Age of Amphibians Guidelines Climate Disruption

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 11:00 How the "World's rarest Recent advances on the The role of reproductive Consequences of keystone Conservatism and plasticity Mechanisms for coordinating A snake in the grass: a snake" was saved, and its taxonomy, systematics and technologies in amphibian plant decline for reptiles in in the ecophysiology of a expertise: New Zealand’s molecular study of the implications for other biology of cophyline frogs of captive breeding programs fragmented agricultural lizard across a steep Island Eradication Advisory widespread genus endangered Caribbean the genus Plethodontohyla Aimee Silla landscapes environmental gradient Group Psammophylax species Angelica Crottini Sara Balouch Rodrigo Megia-Palma Keith Broome Chad Keates Jennifer Daltry 11:15 Recovery efforts for the The biology of the microhylid Applying assisted Habitat use by Leiopelma Wind speed alters the New Zealand border and Filling in the phylogenetic critically endangered subfamily Hoplophrynine reproductive techniques to a archeyi in disturbed and thermoregulatory behaviour post-border detection and gaps: targeted taxon Southern Corroboree Frog Simon Loader multi-year study into biotic undisturbed sites on the of skinks even when response strategies sampling clarifies (Pseudophryne corroboree ) factors influencing Necturus Coromandel Peninsula, substrate temperature Dylan Van Winkel relationships of Indian Michael McFadden captive breeding Aotearoa remains constant agamids and snakes Steven Sharp Emily Hotham Jo Virens Deepak Veerappan 11:30 Rebuilding the endemic Morphological convergence Spermiation and changes in Population success of common Linking physiological and Improving early detection Are local molecular clocks reptile community of in bouldering frogs serum hormone levels in the skinks (Oligosoma behavioural variation to and rapid response for misleading? – the case of Gunner’s Quoin, Mauritius Marta Vidal-Garcia mountain yellow-legged frog, polychroma ) following territory thermal quality and cryptic species: a review of Mediterranean amphibians Nik Cole Rana muscosa mitigation translocation fitness in an African lizard current analytical tools Michael Veith Natalie Calatayud Sydney Dean Karla Alujevic Amy Yackel Adams

11:45 Empowering communities Relict distribution of Examining variation in sperm Using monitors to monitor The influence of species Decision analysis for early Inadvertent paralog inclusion and new generations in Lake Microhyla in the Ryukyu response in divergent restoration: how does assemblages on detection and rapid drives artefactual topologies Patzcuaro: the case of Archipelago: high diversity in populations of Red-eyed Australia’s largest lizard thermoregulation and response: modeling to and timetree estimates in Achoque (Ambystoma East-Asia maintained by treefrogs respond to mine site habitat use in novel advance identification of Lissamphibia dumerilii ) insularization Leah Jacobs restoration? environments optimal management Karen Siu-Ting Gerardo Garcia Atsushi Tominaga Sophie Cross Carla Piantoni Staci Amburgey 11:50 Varanus rosenbergi use of spatial habitat, adaptation and social structure Michael McKelvey

11:55 Spatial ecology of Indochinese Spitting Cobra (Naja siamensis ) within Rural Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, Thailand Bartosz Nadolski SRARNZ Annual General Meeting (members only) 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Castle C Lunch amongst the exhibition 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: ISB Link Building Film: Herpetologists Past and Present 12:15 - 12:45 Venue: Castle 1

18 Concurrent sessions Recovering Amphibian & Biology of the Frog Family Reproductive Technologies Adaptation & Evolution 8 Temperature, Moisture & Early Detection Rapid Conservation Ecology 2 Reptile Species from the Microhylidae & Biobanking for Amphibian Environmental Change: Response (EDRR) for Brink of Extinction: Conservation Conservation Physiology of Invasive Reptiles & Developing Best-Practice Lepidosaurs in an Age of Amphibians Guidelines Climate Disruption

