I study how novel environments shape the ecology and evolution of wild animals. A large part of my work is focused on urban and suburban ecosystems in which I do natural history and evolutionary experiments to test how species cope with novel urban pressures.

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PeerJ Contributions

May 10, 2024

Feral frogs, native newts, and chemical cues: identifying threats from and management opportunities for invasive African Clawed Frogs in Washington state

David Anderson, Olivia Cervantez, Gary M. Bucciarelli, Max R. Lambert, Megan R. Friesen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17307 PubMed 38742097

August 30, 2019

Two salamander species respond differently to timber harvests in a managed New England forest

Angus Mossman, Max R. Lambert, Mark S. Ashton, Jessica Wikle, Marlyse C. Duguid

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7604 PubMed 31531273

August 15, 2019

Experimental removal of introduced slider turtles offers new insight into competition with a native, threatened turtle

Max R. Lambert, Jennifer M. McKenzie, Robyn M. Screen, Adam G. Clause, Benjamin B. Johnson, Genevieve G. Mount, H Bradley Shaffer, Gregory B. Pauly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7444 PubMed 31435491

February 8, 2019

Molecular evidence for sex reversal in wild populations of green frogs (Rana clamitans)

Max R. Lambert, Tien Tran, Andrzej Kilian, Tariq Ezaz, David K. Skelly

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6449 PubMed 30775188

October 31, 2014 - Version: 1

Suburban frog ponds: mapping local land cover yields different estimates of landscape composition than the National Land Cover Database

Max Lambert

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.570v1

Academic Editor on

March 20, 2023

Pesticides reduce tropical amphibian and reptile diversity in agricultural landscapes in Indonesia

Thomas Cherico Wanger, Barry W. Brook, Theodore Evans, Teja Tscharntke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15046 PubMed 36967985

October 7, 2022

Spatiotemporal relationships of coyotes and free-ranging domestic cats as indicators of conflict in Culver City, California

Rebecca N. Davenport, Melinda Weaver, Katherine C. B. Weiss, Eric G. Strauss

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14169 PubMed 36225908

March 21, 2022

N-mixture models provide informative crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) abundance estimates in dynamic environments

José António Lemos Barão-Nóbrega, Mauricio González-Jaurégui, Robert Jehle

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12906 PubMed 35341055

March 31, 2021

eDNAir: proof of concept that animal DNA can be collected from air sampling

Elizabeth L. Clare, Chloe K. Economou, Chris G. Faulkes, James D. Gilbert, Frances Bennett, Rosie Drinkwater, Joanne E. Littlefair

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11030 PubMed 33850648

February 26, 2021

Composition and distribution of fish environmental DNA in an Adirondack watershed

Robert S. Cornman, Jr., James E. McKenna, Jennifer A. Fike

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10539 PubMed 33680576

February 12, 2021

Effect of incubation temperature and substrate moisture on embryonic development, hatchling phenotypes and post-hatching growth in the Reeves’ Turtle, Mauremys reevesii

Yufeng Wei, Yangchun Gao, Dainan Cao, Yan Ge, Haitao Shi, Shiping Gong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10553 PubMed 33614259

November 17, 2020

Assessing anthropogenic risk to sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) for reintroduction into San Francisco Bay

Jane Rudebusch, Brent B. Hughes, Katharyn E. Boyer, Ellen Hines

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10241 PubMed 33240611

October 8, 2020

Every hill has its leopard: patterns of space use by leopards (Panthera pardus) in a mixed use landscape in India

Sanjay Gubbi, Koustubh Sharma, Vijaya Kumara

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10072 PubMed 33083134

September 18, 2020

Development of a camera trap for perching dragonflies: a new tool for freshwater environmental assessment

Akira Yoshioka, Akira Shimizu, Hiroyuki Oguma, Nao Kumada, Keita Fukasawa, Shoma Jingu, Taku Kadoya

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9681 PubMed 32999757

September 16, 2020

Community based actions save Yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) eggs and hatchlings flooded by rapid river level rises

Darren Norris, Fernanda Michalski, James P. Gibbs

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9921 PubMed 32995087

August 14, 2020

Monitoring rhinoceroses in Namibia’s private custodianship properties

Zoe C. Jewell, Sky Alibhai, Peter R. Law, Kenneth Uiseb, Stephen Lee

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9670 PubMed 32864211

August 10, 2020

Visible implant elastomer (VIE) success in early larval stages of a tropical amphibian species

Chloe A. Fouilloux, Guillermo Garcia-Costoya, Bibiana Rojas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9630 PubMed 32864207

July 9, 2020

Access to scientific literature by the conservation community

Daisy Larios, Thomas M. Brooks, Nicholas B.W. Macfarlane, Sugoto Roy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9404 PubMed 32714657

July 1, 2020

Habitat association in the critically endangered Mangshan pit viper (Protobothrops mangshanensis), a species endemic to China

Bing Zhang, Bingxian Wu, Daode Yang, Xiaqiu Tao, Mu Zhang, Shousheng Hu, Jun Chen, Ming Zheng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9439 PubMed 32676224

June 23, 2020

A new large canopy-dwelling species of Phyllodytes Wagler, 1930 (Anura, Hylidae) from the Atlantic Forest of the state of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil

Iuri R. Dias, Gabriel Novaes-e-Fagundes, Antonio Mollo Neto, Juliana Zina, Caroline Garcia, Renato Sousa Recoder, Francisco Dal Vechio, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, Mirco Solé

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8642 PubMed 32612879

June 11, 2020

The reproductive inhibitory effects of levonorgestrel, quinestrol, and EP-1 in Brandt’s vole (Lasiopodomys brandtii)

Luye Shi, Xiujuan Li, Zhihong Ji, Zishi Wang, Yuhua Shi, Xiangyu Tian, Zhenlong Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9140 PubMed 32566388

May 14, 2020

Drivers of beta diversity in modern and ancient reef-associated soft-bottom environments

Vanessa Julie Roden, Martin Zuschin, Alexander Nützel, Imelda M. Hausmann, Wolfgang Kiessling

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9139 PubMed 32461832

April 30, 2020

Fear and stressing in predator–prey ecology: considering the twin stressors of predators and people on mammals

Loren L. Fardell, Chris R. Pavey, Christopher R. Dickman