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Roland A. Knapp is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to amphibian and reptile biology, wildlife ecology and conservation, and species distribution and climate change. They also investigate aquaculture disease management and microbiota, fish ecology and management studies, gut microbiota and health, and reproductive tract infections research.

Knapp has contributed to several recent publications that address ecological and microbiological aspects of amphibians and their diseases. Notable papers include:

  • The amphibian microbiome exhibits poor resilience following pathogen-induced disturbance, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • Effectiveness of antifungal treatments during chytridiomycosis epizootics in populations of an endangered frog, 2022, PeerJ
  • Divergent regional evolutionary histories of a devastating global amphibian pathogen, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Longitudinal patterns in the skin microbiome of wild, individually marked frogs from the Sierra Nevada, California, 2021, ISME Communications
  • Alien fish eradication from high mountain lakes by multiple removal methods: Estimating residual abundance and eradication probability in open populations, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology

The scientist collaborates frequently with a core group of researchers. Frequent co-authors include Cheryl J. Briggs, Daniel M. Boiano, Maxwell B. Joseph, Thomas C. Smith, and Andrew P. Rothstein.

Their work is often published in venues relevant to ecology, microbiology, and conservation biology. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Conservation Genetics
  • The ISME Journal
  • PeerJ

Knapp's research spans the interdisciplinary fields of environmental science as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Among subfields, their work covers global and planetary change, ecology, molecular biology, ecological modeling, and microbiology.

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of an emerging disease drive large-scale amphibian population extinctions

    Vance T. Vredenburg;Roland A. Knapp;Tate S. Tunstall;Cheryl J. Briggs

  • Enzootic and epizootic dynamics of the chytrid fungal pathogen of amphibians

    Cheryl J. Briggs;Roland A. Knapp;Vance T. Vredenburg

  • Non‐Native Fish Introductions and the Decline of the Mountain Yellow‐Legged Frog from within Protected Areas

    Roland A. Knapp;Kathleen R. Matthews

  • RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE OF ALPINE LAKE FAUNA TO FISH INTRODUCTIONS

    Roland A. Knapp;Kathleen R. Matthews;Orlando Sarnelle

  • Emerging infectious disease as a proximate cause of amphibian mass mortality.

    Lara J. Rachowicz;Roland A. Knapp;Jess A. T. Morgan;Mary J. Stice

  • INVESTIGATING THE POPULATION‐LEVEL EFFECTS OF CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS: AN EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE OF AMPHIBIANS

    Cheryl J. Briggs;Vance T. Vredenburg;Roland A. Knapp;Lara J. Rachowicz

  • Population genetics of the frog-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

    Jess A. T. Morgan;Vance T. Vredenburg;Lara J. Rachowicz;Roland A. Knapp

  • Removal of nonnative fish results in population expansion of a declining amphibian (mountain yellow-legged frog, Rana muscosa).

    Roland A. Knapp;Daniel M. Boiano;Vance T. Vredenburg

  • Alteration of Nutrient Cycles and Algal Production Resulting from Fish Introductions into Mountain Lakes

    Daniel E. Schindler;Roland A. Knapp;Peter R. Leavitt

  • Courtship as an honest indicator of male parental quality in the bicolor damselfish stegastes partitus

    Roland A. Knapp;John T. Kovach

  • Effects of nonnative fish and habitat characteristics on lentic herpetofauna in Yosemite National Park, USA

    Roland A. Knapp

  • Nonnative trout impact an alpine‐nesting bird by altering aquatic‐insect subsidies

    Peter N. Epanchin;Roland A. Knapp;Sharon P. Lawler

  • Multiple stressors and amphibian declines: dual impacts of pesticides and fish on yellow-legged frogs.

    Carlos Davidson;Roland A. Knapp

  • Eradication of Nonnative Fish by Gill Netting from a Small Mountain Lake in California

    Roland A. Knapp;Kathleen R. Matthews

  • DEVELOPING PROBABILISTIC MODELS TO PREDICT AMPHIBIAN SITE OCCUPANCY IN A PATCHY LANDSCAPE

    Roland A. Knapp;Kathleen R. Matthews;Haiganoush K. Preisler;Robert Jellison

  • The Introduction of Nonnative Fish into Wilderness Lakes: Good Intentions, Conflicting Mandates, and Unintended Consequences

    Roland A. Knapp;Paul Stephen Corn;Daniel E. Schindler

  • Large-scale recovery of an endangered amphibian despite ongoing exposure to multiple stressors

    Roland A. Knapp;Gary M. Fellers;Patrick M. Kleeman;David A. W. Miller

  • Concordant molecular and phenotypic data delineate new taxonomy and conservation priorities for the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog

    V. T. Vredenburg;R. Bingham;R. Knapp;J. A. T. Morgan

  • Egg-mimicry as a mating strategy in the fantail darter, Etheostoma flabellare: females prefer males with eggs

    Roland A. Knapp;Robert Craig Sargent

  • BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES

    Ulrich Brose;Lara Cushing;Eric L. Berlow;Tomas Jonsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Vance T. Vredenburg
Vance T. Vredenburg San Francisco State University
Cheryl J. Briggs
Cheryl J. Briggs University of California, Santa Barbara
Orlando Sarnelle
Orlando Sarnelle Michigan State University
Michael E. Pfrender
Michael E. Pfrender University of Notre Dame
Erica Bree Rosenblum
Erica Bree Rosenblum University of California, Berkeley
Richard J. Williams
Richard J. Williams Vibrant Data Labs
Haiganoush K. Preisler
Haiganoush K. Preisler US Forest Service
Paul Stephen Corn
Paul Stephen Corn United States Geological Survey
Jess A. T. Morgan
Jess A. T. Morgan Department of Primary Industries, Queensland
Staci L. Massey Simonich
Staci L. Massey Simonich Oregon State University

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