Programme Please note: subject to change
Sunday 5 January 2020
09:00 - 16:00 Pre-congress workshop: An open-source hardware GPS data logger for wildlife movement studies 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 09:00 - 17:00 Taieri Ridge/ Macraes fieldtrip (ticketed event) Venue: Please meet at University of Otago in the ISB Link Building
14:00 - 15:00 Student paper judges meeting Venue: St David A & B 16:00 - 18:00 Registration open Venue: ISB Link Building
Monday 6 January 2020
08:00 - 12:00 Exhibition pack in Venue: ISB Link Building 08:00 - 19:00 Registration open Venue: ISB Link Building 12:00 - 13:30 Congress opening & Māori welcome (Mihi Whakatau) Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed) 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building 14:30 - 15:15 Keynote: Slowly does it: working with reptiles that may outlive their researchers Alison Cree Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed)
15:15 - 15:45 Afternoon tea amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building Concurrent sessions Species Conservation Population & Landscape X-ray Microtomography in Amphibian Bioacoustic Adaptation & Evolution 2 Adaptation & Evolution 1 Novel Approaches to Science New & Innovative Genetics 1 Herpetology: A New Era of Symposium Communication & Technologies for Morphological Study Conservation Engagement in Herpetological Research 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) and mantellid frogs of going global easier the life of the field endangered frog Chris Broeckhoven delineating tools in North- its relationship with burrowing Madagascar (Anura: Teresa Camacho Badani herpetologist Sophie McCulloch Asian Hylid treefrogs Rocio Aguilar Mantellidae) Patrick Cain Amaël Borzée 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 of 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 MHC IIß1 in amphibians that promote positive outcomes Development of a novel 'no- (Drymarchon couperi ) explicit cross-ecosystem horned frogs (Anura: using acoustic indices and adaptation on Orchid Island are susceptible and resistant for amphibians and reptiles dig' trap for terrestrial conservation perspective Ceratophryidae) false-colour spectrograms Wen-san Huang 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 and of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest morphological patterns in applied for the control of phylogeny, drives interspecific processing genes in Trolleys: new art and creative charismatic chelonians for leaf litter lizards (genus head-first burrowing frogs invasive cane toads Rhinella variation in heat tolerance salamanders strategies in amphibian conservation: photographic Enyalius ) Marta Vidal-Garcia marina within a subtropical anuran Gemma Palomar conservation and public capture-recapture and Connor French Kiyomi Yasumiba community outreach mobile app development Gustavo Adolfo Agudelo CiCi Blumstein (Agent Matt Cross Cantero Amphibian) 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 calls reversal of alpine Eastern three- toxins shapes poison frog communication and outreach trapping system for detecting Mojave Desert Tortoises in a long term study of elapid snake skulls in different habitats lined skinks in South Eastern chemical defenses in the field of herpetology Eastern Massasauga Steven Hromada Australian sleepy lizards Emma Sherratt Mike Emmrich Australia Stephanie Caty Katherine Garrett Rattlesnakes Mike Gardner Duminda Dissanayake 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, and passive detection and Petra Kovac Konrad disease susceptibility in Leptotyphlopidae via Micro- amphibians in phenological reaction norms poison frogs public perception of reptiles photography of herpetofauna common toads CT images Catharina Karlsson in a lizard Karen Siu-Ting 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 the 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 abundance of the endemic eastern golden frog Cretaceous tetrapod using Anuran community ecology and long egg retention in a long-glanded Calliophis Cici Blumstein (Agent invasive Brown Treesnakes and endangered lizard (Pelophylax plancyi ) in the HRCT data and calling acoustics in bimodally reproductive skink sidestep neurotoxic arms race Amphibian) with an automated bait Liolaemus lutzae from Brazil megacity, Shanghai Juan Diego Daza windfarms (Saiphos equalis ) Daniel Dashevsky manufacturing and aerial Carlos Rocha Xu Wei Cory Trowbridge Camilla Whittington delivery system 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-predatory identifying geographic origin example using Australian repertoires of trafficked freshwater herpetofauna Ashadee Miller turtles Christy Hipsley Matthew Young
18:00 - 19:30 Welcome reception amongst the exhibition (all delegates) Venue: ISB Link Building Tuesday 7 January 2020
08:00 - 19:00 Registration open Venue: ISB Link Building
08:30 - 09:15 Keynote: Ecology, behaviour and conservation of Southeast Asian amphibians: what can we learn from the Island of Borneo Ulmar Graffe 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
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09:30 Sticky fingers: microhabitat Chromosome diversity in Sex chromosome evolution in Anuran larvae disperse seeds Challenges, desperation and Rapid differentiation of The future of Western Pond Global impacts of choice, adhesive Malagasy reptiles: an snakes and lizards and enhance germination of hope: a review of herpetofauna sexual signals in Cane toads Turtles: what might climate chytridiomycosis on performance and toe-pad evolutionary perspective Tony Gamble aquatic plants conservation translocations Rhinella marina change do? amphibians morphology in velvet geckos from available data and new Ivan Gomez-Mestre Luke Linhoff Kiyomi Yasumiba David Germano Ben Scheele (genus: Oedura ) chameleon karyotypes 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 fungus 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? 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
