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SUMMARY:M.S. Seminar: Jessica Ahl
DESCRIPTION:M.S. Forestry Seminar: Jessica Ahl\, Maj. Prof. Dr. Lori Eckhardt \nTitle: Ophiostomatoid Fungal Infection and Insect Diversity in a Mature Loblolly Pine Stand \nLocation: Dixon Conference Room \nDate: Monday\, March 25\, 2019 \nTime: 1 p.m. \nAbstract:
URL:https://cfwe.auburn.edu/event/m-s-seminar-jessica-ahl/
LOCATION:College of Forestry\, Wildlife and Environment\, 602 Duncan Drive\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849\, United States
CATEGORIES:Main Calendar,Master's Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Audrey Grindle%2C Graduate Student Coordinator":MAILTO:apg0008@auburn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181102T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181102T140000
DTSTAMP:20260415T165418
CREATED:20180913T152803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181029T151203Z
UID:3373-1541163600-1541167200@cfwe.auburn.edu
SUMMARY:M.S. Seminar - Ellary TuckerWilliams
DESCRIPTION:M.S. Seminar: Ellary TuckerWilliams\, Maj. Prof\, Dr. Chris Lepczyk \nTitle: Stakeholders Perspectives on Wild Pig and Management in Alabama \nLocation: Dixon Conference Room \nDate: Friday\, November 2\, 2018 \nTime: 1:00 p.m. \nAbstract: \nAs a species of global concern\, the wild pig (Sus scrofa) is a detrimental invasive species with negative economic\, public and ecological health impacts. Despite the well-known negative impacts associated with wild pigs\, little is known about the human dimensions of wild pig management and policy. To address this issue\, my research goal was to determine stakeholders’ perspectives towards wild pig management. Specifically\, I sought to evaluate stakeholder perspectives on the potential use of toxicants and understand wild pig management effort on privately owned lands\, the perceived impact of wild pigs\, and policy beliefs. To address these questions\, I surveyed farmers\, hunters\, and forestland owners across the state of Alabama. Overall\, my findings suggest stakeholders are generally accepting of toxicant use in wild pig management. Stakeholders believe wild pigs have negative economic\, public and ecological health impacts. However less than half of landowners participate in wild pig control\, but believe that the responsibility of managing and paying for damages associated with wild pigs lies with individual landowners.  Findings from this research informs managers and policy makers that improved wild pig management would be supported by the majority of stakeholders.
URL:https://cfwe.auburn.edu/event/m-s-seminar-ellary-tuckerwilliams/
LOCATION:AL
CATEGORIES:Events,Main Calendar,Master's Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181101T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181101T143000
DTSTAMP:20260415T165418
CREATED:20181005T212126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181005T212406Z
UID:3406-1541079000-1541082600@cfwe.auburn.edu
SUMMARY:M.S. Seminar - Michael Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:M.S. Seminar: Michael Ramirez\, Maj. Prof\, Dr. Lisa Samuelson \nTitle: Impacts of drought and 40% throughfall reduction on water relations of a longleaf pine stand \nLocation: Dixon Conference Room\, 3315 \nDate: Thursday\, November 1\, 2018 \nTime: 1:30 p.m. \nAbstract: \nProjections of increased frequency and severity of climate change induced drought have raised concerns about the health\, productivity and composition of forests in the southeastern United States.  Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) is a native species that thrives on sites that are frequently disturbed by fire and is thought to be more tolerant of drought stress than other southern pines\, making it a suitable species to withstand future climate conditions.  However\, the limits and mechanisms of that presumed drought tolerance are not known.  This study used in-situ manipulation of water availability to examine the effects of drought on water relations in a longleaf pine plantation.  Specifically\, the effects of a 40% reduction in throughfall precipitation on leaf water potential\, sap flux density\, whole-tree hydraulic conductance\, and productivity were investigated.  Following the installation of the throughfall reduction treatment in May 2016\, a prolonged natural drought occurred wherein little to no precipitation fell on the site from September 2016 until the end of November 2016.  Throughfall reduction was not found to effect leaf water potential or productivity during the 2016 natural drought but did reduce sap flux density and whole-tree hydraulic conductance.  As natural drought conditions alleviated in 2017\, the 40% throughfall reduction treatment did reduce sap flux density\, but did not significantly affect leaf water potential\, whole-tree hydraulic conductance\, or productivity.  Longleaf pine survived severe water deficit and may resist future climate change stress in the Southeast\, through a partially conservative water use strategy.
