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

Saturday February 5, 2000

 
Moderator: Stephen J. Walsh,
U.S. Geological Survey
Ballroom E
0830 Diversity, Distribution, and Conservation Status of Freshwater Fishes of the Southern United States.
Melvin L. Warren, Jr. et al., USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
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, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida
0945 Patterns of Imperilment of Southern Appalachian Fishes.
Noel M. Burkhead, Stephan J. Walsh, and Robert M. Dorazio, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Florida Caribbean Science Center
1010 Break
1025 Habitat and the Conservation of Riffle Inhabiting Fishes: Population and Assemblage Response to Temporal and Spatial Habitat Change.
Stephen T. Ross, Martin T. O'Connell, William T. Slack, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi; and David M. Patrick, Department of Geology, University of Southern Mississippi
1050 Native Fishes Below Dams: Working With What We Have.
Mary C. Freeman, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, University of Georgia; Elise R. Irwin, USGS Alabama Coop Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Auburn University and Byron J. Freeman, Institute of
Ecology, University of Georgia
1115 Academia, Management, and Policy: The Challenge of Pulling Our Oars in the Same Direction.
Gary K. Meffe, Dept of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
1145 Lunch
1330 Recovering Rare Fishes: An Update on Success in the Southeastern United States.
Peggy Shute, Tennessee Valley Authority, Regional Natural Heritage Project
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.
Art Brown and G.O. Graening, Dept of Biological Sciences, 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 Dept of Natural Resources
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

 

Sunday February 6, 2000

 
Moderator: Brain Wagner, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Ballroom E
0830 A Facility for Captive Propagation and Restoration of Rare Southeastern Fishes.
J.R. Shute, P.L. Rakes, and J.T. Baxter; Conservation Fisheries, Inc.
0850 Assessing Nongame Fish Distributions on the Cherokee National Forest.
Jim 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, and Paul Kazyak; Maryland Dept of Natural Resources
0930 Distribution and Abundance of Fishes in Tidal Freshwater Wetlands of the Cooper River, South Carolina.
M.G. McManus, L. Rose, and J. Bulak; South Carolina Dept of Natural Resources
0950 Strontium/Calcium Ratios in Robust Redhorse Otoliths.
Dave Coughlan and W. Mark Rash, Duke Power Company; Karin Limbug, State University of New York
1010 Break
1030 Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of the Fish Assemblages in a Large Regulated River.
Jeff M. Howard and James B. Layzer, Tennessee Coop Fishery Research Unit, Tennessee Technological
University
1050 Population Biology of Madtoms: a Review and Generalized Model.
Matthew D. Chan and Timothy Copeland, Dept of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1110 The Status of Etheostoma osburni Candy Darter-in West Virginia.
D.A. Cincotta, T. Bassista, and 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, and Ronald L. Johnson, Dept of Biological Sciences, Arkansas State University
1150 Status of Snail Darters (Percina tanasi) in the Lower French Broad River, Tennessee.
Edwin M. Scott, Tennessee Valley Authority