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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.
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LOCATION:College of Forestry\, Wildlife and Environment\, 602 Duncan Drive\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Audrey Grindle%2C Graduate Student Coordinator":MAILTO:apg0008@auburn.edu
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SUMMARY:SFWS Spring Graduation Reception
DESCRIPTION:The SFWS will celebrate the 2018 Spring graduating class on Sunday\, May 6\, 2018. The reception will be held in the SFWS EBSCO Atrium and will begin at 10 a.m. with the presentation to begin at 10:15 a.m. The commencement ceremony will be held at the Auburn Arena at 1 p.m.
URL:https://cfwe.auburn.edu/event/sfws-spring-graduation-reception/
LOCATION:College of Forestry\, Wildlife and Environment\, 602 Duncan Drive\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Main Calendar
ORGANIZER;CN="Wendy Franklin%2C Student Recruitment & Events Coordinator":MAILTO:wzf0003@auburn.edu
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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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