Desert Fishes Council

34th Annual Meeting

San Luis Potosí, SLP, México

Presentations - Area reports - Awards - Schedule

Full Program (Including Abstracts in pdf)

Presentations of both oral papers and posters relevant to the mission of the Desert Fishes Council are solicited. No paper or poster will be accepted and scheduled without receipt of:

All on or before the midnight (CST) deadline on 30 September, 2002.

Space in the program is limited and order of receipt will determine acceptance. Presenters are encouraged to present their papers directly from PowerPoint using the computer and projection monitor that will be provided. Subsequently, if you wish, your PowerPoint file will be electronically published with your abstract in the online Proceedings. If you plan to use the computer for your presentation, please read the instructions.

All abstracts must be submitted using the Electronic (bilingual) form. Difficulties should be reported to:

Area reports are coordinated by ecoregion and can be multi-authored; any group or individual may contribute. Contact the area coordinator for your region directly, or Nadine Kanim [(530)-842-5763; nadine_kanim_at_r1.fws.gov], who coordinates area reports. Area report abstracts should be submitted following instructions for contributed papers.

Awards are given every year for best student papers presented at meetings.

Presentation schedule:

Friday    
8:00  DFC openning Phil Pister
8:15  Area report: Oregon. (01) Reid, White, Horstman, Allen, Young, Munhall, Chappell.
8:30  Area report: California. (02) Parmenter, SC, Bogan, MT, Bloom, R, Keeney, S & Konno, E.
8:45  Area report: Nevada. (03) Cook, A.E.*; Martinez, C.T.; Sjoberg, J.S.; Goodchild, S.C.; Scoppettone, G.G.; Heinrich, J.E.; Clemmer, G.; French, J.
9:00  Area report: Bonneville Basin. (04) Matthew E. Andersen
9:15  Area report: Upper Colorado river. (05) Pfeifer, F., McAda, C, Birchell G., Propst D. & Modde, T.
9:30  Area report: Lower Colorado river. (06) Stefferud, S, Stefferud, J, Clarkson, R, Heinrick, J, Slaughter, J & Bettaso, R.
9:45  Area report: Upper/Middle Rio Grande and Pecos Rivers. (07) Brooks, J, Propst, D, Dudley, R, Hoagstrom, C, Platania, S & Turner, T.
10:00  Area report: Texas. (08) Edwards, RJ, Garrett, GP, Allan, NL & Hubbs, C.
10:15  Area report: Northwestern Mexico . (09) Varela-Romero, A & Ruiz-Campos, G.
10:30  Area report: Northeastern Mexico. (10) Contreras-Balderas, AJ, Lozano-Vilano, MDL, García-Ramírez, M.E.
10:45  Coffee break  
11:00  Discovery of a new population of Dionda diaboli. (11) Garrett, GP , Edwards, RJ, Hubbs, C
11:15  Evolutionary functional ecology of the pharyngeal jaw polymorphism in the cichlid fish Herichthys minckleyi (12) Hulsey, CD & García de León, F.
11:30  How effective are of constructed barriers at protecting Apache trout? (13) Robinson, A
11:45  Pecos bluntnose shiner: size-related habitat use. (14) Hoagstrom, CW
12:00  Chemical removal of green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus) from O'Donnell Creek, Arizona. (15) Blasius, HB
12:15  Fish need water! Low flow impacts on the native fishes of the Virgin River. (16) Golden, ME & Holden, PB
12:30  Differences in swimming ability and behavior in response to high water velocities among native and nonnative fishes of Arizona. (17) Ward, DL , Schultz, AA & Matson, PG
12:45  Continuing loss of Pecos pupfish populations via hybridization. (18) Echelle, AA & Echelle, AF
13:00  Lunch break  
16:30  The High Levee Pond, a native fish habitat located on the lower Colorado River. (19) Minckley, CO, Thorson, M, Mueller, G & Carpenter, J.
16:45  A case of rapid evolution of body shape for the White Sands pupfish? (20) Collyer, MC & Stockwell, CA.
17:00  Vegetation preferences of fountain darters and response to temporary habitat loss from flooding. (21) Robertson, MS & Oborny, EO.
17:15  Oxygen Isotopes in Otoliths Document Gulf Corvina Use Colorado River Habitat (22) Rowell, K, Flessa, KW & Dettman, D.
17:30  Coffee break  
17:45  The fishes from Norogachi, Chihuahua region. (23) Espinosa, HP, Daza, AC & Hendrickson, AH.
18:00  Current and potential future effects of reservoir fluctuations on the Lake Mead razorback sucker population, 1996 - 2002. (24) Abate, PD, Holden, PB & Welker, TL.
18:15  Distribution, Status and Conservation of the Sonoyta Mud Turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense longifemorale). (25) Knowles, GW, Paredes-Aguilar, R, Hall, DH, Riedle, DR, Rorabaugh, JC & Rosen, PC
18:30  Effect of the Introduced Western Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) on the Least Chub (Iotichthyes phlegethontis). (26) Mills, MD, Belk, MC & Rader, RB.
18:45  Comparison of the distribution and recapture rates of acclimated and non-acclimated subadult razorback sucker Xyrauchen texanus stocked into the Green River, with observations on the feasibility of larval razorback sucker growth and survival with nonnative fishes in floodplain wetlands. (27) Modde, T, Birchell, G & Christopherson, K.

