32^nd Annual Meeting   Death Valley National Park   16--19 November 2000

 

SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS

THURSDAY MORNING (16 November)

 

INTRODUCTION TO MEETING  (P. Pister, Moderator)

08:45:00 AM - Greetings from DFC Executive Secretary and Chair of Local Committee - Pister, EP^*1  (1 Desert Fishes Council, Bishop, California)

08:50:00 AM - Welcome to Furnace Creek and Death Valley National Park - Martin, R^*1  (1 Death Valley National Park, Furnace Creek, California)

ECOREGION REPORTS (G. Garrett, Moderator)

09:00:00 AM - Desert fishes research and management in Texas during 2000 - Garrett, GP^*1; Edwards, RJ²; Allan, NL³  (1 Texas Parks & Wildlife, HOH Research Station; 2 University of Texas-Pan American, Department of Biology; 3 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

09:15:00 AM - Overview of native fish research and management in the Upper Rio Grande Basin of Colorado and New Mexico during 2000 - Swift-Miller, S^*1; Chubb, S²  (1 U.S. Forest Service, Rio Grande National Forest, Monte Vista, CO; 2 U.S. Forest Service, Southwestern Regional Office, Albuquerque, NM)

09:30:00 AM - Native fish research and management in New Mexico during 2000 - Brooks, J^*1; Propst, D²; Dudley, R³; Hoagstrom, C¹; Monzingo, J⁴; Platania, S³; Smith, J¹  (1 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 2 New Mexico Department of Game and Fish; 3 University of New Mexico; 4 U.S. Forest Service)

09:45:00 AM - Upper Colorado River Basin area report - Modde, T^*1; Crist, L²  (1 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 2 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation)

10:00:00 AM - Bonneville Basin annual area report - Andersen, ME^*1  (1 Utah Division of Wildlife Resources)

10:15:00 AM - Oregon area report - White, R^*1; Young, D¹; Reid, S¹  (1 US Fish and Wildlife Service)

10:30:00 AM - Northern Nevada area report - Cook, AE^*1; Byers, SB^*2  (1 Nevada Division of Wildlife; 2 USFWS, Nevada Fish & Wildlife Office)

10:45:00 AM - Native fish and amphibian management in southern Nevada - Stein, JR^*1; Heinrich, JE¹; Sjoberg, JF¹; Hobbs, BM¹; St. George, D²  (1 Nevada Division of Wildlife; 2 US Fish and Wildlife Service, Ash Meadows NWR)

11:00:00 AM - California State agency report - Miller, R^*1; Threloff, D²; Keeney, S¹; Becker, D¹; Knowles, G³; Reid, S³; Bentivoglio, A³  (1 California Department of Fish and Game; 2 Death Valley National Park; 3 US Fish and Wildlife Service)

11:15:00 AM - Lower Colorado River area report - Stefferud, J^*1; Bettaso, R²; Minckley, C³; Stefferud, S⁴; Clarkson, R⁵; Tibbitts, T⁶; Myers, T⁷; Rinne, J⁸  (1 USDA Forest Service, Tonto National Forest; 2 Arizona Game and Fish Department, Nongame Branch; 3 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arizona Fisheries Resource Office; 4 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arizona Ecological Services Field Office; 5 Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office; 6 National Park Service, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument; 7 USDA Forest Service, Apache-Sitgreaves national forests; 8 USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station)

11:30:00 AM - Study and conservation of native fishes in the northwest region of Mexico: overview 2000 - Varela-Romero, A^*1; Davila-Paulin, JA²; Minckley, CO³; Najera, SN⁴; Campoy-Favela, JR⁵; Garcia-Hernandez, J⁶; Yruretagoyena, C⁷; Ellis, ME⁸  (1 DICTUS, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora.; 2 Reserva de la Biosfera Gran Desierto de Altar y el Pinacate SEMARNAP, El Pinacate, Son.; 3 Arizona Fisheries Resources Office, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Park, AZ.; 4 US National Park Service, Las Cruces, NM.; 5 Reserva de la Biosfera Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Río Colorado SEMARNAP, San Luis R.C./Instituto del Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Sustentable de Sonora (IMADES), Estación de Campo Golfo de Santa Clara, San Luis R.C., Son.; 6 Deptartment of Soil Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.; 7 Centro Regional de Estudios Ambientales, A.C. (CREAS), Mexicali, B.C.; 8 Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Martínez Lake, AZ.)

