James P. Collins
Arizona State University
138 Papers
977 Citations
James P. Collins is an academic researcher from Arizona State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tiger salamander & Population. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 138 publications. Previous affiliations of James P. Collins include Washington State University & Transylvania University.
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Papers
Ecological Aspects of Amphibian Metamorphosis: Nonnormal distributions of competitive ability reflect selection for facultative metamorphosis.
Henry M. Wilbur,James P. Collins +1 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that as development proceeds, variation in exponential growth coefficients causes a trend from a normal distribution to a skewed distribution of body sizes, and the relation between the ecological model and the physiological mechanisms that initiate metamorphosis can only be suggested.
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Emerging infectious disease and the loss of biodiversity in a Neotropical amphibian community
Karen R. Lips,Forrest Brem,Roberto Brenes,John D. Reeve,Ross A. Alford,Jamie Voyles,Cynthia Carey,Lauren J. Livo,Allan P. Pessier,James P. Collins +9 more
TL;DR: An outbreak of chytridiomycosis in Panama is described and it is argued that this infectious disease has played an important role in amphibian population declines and the high virulence and large number of potential hosts of this emerging infectious disease threaten global amphibian diversity.
Global amphibian declines: sorting the hypotheses
TL;DR: More studies are needed to connect the suspected mechanisms underlying both classes of hypotheses with quantitative changes in amphibian population sizes and species numbers, and to identify the hypotheses and conditions under which the various causes operate alone or together.
Regulating gene drives
Kenneth A. Oye,Kevin M. Esvelt,Evan Appleton,Flaminia Catteruccia,Flaminia Catteruccia,George M. Church,Todd Kuiken,Shlomiya Bar-Yam Lightfoot,Julie McNamara,Andrea L. Smidler,James P. Collins +10 more
TL;DR: Potential beneficial uses of gene drives include reprogramming mosquito genomes to eliminate malaria, reversing the development of pesticide and herbicide resistance, and locally eradicating invasive species, however, drives may present environmental and security challenges as well as benefits.
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Confronting Amphibian Declines and Extinctions
Joseph R. Mendelson,Karen R. Lips,Ronald W. Gagliardo,George B. Rabb,James P. Collins,James E. Diffendorfer,Peter Daszak,D Roberto Ibáñez,Kevin C. Zippel,Dwight P. Lawson,Kevin Wright,Simon N. Stuart,Claude Gascon,Hélio Ricardo Silva,Patricia A. Burrowes,Rafael L. Joglar,Enrique La Marca,Stefan Lötters,Louis H. Du Preez,Ché Weldon,Alex D. Hyatt,José Vicente Rodriguez-Mahecha,Susan Hunt,Helen Robertson,Brad Lock,Christopher J. Raxworthy,Darrel R. Frost,Robert C. Lacy,Ross A. Alford,Jonathan A. Campbell,Gabriela Parra-Olea,Federico Bolaños,José Joaquin Calvo Domingo,Tim Halliday,James B. Murphy,Marvalee H. Wake,Luis A. Coloma,Sergius L. Kuzmin,Mark R. Stanley Price,Kim M. Howell,Michael Lau,Rohan Pethiyagoda,Michelle D. Boone,Michael J. Lannoo,Andrew R. Blaustein,Andrew P. Dobson,Richard A. Griffiths,Martha L. Crump,David B. Wake,Edmund D. Brodie +49 more
TL;DR: Stopping further global losses of amphibian populations and species requires an unprecedented conservation response.