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 13:00 The Golden Mantella frog: a Nasal GnRH administration Insights from evolution and Discussion Using environmental DNA Spatial ecology of an species on the way to elicits sperm production in biomechanics reveal form- Alison Cree sampling to delimit a endangered amphibian recovery? both Bufonidae and Ranidae function relationships in European newt invasion in Litoria raniformis within Rodlis Raphali Allison Julien reptile eggshells Australia modified Tasmanian Andriantsimanarilafy Liliana D'Alba Reid Tingley landscapes Tim Garvey 13:15 The Madagascar Recent progress in studies of Obtaining gametes by Evolution of skin Camera traps for early Habitat selection and spatial ploughshare tortoise Asian narrow-mouthed frogs hormonal induction from hydrophobicity in Australian detection and rapid ecology of a hot-spring programme – between (Anura: Microhylidae) Australian temperate frog geckos (Diplodactylidae and response and management endemic toad recovery and extinction of an Nikolay A. Poyarkov species: differential Carphodactylidae) of an invasive reptile Brian Halstead iconic species phylogenetic and sex Jendrian Riedel Staci Amburgey Matt Goetz responses John Clulow 13:30 Recovering the white-bellied There and back again: Development and Evolutionary morphology of Targeted eDNA sampling for Braiding data streams: frog in south-west Western invasions of Microhyla application of assisted osteoderms in anguimorph cryptic, arboreal snakes building an Integrated Australia: successes, (Amphibia: Microhylidae) reproductive technologies in lizards based on microhabitat Population Model for the challenges and the frogs from Southeast Asia to several endangered Bryan Minne selection Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog, 13:35 importance of collaborations India Panamanian amphibian Dietary specialisation in fang Melia Nafus Rana boylii Kay Bradfield Nikolay A. Poyarkov species 3D shape and sharpness of Jonathan Rose Gina Della Togna venomous snakes Silke Cleuren

13:40 Can endocranium shape reveal the sensory ecology of ‘aquatic’ snakes? Marion Segall 13:45 Preventing the extinction of Open discussion: the future Linking in situ and ex situ Recent studies of adrenal Strategy and tool Effect of male phenotype two of Australia’s most of research on the frog populations of the Southern enlargement in toad-eating development for invasive and nest quality on mating threatened lizards family Microhylidae Rocky Mountain boreal toad snakes plague skinks (Lampropholis success in the northern Jon-Paul Emery Marta Vidal - Garcia (Anaxyrus boreas boreas ) Alan Savitzky delicata ) on Aotea, Great corroboree frog Cecilia Langhorne Barrier Island Shannon Kelleher Jaqui Wairepo

14:00 Discussion Refinement of spermatozoa Visual adaptation of full and Rapid assessment of Niche partitioning as a Jeff Dawson cryopreservation techniques semi aquatic sea snakes eradiction success of an mechanism for the in Ambystoma tigrinum for Takashi Seiko invasive lizard coexistence of pygmy salamander conservation Marlene Baling bluetongue lizards and and management burrowing spiders Amanda Gillis Jessica Clayton

19 Concurrent sessions Recovering Amphibian & Biology of the Frog Family Reproductive Technologies Adaptation & Evolution 8 Early Detection Rapid Conservation Ecology 2 Reptile Species from the Microhylidae & Biobanking for Amphibian Response (EDRR) for Brink of Extinction: Conservation Invasive Reptiles & Developing Best-Practice Amphibians Guidelines

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 14:15 Discussion continued Open discussion: the future Generation of amphibians Limb reduction in skinks Two contrasting incursions Population genetics of Jeff Dawson of research on the frog from cryopreserved sperm: (Squamata: Scincidae): a of Lampropholis delicata in timber rattlesnake family Microhylidae proof of capacity for comparative analysis based on New Zealand’s South Island populations in Northeastern continued development beyond morphological literature Rod Hitchmough United States Marta Vidal - Garcia metamorphosis Marco Camaiti Anne Stengle Rose Upton

14:30 Linking in situ and ex situ Longevity is not influenced by Rapid eradication tool Using environmental DNA to populations of threatened metabolic rates across the testing for invasive map winter hibernacula in amphibians using the vertebrate tree of life amphibians: Duttaphrynus temperate freshwater turtles National Amphibian Genome Gavin Stark melanostictus in Madagascar Wenxi Feng Bank James Reardon Carrie Vance 14:45 Putting the ARTs into Controlling cane toads with Site occupancy and eDNA practice: emerging traps: what have we learned? concentrations of eastern opportunities and priorities Lin Schwarzkopf hellbender (Cryptobranchus for the application of a. alleganiensis ) in a large amphibian ARTs river Simon Clulow Mizuki Takahashi

