Justin St. Juliana

Senior Lecturer

Publications

  • Scanga, S.E., Rodgers, B.L., Byrne, L.B., Honea, J.M., St. Juliana, J.R., Tietjen, E.S., and Middendorf, G. (In Review) Hooks for 4-Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) teaching with different non-major audiences.
  • Rodgers, V.L., Scanga, S.E., St Juliana, J.R., Tietjen, E.S., Honea, J.M., Byrne, L.B., Leggett, Z.H. and Middendorf, G. (2024), Four-Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) for everyone: teaching ecology to non-majors. Frontiers in Ecology and The Environment , 22: e2749.  
  • Odom, S., Boso, H., Bowling, S., Brownell, S., Cotner, S., Creech, C., Drake, A.G., Eddy, S., Fagbodun, S., Hebert, S. and James, A.C., Just, J., St. Juliana, J. R., Shuster, M., Thompson S. K., Whittington, R. Wills, B. D., Wilson, A. E., Zamudio, K. R., Zhong, M., and Balle, C. J., 2021. Meta-analysis of gender performance gaps in undergraduate natural science courses. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 20(3), p.ar40. 
  • Meaders, C., Smith, M.K., Boester, T., Bracy, A., Couch, B.A., Drake, A.G., Farooq, S., Khoda, B., Kinsland, C., Lane, A.K. and Lindahl, S.E., Livingston, W. H., Bundy, A. M., McCormic, A., Morozov, A. I., Newell-Caito, J. L., Ruskin, K. J., Savary, M. A., Stains, M., St. Juliana, J. R., Thomas, S. R., van Es, C., Vinson, E. L., Vitousek, M. N., Stetzer, M. R., 2021. What questions are on the minds of STEM undergraduate students and how can they be addressed? In Frontiers in Education Vol. 6, p. 28.
  • Salehi, S., Berk, S.A., Brunelli, R., Cotner, S., Creech, C., Drake, A.G., Fagbodun, S., Hall, C., Hebert, S., Hewlett, J. and James, A.C., Shuster, M. St. Juliana, J. R., Stovall, D. B., Whittington, R. Zong, M., and Ballen, C. J. 2021. Context Matters: Social Psychological Factors That Underlie Academic Performance across Seven Institutions. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 20(4), p.ar68.
  • St. Juliana, J.R., S.S. Bleicher, B.P. Kotler, S. Mukkherjee, V. Fundararaj and J.S. Brown (In Review) The optimal forging responses of gerbils to a gradient of encounter rates with 4 different predators alone and in 6 combinations: prey defensive optimal foraging responses to simultaneous predators of different species are greater than additive.
  • St. Juliana, J. R., B. P. Kotler, B. Pinshow, and N. Kronfeld-Schor (2019) Optimal foraging and physiological responses to the risk of predation: how fecal cortisol concentrations from trapped Allenby's gerbil (Gerbillus andersoni allenbyi) relate to foraging under the risk of predation. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution.
  • St. Juliana, J. R., B. P. Kotler, N. Wielebnowski, and J. G. Cox (2017) Stress as an adaptation:  Stress hormones are correlated with optimal foraging behavior of gerbils under the risk of predation. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 
  • St. Juliana, J. R., and W. A. Mitchell (2016) Optimal foraging behavior and the thermal neutral zone of Peromyscus leucopus during winter: a test using natural and controlled ambient temperatures. Journal of Thermal Biology.
  • St. Juliana J. R., I. S. Khokhlova, N. Wielebnowski, B. P. Kotler, and B. R. Krasnov (2014) Ectoparasitism and stress hormones: strategy of host exploitation, common host-parasite history, and energetics matter. Journal of Animal Ecology.
  • St. Juliana, J. R., B. M. Fenton, C. Korine, B. Pinshow, M. Wojciechowski, and V. Kravchenko (2008) A field assessment of the defensive responses of moths to an auditory stimulus. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution.
  • St. Juliana, J. R., B. P. Kotler, J. S. Brown, S. Mukherjee, and A. Bouskila (2011) The foraging response of gerbils to a gradient of predator numbers. Evolutionary Ecology Research.
  • St. Juliana, J. R., and F. J. Janzen (2007) Can phenotypic variances be estimated reliably under homogeneous laboratory conditions? Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
  • St. Juliana, J. R., R. M. Bowden, and F. J. Janzen (2004) The impact of behavioral and physiological maternal effects on offspring sex ratio in the common snapping turtle Chelydra serpentine. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
Klarman Hall

E335 Corson Hall
jrs626@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., Indiana State University

M.S.c Ben Gurion University of the Negev 

B.S., Iowa State University

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Biology education research; Sustainability, environment and conservation; Organismal biology; Community ecology.

