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Oral Session # 42: Mammal Ecology: From Mice to Elephants.
Presiding: H Howe
Wednesday, August 6. 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM, SITCC Meeting Room 104.

8:00 AM Suazo, Alexis*,1, 2, DeLong, Angelique 2, Bard, Alice1, Oddy, Donna 3, 1 Department of Environmental Protection, Apopka, Florida, USA2 University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA3 Dynamac Corporation, Titusville, Florida, USA Weight loss in species of the Old Field Mouse in inland and coastal Florida.

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8:15 AM Ozgul, Arpat*,1, Getz, Lowell2, Oli, Madan1, 1 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL2 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Demography of fluctuating populations: Temporal and phase-related changes in vital rates of prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster.

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8:30 AM Burke, Anna1, van der Merwe, Marius1, Brown, Joel1, 1 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Effects of seasonality on foraging in urban versus natural squirrel populations.

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8:45 AM Smith, Winston*,, Gende, Scott, Nichols, Jeffrey, Ecological correlates of flying squirrel microhabitat use and density in temperate rainforests of southeastern Alaska.

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9:00 AM CANCELLED.

9:15 AM Peck, Amanda*,1, Allen, Craig1, 1 South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Clemson, SC, USA Change in relative abundance of small mammal species through 50 years of forest restoration.

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9:30 AM Oli, Madan*,1, Armitage, Kenneth2, 1 Dept of Wildlife Ecology, Gainesville, FL, USA2 Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Lawrence, KS, USA Yellow-bellied marmot population dynamics: Demographic mechanisms of growth and decline.

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9:45 AM Break.

10:00 AM Brisbin, I. Lehr*,1, Sturek, Michael2, 1 Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, SC, USA2 School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Invasive aliens with thrifty genes: Diabetic feral swine on a southeastern coastal barrier island.

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10:15 AM Kerby, Jay*,1, Engle, David1, Fuhlendorf, Samuel1, 1 Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Stillwater, OK, USA Does foraging behavior contribute to sexual segregation in bison across all hierarchical scales?

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10:30 AM CANCELLED.

10:45 AM Keesing, Felicia*,1, 3, Goheen, Jacob2, Ostfeld, Richard3, Allan, Brian4, Misurelli, Darcy5, 1 Bard College, Annandale, NY, USA3 Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY2 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM4 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ5 Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki, Kenya Net effects of large mammals on Acacia seedling survival in an African savanna.

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