10:30 - 11:00 Morning tea amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building Concurrent sessions So Many Snakes (plus Lizards Citizen & Cultural Science Emerging Frontiers in Sex Climate Change & Shifting Moving Herpetofauna in the Phylogeography & Behavioural Ecology 2 Amphibian Disease & Toads) in so Little Time: Chromosome Evolution Phenology in Amphibians: Right Direction Part I: Biogeography of Neotropical Susceptibility in a Changing Celebrating the Career of Causes & Consequences Conservation Translocations Herpetofauna World 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 invades: Tracy Langkilde knowledge of endemic Taiwanese frog phenological responses to species of Panamanian of anole lizard diversification the sandpaper frog, Integrating theory and data chelonians of the Mapimi Ikuo Miura climate change in amphibians Harlequin frogs (genus: Richard Glor Lechriodus fletcheri , to understand disease- Forays into understanding Bolson in northern Mexico and other animal taxa Atelopus ) threatened by cannibalise conspecific eggs induced amphibian declines mate choice in herps Rosalinda Palomo Jeremy Cohen chytrid fungus John Gould Cherie Briggs Tracy Langkilde Blake Klocke
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 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, breeding 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: phenology and development amphibian populations post diversification in determine feeding behavior distribution and severity of swimming in terrestrial and invasive reptiles and Agamidae) in the wood frog: a 20-year Bd -emergence can inform Anomaloglossus despite past of the European pond turtle disease caused by ranaviruses marine snakes amphibians Shayer Alam study strategies for conservation introgressions Sylvain Ursenbacher affecting UK common frogs Xavier Bonnet Greg Pauly Andis Arietta & Dave Skelly translocations Antoine Fouquet Trenton Garner Steven Whitfield The return to an aquatic life, Using citizen science to Warming, green-up, breeding Survival and recovery of Phenotypic and life-history Metabarcoding as a tool to Anthropogenic changes in propulsive thrust of reduce detection times for phenology and development amphibian populations post diversification in determine feeding behavior distribution and severity of swimming in terrestrial and invasive reptiles and in the wood frog: a 20-year Bd -emergence can inform Anomaloglossus despite past of the European pond turtle disease caused by ranaviruses marine snakes amphibians study strategies for conservation introgressions Sylvain Ursenbacher affecting UK common frogs Xavier Bonnet Greg Pauly Andis Arietta & Dave Skelly translocations Antoine Fouquet Trenton Garner Steven Whitfield
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 developmental Caledonia the granite night lizard phenological variability on successful translocation of a fidelity of individual pit vipers environment on amphibian Claire Goiran (Scincoidea: Xantusiidae) salamander demography and highly susceptible frog species (Ovophis okinavensis ) over disease susceptibility Stuart Nielsen pond community dynamics to an environmental refuge 22 years Michel Ohmer Tom Anderson David Hunter Akira Mori
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building
12:15 - 12:45 Film: Amphibians of the Appalachian Mountains Venue: Castle 1 Concurrent sessions So Many Snakes (plus Lizards Editors' Symposium Climate Change & Shifting Moving Herpetofauna in the Adaptation & Evolution 4 Ecology 1 Amphibian Disease & Toads) in so Little Time: Phenology in Amphibians: Right Direction Part I: (Colour) Susceptibility in a Changing Celebrating the Career of Causes & Consequences Conservation Translocations World 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 on Identifying climatic drivers of Can increased environmental The genetic basis of anole Comparison of population Tolerance and resistance in place: conservation of the 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 Hinrich Kaiser
13:15 The long-term impact of cane Shifting breeding phenology Temporary translocation to Experimentally testing the Highlights of long-term How does it end? Shifts in toads on Australia’s large and the role of photoperiod dodge the chytrid bullet: the evolutionary drivers of a studies of endemic New chytridiomycosis disease varanids as a developmental cue Honduras Amphibian Rescue colorful signal in Anolis lizards Zealand frogs (Anura: dynamics over time Lachlan Pettit under climate change and Conservation Center John David Curlis Leiopelmatidae) over several Jamie Voyles Mike Benard strategy decades Jonathan Kolby Ben Bell Presentations from editors on manuscript preparation, editorial processes, peer review and issues on herpetological publishing. Includes a Q & A session Hinrich Kaiser
13:30 Toads less travelled: an Do early phenological shifts Applying species traits that Crypsis or camaraderie: Ecological and genetic Integrating ecotoxicology and overview of the ecology of affect growth and predict invasiveness to inform unlocking signals in the variation of the distribution 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 amphibian Matthew Greenlees amphibian? translocations Genevieve Matthews border of their distribution disease susceptibility Hilary Rollins Melia Nafus Gad Degani 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 (genus mediate the effect of term acoustic monitoring behavior of amphibian frog translocations and future understanding the genetics 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
14:15 Apex reptilian predators in Disucssion Fine-scale evolution of Population structure of the Proactive conservation: Northern Australia: can Mike Benard aposematism in poison frogs Morelet’s Crocodile developing strategies to landscape CTA training curb Rebecca Tarvin (Crocodylus moreletii ) in the combat the salamander- cane toad impacts region of Calakmul, eating fungus Georgia Ward-Fear Campeche, Mexico Molly Bletz Robert Jehle
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 Presentations from editors on manuscript preparation, editorial processes, peer review and issues on herpetological publishing. Includes a Q & A session Hinrich Kaiser
Disucssion Mike Benard
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 infectious learning evolution in uropeltid snakes Rhyacotriton variegatus , 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 reptiles melanosome shape is linked sampling methods to in health and disease: to spatial and temporal to physiological shifts in characterise amphibian considerations on a complex variations in nest vertebrate taxa communities in turbid problem temperatures Matthew Shawkey aquatic environments Carlos Arturo Navas Weiguo Du Bastian Egeter