Afternoon tea amongst the exhibition 15:00 - 15:30 Venue: ISB Link Building Concurrent sessions Captive Breeding Reproductive Technologies Physiology & Reproductive Invasion & Disease Ecology Diversity & Distributions 3 Early Detection Rapid Conservation Ecology 3 & Biobanking for Amphibian Biology Response (EDRR) for Conservation Invasive Reptiles & Amphibians

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 15:30 Applying SNP-derived Status of the U.S. National Breadth of the thermal Cattle and Spears: damages of Synopsis of the amphibians Alpine newt delimitation, Is individual variation in genotyping to the captive Amphibian Genome Bank response captures individual an uninvited guest to the from a poorly surveyed containment and eradication growth rates relevant to management of the and future efforts to and geographic variation in Mediterranean herpetofauna African country: Equatorial strategies population dynamics of long- endangered Mountain conserve anuran biodiversity temperature-dependent sex Roy Talbi Guinea Dylan Van Winkel lived reptiles? Yellow-legged frog Andrew Kouba determination Ignacio De La Riva Doug Armstrong Natalie Calatayud Anna Carter

15:45 Cost-effective amphibian Discussion session: Timing is critical when The impact of non-native trout Combining micro- and The Asian Toad in Conservation of Miyako grass captive breeding using developing a global strategy inducing oviposition in on endangered and endemic macrohabitat analyses to Madagascar, when EDRR fails lizard, Takydromus toyamai : biobanking to meet IUCN for amphibian biobanking turtles amphibians of the Peruvian understand niche evolution Karen Freeman life history traits, population 100-year, 90 percent Aimee Silla & Natalie Mark Feldman Andes in European cave genetics, and conservation heterozygosity criteria Calatayud Andrew Watson salamanders measures Lachlan Howell Gentile Francesco Ficetola Mamoru Toda

20 Concurrent sessions Captive Breeding Reproductive Technologies Physiology & Reproductive Invasion & Disease Ecology Diversity & Distributions 3 Conservation Ecology 3 & Biobanking for Amphibian Biology Conservation

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 16:00 Habitat choice of hatchling Discussion session: Thermal plasticity in Preliminary analysis on Implications of continuous Murray River Turtles developing a global strategy metabolic physiology in a network-scale effects of amphibian diversity (Emydura macquarii): for amphibian biobanking widespread Australian lizard invasive species on spatially- monitoring in Daweishan of informing headstarting continued Daniel Noble structured amphibian tropical SE Yunnan, China programmes Aimee Silla & Natalie populations Jian Wang Claudia Santori Calatayud Raoul Manenti 16:05 Time of year affects study of gut microbiota of the lizard Sceloporus consobrinus (Phrynosomatidae) Mark Paulissen

16:10 Sexual dimorphism in external and skeletal morphology of Japanese lentic breeding salamander (Amphibia: Urodela: Hynobiidae) Sotaro Hara

16:15 Behavioural observations of Genomic and transcriptomic The potential for artificial Populational dynamics of the the Bermuda Skink investigations of the selection in a reintroduction stream-dwelling frog Boana Plestiodon longirostris in evolutionary transition from program: exploring individual poaju in Southern Brazil captivity: informing in-situ oviparity to viviparity variation in chytridiomycosis Sophia Kusterko Novaes and ex-situ conservation Wei Gao susceptibility Gerardo Garcia Luke Linhoff

16:20 The invasion of the Asian Toad in Madagascar Angelica Crottini

16:25 The source of reptile and amphibian pandemics in the Anthropocene Jonathan Kolby

21 Concurrent sessions Reproductive Technologies Physiology & Reproductive Invasion & Disease Ecology & Biobanking for Amphibian Biology Conservation

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 16:30 Discussion session: Superior start to life? Effect Incubation temperatures and developing a global strategy of carotenoids on the growth intestinal length, are they for amphibian biobanking and development of telling us something about sea continued corroboree frogs turtle hatchling survival? Aimee Silla & Natalie Emma McInerney Debra Miller Calatayud

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16:45 - 17:00 Delegates move to plenary session

