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W. C. Funk Curriculum Vitae 1 W. Chris Funk Department of Biology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1878 [email protected] EDUCATION PhD University of Montana 1997–2004 Missoula, Montana Advisors: Fred W. Allendorf & Andrew L. Sheldon BA Wesleyan University 1992–1994 (Phi Beta Kappa) Middletown, Connecticut Reed College 1990–1991 Portland, Oregon APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor (Vertebrate Evolutionary Ecologist), Department of Biology, Colorado State University (Aug 2008–present) Assistant Professor (Conservation Biologist), Department of Biology, College of William & Mary (Aug 2007–May 2008) Postdoctoral Research Associate (Conservation Geneticist, GS-11), USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (Jan 2006–July 2007; Advisor: Susan M. Haig) Postdoctoral Fellow (Speciation and Phylogeography), Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas (Feb 2004–Dec 2005; Advisors: Michael J. Ryan and David C. Cannatella) PUBLICATIONS Publication Summary Overall, I have published 37 referred papers in a diversity of scientific journals and edited volumes. Since starting at CSU four years ago, I have published 19 papers (published or in press), including several in high impact journals such as Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Conservation Biology, Evolutionary Applications, and Biology Letters. I am lead author on 9 of these 19 papers. I also have several manuscripts in review or close to submission. (*graduate student co-author, †undergraduate student co-author) Refereed Journal Articles Published or In Press Fairman CM*, Bailey LL, Chambers RM, Russell TM, Funk WC (2013) Species-specific effects of acidity on pond occupancy in Ambystoma salamanders. Journal of Herpetology, in press. W. C. Funk Curriculum Vitae 2 Trillo PA, Athanas KA*, Goldhill DH*, Hoke KL, Funk WC (2013) The influence of geographic heterogeneity in predation pressure on sexual signal divergence in an Amazonian frog species complex. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26, 216-222. Funk WC, McKay JK, Hohenlohe PA, Allendorf FW (2012) Harnessing genomics for delineating conservation units. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27, 489-496. Amburgey SA†, Funk WC, Murphy MA, Muths E (2012) Effects of hydroperiod duration on survival, developmental rate, and size at metamorphosis in boreal chorus frog tadpoles (Pseudacris maculata). Herpetologica 68, 456-467. Safran R, Flaxman S, Kopp M, Irwin D, Evans MR, Funk WC, Gray D, Seddon N, Scordato E, Symes L, Uy A (2012) A robust, new metric of phenotypic distance to estimate and compare multiple trait differences among populations. Current Zoology 58, 423-436. Funk WC, Caminer M†, Ron SR (2012) High levels of cryptic species diversity uncovered in Amazonian frogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, 1806–1814. Featured by Nature in their Research Highlights section (Nature, 2011, 480:154) Featured by the Denver Post (December 26, 2011) Featured by the Frankfurter Neue Presse (December 9, 2011) Featured by the Globe and Mail (December 29, 2011) Featured on the CSU website homepage, Today @ CSU, and on YouTube Featured on the CSU Faculty & Staff Life newsletter (January/February 2012) Phillipsen IC*, Funk WC, Hoffman E, Monsen K, Blouin M (2011) Comparative analyses of effective population size within and among species: ranid frogs as a case study. Evolution 65, 2927-2945. Funk WC, Garcia TS, Cortina GA†, Hill RH* (2011) Population genetics of introduced bullfrogs, Rana (Lithobates) catesbeianus, in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA. Biological Invasions 13, 651-658. Cadena CD, Cheviron ZA, Funk WC (2011) Testing the molecular and evolutionary causes of a ‘leapfrog’ pattern of geographical variation in coloration. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24, 402-414. Funk WC, Murphy MA (2010) Testing evolutionary hypotheses for phenotypic divergence using landscape genetics. Molecular Ecology 19, 427-430. Funk WC, Forsman ED, Johnson M, Mullins TD, Haig SM (2010) Evidence for recent population bottlenecks in Northern Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis caurina). Conservation Genetics 11, 1013-1021. Featured by Discovery Channel News (Sohn, Emily, Discovery Channel News, June 25, 2009) Featured by Conservation Magazine Journal Watch Online (Leber, Jessica, Conservation Magazine, June 10, 2009) Featured by The Oregonian newspaper's OregonLive.com (Preusch, Matthew, The Oregonian, June 10, 2009) Featured by The Seattle Times (Cornwall, Warren, The Seattle Times, August 13, 2008) Funk WC, Cannatella DC, Ryan MJ (2009) Genetic divergence is more tightly related to call variation than landscape features in the Amazonian frogs Physalaemus petersi and P. freibergi. