Tuesday, 11th July 12th International Mammalogical Congress

• The paradigmatic lion: From social biology to social media - Professor David Macdonald

• Response of leopards at varying densities of tigers in Rajaji National Park (RNP), Uttarakhand, India. - Harshvardhan Singh Rathore
• Conservation inequality and the charismatic cat - Dawn Burnham

• Dingoes, dogs and foxes: Roles they can play. - Peter JS Fleming
• Human-modified canids in human-modified landscapes: Genome-wide variability and phylogeography of free-ranging dogs in Eurasia - Malgorzata Pilot

• The power of exclosures - Harald Beck
• Saving northern quolls: Quantifying the risk of colonisation by cane toads (Rhinella marina) on Australia’s Kimberley islands - Matt R McKinney

• Small mammals in the Anthropocene: Climate change and long-term observations in semi-arid Chile - Douglas A Kelt
• Desert mammal populations are limited by introduced predators rather than future climate change - Aaron Greenville

• Pictures, predators, and prey: Camera data and community dynamics after a fisher reintroduction - Roger A Powell
• Avoiding the subject: The implications of avoidance behaviour for detecting predators - Bronwyn Fancourt

This session is proudly sponsored by CSIRO

• Safe-guarding koalas against climate-change - Valentina S.A. Mella
• Climate warming is affecting mortality of weasels due to camouflage mismatch - Karol Zub

• Rapid natural history characterization of endangered Southeast Asian mammals: Using fecal metagenomics and metabarcoding for the simultaneous study of diet, host genetics, parasites, and gut microbiome - Amrita Srivathsan
• Validation of a non-invasive technique using faecal glucocorticoid metabolites to measure stress in leopards (Panthera pardus) - Andre Ganswindt

• Biogeographical divides in distribution of genetic lineages of small mammals in East African savannahs - Josef Bryja
• Sulawesi after Wallace: Multiple murine lineages support within island speciation across the northern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia - Heru Handika

• Southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons) in Western Australia; out of sight, out of mind - Michael J Swinbourne
• Elevational patterns of non-volant small mammal species richness in Gyirong Valley, Central Himalaya: Evaluating multiple spatial and environmental drivers - Zhixin Zhou

• Which landscape size best predicts the influence of forest cover on restoration success for mammals? – A global meta-analysis on the scale of effect - Renato Crouzeilles
• Long-term monitoring protocols for established populations of threatened mammals: Faure Island, Shark Bay - Chantelle Jackson

• Individual variation in the physiological stress response: Implications for studies of captive and free-ranging mammals - Koa N Webster
• The role of individual differences in conservation: Effects on the success of threatened mammal re-introductions - Melissa Jensen
• How is diet related to personality and stress physiology of a mammalian herbivore, the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)? - Anushika P.H.M Herath
• Stress, not personality, affects problem-solving by urban possums - Angela Rana

• Feeding around the bush: Supplementary feeding for dogs in Singapore forests - Norman T-L Lim
• Coping with the ubiquitous dogs: An integrative approach to managing disease in threatened Ethiopian wolves - Claudio Sillero-Zubiri
• Mesocarnivores in human-modified habitats: A movement ecology approach to understanding adaptations for survival. - Abi T Vanak
• Patterns of carnivore distributions and human-carnivore conflicts: Sympatric wild canids in India as a case study - Arjun Srivathsa

• The past and future fate of the world’s island mammals - John Woinarski
• The role of islands and fenced areas for mammal conservation in Australia - Sarah Legge
• Minimising Australian mammal extinctions through strategic planning of safe havens - Jeremy Ringma
• The use of Western Australian islands for fauna reconstruction - Keith Morris

This session is proudly sponsored by Advanced Telemetry Systems Australia

• Presence/absence of an apex predator and body size dictate the magnitude of resource-driven population fluctuations in desert mammals - Mike Letnic
• Conservation implications of livestock grazing for threatened small mammal species in Australia’s arid and semi-arid rangelands - Helen P Waudby
• Do differing habitat preferences promote coexistence for semi-arid mammal species? - Amanda L McLean
• Defining the refuges of a threatened desert rodent when resources are scarce - Lauren I Young