Keynote: Sending them south: appraising assisted colonisation of reptiles threatened by climate change 17:00 - 17:45 Nicki Mitchell Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed)

Congress dinner (ticketed event) 18:00 - 23:00 Venue: Dunedin Town Hall, 1 Harrop Street (Please make your own way to and from the Dunedin Town Hall)

22 Friday 10 January 2020 Registration open 08:00 - 18:30 Venue: ISB Link Building Keynote: Using an integrative approach to explore the diversity and evolution of amphibians and reptiles in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 08:30 - 09:15 Jing Che Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed) Concurrent sessions Adaptation, Evolution & Physiology & Ecotoxicology Host-Parasite Ecology Amphibian Conservation Social behaviour Taxonomy & Phylogenetics 6 Improving the Interface Genetics Research Symposium (ACRS) between Research and Management for Conservation of New Zealand Reptiles & Frogs

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 09:30 Adaptation and evolution of A Curly Tale: stress and Cool or not to cool? The global effort to conserve Aggressive behaviors and Origins of lizard diversity in Tuatara conservation Tiger Snakes immunity across nonnative Intestinal coccidians disrupt amphibians under threat their effect on resource use the continental island of Sri through Māori involvement Vicki Thomson populations of differing ages the thermoregulatory Phil Bishop by female Little Brown Lanka: insights from scincid in policy in Leiocephalus carinatus response to tick infestation Skinks, Scincella lateralis lizards Louisa Paul Natalie Claunch Rodrigo Megía-Palma Mark Paulissen Kanishka Ukuwela

09:45 Repeated evolution of Impacts of locust control Enteric bacteria in sleepy World’s largest tropical island Social tactics and dominance Peacocks of the lizard world: Conservation management insular dwarfism across pesticides on the physiology lizards vary in richness, may provide refuge from the relationships in a long-lived phylogeny and taxonomy of of New Zealand frogs three reptile species with and behaviour of the central prevalence and co- amphibian chytrid fungus reptile, the eastern water the spectacular African flat Amanda Haigh population and functional bearded dragon occurrence patterns Batrachochytrium dragon, Intellegama lesueurii lizards (Platysaurus ) genomic insights Isabella Contador-Kelsall Ko-Huan Lee dendrobatidis Coralie Delme Mitzy Pepper Tonia Schwartz Deborah Bower

10:00 Determinants of phenotypic Radiocesium accumulation Testing a mechanistic How to find a frog in forest - Contrasting sociality in two Species delimitation, Research priorities for lizard and genetic variation along a and spatial ecology of rat hypothesis: how does can detection dogs be used for sympatric skink species: phylogenetic relationships conservation in New Zealand latitudinal gradient in a snakes (Elaphe spp.) in climate predict the conservation? Oligosoma otagense and O. and biogeography of James Reardon widespread amphibian Fukushima Japan distribution of parasites in Deon Gilbert grande Hemiphyllodactylus (Reptilia: Anssi Laurila Hannah Gerke lizards? Penny Jacks Gekkonidae) in Yunnan Karsts Rodrigo Megía-Palma Ade Prasetyo Agung

10:15 Examining Spotted Marsh Using stable isotopes to Prior pathogen exposure and Victory against all odds: the The tenses of existence of Conservation progress for Frog Limnodynastes investigate trophic transfer a preliminary vaccine successful conservation story the skink Eugongylus critically endangered lizard tasmaniensis call races using of mercury and radiocesium increase amphibian of the Admirable Red-Belly rufescens (Shaw, 1802) taxa in Aotearoa/New large-scale citizen science in Nerodia floridana resistance to Toad in Brazil (Scincidae) Zealand data Melissa Pilgrim chytridiomycosis Michelle Abadie Glenn Shea Jo Monks Kathy Potter Anthony Waddle

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Morning tea amongst the exhibition 10:30 - 11:00 Venue: ISB Link Building

23 Concurrent sessions Herps in the City: Disease Ecology (pathogens) Amphibian Genome Amphibian Conservation Sociality of Amphibians & Ecology (Nesting & Improving the Interface Mechanisms of Responses Assembly & Evolution Research Symposium (ACRS) Reptiles Incubation) between Research & to Human-Induced Management for Environmental Change Conservation of New Zealand Reptiles & Frogs

