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Phone:
(203) 432-3603 |
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Fax:
(203) 432-3929 |
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Email: david.skelly@yale.edu |
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Website:
www.cbc.yale.edu/people/skelly/ |
Education
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1983 - 1987 |
A. B.,
Biology, |
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1987 - 1992 |
Ph.D.,
Department of Biology, |
Professional Positions
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1992 -
1993 |
Postdoctoral
Research Fellow, Australian Flora and Fauna Research Program, |
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1993 -
1995 |
NSF
Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Biology, Department of Zoology, |
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1996 - |
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| 1996 - 2000 | Assistant Professor of Ecology | ||
| 2000 - 2003 | Associate Professor of Ecology | ||
| 2003 - | Professor of Ecology | ||
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1996 - |
Adjunct
Appointment, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, |
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2000 - |
Curator, Division of Vertebrate Zoology,
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2001 |
Visiting
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, |
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2003 - 2004 |
Visiting Scholar, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia |
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| 2004 - 2006 | Director, Doctoral Program in Organismal and Integrative Biology, Yale University | ||
Fellowships
and Honors
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1987 |
Honors,
Undergraduate Thesis, |
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1990 -
1991 |
Rackham
Predoctoral Fellowship, |
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1992 |
Rackham
Dissertation Fellowship, |
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1997,
2001
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Award
for Teaching Excellence, |
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2003 - 2004 |
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation |
| 2004 - 2008 |
Senior Research Fellowship, The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
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Teaching Experience
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1986 -
1987 |
Teaching Assistant,
Department of Biology, General
Ecology, Advanced Ecology |
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1987 -
1991 |
Teaching Assistant,
Department of Biology, Introductory
Biology, General Ecology, Herpetology |
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1995 |
Instructor,
Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Bureau of Land Management Training Course
on Threatened and Endangered Species, |
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1996 - |
Assistant/Associate/Full
Professor, |
Other Professional Experience
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1994 |
Consultant,
Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, |
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1994 -
1995 |
Consultant,
Association of |
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1997 -
1998 |
Member,
Working Group on Habitat Conservation Plans, |
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1997 -
2000 |
Member,
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1999 |
Consultant,
National Park Service/Environmental Protection Agency, Mid Continent Ecology
Lab, |
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2002,
2003 |
Panelist,
Ecology Program, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants, Division of Environmental
Biology, National
Science Foundation. |
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2002 |
Member,
Endangered Species Advisory Committee, Department of Environmental Protection,
State of |
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2002 - 2007 |
Director
of Postdoctoral Studies,
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2003 - |
Editorial Board, Ecology/Ecological Monographs, Ecological Society of America. |
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2003 |
Science Advisory Panelist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Review of Atrazine effects on amphibians. |
| 2005 | National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Design Consortium, Science and Human Dimensions Committee |
| 2005 | Panelist, Ecological Biology, Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation. |
| 2005 - | Board Member, Madison Land Conservation Trust, Madison, Connecticut. |
| 2007 | Faculty Leader, Association of Yale Alumni Trip, New Zealand. |
| 2007 | Panelist, Ecological Biology, Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation. |
| 2007 | Science
Advisory Panelist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Review of Atrazine
effects on amphibians. |
Major Extramural Grants
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1992 -
1993 |
Australian
Flora and Fauna Research Program, |
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1993 -
1995 |
NSF
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Biology. $69,600 |
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1997 -
2000 |
NSF/EPA
Water and Watersheds Program: Connecting Ecological and Social Systems:
watershed research relating ecosystem function to human values and
socioeconomic behaviors. $750,000. (with G. Benoit, |
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1997 -
2003 |
NSF
LTREB Program: A long term survey of |
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2000 - 2003 |
NIH/NSF
Ecology of Infectious Diseases Program: Wetland urbanization gradients and the
ecology of vector borne diseases. $1,500,000. (with D. Cavener and K. Shea) |
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2002 - 2007 |
CDC Fellowship Training Program: Vector Borne Disease. $1,300,000. (with D. Fish and others)
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2004 - 2006 |
Director's Award, Yale Center for International and Area Studies. $10,000 |
2005 - 2010 |
NSF LTREB Program: A Long-Term Study of Metacommunity Dynamics of Amphibians and their Predators. $300,000. (with E. Werner, R. Relyea, and K. Yurewicz) |
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2005 - 2006 |
