Program

Held February 8-10, 2007
Institute of the Environment
University of California, Los Angeles

Evolutionary Change in
Human-altered Environments

An International Summit

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Thursday, February 8

Keynote Addresses

talk, abs	Georgina Mace	Evolutionary biology and practical conservation: bridging a widening gap

talk, abs	Loren Rieseberg	The speed of adaptation

Session I - Captive Breeding and Exploitation

talk, abs	Richard Frankham	Genetic adaptation to captivity in species conservation programs

talk, abs	C. Scott Baker	How few whales were there after whaling?

talk, abs	David Coltman	Consequences of selective harvesting

talk, abs	Robin Waples	Evolutionary consequences of anthropogenic changes on long-term viability of Pacific salmon and steelhead

talk, abs	Jeffrey A. Hutchings	Fishing, farming, and their evolutionary consequences to fishes

talk, abs	Paul Leberg	Purging of inbreeding depression and the management of captive populations

talk, abs	Ettore Randi	Detecting hybridization between wild species and their domesticated relatives

talk, abs	Kaustuv Roy	Downsizing nature: ecological and evolutionary consequences of size-selective harvesting

talk, abs	Phil Hedrick	Captive breeding and the recovery of Mexican and red wolves

talk, abs	Robert Wayne	The effect of extirpation and reintroduction on genetic variability of the gray wolf

talk, abs	Pierre Taberlet	Conservation genetics of domestic Bovidae (cattle, sheep, goats)

talk, abs	Louis Bernatchez	The functional genomics of rapid evolutionary changes between domesticated and wild populations

talk, abs	Ryan Broddrick Policy Presentation	Implications of research findings for fish and wildlife management

Friday, February 9

Session II - Habitat Degradation and Environmental and Climate Change

talk, abs	Juha A. Merilä	Environmental change and evolution: disentangling environmental and genetic responses

talk, abs	David Reznick	Experimental studies of evolution in guppies – a model for understanding the role of predators in structuring natural communities

talk, abs	Pierre Saumitou-Laprade	Adaptation of Arabidopsis halleri (Brassicaceae) to sites recently polluted by high amounts of zinc and cadmium

talk, abs	Ole Seehausen	Speciation reversal in human-altered environments

talk, abs	Hans Slabbekoorn	How much acoustic space do we leave to the birds?

talk, abs	Victoria Sork	Do landscape changes threaten regions of evolutionary interest in California valley oak (Quercus lobata)?

talk, abs	Thomas Smith	Microevolutionary consequences of human disturbance in a rainforest species from Central Africa

talk, abs	Rosemary Gillespie	Natural and human-mediated biodiversity dynamics in isolated island communities: using current patterns towards a general understanding of process

talk, abs	Dany Garant	Changing climate and changing genetic (co)variance of reproductive traits in a wild bird population

talk, abs	Marcel Visser	Climate change leads to selection on temperature sensitivity of avian timing of reproduction

talk, abs	William Bradshaw	Genetic response to rapid climate change

talk, abs	Jessica Hellmann	Local adaptation as potential constraint on geographic range shifts under climate change: molecular evidence of divergence and field tests of population fitness in two contrasting butterfly species

talk, abs	Mark Reynolds Policy Presentation	Is ignoring evolution intelligent design for conservation?

Session III. Invasive Species and Pathogens

talk, abs	Spencer Barrett	The evolution of adaptation during plant invasion

talk, abs	Katrina Dlugosch	Founding events in invasions: genetic patterns and evolutionary consequences

talk, abs	Craig Benkman	Species introductions, the loss of geographic variation, and the elimination of coevolutionary diversification

talk, abs	Scott Carroll	Predicting the forms and foundations of rapid adaptation in persisting populations

talk, abs	Carol Eunmi Lee	Exploring genomic targets of selection across independent invasions into novel environments

talk, abs	Andrew Suarez and Neil Tsutsui	The evolutionary consequences of social insect invasions

talk, abs	Andrew Hendry	Human impacts on rates of phenotypic change in wild animal populations

talk, abs	Kenneth Whitney	Hybridization as a route to invasion


Saturday, February 10

Session III. Invasive Species and Pathogens (continued)

talk, abs	Michael Kinnison	Rapid evolution as an ecological determinant of invasion: experimental evaluation in the wild

talk, abs	Oliver Pergams	Microevolution in Chicago-area mice

talk, abs	Craig Moritz	Predicting and protecting evolutionary hotspots in California

talk, abs	Robert Fleischer	Trouble in Paradise: interactions of invasive vectors, introduced disease and an endangered native avifauna

talk, abs	Scott Edwards	Host-parasite interactions: evolutionary genetics and gene expression changes in House Finches induced by an expanding bacterial pathogen

talk, abs	Frédéric Thomas	Human activities and parasite microevolution

talk, abs	Robert Mangold Policy Presentation	Federal policy on forest invasive species and its relationship to evolutionary biology research

Discussion Session: Reports from the Working Sessions and Synthesis

	Panelists:
talk, abs	André Talbot	Conservation implications of evolutionary effects of captive breeding and exploitation
talk, abs	Jerry Schubel	Conservation implications of the evolutionary effects of habitat degradation and climate change
talk, abs	Gabriela Chavarria and Ellie Cohen	Conservation implications of evolutionary effects of invasive species and pathogens
talk, abs	Tom Lacher and Ray Sauvajot	Summary and synthesis

talk, abs	Concluding Keynote Address: Mary Nichols	Translating Science Into Policy