11:45:00 AM - Northeast Mexico coordinator's report - Contreras-Balderas, S^*1  (1 Bioconservación A.C., Monterrey, N.L., México)

ALMUERZO (1200-1400

 

LCD MONITOR SESSION (1400 - 1530)

02:00:00 PM - Using GIS and GPS to map the seasonal distribution and relative density of Independence Valley speckled dace and Independence Valley tui chub - Rissler, PH^*1; Scoppettone, GG¹; Shea, SS¹; Byers, S²  (1 USGS, BRD, Western Fisheries Research Center, Reno Field Station; 2 USFWS, Nevada Fish and Wildlife Office)

02:15:00 PM - Flow variation and proposed management to enhance Colorado pikeminnow and razorback sucker in the Green River subbasin - Modde, T^*1  (1 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

02:30:00 PM - A new tool for an old problem: microsatellite DNA and polymorphism of Cichlasoma minckleyi in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila - García de León, FJ¹; Hendrickson, DA^*2  (1 Laboratoria de Biología Integrativa, Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Victoria, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México; 2 Texas Memorial Museum and Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.)

02:45:00 PM - Selection forces and extinction risk of the humpback chub (Gila cypha) in the Grand Canyon - Van Haverbeke, DR^*1  (1 United States Fish & Wildlife Service)

03:00:00 PM - Exotic species and the decline of amphibians: unintended consequences on a global scale - Vredenburg, VT^*1  (1 Univ. of California, Dept. of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology)

03:15:00 PM - Desert pupfish movements among habitats around the Salton Sea - Sutton, RJ^*1  (1 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation)

03:30:00 PM - Deterioration of Phantom Lake Spring, Jeff Davis County, Texas - Allan, NL^*1  (1 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Austin Field Office)

EXOTIC SPECIES  (G. Scoppettone, Moderator)

 

03:45:00 PM - Determining the interspecific competitive effects of the invasive African jeweled cichlid, Hemichromis guttatus, on the endemic Cichlasoma minckleyi in Cuatro Ciénegas, México - Williamson, CA^*1; Guevara, AA; Moline, AB; Hendrickson, DA; Marks, JC  (1 Northern Arizona University; 2 Instituto  Tecnológico de Ciudad Victoria; 3 Northern Arizona University; 4 University of Texas at Austin; 5 Northern Arizona University)

04:00:00 PM - Emergency monitoring program for elimination and control of the exotic species of fishes, snails and plants of the Cuatro Ciénegas Valley, Coahuila, México - Lozano-Vilano, ML^*1; García-Ramírez, ME¹; Contreras-Balderas, S²; Contreras-Balderas, AJ¹  (1 Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; 2 Bioconservación, A.C.)

04:15:00 PM - Managing nonnative aquatic species impacts: Implementation of the 1994 Central Arizona Project biological opinion - Stefferud, SE^*1; Marsh, PC²; Clarkson, RW³  (1 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Phoenix, AZ; 2 Arizona State University, Department of Biology, Tempe, AZ; 3 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix, AZ)

04:30:00 PM - First true freshwater crab found in US - at Lake Las Vegas! - Cook, AE^*1  (1 Nevada Division of Wildlife)

04:45:00 PM - Infection relationships between an exotic digenetic trematode and native fishes in springs of west Texas - McDermott, KS^*1; Brandt, TM¹  (1 USFWS, National Fish Hatchery & Technology Center)

05:00:00 PM - Blue tilapia (Oreochromis aurea) predation on native fishes of the Muddy River, Nevada - Scoppettone, GG^*1; Antonio Salgado, J²; Nielsen, MB³  (1 USGS-BRD, Reno Field Station; 2 USGS-BRD, Reno Field Station; 3 USGS-BRD, Reno Field Station)

FRIDAY MORNING (17 November)

 

POECILIIDAE (A.F. Echelle, Moderator)

08:45:00 AM - Genealogical relationships among species of the genus Poeciliopsis - Mateos, M^*1; Sanjur, OI²; Vrijenhoek, RC¹  (1 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; 2 NAOS Marine Lab, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama)

