COS 129 - Conservation Management 1

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM EDT

  Evaluating the potential impact of USDA-funded pollinator habitat enhancements
  

  Presenting Author: Elissa M. Olimpi – Virginia Tech

  Coauthor: Heather Grab – Cornell University

  Coauthor: Richard Iovanna – U.S. Department of Agriculture

  Coauthor: Megan O'Rourke – U.S. Department of Agriculture

  Coauthor: Sarah Karpanty – Virginia Tech
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM EDT

  Threatened green sturgeon population estimate and assessment of bycatch impact.
  

  Presenting Author: Peter N. Dudley – UCSC/NOAA

  Coauthor: Ethan A. Mora – UCSC/NOAA

  Coauthor: Nick Friedenberg – Corteva

  Coauthor: Phaedra Doukakis – NOAA
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EDT

  The evolutionary history of caribou ecotypes
  

  Presenting Author: Rebecca S. Taylor – Environment and Climate Change Canada

  Coauthor: Micheline Manseau – Landscape Science and Technology Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada

  Coauthor: Sonesinh Keobouasone – Environment and Climate Change Canada

  Coauthor: Gabriela Mastromonaco – Toronto Zoo

  Coauthor: Audrey Steedman – Parks Canada

  Coauthor: Allicia P. Kelly – Government of the Northwest Territories

  Coauthor: Nicholas C. Larter – Government of the Northwest Territories (Retired)

  Coauthor: Mary Gamberg – Gamberg Consulting

  Coauthor: Helen Schwantje – BC Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations

  Coauthor: Caeley Thacker – BC Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations

  Coauthor: Jean Polfus – Environment and Climate Change Canada

  Coauthor: Leon Andrew – Got’ı̨nę Gots’e ́ Nákedı (Sahtú Renewable Resources Board)

  Coauthor: Dave Hervieux – Government of Alberta

  Coauthor: Deborah Simmons – Got’ı̨nę Gots’e ́ Nákedı (Sahtú Renewable Resources Board)

  Coauthor: Paul J. Wilson – Environmental and Life Sciences Department, Trent University
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EDT

  Quantitative population extinction risks and qualitative population characteristics that predict extinction in rare species
  

  Presenting Author: Josh Scholl – Chicago Botanic Garden

  Coauthor: Amy M. Iler – Northwestern University, Chicago Botanic Garden
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EDT

  Forest management effects on species richness, tree diversity and functional composition of sudanian forest
  

  Presenting Author: FATIMATA NIANG – Université du Québec en Abitibi Témiscamingue

  Coauthor: Philippe Marchand – Institut de recherche sur les forêts, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

  Coauthor: Bienvenu Sambou – Institut des Sciences de l´Environnement

  Coauthor: Nicole J. Fenton, Forest Research Institute – Université du Québec en Abitibi Témiscamingue
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EDT

  17 Years of monitoring show a 91% population decline in a common anuran in an otherwise stable amphibian community
  

  Presenting Author: Claudia N. Lacroix – University of Toronto

  Coauthor: Frederick Schueler – Fragile Inheritance Natural History

  Coauthor: Njal Rollinson – University of Toronto, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of the Environment