Thursday, 13th July 12th International Mammalogical Congress

• Thermal physiology concepts revisited: Misconceptions in predicting mammalian responses to climate change - Emeritus Professor Duncan Mitchell

• Integrated foraging ecology and the magnetism of food patches - Clare McArthur
• Plant odour and visual cues as proximate attractors to food patches - Adrian M Shrader

• Australia: extreme post-European mammalian extinction; extreme dependence upon remains for knowledge of many native mammal species - Alexander Baynes
• Fossil insights into the peri-European diversity and decline of terrestrial mammals from Australia’s Murray Darling Depression. - Diana A Fusco

• It’s time to hit the road; temporal overlap of species using tracks - Stuart J Dawson
• Spatiotemporal relationship between guanaco (Lama guanicoe) and hare (Lepus europaeus) and their role as prey for the endangered mountain lion (Puma concolor) in the Andean Mountains of Central Chile (34º 27´ S, 70º 27´W). - Cristian Bonacic

• Free ranging body temperature of mammals: Are there still phylogenetic effects?   - Philip Withers
• What body temperature patterns reveal about the functioning of large free-living mammals - Andrea Fuller

This session is proudly sponsored by the Society of Experimental Biology

• Status and distribution of two otter species in coastal areas of southern Thailand - Naruemon Tantipisanuh
• The cost of conservation, conflict and welfare in a commensal baboon population, South Africa. - Esme Beamish

• Evolution and development of functional change, increase, decrease, and loss of teeth in mammals: examples of Carnivora and platypus - Masakazu Asahara
•  Gene expression, not local adaptation, sufficient for pikas to occupy vast Himalayan elevational gradient - Katie A. Solari

• Mind the gaps: Assessing continent-wide knowledge of small African carnivores - Emmanuel Do Linh San
• Aspects of the ecology of a poorly-known conflict-prone mesocarnivore: The case of the caracal (Caracal caracal) on farmland in South Africa - Marine Drouilly

• Genome-wide SNP-based high-throughput DNA sequencing helps resolve long-standing issues in Australian bat taxonomy - Kyle Armstrong
• Predicted climate change impacts on the phylogenetic diversity of bats across the Australian continent - Pia E Lentini

This session is proudly sponsored by Wildlife Acoustics

• European bison: A post-bottlenecked recovery, its consequences and current threats - Małgorzata Tokarska
• Which life-history variables have the greatest potential contribution to population growth rate? A test with marsupials - Mariana S Ferreira

• Ecology of gaur (Bos gaurus) in highlands of Central India: A case study of Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh (India) - Orus Ilyas
• Platypuses and land-use practices: Catchment-scale studies provide some insight into the effect of forestry and agriculture. - Sarah A Munks

• To what extent do elephants use pre-ingestive cues and/or postingestive feedback when making diet choices? - Melissa H Schmitt
• Does personality affect habitat use by common brushtail possums on the urban fringe? - Katie K. Y. Wat
• Bringing the landscape of fear back to conservation - Sonny Bleicher
• Food availability for ungulates: First step to population reinforcement in protected areas of Itaipu Binacional (Paraguay) - Silvia Saldivar

• Discovering lost (or not so) regional diversity: New Muridae detected in owl pellet assemblages from the poorly surveyed region of Wallacea, eastern Indonesia - Julien Louys
• A key role for owl pellet accumulations in regional small mammal surveys and monitoring activities in Papua New Guinea. - Ken P. Aplin
• An introduction to the contribution of mammal remains to conservation - Matthew C McDowell

• Reexamining the role of food in the snowshoe hare cycle - Yasmine N Majchrzak
• Arctic foxes benefit their prey and subsidise wildlife through ecosystem engineering - James D Roth
• Dingoes and trophic cascades in Australia - a red herring for ecological restoration - Helen R Morgan
• Exposure to a novel predator induces visual predator recognition by naïve prey - Lisa Steindler

• Body temperature may indicate high costs of locomotor activity in an arboreal species, the edible dormouse (Glis glis) - Claudia Bieber
• The daily rhythmicity of core body temperature provides an index of performance in free-living mammals - Shane Maloney
• Body temperature and activity patterns reveal that free-living cheetahs are opportunistic hunters - Robyn S Hetem
• Life in the warm: Comparative energetics of a nocturnal and a diurnal tropical small mammal - Danielle L Levesque