Connecticut Institute of Water Resources: Gonadal abnormalities in Connecticut Amphibians. $18,040. |
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2005 - 2008 |
Department of Defense: Scalable Control of Networked Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Vehicle Swarms Inspired by Nature. $2,700,000. (with V. Kumar and others) |
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2006 - 2007 |
National Science Foundation, Evolutions: A Museum-Based After School Program. $75,000. (PI: D. Skelly) |
| 2007 - 2008 | National Science Foundation, Urbanization and macroparasite infection of amphibians. $250,000. (PI: D. Skelly) |
| 2007 - 2008 | Eppley Foundation, Rapid evolution in response to fire ants. $25,200. (CoPIs: T. Langkilde and D. Skelly) |
Invited Seminars & Symposia
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1993 |
Department
of Biological Sciences, Division
of Wildlife & Ecology, CSIRO, University
of Technology, Department
of Biology, |
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1994 |
Department
of Organismal & Evolutionary Biology, |
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1995 |
Amphibian
Symposium, Society of Northwestern Vertebrate Biologists |
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1996 |
The |
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1997 |
Department
of Zoology, Department
of Biology & Medicine, Department
of Biology, Department
of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department
of Biology, Vernal
Pools Symposium, |
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1998 |
Division
of Biological Sciences, Wildlife
Biology Program, |
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1999 |
Department
of Wildlife Ecology, Department
of Biology, Department
of Biology, Department
of Biology, Department
of Zoology, Department
of Forest Sciences, Department
of Biology, |
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2000 |
Society
of American Foresters, |
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2001 |
Ecology
Program, Department
of Biology, |
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2002 |
Department
of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, National
Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle Institution
for Social and Policy Studies, |
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2003 |
Department
of Biology, Department of Biology, Arizona State University Association of Massachusetts Wetland Scientists Wetland Symposium, The Wildlife Society Department of Biology, University of Maryland Department of Biology. McGill University
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2004 |
School of Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Queensland Applied & Environmental Sciences, Griffith University, Queensland School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Dalhousie University Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York Department of Natural Sciences, Bennington College
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2005 |
Plenary Presentation, Australian Society of Herpetology Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University Cornell Herpetological Society Department of Biology, University of New Orleans School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Univ. of Pennsylvania Declining Amphibians Symposium, 5th World Herpetology Congress, South Africa Robotics Conference, Napa, California Science Saturdays Program for Children, Yale University
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John Ostrom Lecture, Peabody Museum, Yale University Sigma Xi Lecture, Program in Environmental Science, Pace University Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut Peabody Museum Teachers' Institute Mark W. Gould Lecture Series, Rhode Island Natural History Survey Dept of Natural Resource Conservation, UMass Amherst
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| 2007 |
Mianus River Watershed Council, Stamford, Connecticut
Lecturer, Association of Yale Alumni, New Zealand Trip
Connecticut Forest Science Forum
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| 2008 | Ecology Program, Duke University |
Peer-Reviewed
Publications
Schwager, M., F. Bullo, D. Skelly, and D. Rus. 2008. A ladybug exploration strategy for
distributed adaptive coverage control. Pages 2346 to 2353 in IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation,
Pasadena, CA, May 2008. 
Urban, M. C., B. L. Phillips, D. K. Skelly, and R. Shine. 2008. A toad more traveled: the heterogeneous invasion dynamics of cane toads in Australia. American Naturalist 171:E134-E148. Link
Holland, M. P., D. K. Skelly, M. Kashgarian, S. R. Bolden, L. M. Harrison, and M. Cappello. 2007. Echinostome infection in green frogs (Rana clamitans) is stage and age dependent. Journal of Zoology 271:455-462. Link
Semlitsch, R. D. and D. K. Skelly. 2007. Ecology and Conservation of Pool-Breeding Amphibians. Pages 127 to 147 in A. Calhoun and P. deMaynadier (Eds.) Science and Conservation of Vernal Pools in Northeastern North America. CRC Press. ISBN 0849336759.
Skelly, D. K. 2007. The ailing invader. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:17562-17562. Link
Skelly, D. K., S. R. Bolden, L. K. Freidenburg, N. A. Freidenfelds, and R. Levey. 2007. Ribeiroia infection is not responsible for Vermont amphibian deformities. EcoHealth 4:156-163. Link
Skelly, D. K., L. N. Joseph, H. P. Possingham, L. K. Freidenburg, T. J. Farrugia, M. T. Kinnison, and A. P. Hendry. 2007. Evolutionary responses to climate change. Conservation Biology 21:1353-1355. Link
Urban, M. C., B. L. Phillips, D. K. Skelly, and R. Shine. 2007. The cane toad's (Bufo marinus) increasing ability to invade Australia is revealed by a dynamically updated range model. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274:1413-1419. Link Faculty of 1000 Review
Werner, E. E., D. K. Skelly, R. A. Relyea, and K. L. Yurewicz. 2007. Amphibian species richness across environmental gradients. Oikos 116:1697-1712. Link
Werner, E. E., K. L. Yurewicz, D. K. Skelly, and R. A. Relyea. 2007. Turnover in an amphibian metacommunity: the role of local and regional factors. Oikos 116:1713-1725. Link Faculty of 1000 Review
Halverson, M. A., D. K. Skelly and A. Caccone. 2006. Inbreeding linked to amphibian survival in the wild but not in the laboratory. Journal of Heredity 97:499-507. Link
Halverson, M. A., D. K. Skelly, and A. Caccone. 2006. Kin distribution of amphibian larvae in the wild. Molecular Ecology 15:1139-1145. Link
Skelly, D. K. 2006. Declining amphibians (M. Lannoo, Editor) [Book Review]. Herpetological Review 37:123-125.
