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Steve Adolph and research student

Stephen C. Adolph
Associate Professor of Biology

  • F.W. Olin Science Center, Room 2381
  • 1250 N. Dartmouth Ave.
    Claremont, CA 91711
  • (909) 607-1872
  • Stephen_Adolph@hmc.edu
 

Education & Professional Experience

  • B.S., M.S., Stanford University
  • Ph.D., University of Washington
  • Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Assistant Professor, Harvey Mudd College

Teaching

  • Bio 108: Ecology & Environmental Biology
  • Bio 109: Evolutionary Biology
  • Bio 185s: Advanced Topics in Ecology (Seminar)
  • Bio 153: Biostatistics
  • Math & Bio 118 & 119: Mathematical Biology

Research Interests

Professor Adolph’s laboratory investigates the physiological, evolutionary, and behavioral ecology of lizards. He and his students study the effects of temperature on growth, locomotion, and other traits, and how these traits influence life histories and population biology. Recent research projects have addressed the influence of habituation on lizard escape behavior, gene flow in Sceloporus lizards, the stochastic population dynamics of Xantusia lizards, and developing statistical methods for analyzing locomotor performance.

Publications

Buckley, C. R., M. Jackson*, M. Youssef*, D. J. Irschick, and S. C. Adolph. 2007.  Testing the persistence of phenotypic plasticity after incubation in the Western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis.  Evolutionary Ecology Research. 9: 169-183.

Adolph, S. C., and J. S. Hardin. Estimating Phenotypic Correlations: Correcting for Bias Due to Intraindividual Variability. Functional Ecology. 21: 178-184.

Hancock, T. V., S. C. Adolph, and T. T. Gleeson. 2001. Effect of activity duration on recovery and metabolic costs in the desert iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 130: 67-79. [abstract]

Perkins, M.*, S. C. Adolph, S. Granite*, and W. Hein*. 1997. Natural history notes: Xantusia vigilis (Desert Night Lizard) and Sceloporus magister (Desert Spiny Lizard). Predation and diet. Herpetological Review 28: 29.

Adolph, S. C., and W. P. Porter. 1996. Growth, seasonality and lizard life histories: age and size at maturity. Oikos 77: 267-278.

Padilla, D. K., S. C. Adolph, K. L. Cottingham, and D. W. Schneider. 1996. Predicting the consequences of dreissenid mussels on a pelagic food web. Ecological Modelling 85: 129-144.

Padilla, D. K., and S. C. Adolph. 1996. Plastic inducible morphologies are not always adaptive: the importance of time delays in a stochastic environment. Evolutionary Ecology 10: 105-117.

Wang, J. P.*, and S. C. Adolph. 1995. Thermoregulatory consequences of transmitter implant surgery in the lizard Sceloporus occidentalis. Journal of Herpetology 29: 421-425.

Adolph, S. C., and M. A. Geber. 1995. Mate-guarding, mating success and body size in the tropical millipede Nyssodesmus python (Peters) (Polydesmida: Platyrhacidae). Southwestern Naturalist 40: 56-61.

Sinervo, B., and S. C. Adolph. 1994. Growth plasticity and thermal opportunity in Sceloporus lizards. Ecology 75: 776-790. [article]

Garland, T., Jr., and S. C. Adolph. 1994. Why not to do two-species comparative studies: limitations on inferring adaptation. Physiological Zoology 67: 797-828.

Adolph, S. C., and W. P. Porter. 1993. Temperature, activity and lizard life histories. American Naturalist 142: 273-295. [article]

Garland, T., Jr., and S. C. Adolph. 1991. Physiological differentiation of vertebrate populations. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 22: 193-228. [article]

Sinervo, B., R. Hedges, and S. C. Adolph. 1991. Decreased sprint speed as a cost of reproduction in the lizard Sceloporus occidentalis: variation among populations. Journal of Experimental Biology 155: 323-336.

Adolph, S. C. 1990. Influence of behavioral thermoregulation on microhabitat use by two Sceloporus lizards. Ecology 71: 315-327. [article]

Adolph, S. C. 1990. Perch height selection by juvenile Sceloporus lizards: interspecific differences and relationship to habitat use. Journal of Herpetology 24: 69-75.

Sinervo, B., and S. C. Adolph. 1989. Thermal sensitivity of growth rate in hatchling Sceloporus lizards: physiological, behavioral and genetic aspects. Oecologia 78: 411-419.

Adolph, S. C., and J. Roughgarden. 1983. Foraging by passerine birds and Anolis lizards on St. Eustatius (Neth. Antilles): implications for interclass competition and predation. Oecologia 56: 313-317.

*HMC student

 


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