James I. Watling Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Biology Campus Box 1137, 1 Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130, USA 314.935.6860, 314.935.4432 (Fax), watlingj@wustl.edu EDUCATION Ph.D., Biological Sciences. Florida International University. Dissertation: Distribution and ecology of amphibians and reptiles in a fragmented landscape, Bolivia 2005 M.S., Biological Sciences. Florida International University. Thesis: Reproductive patterns among the leaf litter anurans of La Selva, Costa Rica 2000 OTS 99-3, Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach. Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica 1999 B.A., Environmental Science. Boston University 1996 Studies in Tropical Ecology. Boston University/Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador 1995 LANGUAGES English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), Portuguese (basic written & spoken), French (basic written & spoken), Surinamese (basic spoken) PROFESSIONAL Post-doctoral Researcher, Washington University in St. Louis. 2008 APPOINTMENTS Suriname Site Scientist, Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network, Conservation International. 2007 2008 Post-doctoral Researcher, Florida International University. 2005 2007 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Watling, J. I. and M. A. Donnelly. 2008. Amphibian and reptile species richness and composition in a fragmented forest landscape in northeastern Bolivia. Basic and Applied Ecology 9:523 532. Savage, J. M. and J. I. Watling. 2008. Not so rare snakes: a revision of the Geophis sieboldi group (Colubridae: Dipsadinae) in lower Central America and Colombia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153:561 599. Watling, J.I. and M. A. Donnelly. 2007. Multivariate correlates of extinction proneness in a naturally fragmented landscape. Diversity and Distributions 13:372 378. Watling, J. I. and M. A. Donnelly. 2006. Fragments as islands: a synthesis of faunal responses to habitat patchiness. Conservation Biology 20:1016 1025. J. I. Watling: Curriculum vitae 1
Watling, J. I., J. H. Waddle, D. A. Kizirian, and M. A. Donnelly. 2005. Reproductive phenology of three lizard species in Costa Rica, with comments on seasonal reproduction of Neotropical lizards. Journal of Herpetology 39:341-348. Watling, J. I. 2005. Edaphically-biased distributions of amphibians and reptiles in a lowland tropical rainforest. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 40:15-21. Watling, J. I. And M. A. Donnelly. 2002. Seasonal patterns of reproduction and abundance of leaf litter frogs in a Central American rainforest. Journal of Zoology (London) 258:269-276. Boback, S. M., E. Burroughs, C. Ugarte, and J. Watling. 2000. Boa constrictor Diet. Herpetological Review 31:244-245. PUBLISHED REPORTS Watling, J. I. and L. Ngadino*. 2007. Amphibians and Reptiles of Eastern Suriname. In: Alonso, L. E. and J. H. Mol (Editors), pp 119-125. A Rapid Biological Assessment of the Lely and Nassau Plateaus, Suriname (with additional information on the Brownsberg Plateau). RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 43. Arlington, VA: Conservation International. * denotes undergraduate collaborator GRANTS Florida International University Dissertation Year Fellowship. RECEIVED $20,000.00 2004 2005 United States Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship #91592301-0. 2003 2004: $27,273.00, 2002 2003: $24,768.00, 2001 2002: $25,931.00 2001 2004 Organization for Tropical Studies. Pilot Research Grant. $1000.00 2001 Florida International University. Tropical Biology Program. $1,383.00 2000 Organization for Tropical Studies. $280.00 1999 Florida International University. Tropical Biology Program. $1,000 1998 TEACHING & MENTORING Washington University in St Louis. With Dr. John Orrock, provided a one-day field experience to two high school students as part of the Shaw Institute for Field Training (SIFT) program; mentored a graduate student rotating in the Orrock lab (including both weekly field outings and meetings); mentored an Undergraduate doing an honors thesis in the Orrock lab (including twice weekly field outings). 2008 Resource Person. Neotropical Herpetology, Organization for Tropical Studies Specialty Course. 2008 Guest Instructor. Tropical Ecology, Florida International University 2006 J. I. Watling: Curriculum vitae 2
Scientific Advisor to three students at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia: C. Ivan Zambrana F. Thesis: Propiedades bioacústicas de un ensamblaje de anuros en el Rio Paragua durante la epoca de transición en la Reserva Biológica El Refugio, Santa Cruz, Bolivia Paula Coca S. Thesis: Uso de habitat de reproducción por anuros durante la estación lluviosa en El Refugio, Santa Cruz, Bolivia Yara Sorena H. Thesis: Variación de la composición, riqueza y abundancia de herpetofauna entre bosque continuo e islas de bosque de la reserva ecológica El Refugio, Santa Cruz-Bolivia 2002 2003 Instructor, Florida International University. General Biology I Laboratory (Spring 1999 2001); General Biology II Laboratory (Fall 1998-Fall 2000, Summer 1999), Introduction to Botany Laboratory (Summer 2000) 1998 2001 Guest Instructor. General Biology II (Organismal Diversity), Florida 1998 International University INVITED PRESENTATIONS & SYMPOSIA Kenneth Tjon, James I. Watling and Krisna Gajapersad. Defining an appropriate spatial scale for monitoring threats to biodiversity in the Central Suriname Nature Reserve. Symposium: Measuring biodiversity responses to changing human influences: a conceptual framework and case studies form the humid tropics; June, 2008: Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Paramaribo, Suriname. James I. Watling. Community assembly in a naturally-fragmented landscape: island biogeography, habitat and space. February 2008: Washington University in St. Louis. James I Watling. Ecology of amphibians and reptiles in a naturally-fragmented landscape, northeastern Bolivia. January 2007: Florida International University, Department of Environmental Studies Symposium; December, 2006: University of Maryland, Department of Biology and Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture. James I. Watling and Maureen A. Donnelly. A re-examination of diversity patterns of South American herpetofaunas using multivariate statistical approaches (Presented by M. A. Donnelly). July 2006: Symposium in honor of Joseph B. Slowinski, Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, New Orleans USA James I. Watling. Ecology and natural history of an ecological transition zone: A perspective from northeastern Bolivia. August 2005: Everglades National Park, USA. CONTRIBUTED PRSENTATIONS James I. Watling and Maureen A. Donnelly. Macroecological patterns at the mesoscale:distribution, abundance, and body size of amphibians and reptiles on forest islands in northeastern Bolivia. July, 2008: Joint Meeting of Ichthyologistsand Herpetologists, Montreal, Canada. J. I. Watling: Curriculum vitae 3