09:00:00 AM - Renovation and habitat restoration for Gila topminnow (Poeciliopsis o.occidentalis) in the Bylas Springs complex - Schleusner, C^*1  (1 USFWS Arizona Fishery Resources Office)

09:15:00 AM - Winter reproduction of introduced poeciliids in warm springs - Phelps, J¹; Wald, M^*2; Unmack, PJ³  (1 Arizona State University, Department of Biology; 2 Arizona State University, Department of Biology; 3 Arizona State University, Department of Biology)

09:30:00 AM - Disease resistance in the endangered Gila topminnow - Giese, AR^*1; Hedrick, PW¹  (1 Arizona State University, Department of Biology)

09:45:00 AM - Effect of feeding regime on Gambusia cannibalism - Hubbs, C^*1  (1 University of Texas, Integrative Biology

HYBRIDIZATION/ INTROGRESSION  (A.A. Echelle, Moderator)

 

10:00:00 AM - Genetic status of Leon Springs pupfish after renovation in response to genetic introgression by an introduced pupfish - Echelle, AA^*1; Echelle, AF¹; Kiner, L¹  (1 Oklahoma State University, Zoology Department)

10:15:00 AM - Hybridization among suckers of the Klamath River basin, California-Oregon - Dowling, TE^*1; Carson, EW¹; Markle, DF²; Cavalluzzi, MR²; Simon, D²  (1 Arizona State University, Department of Biology; 2 Oregon State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife)

10:30:00 AM - Ecological forces leading to replacement of Pecos pupfish (Cyprinodon pecosensis) by its hybrids with Sheepshead minnow (C. variegatus) - Rosenfield, JA^*1; Angon, T¹; Cain, S¹; Jaeger, J¹; Sandoval, CM¹  (1 University of New Mexico, Dept. of Biology)

10:45:00 AM - Hybridizing subspecies of Poeciliopsis occidentalis - Hurt, CR^*1  (1 Arizona State University, Department of Biology)

STOCKING/ REINTRODUCTION  (P. Holden, Moderator)

11:00:00 AM - Juvenile growth of native fishes in the Little Colorado River: Implications for thermal modification of the Colorado River - Robinson, AT^*1; Childs, MR¹  (1 Arizona Game and Fish Department)

11:15:00 AM - Upper Colorado River Recovery Program endangered fish stocking results - Czapla, TE^*1  (1 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

11:30:00 AM - Habitat characteristics used by razorback suckers released into the Imperial Division, Lower Colorado River, California-Arizona; Phase III synopsis and overview of Phase IV - Gurtin, S^*1; Bradford, R¹  (1 Arizona Game and Fish Department, Research Branch)

11:45:00 AM - Factors affecting the success of stocking woundfin in the Lower Virgin River - Golden, ME^*1; Holden, PB¹; Heinrich, J²; Abate, PD¹  (1 BIO/WEST Inc., Logan UT; 2 Nevada Division of Wildlife, Boulder City NV)

ALMUERZO (1200-1400

 

THE SUCKER SECTION (M. Douglas, Moderator)

02:00:00 PM - Temporal and spatial use of a spawning site in the middle Green River by razorback suckers - Modde, T¹; Kitcheyan, DC^*1; Bowen, Z²  (1 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; 2 U.S. Geological Survey)

02:15:00 PM - Evolutionary history of populations of Pantosteus discobolus from the Little Colorado River in Arizona and New Mexico - Secor, CL^*1  (1 Arizona State University, Department of Biology)

02:30:00 PM - Distribution, movements, and habitat use of razorback suckers in Lake Mohave, Arizona-Nevada - Mueller, G¹; Marsh, PC²; Knowles, GW^*3; Wolters, T⁴  (1 U.S. Geological Survey; 2 Arizona State University, Department of Biology; 3 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 4 Bureau of Reclamation)

02:45:00 PM - Razorback sucker studies on Lake Mead, Nevada and Arizona, 1999-2000 - Abate, PD^*1; Holden, PB¹; Ruppert, JB¹  (1 BIO/WEST Inc., Logan UT)

