Recent Publications from the Skelly Lab Group
See individual pages for complete lists of publications.
2024
Billet, Logan S., Yara A. Alshwairikh, L. Kealoha Freidenburg, Adriana Rubinstein, Samantha Tracy, Sydney Nelson, and David K. Skelly. “Long-Term Decline of the Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) in an Undeveloped Landscape.” Herpetologica 80, no. 1 (2024): 11-21. [link]
2023
Gotelli, Nicholas J., Douglas B. Booher, Mark C. Urban, Werner Ulrich, Andrew V. Suarez, David K. Skelly, David J. Russell et al. “Estimating species relative abundances from museum records.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14, no. 2 (2023): 431-443. [link]
Sommer, Nathalie R., Yara A. Alshwairikh, AZ Andis Arietta, David K. Skelly, and Robert W. Buchkowski. “Prey metabolic responses to predators depend on predator hunting mode and prey antipredator defenses.” Oikos 2023, no. 6 (2023): e09664. [link]
2022
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2021
Arietta, AZ Andis, and David K. Skelly. “Rapid microgeographic evolution in response to climate change.” Evolution 75.11 (2021): 2930-2943. [link]
2020
Gahm, K.; Arietta, A. Z. Andis; Skelly, D.K. (2020). Temperature-mediated tradeoff between development and performance in larval wood frogs (Rana sylvatica). Journal of Experimental Zoology A. [link]
Arietta, A. Z. Andis; Freidenburg, L. K., Urban, M. C., Rodrigues, S. B., Rubinstein, A., & Skelly, D. K. (2020). Phenological delay despite warming in wood frog Rana sylvatica reproductive timing: a 20‐year study. Ecography, 52, 27. [link]
Bodensteiner, B. L.; Agudelo-Cantero, G. A.; Arietta, A. Z. A.; Gunderson, A. R.; Muñoz, M. M.; Refsnider, J.; Gangloff, E. J. (2020). Thermal adaptation revisited: how conserved are thermal traits of reptiles and amphibians? Journal of Experimental Zoology A. [link]
Arietta, A. Z. Andis; Rubinstein, A.; Freidenburg, L. K. (2020). Aberrant coloration (hypomelanism) in multiple wild populations of Rana sylvatica associated with early mortality and developmental delay. Northeastern Naturalist 27(4), 641-648. [pdf]
2019
Van Acker, M., Lambert, M., Schmitz, O., and D. K. Skelly. 2019. Suburbanization increases echinostome infection in Green Frogs and Snails. EcoHealth. [link]
Lambert, M.R., T. Tran. A. Killian. T. Ezaz, and D. K. Skelly. 2019. Molecular evidence for sex reversal in wild populations of green frogs (Rana clamitans). PeerJ 7:e6449. [link]
Richardson, J. L., Silveira, G., Soto Medrano, I., Arietta, A. Z.A. , Mariani, C., Pertile, A. C., et al. (2019). Significant Genetic Impacts Accompany an Urban Rt Control Campaign in Salvador, Brazil. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 115. [link]
2018
Andis, A. Z. (2018). A new, noninvasive method of batch-marking amphibians across developmental stages. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 13, 423–432. [link]
Lambert, M. R., M. S. Smylie, A. J. Roman, L. K. Freidenburg, and D. K. Skelly. 2018. Sexual and somatic development of wood frog tadpoles along a thermal gradient. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A 329:72-79. [link]
Amburgey, S.M., Miller, D.A.W., Grant, E.H.C., Rittenhouse, T.A.G., Benard, M.F., Richardson, J.L., Urban, M.C., Hughson, W., Brand, A.B., Davis, C.J., Hardin, C.R., Paton, P.W.C., Raithel, C.J., Relyea, R.A., Scott, A.F., Skelly, D.K., Skidds, D.E., Smith, C.K., Werner, E.E. 2018. Range position and climate sensitivity: the structure of among-population demographic responses to climatic variation. Global Change Biology 24:439-454. [link]
2017
