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(Monday
14:00- 17:30)
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Swift, Kit & Arctic
Fox SymposiumTheatre B
Moderators: Anders Angerbjorn & Pall
Hersteinsson
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13:30 – 13:40 |
Introduction
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13:40 – 14:00 |
Swift fox, Vulpes velox, re-introduction in Canada and
the USA
Clio Smeeton and Ken Weagle
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14:00 – 14:20 |
The Pribilof Fox – An Insular Canid Facing an Uncertain
Future
Paula White
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14:20 – 14:40 |
Swift Fox Vocalisations: Their Possible Application to
Population censuses
Safi Darden
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14:40 – 15:00 |
Search Dogs and DNA Analyses of Scat: A Non-Invasive Approach
for Monitoring Endangered San Joaquin Kit Foxes
Deborah Anne Smith
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15:00 – 15:20 |
Home Range and Spatial Organization of Arctic Foxes –
Responses to Spatio-temporal Distribution of Prey
Nina E.
Eide
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15:20 – 15:45 |
Tea
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15:45 – 17:30 |
Short Presentations and Discussion of Management Programmes
- Arctic Fox in Sweden and Finland
Anders Angerbjorn
- Arctic Fox in Iceland
Pall Hersteinsson
- Swift Fox Reintroduction in Canada
Lu Carbyn
- San Joaquin Kit Fox
Brian Cypher
- Captive Breeding of Swift Fox in Canada
Clio Smeeton
- Captive Breeding of Arctic Fox in Norway
John
Linnell
- Suggested issues for discussion: Captive breeding,
reintroduction, relocation, predator control, feeding, genetics.
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(Tuesday
9:00-12:30)
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Behavioural Ecology
Theatre A
Moderator: Luigi Boitani
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09:00 - 09:05 |
Welcome message
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09:05 - 09:35 |
PLENARY: Behavioural ecology of the Canidae
David W.
Macdonald
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09:35 - 10:00 |
Greeting Behaviour in African Wild Dogs: Putting Behaviour Back
Into Behavioural Ecology
James Malcolm
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10:00 - 10:25 |
Intraguild Competition Between Arctic and Red Foxes
Bodil Elmhagen, Magnus Tannerfeldt & Anders Angerbjorn
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10:25 - 10:50 |
South America’s Elusive Rain Forest Canid, the
Short-Eared Dog: Ecology, Diet and Social Behaviour
Renata Leite
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10:50 - 11:15 |
Coffee
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11:15 - 11:40 |
Male Biased Sex Ratio in African Wild Dogs
John Weldon
McNutt
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11:40 - 12:05 |
Ecology of the Endangered Darwin's Fox (Pseudalopex
fulvipes ) in a Fragmented Forest in Southern Chile
Jaime Jimenez
& Jaime Rau
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12:05 - 12:30 |
[untitled: kit swift fox presentation]
Axel
Moehrenschlager, Brian Cypher, Kathy Ralls & Rurik List
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(Tuesday
16:15- 18:30)
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Canid Systematics,
Paleontology and Phylogeography
Theatre A
Moderator: Arun Venkataraman
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16:15 - 16:50 |
PLENARY: Evolution and Systematics of Canids
Blaire van
Valkenburgh
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16:50 - 17:15 |
The Earliest Canids in Africa
Lars Werdelin &
Margaret Lewis
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17:15 - 17:40 |
Aspects of Canid Systematics Revealed Through Supertree
Analysis
Olaf Bininda-Emonds
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17:40 - 18:05 |
Using Ancient DNA Techniques to Address Questions in Canid
Systematics
Jennifer Leonard, Carles Vila & Robert
Wayne
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18:05 – 18:30 |
Consequences Of Demographic Bottlenecks and Genetic Drift on
Population and Phylogeographic Structure of Fragmented Wolf Populations in West
Eurasia
Stephan Funk, Vittorio Lucchini & Ettore Randi
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(Tuesday
14:35- 18:05)
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Population
Dynamics and Modelling
Theatre B
Moderator: Todd Fuller
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14:35 - 15:00 |
The Implications of the Allee Effect for the Conservation of
Painted Hunting Dogs
Franck Courchamp & Greg Rasmussen
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15:00 - 15:25 |
Source-sink Dynamics Induced by Hunting of Culpeos to Reduce
Sheep Predation in Patagonia
Andres Novaro & Martín Funes
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15:25 - 15:50 |
Hunting, Migration and Sinks/sources Among Northern Canadian
Wolf Populations
Marco Musiani, C. Cormack Gates, Paul C. Paquet, H.
Dean Cluff, Lyle R. Walton, Paul J. Wilson & Bradley N. White
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15:50 – 16:15 |
Tea
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16:50 - 17:15 |
The Demographic Nature of Wolf Predation
John Vucetich
& Rolf Peterson
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17:15 - 17:40 |
Density Dependence in the Icelandic Arctic Fox Population
Pall Hersteinsson
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17:40 - 18:05 |
Modelling Territorial Animal Populations With Social
Structure
William Pitt, Frederick Knowlton & Paul Box
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(Wednesday
9:00- 12:30)
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Conflict & Control
Moderator: Joshua Ginsberg
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09:00 - 09:35 |
PLENARY: Canids Near People
Claudio Sillero-Zubiri
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09:35 - 10:00 |
Red Fox and Grouse Populations in Finland: Is the Fox
Threatening Grouse Populations?
