Human Dimensions of Conservation

Moderator: Dr. Justin Brashares, UC-Berkeley

Kaitlyn Gaynor - Pathways through which war and armed conflict affect wildlife populations and habitats

Robert Heilmayr - Private governance of land use change: effectiveness of voluntary agreements and forest certification in Chile

Gillian Gregory - Impacts of an informal economic institution on fisheries conservation and rural livelihoods in the Peruvian Amazon

Kathryn Fiorella - Health and Natural Resources: Fish-for-Sex Relationships Around Lake Victoria

Alex McInturff - Toward A Hunting Footprint: Regional Patterns of Wild Game Depletion and Dependence in Eastern and Southern Africa

Organismal Ecology & Conservation

Moderator: Dr Ridolfo Dirzo, Stanford

Silas Ellison - Disease and the skin microbiome of an endangered frog, Rana sierrae

Dena Emmerson - Singing a different tune: The effects of avian blood parasites on song in Nuttall's white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli)

Fengyi Guo - Non-passerine dove coos vary across noise gradients in urbanized environments

Lacy Smith - Shorebird response to varying salinity and water depth in an experimental design in salt pond management

Julia Ersan - Using Behavioral Ecology to Inform Management: Prey preference of neonate giant gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas) from the Sacramento Valley

 

Global Change

Moderator: Dr. David Ackerly, UC-Berkeley

Sarah Sawyer - Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation for Land Management Planning

Yu Jade Zhang - Resource-constrained population dynamics derive from maximizing Boltzmann Entropy: a new approach to predict community-level responses to global change

Lisa Micheli - Adapting ecosystems through open space conservation in the Bay Area uplands

Matthew Luskin - Long-term tree recruitment failure in in Southeast Asia driven by altered wildlife

Nathan Van Schmidt - Changes in wetlands in the Sierra rangelands: 1940s to Present

Conservation Genetics

Moderator: Dr. Ben Sacks, UC-Davis

Zachary Lounsberry - Applications of next-generation Sequencing techniques to wildlife conservation

Cate Quinn - The potential role of inbreeding depression in limiting reproductive output of Sierra Nevada red fox

Preston Alden - Native versus nonnative origins of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in the Great Basin

Laurie Hall - Connectivity of threatened rail populations links wetland habitat among the San Francisco Bay

Mark Statham - Splitting hairs: results from the range-wide population genetics study of the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris)

Jillian Bible - Multiple stressor effects on Olympia oysters: Implications for conservation and restoration

Gabrielle Bohlman - Removal of competing vegetation in post-fire areas targeted for reforestation increases understory plant species richness

Susana Cardenas - Factors influencing willingness to donate to marine endangered species recovery in the Galapagos National Park, Ecuador

Danielle Desmet - Founding Fish: Assessing Bottlenecked Rainwater Killifish Populations using a Functional Locus

Sara ElShafie - Paleogene temperature estimates from body size in glyptosaurine lizards (Squamata: Anguidae) for the interior of North America

Kaitlyn Gaynor - Reassembling an ecosystem: the science of large-scale restoration at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Tali Hammond - Individualistic responses to environmental change: exploring stress in two chipmunk species

Katelyn Ludwig - Communities as bio-indicators: pairing aquatic macroinvertebrates with riparian flora to assess the biotic integrity of headwater streams disturbed by cattle in the Warner Mountains

Beth Morrison - The effects of deforestation on community structure and mutualistic interactions in the tropics

Cierra Scriven - Impacts of passive versus active restoration of Spartina foliosa on sediment characteristics in salt marshes of the San Francisco Bay

Justine Smith - What’s in the bag? Citizen science as a tool for efficient non-invasive sample collection