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Pilliod, David

Pilliod, David
Supervisory Research Ecologist
Email: dpilliod@usgs.gov
Ph: 208-426-5202; Fax:208-426-5210
970 Lusk Street
Boise, ID 83706

Education:
1991 B.A. Biology University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
2001 Ph.D. Ecology Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID

Expertise/Specialty:
monitoring design, amphibian and reptile biology, wildlife ecology, stream ecology, fire ecology

Research Interests:
inventory and monitoring, wildlife-habitat relationships, population dynamics, disturbance ecology, conservation biology

View all Publications Select Publications:
Peterson, D.L., Agee, J.K., Aplet, G.H., Dykstra, D., Graham, R.T., Lehmkuhl, J.F., Pilliod, D.S., Potts, D.F., Powers, R.F., Stuart, J.D., 2009, Effects of Timber Harvest Following Wildfire in Western North America: USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station General Technical Report PNW-GTR-776, p. 1-51. [Highlight] [FullText] Catalog No: 1767
Arkle, R.S., Pilliod, D.S., Strickler, K., 2009, Fire, flow, and dynamic equilibrium in stream macroinvertebrate communities: Freshwater Biology, p. online. [Abs] [FullText] Catalog No: 1823
Jain, T.B., Gould, W.R., Graham, R.T., Pilliod, D.S., Lentile, L.B., Gonzalez, G., 2008, A soil burn severity index for understanding soil-fire relations in tropical forests: Ambio, v. 37, no. 7-8, p. 563-568. [Highlight] [FullText] Catalog No: 1936
Pilliod, D.S., Wind, E., eds., 2008, Habitat Management Guidelines for Amphibians and Reptiles of the Northwestern United States and Western Canada: Technical Publication HMG-4, Birmingham, AL, Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 139 p.  [Highlight] Catalog No: 2024
Petrisko, J.E., Pearl, C.A., Pilliod, D.S., Sheridan, P.P., Williams, C.F., Peterson, C.R., Bury, R., 2008, Saprolegniaceae identified on amphibian eggs throughout the Pacific Northwest, USA, by internal transcribed spacer sequences and phylogenetic analysis: Mycologia, v. 100, no. 2, p. 171-180. [Highlight] [FullText] Catalog No: 1789
Muths, E., Pilliod, D.S., Livo, L.J., 2008, Distribution and environmental limitations of an amphibian pathogen in the Rocky Mountains, USA: Biological Conservation, v. 141, p. 1484-1492. [Highlight] [FullText] Catalog No: 1818
Jain, T.B., Graham, R.T., Pilliod, D.S., 2006, The relation between forest structure and soil burn severity In Andrews, P.L., Butler, B.W., eds., Fuels management- How to measure success, Proceedings: RMRS-P-41, Fort Collins, CO, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, p. 615-631. [FullText] Catalog No: 1769
Karraker, N.E., Pilliod, D.S., Adams, M.J., Bull, E.L., Corn, P.S., Diller, L.V., Dupuis, L.A., Hayes, J.P., Hossack, B.R., Hodgson, G.R., Hyde, E.J., Lohman, K., Norman, B.R., Ollivier, L.M., Pearl, C.A., Peterson, C.R., 2006, Taxonomic variation in the oviposition of tailed frogs (Ascaphus spp.): Northwestern Naturalist, v. 87, no. 2, p. 87-97. [Highlight] [FullText] Catalog No: 1665
Pilliod, D.S., Bull, E.L., Hayes, J.L., Wales, B.C., 2006, Wildlife and Invertebrate Response to Fuel Reduction Treatments in Dry Coniferous Forests of the Western United States- A Synthesis: USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station RMRS-GTR-173, p. 34. [FullText] Catalog No: 1760
Hossack, B.R., Corn, P.S., Pilliod, D.S., 2005, Lack of significant changes in the herpetofauna of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, since the 1920s: American Midland Naturalist, v. 154, p. 423-432. [FullText] Catalog No: 1761
Funk, W., Blouin, M.S., Corn, P.S., Maxell, B.A., Pilliod, D.S., Amish, S., Allendorf, F.W., 2005, Population structure of Columbia spotted frogs (Rana luteiventris) is strongly affected by the landscape: Molecular Ecology, v. 14, p. 483-496. [FullText] Catalog No: 1753
Dunham, J.B., Pilliod, D.S., Young, M., 2004, Assessing the consequences of nonnative trout in headwater ecosystems: Fisheries, v. 29, no. 6, p. 18-26. [FullText] Catalog No: 1403
Pilliod, D.S., Bury, R., Hyde, E.J., Pearl, C.A., Corn, P.S., 2003, Fire and amphibians in North America: Forest Ecology and Management, v. 178, no. 1-2, p. 163-181. [FullText] Catalog No: 1201
Pilliod, D.S., Peterson, C.R., Ritson, P.I., 2002, Seasonal migration of Columbia spotted frogs (Rana luteiventris) among complementary resources in a high mountain basin: Canadian Journal of Zoology, v. 80, p. 1849-1862. [FullText] Catalog No: 1752
Pilliod, D.S., Peterson, C.R., 2001, Local and landscape effects of Introduced trout on amphibians in historically fishless watersheds: Ecosystems, v. 4, p. 322-333. [FullText] Catalog No: 1755

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