Swanne Gordon

Assistant Professor; CALS Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Lead

Publications

Please see a current list of publications here

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E251 Corson Hall
swannegordon@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of California Riverside, Biology 
M.S., McGill University, Biology
B.Sc., Michigan State University

Departments and programs

Ian Owens

Professor; Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Publications

  • Bennett, PM & Owens, IPF (2002) Evolutionary Ecology of Birds: Life Histories, Mating Systems and Extinction. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Peck H, Pringle H, Marshall H, Owens IPF & Lord A (2014) Experimental evidence of impacts of an invasive parakeet on foraging behaviour of native birds. Behavioral Ecology 25, 582-590.
  • Bell S, Owens IPF & Lord A (2014) Quality of breeding territory mediates the relationship between paternal quality and sex ratio bias in a free-living bird population. Behavioral Ecology 25, 352-358.
  • Jenkins T, Thomas GH, Hellgren O & Owens IPF. (2012) Migratory behavior of birds affects their coevolutionary relationship with blood parasites. Evolution 66, 740-751.
  • Pigot AL, Owens IPF & Orme CDL. (2012) Speciation and extinction drive the appearance of directional range size evolution in phylogenies and the fossil record the evolution of geographic ranges in birds and mammals. PLoS Biology 10, 1371.
  • Olson VA, Davies RG, Orme CDL, Thomas GH, Meiri S, Blackburn TM, Gaston KJ, Owens IPF, Bennett PM (2009) Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds. Ecology Letters 12, 249-259.
  • Clegg SM, Fretiu FD, Kikkawa J, Tavecchia G, Owens IPF (2008) 4000 years of phenotypic chance in an island bird: heterogeneity of selection over three microevolutionary timescales. Evolution 62, 2393- 2410.
  • Grenyer, R., Orme, C.D.L., Jackson, S.F., Thomas, G.H., Davies, R.G., Davies, T.J., Jones, K.E., Olson, V.A., Ridgely, R.S., Rasmussen, P.C., Ding, T-S., Bennett, P.M., Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J., Gittleman, J.L. and Owens, I.P.F. (2006) The global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates. Nature 444, 93-96.
  • Orme CDL, Davies RG, Olson VA, Thomas GH, Ding TZ, Rasmussen PC, Ridgely RS, Stattersfield AJ, Bennett PM, Owens IPF, Blackburn TM, Gaston KJ (2006) Global Patterns of Geographic Range Size in Birds. PLoS Biol 4(7): e208
  • Hadfield JD, Burgess MD, Lord A, Phillimore AB, Clegg SM, Owens IPF (2006) Direct versus indirect sexual selection: genetic basis of colour, size and recruitment in a wild bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273, 1347-1353.
  • Phillimore AB, Owens IPF (2006) Are subspecies useful in evolutionary and conservation biology? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273, 1049-1053
  • Orme C.D.L., Davies R.G., Burgess M., Eigenbrod F., Pickup N., Olson V.A., Webster A.J., Ding T-.S., Rasmussen P.C., Ridgely R.S., Stattersfield A.J., Bennett P.M., Blackburn T.M.,. Gaston K.J., Owens, I.P.F. (2005) Global hotspots of species richness are not congruent with endemism or threat. Nature 436 (7053): 1016-1019.
  • Hausmann, F., Marshall, N.J. & Owens, I.P.F. (2003) “UV signals in birds are special”. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 270, 61-67.
  • Clegg, S.M, Degnan, S.M., Kikkawa, J., Moritz, C., Estoup, A. & Owens, I.P.F. (2002)“Genetic consequences of sequential founder events in a natural system”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 99, 8127-8132.
  • Griffith, S.C., Owens, I.P.F. & Thruman, K. A. (2002) “Extra-pair paternity in birds: a review of interspecific variation and adaptive function”. Molecular Ecology 11, 2195-2122.
  • Owens, I.P.F. and Bennett, P.M. (2000) “Ecological basis of extinction risk in birds: habitat loss versus human persecution and introduced predators”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 97, 12144-12148.
  • Griffith, S., Owens, I.P.F., Burke, T. “Non-genetic inheritance of a sexually selected trait”. Nature 400 (1999), 358-360.
  • Arnold, K.E. & Owens, I.P.F. (1998) “Cooperative breeding in birds: a comparative test of the life history hypothesis”. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 265, 739-745.
  • Olson, V. & Owens, I.P.F. (1998) “Costly sexual signals: are carotenoids rare, risky or required?” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 13, 510-514.
  • Bennett, P.M. & Owens, I.P.F. (1997) “Variation among birds in vulnerability to extinction: chance or evolutionary predisposition?” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 264, 401-
  • Owens, I.P.F. & Short, R.V. (1995) “Hormonal control of sexual dimorphism in birds: implications for new theories in sexual selection”. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 10, 44-47.
Klarman Hall

No Address Supplied
ian.owens@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology, University of Leicester (1991)

B.Sc., Zoology, University of Liverpool (1988)

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Behavioral ecology, biodiversity, citizen science, conservation, ecology, evolutionary biology, ornithology, vertebrate zoology

Departments/Programs: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Graduate Fields: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Leslie Babonis

Assistant Professor

Publications

Please see a current list of publications here.

Klarman Hall

E138 Corson Hall
lsb257@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Florida (2011)

B.S., University of Miami (2003)

 

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

 

 

evolutionary development (Evo-Devo), origin of novelty, invertebrate biodiversity, cnidarians, ctenophores, gene regulation, cell identity, tissue morphogenesis, regeneration , evolution of multicellularity

 

