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JMIH 2007 Program MAY 16 DRAFT 2007 Joint Meeting (JMIH), St. Louis, MO BREAK-OUT SESSIONS AT A GLANCE THURSDAY, 12 JULY, Afternoon Sessions ROOM Regency C Regency B Regency A SESSION/ Herp Conservation I Fish Genetics Amphibian Ecology SYMPOSIUM MODERATOR S Whitfield A Echelle M Mills 1:30 PM R Russell A Kinziger S Welch Evidence for a Stable Hybrid Zone Between Spring-Run Road Salt Effects On Nova Scotia Amphibians and Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Returning to the Trinity The use of Crayfish Burrows by Herpetofauna River, California 1:45 PM D Nelson MR Douglas J Church Ecological niche modeling, interspecific competition, and Road-kill Survey Of Alabama Red-bellied Turtles On The The Problem of Population Differentiation Among Big- range restriction in Plethodon salamander communities Mobile Bay Causeway River Fish Species of the southeastern United States 2:00 PM S Whitfield MW Hopken O Lockhart Amphibian and reptile declines at La Selva, Costa Rica: Rangewide Population Structure and Genetic Diversity of Plethodontid Salamanders in Forest-Floor Food Webs: Patterns and processes in a collapsing tropical Bluehead Sucker [Catostomus (Pantosteus) discobolus] Do Salamander Feces Subsidize Bottom-Up Pathways? herpetofauna 2:15 PM P Taylor A Echelle BM Walton A Community-Based Ecological Study of the Black Do Plethodontid Salamanders Regulate Terrestrial Genetic Structure Of Wild And Captive Stocks Of The Caiman (Melanosuchusniger), at Yupukari Village, Detrital Food Webs?: Complex Outcomes from Long- Desert Pupfish Complex Guyana: A Second Year Report. Term Experiments 2:30 PM R Lovich C Stepien K Regester - EE HERPETOFAUNAL SURVEY OF CERRO Ecosystem Significance of Ambystomatid Salamanders: GUANACAURE, MONTAÑA LA BOTIJA AND ISLA DEL Landscape Conservation Genetic Patterns of Walleye Energy Flow, Habitat Subsidies, and Trophic Interactions TIGRE PROTECTED AREAS IN SOUTHERN Populations Across North America Associated with their Complex Life Cycles HONDURAS 2:45 PM AM Picco - C R Harrington - GMD M Mills Comparative Genetic Analysis Of The Connectivity Reproductive Ecology of a Suburban Population of Small- Strain Variation Of Ranaviruses In The Tiger Among Populations In The Etheostoma simoterum Mouthed Salamanders (Ambystoma texanum): A Six- Salamander Bait Trade Species Complex Year Study 3:00 PM BREAK - Ballrooms E & F SESSION/ Herp Conservation I Fish Genetics Amphibian Ecology SYMPOSIUM MODERATOR JL Christiansen E Saillant B Walton 3:30 PM W Turner J Ohayon MK Hamed The Effects on Growth and Survival of Spotted Genetic and Biogeographic Relationships of the Racer Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) After a Decline in Development of a Herpetology Program in Wyoming Goby from Invasive and Native Eurasian Populations Reproductive Success of Marbled Salamanders (A. opacum) 3:45 PM BB Rothermel A Aguilar J Deitloff - EE Migratory Patterns and Relative Abundance of Juvenile Population structure, hybridization and speciation in two Competition in a Salamander Community: Can Toads and Salamanders in Experimentally Harvested California minnows Sympatric P. electromorphus Hold Their Own? Pine Forests 4:00 PM C Conner CB Dillman K Cecala - EE Examining Intraguild Interactions Among Stream Effects of Timber Harvesting on Amphibians: Testing the Patterns Of Microsatellite Inheritance In Shovelnose Salamanders: The Threat of Predation Affects Prey Dispersal Hypothesis Sturgeon, Pallid Sturgeon And Their Hybrids Behavior and Distribution 4:15 PM E Burton E Saillant D Adams Organization of Plethodon Salamander Communities: Cattle Impacts On Postmetamorphic Amphibians Of The Heritability of cold tolerance in juvenile red drum Interspecific Competition and Guild-Based Community Cumberland Plateau Assembly 4:30 PM JL Christiansen E Roy K Grayson - EE Population Structure of the Black Sea Bass, Recent Declines In The Illinois Mud Turtle, Kinosternon Population Size and Intrapond Movement of Aquatic Red- Centropristis striata, Along the Western Atlantic Coast flavescens spooneri. Spotted Newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) and Gulf of Mexico 4:45 PM B Lardner MS Taylor A Sacerdote Dissolved Oxygen Requirements for Hatching Success Spotting Cryptic Animals In The Dark: What Light Independent Evolution of Shoaling Behavior in of Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) in Properties Should A Good Headlamp Have? Elacatinus (Teleostei: Gobiidae) Restored Flatwoods Vernal Pools in Illinois: Data from the Field and Laboratory. 