Friday, 14th July 12th International Mammalogical Congress

• Working for Wildlife: The Role of Zoos in Conservation Action - Susan Hunt

• DNA detection and population genetics of the red fox in Australia - Stephen Sarre
• Molecular phylogeography of mustelid species endemic to the Japanese islands and closely related species - Ryuichi Masuda

• Introduction to the systematics of Peruvian forms of Caenolestes caniventer (Paucituberculata: Caenolestidae) - Víctor Pacheco
• Tempo and mode of the diversification of extant didelphids (Didelphimorphia) - Guillermo D'Elia

• You can lead a horse to water... providing effective reintroduction support is difficult, but does it matter? - Hannah L Bannister
• Translocation success for dibblers (Parantechinus apicalis) in Western Australia is explained by invertebrate abundance. - J. Anthony Friend

• Recent trends in the global extinction risk of mammals - Carlo Rondinini
• Intrinsic and extrinsic correlates of range reduction in mammals - Michela Pacifici

• Strong sexual segregation amplifies road-kill risk in urban eastern grey kangaroos - Graeme Coulson
• Human-wildlife conflict: Flying-foxes in the city also provide landscape scale ecosystem services     - John Martin

• Testing the response of the threatened New Holland mouse to management burns - Phoebe A Burns
• Effects of large spatiotemporal heterogeneity of environmental conditions on conservation of wild ungulates in Mongolia - Takehiko Y. Ito

• Using the past to explore the impact of extreme and abrupt climate changes on biodiversity and ecosystem services - Chris Turney
• Climatic and vegetational drivers of mammoth range reduction in the approach to extinction - Adrian Lister

• Multifaceted mammal management: Dealing with multiple threats in novel communities - Euan G Ritchie
• An eco-evolutionary approach to restoring native wildlife in invaded ecosystems - Menna Jones

This session is proudly sponsored by Zoos Victoria

• Impact of feeding behavior on the deformations of the macaque mandible - Olga Panagiotopoulou
• Factors affecting individual participation during intergroup interactions in mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) - Melanie O Mirville

• Eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) space use patterns in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda - Jennifer F Moore
• Differential nocturnal and circumlunar movement patterns suggests temporal partitioning between coyotes and bobcats in east Texas - Haemish I Melville

• Genetic variation of MHC class II DRB genes among three weasel species: Japanese weasel (Mustela itatsi), Siberian weasel (M. sibirica) and least weasel (M. nivalis) - Yoshinori Nishita
• Lineage diversity and size disparity in Musteloidea: testing patterns of adaptive radiation using molecular and fossil-based methods - Chris J Law
• Geographic variation and taxonomy of the marbled polecat Vormela peregusna - Alexei V. Abramov
• Pleistocene and Holocene fauna of Mustelidae around the Ural and Western Siberia - Pavel Kosintsev

• Olfactory receptor evolution shows association with dietary radiation of neotropical leaf-nosed bats - Laurel R Yohe
• The influence of ecological and geographical context on a recent rapid radiation: A case of study in the sigmodontine rodents. - Andrés Parada Rodriguez
• Comparative primate biogeography in the Neotropics - Jessica Lynch Alfaro

• Survival in the snow:  the first release of captive-bred mountain pygmy-possums (Burramys parvus) to the wild - Marissa L Parrott
• Learning how to do it right: lessons from trial translocations of Tasmanian devils - Samantha Fox
• Anti-predator training of the endangered Pacific pocket mouse (Perognathus longimembris pacificus) slated for reintroduction - Shauna King
• ‘Scoop a Poop’- Citizen Scientists tackle antibiotic resistance in the wild - Michelle Power

• The role of human pressures in altering global macroecological patterns - Moreno Di Marco
• Extinction risk in Australasian mammals: Trends and management priorities - Chris N Johnson
• Pangolins on the edge: Status, threats and conservation of the world’s most trafficked wild mammals - Carly Waterman
• The Red List status of Old World deer and matters of conservation concern - William McShea

• Conservation ecology of the Pilbara Northern Quoll: home range, distribution and future climate change impacts - Robert A Davis
• Living on the edge of agriculture: Home range and movement patterns of the field vole Microtus agrestis in a fragmented agro-ecosystem - Christina Vedel-Smith
• Inbreeding and inbreeding avoidance in wild giant pandas - Yibo Hu
• Estimating hare population using thermo vision equipment in an intensive agricultural land - Mihai Fedorca

• Migratory livestock grazing significantly impacts rangeland vegetation and wild-ungulate population in the Indian Trans-Himalaya - Abhishek Ghoshal
• Categorization and effectiveness of protected areas: Comparative study of small mammal communities in Nahuel-Huapi National Park, Argentina - Maria D Rivarola
• Mice in the Anthropocene: Refuge in the built environment for the critically endangered salt marsh harvest mouse - Katherine R Smith
• Trends and conservation status of South American mammals - Lucila Castro

