Clay Noss

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

Invasive vegetation affects amphibian skin microbiota and body condition

Journal Article Peerj · January 1, 2020 Invasive plants are major drivers of habitat modification and the scale of their impact is increasing globally as anthropogenic activities facilitate their spread. In California, an invasive plant genus of great concern is Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus leaves can ... Full text Cite

Convergent Phenotypic Evolution despite Contrasting Demographic Histories in the Fauna of White Sands.

Journal Article The American naturalist · August 2017 When are evolutionary outcomes predictable? Cases of convergent evolution can shed light on when, why, and how different species exhibit shared evolutionary trajectories. In particular, studying diverse species in a common environment can illuminate how di ... Full text Cite

Juvenile recruitment of oak toads (Anaxyrus quercicus) varies with time-since-fire in seasonal ponds

Journal Article Journal of Herpetology · September 1, 2015 The direct and indirect effects of fire on different life stages of amphibians are poorly understood and difficult to predict given interspecific variation in physiology and life history. We investigated how time-since-fire (TSF) of seasonal ponds embedded ... Full text Cite

Does Gut Passage Affect Post-dispersal Seed Fate in a Wild Chili, Capsicum annuum?

Journal Article Southeastern Naturalist · January 1, 2014 Seeds of Capsicum spp. (wild chilies ) are coated with capsaicin, which deters mammalian seed predators. During gut passage through frugivorous birds, its presence on seeds likely is greatly reduced, presumably increasing the seeds' susceptibility to postd ... Full text Cite