Scholarship

 

biogeography, phylogeography, phylogenetics, population genetics, population genomics, landscape genomics, conservation genomics, island biogeography, species delimitation, systematics, integrative taxonomy

 

 

Publications

for a current list of publications and citations see [google scholar profile](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=f_SY5rQAAAAJ&hl=en)

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2023      

Salerno PE, Chan L, Pauly GB, Funk C and Robertson J. Near-shore island lizard fauna shaped by a combination of human-mediated and natural dispersal. Journal of Biogeography, 50(1): 116–129.  

 

2022    

Cheek R, Forester R, Salerno PE, Trumbo D, Chen N, Sillett TS, Morrison S, Ghalambor C and Funk WC. Habitat-linked genetic variation supports microgeographic adaptive divergence in an island-endemic bird species. Molecular Ecology, 00: 1–17.

 

Fountain-Jones NM, Kraberger S, Gagne R, Gilbertson MLJ, Trumbo DR, Charleston M, Salerno PE, Funk WC, Crooks K, Logan K, Alldredge M, Dellicour S, Baele G, Didelot X, VandeWoude S, Carver S, and Craft ME. Hunting alters viral transmission and evolution in a large carnivore. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1 – 9.

 

2021   

Fountain-Jones NM, Kraberger S, Gagne RB, Trumbo DR, Salerno PE, Funk WC, Crooks K, Biek R, Alldredge M, Logan K, Baele G, Dellicour S, Ernest HB, VandeWoude S, Carver S and Craft ME. Host relatedness and landscape connectivity shape pathogen spread in the puma, a large secretive carnivore. Communications Biology, 4:12, https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01548-2.

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2020

Fitzpatrick SW, Bradburd, GS, Kremer CT, Salerno PE, Angeloni LM, and Funk WC. Genetic rescue without genomic swamping in replicate Trinidadian guppy populations in the wild. Current Biology, 30: 1 – 6, https:doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.062.

 

2019

Salerno PE, Páez-Vacas MI, Guayasamin JM, and Stynoski JL. Male principal investigators (almost) don’t publish with women: partialized bias in ecological and zoological publications. PLoS ONE 14(6): e0218598; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218598.

 

Szűcs M, Salerno PE, Teller B, Schaffner U, Littlefield J, and Hufbauer RA. The effects of agent hybridization on the efficacy of biological control of tansy ragwort at high elevations. Evolutionary Applications, 12: 470–481.

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Kozakiewicz CP, Burridge CP, Funk WC, Salerno PE, Trumbo DR, Gagne RB, Boydston EE, Lyren LM, Jennings MK, Riley SPD, Serieys LEK, VandeWoude S, Crooks KR, Carver SS. Urbanisation reduces connectivity at multiple scales among fragmented bobcat populations. Molecular Ecology, 28: 5068 – 5085.

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Trumbo DR, Salerno PE, Logan K, Alldredge M, Gagne E, Kozakiewicz C, Kraberger S, Fountain-Jones N, Craft M, Carver S, Ernest H, Crooks K, VandeWoude S, Funk WC. Urbanization impacts mountain lion gene flow in the rapidly developing Front Range compared to the rural Western Slope of Colorado, USA. Molecular Ecology, 28: 4926 – 4940.

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2018   

Poff NL, Larson E, Salerno PE, Morton S, Kondratieff B, Flecker A, Polato N, Gray MM, Gerberich J, Zamudio K, and Funk WC. Extreme streams: species persistence and genomic change in montane insect populations across a flooding gradient. Ecology Letters, 21: 525–535.

 

Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Infante-Rivero EE, Salerno PE, and Meza-Joya FL. A new species of Hyloscirtus (Anura, Hylidae) from the Colombian and Venezuelan slopes of Sierra de Perijá, and the new phylogenetic position of H. jahni (Rivero, 1961). Zootaxa, 4382: 121–146.

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2016   

Ron SR, Venegas P, Ortega-Andrade HM, Glagliardi-Urrutia G, and Salerno PE. Systematics of Ecnomiohyla tuberculosa with the description of a new species and comments on the taxonomy of Trachycephalus typhonius (Anura:Hylidae). ZooKeys 630: 115–154.

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2015   

Colli GR, Hoogmoed MS, Cannatella DC, Cassimiro J, Gomes JO, Ghellere JM, Nunes PMS, Pellegrino KCM, Salerno PE, Souza SM, and Rodrigues MT. Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus and two new species of lizards from Brazilian Amazonia, with nomenclatural comments on the taxonomy of Gymnophthalmidae (Reptilia:, Squamata). Zootaxa 4000 (4): 401–427.   

 

Salerno PE, Señaris JC, Rojas-Runjaic  FJM, and Cannatella DC. Recent evolutionary history of Lost World endemics: population genetics, species delimitation, and phylogeography of sky-island treefrogs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82: 314–323.

 

2013   

Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Salerno PE, Pauly GB, and Señaris JC. Terraranans of the Lost World: a new species of Pristimantis (Amphibia, Strabomantidae) from Abakapá-tepui in the Chimantá Massif, Venezuelan Guayana, and additions to the knowledge of P. muchimuk. Zootaxa 3686 (3): 335–355.

 

2012   

Salerno PE, Ron SR, Señaris JC, Rojas-Runjaic F, Noonan BP and Cannatella DC. Ancient tepui summits harbor young rather than old lineages of endemic frogs. Evolution 66(10): 3000–3013. (featured in the New York Times)

 

Salerno PE and Pauly GB. Clutch size variation in egg-brooding Stefania. South American Journal of Herpetology 7: 47–54.

 

2010   

Barrio-Amorós C, Salerno P, Rojas-Runjaic F, and Noonan B. Amphibia, Hylidae, Osteocephalus exophthalmus Smith and Noonan, 2001: New country record and geographic distribution map, Venezuela. Checklist 6(3): 463–464.

 

2009   

Arrivillaga J, Salerno P and Rangel Y. Asymmetric reproductive isolation between Lutzomyia pseudolongipalpis and Lutzomyia longipalpis (species C2), Neotropical vectors of visceral leishmaniasis (Diptera: Psychodidae). International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation 57(1-2): 23–31.