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon tea amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building Concurrent sessions So Many Snakes (plus Lizards Behavioural Ecology 3 Adaptation & Evolution 5 Adaptation & Evolution 6 Conservation Biology 1 Amphibian Disease & Toads) in so Little Time: (Behaviour) (Morphology) Susceptibility in a Changing Celebrating the Career of World 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 Tree complex in Gekkota data for quantification of survival to infection of two phenotypic selection in an efficiently high-resolution Frogs (Anura: Rhacophoridae) Brittany Cornell recovery of long-lived species strains of Batrachochytrium invasive lizard time series of newt Madhava Meegaskumbura of conservation concern dendrobatitis in common Daniel Warner observations Jacqueline Litzgus toads Xavier Mestdagh 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
16:00 Is Rick Shine really a cognitive Hide or escape? Variations in Phenotypic plasticity and rapid Snakelike forms, a buried Captive incubation boosts Bad neighbours? Amphibian neuroscientist in disguise? escape behaviour of three adaptation drive response to diversity: head shape evolved recovery of a relict tuatara chytrid fungus infection James Shine North East Asian anurans invasive predators in a in association with burrowing population dynamics in three frog Yoonjung Yi threatened frog substrate in fossorial lizards Susan Keall species of Sydney Andrea Melotto Vinicius Anelli Jordann Crawford-Ash
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16:10 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 mate Ontogeny of the anuran Restinga - the north coast of the rear-view mirror of an choice behavior of female urostyle: the developmental Bahia sand dune increasingly slow-moving European common frogs context of evolutionary herpetofauna, Brazil vehicle Carolin Dittrich novelty Moacir Tinoco Rick Shine Gayani Senevirathne
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16:45 - 17:00 Delegates move to plenary session 17:00 - 17:45 Keynote: Adventures in amphibian conservation: from scientific expeditions to citizen science Jodi Rowley Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed) 18:00 - 19:00 Poster session, odd poster board numbers presented Venue: The Common Room, ISB Link Building 19:00 - 20:00 Australian Society of Herpetologists Annual General Meeting (members only) Venue: Castle 1 19:00 - 20:30 WCH Executive and IHC joint meeting (members only) Venue: St David A & B Wednesday 8 January 2020
08:00 - 19:00 Registration open Venue: ISB Link Building 08:30 - 09:15 Keynote: Sound communication in aquatic turtles Camilla Ferrera 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
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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 lizard effectively? Arabian squamate reptiles students Brazilian thin-toed frogs from Auckland Museum polyphenism Yang Wang Lea Randall Jiri Smid Allison Metler (Leptodactylus sp) María Hoyos Howard Whiteman Travis Ingram
10:00 Disentangling the The status of caecilian Diversification dynamics in Conservation ecology of Thermal biology of Pristimantis Past and present status of Contribution to the Community engagement in mechanisms behind lizard- (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) viviparous sea snakes facultative paedomorphosis medemi along an altitudinal development mitigation for herpetofauna of south- amphibian and reptile spinifex relationships collections at the Natural Kate Sanders in newts in a world of gradient in the Colombian herpetofauna in the UK eastern Angola research as a path for the Kristian Bell History Museum, London, UK introduced alien species 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 10:15 Savanna survival: how fire Johann Gottlob Schneider’s The evolution and Rediscovering the axolotl as a Climatic preferences of a sand A novel approach to Amphibians and reptiles in Using crowd-sourced data for regimes, livestock grazing and Historiae Amphibiorum (1799- development of model for paedomorphosis lizard population (Lacerta agilis addressing development two geothermal localities in conservation: the Idaho predation by feral cats affects 1801), a seminal contribution microcephalic sea snakes Randal Voss Linnaeus 1758) in western impacts on Triturus cristatus , the state of Puebla, México Amphibian and Reptile small - medium reptile to herpetology Emma Sherratt Germany a strictly protected UK Jesús Mauricio Rodríguez iNaturalist Project 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
10:30 - 11:00 Morning tea amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building Concurrent sessions Beyond CTmax & CTmin: New Perspectives on Biology Biology & Conservation of Amphibian Conservation in the Moving Herpetofauna in the Batrachochytrium Education & Outreach Advances in Studying the of Sea Snakes Paedomorphosis in Anthropocene – Challenges, Right Direction Part II: dendrobatidis 1 Thermal Limits of Reptiles & Amphibians Priorities & Solutions for the Translocations & Tools to Amphibians Human Epoch Mitigate for Development
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 South Africa conservation of amphibians Xavier Bonnet Pria Ghosh and reptiles Muhammad Rais
11:30 Adaptive radiation in the It came from the land: venom Functional diversity of Accounting for uncertainty: Does mandating mitigation Ancestral chytrid pathogen Positive perceptions of the multidimensional phenotype variation in aquatic snakes predators drive variable trait- pathogen detection and translocations result in remains hypervirulent enigmatic Eastern Hellbender Brooke Bodensteiner relative to terrestrial and density-mediated effects management of amphibian conservation benefits? following its long co- Salamander: content analysis ancestors on prey life history disease Ox Lennon evolution with amphibian of historical to current media Bryan Fry Jason Bohenek Brittany Mosher hosts Shem Unger Bruce Waldman
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
