Eight Biological Sciences students and two recent alumni presented papers at the 2014 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists July 30 to Aug. 4 in Chattanooga, TN.
Graduate students presenting papers at the conference:
- Danny D’Amore – Maternal environment influences development of behavioral syndrome in the swordtail fish, Xiphophorus multilineatus
- Vincent Farallo – Exploring below the undergrowth: the role of microhabitat in the evolutionary ecology of Plethodontid salamanders
- Sarah Kitson – Performance of Malaclemys terrapin hatchlings: variation in seasonal emergence and investigation into hatchling environmental preference
- Anthony Gilbert – Relating thermal performance to variation in resource use: implications for lizards in a warming world
- Taylor Phillips – Seasonal movements of the Sandstone Falls population of lower New River walleye.
- Maggie Hantak – Color polymorphism in the Eastern Red‐backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus): how morphs are seen through the eyes of visual predators
Two undergraduates also presented:
- William Ternes and Celeste Wheeler – Microhabitat Use of the Big Levels Salamander: A Microendemic Plethodontid
Plus recent alumni of the Biological Sciences graduate program:
- Christopher Howey ’14Ph.D. – Thermoregulation and energy expenditures of Black racers (Coluber constrictor) in thermally contrasting, burned and unburned landscapes
- Matthew Lattanzio ’14Ph.D. (two papers) – Disturbance, microhabitat use, and the thermal ecology of male tree lizards and From disturbance to fitness: selective consequences of prescribed fire for tree lizards
Faculty also presented at the conference.
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