Saturday

   
9:00  Standard sampling of desert fish: benefits, recent progress, and a call for action. (28) Bonar, SA & Didenko, A.
9:15  Truchas mexicanas: An international partnership for the study of native trout of southern north America. (29) Mayden, R.L.
9:30  The role of sexual selection in hybridization: evidence for assortative mating between Comanche Springs pupfish and Sheepshead minnow. (30) Tech, C.
9:45  Exotic trout removal from a Sierra Nevada high mountain lake complex using non-chemical means with subsequent responses by native fauna. (31) Kiddoo, P.
10:00  Molecular systematics of the darter subgenus Oligocephalus, with an emphasis on the Southwestern Darter group. (32) Lang, NJ, Mayden, RL.
10:15  Profound physiological differences between Cuatro Cienegas pupfish species: evidence from a reciprocal transplant experiment and implications for hybridization. (33) Carson, EW.
10:30  Impacts on a population of the White River spinedace (Lepidomeda albivallis) from predation by double crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus). (34) Sjöberg, JC, Hobbs, B, Nielsen, B.
10:45  Evaluación de la fertilidad y crecimiento de un cruzamiento dialélico completo de dos lineas (Oncorhynchus mykiss nelsoni X O. mykiss). (35) Zamora Balbuena, G.
11:00  Coffee break  
11:15  Participación del Instituto Nacional de la Pesca en la revisión y actualización del marco Legal e institucional que regula la disponibilidad, administración, aprovechamiento, manejo y cuidado del recurso agua. (36) De La Garza Montaño, MC, Fuentes Mata, P.
11:30  Jewel cichlid, Hemichromis guttatus, an exotic fish eradicated from Poza San José Del Anteojo, Cuatro Ciénegas Valley, Coahuila, México. (37) Lozano-Vilano, MDL, García-Ramírez, ME & Contreras-Balderas, AJ.
11:45  Can the invasive species, Gambusia affinis, eat young-of-the-year least chub? (38) Rader, RB, Mills, M & Belk, MC.
12:00  Range contraction, spatial dynamics, and bilateral asymmetry in the Coahuilan Box Turtle (Terrapene coahuila : Emydidae). (39) Howeth, JG & Hendrickson, DA.
12:15  Roundtail Chub in the Lower Colorado River Basin - Present Status and Future Conservation. (40) Voeltz, JB & Bettaso, RH.
12:30  Rio Grande Silvery Minnow, Hybognathus amarus, and other Fishes of the Mainstem Rio Grande, Bernalillo to Fort Craig, New Mexico. (41) Remshardt, WJ, Smith, JR & Hoagstrom, CW.
12:45  Lousy Canyon and Other Potential Successful Models for Native Fish Management in Arizona. (42) Bettaso, RH, Davidson, RF & Voeltz, JB.
13:00  Lunch break  
17:00   DFC Business meeting  
Congress coordinator: Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
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