| Thu
16 Aug 13:30-16:00 |
Science, management and policy of seabird conservation |
| Fri
17 Aug 14:00 - 15:30, 16:00 - 17:15 |
New perspectives in evolution of sexual traits |
| Sat
18 Aug 14:00 - 16:00 |
Bird Collections: Development and use of a scientific resource |
| The Science, Management and Policy of Seabird Conservation |
| Todd
Hass, Julia K. Parrish and P. Dee Boersma School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences & Zoology Department Box 355020; University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-5020 tel (206) 221-6893; fax (206) 221-6939 email thass@u.washington.edu |
Thu, 16 Aug, 13:30-16:00. Conservation of marine birds has increasingly caught the eye of the public and media--and has often turned well-intentioned stewards and stakeholders into adversaries. Highly visible issues in the Pacific Northwest include: the collision between the Endangered Species Act, salmon, and Caspian Terns; incidental bycatch of seabirds in gillnet and longline fisheries; and chronic threats of pollution, development, and habitat change for federally listed seabirds (like Marbled Murrelets). While the aforementioned conflicts have a distinctly local flavor, similar conservation issues can be seen around the world.
This symposium will build upon the plenary address by Dee Boersma to explore the significant threats to seabird populations around the world (at colonies and at sea) and, moreover, identify studies that have found effective compromises between resource managers, politicos and industry.
Why should the symposium occur here and now? AOU meetings have not visited the West Coast for some time…since several of the Pacific Seabird Group’s most active conservationists (and their students) are located here in the Pacific Northwest, and because Seattle provides such an obvious coastal backdrop for the meeting–we cannot imagine a more appropriate opportunity to highlight the effectiveness of "local" researchers in tackling and solving marine conservation problems at home and around the globe.
Joanna Burger* (Rutgers University) and Michael Gochfeld (Environ. & Community Medicine, UMDNH Robert Wood Johnson Med. School) -- "Effects of pollutants on seabirds"
Daniel D. Roby*, Donald E. Lyons, Scott K. Anderson, Michelle Antolos, Cynthia D. Anderson, Robert M. Suryan, Sadie K. Wright, (USGS-Oregon Coop. Fish and Wild l. Res. Unit , Oregon State Univ.), Ken Collis, (RTR Consult.) and David P. Craig (Willamette Univ.) -- "Seabirds vs. salmon: Managing Caspian Terns in the Columbia River"
Ed Melvin* (Washington Sea Grant Program) and Julia K. Parrish (University of Washington) -- "Resolving seabird bycatch"
Brian G. Walker* and P. Dee Boersma (University of Washington) -- "Seabirds and ecotourism: Evaluation, concerns, and a case study from the breeding Magellanic Penguins of Patagonia"
Bernie Tershy*, Donald Croll (UC Santa Cruz), Jose Angel Sanchez (Grupo Ecol. & Conserv.), Brad Keitt and C. Josh Donlan (Island Conservation), Bill Wood, Miguel Angel Hermosillo (Grupo Ecol. & Conserv.) and Gregg Howald (Island Conservation Canada) -- "Protecting seabirds by conserving islands: an integrated regional approach"
Todd Hass and Julia K. Parrish (School Aquatic & Fish. Sci., Univ. Washington) -- "Saving seabirds with soapboxes"
Maura B. Naughton (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Migratory Birds and Habitat Programs) -- "Regional Seabird Conservation Plan"
Julia K. Parrish (School Aquatic & Fish. Sci., Univ. Washington) -- Summary
| New perspectives in evolution of sexual traits: Selection on integration of sexual traits and sexual behaviors |
| Alex
Badyaev & Geoffrey E. Hill 331 Funchess Hall Department of Biological Sciences Auburn University Auburn, AL 36849-5414 tel 334-844-9268; 334-844-9269; fax 334-844-9234 e-mail abadyaev@selway.umt.edu; ghill@acesag.auburn.edu |
Fri, 17 Aug, 14:00 - 15:30, 16:00 - 17:15. Sexual selection studies had been almost universally focused on the causes and consequences of selection on specific sexual traits. However despite substantial empirical work, we know remarkably little about evolution of preference for sexual traits. We suggest that this may be due to the lack of conceptual framework that explicitly recognizes that evolution acts on the entire mating phenotype and not only on a specific sexual trait of one sex. This new perspective emphasizes that selection for enhanced mating success is more than just selection for a bigger or more colorful trait - instead breeding success results from a complementary interaction that encompasses the preference and performance of both sexes. The new perspective explicitly incorporates life history theory into sexual selection studies and includes the concepts of residual reproductive value and differential reproductive allocation into discussion of sexual selection. The new perspective suggests that expression of sexual ornaments represents a solution to a trade-off between the physiological condition of a male and its ability to invest in reproduction. The reproductive consequences of such trade-offs will depend on female preference and performance. Ultimately such individual variation in allocation and choice in males and females should favor multiple solutions — favoring evolution of condition- and state-dependent reproductive tactics indicated by a sexual trait. Thus, to understand evolution of sexual traits, we need to expand our study of sexual traits to the study of mating phenotypes that includes the integration of morphology and behavior for both sexes.
