P#r#o#g#r#a#m/ - National Invasive Species Awareness Week

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Invasive Species Awareness Exhibits — Posters — Symposium hTp://forkedtonguefriends.blogspot.com/2013_07_01_archive.html? 2015? P#R#O#G#R#A#M/ 14#April#—"Exhibits"&"Posters"—"10"am"to"2"pm""Main"Entrance"Faculty"of"Natural"Sciences"? 15#April#—"Symposium"—"8:30"am"to"4"pmAmphitheater"CNLGA211? University"of"Puerto"Rico,"Río"Piedras? Faculty"of"Natural"Sciences? ? ? [email protected]?   Museo"de"Zoología? ISA Poster Session UPR-Río Piedras TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015 10 am - 2 pm Faculty of Natural Sciences Lobby AGROSYSTEMS David Jenkins* USDA-ARS • Political pests: the arrival of the Medfly and Old World Bollworm in Puerto Rico and what it means Maria Berrios Rivera* & Wilfredo Robles UPR-RUM • Análisis de carbohidratos no estructurales en yerba Venezolana (Paspalum fasciculatum) Roxana Rodríguez* & Gary Toranzos UPR-RP • Bacteria, Psyllids, and Citrus greening: the death of Puerto Rico’s citrus industry? PLANTS Jose Arocho* & Wilfredo Robles UPR-RUM • Crecimiento, desarrollo y control de la zarza negra (Mimosa pigra L.) en pastos. Wilnelia Recart, James D. Ackerman*, Wilfredo Falcón & Pablo Hernández UC-I, UPR-RP, UZ • Here and there and everywhere: the invasion experience differs among islands for the bamboo orchid Ackerman, James D., Elix Hernández* UPR-RP • Geographical patterns of plant invasions in Puerto Rico: biotic resistance and human influences Wilnelia Recart, James D. Ackerman*, Wilfredo Falcón, Julio Lazcano UC-I, UPR-RP, UZ • Using species distribution modeling to understand the spread of the naturalized Honduran pine in Puerto Rico VERTEBRATES Frances Cruz De Jesús*, Faviola Quiles Pratts*, Sondra Vega UPR-A • Dieta del sapo común (Rhinella marina) en la Reserva Natural Privada El Tallonal, Arecibo, Puerto Rico Rita Careces* & Jorge Ortiz UPR-RP     Metamorph growth rate and habitat selection between Peltophryne lemur and Rhinella marina Jannelle Peña*, Roberto Reyes & Patricia Burrowes UPR-RP • Exploring chytrid infections and skin microbiome of Eleutherodactylus coqui along elevation and land-use gradients. Michel Alejandro*, Karla Vasquez & Patricia Burrowes UPR-RP • Can amphibian body temperature predict vulnerability to an invasive chytrid fungus? Christina de Jesús & Cristina Rivera* UPR-RP • Identifying source populations of the invasive green iguana (Iguana iguana) in Puerto Rico • Jhoset Burgos* UPR-RP • T-Rex hates his push-ups but loves his fruit: the effect of introduced green iguana (Iguana iguana) on seed germination and dispersal Luis López* UPR-RP Ÿ Spatial patterns in the abundance of the Spiny Water Flea (Bytothrephes longimanus) in Northern Lake Michigan *indicates poster presenter   ISA Exhibits – UPR-Río Piedras TUESDAY, April 14, 2015 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Faculty of Natural Sciences: Main Lobby v v v v v v v Para la Naturaleza - Carlos Rodríguez Gomez Herbario UPR-RP - Fabiola Areces Museo de Zoología UPR-RP - Mahmoud Aboukheir/Jhoset Burgos Island Conservation - Kristy Swinnerton Botany Group, UPR-RP - Gladys Nazario Culinary Group, UPR-RP - Burgos/Aboukheir/Nazario Center for Excellence in Quarantine & Invasive Species UPR-RUM - Jose Rodrigues v Departamento de Recursos Naturales e Ambientales v Programas Graduados e Investigaciones de la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales v United States Department of Agriculture – Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection & Quarrantine USDA-APHIS-PPQ Rosimar Morales Mallery v Student Chapter for Microbiology UPR-RP - Jessica Rivera v El Puente — enlace latino de acción climática - David Ortiz v United States Customs and Border Protection - Sonja Cruz-Fidalgo and Brenda Padial v Oceanica – Adriana Ocaña   ISA Symposium UPR-Río Piedras WEDNESDAY, April 15, 2015 Faculty of Natural Sciences Building CNL A-211 8:30-9:00 Coffee & quesitos SYMPOSIUM 9:00-9:15 Opening remarks: James D. Ackerman* & Dignitaries CONFERENCES 9:15-9:30 Ricardo Betancur* UPR-RP • Reconstructing the lionfish invasion 9:30-9:45 Damien Bontemps* UPR-RP • Use of stable isotopes in predicting direct foraging impacts of an invasive apex predator 9:45-10:00 Yobana Marino Cardenas* & Paul Bayman UPR-RP • La