• Paleoenvironmental change and megafaunal extinction. Ultima Esperanza, Chile. - Luis A. Borrero
• Rapid climate change and megafaunal extinctions - Alan Cooper
• Why is the European bison the sole survivor of the Paleartic megafauna? - Rafał Kowalczyk
• Hybrid bovinae in Pleistocene Europe - Graham Gower

• Ecosystem modelling to predict ecosystem-wide outcomes of management - Christopher M Baker
• Exotic predators affect endangered small mammal behavior with potential for trophic cascades in island ecosystems - Michael Cove
• Australia’s digging mammals: foraging beneath the surface contributes to ecosystem services - Leonie E Valentine
• Does the loss of tree hollows contribute to the decline of arboreal mammals in northern Australia? - Leigh-Ann Woolley

This session is proudly sponsored by Zoos Victoria

• A shifting baseline: δ¹⁵N analysis of individual amino acids to track ecosystem changes across the late Pleistocene extinction - Emma A Elliott Smith
• Morphology and evolution of the oral shield in marsupial newborn pouch young. - Yamila Gurovich
• Integration of the mammalian dentition by the inhibitory cascade - Alistair Evans
• Diet of brown hyaena (Hyaena brunnea) in the presence of a vulture restaurant - Kerry Slater

• Altered river flow influences hippopotamus spatial use and the scale at which they alter the chemistry and biology of rivers - Keenan Stears
• Comparative movement ecology of four sympatric rainforest frugivores - Ben T Hirsch
• Habitat use by the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis), bridled nailtail wallaby (Onychogalea fraenata) and numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) ten years after release into a predator-free area of conservation fencing. - Laurence E Berry
• Flexible home ranges in the agile wallaby. A bigger house only when needed. - Miguel Bedoya-Pérez

• Intra- and interspceific variation of skull morphology in the two species of East Asian weasels - Satoshi Suzuki
• Olfactory speciation in Eurasian badgers Meles spp.: Diversity among Japanese and European badgers - Yayoi Kaneko
• Estimated seed shadow generated by martens (Martes spp.): Comparison with forest-dwelling animals - Yamato Tsuji

• Can we use conditioned taste aversion to mitigate cane toad impacts on northern quolls? - Naomi L Walters
• Small mammal roadkill surveys: Implications of short carcass persistence and recommendations - Andrea Romero
• Forelimb adaptations to digging in the quenda (Isoodon obesulus fusciventer) - Meg L Lane
• The use of non-invasive genetic sexing of echidnas from hair and scat samples for captive management and conservation - Tahlia Perry
• Small mammal landscape corridor usage in a fragmented grassland ecosystem in the Mpumalanga Province, South Africa - Michelle JC Kral
• Using a unique take on citizen science to conserve a unique species: Thirty years of citizen science and koala conservation in New South Wales - Dan Lunney

• Using key wildlife species to inform conservation planning in the Cerrado and Pantanal of Brazil - Alexine Keuroghlian
• The evaluation on impact of land-use change on human-elephant conflicts in Lahad-datu since 1990’s, Sabah, Malaysia - Yasuyuki Tachiki
• Movement and landscape use by an ecosystem engineer in agricultural lands - Maria Luisa SP Jorge
• Movement and habitat use of sika deer in Japan’s largest wetland - Tsuyoshi Yoshida
• Genetic diversity and population structure of white-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari) in fragmented landscapes. - Cibele Biondo
• The influence of invasive mongoose on the genetic structure of the endangered Amami rabbit populations - Naoki Ohnishi

• Trolling the devil genome: Why conservation genomics is important to endangered species survival - Carolyn J Hogg
• How does the gut microbiome of a specialist herbivore, the koala, respond to and affect translocation success? - Michaela D.J. Blyton
• Re-introduction of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii derbianus) to Kalbarri National Park: Home range, habitat use and notes on survival - Nicole Willers
• CANCELLED - Sympathy for the devil: Captive-management style did not influence survival, body mass change or diet of Tasmanian devils after wild release - Kate Tuckson
• Age-specific survival and fecundity of burrowing bettongs (Bettongia lesueur) on Heirisson Prong, Western Australia - Christine Groom
• Population dynamics and health of self-regulating populations of the burrowing bettong within fenced exclosures in semi-arid environments - Felicity L'Hotellier

• Neotropical deer status, conservation trends and future perspectives - Susana Gonzalez
• Genomic diversity and adaptation in captive tiger populations - Ellie Armstrong
• Establishing a conservation evidence base for species of extreme rarity; lessons for Australia from the world’s rarest ape, the Hainan gibbon - Jessica V Bryant
• Biodiversity loss of China’s terrestrial mammals during 1970 and 2010 - Lin Xia
• Using GIS and gazetteers to analyse the extirpations of large mammals under anthropogenic threats, as exemplified in south-east China during the last 500 years - Kaijin Hu
• Setting conservation and research priorities for threatened mammals in the Eastern Himalayas - Sangay Dorji