Meredith Holgerson

Assistant Professor

Publications

For a complete list, please see Google Scholar

  • Holgerson, M.A., A. Duarte, M. Hayes, M. Adams, J. Tyson, K. Douville, and A. Strecker. 2019. Floodplains provide important amphibian habitat despite multiple ecological threats. Ecosphere: e02853.
  • Homan, R.N., M.A. Holgerson, and L.M. Biga. 2018. A long-term demographic study of a spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) population in central Ohio. Herpetologica 74: 109-116.
  • Holgerson, M.A., M.R. Lambert, L.K. Freidenburg, and D.K. Skelly. 2018. Suburbanization alters small pond ecosystems: Shifts in nitrogen and food web dynamics.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75: 641-652.
  • Holgerson, M.A., E. Farr, and P.A. Raymond. 2017. Gas transfer velocities in small forested ponds. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 122: 1011-1021.
  • Holgerson, M.A., C.J. Zappa, and P.A. Raymond. 2016. Substantial overnight reaeration by convective cooling discovered in pond ecosystems. Geophysical Research Letters 43: 8044-8051.
  • Holgerson, M.A., D.M. Post, and D.K. Skelly. 2016. Reconciling the role of terrestrial leaves in pond food webs: A whole-ecosystem experiment. Ecology 97: 1771-1782.
  • Kolozsvary, M.B.= and M.A. Holgerson=. 2016. Creating temporary pools as wetland mitigation: How well do they function?  Wetlands 36: 335-345.
  • Holgerson, M.A. and P.A. Raymond. 2016. Large contribution to inland water CO2 and CH4 emissions from very small ponds. Nature Geoscience 9: 222-226.
  • Holgerson, M.A. 2015. Drivers of carbon dioxide and methane supersaturation in small, temporary ponds. Biogeochemistry 124 (1): 305-318.
  • Atwood, M.A.  2013. Effects of euthanasia method on stable-carbon and stable-nitrogen isotope analysis for an ectothermic vertebrate. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 27: 909-913.
  • Atwood, M.A.†, J.W. Mora†, and A.W. Kaplan. 2010. Learning to lead: Evaluating leadership and organizational learning. Leadership and Organizational Development Journal 31 (7): 576-595.
  • Homan, R.N., M.A. Atwood†, A.J. Dunkle†, and S.B. Karr†. 2010. Movement orientation by adult and juvenile wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) and American toads (Bufo americanus) over multiple years. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 5 (1): 64-72.
Klarman Hall

E303 Corson Hall
meredith.holgerson@cornell.edu
607/2544210

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (2016)
M.S., SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (2011)
B.S., Denison University (2009)

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

 

 

Freshwater ecology, ponds and lakes, food webs, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, greenhouse gases, conservation, amphibians

 

Corrie Moreau

Martha N. & John C. Moser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity; Director & Curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection

Publications

For a complete list see: http://www.moreaulab.entomology.cornell.edu/publications/

 

Klarman Hall

Education

Ph.D., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (2007)

M.Sc., San Francisco State University/California Academy of Sciences, Biology, Ecology, and Systematics (2003)

B.S., San Francisco State University, Biology (2000)

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Evolution, entomology, symbiosis, genomics, microbiomes, systematics, phylogenetics, macroevolution, host-microbe interactions, biogeography, biodiversity

Andrew Moeller

Assistant Professor; Faculty Curator of Mammalogy, Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates

Publications

  • Google Scholar Profile: tinyurl.com/nbked64
  • Sarkar, Amar, Siobhán Harty, Soili M. Lehto, Andrew H. Moeller, Timothy G. Dinan, Robin  IM Dunbar, John F. Cryan, and Philip WJ Burnet. 2018 The microbiome in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 22: 611–636.