The idea behind this symposium was stimulated by a number of recent studies that emphasized the need to study sexual selection at the levels higher than a morphological trait. New studies emphasize the need for integration of behavioral, genetic, and ecological perspectives and call for explicit focus on an entire mating phenotype.
We are very fortunate to have a great group of speakers (list below) including both eminent biologists and young investigators in the field of sexual selection. The speakers will address the emergent perspectives on evolution of sexual traits in birds and will provide a rare combination of theoretical and empirical approaches.
Dr. Geoffrey Hill, Dr. Alexander Badyaev (Auburn University) -- "New perspectives in the evolution of sexual traits."
Dr. Anna Qvarnström (Uppsala University) -- "Adaptive plasticity in mate preferences"
Dr. Trevor Price (UC San-Diego) -- "Genetics of hybrid crosses."
Dr. Timothy H. Parker, (University of New Mexico) -- "Good genes separated from the possibility of differential maternal investment in Red Junglefowl."
Dr. Bruce Lyon (UC Santa Cruz) & Dr. Erick Greene (University of Montana) -- "Habitat-dependent variation in complex mating tactics in lazuli buntings"
Dr. Patrick Weatherhead (University of Illinois & Illinois Natural History Survey) -- " Sexual selection in red-winged blackbirds: matching multiple traits to multiple functions"
Dr. Alex Badyaev (Auburn University) -- "Selection on integration of sexual traits and reproductive behaviors: Paternal care in relation to ornamentation in the house finch."
Renee Duckworth (PhD student, Duke Univ) & Andrew Stoehr (PhD student, UC Riverside)-- "Proximate regulation of male mating phenotype in the house finch: Condition-dependent hormone interactions?"
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Bird collections: Development and use of a scientific resource |
| Kevin
Winker University of Alaska Museum 907 Yukon Drive Fairbanks, AK 99775-6960 tel 907.474.7027; email ffksw@uaf.edu |
Sat 18 Aug ,
14:00 - 16:00
PURPOSE: To synthesize
today's activities in collections-based ornithology, both to keep
the ornithological community informed and to stimulate new awareness
and new appreciation for these dynamic collections and the research
they support. This purpose will be met by bringing together in a collective
forum a group of speakers who have enthusiasm and vision for avian-based
collections. As chair of the AOU Collections Committee, I feel that
there is nowhere more appropriate for such a symposium to occur. Also,
the enthusiastic responses to my invitations to participate suggest
that a symposium of this type is both needed and timely.
In keeping with the meeting's theme, we have one student (Deborah Rocque) participating in the symposium, and we may also fill the last available slot with an exceptional collections- based student. The rest of the symposium speakers are recognized curators and collections-based researchers.
Kevin Winker* (University of Alaska Museum) -- "Introduction to Bird collections: Development and use of a scientific resource"
Douglas Causey* & Jeremiah Trimble (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University) -- "Old bones in new boxes."
Scott V. Edwards*, Sharon Birks, and Robb Brumfield (Burke Museum, University of Washington) -- "Genetic resources collections: Archives of evolutionary history."
Sandra L. L. Gaunt*, Douglas A. Nelson, Marc S. Dantzeker, Gregory F. Budney, and Jack W. Bradbury (Borror Lab of Bioacoustics, Museum of Biological Diversity, Ohio State University) -- "New Directions for Bioacoustics Collections."
A. Townsend Peterson* and Adolfo Navarro (Natural History Museum, University of Kansas) -- "The Species Analyst: Making the most of natural history museum specimen information for natural history museums and for science, policy, and conservation."
J. Van Remsen (Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University) -- "New uses of specimen data for distributional and ecological analyses."
Deborah Rocque (University of Alaska Museum) -- "Use of collections in studying contaminants and stable isotopes"
Lloyd F. Kiff (The Peregrine Fund) -- "The history, present status, and future prospects of avian egg collections."