Session: Conservation Management I (98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013))

8:00 AM

COS 86-1

Collaboration among countries in marine conservation can achieve substantial efficiencies
Tessa Mazor, The University of Queensland

8:20 AM

COS 86-2

Determination of baseline ecological conditions in the humid highlands of Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos, Ecuador
Emily E. D. Coffey, University of Oxford - Long-term Ecology Laboratory; Katherine J. Willis, University of Oxford

8:40 AM

COS 86-3

Measuring the success of the Endangered Species Act: examining progress toward recovery
Tierra R. Curry, Center for Biological Diversity; Kieran Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity; David N. Greenwald, Center for Biological Diversity

9:00 AM

COS 86-4

Learning about colonization under an adaptive management framework
Darren M. Southwell, The University of Melbourne; Michael A. McCarthy, The University of Melbourne; Geoffrey W. Heard, The University of Melbourne

9:20 AM

COS 86-5

Learning from models: Individual-based models inform field data collection priorities for the gopher tortoise
Virginia A. Kowal, Ecological Services and Markets, Inc.; Douglas J. Bruggeman, Ecological Services and Markets, Inc; Amelie Schmolke, Michigan State University

9:40 AM

COS 86-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 86-6

Fire, a threatened plant and an endangered butterfly: A study of Kinkaid's lupine and Fender's blue butterfly in Oregon's Willamette Valley
Norah Warchola, Tufts University; Elizabeth Crone, Tufts University; Cheryl B. Schultz, Washington State University Vancouver

10:10 AM

COS 86-7

Prioritizing land for oak savanna conservation using species distribution models (SDMs) and two umbrella species: Wild lupine (Lupinus perennis) and the Karner Blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis)
Jason R. Reinhardt, University of Minnesota; Linda M. Nagel, University of Minnesota; Christopher W. Swanston, USDA Forest Service; Heather Keough, US Forest Service

10:30 AM

COS 86-8

Use of point counts to estimate butterfly densities
Erica H. Henry, North Carolina State University; Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University

11:10 AM Cancelled

COS 86-9

Relationship between light availability and benthic community structure in the Florida Keys (widthdrawn)
Jennifer Sweatman, Florida International University; James W. Fourqurean, Florida International University

10:50 AM

COS 86-10

LANDFIRE: Learning from the past, shaping the future of large scale land management
Randy Swaty, The Nature Conservancy; Sarah Hagen, The Nature Conservancy; Kori Blankenship, The Nature Conservancy; Jim Smith, The Nature Conservancy; Jeannie Patton, The Nature Conservancy

COS 86 - Conservation Management I