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building 12:15 - 12:45 Film: Herpetological Namesakes Venue: Castle 1 Concurrent sessions Beyond CTmax & CTmin: Taxonomy & Phylogenetics 3 New Perspectives on Biology Amphibian Conservation in the Moving Herpetofauna in the Batrachochytrium Conservation Ecology 1 Advances in Studying the of Sea Snakes Anthropocene – Challenges, Right Direction Part II: dendrobatidis 2 Thermal Limits of Reptiles & Priorities & Solutions for the Translocations & Tools to Amphibians Human Epoch Mitigate for Development
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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 Kihansi Distribution, occupancy, and tolerance of reptile embryos: pit-vipers through China: field and eurytopy in the Yellow- management for amphibians: radio-telemetry of ngahere spray toad (Nectophrynoides habitat associations of lessons from Anolis lizards survey and systematic study Lipped Sea Krait, Laticauda from simple models to complex geckos (Mokopirirakau asperginis ) to extinction in grassland-associated reptile Joshua Hall (Viperidae, Crotalinae) colubrina decisions 'southern North Island') to 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 Shelf: Understanding probabilities of Assessing wildlife Understanding limits to Species diversity, distribution tolerance increases the slug-eater snakes, spatial temporal changes and movement at different scales translocation proposals: the recruitment can help inform and microhabitat preferences vulnerability to climate Duberria (Lamprophiidae) threats, 1993 to 2017 to inform conservation Victorian experience chytrid fungus mitigation of anurans in Mount change in low-latitude lizards Shelley Edwards Mick Guinea strategies Kim Miller strategies Kalatungan, Bukidnon, Baojun Sun Erin Muths Matt West 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 of evolution of TSD provides Cyrtodactylus pulchellus using niche models to locate Harlequin Frogs by integrating survey methods may amphibian chytrid non-native vegetation on broad insight into thermal complex in Thailand: previously unknown captive-breeding and research negatively affect detectability transmission and improves amphibian development in limits of reptiles implication for taxonomic populations of sea snakes programs 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 citizen Erin Muths habitat manipulation in vaccinating amphibians provides micro-refuge for ectotherms will be impacted species of Cyrtodactylus science to understand drivers mitigation and post- against the chytrid fungus frogs in a fire prone by climate warming Gray, 1827 of movement in sea snakes development monitoring Taegan McMahon landscape Essie Rodgers Lee Grismer Claire Goiran Liam Russell Dean Lenga Facilitated discussion Erin Muths
14:15 Unraveling the role of body A global phylogeny of Evolutionary loss of drinking Survival strategies of the Is vegetation mapping a size in thermal maxima monitor lizards, and the response in marine snakes chytrid Batrachochytrium suitable proxy for predicting Emily Taylor contribution of competition Harold Heatwole 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 lizards Luke Harmon Batrachochytrium comparing key landscape Eric Gangloff dendrobatidis infection in the features and resilience frog Philoria loveridgei patterns Mariel Familiar Bernardo Antunes
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon tea amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building Concurrent sessions Beyond CTmax & CTmin: Diversity & Distributions 2 Reproductive Biology Amphibian Disease & Ecology Amphibian Conservation in the Population Ecology & Behavioural Ecology 4 Adaptation & Evolution 7 Advances in Studying the Anthropocene – Challenges, Monitoring Thermal Limits of Reptiles & Priorities & Solutions for the Amphibians 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 environmental Seasonal dynamics and Biomechanical modeling of Special Issue European amphibians and development in Southeast temperature, dose, life stage, Erin Muths DNA metabarcoding calling behaviour of the turtle jaws: linking brevirostry Rory Telemeco reptiles are jointly Asian Rhacophorid frogs and taxonomy influence host approach for monitoring terrestrial-breeding and edentulism in Testudines determined by multiple (Anura: Rhacophoridae: susceptibility to amphibian species in tropical microhylid Cophixalus Domenic D'Amore drivers Philautus) Batrachochytrium forests australis Mattia Falaschi Laurence Etter dendrobatidis Carla M Lopes Ross Alford Erin Sauer Discussion and writing for Facilitated discussion Special Issue Erin Muths Rory Telemeco
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 an Otago Skink (Oligosoma the nocturnal túngara frog shell-adapted respiratory (Lampropholis delicata )? Baw Baw frog amphibian pathogen using an otagense ) at Ōrokonui (Engystomops pustulosus ) on apparatus: the turtle Jules Farquhar Deon Gilbert optimized extraction method Ecosanctuary Isla Taboga, Panama dilemma(s) Laura Brannelly Vanitha Elangovan Heather Gray Markus Lambertz
15:50 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 environmental Sex or candy? Behavioral changes High variability in Red Tree The unexpected genetic Comparative studies of egg drivers of global diversity Neuroendocrine mechanisms throughout the span of Frog advertisement calls may mating system of a terrestrial tooth development in patterns in lizards of seasonal life-history Batrachochytrium act as buffer to breeding toadlet squamate reptiles Alex Skeels transitions in garter snakes salamandrivorans (Bsal ) anthropogenic disturbance (Pseudophryne coriacea ) Mateusz Hermyt Deborah Lutterschmidt infection in various Brittany Mitchell Daniel O'Brien 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 Discussion and writing for Special Issue Rory Telemeco
16:15 Climate extremes, variability How to (un)make a sexy Look, that salamander is Agricultural intensification Genetic benefits of extreme Intertwined evolution of and trade shape snake: suppression of female being eaten alive! driven landscape sequential polyandry in a swimming, morphology and 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 detection reintroduction of the agile method in the surveillance of frog in a human-dominated amphibian pathogen landscape Batrachochytrium Louise Masters salamandrivorans David Lastra Gonzalez