5:00 PM K Shoemaker A Schrey R Relyea Basking-Site Enhancement as a Viable Conservation Pallid Sturgeon Stock Structure And Hybridization With Amphibians Are Not Roundup-Ready: The Mounting Strategy for a Threatened Population of Massasauga Shovelnose Sturgeon Evidence Rattlesnakes C = Stoye Conservation GDM = Stoye Genetics Development & Morphology EE = Stoye Ecology & Ethology 16 2007 Joint Meeting (JMIH), St. Louis, MO BREAK-OUT SESSIONS AT A GLANCE THURSDAY, 12 JULY, Afternoon Sessions Grand AB Grand C Grand D ROOM SESSION/ SSAR Seibert Evolution & Systematics AES Behavior SSAR Seibert Conservation SYMPOSIUM K Nicholson S Kajiura H Mushinsky MODERATOR DL Mahler P Lobel 1:30 PM Does Ecology Influence Rates of Phenotypic Evolution in Movement Patterns of Grey Reef Sharks at Johnston Island Anoles? Atoll and Palau, Pacific Ocean. C Siler J Imhoff - G C Rittenhouse 1:45 PM Testing Geographic Predictions Using Genetic And Evaluation Of Ultrasonic Accelerometry As A Technique Resource Selection by Translocated Three-toed Box Morphological Diversity: An Example In Philippine Bent- For Studying Foraging Behavior In Juvenile Lemon Turtles in Missouri toed Geckos Sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) K Hesed T Lisney A Heeb 2:00 PM Redefined Species Boundaries In A Complex of Scincid Retinal Topography in Elasmobranchs: Implications for Lizards from the Philippines (Squamata: Lygosominae: Turtle Racing, An American Turtle Crisis Behavioural Ecology and Spatial Resolving Power Sphenomorphus) JW Streicher N Willett C Jenkins 2:15 PM Conservation Biology of Great Basin Rattlesnakes in Multi-locus Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of the Monitoring Site Fidelity and Habitat Utilization of Juvenile Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystems: Landscape Craugastor podiciferus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) Within Disturbance, Prey Availability, and Rattlesnake Species Complex in Isthmian Central America Essential Nursery Habitat of Delaware Bay Reproduction T Gamble J Brunnschweiler B Todd 2:30 PM Preliminary Whale Shark Sighting Data From Tofo Evidence for Gondwanan vicariance in an ancient clade Beach, Mozambique, And Depth And Temperature Data Effects of Timber Management on Forest Habitat and of gecko lizards From A Whale Shark Crossing The Mozambique Small-bodied Snakes of the Southeastern Coastal Plain Channel B Lowe T Guttridge JJ Enneson 2:45 PM Size-assortment in groups of wild juvenile lemon sharks, A Stage-classified Matrix Model for an Ontario Phylogeography of Urosaurus graciosus (Iguania: Negaprion brevirostris, based on evidence from gill net Population of Spotted Turtles (Clemmys guttata) and Phrynosomatidae) captures. Implications for Conservation BREAK - Ballrooms E & F 3:00 PM SESSION/ SSAR Seibert Evolution & Systematics AES Behavior SSAR Seibert Conservation SYMPOSIUM G Perry P Lobel D Green MODERATOR M Gifford AJ Ubeda T Tuberville 3:30 PM A Multi-locus Assessment of the Phylogeography of Movements of Bonnetheads, Sphyrna tiburo, in Modeling Extinction Risk of At-Risk Gopher Tortoise Ameiva chrysolaema From Hispaniola Response to Salinity Changes in a Large Florida Estuary Populations: Developing a Management Decision Tree A Hamilton Jennings J Ciaccio CB Edge 3:45 PM Dispersal, Speciation, and Introductions: Species The effects of an absence of live prey on the predatory Boundaries, Biogeography and Phylogenetic A Multi-Scale Approach to Defining Critical Habitat for abilities of whitespotted bamboosharks, Chiloscyllium Relationships Within the Emoia samoensis Species Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) plagiosum. Group M Westphal S Kajiura K Greenwald 4:00 PM What Can Garter Snakes Tell Us About Coral Snake Response of juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks to Gene Flow and Population Connectivity of Marbled Mimicry? electric stimuli Salamanders in a Fragmented Landscape D Leavitt SP Oliver W Greaves 4:15 PM An Additional Perspective to the Biotic Diversification of Demography of a Northern Population of Wood Turtles the Desert Southwest: Phylogeographic Patterns in Oceanic sharks risk visiting coastal waters (Glyptemys insculpta) Coleonyx variegatus H Alamillo C O'Connell L Gross 4:30 PM Rates Of Diversification Throughout The Major Groups Evaluation of Barium-ferrite permanent magnets on the Compositional Changes in a Pond-Breeding Amphibian Of Snakes behavior of four species of elasmobranchs Community After Fish Removal: The Saga Continues CJ Hayden E Stroud Z Felix 4:45 PM Observations of Repellent Behavior Using Highly Movement Patterns and Habitat Use of Eastern Box Phylogenetics of the Sphenomorphus ‘maindroni’ group Electropositive Metals. Turtles in Forest Stands Managed for Timber Production BE Wueringer R Sutherland 5:00 PM Presence-only habitat models for rare North Carolina Sensory biology and prey manipulation behaviour in snake species confirmed with unbiased road-cruising sawfishes data G = Gruber 17 2007 Joint Meeting (JMIH), St. Louis, MO BREAK-OUT SESSIONS AT A GLANCE FRIDAY, 13 JULY, Morning Sessions Regency C Regency B Regency A ROOM SESSION/ SSAR 50th Year Symposium Cypriniforms Tree of Life I Fish Morphology &
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