1. 2018 - present

Jun 21, 2021

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.

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.

James Watling

Associate Professor and Coburn Chair of Environmental Science

My research and teaching interests focus on environmental biology and GIS