Conference Agenda

Managing different personalities: effects of forestry practices on American red squirrel personality distributions and activity patterns

Brigit R. Humphreys¹, Allison M. Brehm^1,2, Alessio Mortelliti³

¹Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA; ²Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; ³Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Risky business: revealing the selective advantages for bold and aggressive small mammals in managed forest landscapes

Allison M Brehm^1,2, Alessio Mortelliti^2,3

¹Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 145 Noland Hall, Madison, WI 53706, USA; ²Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, University of Maine, 5755 Nutting Hall, Orono, ME 04469, USA; ³Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Edificio M, Via Licio Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Ital

Predicting the range-shifts of woody plant species: consequences of gray squirrel personality for the dispersal of novel seeds

Margaret R. Merz¹, Francesca Colombini¹, Alessio Mortelliti^1,2

¹1Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA; ²Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Edificio M, Via Licio Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste (Italy)

The conservation value of disproportionately consequential individuals: results from an 8-year field experiment on small mammal seed dispersers

Alessio Mortelliti^1,2, Allison Brehm^1,3, Sara Boone¹, Brigit Humphreys¹, Margaret Merz¹, Ivy Yen¹

¹Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, University of Maine, 5755 Nutting Hall, Orono, ME 04469, USA; ²Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Edificio M, Via Licio Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy; ³Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 145 Noland Hall, Madison, WI 53706, USA