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 11:00 The use of community World Wide Web portals for Polyploidy and adaptation in Understanding why Scaly sociality: testing for the The effect of constant egg Conservation of Nationally science to study the ecology herpetofaunal pathogen data Australian burrowing frogs endangered frogs survive or presence of kin-based incubation temperatures Critical Chesterfield skinks in of herpetofauna in cities Deanna (Dede) Olson Neobatrachus perish on a tiny scale sociality in Australian and across life stages in the situ – a response to changing Bree Putman Polina Novikova Emily Hoffmann African Lizards brown anole climate and risks Julia Riley Jenna Pruett Lynn Adams

11:15 Bold New World: Emerging or enzootic? Sequencing and annotation Saving cows, saving frogs: if Testing for the presence of The embryos of turtles can NZ conservation urbanisation promotes an Disruption of long-term host- of the Western Spadefoot you love amphibians, you kin-based sociality in influence their own sexual management of Data innate behavioural trait in a pathogen dynamics toad (Pelobates cultripes) should care for farm animals Midland Painted Turtles destinies Deficient and Data Poor lizard Gonçalo Rosa Ivan Gomez-Mestre too (Chrysemys picta marginata ) Yinzi Ye lizard taxa: progress, James Baxter-Gilbert Luis Fernando Marin da Fonte Carter Rouleau challenges, future directions Carey Knox

11:20 Social tolerance behaviour in a reptile, the Eastern water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii ): a new perspective Coralie Delme

11:25 Aggregative behaviour in New Zealand’s native lizards Stephanie Godfrey

11:30 City life alters the gut Identification of divergent Assembling the Rana Reproductive habitat use of Does temperature mediate Nest-site selection and Applied conservation microbiome and stable serpentoviruses in free- temporaria genome to endangered Minervarya social conflict in a family- hatchling success of box research meets ecological isotope profiling of eastern ranging invasive pythons in inform the evolution of greenii (Amphibia: living skink? turtles (Terrapene carolina ) restoration: assessing early water dragons southern Florida, United Anuran sex chromosomes Dicroglossidae) in montane Geoff While at their northern range limit translocation success of Nicola Kent States Daniel Jeffries cloud forests of Sri Lanka Joseph Altobelli captive-born Duvaucel’s 11:35 Steven Tillis Meegamage Chamara Q & A geckos Prabhath Julia Riley Manuela Barry

11:45 One hundred years of Species-dependent Genomic and transcriptomic A primer of amphibian The role of spatial structure Incubation temperature Captive management for urbanisation makes an amplification of Ranavirus insights into the molecular research and conservation in on the social dynamics of the affects the color expression conservation – ex situ endangered species of prevalence and infection basis of sexually dimorphic Pakistan: current situation and estuarine crocodile and embryonic development interventions past, present Canberra’s Grassland Earless severity in multi-host spines in Leptobrachium the way forward Crocodylus porosus of a terrestrial salamander and future Dragon amphibian communities leishanense Muhammad Rais (via video) Cameron Baker Annette Evans Richard Gibson Stephen Sarre David Lesbarrères Jun Li WCH Executive Meeting (members only) 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: St David A & B Lunch amongst the exhibition 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: ISB Link Building

24 Concurrent sessions Herps in the City: Physiology 1 Amphibian Genome Amphibian Conservation Sociality of Amphibians & Adaptation & Evolution 9 Improving the Interface Mechanisms of Responses Assembly & Evolution Research Symposium (ACRS) Reptiles between Research & to Human-Induced Management for Environmental Change Conservation of New Zealand Reptiles & Frogs

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 13:00 Impacts of translocation on a The neglected pervasive The axolotl genome Research to conservation Social structure of the Spiny- Plasticity allows colonization, Enhancing conservation large urban-adapted stressor: long-term effects of Siegfried Schloissnig practice through Durrell’s Tailed Iguana, Ctenosaura and adaptation leads to management of New venomous snake short-term exposure to UV SAFE Strategy 2014-2020 similis : network, personality, incipient speciation in a fire Zealand’s lizards – the Bill Bateman radiation in Green Tree Frogs Jeff Dawson and genetic relatedness salamander population relevance of laboratory- Niclas Lundsgaard Ann-Elizabeth Nash Joana Sabino Pinto based studies Alison Cree

