Karen R. Lips

Department of Zoology
Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Selected Publications
  1. Lips, K. R. and M. A. Donnelly. 2005. What the Topics can tell us about Declining Amphibian Populations: Current Patterns and Future Prospects. Pp. 388-406 In Lannoo, M.J. (ed.), North American Amphibians: Status and Conservation. University of California Press.
  2. Lips, K. R. 2005. Quantification of selection and male reproductive success in Hyla calypsa. Ecology and Evolution in the Neotropics: Essays in Honor of Jay Savage. Univ. Chicago Press.
  3. Savage, J. M., B. D. Hollingsworth, K. R. Lips, A. P. Jaslow. 2004. A new species of rainfrog (Genus Eleutherodactylus) from the Serran’a de Tabasar‡, west-central Panama and reanalysis of the fitzingeri species group. Herpetologica. 60(4): 119-129.
  4. Ranvestel, T. W., K. R. Lips, C. M. Pringle, M. R. Whiles, R. J. Bixby. 2004. Neotropical tadpoles influence stream benthos: evidence for ecological consequences of amphibian declines. Freshwater Biology 49: 274-285.
  5. Lips, K. R., J. R. Mendelson III, A. Mu–oz Alonso, L. Canseco-Marquez, and D. G. Mulcahy. 2004. Direct evidence of declines in amphibian populations in montane southern Mexico. Biological Conservation 119: 555-564.
  6. Ryan, M. J. and K. R. Lips. 2004. Sibon argus (NCN) diet. Herpetological Review 35(3): 278.
  7. Lips, K. R., J. Reeve, and L. Witters. 2003. Ecological factors predicting amphibian population declines in Central America. Conservation Biology 17(4):1078-1088.
  8. 8. Lips, K. R. 2003. Eyewitnesses to History? Book review of Amphibians of Honduras. Diversity and Distributions 9(2): 165-66.
  9. Lips, K. R., D. E. Green, and R. Papendick. 2003. Chytridiomycosis in wild frogs from southern Costa Rica. Journal of Herpetology. 37(1): 215-218.
  10. Ali, Mohamed F., K. R. Lips, F. C. Knoop, B. Fritzsch, C. Miller and J. M. Conlon. 2002. Antimicrobial peptides and protease inhibitors in the skin secretions of the crawfish frog, Rana areolata. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Đ proteins & proteomics 1601(1): 55-63.
  11. Nicholson, K., R. Ibáñez, C. A. Jaramillo, and K. R. Lips. 2001. Morphological variation in the tropical anole, Anolis casildae (Squamata, Polychrotidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 49(2): 709-714.
  12. Lips, K. R. 2001. Reproductive trade-offs and bet-hedging in Hyla calypsa, a Neotropical treefrog. Oecologia 128:509-518.
  13. Lips, K. R., J. K. Reaser, B. E. Young, and R. Ibáñez. 2001. Amphibian monitoring in Latin America: a protocol manual / Monitoreo de Anfibios en América Latina: Manual de protocolos. SSAR Herpetological Circular No. 30, 116 pages.
  14. B. Young, K. Lips, J. Reaser, R. Ibáñez, A. Salas, R. Cedeño, L. Coloma, S. Ron, E. LaMarca, J. Meyer, A. Muñoz, F. Bolaños, G. Chavez, D. Romo. 2001. Population declines and priorities for amphibian conservation in Latin America. Conservation Biology 15(5):1213-1223.
  15. Carey, C., W. R. Heyer, J. Wilkinson, R. A. Alford, J. W. Arntzen, T. Halliday, L. Hungerford, K. R. Lips, E. M. Middleton, S. A. Orchard, and A. S. Rand. 2001. Amphibian declines and environmental change: an overview. Conservation Biology 15(4): 903-913.
  16. Lips, K. R. 1999. Mass mortality of the anuran fauna at an upland site in Panama. Conservation Biology 13(1): 117-125.
  17. Berger, L., R. Speare, P. Daszak, D. E. Green, A. A. Cunningham, R. Slocombe, C. L. Goggin, A. D. Hyatt, K. R. MacDonald, H. B. Hines, K. R. Lips, G. Marantelli, and H. H. Parkes. 1998. Chytridiomycosis causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines in the rainforests of Australia and Central America. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 95(15): 9031-9036.
  18. Lips, K. R. 1998. Decline of a Tropical Amphibian Fauna. Conservation Biology 12(1): 106-117.
  19. Lips, K. R. 1996. A new treefrog from the Cordillera de Talamanca of Central America and a review of systematic relationships in the Hyla lancasteri group. Copeia 1996(3): 615-626.
  20. Lips, K. R. and J. M. Savage. 1996. A key to the tadpoles of Costa Rican anurans. Neotropical Fauna and Environment 31(1): 1-26.
  21. Lips, K. R. and D. M. Krempels. 1995. The eggs and tadpole of Bufo fastidiosus Cope, with comments on reproductive behavior. Copeia 1995(3): 741-746.
  22. Lips, K. R. and J. M. Savage. 1994. A new fossorial snake of the genus Geophis (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae) from Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Biological Society, Washington 107(2): 410-416.
  23. Savage, J. M. and K. R. Lips. 1993. A review of the status and biogeography of the lizard genera Celestus and Diploglossus (Squamata: Anguidae), with description of two new species from Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 41(3): 817-42.
  24. Wetterer, J., S. Shafir, L. Morrison, K. Lips, G. Gilbert, M. Cipollini, and C. Blaney. 1992. On and off-trail orientation in the leaf-cutting ant, Atta cephalotes. J. Kansas Ent. Soc. 65(1): 96-98.
  25. Fleming, T. H. and K. R. Lips. 1991. Angiosperm endozoochory: were pterosaurs Cretaceous seed dispersers? American Naturalist 138(4): 1058-1065.
  26. Lips, K. R. 1991. Vertebrates associated with gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrows in south-central Florida. Journal of Herpetology. 25(4): 477-481.

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* SIUC Department of Zoology

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