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16:30 Cryptic diversity and Effects of polyandrous mating Bioacoustics reveal the calling Sexual dimorphism and evolution of Asian horned on fertilization, embryo activity of an endangered reproductive ecology of the toads (Megophryidae) survival and offspring frog (Philoria kundagungan ) South-American rattlesnake, Jinmin Chen development in the emerald in response to climate Crotalus durissus in the treefrog David Newell Brazilian Cerrado Yuan-cheng Cheng María Hoyos
1635 Breeding behavior of Indochinese Spitting Cobra (Naja siamensis ) in Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand Curtis Radcliffe
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 17:00 - 17:45 Keynote: Life on the edge – unlocking the secrets of a Lost World Phillipe Kok Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed)
18:00 - 19:00 Poster session, even poster board numbers presented Venue: The Common Room, ISB Link Building
19:00 - 20:00 WCH Annual General Meeting & Presentations of Bids to Host WCH10 (all delegates) Venue: Castle 1 & Castle 2 (video streamed) Thursday 9 January 2020
08:00 - 18:00 Registration open Venue: ISB Link Building 08:30 - 09:15 Keynote: The evolutionary ecology of family living in lizards 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: collaborative Introduction A review of the conservation Novel, cost efficient and Modeling incubation Detecting selection in urban Germany, the hotspot of Bsal planning in threatened Marta Vidal - Gacia status of the Galapagos minimally destructive microclimates to predict dragons with a comparison of emergence species recovery Islands terrestrial snakes methodology for sequencing impacts of climate change on 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. acute and geographic distribution Batrachochytrium long-lived terrestrial frog at microhylids herpetofauna: Beyond Best high molecular weight DNA and heat stress in a montane, of Fejervarya cancrivora salamandrivorans equates to risk in New Zealand Mark D. Scherz Management Practices long-read genome sequencing desert lizard complex from Thailand and high invasion probability in Ben Bell Deanna (Dede) Olson technologies Jeanine Refsnider nearby countries 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 Baja method applied to the olm hypothesis hold across lizards Frogs (Rana spp.) across the virulence of James Reardon California Peninsula, Mexico (Proteus anguinus ) of different body size? East-Palearctic Batrachochytrium Jesús Mauricio Rodríguez Judit Vörös Federico Massetti Siti Norhidayah Binti Othman salamandrivorans Canseco Edward Carter 10:15 Restoring the Critically Analysis of ultraconserved Zoo-led collaboration for Surveying frogs from the bellies Upper voluntary thermal limit Managing host density and Endangered mountain elements supports African conservation: gecko of their parasites and water loss in a temperate habitat structure could chicken in the face of origins of narrow-mouthed monitoring on Matiu/Somes Timothy Cutajar viviparous gecko: an influence contact rates and chytridiomycosis frogs Island interactive effect transmission of Jeff Dawson Jeffrey Streicher Chye-mei Huang Christian Chukwuka Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Matthew Gray 10:30 - 11:00 Morning tea amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building 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 Invasive Brink of Extinction: Conservation Conservation Physiology of Reptiles & Amphibians 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 11:00 How the "World's rarest Recent advances on the The role of reproductive Consequences of keystone Conservatism and plasticity in 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 the ecophysiology of a lizard expertise: New Zealand’s molecular study of the implications for other biology of cophyline frogs of captive breeding programs fragmented agricultural across a steep environmental Island Eradication Advisory widespread genus endangered Caribbean the genus Plethodontohyla Aimee Silla landscapes 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 post- Filling in the phylogenetic critically endangered subfamily Hoplophrynine reproductive techniques to a archeyi in disturbed and thermoregulatory behaviour 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 polychroma ) behavioural variation to and rapid response for cryptic misleading? – the case of Gunner’s Quoin, Mauritius Marta Vidal-Garcia mountain yellow-legged frog, following mitigation territory thermal quality and species: a review of current Mediterranean amphibians Nik Cole Rana muscosa translocation fitness in an African lizard 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 habitat response: modeling to and timetree estimates in Achoque (Ambystoma East-Asia maintained by treefrogs respond to mine site use in novel environments advance identification of Lissamphibia dumerilii ) insularization Leah Jacobs restoration? Carla Piantoni optimal management Karen Siu-Ting Gerardo Garcia Atsushi Tominaga Sophie Cross Staci Amburgey Empowering communities Relict distribution of Examining variation in sperm The influence of species Decision analysis for early Inadvertent paralog inclusion and new generations in Lake Microhyla in the Ryukyu response in divergent assemblages on detection and rapid drives artefactual topologies Patzcuaro: the case of Archipelago: high diversity in populations of Red-eyed thermoregulation and habitat response: modeling to and timetree estimates in Achoque (Ambystoma East-Asia maintained by treefrogs use in novel environments advance identification of Lissamphibia dumerilii ) insularization Leah Jacobs Carla Piantoni optimal management Karen Siu-Ting Gerardo Garcia Atsushi Tominaga 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
12:00 - 13:00 SRARNZ Annual General Meeting (members only) Venue: Castle C 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building 12:15 - 12:45 Film: Herpetologists Past and Present Venue: Castle 1 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 Invasive Brink of Extinction: Conservation Conservation Physiology of Reptiles & Amphibians 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 13:00 The Golden Mantella frog: a Microhylids of India: could Nasal GnRH administration Insights from evolution and Discussion Using environmental DNA Spatial ecology of an species on the way to new discoveries from India elicits sperm production in biomechanics reveal form- Alison Cree sampling to delimit a endangered amphibian recovery? untangle the colonization both Bufonidae and Ranidae function relationships in reptile European newt invasion in Litoria raniformis within Rodlis Raphali routes of Asian microhylids? Allison Julien eggshells Australia modified Tasmanian Andriantsimanarilafy Sonali Garg Liliana D'Alba Reid Tingley landscapes Tim Garvey Discussion Alison Cree