Shepack, A., Freidenburg, L.K. & Skelly, D.K. 2017. Species absence in developed landscapes: an experimental evaluation. Landscape Ecol (2017) 32: 609. DOI 10.1007/s10980-016-0464-9 [link]
Paul Crump, Keith Berven, Tess E. Youker-Smith, David Skelly, Scott Thomas, and Jeff Houlahan. 2017. Predicting Anuran Abundance Using an Automated Acoustics Approach. Journal of Herpetology 2017 51:4, 582-589. [link]
L.K. Freidenburg. 2017. Environmental drivers of carry-over effects in a pond-breeding amphibian, the Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2017, 95:255-262. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2016-0080. [link]
Max R. Lambert, Bradley E. Carlson, Meredith S. Smylie, and Lindsey Swierk. 2017. Ontogeny of Sexual Dichromatism in the Explosively Breeding Wood Frog. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 12(2):447–456. [link]
Holgerson, Meredith A., Max R. Lambert, L. Kealoha Freidenburg, David K. Skelly. 2017. Suburbanization alters small pond ecosystems: shifts in nitrogen and food web dynamics. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 75: 641–652. dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2016-0526 [link]
2016
Lambert, M. R., Stoler, A. B, Smylie, M. S., Relyea, R. A., and D. K. Skelly. 2016. Interactive effect of road salt and leaf litter on wood frog sex ratios and metamorphic sexual size dimorphism. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences: DOI 10.1139/cjfas-2016-0324 [link]
Lambert, M. R., Skelly, D. K., and T. Ezaz. 2016. Sex-linked markers in the North American green frog (Rana clamitans) developed using DArTseq elucidate Dmrt1 as a putative sex-determining gene and provide early insight into sex chromosome recombination. BMC Genomics 17: 844 DOI 10.1186/s12864-016-3209-x [link]
Lambert, M. R. and D. K. Skelly. 2016. Chemical diversity and endocrine disruption in the wild. Endocrine Disruptors (Invited Commentary). DOI:10.1080/23273747.2016.1148803 [link]
Lambert, M. R., Giller, G. S. J., Skelly, D. K., and R. G. Bribiescas. 2016. Septic systems, but not sanitary sewer lines, are associated with elevated estradiol in frog metamorphs from suburban ponds. General and Comparative Endocrinology 232: 109-114. [link]
2015
Lambert, M. R. 2015. Clover root exudate produces male-biased sex ratios and accelerates male metamorphic timing in wood frogs. Royal Society Open Science 2: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150433 [link]
Lambert, M. R., Giller, G. S. J., Barber, L. B., Fitzgerald, K. C., and D. K. Skelly. 2015. Suburbanization, estrogen contamination, and sex ratio in wild amphibian populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 11881-11886. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1501065112 [link]
2014
Werner, E. E., D. K. Skelly, R. A. Relyea, C. J. Davis, and K. L. Yurewicz. in press. The abundance-occupancy relationship: a metacommunity perspective. PLoS ONE. Richardson, J. L., M. C. Urban, D. Bolnick, and D. K. Skelly. 2014. Microgeographic adaptation and the spatial scale of evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29:165-176. Link
Skelly, D. K., S. R. Bolden, and L. K. Freidenburg. 2014. Experimental canopy removal enhances diversity of vernal pond amphibians. Ecological Applications 24:340-345. Link
Smits, A. P., D. K. Skelly, and S. R. Bolden. 2014. Amphibian intersex in suburban landscapes. Ecosphere 5:art11. Link
2013
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. Link
Skelly, D. K. 2013. Learning from deformed frogs (book review). BioScience 63:140-141. Link
Skelly, D. K. 2013. G. Evelyn Hutchinson. Oxford Biographies. Oxford University Press, New York: Oxford University Press.