• Climbing into the canopy: Arboreal camera trapping proves effective for broadscale surveys of the Critically Endangered Leadbeater’s possum, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri - Jemma Cripps
• A scalable approach to wild animal monitoring using distributed autonomous sensing systems - Ashley Tews
• Assessing the accuracy of mammal identification from camera traps  - Larissa C Potter
• Improving detection probabilities for the Critically Endangered Leadbeater’s Possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri) using arboreal camera trapping - Louise Durkin

This session is proudly sponsored by CSIRO

• Hot lunches for herbivores: How herbivorous diets interact with thermoregulation. - Phillipa Beale
• Red squirrels decline in abundance in the boreal forests of Finland and NW Russia - Tytti Turkia
• Ecosystem modifiers create cache sites with microclimate that reduces seed release - John L Koprowski
• Long-term population dynamics of tropical dry forest small mammals: global climate disruption and conservation - Edgard David Mason Romo

Organisers:

Tamara Keeley, University of Queensland, Australia; Martin Dehnhard, Leibniz Institute for Zoo & Wildlife Research, Germany; Dr. Kerry Fanson, Deakin University, Australia.

Recent developments of new and innovative methods for reproductive and adrenal hormone monitoring, as well as the latest advances in basic endocrinology as applied to adrenal function, reproductive physiology, animal health, and ecology will be discussed. This workshop will explore biological sample type options (eg. faecal, urine, hair etc), sample collection and preservation considerations, validation of analysis techniques, data interpretation challenges and highlighting through examples the potential benefits/contribution of non-invasive hormone analysis to monitoring the health and fecundity of wild animal populations.

• Biological validation and practical application of hormones in non-invasive samples collected in the field: The evaluation of health and fecundity of wild populations - Tamara Keeley
• Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GCMS): An alternative method to evaluating bioindicators in non-invasive samples from wildlife species - Martin Dehnhard
• Considerations and options for the statistical analysis of wildlife endocrinology data - Kerry V Fanson

• Discordance between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA complicates evolutionary history of north-west Australian rock-wallabies, Petrogale - Mark Eldridge
• Population structuring and connectivity of Queensland dugongs (Dugong dugon): Implications for dugong management in the Great Barrier Reef region - Alexandra McGowan
• Phylogeography of the European red deer (Cervus elaphus): A synthesis based on mitochondrial sequences, nuclear microsatellites and ancient DNA - Frank Zachos
• Using genotype-by-sequencing to investigate genomic variation and phylogeographic patterns in a widespread carnivore, the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), in Europe - Jan M. Wójcik

• The distribution history of the Chinese water deer in Shanghai area, China   - Min Chen
• Mammalian collections in the United States provide minimal temporal and spatial coverage: A call for a renewed investment in primary science and education infrastructure - Joseph Cook
• On-site variables improve the accuracy of a GIS-based occupancy model for a Critically Endangered arboreal marsupial, Leadbeater’s possum. - Jenny Nelson
• Magnetic alignment in the context of the concept of sensory alignment. - Hynek Burda

• Species boundaries in the dasyurid marsupial genus Pseudantechinus: Is Ps. roryi a valid species? - Michael Westerman
• Wild source, founding and inbreeding in South African pet sugar gliders - Michael J Cunningham
• Rainfall and topography predict gene flow among populations of the declining northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) - Rosemary Hohnen
• Factors affecting the diversity of terrestrial mammals in oil palm dominated landscapes in Colombia - Lain E. Pardo

• Mammal diversifications followed the Triassic-Jurassic and Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction events - Matthew J Phillips
• The role of climate in shaping mammalian body size distributions over the Cenozoic - S. Kathleen Lyons
• After the mammoths: Changes in the structure and function of mammal communities after the terminal Pleistocene megafauna extinction - Felisa A Smith
• Fossilised birth-death priors on phylogenies given rate heterogeneity in the fossil record of carnivoran mammals - Peter Wagner
• Integrating modern and fossil museum collections to resolve taxonomic problems: The journey of a Churchill Fellow - Kenny J Travouillon

