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Kirk Lohman

Position title: Research Biologist

Email: klohman@usgs.gov
Phone: 608.781.6341
Fax: 608.783.6066

Education:
Ph.D., 1988, Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Missouri, Columbia
J.D., 1980, Law, University of Missouri, Columbia
B.A., 1975, Biology, University of Missouri, Columbia

Primary Responsibilities/Activities: 
My work addresses questions concerning the factors that limit the distribution and abundance of amphibians and reptiles. It focuses on identifying environmental factors responsible for declines in amphibian and reptile populations and on the development of approaches to better monitor changes in populations. It also seeks to provide a scientific basis for species conservation and to assist natural resource managers in the development of successful conservation strategies and management actions.

Research Interests:

• Amphibian and reptile ecology and conservation
• Stream ecology

Active Projects:

• Variability in Rocky Mountain tailed frog (Ascaphus montanus) populations in two forested drainages in northern Idaho: monitoring responses to timber harvest
• Conservation planning for candidate species in the Upper Mississippi: A survey of eastern massasauga, Sistrurus catenatus catenatus, in the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
• Analysis of amphibian monitoring in Sleeping Bear Dunes and Apostle Islands National Lakeshores

Select Publications:
Nielson, M., K. Lohman, C.H. Daugherty, F.W. Allendorf, K.L. Knudsen, and J. Sullivan. 2006. Allozyme and mitochondrial DNA variation in tailed frogs (Anura: Ascaphus): the influence of geography and gene flow. Herpetologica 62:235-258.

Lohman, K., and R.B. Bury. 2005. Idaho giant salamander (Dicamptodon aterrimus). Pages 651-652 in M.J. Lannoo (ed.), Status and Conservation of U.S. Amphibians. University of California Press.

Lohman, K. 2004. Wildlife use of riverine riparian areas. Pages 74-86 in McKinstry, M.C., W. Hubert, and S. Anderson, Wetland and Riparian Areas in the Intermountain West. University of Texas Press. Austin, TX.

Dodds, W.K., V.H. Smith, and K. Lohman. 2002. Nitrogen and phosphorus relationships to benthic algal biomass in temperate streams. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59: 865-874.

Lohman, K. 2002. Annual variation in the density of stream tadpoles in a northern Idaho (USA) watershed. Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 28:802-806.

Nielson, M.K., K. Lohman, and J. Sullivan. 2001. Phylogeography of the tailed frog (Ascaphus truei): Implications for the biogeography of the Pacific Northwest. Evolution 55:147-160.

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