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Research Plan
Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Biology of Amphibians
Principal Investigator:
Howard Whiteman
Status:
active
Field:
Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas:
Animal Behavior; Aquatic Biology; Climate change; Community ecology; Disease ecology; Food web biology; Long-term research; Modeling; Phenology; Species Interactions; Theory; Vertebrate biology
Items:
85 (70 publications, 1 datasets, 14 documents)
Publications (70)
Chapter
Declining Amphibians: A United States' Response to the Global Problem
2004
Thesis
Evolution of alternative life histories in the tiger salamander, <i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>
1994
Chapter
Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field
2002
Article
Polyphenism predicts actuarial senescence and lifespan in tiger salamanders
2024
Journal of Animal Ecology
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.14048
Article
Climate mediates the trade-offs associated with phenotypic plasticity in an amphibian polyphenism
2024
Journal of Animal Ecology
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.14187
Article
The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade-offs for an amphibian polyphenism
2023
Journal of Animal Ecology
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13974
Article
Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups
2023
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2181
Article
Animal-Driven Nutrient Supply Declines Relative to Ecosystem Nutrient Demand Along a Pond Hydroperiod Gradient
2021
Ecosystems
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00679-9
Article
Complete Genome Sequences for <i>Pseudomonas sp.</i> Strains 29A and 43A
2020
Microbiology Resource Announcements DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00845-20
DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00845-20
Article
Lifetime Fitness, Sex-Specific Life History, and the Maintenance of a Polyphenism
2019
The American Naturalist
DOI: 10.1086/704156
Article
Modeling the population dynamics and community impacts of <i>Ambystoma tigrinum</i>: A case study of phenotype plasticity
2017
Mathematical Biosciences
Article
How diploidization turned a tetraploid into a pseudotriploid
2016
American Journal of Botany
Article
Natal philopatry varies with larval condition in salamanders
2016
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2133-z
Article
Salamander cannibalism
2010
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
Article
Consumptive and nonconsumptive effects of cannibalism in fluctuating age-structured populations
2010
Ecology
DOI: 10.1890/08-1366.1
Article
Accuracy assessment of skeletochronology in the Arizona tiger salamander (<i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>)
2007
Copeia
Article
An evaluation of MS-222 and benzocaine as anesthetics for metamorphic and paedomorphic tiger salamanders (<i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>)
2006
Amer Midl Nat
Article
Temporal shift of diet in alternative cannibalistic morphs of the tiger salamander
2006
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Article
Evolutionary ecology of facultative paedomorphosis in news and salamanders
2005
Biological Reviews
Student Paper
Foraging Differences Between Sexes in Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum
2005
Article
Foraging trade-offs along a predator-permanence gradient in subalpine wetlands
1999
Ecology
DOI: 10.2307/176681
Chapter
Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management
1999
Article
Growth and foraging consequences of facultative paedomorphosis in the tiger salamander, <i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>
1996
Evolutionary Ecology
Article
Fluctuation in a Rocky Mountain population of salamanders: anthropogenic acidification or natural variation?
1992
Journal of Herpetology
DOI: 10.2307/1565114
Chapter
Status and Conservation of US Amphibians. Vol 1: Conservation Essays
2005
Chapter
Behavioral ecology and conservation biology
1998
Student Paper
Interactions between larval amphibians
1980
Thesis
The taxonomy and ecology of the tiger salamander of Colorado
1969
Chapter
Ecology of Aquatic Insects
1984
Article
Efficacy and Uses of PIT Tag Telemetry in Salamanders From the Western USA: ,<i> Aneides vagrans </i>, <i> Ensatina eschscholtzii </i>, and <i> Ambystoma mavortium </i>
2022
Herpetological Conservation and Biology
Article
Evolution and genomic basis of the plant penetrating ovipositor: a key morphological trait in herbivorous Drosophilidae
2022
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1938
Article
Insect herbivory reshapes a native leaf microbiome
2020
Nature Ecology & Evolution
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-1085-x
Article
Habitat preference of an herbivore shapes the habitat distribution of its host plant
2018
Ecosphere 9
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2372
Article
Heritable plant phenotypes track light and herbivory levels at fine spatial scales
2018
Oecologia
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-018-4116-4
Article
Aversion and attraction to harmful plant secondary compounds jointly shape the foraging ecology of a specialist herbivore
2016
Ecology and Evolution
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2082
Article
A model of inter-cohort cannibalism and paedomorphosis in Arizona tiger salamanders, <i>Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum</i>
2016
International Journal of Biomathematics
DOI: 10.1142/s1793524516500303
Article
A PIT tagging technique for Ambystomatid salamanders
2016
Herpetological Review
Article
Evolution of herbivory in Drosophilidae linked to loss of behaviors, antennal responses, odorant receptors and ancestral diet
2015
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1424656112
Article
Evolution in an ancient detoxification pathway is coupled with a transition to herbivory in the Drosophilidae
2014
Molecular Biology and Evolution
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu201
Article
Diversity and abundance of phyllosphere bacteria are linked to insect herbivory
2014
Molecular Ecology
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12657
Article
Larval growth in polyphenic salamanders: making the best of a bad lot
2012
Oecologia
Article
Genes involved in the evolution of herbivory by a leaf-mining drosophilid fly
2012
Genome Biology and Evolution
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evs063
Article
Evolutionary biology: Insects converge on resistance
2012
Nature
Article
Mining the plant-insect interface with a leafmining <i>Drosophila</i> of <i>Arabidopsis</i>
2011
Molecular Ecology
Article
Foraging tactics in alternative heterochronic salamander morphs: trophic quality of ponds matters more than water permanency
2007
Freshwater Biology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01793.x
Chapter
Conservation and Status of North American Amphibians
2005
Article
Writing a RUI proposal: strategies for success
2004
Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly
Article
Potential of prey size and type to affect foraging asymmetries in tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum) larvae
2003
Canadian Journal of Zoology
Article
Heterospecific prey and trophic polyphenism in larval tiger salamanders
2003
Copeia
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2003)003[0056:hpatpi]2.0.co;2
Article
Dispersal of the fairy shrimp <i>Branchinecta coloradensis</i> (Anostraca): Effects of hydroperiod and salamanders
1999
Limnology and Oceanography
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.3.0487
Showing 50 of 70 publications
Datasets (1)
Dataset
Osmia_iridis_summer_duration_expt_2014-15
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/2
Documents (14)
Document
Wildlife Impacts
Document
Wildlife 2000 Review
Document
Beavers: Biologists "Rediscover" a Natural Resource
Document
Small Mammals: A Beaver Pond Ecosystem and Adjacent Riparian Habitat in Idaho
Document
Wetlands Program Update: The Wetlands Conservation Efforts of the Colorado Division of Wildlife
Document
Prospects The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory at Gothic
Document
Effect of Keystone Mine Effluent on Colonization of Stream Benthos
Document
Beavers and Their Control
Document
Proceedings of the National Symposium on Protection of Wetlands From Agricultural Impacts
Document
Moist Forests
Document
Beaver Management in Grazed Riparian Ecosystems
Document
Revising Desertification of Riparian Zones Along Cold Desert Streams
Document
Endangered Fish Recovery Program & Instream Flows
Document
Colorado Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife Wetlands Program Summary