Skelly, D. K., S. R. Bolden, M. P. Holland, L. K. Freidenburg, N. A. Freidenfelds, and T. R. Malcolm. 2006. Urbanization and disease in amphibians. Pages 153 to 167 in S. K. Collinge and C. Ray (Eds.) Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198567081.
Urban, M. C., and D. K. Skelly. 2006. Evolving metacommunities: toward an evolutionary perspective on metacommunities (Concepts & Synthesis). Ecology 87:1616-1626. Link
Urban, M. C., D. K. Skelly, D. Burchsted, W. Price, and S. Lowry. 2006. Stream communities across a rural-urban landscape gradient. Diversity and Distributions 12:337-350. Link Faculty of 1000 Review
Brownstein, J. S., D. K. Skelly, T. R. Holford, and D. Fish. 2005. Forest fragmentation predicts local scale heterogeneity of Lyme disease risk. Oecologia 146:469-475. Link
Skelly, D. K. 2005. Experimental venue and estimation of interaction strength: Reply. Ecology 86:1068-1071. Link
Skelly, D. K., M. A. Halverson, L. K. Freidenburg, and M. C. Urban. 2005. Canopy closure and amphibian diversity in forested wetlands. Wetlands Ecology & Management 13:261-268. Link
Taylor, B., D. K. Skelly, L. K. Demarchis, M. D. Slade, D. Galusha, and P. M. Rabinowitz. 2005. Proximity to pollution sources and risk of amphibian limb malformation. Environmental Health Perspectives 113:1497-1501. Link
Freidenburg, L. K., and D. K. Skelly. 2004. Microgeographical variation in thermal preference by an amphibian. Ecology Letters 7:369-373. Link
Skelly, D. K. 2004. Microgeographic countergradient variation in the wood frog, Rana sylvatica. Evolution 58:160-165. Link
Skelly, D. K., K. L. Yurewicz, E. E.
Werner, and R. A. Relyea. 2003.
Estimating decline and distributional change in amphibians. Conservation
Biology 17:744-751.
Link
Halverson, M. A., D. K. Skelly, J. M. Kiesecker,
and L. K. Freidenburg. 2003.
Skelly, D. K. 2003. How to write a successful Doctoral Dissertation
Improvement Grant proposal. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
84:137-138.
Skelly, D. K., and J. Golon. 2003. Assimilation of natural benthic substrates by two species of tadpoles. Herpetologica 59:37-42. Link
Skelly, D. K., L. K. Freidenburg, and J. M. Kiesecker. 2002. Forest canopy and the performance of larval amphibians. Ecology 83:983-992. Link
Skelly, D. K. 2002.
Experimental venue and estimation of interaction strength. Ecology 83:2097-2101.
Link
Skelly, D. K. 2002. Landscape Ecology. AccessScience@McGraw-Hill, Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Link
Harding, E. K. and the NCEAS Habitat
Conservation Plan Working Group. 2001. The scientific foundations of habitat
conservation plans: a quantitative assessment. Conservation Biology 15:488-500.
Skelly, D. K. and J. M. Kiesecker. 2001. Venue and outcome in
ecological experiments: manipulations of larval anurans. Oikos 94:198-208.
Link
Skelly, D. K. 2001. Distributions of pond-breeding anurans: an overview of
mechanisms.
Anholt, B. R., E. E. Werner, and D. K.
Skelly. 2000. Effect of
food and predators on the activity of four larval ranid frogs. Ecology
81:3509-3521.
Skelly, D. K., K. H. Beard, and N.
J. Hengartner. 2000. Animal-distribution modeling in gap analysis: an evolving
science: Reply. Conservation Biology 14:1224-1225.
Skelly, D. K. and L. K. Freidenburg.
2000. Effects of beaver on the thermal biology of an amphibian. Ecology
Letters 3:483-486.
Link
Skelly, D. K. 2000. Patterns of distribution of
amphibians: a global perspective (W.
Beard, K. H., N. Hengartner, and D. K.
Skelly. 1999. Effectiveness of predicting breeding bird distributions using
probabilistic models. Conservation Biology 13:1108-1116.
Skelly, D. K., E. E. Werner, and S. A.
