Meeting Abstract 128.4  Monday, Jan. 7  The effects of trace element exposure on tree swallow reproductive success and stress response following remediation of a coal-fly ash spill BECK, M. L.*; HOPKINS, W. A.; HAWLEY, D. M.; Virginia Tech; Virginia Tech; Virginia Tech beckmic@vt.edu Coal combustion waste contains elevated concentrations of numerous trace elements that pose health risks […]

Meeting Abstract 128.1  Monday, Jan. 7  The Effects of Prescribed Burning on the Landscape and Reptile Abundance HOWEY, C.A.F*; ROOSENBURG, W.M.; Ohio University chris.howey@gmail.com Prescribed burning has become a popular management tool throughout North America; a tool that creates a landscape representing an earlier successional forest. However, little is known regarding how reptile abundances may respond to […]

Meeting Abstract 128.3  Monday, Jan. 7  Temporal and spatial variation of cytridiomycosis across Batrachoseps attenuatus populations SETTE, CM*; VREDENBURG, VT; ZINK, AG; San Francisco State University; San Francisco State University; San Francisco State University carla.sette@gmail.com Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a highly virulent fungal pathogen which causes chytridiomycosis in amphibians. This rapidly-spreading disease is implicated in the decline […]

Meeting Abstract 128.5  Monday, Jan. 7  Resistance and tolerance in invasive and native songbirds in Kenya: evidence of parasite spillback COON, CAC*; BRACE, AJ; MARTIN, LB; Univ. of South Florida, Tampa; Univ. of South Florida, Tampa; Univ. of South Florida, Tampa ccoon@mail.usf.edu Avian malaria is more prevalent in invasive house sparrows (Passer domesticus) compared to native passerines […]

Meeting Abstract 128.6  Monday, Jan. 7  Focusing on survivors: Understanding how some amphibian populations persist beyond chytridiomycosis outbreaks VOYLES, J*; POORTEN, T; TOOTHMAN, M; KNAPP, R; BRIGGS, C; VREDENBERG, V; ROSENBLUM, EB; Univ. of California, Berkeley; Univ. of California, Berkeley; Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; San Francisco […]

Meeting Abstract 127.2  Monday, Jan. 7  The relevance of parthenogenesis to the role of Marmorkrebs as a model organism and potential invader MARTIN, P; Humboldt University, Berlin Peer.Martin@alumni.hu-berlin.de Animals as model organisms are indispensable tools for life sciences and thus a series of species have been firmly established in research for this purpose. Nevertheless, genetic differences between […]

Meeting Abstract 127.6  Monday, Jan. 7  Predicting the range expansion of a partenogenic crayfish invader FERIA, TP; The University of Texas-Pan American tpferia@utpa.edu Marmorkrebs, a parthenogenetic marbled crayfish, has high potential to become an invasive species since single individuals can establish a population and compete native species in places where it has been introduced. To assess the […]

Meeting Abstract 127.5  Monday, Jan. 7  Integrating animal behavior and conservation biology: a case study of invasive crayfish GHERARDI, F.; University of Florence francesca.gherardi@unifi.it Conservation behavior is a relatively new interdisciplinary field of study that aims at investigating how proximate and ultimate aspects of animal behavior can assist land managers in solving conservation problems (Blumstein and Fernández-Juricic […]

Meeting Abstract 127.1  Monday, Jan. 7  Happy Birthday Marmorkrebs! Ten years of research on an enigmatic crayfish SCHOLTZ, G; MARTIN, Peer*; Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin; Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin gerhard.scholtz@rz.hu-berlin.de In the last decade of the 20th century some rumors occurred in internet discussion groups of hobby aquarists dealing with an enigmatic crayfish with strange reproductive behavior and of […]

Meeting Abstract 127.7  Monday, Jan. 7  Fifty states of grey market: Assessing the pet trade for parthenogenetic marbled crayfish, Marmorkrebs, in North America FAULKES, Z.; The University of Texas-Pan American zfaulkes@utpa.edu The parthenogenetic marbled crayfish, Marmorkrebs (Procambarus fallax f. virginalis), was discovered by European pet owners in the mid-1990s. The feature that makes Marmorkrebs scientifically interesting to […]