Representative
Publications |
AMPHIBIAN
POPULATION DECLINES |
Bancroft, B.A., N.J. Baker, and A.R. Blaustein. 2007. A meta-analysis
of the effects of ultraviolet B radiation and its synergistic interactions
with pH, contaminants, and disease on amphibian survival. Conservation
Biology 22: 987–996. PDF
Belden, L.K. and A. R. Blaustein. 2002. UV-B induced skin darkening in larval salamanders does not prevent sublethal effects of exposure on growth. Copeia 3: 748–754. PDF
Belden, L.K. and A.R. Blaustein. 2002. Population differences in sensitivity to UV-B radiation for larval long-toed salamanders. Ecology 83: 1586-1590. PDF
Blaustein, A.R. 1994. Amphibians in a bad light. Natural History 103:32-37. PDF
Blaustein, A.R. 1994. Chicken Little or Nero's fiddle? A perspective on declining amphibian populations. Herpetologica 50(1): 85-97. PDF
Blaustein, A.R. and B.A. Bancroft. 2007. Amphibian population declines: evolutionary considerations. BioScience 57: 437-444. PDF
Blaustein, A.R. and L.K. Belden. 2003. Amphibian defenses against ultraviolet-B radiation. Evolution and Development 5: 89-97. PDF
Blaustein,
A.R., L.K. Belden, A.C. Hatch, L.B. Kats, P.D. Hoffman, J.B. Hays, A.
Marco, D.P. Chivers and J.M. Kiesecker. 2001. "Ultraviolet radiation
and amphibians". Ecosystems, Evolution, and Ultraviolet Radiation. C. S. Cockell and
A. R. Blaustein.
Blaustein, A.R., L.K. Belden, D.H. Olson, D.M. Green, T.L. Root, and J.M. Kiesecker. 2001. Amphibian breeding and climate change. Conservation Biology 15(6): 1804-1809. PDF
Blaustein, A.R., S.S. Gervasi, P.T.J. Johnson, J.T. Hoverman, L.K. Belden, P.W. Bradley, and G.Y. Xie. 2012. Ecophysiology meets conservation: understanding the role of disease in amphibian population declines. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367: 1688-1707. PDF
Blaustein, A.R., B.A. Han, R.A. Relyea, P.T.J. Johnson, J.C. Buck, S.S. Gervasi, and L.B. Kats. 2011. The complexity of amphibian population declines: understanding the role of cofactors in driving amphibian losses. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1223: 108-119. PDF
Blaustein, A.R., J.B. Hays, P.D. Hoffman, D.P. Chivers, J.M. Kiesecker, W.P. Leonard, A. Marco, D.H. Olson, J.K. Reaser and R.G. Anthony. 1999. DNA repair and resistance to UV-B radiation in western spotted frogs. Ecological Applications 9: 1100-1105. PDF
Blaustein, A.R., P.D. Hoffman, D.G. Hokit, J.M. Kiesecker, S.C. Walls and J.B. Hays. 1994. UV repair and resistance to solar UV-B in amphibian eggs: A link to population decline? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 91: 1791-1795. PDF
Blaustein, A.R., P.D. Hoffman, J.M. Kiesecker and J.B. Hays. 1996. DNA repair activity and resistance to solar UV-B radiation in eggs of the red-legged frog. Conservation Biology 10: 1398-1402. PDF
Blaustein, A.R. and J.M. Kiesecker. 2002. Complexity in conservation: lessons from the global decline of amphibian populations. Ecology Letters 5: 597-608. PDF
Blaustein, A.R., J.M. Kiesecker, D.P. Chivers, D.G. Hokit, A. Marco, L.K. Belden and A. Hatch. 1998. Effects of ultraviolet radiation on amphibians: field experiments. American Zoologist 38:799-812. PDF
Blaustein, A.R., J.M. Romansic, J.M. Kiesecker and A.C. Hatch. 2003. Ultraviolet radiation, toxic chemicals and amphibian population declines. Diversity and Distributions 9: 123-140. PDF
Blaustein, A.R., J.M. Romansic, E.A. Scheessele. 2005. Ambient levels of ultraviolet-B radiation cause mortality in juvenile western toads, Bufo boreas. American Midland Naturalist 154: 375 - 382. PDF
Blaustein, A.R. and D.B. Wake. 1995. The puzzle of declining amphibian populations. Scientific American. 272:52-57.
