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S. Blair Hedges

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Biology

      • Laura H. Carnell Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BIOL 3101

Evolution

Undergraduate

BIOL 8210

Seminar

Graduate

BIOL 8210

Biodiversity Seminar

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Grace, M., kçakaya, H.A., Bull, J., Carrero, C., Davies, K., Hedges, S., Hoffmann, M., Long, B., Lughadha, E., Martin, G., Pilkington, F., Rivers, M., Young, R., & Milner-Gulland, E. (2021). Building robust, practicable counterfactuals and scenarios to evaluate the impact of species conservation interventions using inferential approaches. Biological Conservation, 261. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109259.

  • Su, D., Yang, L., Shi, X., Ma, X., Zhou, X., Hedges, S., & Zhong, B. (2021). Large-Scale Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal the Monophyly of Bryophytes and Neoproterozoic Origin of Land Plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(8), 3332-3344. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab106.

  • Schools, M. & Hedges, S.B. (2021). Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the Neotropical forest lizards (Squamata, Diploglossidae). Zootaxa, 4974(2), 201257. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.1.

  • Chapple, D., Roll, U., Böhm, M., Aguilar, R., Amey, A., Austin, C., Baling, M., Barley, A., Bates, M., Bauer, A., Blackburn, D., Bowles, P., Brown, R., Chandramouli, S., Chirio, L., Cogger, H., Colli, G., Conradie, W., Couper, P., Cowan, M., Craig, M., Das, I., Datta-Roy, A., Dickman, C., Ellis, R., Fenner, A., Ford, S., Ganesh, S., Gardner, M., Geissler, P., Gillespie, G., Glaw, F., Greenlees, M., Griffith, O., Grismer, L., Haines, M., Harris, D., Hedges, S., Hitchmough, R., Hoskin, C., Hutchinson, M., Ineich, I., Janssen, J., Johnston, G., Karin, B., Keogh, J., Kraus, F., LeBreton, M., Lymberakis, P., Masroor, R., McDonald, P., Mecke, S., Melville, J., Melzer, S., Michael, D., Miralles, A., Mitchell, N., Nelson, N., Nguyen, T., Nogueira, C.d.C., Ota, H., Pafilis, P., Pauwels, O., Perera, A., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Reed, R., Ribeiro-Júnior, M., Riley, J., Rocha, S., Rutherford, P., Sadlier, R., Shacham, B., Shea, G., Shine, R., Slavenko, A., Stow, A., Sumner, J., Tallowin, O., Teale, R., Torres-Carvajal, O., Trape, J., Uetz, P., Ukuwela, K., Valentine, L., Dyke, J.V., Winkel, D.v., Vasconcelos, R., Vences, M., Wagner, P., Wapstra, E., While, G., Whiting, M., Whittington, C., Wilson, S., Ziegler, T., Tingley, R., & Meiri, S. (2021). Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk. Biological Conservation, 257. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109101.

  • Grace, M., Akçakaya, H., Bennett, E., Brooks, T., Heath, A., Hedges, S., Hilton-Taylor, C., Hoffmann, M., Hochkirch, A., Jenkins, R., Keith, D., Long, B., Mallon, D., Meijaard, E., Milner-Gulland, E., Rodriguez, J., Stephenson, P., Stuart, S., Young, R., Acebes, P., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Alvarez-Clare, S., Andriantsimanarilafy, R., Arbetman, M., Azat, C., Bacchetta, G., Badola, R., Barcelos, L., Barreiros, J., Basak, S., Berger, D., Bhattacharyya, S., Bino, G., Borges, P., Boughton, R., Brockmann, H., Buckley, H., Burfield, I., Burton, J., Camacho-Badani, T., Cano-Alonso, L., Carmichael, R., Carrero, C., Carroll, J., Catsadorakis, G., Chapple, D., Chapron, G., Chowdhury, G., Claassens, L., Cogoni, D., Constantine, R., Craig, C., Cunningham, A., Dahal, N., Daltry, J., Das, G., Dasgupta, N., Davey, A., Davies, K., Develey, P., Elangovan, V., Fairclough, D., Febbraro, M., Fenu, G., Fernandes, F., Fernandez, E., Finucci, B., Földesi, R., Foley, C., Ford, M., Forstner, M., García, N., Garcia-Sandoval, R., Gardner, P., Garibay-Orijel, R., Gatan-Balbas, M., Gauto, I., Ghazi, M., Godfrey, S., Gollock, M., González, B., Grant, T., Gray, T., Gregory, A., Grunsven, R.v., Gryzenhout, M., Guernsey, N., Gupta, G., Hagen, C., Hagen, C., Hall, M., Hallerman, E., Hare, K., Hart, T., Hartdegen, R., Harvey-Brown, Y., Hatfield, R., Hawke, T., Hermes, C., & Hitchmough, R. (2021). Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact. Conservation Biology. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13756.