• Treescape to moonscape: Mitigating the impact of plantation harvest on den use by threatened carnivores in Tasmania - Dydee Mann
• Changing migration in the Ya Ha Tinda elk population: When where and why to migrate? - Evelyn Merrill
• Evolution of cranial development in marsupials - Norberto P Giannini

• A roadmap to meaningful dingo conservation - Ben Allen
• Conservation genomics and metagenomics of wild mammals: advance and perspective - Fuwen Wei
• Decline of small mammals in south east Australia: role of refuges and implications for management - Barbara Wilson
• Partnering indigenous biocultural knowledge and science: Research and management of the threatened greater bilby on the Dampier Peninsula in the north-west of Australia - Jacob Smith
• Evaluating detection methods for a rare small carnivore, the eastern spotted skunk, Spilogale putorius - Robert C. Dowler
• Characterisation of factors influencing male reproductive success in the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) - Georgia Thomas

• Radiocarbon dating the response of European Late Pleistocene carnivores to climate change - Eileen Jacob
• Predicted Quaternary range shifts and interactions of the lion (Panthera leo) and tiger (Panthera tigris) - David M Cooper
• Using ancient DNA from subfossil remains to characterise past population events - Kieren J Mitchell
• Extinct bison methylomes using bisulfite sequencing - Bastien Llamas
• Yucatan Peninsula Late Pleistocene mammal fauna. - Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales
• Tissue isotope ratios of California vole museum specimens indicate physiological responses to historical drought and land use patterns     - Jeremy Searle

• Stakeholders' perspectives on species management: Prioritising actions to preserve our biodiversity - Hernan Caceres
• All bark and no bite? Impacts of recolonising gray wolves on sympatric prey are primarily non-consumptive in a managed landscape of western North America - Aaron J Wirsing
• Morphometric, karyologic and mtDNA characterization of Sciurus vulgaris and S. anomalus in Turkey - Sakir Onder Ozkurt
• Responses of mammals to thinning of regrowth in two contrasting vegetation communities - Leroy Gonsalves
• Fenced and fragmented: Genetic management of carnivore metapopulations in South Africa - Paulette Bloomer
• Subtle dietary differences are associated with significant shifts in the composition, diversity and functional capacity of the gut microbiome of a true dietary specialist, the koala. - Ben D Moore

This session is proudly sponsored by Zoos Victoria

• Genomic signatures of marine mammal evolution: molecular footprints of the transition from land to sea - Mariana Nery
• Generating immunogenetic resources to infer the evolution and diversity of the major histocompatibility complex of wild Suidae and Tayassuidae - Jaime Gongora
• Genomic responses to ecological opportunity in the global invasion of Muridae - Kevin Rowe
• Genomic and ecological interactions across woodrat hybrid zones. - Marjorie Matocq
• Post-hybridisation isolation catalyses genomic divergence and geographic structure in weasels - Jocelyn P Colella
• Intraspecific transcriptomics, differential expression and genetic divergence - Enrique P. Lessa

• Juvenile dispersal determines population survival in the Siberian flying squirrel - Vesa Selonen
• Its time to move on: Preliminary insights into tiger dispersal using radio collars - Bilal Habib
• Here, there and everywhere: Spatial ecology of the red fox Vulpes vulpes - Morten Odden
• Intraspecific home range variation of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in response to resource availability - Rhea Burton-Roberts
• Sable antelope display flexibility in body temperature regulation and behavioural patterns during the dry season - Kiara A. Haylock
• Swamp wallabies living in a landscape mosaic: Movement patterns and resource selection - Manuela Fischer

• The role of museums and natural history expertise in a fast-changing world - Professor Kristofer Helgen

This trip has it all, a flight to the Abrolhos Islands, a cruise on the clear waters off the Monkey Mia coast along with visits to the Kalbarri, Francois Peron and Nambung National Parks.

The Abrolhos Islands consist of 122 islands, approximately 60 km off Western Australia’s coast. The marine environment surrounding the Abrolhos is a meeting place for tropical and temperate sea life. It is also one of the most important seabird breeding sites in the world.

The UNESCO World Heritage Listed Shark Bay World Heritage Area was inscribed in December 1991. It satisfied all four natural criteria concerning its natural beauty, biological diversity, ecological processes and earth’s history. It is also home to the Department of Parks and Wildlife's Western Shield Project, that has been developed to protect the endangered wildlife found on the peninsula. Join us and discover the spectacular natural wonders found to the north of Perth.

Itinerary:

Day 1 Perth to New Norcia

Day 2 New Norcia to Geraldton

Day 3 Geraldton - Abrolhos Islands

Day 4 Geraldton to Shark Bay

Day 5 Monkey Mia –Francois Peron National Park - Monkey Mia

Day 6 Monkey Mia to Kalbarri

Day 7 Kalbarri to Perth

For a detailed itinerary please visit our website http://www.promaco.com.au/IMC12/

Included

• Abrolhos Island flight

• Monkey Mia Cruise

• Fruit for snacking throughout the day

• Morning tea each day

• All national park entrance fees

Please note this tour is only available to those who have registered and paid for the tour. No last minute spots are available.