5th Annual Bay Area Conservation Biology Symposium
University of California at Berkeley	Saturday February 1^st, 2003
Valley Life Sciences Building	8.00 am - 7.30 pm

Schedule

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8:00 - 8:45 am

Check-in and registration
Coffee and tea
2063 VLSB

8:45 - 9:00 am

Opening Remarks
2060 VLSB

9:00 - 9:45 am

Plenary Session
Dr. Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy. Conservation priority-setting with biodiversity hotspots: Wrong in theory and wrong in practice
2060 VLSB

10:00 - 11:00 am	Concurrent Sessions I
	CONSERVATION POLICY & MANAGEMENT Conservation Planning Moderator: Craig Moritz 2050 VLSB
	How can we most effectively restore riparian areas: Biological, social and economic considerations (CANCELLED) Elizabeth Gray
	The importance of economics and land use change for reserve site selection David Newburn
	Defining a wildland network in the Sierra Nevada/Modoc Plateau using GIS: Methods, comparisons, and feasibility for acquisition Evan Girvetz, Fraser Shilling
	ECOLOGY EVOLUTION & DIVERSITY Avian Demography and Behavior Moderator: Walt Koenig 2060 VLSB
	Social attraction techniques stimulate group display and nesting behavior in a reintroduced population of Caribbean flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber ruber) on Guana Island, BVI Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell, Nora Rojek, Timothy Rodwell, Peter Shannon
	Marbled Murrelet demography in central California Zach Peery, Steve Beissinger
	Modeling individual variation in the western gull, Larus occidentalis Jennifer Wang, William J. Sydeman, Russell Bradley, Nadav Nur
	INVASIVE SPECIES EFFECTS Plants Moderator: Susan Harrison 2063 VLSB
	Susceptibility of California's remaining roadless grasslands to yellow starthistle invasion Jonathan Gelbard, Susan Harrison
	Measuring the ecological impact of Sudden Oak Death: Quantifying mast abundance in forests susceptible to Phytophthora ramorum Leila Hadj-Chikh, Kerri Frangioso, Keyt Fischer
	The role of fire and soil disturbances in the persistence of two endangered plants, central coastal California Jodi McGraw

11:00 - 11:20 am

Break
Coffee and tea

11:20 - 12:20 pm	Concurrent Sessions II
	CONSERVATION POLICY & MANAGEMENT Human Wildlife Interface Moderator: Wayne Getz 2050 VLSB
	The role of education in local conservation: A habitat restoration program in the central valley of California. Michael Plotkin, Dan Leroy
	Human-black bear interactions in Yosemite National Park Sean Matthews, Brenda Lackey
	Living with urban wildlife: Urban sprawl and the wildland interface Juliet Hoffman
	ECOLOGY EVOLUTION & DIVERSITY Community Ecology and Biodiversity Moderator: Andy Sih 2060 VLSB
	The evolution of beta diversity among Lesser Antillean Anolis lizards Lauren B. Buckley, Joan E. Roughgarden
	Bumblebees in montane meadows of the Sierra Nevada, California Richard Hatfield, Gretchen LeBuhn
	Plant and abiotic diversity of montane meadows in the Sierra Nevada Kathren Murrell Stevenson
	INVASIVE SPECIES EFFECTS Vertebrates Moderator: Julie Lockwood 2063 VLSB
	The impact of invasive spartina on avian communities in San Francisco bay salt marshes: Direct and indirect influences J. Cully Nordby, Andrew N. Cohen, Steve Beissinger
	The history and consequences of introduced wild turkey populations Alan Krakauer
	Influence of invasive species and cumulative watershed effects on threatened California red-legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii) distribution in a suburban stream Gordon Holtgrieve, Scott Loarie, Alan Launer

12:20 - 1:30 pm

Lunch
Poster setup
Atrium

1:30 - 2:50 pm	Concurrent Sessions III
	CONSERVATION POLICY & MANAGEMENT African Conservation Moderator: Tim Caro 2050 VLSB
	Conservation planning for an African flagship species: A strategy for Livingstone’s flying fox and the Comorian rainforest Brent Sewall, Elise F. Granek
	Ecology of bovine tuberculosis in African buffalo Paul Cross, Johan du Toit, Wayne Getz
	Effectiveness of protection strategies for large mammals in Tanzania based on long-term aerial survey data Chantal Stoner
	The impact of seismically transmitted elephant vocalization play backs on wild African elephants and the implications for conservation Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell, Jason Wood, Timothy Rodwell, David Shriver, Byron T. Arnason, Lynette Hart
	ECOLOGY EVOLUTION & DIVERSITY Phylogeography and Conservation Moderator: Per Palsboll 2060 VLSB
	Population structure and history of Rana blairi, the plains leopard frog Yvette Alva, Susan Masta, Eric Routman
	The Ecuadorian Andes as a barrier to gene flow in neotropical passerines Caroline Dingle, Thomas B. Smith
	Preliminary study of the chloroplast DNA phylogeography of the black mangrove, Avicennia germinans L. (Avicenniaceae) Alejandro Nettel-Hernanz, Richard S. Dodd
	Population genetic detection of reduction in population size Carlos Garza
	INVASIVE SPECIES EFFECTS Invertebrates Moderator: Deborah Gordon 2063 VLSB
	A ten-year study of the Argentine ant invasion at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve Nicole Heller, Deborah Gordon
	The influence of abiotic factors and temporal variation on invasion patterns of the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) Lisa DiGirolamo, Laurel Fox
	The influence of harvester ants on plant community composition in a serpentine grassland Halton Peters
	Chinese mitten crabs in San Franciscquito Creek: Tracking the invasion Scott Loarie, Gordon Holtgrieve, Alan Launer

