COS 77 - Behavior: Migration And Movement

Thursday, August 11, 2016: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
305, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
1:30 PM
Assessing migration ability and behavior of small fish in the Everglades
J. Matthew Hoch, Nova Southeastern University; Christopher Blanar, Nova Southeastern University; Emily Harrington, Nova Southeastern University; Chelsea Jeffers, Nova Southeastern University; Andrew Scott Donahou, Nova Southeastern University; Michele LaMartina, Nova Southeastern University; Dominique Olesen, Nova Southeastern University; Deoraj Ramsaran, Nova Southeastern University; Rachel Tonia, Nova Southeastern University
1:50 PM
Movement behavior of woodland salamanders is repeatable and varies with forest age in a fragmented landscape
Bradley J. Cosentino, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; David C. Droney, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
2:10 PM
Modeling movement patterns and resource acquisition in spatially distinct fragmentation scenarios
Jennifer Leigh Bradham, Vanderbilt University; Maria Luisa Jorge, Vanderbilt University; Brandt Gibson, Vanderbilt University; Julia Oshima, Universidade Estadual Paulista; Alexine Keuroghlian, WCS-Brazil; Milton Ribeiro, Universidade Estadual Pauliasta
2:30 PM
Geographic variability in habitat selection and movements of a marine top predator
Michael E. Byrne, Nova Southeastern University; Jeremy J. Vaudo, Nova Southeastern University; Bradley M. Wetherbee, University of Rhode Island, Nova Southeastern University; Guy M. Harvey, Nova Southeastern University; Mahmood S. Shivji, Nova Southeastern University
2:50 PM
Running safely from hunters: Movement behavior of roe deer within and outside a reserve in the Italian Alps
Simona Picardi, University of FLorida; Francesca Cagnacci, Harvard University; Mathieu Basille, University of Florida; Wibke Peters, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft (LWF); Luigi Boitani, Sapienza University of Rome
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
How do migratory populations persist under pressure?
Perla Catalina Chaparro Pedraza, Universidad of Amsterdam; André M. de Roos, University of Amsterdam
3:40 PM
Universal scaling of maximum speed with body mass: Why the largest animals are not the fastest
Myriam R. Hirt, iDiv; Walter Jetz, Yale University; Björn C. Rall, German Centre for integrative Biodiversity Research; Ulrich Brose, iDiv
4:00 PM
Habitat and individual variation in movement strategies of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) across a freshwater to estuarine gradient
Bradley Strickland, Florida International University; Michael R. Heithaus, Florida International University
4:20 PM
Movement and population spread are driven by habitat patch distribution, not the matrix, in an insect herbivore
Katherine D Holmes, Cornell University; Robert J. Fletcher Jr., University of Florida
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