* = undergraduate co-author, ** = graduate co-author, *** = postdoc co-author

 

In Review/Revision/Press

​​Spicer, Z.** and J.M. Davenport. In Revision. The effects of elevation on abundance estimates of a montane salamander assemblage in the Southern Appalachians

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​​Davenport, J.M., A.M. Babineau**, J. Hargett*, Z. Vegso*, R.W. Van Devender, and J.R. Spotila. In Revision. Trends in salamander abundance in the Southern Appalachians over 105 years. 

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Davenport, J.M. and A. Riley. In Review. Plants versus salamanders: the effects of inter-Kingdom competition on bladderwort and spotted salamander life history

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​​Davenport, J.M. and K.M. Stemp**. In Revision. Predator hunting mode does not predict intraguild interactions or top-down effects on prey

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Anderson, T., J. Burkhart, K.M. Stemp, A. Messerman, D.S. Siegel, and J.M. Davenport. In Review. Variation in phenology across life stages and climate affect juvenile salamander demography

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2026

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74. Ronca, R.**, E. Winterton**, and J. M. Davenport. 2026. Bridging Data Gaps: Evidence-Based Population Assessment for an Endemic Amphibian of Conservation Concern. Journal of Wildlife Management 90:e70216

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73. Babineau, A.M. and J.M. Davenport. 2026. Abundance and detection probabilities for three montane Plethodontid salamanders in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Journal of Herpetology 60:53-60.

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72. Rumrill, C.T. (huge list of collaborators*). 2026. Estimating mercury exposure in amphibians using non-lethal tissue sampling. Ecotoxicology 35: 57​

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71. Locke, H.R., M. Ramey, J.M. Davenport, and D.S. Siegel. 2026. The largest Eastern Newts, Notophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820), are found at high elevation in North Carolina. Herpetology Notes 19:17-19.

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2025

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70. Sloan, R.S.** ,S.T. Giery, and J.M. Davenport. 2025. Temperature effects on compensatory responses in an early spring breeding amphibian. Journal of Zoology 327:420-427.

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69. Shoptaugh, H.,** J.R. Ennen, and J.M. Davenport. 2025 Short-Term Visits, but Long-Term Effects of Common Snapping Turtles (Chelydra serpentina) in Freshwater Systems. Ichthyology and Herpetology 113:614-620.

 

68. Siegel, D.S., H.R. Locke*, M.E. Martinez*, B.J. Schuessler*, M.A .Kist*, J.T .Gruber,* K. M .Stemp, S.D. Trame**, J.M. Davenport. 2025. The reproductive cycle of male Eastern Newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) from a high-elevation population in North Carolina, USA. Salamandra 61: 365-373.

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67. Fournier, R.*, J.R. Ennen, P.R. Gould, K.K. Cecala, S. Sweat, D. Garig**, R. Colvin, and J.M. Davenport. 2025. Comparison of the effects of habitat type and human influence on occupancy of freshwater turtles in the Mississippi embayment. Wildlife Letters 3:46-55. 

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66. ​​Grear, D.A. et al. (huge list of collaborators*). 2025. Pan-Amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature. Ecological Monographs 95: e70001.

 

65. Hossack, B.R., J.M. Davenport, C.K. Mattison*, C. A. Eagles-Smith, L.A. Fishback, B. J. Tornabene, and K. L. Smalling. 2025. Methylmercury in subarctic amphibians: environmental gradients, bioaccumulation, and estimated flux. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 44:698-709.

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64. Siegel, D.S., J.M. Davenport, D. A. Beamer, J. Nasser, and C.M. Murray. 2025. Head shape seasonal dynamics of Eurycea chamberlainii. Ichthyology and Herpetology 113:1-7.

 

63. Davenport, J.M., A.M. Babineau, R.S. Sloan**, A. Groesbeck*, A. Montazeri, and M. Ramey. 2025. Sexual dimorphic effects of a keystone predator on prey communities. Ecology 106:e4530.

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62. Vaziri, G.J., et al. 2025. Gut microbiomes are largely unchanged when exposed to their amphibian host's latitudinally variable upper thermal limit. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 302:111816. 

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61. ​Rooney, B.R., et al. (huge list of collaborators). 2025. SNAPSHOT USA 2019–2023: The first five years of data from a coordinated camera trap survey of the United States. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34:e13941.

