Session: Conservation Management I (97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012))

1:30 PM

COS 9-1

A spatially-explicit population viability analysis for the desert tortoise
Steven P. Campbell, University of Arizona; Robert J. Steidl, University of Arizona; Erin R. Zylstra, University of Arizona

1:50 PM

COS 9-2

Threats to persistence of the rare orchid Erasanthe henrici in Madagascar
Kathryn E. Theiss, University of Connecticut; Kent E. Holsinger, University of Connecticut

2:10 PM

COS 9-3

Evaluating relative impacts of habitat loss and invasive species on an endemic songbird species to guide sustainable management decisions
Jill A. Awkerman, US EPA; Nathan H. Schumaker, US EPA; Ross S. Lunetta, US EPA; William A. Gould, International Institute of Tropical Forestry

2:30 PM Cancelled

COS 9-4

Using decision models to assist Vital Signs Monitoring in National Parks: A prototype using sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in coastal Alaska (widthdrawn)
Angela Romito, University of Georgia; Michael J. Conroy, University of Georgia; James T. Peterson, USGS Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Oregon State University; Nathan P. Nibbelink, University of Georgia

2:50 PM

COS 9-5

Population viability of an island endemic bird facing climate-related threats
Victoria J. Bakker, James Madison University; Luke Caldwell, Colorado State University; Scott Sillett, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Scott A. Morrison, The Nature Conservancy

3:10 PM

COS 9-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 9-6

Modeling the potential impacts of maternal age on recruitment variability: an exploration of two hypothesized portfolio effects
Carey R. McGilliard, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington

3:40 PM

COS 9-7

Multi-species hierarchical Bayesian occupancy models for examining avian community responses to Sierra Nevada National Forest management
L. Jay Roberts, PRBO Conservation Science; Ryan Burnett, PRBO Conservation Science

4:00 PM

COS 9-8

Enhancing models of species-habitat relationships with lidar remote sensing: A case study estimating the probability of burrow abandonment by the threatened gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)
Christopher P. Catano, Florida International University; James J. Angelo, University of Central Florida; I. Jack Stout, University of Central Florida

4:20 PM

COS 9-9

Moving across the border: A conservation modeling approach for migratory bat populations
Ruscena P. Wiederholt, University of Arizona; Laura Lopez-Hoffman, University of Arizona

4:40 PM

COS 9-10

Logging effects in tropical forests remain largely unknown due to a persistent methodological problem
Benjamin Ramage, Randolph-Macon College; Douglas Sheil, Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Hannah Salim, University of California, Berkeley; Matthew D. Potts, University of California, Berkeley

COS 9 - Conservation Management I