Kaarina Kauhala
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10:00 - 10:25 |
Coyote Predation on Domestic Sheep as a Model System to
Investigate Positive and Negative Indirect Effects Between Prey
Ben
Sacks
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10:25 - 10:50 |
Golden Jackals in Intensively Cultivated Areas of Bangladesh:
Daring Dacoits or Rat Control Wallahs
Michael Jaeger, Parvin Sultana
& Emdadul Haque
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10:50 - 11:15 |
Coffee
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11:15 - 11:40
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Untitled presentation
on fox control
Jonathan Reynolds |
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11:40 - 12:05 |
Wolves and Livestock: Problem Packs and Vulnerable
Farms
Adrian Treves, Adrian P. Wydeven & Lisa Naughton-Treves
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12:05 - 12:30
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Aversive and Disruptive Stimuli for Managing Wolf Predation
John A. Shivik, Stewart W. Breck, Rick Williamson, Val Asher, Kyran
Kunkle, Mike Phillips & Ed Bangs
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(Wednesday
14:00- 15:50)
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Lecture Theatre A
Moderator: Eli Geffen
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14:00 - 14:35 |
PLENARY: Genetics of Canids
Robert K. Wayne
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14:35 - 15:00 |
Detecting Coyote Introgression into the Wild Red Wolf
Population
Jennifer Adams, Lisette P. Waits, Craig Miller, William
Waddell & Arthur Beyer
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15:00 - 15:25 |
Topographic Barriers to Gene Flow in Wolves (Canis
lupus) of the Canadian Northwest
Lindsey Carmichael, John Nagy, Nic
Larter & Curtis Strobeck
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15:25 - 15:50 |
Hybridization and Conservation Genetics of Scandinavian Wolves
Carles Vila, Anna-Karin Sundqvist & Hans Ellegren
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(Wednesday
16:50- 18:30)
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Population Genetics (continued)
Lecture Theatre B
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16:50 - 17:15
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The Use of Molecular Tools in Management Procedures of Existing
Canid Captive Breeding Programmes
Samantha Bremner, Paulo Prodöhl
& R Elwood
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17:15 - 17:40 |
Is the Endangered Fennoscandian Arctic Fox Population
Genetically Isolated?
Love Dalen, Magnus Tannerfeldt, Anders Angerbjorn
& Anders Götherström
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17:40 - 18:05 |
Genetic Relatedness and Spatial Ecology of the Swift Fox
Ann Kitchen, Eric Gese, Seija Karki & Edward
Schauster
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18:05 - 18:30 |
Genetic Characterization of Himalayan Wolf, an Endangered Canid
from India, Using DNA Markers
Ramesh Aggarwal, J. Ramadevi & Lalji
Singh
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(Thursday
9:00- 12:30)
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Conservation
Tools and Practice
Theatre A
Moderator: Gus Mills
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09:00 - 09:35 |
PLENARY: Untitled presentation
Cheryl Asa
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09:35 - 10:00 |
Golden Eagles, Island Foxes and Feral Pigs: How Exotic Species
Turn Native Predators into Prey
Gary Roemer, Josh Donlan & Franck
Courchamp
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10:00 - 10:25 |
A Test of Survey Methods for Swift Foxes (Vulpes
velox)
Eric Gese, Edward Schauster & Ann Kitchen
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10:25 - 10:50 |
Activities and Successes: the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation
Programme
Stuart Williams |
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10:50 - 11:15 |
Coffee
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11:15 - 11:40
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Current Conservation Efforts for San Joaquin Kit Foxes
Brian Cypher, Patrick Kelly & Daniel Williams
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11:40 - 12:05 |
Use of Hoo Calls as a Tool in African Wild Dog Conservation
Bob Robbins & Kim McCreery
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12:05 - 12:30 |
History and Status of the Red Wolf (Canis rufus) in
North America
Fred Knowlton, Brian Kelly & Buddy
Fazio
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(Thursday
9:35- 12:30)
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Population
Ecology
Theatre B
Moderator: Andres Novaro
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09:35 - 10:00
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Effects of Removing Breeding Coyotes on Coyote Spatial
Organization
Karen Blejwas, Dale McCullough & Michael Jaeger
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10:00 - 10:25 |
Succession Debt: Effects of Clear-cut Logging on Wolf-Deer
Predator-Prey Dynamics in Coastal British Columbia and Southeast Alaska
David Person, Chris Darimont, Paul Paquet & Terry
Bowyer
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10:25 - 10:50 |
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Resource Utilization by Culpeo
Foxes in Central Chile
Valeria Salvatori, Luigi Boitani, Andrea
Campanella, Gaia Vaglio-Laurin & Peter L. Meserve
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10:50 - 11:15 |
Coffee
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11:15 - 11:40 |
Why Are Dholes So Abundant in the Nilgiri Foothills, Southern
India?
Arun Venkataraman & Narendra Babu
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11:40 - 12:05 |
Gray Fox Distribution in Southern California: Effects of
Carnivore Competitors and Suburbanization
Todd K. Fuller, Raymond M.
Sauvajot, Veronica Farias, Jose M. Fedriani, Seth P. D. Riley, Eric C. York,
Denise A. Kamradt & Robert K. Wayne
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12:05 - 12:30 |
Ecology and Conservation of the Mainland Population of the
Zorro Chilote (Pseudalopex fulvipes)
Elise McMahon
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