Cortwright. 1999. Long-term distributional dynamics of a
Skelly, D. K. 1999. Experimental Ecology:
Issues and Perspectives (W. J. Resetarits & J. Bernardo, Editors) [Book
Review]. Copeia 1999:1137-1138.
Kareiva, P., S. Andelman, D. Doak, B. Elderd,
M. Groom, J. Hoekstra, L. Hood, F. James, J. Lamoreux, G. Lebuhn, C. McCulloch,
J. Regetz, L. Savage, M. Ruckelshaus, D. Skelly, H. Wilbur and K.
Zamudio. 1998. Using science in habitat conservation plans. American Institute
of Biological Sciences.
Skelly, D. K. 1997. Tadpole
communities. American Scientist 85:36-45.
Skelly, D. K. and E. Meir. 1997.
Rule-based models for evaluating mechanisms of distributional change.
Conservation Biology 11:531-538.
Link
Anholt, B. R., D. K. Skelly, and E. E.
Werner. 1996. Factors modifying antipredator behavior in larval toads.
Herpetologica 52: 301-313.
Skelly, D. K. 1996. Pond drying,
predators, and the distribution of Pseudacris
tadpoles. Copeia 1996:599-605.
Wellborn, G. A., D. K. Skelly, and E.
E. Werner. 1996. Mechanisms creating community structure across a freshwater
habitat gradient. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 27:337-363.
Link
Skelly, D. K. 1995. A behavioral
trade-off and its consequences for the distribution of Pseudacris treefrog larvae. Ecology 76:150-164.
Link
Skelly, D. K. 1995. Competition and
the distribution of spring peeper larvae. Oecologia 103:203-207.
Skelly, D. K. 1994. Activity level
and the susceptibility of anuran larvae to predation. Animal Behaviour 47:465-468.
Jones, T. R., D. K. Skelly, and E. E.
Werner. 1993. Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum
(Eastern Tiger Salamander). Developmental polymorphism. Herpetological
Review 24:147-148.
Skelly, D. K. 1992. Field evidence
for a cost of behavioral antipredator response in a larval amphibian. Ecology
73:704-708.
Link
Skelly, D. K., and E. E. Werner.
1990. Behavioral and life historical responses of larval American toads to an odonate
predator. Ecology 71:2313-2322.
Link
Sheldon, S. P., and D. K. Skelly.
1990. Differential colonization and growth of algae and ferromanganese bacteria
in a mountain stream. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 5:475-485.
Manuscripts in Review and Preparation
McCauley, S., C. Davis, R. Relyea, K. Yurewicz, D. Skelly, and E. Werner. in review. Metacommunity patterns in larval odonates. Ecology.
Schwager, M., F. Bullo, D. Skelly, and D. Rus. in preparation. A Ladybug Exploration Strategy for Distributed Adaptive Coverage Control.
Media Coverage
National Public Radio - Talk of the Nation
Science Friday, AP, BBC, CNN, Science Magazine, New York Times, Agence France Press,
Environment: Yale Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Environmental News Network, National Geographic.com,
Nature Science Update, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Boston Globe, Connecticut Public
Radio, Hartford Courant, Kansas City Star, Yale Alumni Magazine, Yale Medicine
Magazine, Middlebury Magazine, Wildlife News, Australian Broadcasting
Corporation, WTIC Radio.
Peer Reviewer
National Science Foundation, Australian
Research Council, Department of Defense, Environmental Defense, Environmental
Protection Agency, National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Swiss National Science Foundation, National Geographic
Society, The Nature Conservancy, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U. S. National
Park Service.
American Naturalist, Animal Behaviour,
Behavioral Ecology, Biological Conservation, Biological Invasions, Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Canadian Journal of
Forest Research, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Conservation Biology, Copeia,
Ecological Applications, Ecology/Ecological Monographs, Ecology Letters,
Environmental Science & Technology, Herpetelogica, Hydrobiologia, Israel Journal
of Zoology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Experimental Zoology, Journal of Herpetology, Journal of
Wildlife Management, Northeastern Naturalist, Oecologia, Oikos, PNAS, Princeton
University Press, Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, Quarterly Review of
Biology, Sinauer Associates, Wetlands, Yale University Press.
Doctoral Students
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1998 - 2003 |
Heinrich
zu Dohna |
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2000 - 2004 |
M.
Anders Halverson |
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2001 - 2006 |
Mark C.
Urban |
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2003 - 2008 |
Eric H. Lee |
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2003 - |
Manja P. Holland |
| 2006 - | Kathryn L. Richards-Hrdlicka |
| 2006 - | Jonathan Richardson |
| 2007 - | Steven Brady |
Postdoctoral Associates
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1997 - 1999 |
Joseph Kiesecker |