8:00 AM: Oli, Madan¹, Armitage, Kenneth², ¹ Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Gainesville, FL, USA² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Lawrence, KS, USA, How much worth is indirect fitness? A test using the yellow-bellied marmot.

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8:20 AM: Ozgul, Arpat^*,1, Oli, Madan¹, Armitage, Kenneth², ¹ Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Spatiotemporal variation of age-specific survival rates in a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation.

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8:40 AM: Quirk, Travis¹, Lariviere, Serge¹, Chivers, Douglas¹, ¹ Department of Biology, Saskatoon, SK., Canada, Reproductive investment of captive female striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis).

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9:20 AM: Gallant, Daniel^*,1, Vasseur, Liette^{1, 2}, Berube, Celine ³, Tremblay, Eric⁴, ¹ Universite de Moncton, Moncton, NB, Canada² Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada³ NSERC, Ottawa, ON, Canada⁴ Kouchibouguac National Park of Canada, Richibuctou, NB, Canada, Potential use of river otter as species indicator for evaluating ecological integrity.

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9:50 AM: Loarie, Scott ^*,1, vanAarde, Rudi², Pimm, Stuart^{1, 2}, ¹ Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Durham, NC, USA² Donservation Ecology Research Unit, Pretoria, South Africa, Water and landuse influence elephant movements in Botswana- implications for wildlife management.

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10:10 AM: Valeix, Marion^{*,1, 1}, Fritz, Hervé, ¹ French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Beauvoir-sur-Niort, France, Interference competition for water between elephants and other ungulates in a semi-arid savanna.

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10:30 AM: Dubuc, Constance^*,1, Chapais, Bernard¹, ¹ Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Feeding competition in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis): Can females by-pass the dominance order?

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10:50 AM: Chapman, Colin^{*,1, 2}, Wasserman, Michael³, Gillespie, Thomas⁴, Speirs, Michaela¹, Ziegler, Toni⁵, ¹ Anthropology Department & McGill School of Environment, Montreal, Quebec, Canada² Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, USA³ Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, California, USA⁴ Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Urbana, Illinois, USA⁵ National Primate Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, Do nutrition, parasitism, and stress have synergistic effects on red colobus populations living in forest fragments?

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11:10 AM: Calmé, Sophie^*,1, Rivera, Andrómeda¹, ¹ El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Selection of feeding trees by the Black Howler Monkey at two scales.

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