Publications

* undergraduate student

  • Goodman, S. M., L. M. Chan, M. D. Nowak, and A. D. Yoder. In press (2010). Phylogeny and phylogeography of western Indian Ocean Rousettus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Journal of Mammalogy.

  • Chan, L. M. and K. R. Zamudio. 2009. Population differentiation of temperate amphibians in unpredictable environments. Molecular Ecology, 18: 3185-3200. pdf

  • Zamudio, K. R., J. M. Robertson, L. M. Chan, and I. Sazima. 2009. Population structure in an extreme narrow endemic: evidence for drift offset by asymmetrical migration in a tiny geographic range. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 97: 259-274. pdf

  • Chan, L. M., L. A. Fitzgerald, and K. R. Zamudio. 2009. The scale of genetic differentiation in the Dunes Sagebrush-Lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus), an endemic habitat specialist. Conservation Genetics 10 (1): 131-142. pdf

  • Johnson, L. A., L. M. Chan, T. L. Weese, L. D. Busby*, and S. McMurry*. 2008. Nuclear and cpDNA sequences combined provide strong inference of higher phylogenetic relationships in the phlox family (Polemoniaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 997-1012. pdf

  • Zamudio, K. R. and L. M. Chan. 2008. Alternative reproductive tactics in amphibians. In R. Oliveira, M. Taborsky, and J. Brockman eds. Alternative Reproductive Tactics: an Integrative Approach. Pp. 300-331. Cambridge University Press.

  • Chan, L. M. 2007. Twelve novel microsatellite markers for the Great Plains toad, Bufo cognatus. Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 278-280. pdf

  • Chan, L. M. 2007. Characterization of microsatellite markers for Couch’s Spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus couchii) and cross-amplification in other species of the Family Scaphiopodidae. Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 318-320. pdf

  • Chan, L. M., L. A. Fitzgerald, and K. R. Zamudio. 2007. Characterization of microsatellite markers for the endemic sand dune lizard, Sceloporus arenicolus. Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 337-339. pdf

  • Chan, L, M. 2003. Seasonality, microhabitat, and cryptic variation in tropical salamander reproductive cycles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 78 (4): 489-496. pdf

  • Chan, L. M., K. R. Zamudio, and D. B. Wake. 2001. Relationships of the salamandrid genera Paramesotriton, Pachytriton, and Cynops based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Copeia 2001 (4): 997-1009. pdf

  • Chan, L. M. 2001. Pseudoeurycea goebeli, diet. Herpetological Review 32 (3): 179.

  • Chan, L. M. 2001. Bufo canorus, larval cannibalism. Herpetological Review 32 (2): 101.

  • Zamudio, K. R. and L. M. Chan. 2001. Book review, Herpetology. Copeia 2001 (1): 294-296.

Submitted Publications


  • Vredenburg, V. T., J. R. Romansic, L. M. Chan, and T. Tunstall. A field test of the effects of UV-B radiation on three high elevation amphibians in California.

Select Invited Presentations

  • Guest Lecturer, Field Ecology and Methods, North Carolina State University, Fall 2009

  • Department of Marine Ecology and Biology, Univ. North Carolina, Wilmington, Fall 2009

  • Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Spring 2009

  • EcoLunch, Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Spring 2008.

  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Spring 2007.

  • Guest Lecturer, Herpetology, Cornell University, 2005.

  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, 2005.

  • Herpetology Club, Cornell University, 2004.

  • Department of Integrative Biology, U. C. Berkeley, Commencement, 1999.