URL:https://cfwe.auburn.edu/event/m-s-seminar-michael-ramirez/
LOCATION:College of Forestry\, Wildlife and Environment\, 602 Duncan Drive\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Master's Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Audrey Grindle%2C Graduate Student Coordinator":MAILTO:apg0008@auburn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T140000
DTSTAMP:20260415T165418
CREATED:20180913T152538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180913T152538Z
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SUMMARY:M.S. Seminar - Shrijana Duwadi
DESCRIPTION:M.S. Seminar: Shrijana Duwadi\, Maj. Prof\, Dr. Lori Eckhardt \nTitle: TBD \nLocation: Dixon Conference Room \nDate: Monday\, October 22\, 2018 \nTime: 1:00 p.m.
URL:https://cfwe.auburn.edu/event/m-s-seminar-shrijana-duwadi/
LOCATION:AL
CATEGORIES:Events,Main Calendar,Master's Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180507T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180507T093000
DTSTAMP:20260415T165418
CREATED:20180502T173235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T173253Z
UID:3242-1525680000-1525685400@cfwe.auburn.edu
SUMMARY:M.S. Seminar\, Shelby Zikeli
DESCRIPTION:M.S. Seminar: Shelby Zikeli\, Maj. Prof\, Dr. Sarah Zohdy \nTitle: Vector Borne Disease Dynamics of Alabama White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)  \nLocation: Dixon Conference Room \nDate: Monday\, May 7\, 2018 \nTime: 8:00 a.m. \nAbstract: \nUnderstanding long-term dynamics of ectoparasite populations on hosts is essential to mapping the potential transmission of disease causing agents and pathogens. Blood feeding ectoparasites such as ticks\, lice and keds have a great capability to transmit pathogens throughout a wildlife system. We utilized a unique enclosed facility where white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) were present in high-density and increased condition to model a system where late-stage ectoparasite hosts are present in high densities. This mimics systems where populations are fragmented due to human encroachment or through specialized management techniques. We noted a significant increase in ectoparasitism by ticks (p=0.04) over a nine-year study period where deer were collected\, and ticks quantified. Beginning in 2016 we implemented a comparison of quantification methods for ectoparasites in addition to ticks and noted that white-tailed deer within the enclosure were more likely to be parasitized by the neotropical deer ked (Lipoptena mazamae) than any tick or louse species. Additionally\, analysis of blood collected from sampled deer between 2016 and 2018 by PCR isolated four Bartonella spp.  present within the blood of enclosed deer.  Together\, these works inform us about the potential dynamics of ectoparasite communities long term\, and how host populations could affect ectoparasite communities\, providing insight into potential disease transmission.
URL:https://cfwe.auburn.edu/event/m-s-seminar-shelby-zikeli/
LOCATION:College of Forestry\, Wildlife and Environment\, 602 Duncan Drive\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Main Calendar,Master's Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Audrey Grindle%2C Graduate Student Coordinator":MAILTO:apg0008@auburn.edu
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CREATED:20180426T190203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180430T145107Z
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SUMMARY:M.S. Seminar\, Sarah Wilson
DESCRIPTION:M.S. Seminar: Sarah Wilson\, Maj. Prof\, Dr. Todd Steury \nTitle: The ecology of scatterhoarding in a flooded ecosystem \nLocation: Dixon Conference Room \nDate: Wednesday\, May 2\, 2018 \nTime: 1:00 p.m. \nAbstract: \nFood hoarding is a strategy typically used by species that experience times with little food readily available. Scatterhoarders store single food items in many locations throughout their home range before the food-scarce season and do not actively defend these caches before recovery during the food-scarce season. In the southeastern United States\, flooding during winter is a problem faced by scatterhoarders due to a decrease in dry land available for cache recovery. Understanding how scatterhoarders respond to factors that could influence their supply of hoarded food\, such as seasonal flooding\, is important given the strong reliance on hoarded food to overwinter survival. We examined diet\, hoarding behavior\, habitat use\, and survival of eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) in a seasonally flooded ecosystem on Lowndes Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in central Alabama. We predicted squirrels would respond to flooding by: storing food during fall in areas that stay dry during winter\, seasonally shifting to dry habitat\, changing their winter diet\, or dying. During the dry season\, over 72% of acorns were buried in areas that later flooded. Habitat use did not change during flooding periods; in fact\, squirrels selected for habitat that stayed dry during flooding to a greater degree during non-flood seasons\, although not significantly so. Diet did not change between the dry fall and flooded winter. We also found squirrels were 7.70 times as likely to die during the flood season (2.28-25.96\, 95% C.L.) as the dry season and mortality was 1.30 times as likely (0.26-6.38\, 95% C.L.) for each 10% increase in the proportion of the study area that was flooded (both p = 0.001). Thus\, this eastern gray squirrel population did not appear to show any behavioral adaptations to seasonal flooding. Further research is needed to fully understand the effects of fluctuating environmental conditions on scatterhoarding behavior and what management considerations should be taken into account for populations living in these conditions.