  • Barbian, Hannah J., Yingying Li, Miguel Ramirez, Zachary Klase, Iddi Lipende, Deus Mjungu,  Andrew H. Moeller, Micahel L. Wilson, Anne E. Pusey, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Frederic D. Bushman, and Beatrice H. Hahn. 2018. Destabilization of the gut microbiome marks the end-stage of Simian Immunodeficiency virus infection in wild chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology 80: e22515.
  • Moeller, Andrew H., Taichi Suzuki, Dana Lin, Eileen A. Lacey, Samuel K. Wasser, Michael W. Nachman. 2017. Dispersal limitation drives the diversification of the mammalian gut microbiota. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 52: 13768–13773.
  • Moeller, Andrew H. 2017. The shrinking human gut microbiome. Current Opinion in  Microbiology 38: 30–35.
  • Raymann, Kasie T., Andrew H. Moeller, Andrew L. Goodman, Howard Ochman. 2017.  Unexpected archaeal diversity in the great ape gut microbiome. mSphere 2: e00026-17.
  • Moeller, Andrew H., Alejandro Caro-Quintero, Deus Mjungu, Alexander V. Georgiev,  Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Martin N. Muller, Anne E. Pusey, Martine Peeters, Beatrice H. Hahn, and Howard Ochman. 2016. Cospeciation of gut microbiota with hominids. Science 353: 380–382. 
  • Moeller, Andrew H., Steffen Foerster, Michael L. Wilson, Anne E. Pusey, Beatrice H. Hahn,  and Howard Ochman. 2016. Social behavior shapes the chimpanzee panmicrobiome. Science Advances 2: e1500997. 
  • Moeller, Andrew H., Martine Peeters, Ahibjo Ayouba, Eitel Mpoudi Ngole, Amadine Esteban,  Beatrice H. Hahn, and Howard Ochman. 2015. Stability of the gorilla microbiome despite SIV infection. Molecular Ecology 24: 690–697.
  • Waldor, Matthew K., Gene Tyson, Elhanan Borenstein, Howard Ochman, Andrew H. Moeller,  B. Brett Finlay, Heidi H. Kong, et al., 2015. Where next for microbiome research? PLOS Biology 13: e1002050.
  • Moeller, Andrew H., Yingying Li, Eitel Mpoudi Ngole, Steve Ahuka-Mundeke, Elizabeth V.  Lonsdorf, Anne E. Pusey, Martine Peeters, Beatrice H. Hahn, and Howard Ochman. 2014. Rapid changes in the gut microbiome during human evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111: 16431–16435.
  • ***Highlighted by Faculty of 1000 Moeller, Andrew H. and Howard Ochman. 2014. Microbiomes are true to type. Proceedings of  the National Academy of Sciences 111: 9372–9373.
  • Moeller, Andrew H., Martine Peeters, Jean-Basco Ndjango, Yingying Li, Beatrice H. Hahn, and  Howard Ochman. 2013. Sympatric chimpanzees and gorillas harbor convergent gut microbial communities. Genome Research 23: 1715–1720.
  • Moeller, Andrew H.*, Meghan Shilts*, Yingying Li, Rebecca S. Rudicell, Elizabeth V.  Lonsdorf, Anne E. Pusey, Michael L. Wilson, Beatrice H. Hahn, and Howard Ochman. 2013. SIV-induced instability of the chimpanzee gut microbiome. Cell Host & Microbe 14: 340–345.
  • (*joint first authors) Moeller, Andrew H. and Howard Ochman. 2013. Factors that drive variation among gut  microbial communities. Gut Microbes 4: 403–408.
  • López-Giráldez, Francesc, Andrew H. Moeller, and Jeffrey P. Townsend. 2013. Evaluating phylogenetic informativeness as a predictor of phylogenetic signal for metazoan, fungal, and mammalian phylogenomic data sets. BioMed Research International 2013.
  • Moeller, Andrew H. and Jeffrey P. Townsend. 2013. Response to: The relative utility of  sequence divergence and phylogenetic informativeness profiling in phylogenetic study design. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 436–436.
  • Moeller, Andrew H., Patrick H. Degnan, Anne E. Pusey, Michael L. Wilson, Beatrice H. Hahn,  and Howard Ochman. 2012. Chimpanzees and humans harbour compositionally similar gut enterotypes. Nature Communications 3: 1179.
  • Moeller, Andrew H. and Jeffrey P. Townsend. 2011. Phylogenetic informativeness profiling of  12 genes for 28 vertebrate taxa without divergence dates. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 60: 271–272.
Klarman Hall

