Research Publications

Selected research publications    

     Thurgate, N. Y. and J. H. K. Pechmann. 2007. Canopy closure, competition, and the endangered dusky gopher frog. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:1845-1852.

      Pechmann, J. H. K. and D. B. Wake. 2006. Enigmatic declines and disappearances of amphibian populations. Pages 93-98 in M. J. Groom, G. K. Meffe, C. R. Carroll and Contributors. Principles of Conservation Biology. Third Edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.

      Dixon, P. M., and J. H. K. Pechmann. 2005. A statistical test to show negligible trend. Ecology 86:1751-1756.

      Pechmann, J. H. K. 2003. Natural population fluctuations and human influences: null models and interactions. Pages 85-93 in R. D. Semlitsch, editor. Amphibian conservation. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

      Alford, R. A., P. M. Dixon and J. H. K. Pechmann. 2001. Global amphibian population declines. Nature 412:499-500.

      Pechmann, J. H. K., R. A. Estes, D. E. Scott and J. W. Gibbons. 2001. Amphibian colonization and use of ponds created for trial mitigation of wetland loss. Wetlands 21:93-111.

      Semlitsch, R. D., D. E. Scott, J. H. K. Pechmann and J. W. Gibbons. 1996. Structure and dynamics of an amphibian community: evidence from a 16-year study of a natural pond. Pages 217-248 in M. L. Cody and J. A. Smallwood, editors. Long-term studies of vertebrate communities. Academic Press, San Diego, California.

      Pechmann, J. H. K. 1995. Use of large field enclosures to study the terrestrial ecology of pond-breeding amphibians. Herpetologica 51:434-450.

      Pechmann, J. H. K., D. E. Scott, R. D. Semlitsch, J. P. Caldwell, L. J. Vitt and J. W. Gibbons. 1991. Declining amphibian populations: the problem of separating human impacts from natural fluctuations. Science 253:892-895.

      Loehle, C. and J. H. K. Pechmann. 1988. Evolution: the missing ingredient in systems ecology. The American Naturalist 132:884-899. Reprinted in Keller, D. R. and F. B. Golley. 2000. The philosophy of ecology: from science to synthesis. The University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia.



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