13:15 The Madagascar ploughshare Recent progress in studies of Obtaining gametes by Evolution of skin Camera traps for early Habitat selection and spatial tortoise programme – Asian narrow-mouthed frogs hormonal induction from hydrophobicity in Australian detection and rapid response ecology of a hot-spring between recovery and (Anura: Microhylidae) Australian temperate frog geckos (Diplodactylidae and and management of an endemic toad extinction of an iconic species Nikolay A. Poyarkov species: differential Carphodactylidae) invasive reptile Brian Halstead Matt Goetz phylogenetic and sex Jendrian Riedel Staci Amburgey responses John Clulow
13:30 Recovering the white-bellied There and back again: Development and application Evolutionary morphology of Targeted eDNA sampling for Braiding data streams: frog in south-west Western invasions of Microhyla of assisted reproductive osteoderms in anguimorph cryptic, arboreal snakes building an Integrated Australia: successes, (Amphibia: Microhylidae) technologies in several lizards based on microhabitat Population Model for the challenges and the frogs from Southeast Asia to endangered Panamanian Bryan Minne selection Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog, importance of collaborations India amphibian species Melia Nafus Rana boylii Kay Bradfield Vladislav Gorin Gina Della Togna Jonathan Rose
13:35 Dietary specialisation in fang 3D shape and sharpness of venomous snakes Silke Cleuren Discussion Alison Cree
Recovering the white-bellied There and back again: Development and application Targeted eDNA sampling for Braiding data streams: frog in south-west Western invasions of Microhyla of assisted reproductive cryptic, arboreal snakes building an Integrated Australia: successes, (Amphibia: Microhylidae) technologies in several based on microhabitat Population Model for the challenges and the frogs from Southeast Asia to endangered Panamanian selection Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog, importance of collaborations India amphibian species Melia Nafus Rana boylii Kay Bradfield Vladislav Gorin Gina Della Togna Jonathan Rose
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 and two of Australia’s most of research on the frog family populations of the Southern enlargement in toad-eating development for invasive nest quality on mating threatened lizards 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 and Marlene Baling bluetongue lizards and management burrowing spiders Amanda Gillis Jessica Clayton
14:15 Generation of amphibians Limb reduction in skinks Two contrasting incursions of Population genetics of timber from cryopreserved sperm: (Squamata: Scincidae): a Lampropholis delicata in New rattlesnake populations in proof of capacity for comparative analysis based on Zealand’s South Island Northeastern United States development beyond morphological literature Rod Hitchmough Anne Stengle metamorphosis Marco Camaiti Rose Upton
14:30 Linking in situ and ex situ Longevity is not influenced by Rapid eradication tool testing Using environmental DNA to populations of threatened metabolic rates across the for invasive amphibians: map winter hibernacula in amphibians using the vertebrate tree of life Duttaphrynus melanostictus temperate freshwater turtles National Amphibian Genome Gavin Stark in Madagascar Wenxi Feng Bank James Reardon Carrie Vance Open discussion: the future of research on the frog family Microhylidae Marta Vidal - Garcia
Discussion Jeff Dawson
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
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon tea amongst the exhibition 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 Invasive Conservation 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 and response captures individual an uninvited guest to the from a poorly surveyed containment and eradication growth rates relevant to management of the future efforts to conserve and geographic variation in Mediterranean herpetofauna African country: Equatorial strategies population dynamics of long- endangered Mountain Yellow- anuran biodiversity temperature-dependent sex Roy Talbi Guinea Dylan Van Winkel lived reptiles? 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 turtles on endangered and endemic macrohabitat analyses to Madagascar, when EDRR fails lizard, Takydromus toyamai : biobanking to meet IUCN 100- for amphibian biobanking Mark Feldman amphibians of the Peruvian understand niche evolution in Karen Freeman life history traits, population year, 90 percent Aimee Silla & Natalie Andes European cave salamanders genetics, and conservation heterozygosity criteria Calatayud Andrew Watson Gentile Francesco Ficetola measures Lachlan Howell Mamoru Toda
16:00 Habitat choice of hatchling Thermal plasticity in Preliminary analysis on Implications of continuous Murray River Turtles metabolic physiology in a network-scale effects of amphibian diversity (Emydura macquarii): widespread Australian lizard invasive species on spatially- monitoring in Daweishan of informing headstarting Daniel Noble structured amphibian tropical SE Yunnan, China programmes populations Jian Wang Claudia Santori Raoul Manenti Discussion session: developing a global strategy for amphibian biobanking Aimee Silla & Natalie Calatayud
Habitat choice of hatchling Preliminary analysis on Murray River Turtles network-scale effects of (Emydura macquarii): invasive species on spatially- informing headstarting structured amphibian programmes populations Claudia Santori 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
16:30 Superior start to life? Effect Incubation temperatures and of carotenoids on the growth intestinal length, are they and development of telling us something about sea corroboree frogs turtle hatchling survival? Emma McInerney Debra Miller Discussion session: developing a global strategy for amphibian biobanking Aimee Silla & Natalie Calatayud
