Ellie Tate (’21), Amber Pitt, Myles Little (’21), Joe Tavano, and Max Nickerson published research in the journal, Amphibia-Reptilia, that revealed the pathway in which a generalist species, the red-eared slider, expanded its range and increased its population as a result of habitat degradation and reduced competition. Read more here.
Category Archives: Research
New publication elucidating invasive rusty crayfish and hellbender interactions
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Sean Hartzell, Amber Pitt, and Steve Davis published research in the journal, Herpetological Conservation & Biology, that elucidated hellbender and invasive rusty crayfish interactions. They found that adult and subadult hellbenders can and will prey upon invasive rusty crayfish. Read More
New publication on invasive rusty crayfish ecology!
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Sean Hartzell, Amber Pitt, & Steve Davis published new research evaluating the behavior of invasive rusty crayfish relative to imperiled native spiny-cheek crayfish in Pennsylvania. Results indicated rusty crayfish have an indirect competitive advantage over spiny-cheek crayfish. This paper was published in the Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science. Read More
New research published on river turtle ecology!
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Amber Pitt, Ellie Tate (’21), Myles Little (’21), Joe Tavano, and Max Nickerson published their river turtle research in Acta Oecologica. Their research evaluated the changes in a river turtle community over the past 50 years. Read More
New paper published on biodiversity patterns of small wetlands in forests
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Amber Pitt, along with collaborators at the University of Florida, Clemson University, and Virginia Tech, published a new paper entitled, Diversity patterns associated with varying dispersal capabilities as a function of spatial and local environmental variables in small wetlands in forested ecosystems, in the journal Forests. Read More
Amber Pitt, Ellie Tate, & Myles Little present research at the International Congress for Conservation Biology in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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This July, Amber Pitt, Ellie Tate (’21), and Myles Little (’21) presented their river turtle research at the International Congress for Conservation Biology in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Their research evaluated the changes to a river turtle community that have occurred over the past 50 years. Read More
Pitt Lab Represents Trinity College at the North American Congress for Conservation Biology
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Joe Ruggiero, Shane McLaughlin, and Amber Pitt represented Trinity College at the North American Congress for Conservation Biology held 21-26 July 2018 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ruggiero and McLaughlin summarized research that they implemented along with Bobbie Imwalle and Pitt, in a presentation entitled, Mercury accumulation in urban park streams and ponds: has urbanization changed would-be… Read More
New publication demonstrates the importance of state parks to wetlands and biodiversity conservation
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New research authored by Dr. Amber Pitt and Amber Pitt, Joanna Hawley Howard, Rob Baldwin, Elizabeth Baldwin, and Bryan Brown co-authored an original research article entitled Small Parks as Local Social-Ecological Systems Contributing to Conservation of Small Isolated and Ephemeral Wetlands which was published in the Natural Areas Journal. This study reveals the importance of… Read More
Bailey D’Antonio successfully defends her honors thesis!
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Bailey D’Antonio successfully defended her honors thesis entitled, The effects of Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii) on blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) and white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) abundances in Simsbury, CT. Her research illuminates connections among invasive plants, ticks, mice, and the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. Congratulations, Bailey! Read More
New natural history note published documents hellbender yawns
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Our recently published natural history note entitled, Observations of yawning behaviour in the eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis), is the first published documentation of hellbenders yawning. These observations were made while filming hellbender behavior for a broader conservation-driven research project designed by Amber Pitt and Steve Davis (US Fish & Wildlife Service) and implemented by… Read More
