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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Want to read my research? I hope you find my research interesting and useful. Given many people and organizations do not have access to the scientific literature, I try to publish my studies in open access (free-to-download) journals so that anyone can access my work for free. Links for most of my articles are available with each study listed below. If you are unable to access any of these, please send me an email and I will send you copies of any of my studies you are interested in.

My PhD thesis:Sex_In_The_Suburbs

*signifies equal authorship

2021

Lambert, M. R., Ezaz, T., and D. K. Skelly. 2021. Sex-biased mortality and sex reversal regulate wild frog sex ratios. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. DOI:10.3389/fevo.2021.756476

Lambert, M. R., Hernández-Gómez, O., Krohn, A. R., Mutlow, A., Patterson, L., Rosenblum, E. R., Timmer, M., Willis, J., and J. Bushell. 2021. Turtle Shell Disease fungus (Emydomyces testavorans): first documented occurrence in California and prevalence in free-living turtles. Ichthyology and Herpetology. DOI:10.1643/h2020151

Uetz, P., Koo, M. S., Aguilar, R., Brings, E., Catenazzi, A., Chang, A. T., Chaitanya, R., Gross, J., Hammgermann, M., Hosek, J., Lambert, M., Sergi, Z., Spencer, C. L., Summers, K., Tarvin, R., Vredenburg, V. T., and D. B. Wake. 2021. A quarter century of reptile and amphibian databases. Herpetological Review 52: 246-255.

Lambert, M. R., Brans, K. I., Des Roches, S., Donihue, C. M., and S. E. Diamond. 2021. Adaptive evolution in cities: progress and misconceptions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2020.11.002

2020

Borrelle, S. B.*, Koch, J. B.*, Ingeman, K. E.*, McGill, B. M.*, Lambert, M. R.*,  Dudney, J.*, Chang, C.*, Teffer, A. K.*, and G. C. Wu*. 2020. What does it mean to be for a place? Pacific Conservation Biology. DOI:10.1071/PC20015

Schell, C. J., Dyson, K., Fuentes, T. L., Des Roches, S., Harris, N. C., Miller, D. S., Woelfle-Erskine, C. A., and M. R. Lambert. 2020. The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments. Science. DOI:10.1126/science.aay4497

Des Roches, S.*, Brans, K. I.*, Lambert, M. R.*, Rivkin*, L. R., Savage*, A. M., Schell, C. J.*, Correa, C., De Meester, L., Diamond, S. E., Grimm, N. B., Harris, N. C., Hendry, A. P., Govaert, L., Johnson, M. T. J., Munshi-South, J., Palkovacs, E. P., Szulkin, M., Urban, M. C., Verrelli, B. C., and M. Alberti. 2020. Socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics in cities. Evolutionary Applications. DOI:10.1111/eva.13065

Lambert, M. R. and C. M. Donihue. 2020. Urban biodiversity management using evolutionary tools. Nature Ecology & Evolution. DOI:10.1038/s41559-020-1193-7

Lambert, M. R.*, Womack, M. C.*, Byrne, A. Q., Grundler, M. R., Hernandez-Gomez, O., Noss, C. F., Rothstein, A. P., Blackburn, D. C., Collins, J. P., Crump, M. L., Koo, M. S., Nanjappa, P., Rollins-Smith, L., Vredenburg, V. T., and E. B. Rosenblum. 2020. Response to Scheele et al.: The amphibian chytrid crisis remains data deficient. Science 367. DOI:10.1126/science.aay1838

– Reanalysis of Scheele et al. (2019) demonstrating absent or insufficient data in this study linking infectious disease to the decline and extinction of 501 amphibian species

– Inspired this Dynamic Ecology blog post “How should Comment-Reply exchanges be structured. Thoughts inspired by a recent exchange of comments on a high-profile conservation paper”

2019

Monk, J. D., *Giglio, E., *Kamath, A., *Lambert, M. R. and *C. McDonough. 2019. An alternative hypothesis for the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior in animals. Nature Ecology & Evolution DOI:10.1038/s41559-019-1019-7

Mossman, A., Lambert, M. R., Wikle, J., Ashton, M., and M. Duguid. 2019. Not all amphibians are created equal: differential responses of salamanders and newts across a shelterwood timber harvest chronosequence. PeerJ DOI:10.7717/peerj.7604

Lambert, M. R., Screen, R., McKenzie, J., Clause, A., Johnson, B., Mount, G., Rollins, H., Pauly, G., and H. B. Shaffer. 2019. Experimental removal of introduced slider turtles offers new insight into competition with a native, threatened turtle. PeerJ DOI:10.7717/peerj.7444