Blaustein, A.R., D.B. Wake and W.P. Sousa. 1994. Amphibian declines: judging stability, persistence, and susceptibility of populations to local and global extinctions. Conservation Biology 8:60-71. PDF
Blaustein, A.R., S.C. Walls, B.A. Bancroft, J.J. Lawler, C.L. Searle, and S.G. Gervasi. 2010. Direct and indirect effects of climate change on amphibian populations. Diversity 2: 281-313. PDF
Buck, J.C., E.A. Scheessele, R.A. Relyea, and A.R. Blaustein. 2012. The effects of multiple stressors on wetland communities: pesticides, pathogens and competing amphibians. Freshwater Biology 57: 61-73. PDF
Fite, K.V., A.R. Blaustein, L. Bengston, and H.E. Hewitt. 1998. Evidence of retinal damage in Rana cascadae: a declining amphibian species. Copeia 1998(4): 906-914. PDF
Hatch, A.C. and A.R. Blaustein. 2000. Combined effects of UV-B, nitrate, and low pH reduce the survival and activity level of larval Cascades frogs (Rana cascadae). Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 39, 494–499. PDF
Hatch, A.C., L.K. Belden, E. Scheessele, and A.R. Blaustein. 2001. Juvenile amphibians do not avoid potentially lethal levels of urea on soil substrate. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 20: 2328–2335. PDF
Hatch, A.C. and A.R. Blaustein. 2003. Combined effects of the UV-B radiation and nitrate fertilizer on larval amphibians. Ecological Applications, 13: 1083–1093 PDF
Johnson, P.T.J., V.J. McKenzie, A.C. Peterson, J.L. Kerby, J. Brown, A.R. Blaustein, and T. Jackson. 2011. Regional decline of an iconic amphibian associated with elevation, land-use change, and invasive species. Conservation Biology 25(3): 556-566. PDF
Kiesecker, D.G. and A.R. Blaustein. 1997. Influences of egg laying behavior on pathogenic infection of amphibian eggs. Conservation Biology 11: 214-220 PDF
Kiesecker, D.G. and A.R. Blaustein. 1997. Population differences in responses of red-legged frogs (Rana aurora) to introduced bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana). Ecology. 78:1752-1760.
Kiesecker, J.M., A.R. Blaustein and L.K. Belden. 2001. Complex causes of amphibian population declines. Nature 410: 681-683. PDF and COVER PAGE
Lawler, J.J., S.L. Shafer, B.A. Bancroft, and A.R. Blaustein. 2009. Projected climate impacts for the amphibians of the western hemisphere. Conservation Biology 24(1): 38-50. PDF
Macías G., A Marco, A.R. Blaustein. 2007. Combined exposure to ambient UVB radiation and nitrite negatively affects survival of amphibian early life stages. Science of the Total Environment 385: 55–65. PDF
Marco, A., M. Lizana, A. Alvarez and A.R. Blaustein. 2001. Egg-wrapping behaviour protects newt embryos from UV radiation. Animal Behaviour 61:1-6. PDF
Marco, A., M. and A.R. Blaustein. 1999. The effects of nitrite on behavior and metamorphosis in Casades frogs (Rana cascadae). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18: 946-949. PDF
Marco, A., M., Quilchano, C. and A.R. Blaustein. 1999. Sensitivity to nitrate and nitrite in pond-breeding amphibians from the Pacific Northwest, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18: 2836–2839. PDF
Paoletti, D.J., D.H. Olson, and A.R. Blaustein. 2011. Responses of Foothill Yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii) larvae to an introduced predator. Copeia 1: 161-168. PDF
Reed, J.M. and A.R. Blaustein. 1995. Assessment of "nondeclining" amphibian populations using power analysis. Conservation Biology 9(5): 1299-1300. PDF
Romansic, J.M., K.A. Diez, E.M. Higashi, A.R. Blaustein. 2006. Effects of nitrate and the pathogenic water mold Saprolegnia on survival of amphibian larvae. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 68: 235 - 243. PDF
Romansic, J.M., Waggener, A.A., Bancroft, B.A., and A.R. Blaustein. 2009. Influence of ultraviolet-B radiation on growth, prevalence of deformities, and susceptibility to predation in Cascades frog (Rana cascadae) larvae. Hydrobiologia 624: 219-233. PDF
Searle, C.S., L.K. Belden, B.A. Bancroft, B.A. Han, L.M. Biga, and A.R. Blaustein. 2010. Experimental examination of the effects of ultraviolet-B radiation in combination with other stressors on frog larvae. Oecologia 162: 237-245. PDF
Blaustein, A.R., J.M. Kiesecker, D.G. Hokit, and S.C. Walls. 1995. Amphibian declines and UV radiation. BioScience 45(8):514-515. PDF
Blaustein, A.R., J.M. Kiesecker, S.C. Walls, and D.G. Hokit. 1996. Field experiments, amphibian mortality, and UV radiation. BioScience 46(6): 386-388. PDF
Blaustein, A.R. and L.B. Kats. 2003. Amphibians in a very bad light. BioScience 53(11): 1028-1029. PDF
Blaustein, A.R., B. Han, B. Fasy, J. Romansic, E.A. Scheessele, R.G. Anthony, A. Marco, D.P. Chivers, L.K. Belden, J.M. Kiesecker, T. Garcia, M. Lizana, and L.B. Kats. 2004. Variable breeding phenology affects the exposure of amphibian embryos to ultraviolet radiation AND optical characteristics of natural waters protect amphibians from UV-B in the U.S. Pacific Northwest: Comment. Ecology 85(6): 1747-1754. PDF