Kerry Griffis-Kyle, Ph.D.

Professional Summary

My research program addresses management driven questions related to biodiversity and conservation in arid and semi-arid systems. Much of my lab's work is focused on evaluating how anthropogenic stressors are affecting wildlife, wetlands, wetland dependent species, and other sensitive natural resources and how we can modify management to mitigate these issues. Work from my lab uses applied multi-disciplinary approaches and covers a variety of taxa ranging from invertebrates and amphibians to birds and mammals.

Publications

Sutor, S., N.E. McIntyre, K. Griffis-Kyle. 2024. Vegetation cover, topography, and low-traffic roads influence Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai) movement and habitat selection. Movement Ecology 12(1):68. LINK

Roth, S.A., K.L. Griffis-Kyle, M.A. Barnes. 2024. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the arid and thermally extreme Sonoran Desert. EcoHealth 20:370-380. LINK

Sutor, S., N.E. McIntyre, K. Griffis-Kyle. 2023. Characterizing range‑wide impacts of anthropogenic barriers on structural landscape connectivity for the Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai). Landscape Ecology LINK.

Ansley, R.J, V. H. Rivera-Monroy, K.L. Griffis-Kyle, B. Hoagland, A. Emert, T. Fagen, S.R. Loss, H.R. McCarthy, N.G. Smith, E.F. Waring. 2023. Assessing impacts of change on selected foundation species and ecosystem services in the South-Central USA. Ecosphere 14(2): e4412. LINK

Emert, A., S. Subbiah, F.B. Green, K.L. Griffis-Kyle, P.N. Smith. 2023. Atmospheric deposition of particulate matter from beef cattle feedlots is a likely contributor of pyrethroid occurrence in isolated wetland sediment: source apportionment and ecological risk assessment. Environmental Pollution 316: e120493. LINK

Griffis-Kyle, K.L., K. LeVering, A. Vega, C.A. Perez, A. Barun, G. Perry. 2022. Reproductive niche differentiation in syntopic tropical tree frogs (Agalychnis). Biotropica 55:19-23 LINK

Gary, D., K. Mougey, N.E. McIntyre, K.L. Griffis-Kyle. 2022. Species as conservation umbrellas: a case study with lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in the southern Great Plains of North America. Global Ecology and Conservation, e02256. LINK

Mejia, M.F., K.L. Griffis-Kyle. 2020. Diversity in the natural resource workforce. Texas Journal of Science 72(1): Article 8. LINK

Griffis-Kyle, K.L., A.E. Parker, J. Goetting. 2019. Novel temporary aquatic habitats and desert invertebrate communities. Texas Journal of Science. 71: (1) Article 5. LINK

Gary, D., K. Mougey, N.E. McIntyre, K.L. Griffis-Kyle. 2019. Identification of hotspots of at-risk terrestrial vertebrate species in the south-central Great Plains of North America: A tool to inform and address regional-scale conservation. Journal for Nature Conservation 50: Article 125684. LINK

Quinones, B., Z. Patton, J. Murgatroyd, S. Hamilton, S. Moses, A. Herrera, E. Hernandez, C.A. Perez, A. Vega, G. Perry, and K.L. Griffis-Kyle. 2019. The adventure of a lifetime: getting friendly with Costa Rican herps. IRCF Reptiles and Amphibians 26(1):85-97. LINK

Griffis-Kyle, K.L., K. Mougey, M. Vanlandeghem, S. Swain, J. Drake. 2018. Comparison of vulnerability among desert herpetofauna. Biological Conservation 255: 164-175. LINK

Kiesow, A.B., and K.L. Griffis-Kyle. 2017. Desert amphibian selection of arid land breeding habitat undermines reproductive effort. Oecologia 185: 619-627.LINK

Drake, J., K.L. Griffis-Kyle, N.E. McIntyre. 2017. Graph theory as an invasive species management tool: Case study in the Sonoran Desert. Landscape Ecology 32: 1739-1752. LINK

Ramesh, R., G. Perry, M. Farmer, K.L. Griffis-Kyle. 2017. Limited data used to make valid inference about targeting sites for conservation: A case study in urban amphibian ecology. LINK

Drake, J.C., K.L. Griffis-Kyle, N.E. McIntyre. 2017. Using nested connectivity models to resolve management conflicts of isolated water networks in the Sonoran Desert. Ecosphere 8(1), e01652. LINK