• Coyote use of the urban core: Variation in movements, activity, diet, and conflict implications - Stanley D Gehrt
• Identifying space use and resource utilisation to understand drivers of human-wildlife conflict: Dingoes (Canis dingo) on Fraser Island (K’gari) - Naomi J Evans
• Mining for trouble: The population, behaviour and management of dingoes living within a remote Australian mining operation - Bradley P Smith
• Co-occurrence of meso-carnivores in a human dominated landscape in Mahrashtra, India. - David Carricondo Sánchez
• Human-carnivore coexistence: Arabian wolves spatially favor but temporally avoid humans in an extremely arid landscape - Adi Barocas

• History, successes, constraints of mammal re-introductions to fenced 'mainland islands' in Australia: The experience of Australian Wildlife Conservancy - John Kanowski
• Fences and their foibles: Matuwa, a case study. - Colleen Sims
• Phillip Island Ark: Integrated invasive predator management and translocations for conservation of rare and threatened species - Duncan R Sutherland
• The challenges of managing confined populations: Dealing with issues of overabundance and species with naturally extreme population fluctuations - Katherine Tuft
• Maintaining genetic and adaptive diversity in island and exclosure populations - Rujiporn Thavornkanlapachai

This session is proudly sponsored by Advanced Telemetry Systems Australia

• Vegetation dynamics at refuge sites of the plains mouse (Pseudomys australis) in the western Simpson Desert, Australia - Catherine E M Nano
• Continental patterns in the diet of an apex predator: Australia’s dingo - Tim Doherty
• Northern quoll in the Pilbara: diet, space use and population dynamics of a marsupial carnivore - Judy A Dunlop
• Who killed the wolf spider? Intraguild predation among taxonomically disparate micro-carnivores - Tamara I Potter
• Using accelerometers to determine the behaviour of wild dingoes - Jack Tatler

• Underground rivers and the mammals that use them on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. - Karl Vernes
• CANCELLED - Advances in camera-trapping network of Sino Bon-Mammals - Zhishu Xiao
• Research on snow leopards using camera-trapping in Wolong Nature Reserve, China - Xuehua Liu
• A picture tells a thousand words - the hidden benefits of camera trapping - Sally Bryant
• The scientific consequences of stolen camera traps - Paul D Meek

This session is proudly sponsored by CSIRO

• Kalahari aardvarks on the edge: drought-induced resource deficiency may compromise aardvark survival under climate change - Nora M Weyer
• Coat colour change pattern in Alpine mountain hares (Lepus timidus varronis) along an altitudinal gradient in Grisons, Switzerland - Klaus Hackländer
• Mismatched environments and maternal effects: Gestational experience influences stress responses when environments change - Elissa Z Cameron
• Climate-mediated variability in predator-prey dynamics: Impacts of climate change on snowshoe hares - Michael J L Peers
• Participatory conservation of the Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) in coastal Maharashtra, India - Vishwas Katdare

• Are hibernators toast? - Fritz Geiser
• Persistence, entertainment and function of biological rhythms in a changing Arctic: Investigations of a free living arctic hibernator. - Loren Buck
• The effects of epidermal fatty acid profiles, triacyl- and monoacylglycerols, and wax esters on the susceptibility of hibernating bats to infection with P. destructans - Melissa R. Ingala
• Exploring the phenological response of a wild hibernator to climate variation through experimental translocation. - Jeffrey Lane
• Cold and alone? Seasonal roost choice and torpor expression differ between populations of New Zealand bats (Mystacina tuberculata) - Zenon Czenze

This session is proudly sponsored by Star-Oddi

• Glacial allopatry vs. postglacial parapatry and peripatry: The case of hedgehogs - Barbora Cerna Bolfikova
• Genetic and morphological differentiation in rakali, the Australo-Papuan water rat (Hydromys chrysogaster) with implications for its taxonomic and conservation status - Karen A Bettink
• Between the Balkans and the Baltic: Phylogeography of a common vole lineage limited to central Europe. - Joanna Stojak
• SNP versus mtDNA: Genomic phylogeography of a widespread European species, the bank vole - Petr Kotlik
• Adaptive phylogeography of the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus): The role of functional divergence between populations in shaping current species distributions - Michaela Straznicka

This workshop is by invitation only.