03:00:00 PM - Phylogeography of the Rio Grande sucker, Catostomus plebeius, in New Mexico - McPhee, MV^*1; Turner, TF¹  (1 Department of Biology, University of New Mexico)

03:15:00 PM - Escape response performance in the larval razorback sucker, Xyrauchen texanus - Wesp, HM^*1; Gibb, AC¹  (1 Northern Arizona University, Department of Biology)

03:30:00 PM - Effects of temperature on swimming performance of young-of-the-year flannelmouth sucker - Ward, DL^*1  (1 University of Arizona, Fish and Wildlife Cooperative Research Unit)

03:45:00 PM - Phylogeography of Sonoran sucker, Catostomus insignis - Douglas, ME^*1; Douglas, MR¹  (1 Arizona State University, Department of Biology and Museum)

 

DFC BUSINESS MEETING 1600--1700 (P. Pister/D. Propst, Moderators)

 

DFC BARBEQUE (TO BE ANNOUNCED)

SATURDAY MORNING (18 November)

 

MOSTLY SMALLER FISHES (M.R. Douglas, Moderator)

08:45:00 AM - Contrasting patterns of mitochondrial and nuclear gene introgression in two pupfish endemic to the Cuatro Cienegas basin, Mexico - Carson, EW^*1  (1 Arizona State University,Department of Biology)

09:00:00 AM - Temperature effects on growth of juvenile humpback chubs - Figiel, C Jr^*1; Jackson, M¹; Ulibarri, M¹  (1 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

09:15:00 AM - Natural selection on an allozyme locus in the White Sands pupfish? - Miller, KM^*1  (1 North Dakota State University)

09:30:00 AM - Translocations and costs of parasitism for White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa) - Collyer, ML^*1  (1 North Dakota State University)

09:45:00 AM - Temporal genetic variation and the effective population size in the silvery minnow, Hybognathus amarus: a preliminary evaluation - Turner, TF^*1; Alo, D¹  (1 University of New Mexico, Department of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology)

10:00:00 AM - Comparison of Cichlasoma minckleyi ram and suction feeding kinematics to those of other cichlid fishes - Hulsey, CD^*1  (1 Center for Population Biology:  Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis)

10:15:00 AM - Genetic variation in speckled dace from the Virgin River basin (UT,  AZ, NV) - Douglas, MR^*1; Warrack, SR¹; Douglas, ME¹  (1 Arizona State University, Department of Biology and Museum)

CONSERVATION AND MONITORING OF FISHES (T. Modde, Moderator)

10:30:00 AM - Theoretical and empirical investigations of larval fish drift in Aravaipa Creek, Arizona - Keithley, RK^*1; Schwemm, MR¹; Minckley, WL¹  (1 Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.)

10:45:00 AM - A newly documented locality for the desert chub (Gila eremica) in a tropical canyon, Río Mátape basin, Sonora, México - Varela-Romero, A^*1  (1 DICTUS, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Son.)

11:00:00 AM - Native fish conservation and the Central Arizona Project - Marsh, PC^*1; Clarkson, RW²; Stefferud, SE³  (1 Arizona State University, Department of Biology, Tempe AZ; 2 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office, Phoenix AZ; 3 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arizona Ecological Services Field Office, Phoenix AZ)

11:15:00 AM - Conservation genetics of Siphateles bicolor, a threatened desert endemic - Serway, CN^*1; Wilcox, JL¹; Stein, J²; Martin, AP¹  (1 University of Colorado at Boulder & Nevada Division of Wildlife; 2 Nevada Division of Wildlife)

11:30:00 AM - Monitoring and conservation efforts for the desert pupfish Cyprinodon macularius and the Quitobaquito pupfish, C. eremus, on La Biosefera Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado  y La Biosfera El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar, and Baja del Norte - Minckley, CO^*1; Campoy-Favela, JR²; Davila-Paulin, JA³; Thorson, MS¹; Schleusner, CJ⁴  (1 Arizona Fisheries Resources Office, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,  60911 Hwy 95, Parker, Arizona 85344; 2 La Biosefera Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado, SEMARNAP, A. P.452, San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico, C.P. 83400; 3 La Biosfera El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar, SEMARNAP,  A.P. 125, Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico, C.P. 83550; 4 Arizona Fisheries Resources Office, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 710, Peridot, Arizona 85542)

