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2000 Midyear Southern Division Meeting

Hyatt Regency Hotel, Savannah, Georgia, 3-6 February 2000, Co-hosted by the South Carolina and Georgia Chapters

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SDAFS/SFC Symposium: Conservation of the Freshwater Nongame Aquatic Fauna in the Southeast-Challenges for the New Millennium

5 February 2000
0830  Diversity, Distribution, and Conservation Status of Freshwater Fishes of the Southern United States
Melvin L. Warren, Jr. et al.; U.S. Forest Service
 
0855 Natural Biological Entities and Their Surrogates: Prerequisites to Effective Conservation Strategies for Biodiversity
Richard L. Mayden; University of Alabama
 
0920 From Molecules to Management: Demystifying Genetics for Nongame Species
Anna L. Bass; University of Florida
 
0945 Patterns of Imperilment of Southern Appalachian Fishes
Noel M. Burkhead, Stephen J. Walsh & Robert M. Dorazio; U.S. Geological Survey
 
1010 Break
  
1025 Habitat and the Conservation of Riffle Inhabiting Fishes: Population and Assemblage Responses to Temporal and Spatial Habitat Change
Stephen T. Ross, Martin T. O' Connell, William T. Slack & David M. Patrick; University of Southern Mississippi
 
1050 Native Fishes Below Dams: Working With What We Have
Mary C. Freeman, Elise R. Irwin & Byron J. Freeman; U.S. Geological Survey & University of Georgia
 
1115 Academia, Management, and Policy: The Challenge of Pulling Our Oars in the Same Direction
Gary K. Meffe; Society for Conservation Biology & University of Florida
 
1145 Lunch Break
 
1330 Recovering Rare Fishes: An Update on Successes in the Southeastern United States
Peggy W. Shute; Tennessee Valley Authority
 
1355 Conservation Status of Freshwater Mussels of the Southeastern United States
James D. Williams; U.S. Geological Survey
 
1420 Status of Ozark Cavefish, Cave Crayfish, and Other Stygobionts in Arkansas
Arthur V. Brown & Gary O. Graening; University of Arkansas
 
1445 Arkansas Nongame Aquatics Program
Brian K. Wagner; Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
 
1510 Break
 
1525 Conservation of Aquatic Biodiversity in Georgia
Christopher E. Skelton; Georgia Natural Heritage Program
 
1550 Aquatic Resource Conservation Planning in Florida
Theodore Hoehn; Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
 
1615 Evolution of Nongame Aquatic Conservation in North Carolina Since 1986
John M. Alderman; North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
1700 Recess
 
6 February 2000
 
0830 A Facility for Captive Propagation and Restoration of Rare Southeastern Fishes
J.R. Shute, P.L. Rakes & J.T. Baxter; Conservation Fisheries, Inc.
 
0850 Assessing Nongame Fish Distributions on the Cherokee National Forest
James Herrig; U.S. Forest Service
 
0910 Development of a Predictive Stream Assessment Model Using the Tolerances of Maryland Freshwater Fishes to Physical Habitat, Chemistry and Land Use
Scott Stranko, Martin Hurd, Anthony Prochaska & Paul Kazyak; Maryland Department of Natural Resources
 
0930 Distribution and abundance of fishes in tidal freshwater wetlands of the Cooper River, South Carolina
Michael G. McManus, L. Rose & J. Bulak; South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
 
0950 Strontium/Calcium Ratios in Robust Redhorse Otoliths
David J. Coughlan & W.Mark Rash; Duke Power Company; Karin Limburg; 
State University of New York
 
1010 Break
 
1030  Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of the Fish Assemblages in a Large Regulated River
Jeff M. Howard & James B. Layzer; Tennessee Technological University
 
1050 Population Biology of Madtoms: a Review and Generalized Model
Matthew D. Chan & Timothy Copeland; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
 
1110 The Status of Etheostoma osburni Candy Darter-in West Virginia
Daniel A. Cincotta, T Bassista & T. E. Oldham; West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
 
1130 Genetic and meristic variations between and within populations of Etheostoma moorei (Yellowcheek darter)
Richard M. Mitchell, George L. Harp & Ronald L. Johnson; Arkansas State University
 
1150 Status of Snail Darters (Percina tanasi) in the Lower French Broad River, Tennessee
Edwin M. Scott, Jr.; Tennessee Valley Authority
 
Posters
 
Examination of Juvenile and Adult Freshwater Mussel (Bivalvia:Unionidae) Stream Parameter Preferences
Holly N. Blalock; U.S. Geological Survey
Freshwater Mussels of the Choctawhatchee River Drainage in Alabama and Florida
Holly N. Blalock, Jeffrey J. Herod & James D. Williams; U.S. Geological Survey
Riparian Habitat Restoration: an Important Tool in the Recovery of Federally Listed Riverine Species in the Southeastern United States
Robert S. Butler; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Evaluation of the Genetic Status of the Ozark Hellbender Population in the Spring River, Arkansas
Brian K. Wagner, Huseyin Kucuktas & Richard Shopen; Arkansas Game and Fish Commission