URL:https://cfwe.auburn.edu/event/m-s-seminar-sarah-wilson/
LOCATION:College of Forestry\, Wildlife and Environment\, 602 Duncan Drive\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Main Calendar,Master's Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Audrey Grindle%2C Graduate Student Coordinator":MAILTO:apg0008@auburn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T100000
DTSTAMP:20260415T165418
CREATED:20180226T205340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180226T210323Z
UID:3197-1520413200-1520416800@cfwe.auburn.edu
SUMMARY:Master's Seminar: Perceval Assogba
DESCRIPTION:Forestry Master’s Seminar: Perceval Assogba\, Maj. Prof\, Dr. Daowei Zhang \nTitle: \nLocation: 3315 Dixon Executive Conference Room \nDate: Wednesday\, March 7\, 2018 \nTime: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
URL:https://cfwe.auburn.edu/event/masters-seminar-perceval-assogba/
LOCATION:College of Forestry\, Wildlife and Environment\, 602 Duncan Drive\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Main Calendar,Master's Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Audrey Grindle%2C Graduate Student Coordinator":MAILTO:apg0008@auburn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171017T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171017T100000
DTSTAMP:20260415T165418
CREATED:20170825T183426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T183539Z
UID:2985-1508230800-1508234400@cfwe.auburn.edu
SUMMARY:Master’s Seminar: Mary Bennett
DESCRIPTION:Wildlife Sciences Master’s Seminar: Mary Bennett\, Maj. Prof\, Dr. Bob Gitzen \nTitle: \nLocation: 3315 Dixon Executive Conference Room \nDate: Tuesday\, October 17\, 2017 \nTime: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
URL:https://cfwe.auburn.edu/event/masters-seminar-mary-bennett-2/
LOCATION:College of Forestry\, Wildlife and Environment\, 602 Duncan Drive\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Main Calendar,Master's Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Audrey Grindle%2C Graduate Student Coordinator":MAILTO:apg0008@auburn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170804T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170804T220000
DTSTAMP:20260415T165418
CREATED:20170719T194851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170719T200326Z
UID:2836-1501837200-1501884000@cfwe.auburn.edu
SUMMARY:Master's Seminar: Mary Bennett
DESCRIPTION:Wildlife Sciences Master’s Seminar: Mary Bennett\, Maj. Prof\, Dr. Bob Gitzen \nTitle: \nLocation: 3315 Dixon Executive Conference Room \nDate: Friday\, August 4\, 2017 \nTime: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
URL:https://cfwe.auburn.edu/event/masters-seminar-mary-bennett/
LOCATION:College of Forestry\, Wildlife and Environment\, 602 Duncan Drive\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849\, United States
CATEGORIES:Main Calendar,Master's Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Audrey Grindle%2C Graduate Student Coordinator":MAILTO:apg0008@auburn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170711T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170711T103000
DTSTAMP:20260415T165418
CREATED:20170707T193432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170707T193928Z
UID:2766-1499763600-1499769000@cfwe.auburn.edu
SUMMARY:Master’s Seminar: Matthew Gonnerman
DESCRIPTION:Wildlife Sciences Master’s Seminar: Matthew Gonnerman\, Maj. Prof\, Dr. James Grand \nTitle: \nLocation: 3315 Dixon Executive Conference Room \nDate: Tuesday\, July 11\, 2017 \nTime: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
URL:https://cfwe.auburn.edu/event/masters-seminar-matthew-gonnerman/
LOCATION:College of Forestry\, Wildlife and Environment\, 602 Duncan Drive\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849\, United States
CATEGORIES:Main Calendar,Master's Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Audrey Grindle%2C Graduate Student Coordinator":MAILTO:apg0008@auburn.edu
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