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22, 1839-1853. W. C. Funk Curriculum Vitae 3 Funk WC, Cannatella DC (2009) A new, large species of Chiasmocleis Mehely 1904 (Anura: Microhylidae) from the Iquitos region, Amazonian Peru. Zootaxa 2247, 37-50. Guayasamin JM, Funk WC (2009) The amphibian community at Yanayacu Biological Station, Ecuador, with a comparison of vertical microhabitat use among Pristimantis species and the description of a new species of the Pristimantis myersi group. Zootaxa 2220, 41-66. Greene AE†, Funk WC (2009) Sexual selection on morphology in an explosive breeding amphibian, the Columbia spotted frog (Rana luteiventris). Journal of Herpetology 43, 244- 251. Funk WC, Pearl CA, Draheim HM*, Adams MJ, Mullins TD, Haig SM (2008) Range-wide phylogeographic analysis of the spotted frog complex (Rana luteiventris and Rana pretiosa) in northwestern North America. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49, 198-210. Funk WC, Angulo A, Caldwell JP, Ryan MJ, Cannatella DC (2008) Comparison of morphology and calls of two cryptic species of Physalaemus (Anura: Leiuperidae). Herpetologica 64, 290-304. Greeney HF, Gelis RA, Funk WC (2008) Predation on caecilians (Caecilia orientalis) by Barred Hawks (Leucopternis princeps) depends on rainfall. Herpetological Review 39, 162-164. Funk WC, Forsman ED, Mullins TD, Haig SM (2008) Introgression and dispersal among Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis) subspecies. Evolutionary Applications 1, 161-171. Featured on the cover of the inaugural issue of Evolutionary Applications. Boul KE, Funk WC (joint first author), Darst CR, Cannatella DC, Ryan MJ (2007) Sexual selection drives speciation in an Amazonian frog. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274, 399-406. Featured in the New York Times (Yoon, Carol Kaesuk, New York Times, February 9, 2009) Featured by Nature in their Research Highlights section (Nature, 2006, 444:4) Highlighted on the Proceedings of the Royal Society B web site Funk WC, Caldwell JP, Peden CE*, Padial JM, de la Riva I, Cannatella DC (2007) Tests of biogeographic hypotheses for diversification in the Amazonian forest frog, Physalaemus petersi. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44, 825-837. Funk WC, Mullins TD, Haig SM (2007) Conservation genetics of Snowy Plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus) in the Western Hemisphere: population genetic structure and delineation of subspecies. Conservation Genetics 8, 1287-1309. Funk WC, Mullins TD, Forsman ED, Haig SM (2007) Microsatellite loci for distinguishing Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis), Barred Owls (Strix varia), and their hybrids. Molecular Ecology Notes 7, 284-286. Guayasamin JM, Bustamante MR*, Almeida-Reinoso D*, Funk WC (2006) Glass frogs (Centrolenidae) of Yanayacu Biological Station, Ecuador, with the description of a new species and comments on centrolenid systematics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 147, 489-513. Funk WC, Blouin MS, Corn PS, Maxell BA, Pilliod DS, Amish S*, Allendorf FW (2005) Population structure of Columbia spotted frogs (Rana luteiventris) is strongly affected by the landscape. Molecular Ecology 14, 483-496. Funk WC, Greene AE†, Corn PS, Allendorf FW (2005) High dispersal in a frog species suggests that it is vulnerable to habitat fragmentation. Biology Letters 1, 13-16. W. C. Funk Curriculum Vitae 4 Prominently featured at the beginning of the Dynamics of Multiple Populations chapter in L. S. Mills’ Conservation of Wildlife Populations (2007, Blackwell Publishing). Funk WC, Tyburczy JA†, Knudsen KL, Lindner KR, Allendorf FW (2005) Genetic basis of variation in morphological and life-history traits of a wild population of pink salmon. Journal of Heredity 96, 24-31. Featured in the Quantitative Genetics chapter of F. W. Allendorf and G. Luikart’s Conservation and the Genetics of Populations (2007, Blackwell Publishing). Funk WC, Fletcher-Lazo G, Nogales-Sornosa F*, Almeida-Reinoso D* (2004) First description of a clutch and nest site for the genus Caecilia (Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae). Herpetological Review 35, 128-130. Greeney HF, Krabbe N, Lysinger M, Funk WC (2004) Observations on