| 7:30-8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast (Food Service 7:30-8:15 a.m.) |
| 9:00-9:20 a.m. |
The effect of native forb abundance on invasion resistance in California grasslands
Kris Hulvey, Department of Environmental Studies, UCSC |
| 9:20-9:40 p.m. |
Spatial and temporal variability in survivorship affects long-term persistence of a subterranean microparasite
Karthik Ram, Section of Evolution and Ecology, UCD |
| 9:40-10:00 a.m. |
Conservation of terrestrial habitat for California tiger salamanders
(Ambystoma californiense)
Christopher A. Searcy, Section of Evolution and Ecology, UCD |
| 10:00-10:20 a.m. |
Evolution of anti-predator defenses in larvae of a native frog in response to an invasive predator
Katherine M. Pease, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA |
| 10:20-11:00 a.m. |
Break |
| 11:00-11:20 a.m. |
Evolutionary genetics of self-incompatibility in three California species
(Papaveraceae)
Timothy Paape, Department of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, UCSD |
| 11:20-11:40 a.m. |
Gyne investment and implications for colony-founding strategies in harvester ants (genus Pogonomyrmex)
Brittany Enzmann, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA |
| 11:40-12noon |
Ecological consequences of exposure to natural oil contamination:
Population-level effects of the multidrug-resistance mechanism
Heather M. Coleman, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB |
| 12:15-1:30 p.m. |
Lunch (Food service 12:15-1:00 p.m.) |
| 1:30-3:30 p.m. |
Tour of the Reserve
Claudia Luke and Peter Connors |
| 4:00-4:20 p.m. |
Living in the margins? An investigation of interior late- and contact-
period Chumash residential sites on Limuw (Santa Cruz Island), California Elizabeth A. Sutton, Department of Anthropology, UCSB
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| 4:20-4:40 p.m. |
Early maritime hunter-gatherer occupation and the initial human migration into the new world, Santa Cruz Island, California
Amy E. Gusick, Department of Anthropology, UCSB |
| 4:40-5:00 p.m. |
Relative importance of plant resources in prehistoric diets: Archaeological evidence from Santa Cruz Island
Kristina M. Gill, Department of Anthropology, UCSB |
| 5:00-5:20 p.m. |
Non-invasive monitoring of recovering Channel Island fox (Urocyon littoralis) populations
Melissa M. Gray, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA |
| 6:15-7:45 p.m. |
Dinner (Food service 6:15-7:00 p.m.) |
| 8:00-9:00 p.m. |
LECTURE: Putting process on the map: Why ecological gradients
are important for preserving biodiversity
Thomas Smith, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 9:00-10:00 p.m. |
Social |
