Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club

Living World 2004 Supplement - Contents Living World 2004 Supplement
Proceedings of The Nature of the Islands
A conference on Caribbean island natural history in memory of Peter R. Bacon

Contents

Papers
WHY CARIBBEAN ISLAND ECOLOGY MATTERS ... 1
Stanley A. Temple and Peter R. Bacon
THE MEANING OF NATURAL HISTORY IN OUR TIME ... 4
Christopher K. Starr
Abstracts

Session 1: Living Wetlands

NARIVA SWAMP RESTORATION INITIATIVE: LESSONS LEARNED ... 9
Gerard Alleng, Nadra Nathai-Gyan, Montserrat Carbonell, Dawne Brown and Jacob Opadeyi
LONG TERM EFFECT OF HURRICANE DISTURBANCE AND RECOVERY ... 9
Faustino Chi
PLANT COMMUNITIES IN THE GODINEAU SWAMP ... 10
Rahanna A. Juman

Session 2: Showing some Backbone the life of Vertebrate Animals

MOVEMENT IN FRAGMENTED RIVER HABITATS: PROMOTION AND
SUPPRESSION BY PREDATION THREAT. ... 11
Douglas F. Fraser and James F. Gilliam
CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITY: INVASIVE ANOLIS LIZARDS IN
TRINIDAD ... 12
Adrian Hailey and Graham White

FORAGING MODE DETERMINATION FOR SOME LIZARDS IN TRINIDAD, W.I. ... 12

Victor C. Quesnel
CONSERVATION OF REPTILE DIVERSITY IN A JAMAICAN FOREST:
EXPERIMENTAL REMOVAL OF THE INTRODUCED INDIAN MONGOOSE ... 13
Byron S. Wilson
THE SOUNDS OF SALIENTIA. ... 14
Hans E.A Boos
A TALE OF TWO FROGS: ADAPTATIONS OF THE TUNGARA FROG AND THE
WHISTLING FROG TO UNPREDICTABLE RAINFALL. ... 15
J.Roger Downie
BOLDNESS FOR EXPLORATION: EXPLAINING VARIATION IN MOVEMENT
DISTANCES BY A STREAM FISH. ... 16
Douglas F. Fraser and James F. Gilliam

Session 3: The Little Creatures that Run the World

THE ACULEATE WASP FAUNA OF THE BAHAMAS ... 17
Nancy B. Elliott, David L. Smith and Sherilyn G. F. Smith
THE LIFE OF A NEARLY SOCIAL WASP, TRYPOXYLON MANNI (HYMENOPTERA:
SPHECIDAE). ... 18
Allan W Hook
COMPARATIVE NEST-PARASITE LOAD IN THE THREE JAMAICAN SOCIAL WASPS ... 18
Christopher K. Starr
BUTTERFLY GANGS: DO THEY EXIST? ... 19
Floyd B. Lucas, Carol L. Ramjohn, Ian A. Ramjohn and Karl Ramjohn
WHAT IS THE SPIDER MESABOLIVAR AURANTIACUS (ARANEAE: PHOLCIDAE)
DOING IN BUTTRESS NOTCHES? ... 20
Jo-Anne N. Sewlal
WHAT IS THE SPIDER ARGIOPE ARGENTATA (ARANEIDAE) DOING ON
CNIDOSCOLUS URENS (EUPHORBIACEAE)? ... 20
Christopher K. Starr and Jacques Daudin
THE THREADS OF A WEBSPINNER’S LIFE ... 21
Janice S. Edgerly
TEMPERATURE AND RH EFFECTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND REPRODUCTION
OF THE PREDATORY COCCINELLID, NEPHASPIS BICOLOR ... 22
Vyjayanthi Lopez
POPULATION DENSITY AND COLONY COMPOSITION OF THE ANT ANOCHETUS
EMARGINATUS (HYMENOPTERA: PONERINAE) IN A LOWLAND FOREST
IN TRINIDAD ... 23
Alicia C.J. Roach, Michelle N.E. Cazabon, Lena Dempewolf and Christopher K. Starr
NEST SITES AND STRUCTURE OF THE ANT ANOCHETUS EMARGINATUS
(HYMENOPTERA: PONERINAE) IN A LOWLAND FOREST IN TRINIDAD ... 23
Lena Dempewolf, Michelle N.E. Cazabon, Alicia C.J. Roach and Christopher K. Starr