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​2024

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60. ​Davenport, J.M., A. Feltmann*, LA. Fishback, and B.R. Hossack. 2024. Assessing predictions from optimal egg theory for an ectotherm relative to habitat duration at the Arctic’s edge. Wildlife Letters 2:124-130.

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59. Vegso*, Z.T. and J.M. Davenport. 2024. A re-examination of body size reduction in Plethodon yonahlossee populations due to climate change. Journal of Herpetology 58:118971. 

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58. Drake*, S., J. R. Ennen, K.K. Cecala, S.M. Fix, and J.M. Davenport. 2024. Interspecific interactions between headwater stream vertebrates is not mediated by flow in experimental streams. Ichthyology and Herpetology 112:210-216.

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57. Kays et al. (huge list of collaborators*). 2024. Climate, food, and humans predict mammal communities in the United States. Diversity and Distributions e13900. 

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56. Davenport, J.M., D. Burton*, L. Suchniak*, and T. L. Anderson**. 2024. Variability in intermediate predator hatching does not increase cannibalism or decrease top-down effects of top predators. Canadian Journal of Zoology 102:506-516. 

 

55. Giery, Sean T., R. Sloan**, A. Groesbeck*, and J. M. Davenport. 2024. Ecosystem effects of intraspecific variation in a colour polymorphic amphibian. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291:20240016.

 

54. Jefferson**, K. R., W. S. Zoughaib*, J. M. Davenport, D. A. Beamer, L. J. Kirschman, D. S. Siegel. 2024. Cranial Courtship Glands of Eurycea chamberlaini. Ichthyology and Herpetology 112:53-59.

 

53. LaFrance, B.J. et al. (huge list of collaborators*). 2024. A dataset of amphibian species in U.S. National Parks. Scientific Data 11:32.

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2023

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52. Anderson***, T.L. and J.M. Davenport. 2023. Predicting prey diversity with multiple predator effects. Food Webs 37:e00308.

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51. Culp*, E., S. Fix, J. Ennen, J.M. Davenport, and K.C. Cecala. 2023. Investigating Ex Situ Competitive Interactions in a Novel Fish Community with Implications for the Introduction of Sunfish (Lepomis spp.) in Headwater Streams. Ichthyology & Herpetology 111:634-640.

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50. Cannon*, C.L. and J.M. Davenport. 2023. Microgeographic scale population risk determines the adaptive responses of larval salamanders to predator kairomones. Amphibia-Reptilia 44:483-494.

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49. Morison, M., N.J. Casson, S. Mamet, J.M. Davenport, T. Livingston, LA Fishback, H. White, and A .Windsor 2023. Snow, ponds, trees, and frogs: how environmental processes mediate climate change impacts on four subarctic terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. FACETS 8:1-15.

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48. Anderson***, T.L., J. Burkhart***, Jacob, J. Cianci-Gaskill, and J.M. Davenport. Limited population and community effects of hatching asynchrony in a pond‐breeding salamander. Ecosphere 14 (2), e4372.

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47. Hastings, T. P.**, B. R. Hossack, LA Fishback, and J. M. Davenport. 2023. Using physiological conditions to assess current and future habitat use of a Subarctic frog. Integrative Zoology 18:2-14.

 

2022

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46. Davenport, J. M., D. A. Beamer, C. Long*, T. Waltz*, S. Wren*, and D. S. Siegel. 2022. Reproductive biology and population structure of Eurycea chamberlaini in North Carolina. Ichthyology & Herpetology 110:728-736.

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45. Kays et al. (huge list of collaborators*). 2022. Snapshot USA 2020: A second coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ecology 103:e3775

 

44. Stemp**, K.M., T.L. Anderson***, and J.M. Davenport. 2022. Multiple predator effects and functional redundancy of a keystone predator. Journal of Herpetology 56:18-26.

 

2021

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43. Anderson***, T.L., J.J. Burkhart***, and J.M. Davenport. 2021. Asymmetric density-dependent competition and predation between larval salamanders. Freshwater Biology 66:1356-1365.

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42. Garig, D.F.**, J.R. Ennen, S.J. Hyder**, T. Simmonds*, A.J. Feltmann*, R. Colvin, J. Denison, L. Pearson**, B.R. Kreiser, S.C. Sweat, and J. M. Davenport. 2021. Status of the Alligator Snapping Turtle, Macrochelys temminckii, in West Tennessee. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 20:35-42.