This session is proudly sponsored by the Society of Experimental Biology

• Mammals in anthropogenic landscapes: Case studies from China - Zhigang Jiang
• Bridging the gap for the western ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus occidentalis): Rope bridges provide safe passage across roads for a critically endangered marsupial - Roberta Bencini
• Reintroduction of a native rodent in the presence of competition with an invasive rodent - Jennifer Anson
• Geoffroy’s cat in Brazil: estimating density and behavioural patterns of the species in human-dominated landscapes - Flavia Tirelli

• Untangling the evolutionary history of the European Bison (Bison bonasus) - Ayla L. van Loenen
• The resource pulse game: Figuring out winners and losers in the Kluane Red Squirrel Project - Stan Boutin
• Deep time to conservation: Quantifying shape variation within the last four vombatiform species through 3D geometric morphometrics. - Vera Weisbecker
• A new method to find environmental mechanisms of life history evolution in insectivorous mammals - Diana O Fisher

• Use of GPS telemetry to study the spatial ecology of common genets (Genetta genetta) in central Kenya - Adam W Ferguson
• Spatial distribution and occupancy of bushy-tailed mongoose (Bdeogale crassicauda) and miombo genet (Genetta angolensis) in a miombo woodland ecosystem, western Tanzania. - Claude A Fischer
• Spatio-temporal ecology of the rusty-spotted genet, Genetta maculata, in Telperion Nature Reserve (Mpumalanga, South Africa). - Rouxlyn Ms Roux
• Methodologies for studying small African carnivores: Can research keep pace with emerging conservation needs? - Paula A. White

• Quaternary bat fossils from southeastern Australia reveal long-term patterns of cave habitation: Implications for conservation of the critically endangered southern bent-wing bat - Liz Reed
• Changes in survival of large-footed myotis in streams with contrasting disturbance history - Brad Law
• How do insectivorous microbats use rainforest-grassland ecotones in a fire-managed, tropical landscape? - Julie Broken-Brow
• Artificial light degrades critical urban habitat for slow-flying insectivorous bat species - Joanna K Haddock

This session is proudly sponsored by Wildlife Acoustics

• Camera trapping as an alternative to pitfall trapping to sample prey availability of insectivorous mammals - Rachael A Collett
• Camera traps at American black bear dens: A case study in undergraduate research - John J Van Niel
• Do protected areas sustain large mammals? A camera-trap survey across the Isthmus of Panama - Ninon FV Meyer
• On the status and distribution of Gazella gazella (Artiodactyla: Mammalia) in Turkey along with some medium and large mammal records from Hatay Province - Mustafa Soezen

• Ungulates rely less on visual cues, but more on adaptive movement behaviour, when searching for forage - Jan A. Venter
• What makes northern quolls “toad-smart”? - Ella Kelly
• The role of subordinate Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) as helpers in the natal family group - Katrin Rebekka Hohwieler
• Differences in behavioural responses to two kinds of culling over a short time scale in a sika deer, Cervus nippon, population - Saya Yamaguchi

