SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM LISTING FOR THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIRST STATED MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION

Auk, The, Jul 2004

Session 1B. Physiology. Hannah C. Revis, chair.

* Switch it on, switch it off: telomerase may provide a rescue effect at the end of life. MARK F. HAUSSMANN and CAROL M. VLECK, Ecol., Evol. & Organ. Biol., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA.

* Transient thermal fluctuations in eggs and their implications for development, ontogeny of metabolism, and hatchability. CHRISTOPHER R. OLSON, CAROL M. VLECK and DAVID VLECK, Dept. Zool. & Genetics, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA.

Regulation of development time and hatch synchronization in precocial birds. C. A. NICOLAI, Ecol., Evol. & Conser. Biol., Univ. Nevada Reno, Reno, NV; J. S. SEDINGER, Dept. Environ. & Res. Sci., Univ. Nevada Reno, and M. L. WEGE, Yukon Delta Natl. Wildl. Refuge, U.S. Fish & WiM. Ser., Bethel, AK.

Coordination of vocal production and flight in the cockatiel (Nymphaticus hollandicus). SARAH K. HUBER, Organ. & Evol. Biol., Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Seroprevalence of West Nile virus in Illinois birds, 2002. ADAM M. RINGIA, HYUN-YOUNG KOO, BRADLEY BLITVICH, MARSHALL VAN DE WYNGAERDE, JEFF BRAWN and ROBERT NOVAK, Med. Entomol. Lab., Illinois Nat. Hist. Surv., Champaign, IL.

A role for the immune system in biological invasions? KELLY A. LEE, LYNN B. MARTIN, MARTIN WIKELSKI, Dept. Ecol. & Evol. Biol., Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and DENNIS HASSELQUIST, Dept. Animal Ecol., Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden.

Nightly torpor and daily slothfulness in a tropical rainforest bird. SILKE STEIGER, J. PATRICK KELLEY, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; WILLIAM W. COCHRAN, Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; and MARTIN WIKELSKI, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ.

Anting behavior in birds: an evaluation of ant selection and abiotic conditions prevalent during these displays. HANNAH C. REVIS, U.S. Pacific Basin Agri. Res. Center, Hilo, HI, and DEBORAH A. WALLER, Dept. Biol., Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA.

Session 1C. Conservation. David I. King, chair.

Developing and testing a marsh bird community index for the Chesapeake Bay. WILLIAM V. DELUCA, COLIN E. STUDDS and PETER P. MARRA, Smithsonian Environ. Res. Center, Edgewater, MD.

Effects of partial harvest on reproductive success of forest birds in a fragmented landscape. DAWN BURKE, KEN ELLIOTT, Office Min. Nat. Res., London, ON, STEPHEN HOLMES, Canadian For. Ser., Sault Ste. Marie, ON, LYLE FRIESEN and MICHAEL D. CADMAN, Canadian Wildl. Ser., Guelph, ON.

How (not) to count curassows. IVAN JIMENEZ, Dept. Biol., Univ. Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, GUSTAVO A. LONDONO, Cali, Colombia, and JUAN L. PARRA, Dept. Integrative Biol., Univ. California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Sexual selection affects local extinction and turnover in bird communities. PAUL F. DOHERTY, Jr., Dept. Fish. & Wild. Biol., Colorado St. Univ., Ft. Collins, CO, GABRIELE SORCI, Lab. Parasit. Evol., CNRS, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, J. ANDREW ROYLE, USFWS, Laurel, MD, JAMES E. HINES, JAMES D. NICHOLS, USGS, Laurel, MD, and THIERRY BOULINIER, Lab. Ecol., Univ. Paris, Paris, France. Abundance patterns of Buff-breasted Sandpipers in three Brazilian wintering sites. JULIANA B. ALMEIDA, Ecol. Evol. & Conserv. Biol. Prog., Univ. Nevada, Reno, NV, LEWIS W. ORING, Environ. Res. Sci. Dept., Univ. Nevada, Reno, NV, and RICHARD B. LANCTOT, USFWS Migratory Bird Mgmt, Anchorage, AK.