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41. Smalling, K.L. et al. 2021. Metal accumulation varies with life history, size, and development of larval amphibians. Environmental Pollution 287:117368

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40. Cragg**, S., K.K. Cecala, S.M. Fix, J. R. Ennen, and J.M. Davenport. 2021. Role of abiotic factors and habitat heterogeneity in the interactions between stream salamanders and crayfish in the southern Appalachians. Freshwater Science 40:608-614.

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39. Stemp**, K.M., T.L. Anderson***, and J.M. Davenport. 2021. The effects of intraguild interactions (or lack of) on prey diversity in experimental pond food webs. Food Webs 29:e00207.

 

38. Ennen, J.R. , K.K. Cecala, P. Gould**, R. Colvin, J. Dennison, D. Garig**, S. Hyder**, L. Recker,* and J.M. Davenport. 2021. Size matters: the influence of trap and mesh size on turtle captures. Wildlife Society Bulletin 45:130-137.

 

37. Hyder, S.J.**, J.R. Ennen, and J.M. Davenport. 2021. Ontogenetic and seasonal shifts in movement and habitat selection of the Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys temminckii). Amphibia-Reptilia 42:217-226. 

 

36. Stemp**, K.M., T.L. Anderson***, and J.M. Davenport. 2021. Macro-geographic scale variation of a keystone predator in a common garden environment. Population Ecology 63:5-13.

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35. Kirsch*, D.R., S. Mitchell, J.M. Davenport, K.K. Cecala, and J.R. Ennen. 2021. Body size is related to temperature preference in Hyla chrysoscelis tadpoles. Journal of Herpetology 55:21-25.

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2020

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34. Davenport, J.M., LA. Fishback, and B.R. Hossack. 2020. Effects of experimental warming and simulated goose enrichment on wetland communities at the Arctic’s edge. Hydrobiologia 847:3677-3690.

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33. Cecala, K.K., E.H. Walker*, J.R. Ennen, S.M. Mitchell, and J.M. Davenport. 2020. Seasonal variation in the strength of interference competition among headwater stream predators. Freshwater Biology 65:1440-1449.

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32. Anderson***, T.L., K.M. Stemp, and J.M. Davenport. 2020. Functional responses of Larval Marbled Salamanders (Ambystoma opacum) and Adult Lesser Siren (Siren intermedia) on anuran tadpole prey. Copeia 108:341-346.

 

31. Waddle, H. et al. 2020. Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) not detected in an intensive survey of North American amphibians. Scientific Reports 10:13012

 

30. Garig, D.F.**, J.R. Ennen, and J.M. Davenport. 2020. The legacy effects of a transient apex predator in a freshwater food web. Copeia 108:132-139.

 

29. Davenport, J.M., A.B. King*, A. Riley*, M.E. Hampson*, and P. Constantinides*. 2020. The non-consumptive effects of predators and personality on prey growth and mortality. Ethology 126:363-371.

 

28. Anderson***, T.L., K.M. Stemp, B.H. Ousterhout, D. Burton**, and J.M. Davenport. 2020. Impacts of phenological variability in a predatory salamander on pond food webs. Journal of Zoology 310:95-105.

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2019

 

27. Addis**, B., B. Tobalske, J.M. Davenport, and W.H. Lowe. 2019. A distance-performance trade-off in the phenotypic basis of dispersal. Ecology and Evolution 9:10644-10653.

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2018

 

26. Hoffacker, M.L.*, K.K. Cecala, J.R. Ennen, S. Mitchell, and J.M. Davenport. 2018. Interspecific interactions are conditional on temperature in an Appalachian stream salamander community. Oecologia 188:623-631.

 

25. Bishir, S.C.**, B.R. Hossack, LA. Fishback, and J.M. Davenport. 2018. Post-breeding movement and habitat use by Wood Frogs along an Arctic-Subarctic ecotone. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 50:e1487657 

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24. Davenport, J.M., and W.H. Lowe. 2018. Testing for microgeographic effects on the strength of interspecific competition. Copeia 106:501-506.

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23. Lowe, W.H., B. Addis**, M. Smith*, and J.M. Davenport. 2018. The structure of individual variation in a headwater stream network. Freshwater Biology 63:1287-1299.

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2017

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22. Liles*, LA, K.K. Cecala, J.R. Ennen, and J.M. Davenport. 2017. Elevated temperatures alter body condition and competitive outcomes in Appalachian salamanders. Animal Conservation 20:502-510.

