3. 2010-2014 Jun 21, 2021 2014 Hudson LN et al. (Watling JI one of 200+ authors). The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts.Ecology and Evolution 24: 4701—4735. Watling JI, Fletcher RJ Jr., Speroterra C, Bucklin DN, Brandt LA, Romañach SS, Pearlstine LG, Escribano Y & Mazzotti FJ. Assessing the effects of variation in global climate datasets on spatial predictions from climate envelope models.Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 5: 14—25. Hickman CR & Watling JI. Leachates from an invasive shrub cause risk-prone behavior in a larval amphibian. Behavioral Ecology 25: 300—305. 2013 Bucklin DN, Watling JI, Speroterra C, Romañach SS, Brandt LA, Mazzotti FJ. Climate downscaling effects on predictive ecological models: a case study for threatened and endangered vertebrates in the southeastern United States. Regional Environmental Change 13: S57—S68. Benscoter AM, Reece JS, Noss RF, Brandt LA, Mazzotti FJ, Romañach SS & Watling JI. Threatened and endangered subspecies with vulnerable ecological traits also have high susceptibility to sea level rise and habitat fragmentation. PLOS ONE 8: e70647. Nowakowski AJ, Hyslop NL, Watling JI & Donnelly MA. Matrix identity alters metacommunity structure of vertebrates in cypress domes.Biodiversity and Conservation 22:4 97—511. Watling JI, Bucklin DN, Speroterra C, Brandt LA, Romañach SS & Mazzotti FJ. Validating predictions from climate envelope models. PLOS ONE 8: e63600. Mattos K, Orrock JL & Watling JI. Rodent granivores generate context-specific seed removal in invaded and uninvaded habitats. American Midland Naturalist 169: 168—178. 2012 Watling JI, Romañach SS, Bucklin DN, Speroterra C, Brandt LA, Pearlstine LG & Mazzotti FJ. Do bioclimate variables improve performance of climate envelope models? Ecological Modelling 246: 79—85. 2011 Watling JI, Hickman CR & Orrock JL. Invasive shrub alters native forest amphibian communities. Biological Conservation 144: 2597—2601. Watling JI, Hickman CR & Orrock JL. Predators and invasive plants affect performance of amphibian larvae. Oikos 120: 735—739. Conley A, Watling JI & Orrock JL. Invasive plant alters ability to predict disease vector distribution. Ecological Applications 21: 329—334. Watling JI, Hickman CR, Lee E, Wang K & Orrock JL. Extracts of the invasive shrub Lonicera maackii increase mortality and alter behavior of amphibian larvae. Oecologia 165:153—159. Watling JI, Nowakowski AJ, Donnelly MA & Orrock JL. Meta-analysis reveals the importance of matrix composition for animals in fragmented habitat. Global Ecology & Biogeography 20:209—217. 2010 Orrock JL & Watling JI. Local community size mediates ecological drift and competition in metacommunities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 277: 2185—2191. Watling JI & Orrock JL. Measuring edge contrast using biotic criteria helps define edge effects on the density of an invasive plant. Landscape Ecology 25:6 9—78. James Watling Associate Professor and Coburn Chair of Environmental Science My research and teaching interests focus on environmental biology and GIS