2020-present

Aug 5, 2026

2026

Valderrama Robles SC, Russell MG, Anthony CD & Watling JI. Effect of temperature acclimation period on upper thermal tolerance in a terrestrial salamander. PeerJ 14:e20775.

2025

Saboyá Acosta LP, Watling JI & Urbina-Cardona JN. Heterogeneity does matter: estimating relationships between anuran diversity and the environment at different spatial scales in a protected páramo of Colombia. Landscape Ecology 40:98.

Flinn KM, Litwinowicz Z, Mahany TP & Watling JI. Presettlement tree distributions and forest types in northeast Ohio, USA, mapped with species distribution models. Journal of Vegetation Science e70007.

2024

Ryan JM, Kuchta SR, Watling JI, Hickerson C-AM & Anthony CD. Color polymorphism and phylogeographic variation of agonistic behavior in the Eastern red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus). Herpetologica 80:83-90.

2023

Nowakowski AJ, Watling JI, Murray A, Deichman JL, Akre TS, Muñoz Brenes CL, Todd BD, McRae L, Freeman R & Frishkoff LO. Protected areas slow declines unevenly across the tetrapod tree of life. Nature 622:101-106.

Veselka AJ, Aponte-Gutiérrez A, Medina-Baez OA & Watling JI. Upper thermal limits predict herpetofaunal responses to forest edge and cover. Biotropica 55:540-550.

2022

Fahrig L, Watling JI, Arnillas CA, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Jörger-Hickfang T, Müller J, Pereira HM, Riva F, Rösch V, Seibold S, Tscharntke T & May F. Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda. Biological Reviews 97:99-114.

Watling JI & Urbina-Cardona JN. Virtual special issue: Insights from a landscape ecological perspective for tropical biology and conservation. Biotropica 54:546-550.

Ashford M, Watling JI & Hart K. One shell of a problem: Cumulative threat analysis of male sea turtles indicates high anthropogenic threat for migratory individuals and Gulf of Mexico residents. Remote Sensing 14:3887.

2020

Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Fahrig L, Tabarelli M, Watling JI, Tischendorf L, Benchimol M, Cazetta E, Faria D, Leal I, Melo FPL, Morante-Filho JC, Santos BA, Arasa-Gisbert R, Arce-Peña N, Cervantes-López MJ, Cudney-Valenzuela S, Galán Acedo C, San-José M, Vieira ICG, Ferry Slick JW, Nowakowski AJ & Tscharntke T. Designing optimal human-modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation. Ecology Letters 23: 1404-4020.

Watling JI, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Pfeifer M, Banks-Leite C, Cisneros LM, Fang R, Lander B, Leal IR, Lens L, Possingham HP, Raheem DC, Ribeiro DB, Slade EM, Urbina-Cardona JN, Wood EM & Fahrig L. Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies. Ecology Letters 23: 674—681.

Cherkiss MS, Watling JI, Brandt LA, Mazzotti FJ, Lindsay J, Beauchamp JS, Lorenz J, Wasilewski JL, Fujisaki I & Hart KM. Shifts in hatching date of American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in southern Florida. Journal of Thermal Biology 88: 10251.

Basille M, Watling JI, Romañach SS & Borkharaia R. Joint seasonality in geographic and ecological spaces, illustrated with a partially migratory bird. Ecosphere 11: e03110.

Costanza JK, Watling J, Sutherland R, Belyea C, Dilkina B, Cayton H, Bucklin D, Romañach SS & Haddad NM. Preserving connectivity under climate and land-use change: no one-size-fits-all approach for focal species in similar habitats. Biological Conservation 248: 108678.

James Watling

Associate Professor and Coburn Chair of Environmental Science

My research and teaching interests focus on environmental biology and GIS