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| Ermine in a mountain beaver tunnel -- a camera trap photo from the 2011 Camera Trapping Workshop |
A 5-day workshop on Sierra Nevada Mammals will be presented in the summer of
2016. It is one of many offerings at San Francisco State University's Sierra Nevada Field Campus. The workshop complements Dr. Czewczak’s course on ecology and conservation of California bats.
The workshop is an introduction to the biology of the other 6 orders of Sierra Nevada mammals and will address key features of
the orders and families, and identification of species. We will focus on comparative natural history and adaptive
differences that make survival possible under climatic extremes in the Sierra
Nevada.
We will address environmental change of the Sierra Nevada due to
human influence and its consequences, including extinctions and attempts to
recover the smaller carnivores, and we will emphasize mammals that can be seen or
photographed in the upper Yuba River drainage.
We will work in the laboratory and field, using illustrated power point presentations, the collection of small mammal specimens
at the field campus, and we will take local excursions within a 20-mile radius
to observe and camera trap small mammals.
Participants will gain a clear understanding
of:
a)
anatomical differences between the 6 orders of
mammals in the Sierra Nevada.
b)
adaptations to the annual climatic cycle of the
Sierra Nevada (including food hoarding, hibernation, metabolic adjustment, molt
and migration).
c)
general themes of mammalian reproduction
(seasonal breeding, delayed implantation, litter size, and altricial versus
precocial conditions at birth). And
d)
habitat selection (i.e., habitat generalists
versus specialists)
Want to to see what's in store for you?
Click on the "Schedule" tab.
1 comment:
If I lived in the US I would have signed up for this. Great to meet you in Burma, you have given me the bug to make more stills camera traps.
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