13:15 Thermoregulation strategy Anuran larvae exhibit lower Improving and using a Climate change impacts on Parental care by male Intraspecific differentiation A translocated population of of the invasive Asian House upper thermal limits and chromosome-scale assembly amphibians in Madagascar: Japanese giant salamanders and speciation in three tuatara (Sphenodon Gecko (Hemidactylus warming tolerance than a of the enormous (32 Gb) shifts to higher elevation and – a note on a partially small viviparous Phrynocephalus punctatus ) in a cool frenatus ) natural predator axolotl genome increased risks of extinction den-master found in an lizards in the northeastern southern ecosanctuary: are Yingyod Lapwong Gustavo Adolfo Agudelo Jeramiah Smith Christopher Raxworthy upstream section Qinghai-Tibet Plateau females nesting? Cantero Sumio Okada Yi-jing Chen Jemima Gardiner-Rodden

13:30 Surviving in the Suburbs: the Comparative study on Caecilian genomes Population assessment and Social complexity drives the Roles of isolation, secondary Responses of arboreal Gibbs line and amphibian antioxidant defense Mark Wilkinson distribution of the evolution of display contact, and ecology in geckos to sanctuary conservation responses to ammonia stress Madagascan golden mantella complexity in agamid lizard diversification and speciation management in pest-invaded David Skelly in three fresh water turtle in the face of climate change Phrynocephalus przewalskii of a temperate frog environments of New species Richard Griffiths from China Stephen Lougheed Zealand Cuijuan Niu Yin Qi Trent Bell

13:45 Urbanization modulates Sex differences in kidney The identification of sex- Confronting amphibian Chemically mediated self and Is competition causing Community efforts to re- mating signals and gene expression: linked markers in the diseases: frontiers in effective social recognition in juvenile character displacement and establish grand and Otago antipredatory strategies in a reproductive costs of the vulnerable Green and golden mitigation Common Gartersnakes niche segregation in a skinks, and jewelled geckos, neotropical frog renal sexual segment? bell frog, Litoria aurea Molly Bletz (Thamnophis sirtalis ) radiation of cryptic species? in modified shrub/grassland Ximena Bernal Christopher Friesen Jarrod Sopniewski Gordon Burghardt Octavio Jimenez-Robles ecosystems Grant Norbury

25 Concurrent sessions Herps in the City: Physiology 1 Amphibian Genome Amphibian Conservation Sociality of Amphibians & Adaptation & Evolution 9 Improving the Interface Mechanisms of Responses Assembly & Evolution Research Symposium (ACRS) Reptiles between Research & to Human-Induced Management for Environmental Change Conservation of New Zealand Reptiles & Frogs

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 14:00 Green infrastructure from Effects of maternal diet on Differential introgression DNA-based methods for Allobates femoralis : an Premating reproductive Discussion urban sinks to prestigious reproduction and across newt hybrid zones: monitoring pond-breeding optimal model species for isolation between allopatric Jo Monks & Alison Cree pads for frogs development in turtles evidence from replicated amphibians: the case of the studying anuran social populations promoted by David O'Brien James Van Dyke transects Natterjack toad in Ireland behavior and cognition reproductive character Gemma Palomar Marina Reyne Walter Hödl displacement in geckos Teppei Jono

14:15 Superfrogs in the city – Regional characteristics of The critically endangered Where squamate sociality Cryptic and failed speciation impact of urbanity and toxic components in Titicaca water frog: Bolivia and reaches its peak: Egernia in Sulawesi flying lizards agriculture on the Japanese toads Peru conservation efforts stokesii research past, (Draco ) 1: phylogenetics and morphology of frogs Takato Inoue Teresa Camacho Badani present and future species delimitation Stephanie Niemeier Mike Gardner Jimmy McGuire

