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Overview

Ross A. Alford is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans key subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Genetics.

The scientist's research focuses mainly on Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Turtle Biology and Conservation, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction. Additional topics include Animal and Plant Science Education, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and broader Plant and Animal Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ross A. Alford include Lin Schwarzkopf, Donald T. McKnight, Deborah S. Bower, Richard Shine, and Kyall R. Zenger. These collaborations reflect a multidisciplinary approach within ecological and biological sciences.

Ross A. Alford has published research in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include Scientific Reports, Biological Conservation, Biodiversity and Conservation, Microbiology, and Ecosphere.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ross A. Alford include:

  • Status and priority conservation actions for Australian frog species, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Citizen science data accurately predicts expert-derived species richness at a continental scale when sampling thresholds are met, 2020, Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Increased rates of dispersal of free-ranging cane toads (Rhinella marina) during their global invasion, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Microbiome diversity and composition varies across body areas in a freshwater turtle, 2020, Microbiology
  • The interplay of fungal and bacterial microbiomes on rainforest frogs following a disease outbreak, 2022, Ecosphere

Best Publications

  • Global Amphibian Declines: A Problem in Applied Ecology

    Ross A. Alford;Stephen J. Richards

  • Emerging infectious disease and the loss of biodiversity in a Neotropical amphibian community

    Karen R. Lips;Forrest Brem;Roberto Brenes;John D. Reeve

  • Pathogenesis of chytridiomycosis, a cause of catastrophic amphibian declines.

    Jamie L. Voyles;Samantha Young;Lee Berger;Craig Campbell

  • Emerging disease of amphibians cured by elevated body temperature

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Ross A. Alford;Gerry Marantelli

  • Resistance to chytridiomycosis varies among amphibian species and is correlated with skin peptide defenses

    D. C. Woodhams;D. C. Woodhams;K. Ardipradja;R. A. Alford;G. Marantelli

  • Effects of Larval Growth History on Anuran Metamorphosis

    Ross A. Alford;Reid N. Harris

  • The Novel and Endemic Pathogen Hypotheses: Competing Explanations for the Origin of Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife

    Lara J. Rachowicz;Jean-Marc Hero;Jean-Marc Hero;Ross A. Alford;John W. Taylor

  • Confronting Amphibian Declines and Extinctions

    Joseph R. Mendelson;Karen R. Lips;Ronald W. Gagliardo;George B. Rabb

  • Priority Effects in Experimental Pond Communities: Competition between Bufo and Rana

    Ross A. Alford;Henry M. Wilbur

  • Methods for normalizing microbiome data: an ecological perspective

    Donald T. McKnight;Roger Huerlimann;Deborah S. Bower;Deborah S. Bower;Lin Schwarzkopf

  • LIFE-HISTORY TRADE-OFFS INFLUENCE DISEASE IN CHANGING CLIMATES: STRATEGIES OF AN AMPHIBIAN PATHOGEN

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Ross A. Alford;Cheryl J. Briggs;Megan Johnson

  • Ecology of chytridiomycosis in rainforest stream frog assemblages of tropical Queensland.

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Ross A. Alford

  • Ecology. Global amphibian population declines.

    Ross A. Alford;Philip M. Dixon;Joseph H.K. Pechmann

  • Experimental Exposures of Boreal Toads ( Bufo boreas ) to a Pathogenic Chytrid Fungus ( Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis )

    Cynthia Carey;Judsen E. Bruzgul;Lauren J. Livo;Margie L. Walling

  • Declines in populations of Australia's endemic tropical rainforest frogs

    Stephen J. Richards;Keith R. McDonald;Ross A. Alford

  • Techniques for Marking Amphibians

    Maureen A. Donnelly;Craig Guyer;Eric J. Juterbock;Ross A. Alford

  • microDecon: A highly accurate read‐subtraction tool for the post‐sequencing removal of contamination in metabarcoding studies

    Donald T. McKnight;Roger Huerlimann;Deborah S. Bower;Deborah S. Bower;Lin Schwarzkopf

  • Priority effects in experimental pond communities: responses of Hyla to Bufo and Rana

    Henry M. Wilbur;Ross A. Alford

  • Distribution models for the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Costa Rica: proposing climatic refuges as a conservation tool

    Robert Puschendorf;Robert Puschendorf;Ana C. Carnaval;Jeremy VanDerWal;Héctor Zumbado-Ulate

  • Shelter Microhabitats Determine Body Temperature and Dehydration Rates of a Terrestrial Amphibian (Bufo marinus)

    Frank Seebacher;Ross A. Alford

  • Comparisons through time and space suggest rapid evolution of dispersal behaviour in an invasive species.

    Ross A. Alford;Gregory P. Brown;Lin Schwarzkopf;Benjamin L. Phillips

  • Antifungal isolates database of amphibian skin-associated bacteria and function against emerging fungal pathogens

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Ross A. Alford;Rachael E. Antwis;Holly Archer

Frequent Co-Authors

Lin Schwarzkopf
Lin Schwarzkopf James Cook University
Lee F. Skerratt
Lee F. Skerratt University of Melbourne
Stephen Richards
Stephen Richards South Australian Museum
Richard Speare
Richard Speare James Cook University
Douglas C. Woodhams
Douglas C. Woodhams University of Massachusetts Boston
Richard Shine
Richard Shine Macquarie University
Louise A. Rollins-Smith
Louise A. Rollins-Smith Vanderbilt University
Reid N. Harris
Reid N. Harris James Madison University
Richard G. Pearson
Richard G. Pearson James Cook University
Conrad J. Hoskin
Conrad J. Hoskin James Cook University

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