  • Stanhope, M., Waddell, V., Madsen, O., Jong, W.D., Hedges, S., Cleven, G., Kao, D., & Springer, M. (2020). Molecular evidence for multiple origins of Insectivora and for a new order of endemic African insectivore mammals. Journal of Immunology, 204(12), 9967-9972. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1901276.

  • Akçakaya, H., Rodrigues, A., Keith, D., Milner-Gulland, E., Sanderson, E., Hedges, S., Mallon, D., Grace, M., Long, B., Meijaard, E., & Stephenson, P. (2020). Assessing ecological function in the context of species recovery. Conservation Biology, 34(3), 561-571. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13425.

  • McCranie, J., Matthews, A., & Hedges, S. (2020). A morphological and molecular revision of lizards of the genus Marisora Hedges & Conn (Squamata: Mabuyidae) from Central America and Mexico, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa, 4763(3), 301-353. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.3.1.

  • Gray, T., O'Kelly, H., Eames, J., & Hedges, S. (2020). Conservation concessions to avert the South East Asian biodiversity crisis? Lessons from Cambodia. Animal Conservation, 23(1), 1-2. doi: 10.1111/acv.12497.

  • Saaban, S., Yasak, M., Gumal, M., Oziar, A., Cheong, F., Shaari, Z., Tyson, M., & Hedges, S. (2020). Viability and management of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) population in the Endau Rompin landscape, Peninsular Malaysia. PeerJ, 2020(1). doi: 10.7717/peerj.8209.

  • Köhler, G., Zimmer, C., McGrath, K., & Hedges, S.B. (2019). A revision of the genus Audantia of Hispaniola with description of four new species (Reptilia: Squamata: Dactyloidae). Novitates Caribaea, 1-104. doi: 10.33800/nc.v0i14.201.

  • Rapacciuolo, G., Graham, C., Marin, J., Behm, J., Costa, G., Hedges, S., Helmus, M., Radeloff, V., Young, B., & Brooks, T. (2019). Species diversity as a surrogate for conservation of phylogenetic and functional diversity in terrestrial vertebrates across the Americas. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3(1), 53-61. doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0744-7.

  • Hedges, S., Cohen, W., Timyan, J., & Yang, Z. (2019). Reply to Wampler et al.: Deforestation and biodiversity loss should not be sugarcoated. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(12), 5204. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1901879116.

  • Miralles, A., Marin, J., Markus, D., Herrel, A., Hedges, S., & Vidal, N. (2018). Molecular evidence for the paraphyly of Scolecophidia and its evolutionary implications. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31(12), 1782-1793. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13373.

  • Hedges, S., Cohen, W., Timyan, J., & Yang, Z. (2018). Haiti’s biodiversity threatened by nearly complete loss of primary forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(46), 11850-11855. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1809753115.

  • Schmid, M., Steinlein, C., Haaf, T., Feightinger, W., Guttenbach, M., Bogart, J., Gruber, S., Kasahara, S., Kakampuy, W., Pino, E.D., Carrillo, A., Romero-Carvajal, A., Mahony, M., King, M., Duellman, W., Hedges, S., & Schmid, M. (2018). The Arboranan Frogs: Introduction. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 155(1-4), 11-45. doi: 10.1159/000489540.

  • Schmid, M., Steinlein, C., Haaf, T., Feightinger, W., Guttenbach, M., Bogart, J., Gruber, S., Kasahara, S., Kakampuy, W., Pino, E.D., Carrillo, A., Romero-Carvajal, A., Mahony, M., King, M., Duellman, W., & Hedges, S. (2018). The Arboranan Frogs: Results and Discussion. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 155(1), 55-221. doi: 10.1159/000489839.

