The annual Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists is kicking off today and wow do I feel like I’m missing out! This year the conference has an impressive showing of urban research. Here’s your guide for the week:
Thursday 7/28
- 1:30pm — Boldness and behavioral syndromes across an urban gradient in the Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei) – Robyn Screen, Amber Wright
- 3:45pm — Feeling rattled: Linking attitudes and habitat features to patterns of snake occurrence in urban landscapes – Annika Enloe, Heather Bateman
Friday 7/29
- 10:15am — Urban ecology of DeKay’s Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi – Tianqi Huang, Peter Morin, Sara Ruane
- 2:00pm — Impact of human-snakes conflict through cultural and religious beliefs on environment in Rwanda – Oscar Umwanzisiwemuremyi
- Poster — Suburban salamanders: the status and origin of slender salamanders of Oregon west of the Cascade Range – Clare Yang, Laura Guderyahn, Lauren Chan
- Poster — The effects of urban heat islands on Northeast Texas Anurans – Andrew Savage, Derald Harp, Johanna Delgado-Acevedo
- Poster — Characterizing Plethodontid salamander communities across an urban gradient using eDNA – Leah Rittenburg, Todd Pierson
- Poster — Human-snake conflict mitigation: Policies for relocating nuisance snakes in the U.S. – Robin Bedard, Alex Goode, Tess McIntyre, Maddy Martin, Megan Rottenborg, Emily Taylor
Saturday 7/30
- 11:15am — A decade of Ambystoma salamander population dynamics in response to wetland creation and terrestrial habitat removal in isolated urban woodlands – Michael Benard, Kacey Cope, Hillary Rollins, David Dimitrie
Sunday 7/31
- 8:15am — Effects of human land use and landscape context on population demographics of the Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) – Benjamin Phillips, Remmington Moll, Rebecca Rowe, Jennifer Purrenhage
- 11:45am — Physiology, distribution, and reproductive investment in the Colorado Checkered Whiptail in an anthropogenically disturbed site – Megan Kepas, Lise M. Aubry, Spencer B. Hudson, Layne Sermersheim, Anna-Joy Lehmicke, Douglas Eifler, Bryan M. Kleuver, Susannah S. French
- 2:00pm — A plague of lizards: parthenogenic whiptails are spreading throughout urban Southern California – Sam Fisher, Rich Inman, Todd Esque, Kathy Baumberger, Adam Backlin, Monique Wong, Greg Pauly
- 2:30pm — Changes in the gut microbiome of Gila Monsters (Heloderma suspectum) living in an urbanizing environment – Samantha Johnson, Matt Goode
You might have noticed that none of the talks above are about fish, but that doesn’t mean aquatic systems aren’t impacted by human activities! Check out the following talks on anthropogenic effects on aquatic species:
Friday 7/29 – 9:15am — Varying effects of anthropogenic and natural disturbance regimes on amphibian populations in an unstable wetland landscape – Victoria Taxa, David Green
Friday 7/29 – Poster — Investigating the biologic and anthropogenic soundscapes of Biscayne Bay – Susan Thomassie, Olivia M. Guerra, Regina Coeli Campion, Frank Jordan
Saturday 7/30 – 10:30am — Marine debris and other anthropogenic effects on the Smalltooth Sawfish, Pristis pectinata – Steven Kessel, Jill Brooks, Abby Nease, Bonnie Ahr
If you’re at JMIH and want to contribute a short blog post about one of these talks, send me an email and I’ll get you set up! I know I’d love to hear more about the amazing research on urban herps and fish (ichs?), and I’m sure our readers will too!
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