• Leptospira infection in domestic dogs and wild mammals as hosts of the same serovars - Anaiá P Sevá
• Utilising community wisdom to determine the magnitude and causes of regional declines in the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) in south east Queensland. - Elizabeth A Brunton
• Comparative three-dimensional CT image analysis of the mastication system in the giant anteater and southern tamandua - Hideki Endo
• Latrine site selection of Carnivora - Yuko Nakazawa
• An improved method of capture and immobilization for medium to large size macropods - Miguel A Bedoya-Pérez
• The Oz Mammal Genomes initiative: Mammal genomics, evolution and conservation at a continental scale - Anna J MacDonald
• Distribution of the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in Gwangju Stream - Jeong wook Ha
• Deer and kangaroos - are they spreading weeds in their scat? - Bill Bateman
• Genetic structure of the pampas cat (Leopardus colocolo): Defining demographic units for specie’s conservation in Brazil - Caroline C Sartor
• How can we better assess the cardiopulmonary function of large free-living mammals? - Adian S Izwan
• Applying a social-ecological system approach to influence dingo management practices - Helen P Waudby
• Mexican Late Pleistocene proboscidean diet and habitat - Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales
• Using DNA-based identification to understand diet: Giant panda and bamboo - Mark Eldridge
• Developing a next generation genomic toolkit for management of the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus: From pedigrees to population genomics - Greta J Frankham
• Bloody and the beast: Invasion of blood sucking nematodes in European bison - contributory factors and consequences - Marta Kołodziej-Sobocińska
• Site selection for musk deer monitoring based on similarity analysis - Jongchul Park
• Deciphering wolf howls - Bilal Habib
• Habitat use and home range of neotropical cats in Brazilian Cerrado. - Roberto Guilherme Trovati
• Effects of sika deer on understory vegetation, seedlings and saplings in Akan National Park, northern Japan. - Hiroyuki Uno
• Sika deer(Cervus nippon ) identify hunting zones in Kushiro, Japan? - Shin Kanno
• Aerial detection of the presence of a burrowing marsupial, the greater bilby, using remotely piloted aircraft. - Fiona M Carpenter
• Risk factors of illegal killing in legally harvested wolf (Canis lupus) populations - Johanna Suutarinen
• Automatic transponder readers: A new tool for studying activity, movement and mortality of mammals - Karol Zub
• Simulation tests for the sex-biased dispersal hypothesis explaining distinct differences between nuclear DNA-based and mitochondrial DNA-based population structures in the Hokkaido vole. - Shota Murukami
• Phylogenetic analysis of the Bonin flying fox using mitochondrial 12S rRNA and cytb sequences - Ayumi Okada
• A cryptic species model from Turkey: Allactaga (Mammalia: Rodentia) - Sakir Onder Ozkurt
• Chinese fan palms as important food source for the Daito flying-fox (Pteropus dasymallus daitoensis) on Daito Islands, Japan - Keiichiro Abe
• Community disassembly in carcasses: Metacommunity persistence in an ephemeral habitat - Brian J O'Neill
• Large carnivore management in Romania - Ramon Jurj
• The role of photoperiod in the biology of a desert didelphid: Reproduction and energetics of male Thylamys pallidior - M. Soledad Albanese
• Comparison of renal gene expression profiles of the South American olive mouse Abrothrix olivacea in natural and controlled conditions - Guillermo D'Elía
• The ecology of stress: Linking life-history traits with physiological control mechanisms in free-living guanacos - Ramiro J.A. Ovejero A.
• Social networks, friendships, and aggressions in yearling wild boars (Sus scrofa) - Claudia Bieber
• Above-ground nests provide alternative shelter for nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcintus). - Colleen M. McDonough
• No magnetic alignment of form direction in European hares (Lepus europaeus) - Klaus Hackländer
• The dingo menace: An early account of farmer interactions with dingoes from surveys by N. W. G. Macintosh - Lily van Eeden
• Cryptic male choice: Experimental evidence of sperm sex ratio and seminal fluid adjustment in relation to coital rate - Amy M Edwards
• Chilean foxes exhibit a Type IV functional response in response to changes in abundance of a social prey species. - Douglas A Kelt
• Evaluation of body mass and body size as an ecological indicator of population changes in sika deer (Cervus nippon) - Koichi Kaji
• Behavioral control of sika deer (Cervus nippon) by capsaicin repellent - Yu-ichiroh Shiiba
• Paleoecological reconstruction of Late Pleistocene deer from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan: Evolution and extinction on islands - Mugino O Kubo