2:50 - 3:10 pm

Break
Coffee and tea

3:10 - 4:10 pm	Concurrent Sessions IV
	CONSERVATION POLICY & MANAGEMENT Policy Perspectives Moderator: Adina Merenlender 2050 VLSB
	Land management and elephant movements in Samburu, Kenya George Wittemyer, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Henrik Rasmussen
	Wildlife need habitat off limits to humans! Mike Vandeman
	Conservation easements and the endangered species act: An unholy union? Jessica Owley
	ECOLOGY EVOLUTION & DIVERSITY Aquatic Conservation and Biology Moderator: Ed Connor 2060 VLSB
	MPAs needs assessment survey for effective management and coral reef conservation Tegan Hoffmann
	Landscape-scale influences on aquatic ecosystems: Land use and spawning habitat in the Russian River basin Jeff Opperman, Adina Merenlender, Colin Brooks, Maggi Kelley
	Saving an ocean connector: Ecological and community-based solutions for conserving the endangered North Pacific loggerhead turtle Hoyt Peckham, Wallace J. Nichols, Peter H. Dutton, Javier Villavicencio
	INVASIVE SPECIES EFFECTS Communities Moderator: Mary Power 2063 VLSB
	Effect of disturbance by mammals on abundance of native and non-native plants in a coastal grassland in northern California Peter Alpert, Madeline Scheintaub
	Top-down from the bottom-up: Indirect effect of species introductions to islands Eric Danner, Jim Estes, Don Croll, Jon Maron

4:30 - 5:15 pm	Keynote Address Dr. Tyrone Hayes, UC Berkeley 2060 VLSB
	From silent spring to silent night: Modern-day pesticides and endocrine disruption in amphibians Tyrone Hayes

5:30 - 6:30 pm

Poster Session
Wine and cheese
Atrium

1.	Effects of sudden oak death on coast live oak woodland vegetation structure Letty Brown, Barbara Allen-Diaz

2.	Watershed restoration: A case study of limiting factors vs. local realities in the Russian River watershed Juliet Christian-Smith

3.	Diet for an endangered insect: What does the Zayante band-winged grasshopper eat? Jennifer Chu, Rachel O'Malley

4.	Distribution of native and introduced bird species in the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden: GIS analysis of habitat preferences Christopher Colvin, Meiling Cabral, Elisa Fanchiang, Nick Foster-Mann, Madhuri Sudan, William Monahan

5.	Using fecal DNA to examine dispersal and gene flow between populations of desert bighorn sheep Clinton Epps

6.	Seed dispersal of Umbellularia californica and other trees by Western Gray squirrels Michael Faden

7.	Correlations between historic land-use and physical characteristics of Massachusetts forests: A tool for conservation planning Joel Gerwein

8.	Changes in populations of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) in Elkhorn Slough, California Juliet Hoffman

9.	Efficient and effective selection of land preserves: Why the gap between academics and practioners? Suzanne Langridge, Julie Lockwood

10.	The influence of Carpobrotus edulis on arbuscular mycorrhizae in a coastal sage scrub community in northern California Victoria Martinez

11.	Coliform monitoring in a pristine watershed Rohana Mayer

12.	Habitat shortage vs. life history feature incompatibility: Quantitative assessment of factors limiting numbers of a critically endangered Hawaiian solitaire William Monahan, Jherime L. Kellermann, Erik J. Tweed, Bethany L. Woodworth

13.	Effects of the invasive tree Maesopsis eminii on the ecology of Ngezi Forest, Tanzania, and implications for reserve management Alex Nord

14.	Phylogeography and characterization of larval dispersal within the California current by two estuarine crabs Christine Petersen

15.	Bats as ecological indicators: A pilot study on the Sacramento River William Rainey, E. Pierson, C. Corben, S.B. Khandwala, C.M. Champe, B.K. Orr

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Banquet

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