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Clay Noss

Lecturing Fellow in Environmental Natural Sciences
Environmental Natural Science

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Lecturing Fellow in Environmental Natural Sciences · 2025 - Present Environmental Natural Science, Nicholas School of the Environment

Recent Publications


Convergent decoupling of individual specialization and niche width during ecological release.

Journal Article Oecologia · January 2025 Trophic niche has fundamental ecological importance, but many studies consider few niche metrics and most neglect critical structuring processes. Multiple processes shape trophic niches, including inter and intra-specific competition, predation and resourc ... Full text Cite

Disentangling Morphological and Environmental Drivers of Foraging Activity in an Invasive Diurnal Gecko, Phelsuma laticauda

Journal Article Journal of Herpetology · November 30, 2022 In recent years, substantial variation in foraging behavior has been documented in lizards, including within and between closely related species. However, the exceptionally variable Gekkota still suffers from low sampling effort and historical averaging of ... Full text Cite

Comment on "Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity".

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · March 2020 Scheele et al (Reports, 29 March 2019, p. 1459) bring needed attention to the effects of amphibian infectious disease. However, the data and methods implicating the disease chytridiomycosis in 501 amphibian species declines are deficient. Which spec ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of California, Berkeley · 2022 Ph.D.