James I. Watling, Maureen A. Donnelly, Kallia Cooper* and Monica Isola* (presented by M. A. Donnelly). Landscape effects on the distribution of amphibians and reptiles in the Big Cypress National Preserve. July 2007: Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. St. Louis, MO. * denotes undergraduate collaborator James I. Watling and Maureen A. Donnelly. Species richness and composition of amphibians and reptiles on isolated tabletop mountains of the Guayana Shield. July 2006: Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists New Orleans USA; August 2006: Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Memphis, USA. James I. Watling and Maureen A. Donnelly. Nested species subsets of amphibians and reptiles on forest islands in northeastern Bolivia. July 2005: Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Uberlandia, Brazil; July 2005: Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Tampa, USA. James I. Watling. Distribution and ecology of amphibians and reptiles in a fragmented landscape in northeastern Bolivia. January 2005: Florida International University Biology Symposium, Miami, USA. James I. Watling. Edaphically-biased distributions of amphibians and reptiles in a Central American rainforest. July 2002: Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology, Panama City, Panama. James I. Watling. Edaphically-biased distributions of amphibians and reptiles in a Lowland tropical rainforest. July 2002: Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Kansas City, USA. James I. Watling and Maureen A. Donnelly. Spatio-temporal variation in community composition of leaf litter frogs and lizards in a Neotropical rainforest. July 2001: Joint Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles and The Herpetologist s League, Indianapolis, USA. James I. Watling. Edaphically-biased distribution patterns of amphibians and reptiles in a Costa Rican forest. October 2002: Coalition for Excellence in Tropical Biology (CETroB) Meeting, Miami, USA. Poster Presentation James I. Watling and Maureen A. Donnelly. Reproductive phenology of Eleutherodactylus species at La Selva, Costa Rica. February 2000: Florida International University Tropical Biology Symposium, Miami, USA; April 2000: All Florida Herpetology Conference, Gainesville, USA; June 2000: Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, La Paz, Mexico. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Postdoctoral researcher. Established research projects investigating (1) consumer effects on plants in Ozark glades and (2) effects of invasion of the Bush Honeysuckle, Lonicera maackii on amphibian and reptile communities, treehole mosquito communities, and plant-animal interactions in a suburban landscape, Missouri. 2008 Site Scientist. Worked with TEAM network personnel in Washington, DC J. I. Watling: Curriculum vitae 4
and Surinamese technicians to implement TEAM standardized biodiversity protocols in the Central Suriname Nature Reserve. 2007 2008 Researcher. Participated in field research on Dendrobates pumilio in the Bocas del Toro region, Panama. 2006 Researcher. Conservation International. Participated in 18-day Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) survey in Eastern Suriname and represented CI in Biodiversity Threats and Analysis workshop upon completion of field portion of RAP. 2005 Postdoctoral researcher. Initiated field research on herpetofaunal communities in the Big Cypress Preserve, south Florida. 2005 2007 Researcher. Conducted doctoral research on landscape effects of fragmentation on amphibians and reptiles in northeastern Bolivia. 2002 2004 Researcher. Conducted a study on local distribution patterns of amphibians and reptiles at the La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. 2000 2001 Field Assistant. Assisted in monthly surveys of the amphibian fauna of the Kissimmee River floodplain, Florida, USA. 1998 2000 Co-Coordinator-Proyecto Tambopata. Supervised international field crew of six individuals while conducting biodiversity surveys in Tambopata, Perú. 1997 1998 Field Assistant. Conducted surveys of amphibian and reptile populations at six sites in the rainforest of Tambopata, southeastern Perú. 1997 Resident Naturalist. Collected baseline ecological data and guided tourists at a lodge/research station in Tambopata, Perú. 1997 Fisheries Biologist. Participated in a population and habitat monitoring study of the Bull Trout in the Boise National Forest, Idaho. 1994 SERVICE Reviewer. Amphibia-Reptilia (2006), Animal Conservation (2007), Conservation Biology (2006), Copeia (2005 2008), Global Ecology & Biogeography (2004), Herpetological (2005), Herpetological Journal (2005 & 2008), Herpetological Review (2005), Journal of Herpetology (2007), Journal of Tropical Ecology (2006 2008), Salamandra (2008) Moderator. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 2005 2006 President. FIU Herpetology Club 2004 2005 Graduate Student Mentor. Florida International University 2004 Student Volunteer. Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Miami, USA 2004 Student Volunteer. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Kansas City, USA. 2002 Secretary. FIU Herpetology Club 2001 2002 Student Organizer. FIU Biology Research Symposium, Miami, USA. 2000 2002 J. I. Watling: Curriculum vitae 5