 

21. Cecala, K.K., J.M. Davenport, J.R. Ennen, and W. Fields. 2017. Chapter 23: Amphibians and Reptiles in Methods in Stream Ecology, R. Hauer and G.A Lamberti (eds). Academic Press.

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20. Davenport, J.M., M.E. Hampson*, M.E., A.B. King*, and S.C. Bishir**. 2017. The effects of sunfish on spotted salamander oviposition, hatching time, and larval survival. Amphibia-Reptilia 38:327-337.

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19. Davenport, J.M., B.R. Hossack, and LA. Fishback. 2017. Additive impacts of experimental climate change increase risk to an ectotherm at the Arctic’s edge. Global Change Biology 23:2262-2271.

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18. Davenport, J.M. and A. Riley*. 2017. Inter-Kingdom competition: Carnivorous plants affect growth of an aquatic vertebrate. Journal of Animal Ecology 86:484-489.

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17. Mitchell, S.M, J.R. Ennen, K.K. Cecala, and J.M. Davenport. 2017. Ex-situ PIT-tag retention study in two Desmognathus species. Herpetological Review 48:3113-3115.

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2016

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16. Chambert, T., B.R.Hossack, LA. Fishback, and J.M. Davenport. 2016. Estimating abundance in the presence of species uncertainty. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7:1041-1049.

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15. Davenport, J.M. and B.R. Hossack. 2016. Re-evaluating geographic variation in life-history traits of a widespread Nearctic amphibian. Journal of Zoology 299:304-310.

 

14. Davenport, J.M., P.A. Seiwert**, L.A. Fishback and W.B. Cash. 2016. The interactive effects of fish predation and conspecific density on survival and growth of Rana sylvatica tadpoles in a subarctic wetland. Copeia 104:639-644.

 

13. Ennen, J.R., J.M. Davenport, and K.F. Alford. 2016. Evidence for asymmetric competition among headwater stream vertebrates. Hydrobiologia 772:207-213.

 

12. Davenport, J.M., and W.H. Lowe. 2016. Does dispersal alter the strength of intraspecific competition in a stream salamander? Journal of Zoology 298:46-53.

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2015

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11. Deitchler, E.A.*, J.M. Davenport, and W.H. Lowe. 2015. Homing behavior of the northern spring salamander, Gyrinophilus porphyriticus, in a northeastern U.S. headwater stream. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 10:235-541.

 

2014

 

10. Davenport, J.M., B.R. Hossack and W.H. Lowe. 2014. Partitioning the non-consumptive effects of predators on prey with complex life histories. Oecologia 176:149-155.

9. Mondelli, M.*, J.M. Davenport, W.H. Lowe. 2014. Gyrinophilus porphytricus Diet: fish versus fishless headwater streams. Herpetological Review 45:109-110.

 

8. Davenport, J.M. and D.R. Chalcraft. 2014. Increasing conspecific density weakens the ability of intermediate predators to develop induced morphological defenses to top predators. Freshwater Biology 59:87-99. 

 

2013

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7. Davenport, J.M., P.A. Seiwert**, L.A. Fishback and W.B. Cash. 2013.  The effects of two fish predators on Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) tadpoles in a subarctic wetland: Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology 91:866-871.

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6. Davenport, J.M. and D.R. Chalcraft. 2013.  Non-consumptive effects in a multiple predator system reduce the foraging efficiency of a keystone predator. Ecology and Evolution 3:3063-3072.

2012

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5. Davenport, J.M. and D.R. Chalcraft. 2012.  Evaluating the effects of trophic complexity on a keystone predator by disassembling a partial intraguild predation food web. Journal of Animal Ecology 81:242-250.
 

2010

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4. Davenport, J.M. and K. Summers. 2010.  Environmental influences on egg and clutch size in lentic- and lotic-breeding salamanders. Phyllomedusa 9:87-98. 

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2009

 

​3. Davenport, J.M. and A.F. Scott.  2009.  Amphibians and reptiles Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Stewart County, Tennessee. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 84:83-89.

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2007

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2. Braswell, A., D.L. Stephan, J.M. Davenport, D.A. Beamer and T.N. Rogers. 2007. Ambystoma mabeei Diet. Herpetological Review. 38:173.



2004

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1. Davenport, J.M., J.R. Ennen, and A.F. Scott. 2004. New Records for Amphibians from Counties in South-Central Tennessee. Herpetological Review 36:209-210.