E345 Corson-Mudd
ahm226@cornell.edu

Education

B.Sc. Biological Sciences 2010 University of South Carolina, Columbia

Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 2015 Yale University

Departments and programs

Links

Peter McIntyre

Associate Professor; Dwight Webster Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow

Publications

  • Fluet-Chouinard E, Funge-Smith S & McIntyre PB. 2018. Global hidden harvest of freshwater fish revealed by household surveys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115: 7623-7628.
  • Lisi PJ, Childress E, Gagne RB, Hain EF, Hogan JD, Gilliam JF, Blum MJ, & McIntyre PB. 2018. Overcoming urban stream syndrome: trophic flexibility confers resilience among Hawaiian stream fishes. Freshwater Biology 63: 492-502.
  • Magee M, McIntyre PB, & Wu C. 2018. Modeling oxythermal stress for cool-water fishes in lakes using a cumulative dosage approach. Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences 75: 1303-1312.
  • Milt A, Diebel M, Doran P, Ferris M, Herbert M, Khoury M, Moody A, Neeson T, Ross J, Treska T, O'Hanley J., Walter L, Wangen S, Yacobson E, & McIntyre PB. 2018. Minimizing opportunity costs to aquatic connectivity restoration while controlling invasive species. Conservation Biology 32: 894-904.
  • Neeson TM, Moody AT, O'Hanley JR, Diebel MW, Doran PJ, Ferris MC, Colling T, & McIntyre PB. 2018. Aging infrastructure creates opportunities for cost-efficient restoration of aquatic ecosystem connectivity. Ecological Applications, in press. 
  • Stevens A, Baird I, & McIntyre PB. 2018. Fish consumption preferences create differential mercury exposure among Wisconsin anglers. Fisheries 43: 31-41.
  • White CH, Heidinger AK, Ackerman SA, & Mcintyre PB. 2018. A long-term fine-resolution record of AVHRR surface temperatures for the Laurentian Great Lakes. Remote Sensing 10: 1210.
  • Hermoso V, Januchowski-Hartley S, Linke S, Dudgeon D, Petry P, & McIntyre PB. 2017. Optimal allocation of species assessments to guide conservation of biodiversity in a rapidly changing world. Global Change Biology 23: 3525-3532.
  • Koning AA, Moore J, Suttidate N, Hannigan R, & McIntyre PB. 2017. Intensification of swidden agriculture leads to eutrophication of Southeast Asian rivers. Ecosystems 20: 393-405.
  • Kraemer BK, Chandra S, Dell A, Dix M, Kuusisto E, Livingstone D, Schladow G, Silow E, Sitoki L, Tamatamah R & McIntyre PB. 2017. Global patterns in lake ecosystem responses to warming based on the temperature dependence of metabolism. Global Change Biology 23: 1881-1890.
  • Moody AT, Neeson TM, Wangen S, Dischler J, Diebel MW, Herbert M, Khoury M, Yacobson E, Doran PJ, Ferris MC, O'Hanley JR, & McIntyre PB. 2017. Pet project or best project? Online decision support tools for prioritizing barrier removals in the Great Lakes and beyond. Fisheries 42: 57-65.
  • Childress E & McIntyre PB. 2016. Life history traits modulate ecosystem-level effects of nutrient subsidies from fish migrations. Ecosphere 7: e01301.
  • Cohen AS, Gergurich EL, Kraemer BM, McGlue MM, McIntyre PB, Russell JM, Simmons JD, & Swarzenski PW. 2016. Climate warming reduces fish production and benthic habitat in Lake Tanganyika, one of the world’s most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113: 9563–9568.
  • Mason LA, Riseng CM, Gronewold AD, Rutherford ES, Wang J, Clites A, Smith SDP, & McIntyre PB. 2016. Fine-scale spatial variation in ice cover and surface temperature trends across the surface of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Climatic Change 138: 71-83.
  • McIntyre PB, Reidy Liermann C, & Revenga C. 2016. Linking freshwater fishery management to global food security and biodiversity conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113: 12880-12885.
  • Vanni MJ & McIntyre PB. 2016. Predicting nutrient excretion rates of aquatic animals using metabolic ecology and ecological stoichiometry: a global synthesis. Ecology  97: 3460-3471.
  • Winemiller KO, McIntyre PB, & 39 others. 2016. Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo and Mekong. Science 351: 128-129.
  • Neeson TM, Ferris MC, Diebel MW, Doran PJ, O’Hanley JR, & McIntyre PB. 2015. Enhancing ecosystem restoration efficiency through spatial and temporal coordination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112: 6236–6241.
  • O’Reilly CM, et al. 2015. Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe. Geophysical Research Letters 42 doi:10.1002/2015GL066235.
  • Hogan JD, Blum MJ, Gilliam JF, Bickford N, & McIntyre PB. 2014. Consequences of alternative dispersal strategies in a putatively amphidromous fish. Ecology 95: 2397-2408.
  • Allan JD*, McIntyre PB*, Smith SDP, Halpern BS, & 18 coauthors. 2013. Joint analysis of stressors and ecosystem services to enhance restoration effectiveness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110: 372-377.
  • Januchowski-Hartley S, McIntyre PB, Diebel M, & Doran PJ. 2013. Restoring aquatic ecosystem connectivity requires expanding inventories of both dams and road crossings. Frontiers in Ecology & Environment 11: 211-217.
  • Pracheil BM, McIntyre PB, & Lyons JD. 2013. Enhancing conservation of large-river biodiversity by accounting for tributaries. Frontiers in Ecology & Environment 11: 124-128.
  • Vadeboncoeur Y, McIntyre PB, & Vander Zanden MJ. 2011. Borders of biodiversity: life at the edge of the world's Great Lakes.  BioScience 61: 526-537.
  • Vörösmarty CJ, McIntyre PB, Gessner MO, Dudgeon D, Prusevich A, Green P, Glidden S, Bunn SE, Sullivan CA, Reidy Liermann C, & Davies PM. 2010. Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity. Nature 467: 555-561.
  • Arnegard ME, McIntyre PB, Harmon LJ, Zelditch ML, Crampton WGR, Davis JK, Sullivan JP, Lavoué S, & Hopkins CD. 2010. Sexual signal evolution outpaces ecological divergence during electric fish species radiation. American Naturalist 176: 335–356.
  • McIntyre PB, Flecker A, Vanni M, Hood J, Taylor B & Thomas S. 2008. Fish distributions and nutrient recycling in a tropical stream: can fish create biogeochemical hotspots? Ecology 89: 2335-2346.
  • McIntyre PB, Jones L, Flecker A, & Vanni M. 2007. Fish extinctions alter nutrient recycling in tropical freshwaters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104: 4461-4466.
Klarman Hall

Fernow Hall
pbm3@cornell.edu

Education

  • B.A. 1998 Harvard University, Biology
  • Ph.D. 2006 Cornell University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Fisheries, food webs, climate change, ecological stoichiometry, global biodiversity, conservation planning, river networks, life history and migration