the breeding and vocalizations of the Fulvous-breasted Flatbill (Rhynchocyclus fulvipectus) in eastern Ecuador. Ornitologia Neotropical 15, 365-370. Funk WC, Mills LS (2003) Potential causes of population declines in forest fragments in an Amazonian frog. Biological Conservation 111, 205-214. Funk WC, Almeida-Reinoso D*, Nogales-Sornosa F*, Bustamante MR* (2003) Monitoring population trends of Eleutherodactylus frogs. Journal of Herpetology 37, 245-256. Biek R, Funk WC, Maxell BA, Mills LS (2002) What is missing in amphibian decline research: Insights from ecological sensitivity analysis. Conservation Biology 16, 728-734. Tallmon DA, Funk WC, Dunlap WW, Allendorf FW (2000) Genetic differentiation among long-toed
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    Systematics and Diversity of 3 Extant Amphibians he three extant lissamphibian lineages (hereafter amples of classic systematics papers. We present widely referred to by the more common term amphibians) used common names of groups in addition to scientifi c Tare descendants of a common ancestor that lived names, noting also that herpetologists colloquially refer during (or soon after) the Late Carboniferous. Since the to most clades by their scientifi c name (e.g., ranids, am- three lineages diverged, each has evolved unique fea- bystomatids, typhlonectids). tures that defi ne the group; however, salamanders, frogs, A total of 7,303 species of amphibians are recognized and caecelians also share many traits that are evidence and new species—primarily tropical frogs and salaman- of their common ancestry. Two of the most defi nitive of ders—continue to be described. Frogs are far more di- these traits are: verse than salamanders and caecelians combined; more than 6,400 (~88%) of extant amphibian species are frogs, 1. Nearly all amphibians have complex life histories. almost 25% of which have been described in the past Most species undergo metamorphosis from an 15 years. Salamanders comprise more than 660 species, aquatic larva to a terrestrial adult, and even spe- and there are 200 species of caecilians. Amphibian diver- cies that lay terrestrial eggs require moist nest sity is not evenly distributed within families. For example, sites to prevent desiccation. Thus, regardless of more than 65% of extant salamanders are in the family the habitat of the adult, all species of amphibians Plethodontidae, and more than 50% of all frogs are in just are fundamentally tied to water.
  • Breeding Biology of Neotropical Accipitriformes: Current Knowledge and Research Priorities

    Breeding Biology of Neotropical Accipitriformes: Current Knowledge and Research Priorities

    Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 26(2): 151–186. ARTICLE June 2018 Breeding biology of Neotropical Accipitriformes: current knowledge and research priorities Julio Amaro Betto Monsalvo1,3, Neander Marcel Heming2 & Miguel Ângelo Marini2 1 Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia, IB, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil. 2 Departamento de Zoologia, IB, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil. 3 Corresponding author: [email protected] Received on 08 March 2018. Accepted on 20 July 2018. ABSTRACT: Despite the key role that knowledge on breeding biology of Accipitriformes plays in their management and conservation, survey of the state-of-the-art and of information gaps spanning the entire Neotropics has not been done since 1995. We provide an updated classification of current knowledge about breeding biology of Neotropical Accipitridae and define the taxa that should be prioritized by future studies. We analyzed 440 publications produced since 1995 that reported breeding of 56 species. There is a persistent scarcity, or complete absence, of information about the nests of eight species, and about breeding behavior of another ten. Among these species, the largest gap of breeding data refers to the former “Leucopternis” hawks. Although 66% of the 56 evaluated species had some improvement on knowledge about their breeding traits, research still focus disproportionately on a few regions and species, and the scarcity of breeding data on many South American Accipitridae persists. We noted that analysis of records from both a citizen science digital database and museum egg collections significantly increased breeding information on some species, relative to recent literature. We created four groups of priority species for breeding biology studies, based on knowledge gaps and threat categories at global level.