broca del café: invadiendo el corazón de Puerto Rico 10:00-10:15 Adriana Herrera* UPR-RP • Xenochrophis vittatus (Colubridae) in Puerto Rico: a new snake in the Western Hemisphere 10:15-10:30 Wilfredo Robles* UPR-RUM • Aquatic invasive plants … good, bad or both? 10:30-10:45 Adaris Mas* UPR-RP • El estatus de los monos silvestres en Puerto Rico 10:45-11:00 Christian Salcedo* Dow AgroSciences • The role of chemical ecology in invasive species 11:00-11:15 Miguel García* DNRA • Erradicaciones, el patito feo de los proyectos de conservación. BREAK 11:15-11:30 PLENARIES 11:30-12:15 Ariel Lugo* International Institute for Tropical Forestry • Ecología ecológica vs. ecología burocrática: ¿Dónde está el balance? 12:15-1:00 Pedro Acevedo* Smithsonian Institution     • Introduction, naturalization and invasions in the Flora of the West Indies 1:00-1:45 LUNCH BREAK CONFERENCES (continued) 1:45-2:00 Patricia Burrowes* UPR-RP • The amphibian pathogenic chytrid fungus as an invasive species: consequences and threats. 2:00-2:15 Jose Carlos Rodrigues* UPR-RUM • Invasive species threatening food security and environmental sustainability on the Caribbean 2:15-2:30 Elvia Meléndez-Ackerman & Denny Fernández* UPR-RP UPR-H • Effects of hurricane disturbance and feral goat herbivory on the structure of a Caribbean dry forest 2:30-2:45 Hilda Díaz-Soltero* USDA-APHIS • Global Invasive Species Compendium 2:45-3:00 Hilda Díaz-Soltero* USDA-APHIS • Invasives Causing Extinction Program 3:00-3:15 Mike Barandiaran* USFWS • The impacts and the control plan for feral horses in Vieques. 3:15-3:30 Maraliz Vega Ross* UPR-RUM • Preliminary data of movement and macrohabitat use of an invasive snake (Boa constrictor) in Puerto Rico *indicates speaker   SYMPOSIUM & POSTER contacts Aboukheir, Mahmoud UPR-RP [email protected] Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro SI [email protected] Ackerman, James D. UPR-RP [email protected] Alejandro, Michel UPR-RP Areces, Fabiola UPRRP [email protected] Arocho Jiménez, José UPR-RUM [email protected] Barandiaran, Mike USFWS [email protected] Bayman, Paul UPR-RP [email protected] Berrios Rivera, María UPR-RUM [email protected] Betancur, Ricardo UPR-RP [email protected] Bontemps, Damien UPR-RP, DNER [email protected] Burgos, Jhoset UPR-RP [email protected] Burrowes, Patricia UPR-RP [email protected] Cruz de Jesús, Francis UPR-A Cruz-Fidalgo, Sonja US CBP Díaz Soltero, Hilda USDA-APHIS [email protected] De Jesús, Christina UPR-RP [email protected] Falcón, Wilfredo UZ [email protected] García, Miguel DRNA [email protected] Jenkins, David, USDA-ARS [email protected] Lazcano Lara, Julio C. UPR-RP [email protected] Lugo, Ariel, USDA-FS-IITF [email protected] Marino Cardenas, Yobana, UPRRP [email protected] Mas, Adaris, UPR-RP [email protected] Meléndez-Ackerman, Elvia J. UPR-RP [email protected] Morales Mallary, Rosimar USDA-APHIS-PPQ [email protected] Nazario, Gladys UPR-RP [email protected] Padial, Brenda US CBP 787-729-6999 Peña, Jannelle UPR-RP Quiles Pratts, Faviola UPR-A Recart, Wilnelia UCI [email protected] Rivera, Cristina UPR-RP Robles, Wilfredo UPR-RUM [email protected] Rodrigues, Jose Carlos UPR-RUM [email protected] Rodríguez Gómez, Carlos PLN [email protected]     Salcedo, Christian DAS [email protected] Swinnerton, Kristy IC [email protected] Vega, Sondra UPR-A [email protected] Vega Ross, Maraliz UPR-RUM [email protected] Abbreviations: DAS Dow AgroSciences DRNA/DNER Departamento de Recursos Naturales & Ambiente IC Island Conservation PLN Para la Naturaleza SI Smithsonian Institution UCI University of California, Irvine UPR-A Universidad de Puerto Rico-Arecibo UPR-H Universidad de Puerto Rico–Humacao UPR-RP Universidad de Puerto Rico–Río Piedras UPR-RUM Universidad de Puerto Rico–Mayagüez US-CBP United States Customs & Border Patrol USDA-ARS United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service USDA-APHIS United States Department of Agriculture–Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service USDA-APHIS-PPQ United States Department of Agriculture-Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service–Plant Protection & Quarrantine USDA-FS-IITF United States Department of Agriculture–Forest Service– International Institute for Tropical Forestry USFWS United States Fish & Wildlife Service UZ University of Zurich