ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

PS 25 - Disease

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Exhibit Halls 1 and 2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
Assessing the susceptibility of North American plethodontid salamanders to chytrid fungal infection
Victoria M. Vazquez, University of Georgia; Betsie Rothermel, Archbold Biological Station
Impacts of an emerging forest pathogen on tick abundance and implications for Lyme disease in California
Andrea Swei, San Francisco State University; Cheryl Briggs, University of California, Berkeley; Ross Meentemeyer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Demographic changes in Arisaema triphyllum populations caused by epidemics of a systemic rust pathogen
Erin E. South, Michigan State University; Andrew M. Jarosz, Michigan State University
Field efficacy of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana in biocontrol of the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis)
Cassie M. Fairchild, Fordham University; Amy R. Tuininga, Montclair State University; Thomas J. Daniels, Fordham University
Tree versus landscape-level effects: Can basal debarking slow the spread of oak wilt?
Charlotte M. Reemts, The Nature Conservancy; Thomas A. Greene, The Nature Conservancy; David N. Appel, Texas A&M University
Stand level infection and mortality dynamics in California redwood-tanoak forests impacted by sudden oak death
Richard C. Cobb, University of Califorina Davis; Shannon C. Lynch, University of Califorina Davis; David M. Rizzo, University of California, Davis; Ross K. Meentemeyer, NC State
Landscape rodent dispersal as a triggering mechanism for rodent-borne disease outbreaks
Robert R. Parmenter, Valles Caldera Trust; Terry L. Yates, University of New Mexico