14:30 Road avoidance and its Through the heart: Longwall mining and Cryptic and failed speciation energetic consequences for ventricular septum and amphibian populations – a in Sulawesi flying lizards 2: reptiles cardiac conduction system case study evidence for mito-nuclear James Paterson across Sauropsida Samanatha Wallace Dobzhansky-Muller Martina Gregorovicova incompatibilities Alexander Stubbs 14:45 The Brisbane Python Project: Spatio-temporal architecture Antibiotic susceptibility Genetic diversity and mito- how mitigated translocations of pancreatic islets in grass profiles of Salmonella species nuclear discordance in potentially affect urban snake embryos isolated from captive Neotropical toads (Rhinella ) pythons in Brisbane Magdalena Kowalska amphibians and reptiles in Danielle Rivera Chantelle Derez Uganda James Watuwa (via video) 14:50 ACRS discussion session

Afternoon tea amongst the exhibition 15:00 - 15:30 Venue: ISB Link Building Concurrent sessions Herps in the City: Ecophysiology 3 Taxonomy & Phylogenetics 7 Human Impacts Host-Parasite & Disease Mechanisms of Responses Ecology to Human-Induced Environmental Change

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 15:30 Hooked on humans? Daboia Salt tolerance in frogs: a Optimizing phylogenomics Scales, tails, and trails: a Of poisons and palaestinae in reptile widespread trait conferring with Rapidly Evolving Long review of recreational parasites—the defensive role assemblages in natural adaptative capacity for global Exons: examples from all effects on reptiles and of tetrodotoxin against versus anthropogenic change? squamates and New amphibians infections in newts habitats in Israel Craig Williams Caledonian geckos Samantha Dean Amber Stokes Boaz Shacham Todd Jackman

26 Concurrent sessions Herps in the City: Ecophysiology 3 Taxonomy & Phylogenetics 7 Human Impacts Host-Parasite & Disease Mechanisms of Responses Ecology to Human-Induced Environmental Change

Venue St David St David A & B St David E St David F Castle 1 Castle 2 Burns 1 Burns 2 15:45 The bioaccumulation of Evidence for ancient Impacts of agriculture and Threat assessment of contaminants across an hybridization between the roads on amphibians in the Taruga eques (Amphibia: urban gradient in a wetland Komodo dragon and Prairie Potholes of Manitoba, Rhacophoridae) endemic on snake (Notechis scutatus ) Australian monitor lizards Canada the tropical island of Sri Lanka Damian Lettoof Carlos Joaquín Pavón Pamela Rutherford Meegamage Chamara Vázquez Prabhath

16:00 A ten-year study of an urban Integrating spatial and The undescribed frog The New Caledonian Leopard Disease and disturbance: turtle metapopulation temporal studies to model diversity of the Australian Skink Lacertoides pardalis : investigating the factors that Mark Mills salamander demographic Monsoonal Tropics ecology and conservation in drive amphibian reservoir responses to climate Renee Catullo a mining context host occurrence and John Maerz Matthias Deuss distribution Danielle Wallace

16:15 Sex in the city: urbanization The global diversity and Revisiting phylogenetic Diversion mini-hydropower Parasites of invasive broadens the reproductive distribution of lizard clutch problems of Huia (Amphibia, plants in the Balkans and amphibians and where to season of lizards sizes Ranidae): which one is the impact on local amphibian find them Joshua Hall Shai Meiri true Huia? (and reptile) populations Hsuan-wien Chen Umilaela Arifin Jelka Crnobrnja-isailović

16:30 Nestled in the city: nesting How does incubation Dalmatian oddities: Effects of urbanisation and Does malaria mediate the behaviour enhances embryo temperature affect behaviour, functional divergence of hydrological change on a reliability of testosterone survival in urban areas physiology and growth in head shape in lizards on two freshwater turtle and dewlap coloration of Sarin Tiatragul delicate skinks? peculiar islands in the Anthony Santoro Anolis sagrei ? Madeleinede Jong Adriatic Jhan-Wei Lin Simon Baeckens

16:45 Delegates move to plenary session

Keynote: Atlantic forest herps and their responses to environmental shifts: past, present, and future 17:00 - 17:45 Ana Carnaval Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed) Closing ceremony and awards (all delegates) 17:45 - 18:00 Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed)

Saturday 11 January 2020

Orokonui Ecosanctuary fieldtrip (ticketed event) 09:45 - 14:45 Venue: Please meet in the ISB Link Building Otago Peninsula coastal walk fieldtrip (ticketed event) 08:00 - 19:00 Venue: Please meet in the ISB Link Building

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