Urban, M.C., P.L. Zarnetske, and D. K. Skelly. 2013. Moving forward: Dispersal and species interactions determine biotic responses to climate change. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1297:44-60. Link
2012
Balmori, D. and D. K. Skelly. 2012. Crossing to sustainability: a role for design in overcoming road effects. Ecological Restoration 30:363-367 (Images: 30:350-352). Link
Brady, S. P. 2012. Road to evolution? Local adaptation to road adjacency in an amphibian (Ambystoma maculatum). Scientific Reports 2:235. Link
Richardson, J. L. 2012. Divergent landscape effects on population connectivity in two co-occurring amphibian species. Molecular Ecology 21(18):4437-4451. Link
Rogalski, M. A., and D. K. Skelly. 2012. Positive effects of nonnative invasive Phragmites australis on Larval Bullfrogs. PLoS ONE 7:e44420. Link
Zarnetske, P. L., D. K. Skelly, and M. C. Urban. 2012. Biotic Multipliers of Climate Change. Science 336:1516-1518. Link
2011
Hoverman, J. T., C. J. Davis, E. E. Werner, D. K. Skelly, R. A. Relyea, and K. L. Yurewicz. 2011. Environmental gradients and the structure of freshwater snail communities. Ecography 34:1049-1058. Link
Skelly, D. K., D. M. Post, and M. D. Smith (Editors). 2011. The Art of Ecology: Writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson. Yale University Press, New Haven and London. Link
Warren, R. J., II, D. K. Skelly, O. J. Schmitz, and M. Bradford. 2011. Universal ecological patterns in college basketball communities. PLoS ONE 6(3): e17342. Link
2010
Skelly, D. 2010. A climate for contemporary evolution. BMC Biology 8:136. Link
Skelly, D. K., S. R. Bolden, and K. B. Dion. 2010. Intersex frogs concentrated in suburban and urban landscapes. EcoHealth 7:374-379. Link Faculty of 1000 Review
Skelly, D. K. and L. K. Freidenburg. 2010. Evolutionary Responses to Climate Change. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). John Wiley & Sons, Chichester. Link
Skelly, D. K. and M. F. Benard. 2010. Mystery unsolved: missing limbs in deformed amphibians. Journal of Experimental Zoology B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 314B:179-181. Link
2009
Kerby, J. L., K. L. Richards-Hrdlicka, A. Storfer, and D. K. Skelly. 2009 . An examination of amphibian sensitivity to environmental contaminants: Are amphibians poor canaries? Ecology Letters 12:1-8. Link Faculty of 1000 Review
Ligon, N. F., and D. K. Skelly. 2009. Cryptic divergence: countergradient variation in the wood frog. Evolutionary Ecology Research 11:1099-1109. Link
Skelly, D. K., and J. L. Richardson. 2009. Larval sampling. Chapter 4 in Amphibian Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques. (C. K. Dodd, Editor). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199541183. Link
Werner, E. E., R. A. Relyea, K. L. Yurewicz, D. K. Skelly, and C. J. Davis. 2009. Comparative landscape dynamics of two anuran species: climate driven interaction of local and regional processes. Ecological Monographs 79:503-521. Link
2008
McCauley, S. J., C. J. Davis, R. A. Relyea, K. L. Yurewicz, D. K. Skelly, and E. E. Werner. 2008. Metacommunity patterns in larval odonates. Oecologia 158:329-342. Link
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. Link
Urban, M. C. 2008. Salamander evolution across a latitudinal cline in gape-limited predation risk. Oikos 117:1037-1049. Link
Urban, M. C. 2008. The evolution of prey body size reaction norms in diverse communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 77:346-355. Link
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
2007
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.Link
Skelly, D. K. 2007. The ailing invader. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:17561-17562. 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. 2007. Risky prey behavior evolves in risky habitats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(36): 14377-14382. Link
Urban, M. C. 2007. The growth-predation risk tradeoff under a growing gape-limited predation threat. Ecology 88(10):2587-2597. Link
Urban, M. C. 2007. Predator size and phenology shape prey survival in temporary ponds. Oecologia 154:571-580. 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
2006
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
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
Urban, M. C. 2006. Maladaptation and mass-effects in a metacommunity: consequences for species coexistence. American Naturalist 168(1):28-40. Link
Urban, M. C. 2006. Road facilitation of trematode infections in snails of northern Alaska. Conservation Biology 20(4):1143-1149. Link
Urban, M. C. 2006. Conservation beyond community [Book Review]. Conservation Biology 20:1330-1332.
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
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.
zu Dohna, H. 2006. The distribution of eggs per host in a herbivorous insect – intersection of oviposition, dispersal and population dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology 75(2):387-398. Link
2005
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
Other Popular Papers
Skelly, D. K. 2003. How to write a successful Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant proposal. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 84:137-138.