• Reintroduction success of collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) in the Ibera Natural Reserve, Argentina - Paporn Thebpanya
• Using sensor cameras to inform management strategies for a rare macropodid, the spectacled hare-wallaby, on the Yawuru Indigenous Protected Area - Michael Wysong
• Seasonal patterns and habitat use of urban sika deer in Sapporo, Japan - Shoko Nakatani
• Is the Brazilian environmental law positive for ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) occurrence? - Roberta M Paolino
• Influence of ecological factors on burrowing of the specialized red viscacha rat Tympanoctomys barrerae in the Monte desert biome, Mendoza, Argentina - Andrea Tarquino-Carbonell
• Research informing practice: Mitigating impacts of forest practices on threatened mammals - Sarah Munks
• The effects of hydroelectric dam filling on home range and habitat suitability of jaguars (Panthera onca) (Carnivora: Felidae) on Upper Paraná River, Atlantic Forest, Brazil. - Dênis Sana
• Roles for the dingo in Australian food webs reviewed: Where do they fit? - Huw Nolan
• Mitochondrial DNA diversity of the Arabian oryx from Oman - Jaime Gongora
• Difference in small mammal and forest structures between primary and secondary forest subjected to two different post-fire management practices in the Phou Khao Khauy National Protected Area, Lao PDR - Jong-U KIM
• Diversity and origins of wild pigs from Madagascar - Jenna Day
• The swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor): A common mycophagous species yet potentially important for maintaining the diversity of Australian fungi. - Natalie Simpson
• Who's afraid of the big bad fossa? - Chia L Tan
• Social network structure of the African woodland dormouse Graphiurus murinus - Kim Madikiza
• Periodic movement patterns by a specialist herbivore, the koala, in a patchy landscape - Adrian Rus
• Yellow sandplain mammals of the Great Victoria Desert - Jeff Turpin
• Can some burrowing mammals be keystone species in the Brazilian Cerrado? - Marina Salles Munerato
• A day in the life of a bandicoot: analysing behaviour using accelerometry data - Natasha Tay
• Predator-prey activity patterns in the urban landscape: The case of the quenda vs the cat - Janine M Kuehs
• Different seasonal migration patterns between Japanese macaques and sika deer in the summit area in Yakushima Island - Takeaki Honda
• Cryptic diversity revealed in a golden mole assemblage from south-eastern Africa - Samantha S Mynhardt
• Gut microbiome profile of an extinct caprine (Myotragus balearicus) from the Balearic Islands - Yichen Liu
• Review of contemporary records reveal new insights into the distribution and habitat for the threatened Carpentarian pseudantechinus (Pseudantechinus mimulus): More widespread than we thought? - Jesse Rowland
• The nuchal ligaments in Carnivora: Speculative relations with sniff trail behavior - Satoshi Suzuki
• Phylogenetic study of extinct Korean leopards in South Korea using mitochondrial DNA from old hides - Jee Yun Hyun
• Flutter detection by bats using different echolocation strategies - Ying-Yi Ho
• Reproductive behavior of the Asiatic wild ass (Equus hemionus hemionus) in Central Inner Mongolia - Junhuai Bi
• Mammalian reproductive investment strategies: An emergent property of the interplay between maternal body size and environmental productivity? - Jennifer L Maresh
• Conservation units of African bovid species: Conserving evolutionary and ecological processes - Paulette Bloomer
• Consequences of exposure to leprosy in wild nine-banded armadillos - Jim Loughry
• Determinants of large cat attacks on humans in central India and impact of mitigation interventions - Claudio Sillero-Zubiri
• Heart rate logging in free-ranging mammals - Asgeir Bjarnason
• The role of urban environment in shaping parasite communities of wild red foxes in Edinburgh - Lisa V Gecchele
• Magnetic resonance imaging of the brains of three peramelemorphian marsupials - Yamila Gurovich
• On the interplay among ambient temperature, basal metabolic rate and body mass - Daniel E. Naya
• The present status of two endangered insular populations of the leopard cat Prionailurus bengalensis: Implications for their conservation - Masako Izawa
• Digitisation of the marsupial collections at the Natural History Museum, London - Roberto Portela Miguez
• Game-on, game-off: Bridging ecological and neurological pathways to fear - Sonny S Bleicher
• Two decades of climate driving the diversity of tropical small mammals - Edgard David Mason Romo
• A new species of the spiny rat Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimyidae) from the northern Peruvian Yungas - Víctor Pacheco

