Brent Sewall

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Brent Sewall

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Biology

      • Associate Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BIOL 3254

Animal Behavior

Undergraduate

BIOL 3307

Conservation Biology

Undergraduate

BIOL 4391

Accelerated Research in Biology

Undergraduate

BIOL 5254

Animal Behavior

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Zografou, K., Swartz, M., Adamidis, G., Tilden, V., McKinney, E., & Sewall, B. (2021). Species traits affect phenological responses to climate change in a butterfly community. Scientific Reports, 11(1). doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-82723-1.

  • Freestone, A., Torchin, M., Jurgens, L., Bonfim, M., López, D., Repetto, M., Schlöder, C., Sewall, B., & Ruiz, G. (2021). Stronger predation intensity and impact on prey communities in the tropics. Ecology, 102(8). doi: 10.1002/ecy.3428.

  • Turner, G., Sewall, B., Scafini, M., Lilley, T., Bitz, D., & Johnson, J. (2021). Cooling of bat hibernacula to mitigate white-nose syndrome. Conservation Biology. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13803.

  • Zografou, K., Swartz, M., Tilden, V., McKinney, E., Eckenrode, J., & Sewall, B. (2020). Stable generalist species anchor a dynamic pollination network. Ecosphere, 11(8). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3225.

  • Lilley, T., Wilson, I., Field, K., Reeder, D., Vodzak, M., Turner, G., Kurta, A., Blomberg, A., Hoff, S., Herzog, C., Sewall, B., & Paterson, S. (2020). Genome-Wide changes in genetic diversity in a population of myotis lucifugus affected by white-nose syndrome. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 10(6), 2007-2020. doi: 10.1534/g3.119.400966.

  • Freestone, A., Carroll, E., Papacostas, K., Ruiz, G., Torchin, M., & Sewall, B. (2020). Predation shapes invertebrate diversity in tropical but not temperate seagrass communities. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(2), 323-333. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13133.

  • Adamidis, G., Swartz, M., Zografou, K., & Sewall, B. (2019). Prescribed fire maintains host plants of a rare grassland butterfly. Scientific Reports, 9(1). doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-53400-1.

  • Crous, P., Wingfield, M., Lombard, L., Roets, F., Swart, W., Alvarado, P., Carnegie, A., Moreno, G., Luangsa-Ard, J., Thangavel, R., Alexandrova, A., Baseia, I., Bellanger, J., Bessette, A., Bessette, A., Peña-Lastra, S.D.l., García, D., Gené, J., Pham, T., Heykoop, M., Malysheva, E., Malysheva, V., Martín, M., Morozova, O., Noisripoom, W., Overton, B., Rea, A., Sewall, B., Smith, M., Smyth, C., Tasanathai, K., Visagie, C., Adamčík, S., Alves, A., Andrade, J., Aninat, M., Araújo, R., Bordallo, J., Boufleur, T., Baroncelli, R., Barreto, R., Bolin, J., Cabero, J., Caboň, M., Cafà, G., Caffot, M., Cai, L., Carlavilla, J., Chávez, R., Castro, R.d., Delgat, L., Deschuyteneer, D., Dios, M., Domínguez, L., Evans, H., Eyssartier, G., Ferreira, B., Figueiredo, C., Liu, F., Fournier, J., Galli-Terasawa, L., Gil-Durán, C., Glienke, C., Gonçalves, M., Gryta, H., Guarro, J., Himaman, W., Hywel-Jones, N., Iturrieta-González, I., Ivanushkina, N., Jargeat, P., Khalid, A., Khan, J., Kiran, M., Kiss, L., Kochkina, G., Kolařík, M., Kubátová, A., Lodge, D., Loizides, M., Luque, D., Manjón, J., Marbach, P., Massola, N., Mata, M., Miller, A., Mongkolsamrit, S., Moreau, P., Morte, A., Mujic, A., Navarro-Ródenas, A., Németh, M., Nóbrega, T., Nováková, A., Olariaga, I., Ozerskaya, S., Palma, M., Petters-Vandresen, D., Piontelli, E., & Popov, E. (2019). Fungal planet description sheets: 951–1041. Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi, 43, 223-425. doi: 10.3767/persoonia.2019.43.06.

  • Whiting, J., Doering, B., Wright, G., Englestead, D., Frye, J., Stefanic, T., & Sewall, B. (2018). Long-term bat abundance in sagebrush steppe. Scientific Reports, 8(1). doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-30402-z.

  • Field, K., Sewall, B., Prokkola, J., Turner, G., Gagnon, M., Lilley, T., White, J.P., Johnson, J., Hauer, C., & Reeder, D. (2018). Effect of torpor on host transcriptomic responses to a fungal pathogen in hibernating bats. Molecular Ecology, 27(18), 3727-3743. doi: 10.1111/mec.14827.

  • Reuter, K., Sewall, B., & Minin, E.D. (2018). Drivers of present and lifetime natural resource use in a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Animal Conservation, 21(2), 127-136. doi: 10.1111/acv.12355.

  • Chothe, S., Bhushan, G., Nissly, R., Yeh, Y., Brown, J., Turner, G., Fisher, J., Sewall, B., Reeder, D., Terrones, M., Jayarao, B., & Kuchipudi, S. (2017). Avian and human influenza virus compatible sialic acid receptors in little brown bats. Scientific Reports, 7(1). doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00793-6.

  • Zografou, K., Swartz, M., Tilden, V., McKinney, E., Eckenrode, J., & Sewall, B. (2017). Severe decline and partial recovery of a rare butterfly on an active military training area. Biological Conservation, 216, 43-50. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.09.026.

  • Gudiel, A.A., Nieves, S.C., Reuter, K., & Sewall, B.J. (2017). Troop sizes, population densities, and sex ratios of Eulemur coronatus and Eulemur sanfordi in the Ankarana National Park.