Superior start to life? Effect Incubation temperatures and of carotenoids on the growth intestinal length, are they and development of telling us something about sea corroboree frogs turtle hatchling survival? Emma McInerney Debra Miller
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16:45 - 17:00 Delegates move to plenary session 17:00 - 17:45 Keynote: Sending them south: appraising assisted colonisation of reptiles threatened by climate change Nicki Mitchell Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed)
18:00 - 23:00 Congress dinner (ticketed event) Venue: Dunedin Town Hall, 1 Harrop Street (Please make your own way to and from the Dunedin Town Hall) Friday 10 January 2020
08:00 - 18:30 Registration open Venue: ISB Link Building 08:30 - 09:15 Keynote: Using an integrative approach to explore the diversity and evolution of amphibians and reptiles in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 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? Intestinal The global effort to conserve Aggressive behaviors and Origins of lizard diversity in Tuatara conservation through Tiger Snakes immunity across nonnative coccidians disrupt the amphibians under threat their effect on resource use the continental island of Sri Māori involvement in policy Vicki Thomson populations of differing ages thermoregulatory response Phil Bishop by female Little Brown Skinks, Lanka: insights from scincid Louisa Paul in Leiocephalus carinatus to tick infestation Scincella lateralis lizards Natalie Claunch Rodrigo Megía-Palma Mark Paulissen Kanishka Ukuwela
09:45 Repeated evolution of insular Impacts of locust control Enteric bacteria in sleepy World’s largest tropical island Social tactics and dominance Peacocks of the lizard world: Conservation management of dwarfism across three reptile pesticides on the physiology lizards vary in richness, may provide refuge from the relationships in a long-lived phylogeny and taxonomy of New Zealand frogs species with population and and behaviour of the central prevalence and co- amphibian chytrid fungus reptile, the eastern water the spectacular African flat Amanda Haigh functional genomic insights bearded dragon occurrence patterns Batrachochytrium dragon, Intellegama lesueurii lizards (Platysaurus ) Tonia Schwartz Isabella Contador-Kelsall Ko-Huan Lee dendrobatidis Sarah Ball Mitzy Pepper 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 climate can detection dogs be used for sympatric skink species: phylogenetic relationships conservation in New Zealand latitudinal gradient in a snakes (Elaphe spp.) in predict the distribution of conservation? Oligosoma otagense and O. and biogeography of James Reardon widespread amphibian Fukushima Japan parasites in lizards? Deon Gilbert grande Hemiphyllodactylus (Reptilia: Anssi Laurila Hannah Gerke Rodrigo Megía-Palma Penny Jacks Gekkonidae) in Yunnan Karsts 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 the Conservation progress for Frog Limnodynastes investigate trophic transfer of a preliminary vaccine successful conservation story of skink Eugongylus rufescens critically endangered lizard tasmaniensis call races using mercury and radiocesium in increase amphibian the Admirable Red-Belly Toad (Shaw, 1802) (Scincidae) taxa in Aotearoa/New Zealand large-scale citizen science Nerodia floridana resistance to chytridiomycosis in Brazil Glenn Shea Jo Monks data Melissa Pilgrim Anthony Waddle Michelle Abadie Kathy Potter
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1030 - 1100 Morning tea amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building Concurrent sessions Herps in the City: Disease Ecology (pathogens) Amphibian Genome Amphibian Conservation Sociality of Amphibians & Ecology (Nesting & Improving the Interface Mechanisms of Responses to Assembly & Evolution Research Symposium (ACRS) Reptiles Incubation) between Research & 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 1100 World Wide Web portals for Polyploidy and adaptation in Understanding why Scaly sociality: testing for the The effect of constant egg Conservation of Nationally The use of community herpetofaunal pathogen data Australian burrowing frogs endangered frogs survive or presence of kin-based incubation temperatures Critical Chesterfield skinks in science to study the ecology Deanna (Dede) Olson Neobatrachus perish on a tiny scale sociality in Australian and across life stages in the situ – a response to changing of herpetofauna in cities Polina Novikova Emily Hoffmann African Lizards brown anole climate and risks Bree Putman Julia Riley Jenna Pruett Lynn Adams
1115 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 Midland influence their own sexual management of Data innate behavioural trait in a pathogen dynamics toad (Pelobates cultripes) should care for farm animals Painted Turtles (Chrysemys destinies Deficient and Data Poor lizard lizard Gonçalo Rosa Ivan Gomez-Mestre too picta marginata ) Yinzi Ye taxa: progress, challenges, James Baxter-Gilbert Luis Fernando Marin da Fonte Carter Rouleau future directions Carey Knox
1120 Social tolerance behaviour in a reptile, the Eastern water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii ): a new perspective Coralie Delme Bold New World: Emerging or enzootic? Sequencing and annotation Saving cows, saving frogs: if The embryos of turtles can NZ conservation urbanisation promotes an Disruption of long-term host- of the Western Spadefoot you love amphibians, you influence their own sexual management of Data innate behavioural trait in a pathogen dynamics toad (Pelobates cultripes) should care for farm animals destinies Deficient and Data Poor lizard lizard Gonçalo Rosa Ivan Gomez-Mestre too Yinzi Ye taxa: progress, challenges, James Baxter-Gilbert Luis Fernando Marin da Fonte future directions Carey Knox
1125 Aggregative behaviour in New Zealand’s native lizards Stephanie Godfrey
1130 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 inform endangered Minervarya social conflict in a family- hatchling success of box research meets ecological isotope profiling of eastern ranging invasive pythons in the evolution of Anuran sex greenii (Amphibia: living skink? turtles (Terrapene carolina ) restoration: assessing early water dragons southern Florida, United 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 Steven Tillis Meegamage Chamara geckos Prabhath Manuela Barry
1135 Q+A Julia Riley
