The Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation

ATBC 2008 - Gallery

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Nassau Plateau

Photo 3 (c) Adrian Flynn

Rivulus species of IJskreek, Nassau Mountains (photo by Adrian Flynn, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 8 (c) Adrian Flynn

Electro-seining in the middle reach of IJskreek (photo by Adrian Flynn, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 1 (c) Adrian Flynn

Forest of Plateau C (photo by Adrian Flynn, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 2 (c) Adrian Flynn

Source headwaters of IJskreek at plateau C upstream of the BHP-Billiton exploration camp and the plateau road; this part of IJskreek was dry during the CI-RAP expedition, i.e. in the long dry season of 2005. Among the few fishes collected in this part of the stream were a Rivulus species and Callichthys callichthys (photo by Adrian Flynn, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 4 (c) Jan Wirjosentono

Middle reach of IJskreek, about 500 m downstream of the BHP-Billiton exploration camp and plateau road; here, the IJskreek is fueled by shallow bauxite-rock aquifer and has year-round clear, running water. More fishes occur in this part of the stream, among them two Lithoxus species, a trichomycterid catfish and Harttiella crassicauda (photo by Jan Wirjosentono, CI-RAP expedition, October/November 2005)

Photo 5 (c) Jan Wirjosentono

Middle reach of IJskreek (photo by Jan Wirjosentono, CI-RAP expedition, October/November 2005)

Photo 6 (c) Jan Wirjosentono

Middle reach of IJskreek (photo by Jan Wirjosentono, CI-RAP expedition, October/November 2005)

Photo 7 (c) Adrian Flynn

Electro-seining in the middle reach of IJskreek (photo by Adrian Flynn, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 9 (c) Paul Ouboter

Clumps of the filamentous red algae Batrachospermum spp growing on rocks in the middle reach of IJskreek; this algae is one of the more important food items in the diet of H. crassicauda

Photo 10 (c) Jan Wirjosentono

IJskreek near the edge of the plateau; note the very large tree on the left and the emergent aquatic Thurnia sphaerocephala in the stream (photo by Jan Wirjosentono, CI-RAP expedition, October/November 2005)

Photo 11 (c) Adrian Flynn

IJskreek near the edge of the plateau with Thurnia sphaerocephala (photo by Adrian Flynn, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 12 (c) Adrian Flynn

Waterfall in IJskreek at the edge of the plateau (photo by Adrian Flynn, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 18 (c) Paul Ouboter

A beautiful bromeliad species with ‘tiger-striped’ leaves on Nassau Mountains, Plateau C, close to BHP-Billiton basecamp (photo by Paul Ouboter, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 14 (c) Adrian Flynn

Road on the Nassau Plateau (photo by Adrian Flynn, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 15 (c) Trond Larsen

The endemic catfish Harttiella crassicauda of IJskreek and other headwater tributaries of Paramaka Creek; it was not collected in three other mountain streams in Nassau Mountains (photo by Trond Larsen. CI-RAP expedition, October/November 2005)

Photo 17 (c) Adrian Flynn

A new, endemic Pseudancistrus species (nicknamed ‘bigmouth’) from an upper tributary of Paramaka Creek, Nassau Mountains (photo by Adrian Flynn, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 13 (c) Paul Ouboter

Seining in a relatively deep pool in IJskreek at the edge of the plateau (photo by Paul Ouboter, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 16 (c) Adrian Flynn

Waterfall and pool in unnamed headwater tributary of Paramaka Creek; collection site of new Pseudancistrus ‘big mouth’ species (photo by Paul Ouboter, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006).

Photo 19 (c) Paul Ouboter

Poisonous owroekoekoe snake (Bothrops atrox) warming up in the sun; these snakes are relatively common on the Nassau Plateau (photo by Paul Ouboter, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 20 (c) Adrian Flynn

Poison-arrow frog Epipedobates cf trivittatus var. ‘orange stripe’ (photo by Adrian Flynn, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 21 (c) Paul Ouboter

New fluorescent-purple Atelopus species from Nassau Mountains (photo by Paul Ouboter, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 22 (c) Paul Ouboter

Fluorescent-purple belly of the new Atelopus species from Nassau Mountains (photo by Paul Ouboter, BHP-Billiton/AdeKexpedition, March 2006)

Photo 23 (c) Paul Ouboter

Small orange-colored crab of headwater tributaries of Paramaka Creek, Nassau Mountains (photo by Paul Ouboter, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 24 (c) Adrian Flynn

Unnamed headwater tributary of Paramaka Creek, Nassau Mountains (photo by Adrian Flynn, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)

Photo 25 (c) Adrian Flynn

Middle reach of IJskreek (photo by Adrian Flynn, BHP-Billiton/AdeK expedition, March 2006)