Lambert, M. R. and D. A. Steen. 2019. (Re)examining the effects of urbanization on the population structure of freshwater turtles across the United States. Conservation Biology DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13397

Lambert, M. R., Tran, T., Kilian, A., Ezaz, T., and D. K. Skelly. 2019. Molecular evidence for sex reversal in wild populations of green frogs (Rana clamitans). PeerJ DOI 10.7717/peerj.6449

2018

Ogata, M., Lambert, M. R., Ezaz, T., and I. Miura. 2018. The evolution of sex determination preferentially converged on ZZ-ZW type from admixing of XX-XY and ZZ-ZW types in a frog species. Molecular Ecology DOI:10.1111/mec.14831

Lambert, M. R., Smylie, M. S., Roman, A. J., Freidenburg, L. K., and D. K. Skelly. 2018. Sexual and somatic development of wood frog tadpoles along a thermal gradient. Journal of Experimental Zoology DOI:10.1002/jez.2172

2017

Lambert, M. R., Carlson, B. E., Smylie, M. S., and L. N. Swierk. 2017. Ontogeny of sexual dichromatism in the explosively breeding wood frog. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 12: 447-456. Link.

Holgerson, M. A., Lambert, M. R., Freidenburg, L. K., and D. K. Skelly. 2017. From land conversion to wastewater incursion: suburbanization transforms small pond ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2016-0526

Lambert, M. R. and T. M. Edwards. 2017. Phytoestrogens and Vertebrate Evolution. Evolutionary Applications (Invited Perspective). DOI: 10.1111/eva.12469

2016

Ceriaco, L. M. P., Gutierrez, E. E., Dubois, A., … Lambert, M. R. …et al. [492 other signatories]. 2016. Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences. Zootaxa 4196: 435-445. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.9

Lambert, M. R., Stoler, A. B, Smylie, M. S., Relyea, R. A., and D. K. Skelly. 2016. Interactive effect of road salt and leaf litter on wood frog sex ratios and metamorphic sexual size dimorphism. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences: DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2016-0324

Lambert, M. R., Skelly, D. K., and T. Ezaz. 2016. Sex-linked markers in the North American green frog (Rana clamitans) developed using DArTseq elucidate Dmrt1 as a putative sex-determining gene and provide early insight into sex chromosome recombination. BMC Genomics 17: 844 DOI 10.1186/s12864-016-3209-x

Lambert, M. R. and D. K. Skelly. 2016. Chemical diversity and endocrine disruption in the wild. Endocrine Disruptors (Invited Commentary). DOI:10.1080/23273747.2016.1148803

Lambert, M. R., Giller, G. S. J., Skelly, D. K., and R. G. Bribiescas. 2016. Septic systems, but not sanitary sewer lines, are associated with elevated estradiol in frog metamorphs from suburban ponds. General and Comparative Endocrinology 232: 109-114. DOI:10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.01.009

2015

Lambert, M. R.  2015. Clover root exudate produces male-biased sex ratios and accelerates male metamorphic timing in wood frogs. Royal Society Open Science 2: DOI:10.1098/rsos.150433

Yu, T. L. and M. R. Lambert. 2015. Conspecific visual cues: the relative importance of interference and exploitation competition among tadpoles of Rana kukunoris. Ethology, Ecology, and Evolution 2015: 1-7. DOI:10.1080/03949370.2015/1092477

Lambert, M. R., Giller, G. S. J., Barber, L. B., Fitzgerald, K. C., and D. K. Skelly. 2015. Suburbanization, estrogen contamination, and sex ratio in wild amphibian populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 11881-11886. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1501065112

2014

^*Donihue, C. M. and M. R. Lambert. 2014. Adaptive evolution in urban ecosystems. AMBIO. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-014-0547-2

(Recommended by Faculty of 1000: F1000)

2013

Lambert, M. R. , Yasuda, C. M. , and B. D. Todd. 2013. Ontogenetic shift in habitat use in the western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) in northern California. Herpetological Review: 579-582. ResearchGate Link.

Lambert, M. R. , Nielsen, S. N. , Wright, A. N., Thomson, R. C., and H. B. Shaffer. 2013. Habitat features determine the basking distribution of introduced red-eared sliders and native western pond turtles. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 12: 192-199. http://dx.doi.org/10.2744/CCB-1010.1

2012

Lambert, M. R. , Yasuda, C. M., and B. D. Todd. 2012. Estimating snout-vent length (SVL) in lizards using image analysis. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 7: 83-88. Link.