Stephen Corn's Publications

Selected Recent Publications

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Guscio CG, Hossack BR, Eby LA, Corn PS. 2008. Post-breeding habitat use by adult boreal toads (Bufo boreas boreas) after wildfire in Glacier National Park, USA. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 3:55–62.

Hossack BR, Corn PS. 2008. Wildland fire and seasonal wetlands: effects on water temperature and selection of breeding sites by the boreal toad (Bufo boreas). Herpetological Conservation and Biology 3:46–54.

Hossack BR, Corn PS. 2007. Responses of pond-breeding amphibians to wildfire: short-term patterns in occupancy and colonization. Ecological Applications 17: in press.

Corn PS. 2007. Amphibians and disease: implications for conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Yellowstone Science 15(2):11–16.

Field KJ, Tracy CR, Medica PA, Marlow RW, Corn PS. 2007. Return to the wild: translocation as a tool in conservation of the Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). Biological Conservation 136:232–245.

Hossack BR, Corn PS, Fagre DB. 2006. Divergent patterns of abundance and age-class structure of headwater stream tadpoles in burned and unburned watersheds. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84:1482–1488.

Hossack BR, Diamond SA, Corn PS. 2006. Distribution of the boreal toad populations in relation to estimated UV-B dose in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84:98–107.

Corn PS. 2005. Climate change and amphibians. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 28:59–67.

Corn PS. 2003. Amphibian breeding and climate change: the importance of snow in the mountains. Conservation Biology 17:622–625.

Corn PS, Bury RB, Hyde EJ. 2003. Conservation of North American stream amphibians. In: Semlitsch R, editor. Amphibian conservation. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. p 24–36.

Corn PS, Muths E. 2002. Variable breeding phenology affects the exposure of amphibian embryos to ultraviolet radiation. Ecology 83:2958–2963.

Recent Presentations

Amphibian Decline Issues in the Northern Rockies. (2007) US Fish and Wildife Service, Fish Technology Center, Bozeman, MT. Invited Lecture

Occurrence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in pond waters in the western United States—initial findings from a 2007 pilot study. (2007) Anderson CW, Kirshtein JD, Hossack BR, Muths E, Campbell DH, Lico MS, Jones PM, Battaglin WA, Sadinski WJ, Adams MJ, Pearl CA, Corn PS, Fisher RN, and GM Fellers. Amphibian Declines & Chytridiomycosis: Translating Science into Urgent Action. Tempe, AZ. Contributed Poster

Evaluation of Distribution limits of amphibian chytrid fungus and potential for transport by waterfowl. (2007) Hossack BR, Muths E, Kirshtein JD, Anderson CW, and PS Corn. Amphibian Declines & Chytridiomycosis: Translating Science into Urgent Action. Tempe, AZ. Contributed Poster

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is widespread in and experimentally pathogenic to Grand Teton boreal toads. (2007) Murphy P, St.-Hilaire S, Corn S, Peterson CR, and D Patla. Amphibian Declines & Chytridiomycosis: Translating Science into Urgent Action. Tempe, AZ. Contributed Poster