Erin Muths - USGS

Aquatic Systems

Research Zoologist

Duty Station:
Fort Collins Science Center
2150 Centre Ave
Bldg C
Fort Collins, CO 80525

Phone: 970-226-9474
Fax: 970.226.9230
Email: muthse@usgs.gov

Current Research

• Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI)
• Boreal Toad and Wood Frog Demographics
• Population Genetics of Wood Frogs in Rocky Mountain National Park
• Host-Pathogen Dynamics and Demographics in Boreal Toads
• Integrating a National Park Service Vital Sign with the USGS Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative across Networks

Publications

• Trends in amphibian occupancy in the United States
• The genetic structure of a relict population of Wood Frogs
• The importance of local and landscape-scale processes to the occupancy of wetlands by pond-breeding amphibians
• The U.S. Geological Survey Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative—2011 annual update
• Blackrock: biological hotspot and hotbed of collaboration [Science Feature]
• The state of amphibians in the United States
• Breeding chorus intensity is weakly related to estimated abundance of Boreal Chorus Frogs
• Portrait of a Small Population of Boreal Toads (Anaxyrus boreas)
• The “Peer” in “Peer Review”
• Long-Term Observations of Boreal Toads at an ARMI Apex Site
• Compensatory effects of recruitment and survival when amphibian populations are perturbed by disease
• The World Congress of herpetology and animal conservation: excerpts from the 6th World Congress
• Effects of amphibian chytrid fungus on individual survival probability in wild boreal toads
• Unbiased survival estimates and evidence for skipped breeding opportunities in females
• Amphibian declines: promising directions in understanding the role of disease
• Distribution limits of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis a case study in the Rocky Mountains, USA
• How relevant is opportunistic Bd sampling: Are we ready for the big picture?
• Bent’s Old Fort: Amphibians and reptiles
• Native Boreal Toads Released Into Rocky Mountain National Park
• Monitoring programs to assess reintroduction efforts: A critical component in recovery
• Effects of weather on survival in populations of Boreal Toads in Colorado
• Distribution and environmental limitations of an amphibian pathogen in the Rocky Mountains, USA
• Blue Jays nest in an unusual structure
• Boreal toads and the ecosystem
• The Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI): 5-year report
• Estimation of temporary emigration in male toads
• The United States Geological Survey's Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative
• Status of amphibians on the Continental Divide: surveys on a transect from Montana to Colorado, USA
• The wood frog (Rana sylvatica): a technical conservation assessment
• An evaluation of weather and disease as causes of decline in two populations of boreal toads
• Bufo boreas Baird and Girard, 1852(b): western toad
• Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI): a successful start to a national program in the United States
• Health evaluation of amphibians in and near Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado, USA)
• Factors limiting the recovery of boreal toads (Bufo b. boreas)
• Sensitivity to acidification of subalpine ponds and lakes in north-western Colorado
• Variable breeding phenology affects the exposure of amphibian embryos to ultraviolet radiation: reply
• A radio transmitter belt for small ranid frogs
• Home range and movements of boreal toads in undisturbed habitats
• Pseudacris triseriata (Western Chorus Frog) and Rana sylvatica (Wood Frog). Chytridiomycosis
• Hatching success in salamanders and chorus frogs at two sites in Colorado, USA: effects of acidic deposition and climate
• Evidence for disease-related amphibian decline in Colorado
• Home range and movements of boreal toads in undisturbed habitat
• Variable breeding phenology affects the exposure of amphibian embryos to ultraviolet radiation
• The interplay of habitat change, human disturbance and species interactions in a waterbird colony
• Experimental repatriation of boreal toad (Bufo boreas) eggs, metamorphs, and adults in Rocky Mountain National Park
• Toward assessing the effects of bank stabilization activities on wildlife communities of the upper Yellowstone River, U.S.A
• Secretion of whey acidic protein and cystatin is down regulated at mid-lactation in the red kangaroo (Macropus rufus)
• Boreal toads: peering at a unique facet of RMNP micro-fauna
• Use of oxytetracycline in batch-marking post-metamorphic boreal toads
• A comparison in Colorado of three methods to monitor breeding amphibians
• Boreal Toad
• American burying beetle
• Dwarf shrew found in Rocky Mountain National Park
• An observation on caching of prey by a long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata)
• Basking by adult boreal toads (Bufo boreas boreas) during the breeding season
• Survey and assessment of amphibian populations in Rocky Mountain National Park
• Milk composition in a field population of red kangaroos, Macropus rufus (Desmarest) (Macropodidae: Marsupialia)
• Circulating levels of prolactin and progesterone in a wild population of red kangaroos (Macropus rufus) Marsupialia: Macropodidae
• Kangaroo rat bone compared to white rat bone after short-term disuse and exercise
• Substrate Discrimination in Burying Beetles, Nicrophorus orbicollis (Coleoptera: Silphidae)

Web Sites

• Native Boreal Toads Released Into Rocky Mountain National Park