94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)
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COS 66 - Amphibian Decline and Chytridiomycosis

Wednesday, August 5, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Ruidoso, Albuquerque Convention Center
Presider:
Kevin G. Smith
1:30 PM
COS 66-1
Laboratory studies on the effects of roadway deicing and anti-icing salts to larval anurans
David A. Pillard, AECOM Environment
1:50 PM
COS 66-2
Selecting for extinction: Disease causes nonrandom extinction and homogenizes amphibian biotas
Kevin G. Smith, Washington University in St. Louis; Jonathan M. Chase, Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory; Karen Lips, University of Maryland
2:10 PM
COS 66-3
Topological and geometric properties of amphibian distribution for large scale conservation
Xiongwen Chen, Alabama A&M University
2:30 PM
COS 66-4
Seasonal and elevational patterns of chytrid infection in pond-breeding frogs in Central America
Sandra P. Galeano, Louisiana State University; Karen Lips, University of Maryland; Allan P. Pessier, Zoological Society of San Diego
2:50 PM
COS 66-5
An examination of amphibian sensitivity to environmental contaminants: Are amphibians poor canaries?
Jacob Kerby, University of South Dakota; Kathryn Richards-Hrdlicka, Yale University; Andrew Storfer, Washington State University; David K. Skelly, Yale University
3:10 PM
COS 66-
Break
3:20 PM
COS 66-6
Hanging out with the cool frogs: Operative and body temperature effects on population response to disease
Sarah N. Becker, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Karen Lips, University of Maryland; Michael Sears, Clemson University
3:40 PM
COS 66-7
Ontogenetic variation in resistance and tolerance of amphibian species to three trematodes
Callyn Hall, University of South Florida; Thomas R. Raffel, Oakland University; Jason R. Rohr, University of South Florida
4:00 PM
COS 66-8
Amphibian longevity predicts susceptibility to habitat alterations: A meta-analysis
Amber A. Burgett, Washington University in St. Louis; Tiffany M. Knight, Washington University in St. Louis; James R. Vonesh, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jonathan M. Chase, Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory
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