Department of Integrative Biology

C. L. Searle, Xie, G. Y., and Blaustein, A. R., “Development and Infectious Disease in Hosts with Complex Life Cycles”, Plos One, vol. 8, p. 8, 2013.

S. S. Gervasi, Urbina, J., Hua, J., Chestnut, T., Relyea, R. A., and Blaustein, A. R., “Experimental Evidence for American Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) Susceptibility to Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis)”, Ecohealth, vol. 10, pp. 166-171, 2013.

S. Gervasi, Gondhalekar, C., Olson, D. H., and Blaustein, A. R., “Host Identity Matters in the Amphibian-Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis System: Fine-Scale Patterns of Variation in Responses to a Multi-Host Pathogen”, Plos One, vol. 8, p. 11, 2013.

M. L. Groner, Buck, J. C., Gervasi, S., Blaustein, A. R., Reinert, L. K., Rollins-Smith, L. A., Bier, M. E., Hempel, J., and Relyea, R. A., “Larval exposure to predator cues alters immune function and response to a fungal pathogen in post-metamorphic wood frogs”, Ecological Applications, vol. 23, pp. 1443-1454, 2013.

P. T. J. Johnson, Hoverman, J. T., McKenzie, V. J., Blaustein, A. R., and Richgels, K. L. D., “Urbanization and wetland communities: applying metacommunity theory to understand the local and landscape effects”, Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 50, pp. 34-42, 2013.

A. R. Blaustein, Gervasi, S. S., Johnson, P. T. J., Hoverman, J. T., Belden, L. K., Bradley, P. W., and Xie, G. Y., “Ecophysiology meets conservation: understanding the role of disease in amphibian population declines”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, vol. 367, pp. 1688-1707, 2012.

J. C. Buck, Scheessele, E. A., Relyea, R. A., and Blaustein, A. R., “The effects of multiple stressors on wetland communities: pesticides, pathogens and competing amphibians”, Freshwater Biology, vol. 57, pp. 61-73, 2012.

S. S. Gervasi, Gondhalekar, C., and Blaustein, A. R., “Physiological responses of amphibians after exposure to the fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis”, Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 52, pp. E64-E64, 2012.

L. B. Kats, Bucciarelli, G. M., Schlais, D. E., Blaustein, A. R., and Han, B. A., “Ultraviolet Radiation Influences Perch Selection by a Neotropical Poison-Dart Frog”, Plos One, vol. 7, p. 5, 2012.

A. R. Blaustein, Han, B. A., Relyea, R. A., Johnson, P. T. J., Buck, J. C., Gervasi, S. S., and Kats, L. B., “The complexity of amphibian population declines: understanding the role of cofactors in driving amphibian losses”, in Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology, vol. 1223, R. S. Ostfeld and Schlesinger, W. H., Eds. Oxford: Blackwell Science Publ, 2011, pp. 108-119.

C. L. Searle, Gervasi, S. S., Hua, J., Hammond, J. I., Relyea, R. A., Olson, D. H., and Blaustein, A. R., “Differential Host Susceptibility to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, an Emerging Amphibian Pathogen”, Conservation Biology, vol. 25, pp. 965-974, 2011.

C. L. Searle, Biga, L. M., Spatafora, J. W., and Blaustein, A. R., “A dilution effect in the emerging amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 108, pp. 16322-16326, 2011.

B. A. Han, Searle, C. L., and Blaustein, A. R., “Effects of an Infectious Fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, on Amphibian Predator-Prey Interactions”, Plos One, vol. 6, p. 7, 2011.

J. M. Romansic, Johnson, P. T. J., Searle, C. L., Johnson, J. E., Tunstall, T. S., Han, B. A., Rohr, J. R., and Blaustein, A. R., “Individual and combined effects of multiple pathogens on Pacific treefrogs”, Oecologia, vol. 166, pp. 1029-1041, 2011.

J. C. Buck, Truong, L., and Blaustein, A. R., “Predation by zooplankton on Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: biological control of the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus?”, Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 20, pp. 3549-3553, 2011.

P. T. J. Johnson, McKenzie, V. J., Peterson, A. C., Kerby, J. L., Brown, J., Blaustein, A. R., and Jackson, T., “Regional Decline of an Iconic Amphibian Associated with Elevation, Land-Use Change, and Invasive Species”, Conservation Biology, vol. 25, pp. 556-566, 2011.

D. J. Paoletti, Olson, D. H., and Blaustein, A. R., “Responses of Foothill Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boylii) Larvae to an Introduced Predator”, Copeia, pp. 161-168, 2011.

B. A. Bancroft, Han, B. A., Searle, C. L., Biga, L. M., Olson, D. H., Kats, L. B., Lawler, J. J., and Blaustein, A. R., “Species-level correlates of susceptibility to the pathogenic amphibian fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the United States”, Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 20, pp. 1911-1920, 2011.

A. R. Blaustein and Johnson, P. T. J., “CONSERVATION BIOLOGY When an infection turns lethal”, Nature, vol. 465, pp. 881-882, 2010.

C. L. Searle, Belden, L. K., and Blaustein, A. R., “The effects of stress hormones on infection by a fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, in larval amphibians”, Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 50, pp. E159-E159, 2010.

C. L. Searle, Belden, L. K., Bancroft, B. A., Han, B. A., Biga, L. M., and Blaustein, A. R., “Experimental examination of the effects of ultraviolet-B radiation in combination with other stressors on frog larvae”, Oecologia, vol. 162, pp. 237-245, 2010.

S. S. Gervasi, Searle, C. L., Relyea, R. A., Hua, J., Hammond, J. I., and Blaustein, A. R., “Interspecific variation in susceptibility to an emerging pathogen of amphibians, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis”, Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 50, pp. E233-E233, 2010.

J. J. Lawler, Shafer, S. L., and Blaustein, A. R., “Projected Climate Impacts for the Amphibians of the Western Hemisphere”, Conservation Biology, vol. 24, pp. 38-50, 2010.

T. S. Garcia, Paoletti, D. J., and Blaustein, A. R., “Correlated trait response: comparing amphibian defense strategies across a stress gradient”, Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne De Zoologie, vol. 87, pp. 41-49, 2009.

T. S. Garcia, Paoletti, D. J., and Blaustein, A. R., “Correlated trait responses to multiple selection pressures in larval amphibians reveal conflict avoidance strategies”, Freshwater Biology, vol. 54, pp. 1066-1077, 2009.