Publications (*denotes undergraduate co-author, **denotes graduate student co-author) Selfridge JA, Bachran K*, McElveen D, Robbins RK, Ransom TS (2019) Pupation sites and conservation of Frosted Elfins (Lycaenidae) in Maryland, USA. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 73: 87-92. Liebgold EB, HL Liebgold, MJ Ransom, and TS Ransom (2019) The spread of the parthenogenetic Mourning Gecko, Lepidodactylus lugubris, to Paradise Island, The Bahamas, with comments on citizen science observations of non-native herpetofauna. Bioinvasions Records 8:45-49. Grant AH**, TS Ransom, and EB Liebgold (2018) Differential survival and the effects of avian predation on a color polymorphic species, the red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus). Journal of Herpetology 52:127-135. Ransom TS (2017) Local distribution of native and invasive earthworms and effects on a native salamander. Population Ecology 59: 189-204 Ransom TS and Billak BJ* (2015) Differences in soil characteristics between field and forest influence the distribution of an invasive earthworm. Invertebrate Biology 134:78-87 Ransom TS (2012) Comparison of direct, indirect, and ecosystem engineering effects of an earthworm on the red-backed salamander. Ecology 93:2198–2207 Ransom TS (2012) Behavioral responses of a native salamander to native and invasive earthworms. Biological Invasions 14:2601-2616 Rearick D*, Kintz L, Burke KL, Ransom TS (2011) Effects of white-tailed deer on the native earthworm, Eisenoides carolinensis, in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA. Pedobiologia 54S: S173-S180. Ransom TS (2010) Earthworms, as ecosystem engineers, influence multiple aspects of a salamander’s ecology. Oecologia 165:745–754 Cáceres-Charneco RI* and Ransom TS (2010) The population-level effects of an ecosystem engineer: earthworms affect the behavior of a territorial salamander, Plethodon cinereus. Population Ecology. 52:517-526. Ransom TS and RG Jaeger (2008) Intergeneric salamander interactions across an ecotone. Herpetologica 64: 20-31 Ransom TS and RG Jaeger (2006) An assemblage of salamanders in the southern Appalachian mountains revisited: competitive and predatory behavior? Behaviour 143:1357-1382 Manuscripts in preparation: Neville RA*, Boyd M, Liebgold EB, Ransom TS (submitted) The effects of forest structure and composition on occupancy and nest success of ground-nesting warblers on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Wilson Journal of Ornithology Liebgold EB and Ransom TS (in prep) To swab or not to swab: amplification of DNA from buccal swabs of new world warblers (Parulidae)
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