Kelly Zamudio

Professor Emerita

Publications

  • Ballen, C. J., S. M. Aguillon, R. Brunelli, A. G. Drake, D. Wassenberg, S. L. Weiss, K. R. Zamudio, S. Cotner. 2018. Do small classes in higher education reduce performance gaps in STEM? BioScience 68: 593-600.
  • Fisher, M. C., P. Ghosh, J. M. G. Shelton, K. Bates, L. Brookes, C. Wierzbicki, G. M. Rosa, R. Farrer, D. M. Aanensen1, M. Alvarado-Rybak, A. Bataille, L. Berger, S. Böll, J. Bosch, F. C. Clare, E. Courtois, A. Crottini, A. A. Cunningham, T. M. Doherty-Bone, F. Gebresenbet, D. J. Gower, J. Höglund, T. Y. James, T. S. Jenkinson, T. A. Kosch, C. Lambertini, A. Laurila, C.-F. Lin, A. Loyau, A. Martel, S. Meurling, C. Miaud, P. Minting, S. Ndriantsoa, F. Pasmans, T. Rakotonanahary, F. C. E. Rabemananjara, L. P. Ribeiro, D. S. Schmeller, B. R. Schmidt, L. Skerratt, F. Smith, C. Soto-Azat, G. Tessa, L. F. Toledo, A. Valenzuela-Sánchez, R. Verster, J. Vörös, B. Waldman, R. J. Webb, C. Weldon, E. Wombwell, K. R. Zamudio, J. Longcore, T. W. J. Garner. 2018. Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impact, protocols for the isolation of amphibian chytrid fungi. Nature Scientific Reports 8: 7772.
  • O'Hanlon, S.J., A. Rieux, R.A. Farrer, G.M. Rosa, B. Waldman, A. Bataille, T. A. Kosch, K. Murray, B. Brankovics, M. Fumagalli, M. D. Martin, N. Wales, M. Alvarado-Rybak, K. A. Bates, L. Berger, S. Böll, L. Brookes, F. Clare, E. A. Courtois, A. A. Cunningham, T. M. Doherty-Bone, P. Ghosh, D. J. Gower, W. E. Hintz, J. Höglund, T. S. Jenkinson, C.-F. Lin, A. Laurila, A. Loyau, A. Martel, S. Meurling, C. Miaud, P. Minting, F. Pasmans, D. Schmeller, B. R. Schmidt, J. M. G. Shelton, L. F. Skerratt, F. Smith, C. Soto-Azat, M. Spagnoletti, G. Tessa, L. F. Toledo, A. Valenzuela-Sánchez, R. Verster, J. Vörös, R. J. Webb, C. Wierzbicki, E. Wombwell, K. R. Zamudio, D. M. Aanensen, T. Y. James, M. T. P. Gilbert, C. Weldon, J. Bosch, F. Balloux, T. W. J. Garner, M. C. Fisher. 2018. Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines. Science 360: 621-627.
  • Kiemnec-Tyburczy, K., K. E. Tracy, K. R. Lips, and K. R. Zamudio. 2018. Genetic variation and selection of MHC class I loci differ in two congeneric frogs. Genetica 146: 125-136.
  • Poff, N.L., E. I. Larson, P. Salerno, S. G. Morton, B. C. Kondratieff, A. S. Flecker, K. R. Zamudio, W. C. Funk. 2018. Extreme streams: Population persistence and evolutionary change in montane stream insect populations across a flooding gradient. Ecology Letters 21: 525-535.
  • Sabbag, A. F., M. L. Lyra, K. R. Zamudio, C. F. B. Haddad, R. N. Feio, F. S. F. Leite, J. L. Gasparini, C. A. Brasileiro. 2018. Molecular phylogeny of Neotropical rock frogs reveals a long history of vicariant diversification in the Atlantic forest. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 122: 142-156.
  • DiRenzo, G. V., E. C. Grant, A. V. Longo, K. R. Zamudio, K. R. Lips. 2018. Imperfect pathogen detection from non-invasive skin swabs biases inference of disease dynamics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9: 380-389.
  • Ballen, C. J., C. Wieman, S. Salehi, J. B. Searle, K. R. Zamudio. 2017. Enhancing diversity in undergraduate science: Self-efficacy drives performance gains with active learning. CBE Life Sciences Education 16: ar56 doi:10.1187/cbe.16-12-0344.
  • Shah, A., B. A. Gill, A. C. Encalada, A. S. Flecker, W. C. Funk, J. M. Guayasamin, B. C. Kondratieff, N. L. Poff, S. A. Thomas, K. R. Zamudio, C. Ghalambor. 2017. Climate variability predicts thermal limits of aquatic insects across elevation and latitude. Functional Ecology 31: 2118-2127.
  • Bell, R. C., J. L. Parra, G Badjedjea, M. Barej, D. Blackburn, M. Burger, A. Channing, J. M. Dehling, E. Greenbaum, V. Gvoždík, J. Kielgast, C. Kusumba, S. Lötters, P. J. McLaughlin, Z. T. Nagy, M-O Rödel, D. M. Portik, , J. VanDerWal, B. L. Stuart, K. R. Zamudio. 2017. Idiosyncratic responses to climate-driven forest fragmentation and marine incursions in reed frogs from Central Africa and the Gulf of Guinea Islands. Molecular Ecology 26: 5223-5244.
  • Lopes, C., T. Sasso, A. Valentini, T. Dejean, M. Martins, K. R. Zamudio, C. F. B. Haddad. 2017. eDNA metabarcoding: a promising method for anuran surveys in highly diverse tropical forests. Molecular Ecology Resources 17: 904-914.
  • Hydeman, M. E., A. V. Longo, G. Velo-Antón, D. Rodriguez, K. R. Zamudio, and R. C. Bell. 2017. Prevalence and genetic diversity of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Central African island and continental amphibian communities. Ecology and Evolution 7: 7729-7738.
  • Longo, A. V. and K. R. Zamudio. 2017. Temperature variation, bacterial diversity, and fungal infection dynamics in the amphibian skin. Molecular Ecology 26: 4787-4797.
  • Sasso, T., C. M. Lopes, A. Valentini, T. Dejean, K. R. Zamudio, C. F. B. Haddad, M. R. C. Martins. 2017. Environmental DNA characterization of amphibian communities in the Brazilian Atlantic forest: potential application for conservation of a rich and threatened fauna. Biological Conservation 215: 225-232.
  • Becker, C. G., A. V. Longo, C. F. B. Haddad, and K. R. Zamudio. 2017. Land cover and forest connectivity alter the interactions among host, pathogen, and skin microbiome. Proc Roy Soc B 284: 20170582.