Rosalind Kennerley, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, UK.

The IUCN SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group (SMSG) represents rodents, shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs and tree-shrews, and is therefore responsible for more than 2800 species, accounting for over half of all mammal species. In this workshop we will bring together a panel of experts from across different disciplines to give a series of short talks reviewing the current knowledge and understanding of this group of species, before holding a structured working session around the topics of research and conservation plans for the future.

By the end of 2016 the Red List assessments and reassessments for all species in the group will have been completed. This provides the SMSG with the ideal opportunity to undertake global analyses on the data to identify key regions for threatened and Data Deficient (DD) species. The results of these analyses will be presented during the workshop. One of the greatest challenges that the SMSG faces is how to address and reduce the large number of DD species. In the 2008 assessment 447 were listed under this category, in many cases this was due uncertainty of taxonomy within families and this topic will form the second of the talks. The important gaps in our scientific understanding of the taxonomy within the group will be discussed and the developing role of molecular approaches in conservation, especially in revealing cryptic species groups, will be highlighted. The second cause of the high number of DD species is that there is often a paucity of even basic ecological information about the species and consequently it is not possible to apply the Red List Criteria. This subject will be considered in the third talk.

• Conservation priorities for SMSG species within Australasia and insular Southeast Asia - Samuel Turvey
• Introduction to the SMSG and the current knowledge of conservation status of SMSG species within Australasia and insular Southeast Asia - Rosalind J Kennerley

• Free-ranging domestic cats (Felis catus) on public lands: estimating density, activity, and diet in the Florida Keys - Allan F O'Connell
• Landscape 2D and 3D metrics and mammals’ diversity in agricultural landscapes of Southeastern Brazil - Luciano M Verdade
• Estimating red fox (Vulpes vulpes) abundance with spatial mark-resight models and camera traps: the effects of tagging, observer and individual recognition - Pablo Ferreras
• Monitoring a cryptic burrowing marsupial using DNA extracted from scats: greater bilby populations in the Pilbara region of north-western Australia. - Martin A Dziminski

• The critical importance of palaeontological data in efforts to optimise conservation of endangered mammals: an Australian focus - Michael Archer
• Using subfossils to create a baseline: A pre-European small mammal assemblage of the north western Flinders Ranges, South Australia - Jessie-Briar Treloar
• Dietary ecology and consequences of drought events on extant macropods: Implications for conservation and palaeoecological reconstructions - Larisa DeSantis
• Congruus sp. nov. a semi-arboreal kangaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from the Pleistocene Nullarbor Plain of south central Australia - Natalie M Warburton

• The cottontail rabbits (Lagomorpha: Leporidae: Sylvilagus) of Costa Rica: a novel taxonomic and systematic perspective. - Jose M. Mora
• The adaptive significance of fluctuations in populations of arvicoline rodents:  Habitat reach - Frederick J. Jannett, Jr.
• Evaporative water loss of subterranean rodents: a South America-Africa comparison - Facundo Luna
• The spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus) – a menstruating rodent - Hayley Dickinson

• Genetic management of fauna reintroductions - Kym Ottewell
• Beyond the fence: Are we any closer to re-establishing Australia's threatened mammals in open landscapes? - Katherine E Moseby
• Predicting biosecurity risk for islands using Bayesian belief networks: Mammalian threats and threatened mammals - Cheryl Lohr
• Confounding considerations of fencing for conservation - Matt W. Hayward