Session 4: How to be a Plant on Planet Earth

PLANT COMMUNITY CHANGES ON THE ERIN SAVANNAH ... 25
Rachel Armstrong, Michael P. Oatham and Bhesham Ramlal
COMPARATIVE ALLELOPATHIC POTENTIAL OF SIX TREE SPECIES IN MORA
FOREST ... 25
Anika Gellineau and Francis B. Lopez
HUMAN INFLUENCES ON PLANT BIODIVERSITY IN THE LESSER ANTILLES ... 26
Louis E. Chinnery
THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM: BIODIVERSITY ON A SMALL CARIBBEAN ISLAND ... 26
J. David Hardy

Session 5: Natural History and Conservation of Sea Turtles

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO’S LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLES, STEWARDSHIP OF THIS
GLOBALLY IMPORTANT POPULATION. ... 28
Scott A. Eckert
THE EVOLUTION OF LEATHERBACK TURTLE CONSERVATION IN TRINIDAD ... 29
Stephen Poon, Dennis Sammy and Nadra Gyan
COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES ON MARINE TURTLE CONSERVATION IN TRINIDAD ... 29
Len Peters
THE STATUS OF MARINE TURTLE CONSERVATION IN TOBAGO ... 30
Tanya Clovis
A DARWIN INITIATIVE PROJECT BASED ON THE MARINE TURTLE POPULATION
ON THE NORTH COAST OF TRINIDAD ... 31
Suzanne Livingstone
CONFRONTING CHALLENGES TO SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION IN BARBADOS
AND THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN ... 32
Julia A. Horrocks

Session 6: It's a Jungle out there: Promlems in Wildlife Health

WILDLIFE HEALTH - ITS IMPORTANCE IN NATURAL HISTORY, CONSERVATION
AND SPECIES PROTECTION ... 34
John E. Cooper
SURVEILLANCE OF WILDLIFE DISEASE ... 35
Selene S. Warren
THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE - HELP OR HINDRANCE'? ... 35
Margaret E Cooper
INTESTINAL HELMINTHS OF THE SMALL INDIAN MONGOOSE ... 36
Lisa P. Daley, Delano Lewis, Byron S. Wilson, Peter Vogel, and Ralph D. Robinson
ECTOPARASITES AND CARIBBEAN WILDLIFE ... 37
Karine Ménier
ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS (NEMATODA: METASTRONGYLIDAE)
INFECTION: AN EMERGING ZOONOSIS IN JAMAICA ... 38
Ralph D. Robinson, Cecilia A. Waugh, John F. Lindo, Karen Bishop and M.L. Eberhard

Poster Session

THE FARMING OF RED BROCKET DEER IN TRINIDAD ... 40
Raihaana Ali
IMPACT OF NUTRIENT OVER-ENRICHMENT ON MANGROVE ECOSYSTEMS:
EVIDENCE FROM THE SMITHSONIAN MARINE SCIENCE NETWORK ... 40
Ilka C. F eller and Catherine E. Lovelock
AQUATIC MACROINVERTEBRATES OF N ARIVA SWAMP, TRINIDAD ... 41
Sarsha A. Lall, Peter R. Bacon and Mary E. Alkins-Koo
AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND PATTERNS AND CONSEQUENCES
OF SEXUAL DIMORPHISMS IN CLONAL PLANTS. ... 42
D. Nicholas McLetchie Natasha Smith, Nicholla Johnson and Philip Crowley
COMPARATIVE NESTING SUCCESS OF THE KEYHOLE MUD-DAUBER,
TRYPOXYLON NITIDUM, IN DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES ... 43
Dyan M. Nelson and Christopher K. Starr
THE ART OF NATURE IN THE ISLANDS ... 43
Edward C. Rooks
HOW DO JACK SPANIARDS (HYMENOPTERA: POLISTES SPP.) KEEP CLEAN? ... 44
Andrea A. Scobie and Christopher K. Starr
COEXISTENCE OF TWO WEB-BUILDING SPIDERS MESABOLIVAR AURANTIACUS
(PHOLCIDAE: ARANEAE) AND AZILIA VACHONI (TETRAGNATHIDAE: ARANEAE)
IN A FOREST MICROHABITAT ... 45
Jo-Anne N. Sewlal
List of Contributors ... 46
A Peter Bacon Chronology ... 52

ISSUES