2010-2019

Jun 21, 2021

2019

Betts MG et al. Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation for animals.Science 366: 1236–1239.

Cameron AC, Page RB, Watling JI, Hickerson C-AH & Anthony CD. Using a comparative approach to investigate the relationship between landscape and genetic connectivity among woodland salamander populations. Conservation Genetics 20: 1265-1280.

Fahrig L, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Bennett JR, Boucher-Lalonde V, Cazetta E, Currie DJ, Eigenbrod F, Ford AT, Harrison SP, Jaeger JAG, Koper N, Martin AE, Martin J-L, Metzger JP, Morrison P, Rhodes JR, Saunders DA, Simberloff D, Smith AC, Tischendorf L, Vellend M & Watling JI. Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity? Biological Conservation 230: 179—186.

2018

Reider IJ, Donnelly MA & Watling JI. The influence of matrix quality on species richness in remnant forest. Landscape Ecology 33: 1147—1157.

Nowakowski AJ, Watling JI, Thompson ME, Brusch IV GA, Catenazzi A, Whitfield SM, Kurz DJ, Suárez-Mayorga A, Aponte-Gutiérrez A, Donnelly MA & Todd BD. Thermal biology mediates responses of amphibians and reptiles to habitat modification. Ecology Letters 21: 345—355.

2017

Pfeifer M, Lefebvre V, Peres CA, Banks-Leite C, Wearn OR, Marsh CJ, Butchart SHM, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Barlow J, Cerezo A, Cisneros L, D’Cruze N, Faria D, Hadley A, Harris SM, Klingbeil BT, Kormann U, Lens L, Medina-Rangel GF, Morante-Filho JC, Olivier P, Peters SL, Pidgeon A, Ribeiro DB, Scherber C, Schneider-Manoury L, Struebig M, Urbina-Cardona N, Watling JI, Willig MR, Wood ER & Ewers RM. Creation of forest edges has a global impact on forest vertebrates. Nature 551: 187—191.

Brandt, LA, Benscoter AM, Harvey R, Speroterra C, Bucklin D, Romañach SS, Watling JI & Mazzotti FJ. Comparison of climate envelope models developed using expert-selected variables versus statistical selection. Ecological Modelling 345: 10—20.

Hudson et al. The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity in Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecology and Evolution 7: 145—188.

Nowakowski AJ, Watling JI, Whitfield SM, Todd BD, Kurz DJ & Donnelly MA. Tropical amphibians in shifting thermal landscapes under land use and climate change.Conservation Biology 31: 96—105.

2015

Watling JI & Braga L. Desiccation resistance explains amphibian distributions in a fragmented tropical forest landscape.Landscape Ecology 30: 1449—1459.

Watling JI, Brandt LA, Bucklin DN, Fujisaki I, Mazzotti FJ, Romañach SS & Speroterra C. Performance metrics and variance partitioning reveal sources of uncertainty in species distribution models.Ecological Modelling 309-310: 48—59.

Bucklin DN, Basille M, Benscoter AM, Brandt LA, Mazzotti FJ, Romañach SS, Speroterra C & Watling JI. Comparing species distribution models constructed with different subsets of environmental data. Diversity and Distributions 21: 23—35.

Fujisaki I, Mazzotti, FJ, Watling JI, Krysko KL & Escribano Y. Geographic risk assessment reveals spatial variation in invasion potential of exotic reptiles in an invasive species hotspot. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 10: 621—632.

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
James Watling
Associate Professor and Coburn Chair of Environmental Science

My research and teaching interests focus on environmental biology and GIS