  • Schmid, M., Steinlein, C., Haaf, T., Feightinger, W., Guttenbach, M., Bogart, J., Gruber, S., Kasahara, S., Kakampuy, W., Pino, E.D., Carrillo, A., Romero-Carvajal, A., Mahony, M., King, M., Duellman, W., & Hedges, S. (2018). The Arboranan Frogs: Materials and Methods. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 155(4), 47-53. doi: 10.1159/000489541.

  • Schmid, M., Bogart, J., & Hedges, S. (2018). The Arboranan Frogs: Preface. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 155(4), 7. doi: 10.1159/000490325.

  • Schmid, M., Steinlein, C., Haaf, T., Feightinger, W., Guttenbach, M., Bogart, J., Gruber, S., Kasahara, S., Kakampuy, W., Pino, E.D., Carrillo, A., Romero-Carvajal, A., Mahony, M., King, M., Duellman, W., & Hedges, S. (2018). The Arboranan frogs: Evolution, biology, and cytogenetics. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 155(1-4), 1-325. doi: 10.1159/000492098.

  • Hedges, S., Tao, Q., Walker, M., & Kumar, S. (2018). Accurate timetrees require accurate calibrations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(41), E9510-E9511. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812558115.

  • Akçakaya, H., Bennett, E., Brooks, T., Grace, M., Heath, A., Hedges, S., Hilton-Taylor, C., Hoffmann, M., Keith, D., Long, B., Mallon, D., Meijaard, E., Milner-Gulland, E., Rodrigues, A., Rodriguez, J., Stephenson, P., Stuart, S., & Young, R. (2018). Quantifying species recovery and conservation success to develop an IUCN Green List of Species. Conservation Biology, 32(5), 1128-1138. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13112.

  • Marin, J. & Hedges, S. (2018). Undersampling genomes has biased time and rate estimates throughout the tree of life. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35(8), 2077-2084. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msy103.

  • Greenbaum, G., Renan, S., Templeton, A., Bouskila, A., Saltz, D., Rubenstein, D., & Bar-David, S. (2018). Revealing life-history traits by contrasting genetic estimations with predictions of effective population size. Conservation Biology, 32(4), 817-827. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13068.

  • Renan, S., Speyer, E., Ben-Nun, T., Ziv, A., Greenbaum, G., Templeton, A., Bar-David, S., & Bouskila, A. (2018). Fission-fusion social structure of a reintroduced ungulate: Implications for conservation. Biological Conservation, 222, 261-267. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2018.04.013.

  • Landestoy, M., Turner, D., Marion, A., & Hedges, S. (2018). A new species of Caribbean toad (Bufonidae, Peltophryne) from southern Hispaniola. Zootaxa, 4403(3), 523-539. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.6.

  • Marin, J., Rapacciuolo, G., Costa, G., Graham, C., Brooks, T., Young, B., Radeloff, V., Behm, J., Helmus, M., & Hedges, S. (2018). Evolutionary time drives global tetrapod diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1872). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2378.

  • Pezaro, N., Rovelli, V., Segev, O., Templeton, A., & Blaustein, L. (2018). Suspected rat predation on the Near Eastern Fire Salamander (Salamandra infraimmaculata) by selective consumption of non-toxic tissue. Zoology in the Middle East, 64(1), 91-93. doi: 10.1080/09397140.2017.1375199.

  • Schmid, M., Steinlein, C., Haaf, T., Feightinger, W., Guttenbach, M., Bogart, J.P., Gruber, S.L., Kasahara, S., Kakampuy, W., Pino, E.M.d., Carrillo, A., Romero-Carvajal, A., Mahony, M., King, M., Duellman, W.E., & Hedges, S.B. (2022). The Arboranan Frogs: Materials and Methods Foreword. CYTOGENETIC and GENOME RESEARCH, 155(1-4), 6-316. 10.1159/000490324

  • Holt, B., Costa, G., Penone, C., Lessard, J., Brooks, T., Davidson, A., Hedges, S.B., Radeloff, V., Rahbek, C., Rondinini, C., & Graham, C. (2018). Environmental variation is a major predictor of global trait turnover in mammals. Journal of Biogeography, 45(1), 225-237. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13091.

