The annual Joint Meeting of Icthyologists and Herpetologists (JMIH) kicks off today in Snowbird, Utah. This is one of my favorite conferences so I’m sad I will not be attending this year. And unfortunately, none of our contributors are attending this meeting either this year (that I know of), so we will not be able to cover the talks here on Life in the City.
Nevertheless, I scoured the abstracts to see what cool things people are doing with urban animals. It looks like I’m missing out on some great talks! Check out the wordcloud below that I made from the abstracts and the list of talks all mentioning urbanization in their abstracts. If you’re attending the meeting, I hope this list helps you hear some interesting urban ecology and evolution research! And better yet, consider writing up a short post on the blog about any talks or posters you visit (just send Kristin an email). Enjoy the meeting if you’re going, and if not, I’m right there with you in your FOMO.
Urban-themed talks at #JMIH19
| American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) Distribution Across an Urban Landscape – Eli Beal |
| Home Range and Resource Utilization by Urban Copperheads, Agkistrodon contortrix – Malle Carrasco-Harris |
| Small and Separate: Population Genetics of Urban Copperheads, Agkistrodon contortrix – Malle Carrasco-Harris |
| Effects of Urbanization on Gila Monsters in Arizona – Alexus Cazares |
| Habitat selection by Mojave Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) in Altered Landscapes – Steven Hromada |
| Ecology of Three Sonoran Desert Rattlesnake Species at an Urbanizing Site – Diego Huerta |
| Effects of Artificial Light at Night on Anuran Calling Behavior – Ashley Kobisk |
| The value of citizen science for urban biodiversity research: An example from the Biodiversity Analysis in Los Angeles (BAILA) Project – Enjie Li |
| Contamination by Non-essential Metals in Early Life Stages of Elasmobranchs from Southeastern Brazil – Mariana Martina |
| Historical and contemporary assessment of urban stream fish assemblages: taxonomic and functional perspectives – Carmen Montana-Schalk |
| Movement patterns, thermoregulatory behavior, and population demographics of Sternotherus odoratus (Eastern Musk Turtles) in an urban environment in southeastern Louisiana – Brooke Perrera |
| Tale of Two Distributaries: Examples of Urbanization Impacts on Fishes and Benthic Resources – Mark Peterson |
| Habitat Fragmentation and its Indirect Effects on Squamate Species Richness in Southern California – Andrew Powers |
| Urban to rural gradients in predation and parasitism studied using community science-generated photographs of the Southern Alligator Lizard – Bree Putman |
| Morphological limitations imposed on lizards facing urbanization – Kristopher Row |
| Ectoparasite loads of Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) living in small Texas towns – Mary Tucker |
| Landscape and Management Factors Influence the Occupancy Dynamics of Sympatric Salamanders in an Urban Preserve System – John Vanek |
| Estimating spatial patterns of gene flow in the Blainville’s horned lizard (Phrynosoma blainvillii) in an urbanized landscape – Sarah Wenner |
| Habitat Associations of Gopher Tortoises in Miami’s Urban Natural Areas – Steven Whitfield |
| Citizen Science Observations Provide Unique Insight into Salamander Distributions within Urban Environments – Amanda Zellmer |
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