11:45:00 AM - Aspects of the life history of the roundtail chub, Gila robusta (Cyprinidae), in the Yampa River canyon, Colorado - Ross, ST^*1; Modde, TC²  (1 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi; 2 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Colorado River Fish Project)

ALMUERZO (1200-1400)

 

CONSERVATION AND HABITAT (J. Rinne, Moderator)

02:00:00 PM - A national program for monitoring stream conditions in the western United States - Baker, JR^*1; Kepner, WG²; Chaloud, DJ²; Kinney, WL¹; Hamilton, ME¹; Jones, KB²  (1 Lockheed Martin Environmental Services; 2 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas)

02:15:00 PM - Identifying areas of conservation priority for native fishes in the Gila River Basin using GIS - Unmack, PJ^*1; Minckley, WL¹  (1 Arizona State University, Department of Biology)

02:30:00 PM - Cienega Creek stream restoration project - Simms, JR^*1  (1 US Bureau of Land Management)

02:45:00 PM - Recovery status of the Apache trout Oncorhynchus apache - Ruiz, LR^*1; Gatewood, T²; Novy, JR³; Young, K⁴; Ward, J⁵  (1 USFWS, Arizona Fishery Resources Office; 2 White Mountain Apache Tribe, Wildlife and Outdoor Recreation Division; 3 Arizona Game and Fish Department; 4 Arizona Game and Fish Department; 5 USFS, Apache/Sitgreaves National Forest)

03:00:00 PM - Significance of fluvial, sand-bed habitat to desert river minnow conservation - Hoagstrom, CW^*1  (1 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, New Mexico Fishery Resources Office)

03:15:00 PM - Status of the Amargosa toad and habitat within the Oasis Valley, Nevada - Stein, JR^*1; Hobbs, BM¹; Wasley, GA¹  (1 Nevada Division of Wildlife)

03:30:00 PM - Recent changes in fish statistics: Verde River, Arizona - Rinne, JN^*1  (1 USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station)

THE CLOSING SESSION  (P. Unmack, Moderator)

03:45:00 PM - Community structure and food web dynamics in Devils Hole, Nevada - Wilson, KP^*1; Blinn, DW¹; Threloff, D²; Herbst, D³  (1 Northern Arizona University, Department of Biology; 2 Death Valley National Park; 3 Sierra Nevada Aquatics Research Lab)

04:00:00 PM - Ecology and status of Ash Meadows naucorid populations - Parker, MS^*1; Scoppettone, GG²; Neilsen, MB²  (1 Southern Oregon Universiy, Department of Biology; 2 US Geological Survey, Reno Field Station)

04:15:00 PM - Desert fishes of the past: archaeological fish remains from Owens Valley, California - Butler, VL^*1; Delacorte, MG²  (1 Portland State University; 2 California State University, Sacramento)

04:30:00 PM - Ash Meadows: a photographic perspective 1938-2000 - Webster, T^*1; Unmack, PJ  (1 Desert Springs Action Committee; 2 Arizona State University, Department of Biology)

Photophobic reactions in hydrobiid snails from the Owens Valley, California - Bowler, PA^*1  (1 University of California, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and White Mountain Research Station, 3000 E. Line Street, Bishop, CA)

Feeding ecology and habitat of the threespine stickleback, {Gasterosteus} {aculeatus} {microcephalus}, in a threatened population of northwestern Baja California, México - Ruiz-Campos, G^*1; Sánchez-Gonzáles, S¹; Contreras-Balderas, S²  (1 Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, B.C., México; 2 Bioconservación, A.C., San Nicolás de los Garza, N.L., México)

Effect of introduced crayfish on growth of two native fishes of the Colorado River basin - Carpenter, J^*1; McIvor, CC¹  (1 US Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division)

Temperature tolerances and habitat conditions for Bonneville cutthroat trout in the Thomas Fork of the Bear River, Wyoming. - Johnstone, H C^*1; Rahel, F J  (1 University of Wyoming, Department of Zoology and Physiology; 2 University of Wyoming, Department of Zoology and Physiology)

Bait and switch: attraction of tui chub to baited traps - Hartshorn, E^*1; Tobey, T N¹  (1 Bishop Union High School, CA)