Ronald (Ron) Archie Nussbaum, Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
1972 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 
 1974-1993 Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 
Area:
systematics, evolution, ecology, herpetology, caecilians
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Dr. Nussbaum is interested in the systematics, evolution, and ecology of amphibians and reptiles. He has published extensively on the the systematics of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). His field research and curatorial activities have been focussed on the Pacific Northwest (U. S. and Canada), the Seychelles Archipelago, and recently Madagascar. His work in Madagascar involves biodiversity surveys of amphibians, reptiles, and small mammals in the diminishing forests of that large island. Much of his research is related to conservation issues, and he is director of an IUCN-Species Survival project aimed at assessing the status of the amphibian fauna of Madagascar and the Seychelles Archipelago. Dr. Nussbaum has had a long and continuing interest in the evolution of partental care, parental investment, demography, and life history strategies.

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Edmund Darrell Brodie, Jr. grad student
Robert (Doc) Macleod Storm grad student 1972 Oregon State
 (Ph.D.: SYSTEMATICS OF THE SALAMANDER GENUS DICAMPTODON, STRAUCH (AMPHIBIA: CAUDATA: AMBYSTOMATIDAE))
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Rocha LA, Aleixo A, Allen G, et al. (2014) Specimen collection: an essential tool. Science (New York, N.Y.). 344: 814-5
Gower DJ, San Mauro D, Giri V, et al. (2011) Molecular systematics of caeciliid caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) of the Western Ghats, India. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 59: 698-707
Hoffmann M, Hilton-Taylor C, Angulo A, et al. (2010) The impact of conservation on the status of the world's vertebrates. Science (New York, N.Y.). 330: 1503-9
Gower DJ, Rajendran A, Nussbaum RA, et al. (2008) A new species of Uraeotyphlus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Uraeotyphlidae) of the Malabaricus group Herpetologica. 64: 235-245
Raxworthy CJ, Pearson RG, Zimkus BM, et al. (2008) Continental speciation in the tropics: Contrasting biogeographic patterns of divergence in the Uroplatus leaf-tailed gecko radiation of Madagascar Journal of Zoology. 275: 423-440
Frost DR, Grant T, Faivovich J, et al. (2008) Is The Amphibian Tree of Life really fatally flawed? Cladistics. 24: 385-395
Lehtinen RM, Nussbaum RA, Richards CM, et al. (2007) Mitochondrial genes reveal cryptic diversity in plant-breeding frogs from Madagascar (Anura, Mantellidae, Guibemantis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44: 1121-9
Schmitz A, Brandley MC, Mausfeld P, et al. (2005) Opening the black box: phylogenetics and morphological evolution of the Malagasy fossorial lizards of the subfamily "Scincinae". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 34: 118-33
Andreone F, Cadle JE, Cox N, et al. (2005) Species review of amphibian extinction risks in Madagascar: Conclusions from the global amphibian assessment Conservation Biology. 19: 1790-1802
Andreone F, Glaw F, Nussbaum RA, et al. (2003) The amphibians and reptiles of Nosy Be (NW Madagascar) and nearby islands: A case study of diversity and conservation of an insular fauna Journal of Natural History. 37: 2119-2149
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