  • Muletz-Wolz, C. R., J. G. Almario, S. E. Barnett, G. V. DiRenzo, A. Martel, F. Pasmans, K. R. Zamudio, L. F. Toledo, and K. R. Lips. 2017. Inhibition of fungal pathogens across genotypes and temperatures by amphibian skin bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology 8: 1551.
  • Polato, N. R., M. M. Gray, B. A. Gill, K. L. Anderson, C. G. Becker, A. S. Flecker, B. C. Kondratieff, A. C. Encalada, N. L. Poff, W. C. Funk, K. R. Zamudio. 2017. Genetic diversity and gene flow decline with elevation in montane mayflies. Heredity 119: 107-116.
  • Ellison, A., G. DiRenzo, C. McDonald, K. R. Lips, K. R. Zamudio. 2017. First in vivo Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis transcriptomes reveal mechanisms of host exploitation, host-specific gene expression, and expressed genotype shifts. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 7: 269-278.
  • Longo, A. V. and K. R. Zamudio. 2017. Environmental fluctuations and host skin bacteria shift survival advantage between frogs and their fungal pathogen. ISME 11: 349-361.
  • Becker, C. G., S. E. Greenspan, K. E. Tracy, T. Y. James, J. A. Dash, C. Lambertini, T. S. Jenkinson, J. E. Longcore, L. F. Toledo, K. R. Zamudio. 2017. Variation in phenotype and virulence among endemic and pandemic amphibian chytrid strains. Fungal Ecology 26: 45-50.
  • Lessmann, J., J. M. Guayasamin, K. L. Casner, A. S. Flecker, W. C. Funk, C. K. Ghalambor, B. A. Gill, I. Jácome-Negrete, B. C. Kondratieff, L. N. Poff, J. Schreckinger, S. A. Thomas, E. Toral-Contreras, K. R. Zamudio, A. C. Encalada. 2016. Freshwater vertebrate and invertebrate diversity patterns in an Andean-Amazon basin: implications for conservation efforts. Neotropical Biodiversity 2: 99-114.
  • Zamudio, K. R., R. C. Bell, R. C. Nali, C. F. B. Haddad, C. P. A. Prado. 2016. Polyandry, predation, and the evolution of reproductive modes in frogs. American Naturalist 188: S41-S61.
  • Davis, L. R., K. Klonoski, H. L. Rutschow, K. J. Van Wijk, Q. Sun, M. M. Haribal, R. A. Saporito, A. Vega, E. B. Rosenblum, K. R. Zamudio, J. M. Robertson. 2016. Host defense skin peptides vary with color pattern in the highly polymorphic red-eyed treefrog. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 4: 97. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2016.00097
  • Zamudio, K. R., R. C. Bell, and N. A. Mason. 2016. Phenotypes in phylogeography: species' traits, environmental variation, and vertebrate diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113: 8041-8048.
  • Jenkinson, T. S., C. M. Betancourt-Román, C. Lambertini, A. V. Aguilar , J. Ruggeri-Gomes, C. H. L. Nunes de Almeida, D. Rodriguez, A. M. Belasen, D. da Silva Leite, K. R. Zamudio, J. E. Longcore, L. F. Toledo, T. Y. James. 2016. Amphibian-killing fungus in Brazil comprises both stable endemic and recently expanded populations. Molecular Ecology 25: 2978-2996.
  • Gill, B. A., B.C. Kondratieff, K.L. Casner, A.C. Encalada, A.S. Flecker, D. Gannon, C.K. Ghalambor, J.M. Guayasamin, N.L. Poff, M.P. Simmons, S.A. Thomas, K. R. Zamudio, and W.C. Funk. 2016. Cryptic species diversity reveals biogeographic support for the "Mountain Passes are Higher in the Tropics" hypothesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283: 20160553.
  • Nunes de Almeida, C. H. L., K. R. Zamudio, L. F. Toledo. 2016. The semiterrestrial tadpole of Cycloramphus rhyakonastes Heyer, 1983 (Anura, Cycloramphidae). Journal of Herpetology 50: 289-294.
  • Percino-Daniel, R., E. Recuero, E. Vazquez-Domínguez, K. R. Zamudio, G. Parra-Olea. 2016. All grown-up and nowhere to go: paedomorphosis and local adaptation in Ambystoma salamanders in the Cuenca Oriental of Mexico. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 118: 582-597.
  • Maguire, C., G. V. DiRenzo, T. S. Tunstall, C. R. Muletz, K. R. Zamudio, and K. R. Lips. 2016. Dead or alive? Viability of chytrid zoospores shed from live amphibian hosts. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 119: 179-187.
  • Savage, A. E. and K. R. Zamudio. 2016. Adaptive tolerance to a pathogenic fungus drives major histocompatibility complex evolution in natural amphibian populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283: 20153115.
  • Becker, C. G., D. Rodriguez, A. V. Longo, L. F. Toledo, C. F. B. Haddad, K. R. Zamudio. 2016. Deforestation, host community structure, and amphibian disease risk. Basic and Applied Ecology 17: 72-80.
  • Stewart, K. A., J. D. Austin, K. R. Zamudio, S. C. Lougheed. 2016. Contact zone dynamics during early stages of speciation in a chorus frog (Pseudacris crucifer). Heredity 116: 239-247.
  • Bovo, R. P., D. V. Andrade, L. F. Toledo, A. V. Longo, D. Rodriguez, C. F. B. Haddad, K. R. Zamudio, C. G. Becker. 2016. Physiological responses of Brazilian amphibians to an enzootic infection of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 117: 245-252.
  • Lambertini, C., C. G. Becker, T. S. Jenkinson, D. Rodriguez, D. da Silva Leite, T. Y. James, K. R. Zamudio, L. F. Toledo. 2016. Local phenotypic variation in amphibian-killing fungus predicts infection dynamics. Fungal Ecology 20: 15-21.
Klarman Hall