This session is proudly sponsored by Advanced Telemetry Systems Australia

• Age- and sex-related changes in the social environment of wild giraffes - Madelaine P Castles
• Differences in reproductive tract morphology and behaviour between two arid zone old endemic Australian rodents: Possible causes and consequences - Bill Breed
• The sensory world of a large-eared canid. - Aliza le Roux
• The diversity of carnivorous marsupials (Dasyuridae) in the Australian arid zone - Chris R Pavey

• Estimating population size of rural and urban hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) using camera trapping and citizen science without the need for individual recognition. - Antonio Uzal
• Habitat selection by mammals based on radiotelemetry - Mark S Boyce
• Wildlife wearables: Advances in remote wildlife surveillance, from real-time GPS to wearable video cameras in kangaroo case studies - Cathy A Herbert
• Remote data collection on very small mammals using Raspberry Pi and other technology in a bait station - Katrina E Gobetz

This session is proudly sponsored by CSIRO

• Aquatic giants with tiny voices: Exploring the drivers of acoustic communication in mammals. - Kobe Martin
• Foraging decisions of North American beaver (Castor canadensis) are shaped by energy constraints and predation risk - Janne Sundell
• What defines phenotypic variation in sexually dimorphic marsupials of South America? Assessing skull shape variation in Didelphis albiventris, D. aurita and D. marsupialis (Mammalia: Didelphidae). - Jamile de Moura Bubadué
• Merycism in western grey (Macropus fuliginosus) and red (Macropus rufus) kangaroos - Catharina Vendl

• Tooth outline shape analysis of the Ryukyu wild boar and the Japanese wild boar by geometric morphometrics - Eisuke Yamada
• Community change during ecological restoration: small mammals as indicators - Margaret A. O'Connell
• Top-down or bottom-up? Drivers of density and distribution of northern quolls - Lorna Hernandez-Santin
• Scats of a mammalian bioturbator increase the diversity of rhizosphere fungi associated with seedlings of a key forest tree - Natasha Tay

• House mice and wood mice as historical proxies: Phylogeography of mice transported by the Vikings   - Frida Johannesdottir
• Phylogeography, demographic history and genetic connectivity of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in the Tenasserim Range, Thailand - Worata Klinsawat
• Temporal variation in the genetic composition of a newly established population of dibblers (Parantechinus apicalis) reflects translocation history - Harriet R Mills
• Limited dispersal in an ectoparasitic mite, Laelaps giganteus, contributes to significant phylogeographic congruence with the rodent host, Rhabdomys - Adriaan Engelbrecht

• The applicability of a Bayesian state-space model for evaluating the effects of localised culling on subsequent density changes: sika deer as a case study - Kazutaka Takeshita
• International cooperation to improve frontline wildlife forensics, using the illegal rhino horn trade as a case study. - Greta J Frankham
• Wolf-dogs, “wild dogs”, and beefalos: what do we do with hybrids and why is policy falling short? - Lily van Eeden

• Monitoring koala density and habitat condition to trigger management intervention in an overabundant population in south-eastern Australia - Kathrine A. Handasyde
• Now you see me: How thermal imaging increases detection of cryptic nocturnal mammals in tropical regions - Avril Underwood
• Population dynamics of the near-threatened Cabrera vole in Mediterranean farmland as assessed from non-invasive genetic sampling - António Ferreira
• Competition, courtship and control: Breeding strategies of female platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in captivity - Jessica Thomas

Organiser: Dr Kristine Vesterdorf, University of Western Australia.

This workshop aims to bring together experts and users from different fields that have an interest in, are planning on, or have used implantable heart rate and temperature sensors, or any other ECG or heart rate sensors. Workshop objectives will focus on explaining the fundamental principles of ECG derived heart rate measurements, practical aspects of programming sensors, implanting sensors, and how to verify and process the data to get the most out of your measurements.

The workshop will start off with a theoretical and practical overview of the sensors. It will then go on to discuss real working examples in different animal models, and finally go through signal processing and validation methods of the acquired data. The workshop will be wrapped up with a lively discussion that will include the benefits and shortcomings of heart rate measurements and how it is possible to move forward in the field.