Robert N Fisher
Dr. Robert Fisher is a conservation biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center and works as part of a large integrated team.
His focus has been on how natural systems are responding to the Anthropocene, and what types of resiliency they have or lack as it relates to maintaining ecological integrity and biodiversity. Additionally, through understanding individual species and community responses to perturbations through modern monitoring techniques, he and his team can determine appropriate management experiments or options to possibly recover resiliency. Geographically they have two foci, the first is southern California where urbanization and conservation planning bring various direct and indirect drivers of ecological change, and climate variability is currently extreme and drives landscape level drought and wildfires. Their second foci are the tropical islands of the Pacific Basin, from Palau and Papua New Guinea east to Hawai’i. These islands have also been driven by human change and are on the front line as extreme recent weather variability in the cyclone belt impact terrestrial ecosystems. Understanding how biodiversity was generated in this ecoregion is critical to managing its loss, and their team focuses across time and space (biogeography) to understand these processes utilizing molecular tools tied to expeditions of discovery in this poorly studied ecoregion.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Conservation biology
- Biogeography
- Modelling
- Natural history
- Speciation
- Invasive species
- Climate variability
- Anthropocene
Education and Certifications
Ph.D., Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 1995
M.S., Zoology, University of California, Davis, CA 1991
B.S., Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 1988
Science and Products
Report on Pitfall Trapping of Ants at the Biospecies Sites in the Nature Reserve of Orange County, California
Radio telemetry study of Bufo californicus, arroyo toad movement patterns and habitat preferences
Second year of surveying for fishes on the Santa Margarita River, San Diego and Riverside counties, California: September-December, 1998
The role of natural history collections in documenting species declines
A new Lepidodactylus (Squamata:Gekkonidae) from Vanuatu
Preliminary Survey of the Fish of the Santa Margarita River Watershed, San Diego and Riverside Counties, California
Torrey pines state reserve reptile and amphibian corridor and autecology study
Kermit says the sky is falling, or amphibians as sentinels of change
A field guide to the reptiles and amphibians of coastal southern California
Autecology of coastal sage scrub herpetofauna on reserve lands: Southwestern Riverside County
Survey of reptiles and amphibians at risk in southern California forests
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Report on Pitfall Trapping of Ants at the Biospecies Sites in the Nature Reserve of Orange County, California
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsK. Pease, Robert N. FisherRadio telemetry study of Bufo californicus, arroyo toad movement patterns and habitat preferences
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsP. C. Griffin, T. J. Case, Robert N. FisherSecond year of surveying for fishes on the Santa Margarita River, San Diego and Riverside counties, California: September-December, 1998
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsRobert N. Fisher, C. C. SwiftThe role of natural history collections in documenting species declines
No abstract available.AuthorsH.B. Shaffer, Robert N. Fisher, C. DavidsonA new Lepidodactylus (Squamata:Gekkonidae) from Vanuatu
No abstract available.AuthorsH. Ota, Robert N. Fisher, I. Ineich, T. J. Case, G.R. ZugPreliminary Survey of the Fish of the Santa Margarita River Watershed, San Diego and Riverside Counties, California
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsRobert N. Fisher, C. C. SwiftTorrey pines state reserve reptile and amphibian corridor and autecology study
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsRobert N. Fisher, T. J. CaseKermit says the sky is falling, or amphibians as sentinels of change
Review of: "Ecology and conservation of amphibians" by Trevor Beebee. 1996. Conservation Biology Series 7. Chapman and Hall, New York.AuthorsRobert N. FisherA field guide to the reptiles and amphibians of coastal southern California
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsRobert N. Fisher, T. J. CaseAutecology of coastal sage scrub herpetofauna on reserve lands: Southwestern Riverside County
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsRobert N. Fisher, T. J. CaseSurvey of reptiles and amphibians at risk in southern California forests
No abstract available at this timeAuthorsRobert N. Fisher, T. J. Case - News
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