krz2@cornell.edu
607/254-4212

Education

Ph.D., University of Washington (1996)

B.A., University of California, Berkeley (1991)

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Herpetology, evolution, mating systems, systematics, population genetics

Maren Vitousek

Associate Professor

Publications

  • Vitousek MN, Taff CC, Ardia DA, Stedman JS, Zimmer C, and Winkler DW. 2018. The lingering impact of stress: brief acute glucocorticoid exposure has sustained, dose-dependent effects on reproduction. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 285: 20180722.
  • Taff CC, Zimmer C, and Vitousek MN. 2018. Efficacy of negative feedback in the HPA axis predicts recovery from acute challenges. Biology Letters 14: 20180131.
  • Vitousek MN, Taff CC, Hallinger KK, Zimmer C, and Winkler DW. 2018. Hormones and fitness: Evidence for trade-offs in glucocorticoid regulation across contexts. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6(42): 1-14.
  • Injaian AS, Taff CC, Pearson KL, Gin MMY, Patricelli GL, and Vitousek MN. 2018. Experimental chronic traffic noise exposure alters adult and nestling corticosterone levels, and reduces nestling body condition in a free-living bird. Hormones and Behavior: In press.
  • Taff CC, Schoenle L, and Vitousek MN. 2018. The repeatability of glucocorticoids: a review and meta-analysis. General and Comparative Endocrinology 260: 136-145.
  • Schoenle LA, Zimmer C, and Vitousek MN. 2018. Understanding context-dependence in glucocorticoid-fitness relationships: the role of the nature of the challenge, the intensity and frequency of stressors, and life history. Integrative and Comparative Biology: In press.
  • Vitousek MN, and Schoenle L. 2018. Hormones and behavior: A life history perspective. The Oxford Handbook on Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Endocrinology (Eds: Welling LLM, Shackleford TK). In press.
  • Vitousek MN^, Johnson MA^, Donald JW, Francis CD, Fuxjager MJ, Goymann W, Hau M, Husak JF, Kircher BK**, Knapp R, Martin LB, Miller ET, Schoenle LA, Uehling JJ, and Williams TD. 2018. HormoneBase: A population-level database of steroid hormone levels across vertebrates. Scientific Data: 5:180097.  ^co-first authors
  • Vitousek MN, Johnson MA, Husak JF. 2018. Illuminating endocrine evolution: the power and potential of large-scale comparative analyses. Integrative and Comparative Biology: In press.
  • Johnson MA, Francis CD, Miller ET, Downs CJ, and Vitousek MN. 2018. Detecting bias in large-scale comparative analysis: methods for expanding the scope of hypothesis-testing with HormoneBase. Integrative and Comparative Biology: In press.
  • Miles MC, Vitousek MN, Husak JF, Johnson MA, Martin LB, Taff CC, Zimmer C, Lovern MB, and Fuxjager MJ. 2018. Standing variation and the capacity for change: are endocrine phenotypes more variable than other traits? Integrative and Comparative Biology: In press.
  • Martin LB, Vitousek MN, Donald J, Flock T, Fuxjager MJ, Goymann W, Hau M, Husak JF, Johnson MA, Kircher B, Knapp R, Miller ET, Schoenle LA, Williams TD, and Francis CD. 2018. IUCN conservation status does not predict glucocorticoid concentrations in reptiles and birds. Integrative and Comparative Biology: In press.
  • Francis, CD, Donald J, Downs C, Fuxjager MJ, Goymann W, Hau M, Husak JF, Johnson MA, Kircher B, Knapp R, Martin LB, Miller ET, Schoenle LA, Vitousek MN, and Williams TD. 2018. Metabolic scaling of stress hormones in vertebrates. Integrative and Comparative Biology: In press.
  • Garamszegi LZ, Donald J, Francis CD, Fuxjager MJ, Goymann W, Hau M, Husak JF, Johnson MA, Kircher B, Knapp R, Martin LB, Miller ET, Schoenle LA, Vitousek MN, and Williams TD. 2018. Species specific means and within-species variance in glucocorticoid hormones and speciation rate in birds. Integrative and Comparative Biology: In press.  
  • Casagrande S, Garamszegi LZ, Goymann W, Donald J, Francis CD, Fuxjager MJ, Husak JF, Johnson MA, Kircher B**, Knapp R, Martin LB, Miller ET, Schoenle LA, Vitousek MN, Williams TD, and Hau M. 2018. Do seasonal glucocorticoid changes depend on reproductive investment? A comparative approach in birds. Integrative and Comparative Biology: In press.
  • Stedman JM, Hallinger KK, Winkler DW, and Vitousek MN. 2017. Heritable variation in glucocorticoid flexibility in a free-living passerine. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30 (9): 1724-1735.
  • Kelly AM, and Vitousek MN. 2017. Dynamic modulation of sociality and aggression: an examination of plasticity within endocrine and neuroendocrine systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 372: 2016.0243.
  • Vitousek MN, Jenkins BR, Hubbard JK, Kaiser SA, and Safran RJ. 2017. An experimental test of the effect of brood size on glucocorticoid responses, parental investment, and offspring phenotype. General and Comparative Endocrinology 247: 97-106.
  • Vitousek MN, Tomášek O, Albrecht T, Wilkins M, and Safran RJ. 2016. Signal traits and oxidative stress: a comparative study across populations with divergent signals. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 4:56.
  • Taff CC, and Vitousek MN. 2016. Endocrine flexibility: optimizing phenotypes in a dynamic world? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31(6): 476-488.

 

Klarman Hall

E237 Corson Hall
mnv6@cornell.edu
607/254-4529

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University (2008)

B.A., Amherst College (2002)

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Endocrinology, behavior, stress, physiology, evolution, phenotypic flexibility, sexual selection, signaling

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