Please consider presenting at the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2014 (Portland, Oregon) in our "Cercopagid Invaders" special session (#098).
Session details can be found below or at http://www.sgmeet.com/jasm2014/sessionschedule.asp?SessionID=098. The Eurasian cladocerans Bythotrephes longimanus and Cercopagis pengoi have been invasive in North America since 1982 and 1998, respectively. Their potential to transform food webs has sparked tremendous research and management interest. Over 250 publications in the primary literature address B. longimanus alone, yet significant basic and applied questions remain for both species including their effects on fish populations, their rates and patterns of establishment, and the effectiveness of outreach and education protocols to reduce their spread. Whether the two species have different range expansion patterns and impacts on food webs in recipient ecosystems also remain open questions. In this session we invite presentations on B. longimanus or C. pengoi that present new research or synthesis on the invasive ecology of one or both species. We plan to end the session with an open discussion regarding significant unanswered questions and avenues for addressing these areas of need. Abstracts can be submitted before 23:59 U.S. Central Standard Time on Friday, 7 February 2014 at http://www.sgmeet.com/jasm2014. Please contact us with any questions. Donn Branstrator , University of Minnesota Duluth [email protected] Meghan Brown , Hobart and William Smith Colleges [email protected]