• DNA metabarcoding reveals diet overlap among sympatric three species of forest guenons (Cercopithecus) in Uganda - Akito Toge
• Where the wild things were: Identifying extinction drivers and correlates of vulnerability and resilience in the Caribbean land mammal fauna - Samuel T. Turvey
• Genomic and isotopic approaches reveal mechanisms of persistence in the endemic Hispaniolan solenodon - Alexis M Mychajliw
• Modeling the distribution of the endangered Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) in the face of anthropogenic global change - Alexis M Mychajliw
• Current status and conservation of the non-volant land mammals of the insular Caribbean and priorities for future ecological research and conservation actions - Ros Kennerley

• Poor historical data drive conservation complacency: The vital role of predator accumulations for mammal conservation in south-eastern Australia - Rohan J Bilney
• From papers to potholes: Piecing together extinct eastern Australian mammal communities - Fred Ford
• Applied conservation palaeobiology in Western Australia: Faure Island, Shark Bay, and Mount Gibson Sanctuary, mainland Mid-West - Bryony Palmer
• A brief history of the international theriological/mammalogical congresses - William Z. Lidicker, Jr.

• Survival expectations in a wolf-elk system: How selective predation and the environment shift senescence - Lacy M Smith
• Behavioural and chemical ecology approaches to novel species interactions: What do we know about naïveté in the Australian mammal fauna? - Alexandra J. R. Carthey
• Investigating post-fire recovery in an Australian native rodent: Managing fire for conservation in northern Australia - Robyn Shaw
• Dynamics of three flea species parasitizing the Namaqua rock mouse (Micaelamys namaquensis) in South Africa - Heike Lutermann
• More variable than we thought: New patterns of social structure in tuco-tucos (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) - Eileen A Lacey

• Field physiology of the short-beaked echidna: Flexibility aids success for this Australian mammal. - Christine E Cooper
• Body water conservation through selective brain cooling by the carotid rete: A physiological feature for surviving climate change? - W. Maartin Strauss
• Towards accurate calculation of field metabolic rates for bats. - Robert D Bullen
• Wild mammal ecophysiology in a changing world: A role for plasticity? - Adam J Munn
• Peeing poison: The biochemistry of bamboo lemur cyanide survival - M. Elise Lauterbur

This session is proudly sponsored by the Society of Experimental Biology

• Can apex predators retain their ecosystem function when the world changes? - Marianne Pasanen-Mortensen
• Evidencing new areas of endemism in the Atlantic Forest Biome: An approach for non-volant small mammals - Ricardo Bovendorp
• Niche separation of three species of tree-rat in north western Australia - Anne Kerle
• Kangaroos in the backyard: A case study from the Coffs Harbour Northern Beaches, New South Wales. - Tim TH Henderson

• Newfound insights into the host range, geographic distribution and genetic diversity of hantaviruses gained from natural history collections of shrews, moles and bats - Richard Yanagihara
• High parasite infection level in non-native invasive species – It is just a matter of time - Andrzej Zalewski
• Transmission of chlamydia using naturally-infected koala semen - Lyndal Hulse
• Let’s go to the dogs: Domestic dog ecology in rural villages west of Serengeti National Park in Tanzania - Anna M Czupryna
• What makes a stud?  Understanding high reproductive skew in male African ground squirrels with no dominance or territoriality - Jane M. Waterman

• Trophy hunting: The good, the bad, and the ugly - how to tell them apart - Rosie Cooney
• Patterns of selective hunting and its indirect effects on ungulate populations - Atle Mysterud
• When does selective hunting select, and is that a problem? - Marco Festa-Bianchet
• Evolutionary and demographic consequences of exploitation: Wild boar as a case study - Marlène Gamelon
• Hunting of introduced deer vs native species conservation: Wapiti management in New Zealand - Graham Nugent

• Who’s calling? The importance of acoustic studies for the conservation of Brazilian bats - Maria João Ramos Pereira
• Detecting seasonal changes in micro-bat species richness in a South African National Park using acoustic receivers - Dan Parker
• Habitat islands in the sky: Bat use of green roofs in a tropical city - Benjamin PYH Lee
• Flying-foxes in the warming Anthropocene - Justin A Welbergen
• Monitoring postfire survivorship and recolonisation of quokkas (Setonix brachyurus) in southwest Australian forests - Karlene Bain

This session is proudly sponsored by Wildlife Acoustics

• Monitoring population size and structure by individual recognition in brush-tailed rock wallabies (Petrogale penicillata) - Gerhard Koertner
• Cameras, collars and carnivores: Using contemporary techniques to inform the conservation of an endangered Australian predator, the spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus). - Trent Forge
• Elevational patterns of co-existence and replacement in medium-large species of terrestrial mammals on Sumaco Volcano, Ecuador - Travis W Knowles
• Optimising the detection and enumeration of northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) populations using trail cameras - Scott Burnett

• Molecular genetics used for analyzing Eurasian beaver dispersal - 20 years after reintroduction in Romania - Ancuta Fedorca
• Tracking Cats, Dingoes and Bilbies: Results of a collaborative two-way science project with Wiluna Martu Women Rangers - Jackie Courtenay

• Bats: a macro-evolutionary exception - Professor Norberto Giannini

Professor Norberto Giannini is the International Federation of Mammalogists’ Sponsored Plenary Speaker for IMC12

Join us for a fabulous night with friends and colleagues at the BelleVue Ballroom at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Enjoy a delicious set menu with a selection of local beers and wines before you dance the night away with some great entertainment.

This dinner is a ticketed event and is not included in your registration. To purchase a ticket please go to the registration desk. Tickets are $150AUD.