Education
Ph.D. in
Zoology, Oregon State University
B.S. in
Biology, University of Puget Sound
Postdoctoral research
Landscape and Conservation Ecology,
University of Washington
Research Interests
I study
the effects of environmental stressors on animal populations. I work mainly with
amphibians, but I also work with various bird and
reptile species as well.
Current student projects
Summer
2010
Fall 2010
Representative
publications
Blaustein, A.R., S.C
Walls, B. A. Bancroft, J.J. Lawler, C.L. Searle, and S.S. Gervasi. 2010. Direct and indirect effects of
climate change on amphibian populations. Diversity 2: 281-313.
Lawler, J.J., S.
Shafer, B. A. Bancroft, and A.R. Blaustein. 2010. Projected climate impacts for the
amphibians of the western hemisphere. Conservation
Biology 24(1): 38-50.
Searle, C.S., L.K.
Belden, B. A. Bancroft, B.A. Han, L.F. Michael and A.R.
Blaustein. 2010. Experimental
examination of the effects of ultraviolet-B radiation in combination with other
stressors in frog larvae. Oecologia 162(1): 237-245.
Bancroft, B. A., N. J. Baker*
and A. R. Blaustein. 2008.
A meta-analysis of the effects of ultraviolet B radiation and its synergistic
interactions with pH, contaminants, and disease on amphibian survival. Conservation Biology 22(4): 987-996.
Bancroft, B. A.,
N. J. Baker*, C. L. Searle, T. S.
Garcia and A. R. Blaustein.
2008. Larval amphibians seek warm temperatures and do not avoid harmful UVB
radiation. Behavioral Ecology 19(4): 879-886.
Bancroft, B.A.,
N.J. Baker* and A. R. Blaustein. 2007. Effects of ultraviolet B radiation
in marine and freshwater systems: a synthesis through meta-analyses. Ecology
Letters 10(4): 332-345.
Blaustein, A.R. and B.A.
Bancroft. 2007. Amphibian population declines:
evolutionary considerations. Bioscience
57(5): 437-444.