1145 One hundred years of Species-dependent Genomic and transcriptomic A primer of amphibian research The role of spatial structure Incubation temperature Captive management for urbanisation makes an amplification of Ranavirus insights into the molecular and conservation in Pakistan: on the social dynamics of the affects the color expression conservation – ex situ endangered species of prevalence and infection basis of sexually dimorphic current situation and the way estuarine crocodile and embryonic development interventions past, present Canberra’s Grassland Earless severity in multi-host spines in Leptobrachium forward Crocodylus porosus of a terrestrial salamander and future Dragon amphibian communities leishanense Muhammad Rais Cameron Baker Annette Evans Richard Gibson Stephen Sarre David Lesbarrères Jun Li
1200 - 1300 WCH Executive Meeting (members only) Venue: St David A & B 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building Concurrent sessions Herps in the City: Physiology 1 Amphibian Genome Amphibian Conservation Sociality of Amphibians & Adaptation & Evolution 9 Improving the Interface Mechanisms of Responses to Assembly & Evolution Research Symposium (ACRS) Reptiles between Research & Human-Induced Management for Environmental Change Conservation of New Zealand Reptiles & Frogs
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 Effects of larval ultraviolet-B The axolotl genome Research to conservation Social structure of the Spiny- Plasticity allows colonization, Enhancing conservation large urban-adapted exposure regime on Siegfried Schloissnig practice through Durrell’s SAFE Tailed Iguana, Ctenosaura and adaptation leads to management of New venomous snake physiology, performance and Strategy 2014-2020 similis : network, personality, incipient speciation in a fire Zealand’s lizards – the Bill Bateman condition of Litoria caerulea 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 of Anuran larvae exhibit lower Improving and using a Climate change impacts on Parental care by male Intraspecific differentiation A translocated population 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 southern frenatus ) natural predator axolotl genome increased risks of extinction den-master found in an lizards in the northeastern ecosanctuary: are females Yingyod Lapwong Gustavo Adolfo Agudelo Jeramiah Smith Christopher Raxworthy upstream section Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 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 geckos Gibbs line and amphibian antioxidant defense Mark Wilkinson distribution of the Madagascan evolution of display contact, and ecology in to sanctuary management in conservation responses to ammonia stress golden mantella in the face of complexity in agamid lizard diversification and speciation pest-invaded environments David Skelly in three fresh water turtle climate change Phrynocephalus przewalskii of a temperate frog of New Zealand species Richard Griffiths from China Stephen Lougheed Trent Bell Cuijuan Niu Yin Qi
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 14:00 Green infrastructure from Effects of maternal diet on Differential introgression DNA-based methods for Allobates femoralis : an Premating reproductive Discusion 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 Japanese Titicaca water frog: Bolivia and reaches its peak: Egernia in Sulawesi flying lizards agriculture on the 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 amphibian Cryptic and failed speciation energetic consequences for ventricular septum and populations – a case study in Sulawesi flying lizards 2: reptiles cardiac conduction system Samanatha Wallace evidence for mito-nuclear James Paterson across Sauropsida Dobzhansky-Muller Martina Gregorovicova incompatibilities Alexander Stubbs
14:45 The Brisbane Python Project: Spatio-temporal architecture Antibiotic susceptibility profiles Genetic diversity and mito- how mitigated translocations of pancreatic islets in grass of Salmonella species isolated nuclear discordance in potentially affect urban snake embryos from captive amphibians and Neotropical toads (Rhinella ) pythons in Brisbane Magdalena Kowalska reptiles in Uganda Danielle Rivera Chantelle Derez James Watuwa
14:50 ACRS discussion session
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon tea amongst the exhibition Venue: ISB Link Building Concurrent sessions Herps in the City: Ecophysiology 3 Taxonomy & Phylogenetics 7 Human Impacts Host-Parasite & Disease Mechanisms of Responses to Ecology 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 effects parasites—the defensive role assemblages in natural versus adaptative capacity for global Exons: examples from all on reptiles and amphibians of tetrodotoxin against anthropogenic habitats in change? squamates and New Samantha Dean infections in newts Israel Craig Williams Caledonian geckos Amber Stokes Boaz Shacham Todd Jackman
15:45 The bioaccumulation of Evidence for ancient Impacts of agriculture and Threat assessment of Taruga contaminants across an hybridization between the roads on amphibians in the 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 a drive amphibian reservoir responses to climate Renee Catullo 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 sizes problems of Huia (Amphibia, plants in the Balkans and amphibians and where to find season of lizards Shai Meiri Ranidae): which one is the impact on local amphibian them Joshua Hall 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 head hydrological change on a reliability of testosterone and survival in urban areas physiology and growth in shape in lizards on two freshwater turtle dewlap coloration of Anolis Sarin Tiatragul delicate skinks? peculiar islands in the Adriatic Anthony Santoro sagrei ? Madeleinede Jong Simon Baeckens Jhan-Wei Lin 16:45 Delegates move to plenary session
17:00 - 17:45 Keynote: Atlantic forest herps and their responses to environmental shifts: past, present, and future Ana Carnaval Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed) 17:45 - 18:00 Closing ceremony and awards (all delegates) Venue: St David & Castle 1 (video streamed)
Saturday 11 January 2020
09:45 - 14:45 Orokonui Ecosanctuary fieldtrip (ticketed event) Venue: Please meet in the ISB Link Building
08:00 - 19:00 Otago Peninsula coastal walk fieldtrip (ticketed event) Venue: Please meet in the ISB Link Building