1:30 PM

Kilpatrick, A. Marm*,1, Kramer, Laura2, Jones, Matthew2, Marra, Peter3, Daszak, Peter1, 1 Consortium for Conservation Medicine, New York, NY2 New York State Department of Health, Slingerlands, NY3 Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Washington, DC, The impact of urbanization on West Nile virus transmission.

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1:50 PM

Feldman, Tracy*,1, 2, O'Brien, Heath1, Arnold, A. Elizabeth1, 3, 1 Duke University, Durham, NC, USA2 Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, USA3 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, Moth transmission of mycoparasites and endophytes associated with a grass pathogen.

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2:10 PM

Seabloom, Eric*,1, Power, Alison2, Hosseini, Parviez3, Borer, Elizabeth, 1 Dept. of Zoology, Corvallis, Oregon2 Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, Individual, population, and landscape scale determinants of viral-strain diversity in native and exotic California grasses.

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2:30 PM

Forson, Diane 1, Storfer, Andrew*,1, 1 School of Biological Sciences, Pullman, WA, USA, Atrazine increases tiger salamander susceptibility to an emerging iridovirus.

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2:50 PM

Cross, Paul*,1, 2, Getz, Wayne3, 4, 1 USGS - Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, Bozeman, MT2 Montana State University, Bozeman, MT3 University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA4 University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Bovine tuberculosis in the African buffalo of the Kruger National Park, South Africa.

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3:10 PM

, Break.

3:20 PM

Schauber, Eric*,1, Kjaer, Lene1, Storm, Daniel1, 2, Nielsen, Clayton1, 1 Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, Carbondale, IL, USA2 Department of Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, USA, Contact rates among white-tailed deer in southern Illinois: effects of group membership, time, and space.

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3:40 PM

Bradley, Catherine*,1, 1 University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, Wildlife disease in urbanized landscapes: the ecology of West Nile Virus and its avian reservoir hosts.

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4:00 PM

Allan, Brian*,1, Ostfeld, Richard2, Chase, Jonathan1, 1 Washington University, Saint Louis, MO2 Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, The effects of forestry practice on human risk of tick-borne diseases in the Missouri Ozarks.

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4:20 PM

Hosseini, Parviez*,1, Borer, Elizabeth2, Seabloom, Eric2, Dobson, Andy1, 1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, USA2 Department of Zoology, Corvallis, OR, USA, Pathogen-induced reversal of native perennial dominance in a grassland community.

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4:40 PM

Brunner, Jesse*,1, Ostfeld, Richard1, 1 Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, The 80:20 rule in Lyme disease dynamics: causes and consequences of variable tick burdens on mice and chipmunks.

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