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PARENT SESSIONOral Session # 94: Pathogens, Toxins, and Disease III. Presiding: C Duffie Friday, August 8. 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM, SITCC Meeting Room 200. 8:30 AM McCallum, Hamish*,1, Gerber, Leah2, Lafferty, Kevin3, Dobson, Andrew4, 1 University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona3 USGS, Santa Barbara, California4 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Exposing population viability analysis to disease. 8:45 AM Taub , Frieda *,1, 1 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Aquatic community metabolism: Effects of toxic chemicals in microcosms. 9:00 AM Relyea, Rick*,1, 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Controlling pests and killing amphibians. 9:15 AM Blaustein, Andrew*,1, Han, Barbara1, Lisa, Belden5, Kiesecker, Joseph6, Chivers, Doug3, Marco, Adolfo4, Fasy, Elizabeth1, Kats, Lee2, 1 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA5 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA6 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA3 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada4 Doņana Biological Station, Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain2 Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, USA Are amphibians exposed to harmful levels of ultraviolet-B radiation? 9:30 AM Davidson, Carlos1, 1 Environmental Studies Department, Sacramento, CA, USA Historical pesticide use and California amphibian declines. 9:45 AM Rohr, Jason*,1, Elskus, Adria1, Shepherd, Brian1, Crowley, Philip1, McCarthy, Thomas1, Niedzwiecki, John1, Sih, Andy1, 2, Palmer, Brent1, 1 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY2 University of California at Davis, Davis, CA Effects of the herbicide atrazine and food limitation on the survival, life-history, and behavior of streamside salamanders. 10:00 AM Break. 10:15 AM Brunner, Jesse, Collins, James, The importance of a complex life history in the long-term persistence of a lethal virus in seasonally abundant salamander populations. 10:30 AM Murphy, Peter*,1, Lips, Karen2, 1 Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, USA2 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA UV-B and water temperature unlikely cofactors in Central American amphibian declines due to pathogenic chytrid. 10:45 AM Altizer, Sonia*,1, Davis, Andrew1, 1 Emory University, Atlanta, GA Individual infection risk and epidemics of mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in wild House Finches. 11:00 AM Hosseini, Parviez*,1, Slothower, Roger1, Cooch, Evan2, Hochachka , Wesley1, Dobson, Andy3, Dhondt, Andre, 1 Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY2 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY3 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Explaining local variation in the spread of Mycoplasma gallisepticum in House Finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) in the Eastern United States. 11:15 AM Kilpatrick, A. Marm*,1, 1 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA The effects of predation and disease on the evolution of resistance to malaria in Hawaiian honeycreepers (Drepanidinae). 11:30 AM Garcia, Tiffany*,1, Romansic, John1, Blaustein, Andrew1, 1 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA Interacting effects of ultraviolet radiation and disease on the survivorship of three amphibian species. |