Jonathan Rose
Biography
Dr. Jonathan Rose conducts research on the population ecology reptiles and amphibians, with the goal of informing conservation of these taxa. Jonathan analyzes capture-mark-recapture, occupancy, and movement data in a Bayesian framework, to estimate species' demographic vital rates, distributions, and space use. Jonathan is particularly interested in how species respond to changes in land cover and land use, and how species can persist in fragmented, human-dominated landscapes. Current projects include studying how the availability of aquatic habitat affects the demography and distribution of threatened Giant Gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas) in the Sacramento Valley, California; population studies of endangered San Francisco Gartersnakes (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia); estimating the occupancy of Western Pond Turtles (Actinemys marmorata) in rice-growing regions of the Sacramento Valley; and modeling the distribution and population dynamics of amphibians of conservation concern in northern California.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Conservation Biology
- Population Ecology
- Herpetology
- Landscape Ecology
EDUCATION
- B.S. in Biology, University of Iowa, 2007
- M.A. in Geography, University of Iowa, 2010
- Ph.D. in Ecology, University of California, Davis, 2016
Science and Products
Integrating multiple data sources and multi-scale land-cover data to model the distribution of a declining amphibian
Determining the spatial scale at which landscape features influence population persistence is an important task for conservation planning. One challenge is that sampling biases confound factors that influence species occurrence and survey effort. Recent developments in Point Process Models (PPMs) enable researchers to disentangle the sampling...
Rose, Jonathan P.; Halstead, Brian J.; Fisher, Robert N. Conservation reliance of a threatened snake on rice agriculture
Conservation-reliant species require perpetual management by humans to persist. But do species that persist largely in human-dominated landscapes actually require conditions maintained by humans? Because most extant populations of giant gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas) inhabit the highly modified rice agricultural regions of the Sacramento Valley,...
Halstead, Brian J.; Rose, Jonathan P.; Reyes, Gabriel; Wylie, Glenn D.; Casazza, Michael L. Demographic factors affecting population growth in giant gartersnakes
Demographic models provide insight into which vital rates and life stages contribute most to population growth. Integral projection models (IPMs) offer flexibility in matching model structure to a species’ demography. For many rare species, data are lacking for key vital rates, and uncertainty might dissuade researchers from attempting to build a...
Rose, Jonathan P.; Ersan, Julia; Wylie, Glenn D.; Casazza, Michael L.; Halstead, Brian J.
Monitoring protocol development and assessment for narrowly endemic toads in Nevada, 2018
Several species and subspecies of toads are endemic to small spring systems in the Great Basin, and their restricted ranges and habitat extent make them vulnerable to environmental perturbations. Very little is known about several of these toad populations, so a group of stakeholders including the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
Halstead, Brian J.; Kleeman, Patrick M.; Duarte, Adam; Rose, Jonathan P.; Urquhart, Kris; Mellison, Chad; Guadalupe, Kevin; Cota, Melanie; Van Horne, Rachel; Killion, Alexa; Ruehling, Kelsey Time-to-detection occupancy modeling: An efficient method for analyzing the occurrence of amphibians and reptiles
Occupancy models provide a reliable method of estimating species distributions while accounting for imperfect detectability. The cost of accounting for false absences is that detection and nondetection surveys typically require repeated visits to a site or multiple-observer techniques. More efficient methods of collecting data to estimate...
Halstead, Brian J.; Kleeman, Patrick M.; Rose, Jonathan P. Integrating growth and capture–mark–recapture models reveals size‐dependent survival in an elusive species
Survival is a key vital rate for projecting the viability of wild populations. Estimating survival is difficult for many rare or elusive species because recapture rates of marked individuals are low, and the ultimate fate of individuals is unknown. Low recapture rates for many species have made it difficult to accurately estimate survival, and to...
Rose, Jonathan P.; Wylie, Glenn D.; Casazza, Michael L.; Halstead, Brian J.
Findings from a preliminary investigation of the effects of aquatic habitat (water) availability on giant gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas) demography in the Sacramento Valley, California, 2014–17
The giant gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas) is a semi-aquatic species of snake precinctive to the Central Valley of California. Because the Central Valley has experienced a substantial loss of wetland habitat, giant gartersnake populations are largely found in aquatic habitats associated with rice agriculture. In dry years, less water may be...
Rose, Jonathan P.; Ersan, Julia S. M.; Reyes, Gabriel A.; Gustafson, K. Benjamin; Fulton, Alexandria M.; Fouts, Kristen J.; Wack, Raymund F.; Wylie, Glenn D.; Casazza, Michael L.; Halstead, Brian J. Reproductive frequency and size-dependence of fecundity in the Giant Gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas)
How reproductive output changes with age or size is a key life-history trait that can affect which demographic rates most influence population growth. Although many studies have investigated the reproductive ecology of gartersnakes, we know little about reproduction in the threatened Giant Gartersnake, Thamnophis gigas. We used X-...
Rose, Jonathan P.; Ersan, Julia; Wylie, Glenn D.; Casazza, Michael L.; Halstead, Brian J.
Construction and analysis of a giant gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas) population projection model
The giant gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas) is a state and federally threatened species precinctive to California. The range of the giant gartersnake has contracted in the last century because its wetland habitat has been drained for agriculture and development. As a result of this habitat alteration, giant gartersnakes now largely persist in and...
Rose, Jonathan P.; Ersan, Julia S. M.; Wylie, Glenn D.; Casazza, Michael L.; Halstead, Brian J.
Behavioral response of giant gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas) to the relative availability of aquatic habitat on the landscape
Most extant giant gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas) populations persist in an agro-ecosystem dominated by rice, which serves as a surrogate to the expansive marshes lost to flood control projects and development of the Great Central Valley of California. Knowledge of how giant gartersnakes use the rice agricultural landscape, including how they...
Reyes, Gabriel A.; Halstead, Brian J.; Rose, Jonathan P.; Ersan, Julia S. M.; Jordan, Anna C.; Essert, Allison M.; Fouts, Kristen J.; Fulton, Alexandria M.; Gustafson, K. Benjamin; Wack, Raymund F.; Wylie, Glenn D.; Casazza, Michael L. Contexts for change in alpine tundra
Because alpine tundra is responding to climate change, a need exists to understand the meaning of observed changes. To provide context for such interpretation, the relevance of niche and neutral theories of biogeography and the continuum and classification approaches to biogeographic description are assessed. Two extensive studies of alpine tundra...
Malanson, George P.; Rose, Jonathan P.; Schroeder, P. Jason; Fagre, Daniel B.