  • Heinicke, M., Lemmon, A., Lemmon, E., McGrath, K., & Hedges, S. (2018). Phylogenomic support for evolutionary relationships of New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terraranae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 118, 145-155. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.021.

  • Goedbloed, D., Czypionka, T., Altmüller, J., Rodriguez, A., Küpfer, E., Segev, O., Blaustein, L., Templeton, A., Nolte, A., & Steinfartz, S. (2017). Parallel habitat acclimatization is realized by the expression of different genes in two closely related salamander species (genus Salamandra). Heredity, 119(6), 429-437. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2017.55.

  • Tucker, D., Hedges, S., Colli, G., Pyron, R., & Sites, J. (2017). Genomic timetree and historical biogeography of Caribbean island ameiva lizards (Pholidoscelis: Teiidae). Ecology and Evolution, 7(17), 7080-7090. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3157.

  • Rapacciuolo, G., Marin, J., Costa, G., Helmus, M., Behm, J., Brooks, T., Hedges, S., Radeloff, V., Young, B., & Graham, C. (2017). The signature of human pressure history on the biogeography of body mass in tetrapods. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26(9), 1022-1034. doi: 10.1111/geb.12612.

  • Calabrese, A., Calabrese, J., Songer, M., Wegmann, M., Hedges, S., Rose, R., & Leimgruber, P. (2017). Conservation status of Asian elephants: the influence of habitat and governance. Biodiversity and Conservation, 26(9), 2067-2081. doi: 10.1007/s10531-017-1345-5.

  • Brum, F., Graham, C., Costa, G., Hedges, S., Penone, C., Radeloff, V., Rondinini, C., Loyola, R., & Davidson, A. (2017). Global priorities for conservation across multiple dimensions of mammalian diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(29), 7641-7646. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1706461114.

  • Kumar, S., Stecher, G., Suleski, M., & Hedges, S. (2017). TimeTree: A Resource for Timelines, Timetrees, and Divergence Times. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(7), 1812-1819. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msx116.

  • Gunaryadi, D., Sugiyo, & Hedges, S. (2017). Community-based human-elephant conflict mitigation: The value of an evidence-based approach in promoting the uptake of effective methods. PLoS ONE, 12(5). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173742.

  • Marin, J., Battistuzzi, F., Brown, A., & Hedges, S. (2017). The Timetree of Prokaryotes: New Insights into Their Evolution and Speciation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(2), 437-446. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msw245.

  • Templeton, A. (2017). World Dispersals and Genetic Diversity of Mankind: The Out-of-Africa Theory and Its Challenges. In On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion (pp. 65-83). doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-420190-3.00005-3.

  • Ripple, W., Chapron, G., López-Bao, J., Durant, S., MacDonald, D., Lindsey, P., Bennett, E., Beschta, R., Bruskotter, J., Campos-Arceiz, A., Corlett, R., Darimont, C., Dickman, A., Dirzo, R., Dublin, H., Estes, J., Everatt, K., Galetti, M., Goswami, V., Hayward, M., Hedges, S., Hoffmann, M., Hunter, L., Kerley, G., Letnic, M., Levi, T., Maisels, F., Morrison, J., Nelson, M., Newsome, T., Painter, L., Pringle, R., Sandom, C., Terborgh, J., Treves, A., Valkenburgh, B.V., Vucetich, J., Wirsing, A., Wallach, A., Wolf, C., Woodroffe, R., Young, H., & Zhang, L. (2017). Conserving the world's megafauna and biodiversity: The fierce urgency of now. BioScience, 67(3), 197-200. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biw168.

  • Blaustein, L., Segev, O., Rovelli, V., Bar-David, S., Blank, L., Polevikov, A., Pezaro, N., Krugman, T., Showstack, S., Koplovich, A., Ozeri, L., & Templeton, A. (2017). Compassionate approaches for the conservation and protection of fire salamanders. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 63(3-4), 43-51. doi: 10.1163/22244662-06303001.

  • Lorvelec, O., Barre, N., Chalifour, J., Teynie, A., Pisanu, B., & Hedges, S. (2022). Discovery of a population of Spondylurus powelli (Squamata: Mabuyidae) on Ile Tintamarre (Saint-Martin, French Antilles) and comments on relationships among skinks of the Anguilla Bank. Caribbean Herpetology, 59, 1-8.