A5102772586- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant and animal studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
2007-2018
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
2018
University of California, Berkeley
2008-2009
Seed dispersal is a key evolutionary process and central theme in the population ecology of terrestrial plants. The primary producers most land-based ecosystems are propagated by maintained through various mechanisms seed that involve both abiotic biotic modes transportation. By far common transport mechanism zoochory, whereby seeds, or fruits containing them, dispersed activities animals. Rodents one group mammals commonly prey on seeds (granivores) play critical, often destructive, role...
Abstract Information on behavioural and physiological processes of newborn reptiles is often difficult to obtain under natural conditions, especially in lizards snakes. Consequently, we lack information a wide range biological phenomena (e.g. thermoregulation, digestion, circadian activity rhythms) neonates these taxa. Here, report novel behaviour sibling sidewinder rattlesnakes Crotalus cerastes , desert‐inhabiting species south‐western North America. At the entrances their natal burrows,...
Aggressive mimicry in vertebrates remains understudied relative to other categories of mimetic systems, such as Batesian mimicry. Prey attraction through caudal luring (CL) is a type aggressive that constitutes tripartite relationship which predator (mimic, S2), typically snake, produces highly specific tail display the presence prey species (receiver or operator, R) produce resemblance animal (model, S1), worm insect, receiver mistakes for food and attempts capture. Most reports CL snakes,...
The bipedal posture (BP) and gait of humans are unique evolutionary hallmarks, but similar stances forms locomotion have had enormous influences on a range phylogenetically diverse tetrapods, particularly dinosaurs birds, mammalian lineages, including non-human apes. complex movements involved in bipedalism appear to modest origins, it is presumed that stable erect prerequisite for strides other movements. Facultative several lineages lizards achieved by running, some varanid (genus Varanus)...
Human-induced global climate change is exerting increasingly strong selective pressures on a myriad of fitness traits that affect organisms. These traits, in turn, are influenced by variety environmental parameters such as temperature and precipitation, particularly ectothermic taxa amphibians reptiles. Over the past several decades, severe prolonged episodes drought becoming commonplace throughout North America. Documentation responses to this crisis, however, often incomplete, cryptic...
The importance of vertebrate animals as seed dispersers (zoochory) has received increasing attention from researchers over the past 20 years, yet one category in particular, diploendozoochory, remains understudied. As term implies, this is a two-phase dispersal system whereby secondary predator (carnivorous vertebrate) consumes primary or granivore (rodent and bird) with undamaged seeds their digestive tract (mouth, cheek pouch, crop, stomach, other organ), which are subsequently eliminated...