Meeting Abstract 78.2  Sunday, Jan. 6  Will spit for food: role of target height in the spitting force of hunting archer fish. BURNETTE, MF*; ASHLEY-ROSS, MA; Wake Forest University; Wake Forest University burnmf0@wfu.edu Archer fishes (Toxotidae) are famous for their method of hunting terrestrial insects: the fish fires a stream of water from its mouth, which will […]

Meeting Abstract 78.1  Sunday, Jan. 6  Invariant feeding kinematics of two trophically distinct nonnative Florida fishes, Belonesox belizanus and Cichlasoma urophthalmus across environmental temperature regimes SLOAN, T.J.*; TURINGAN, R.G.; Florida Institute of Technology; Florida Institute of Technology tsloan2009@my.fit.edu Nonnative fishes have the ability to adapt to environmental conditions in the invaded ecosystem and utilize resources that may […]

Meeting Abstract 78.5  Sunday, Jan. 6  Hyoid kinematics and hypaxial muscle strain during suction feeding in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) CAMP, A.L.*; BRAINERD, E.L.; Brown University, Providence RI; Brown University, Providence RI ariel_camp@brown.edu To capture food, suction feeding fishes use their kinetic skulls to rapidly expand the mouth cavity both laterally and dorsoventrally. Ventrally, mouth volume is […]

Meeting Abstract 78.4  Sunday, Jan. 6  How do triggerfish eat? The evolution of variable feeding behavior in balistid fishes BUXMAN, C.L.*; WESTNEAT, M.W.; University of Chicago; Field Museum of Natural History cmccord@uchicago.edu Muscles in many vertebrates have become repeatedly subdivided, yielding multiple actuators for biomechanical systems. Muscle subdivisions may, with evolutionary change in origin, insertion, or contractile […]

Meeting Abstract 78.3  Sunday, Jan. 6  Feeding kinematics in damselfishes (Pomacentridae): ecological diversity and repeated trophic convergence CARTER, C.B.*; RICE, A.N.; WESTNEAT, M.W.; COOPER, W.J.; Washington State University; Cornell University; The Field Museum of Natural History; Washington State University casey.carter@email.wsu.edu The damselfishes represent a species-rich lineage that forms a major component of the fish fauna on all […]

Meeting Abstract 78.6  Monday, Jan. 6 11:30  Swimming against the tide: resilience of a riverine turtle to extreme environmental events JANZEN, F.J.*; JERGENSON, A.M.; MILLER, D.A.W.; NEUMAN-LEE, L.A.; WARNER, D.A.; Iowa State Univ.; Iowa State Univ.; Penn State Univ.; Utah State Univ.; Univ. Alabama-Birmingham fjanzen@iastate.edu Extreme environmental events are likely to exert deleterious effects on populations. From […]

Meeting Abstract 78.7  Monday, Jan. 6 11:45  Reproductive phenology of a food-hoarding mast seed consumer: resource- and density-dependent benefits of early breeding in red squirrels WILLIAMS, CT*; LANE, JE; HUMPHRIES, MM; MCADAM, AG; BOUTIN, S; Univ of Alaska Anchorage; Univ of Saskatchewan; McGill Univ; Univ of Guelph; Univ of Alberta ctwilliams@uaa.alaska.edu The production of offspring by vertebrates […]

Meeting Abstract 78.1  Monday, Jan. 6 10:15  Impacts of avian malaria and related parasites on lifetime reproductive success and survivorship of mountain white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha) ZYLBERBERG, M*; DERRYBERRY, EP; BREUNER, CW; MACDOUGALL-SHACKLETON, EA; CORNELIUS, JM; HAHN, TP; Univ. of California, Davis; Tulane University; University of Montana; University of Western Ontario; Univ. of California, Davis; Univ. […]

Meeting Abstract 78.3  Monday, Jan. 6 10:45  Home range size and survival of Texas horned lizard as a function of physical environment GRANBERG, R.M.*; PERRY, G.; VERBLE, R.M.; Texas Tech University rachel.granberg@ttu.edu The Texas horned lizard (THL; Phrynosoma cornutum) is a federal Species of Concern and declining across its native range. Current literature describes habitat loss and […]

Meeting Abstract 78.5  Monday, Jan. 6 11:15  A mechanism for extinction: Recruitment failure in a sky-island population of Sceloporus occidentalis ARCHIE, J.W.*; HOOPER, C.; California State Univ., Long Beach; California State Univ., Long Beach James.Archie@csulb.edu Population extinctions are likely common, but seldom observed in the wild. We document the likely extinction of a sky-island population of western […]