Publications

Peer-reviewed Science

Adams, A.J., C. Kamoroff, N.R. Daniele, R.L. Grasso, B.J. Halstead, P.M. Kleeman, C. Mengelt, K. Powelson, T. Seaborn, and C.S. Goldberg. 2024. From eDNA to decisions using a multi-method approach to restoration planning in streams. Scientific Reports 14:14335. link

Belasen, A. M., R. A. Peek, A. J. Adams, I. D. Russell, M. E. De León, M. J. Adams, J. Bettaso, K. G. H. Breedveld, A. Catenazzi, C. P. Dillingham, D. A. Grear, B. J. Halstead, P. G. Johnson, P. M. Kleeman, M. S. Koo, C. W. Koppl, J. D. Lauder, G. Padgett-Flohr, J. Piovia-Scott, K. L. Pope, V. Vredenburg, M. Westphal, K. Wiseman, and S. J. Kupferberg. 2024. Chytrid infections exhibit historical spread and contemporary seasonality in a declining stream-breeding frog. Royal Society Open Science 11:231270. link

Mychajliw, A.M., A.J. Adams, K.C. Brown, B.T. Campbell, M. Hardesty-Moore, Z.S. Welch, H.M. Page, J.R. Southon, S.D. Cooper, and P.S. Alagona. 2024. Coupled social and ecological change drove the historical extinction of the California grizzly bear (Ursus arctos californicus). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290: 20230921. link

Grasso, R.L., Tatarian, P.J., M.K. Santora, S.J. Kupferberg, J.O. Williams, C.E. Lillard, J.B. Bushell, R.M. Stiles, A.J. Adams, and N.R. Daniele. 2023. Reproductive Phenology of the California Red-Legged Frog (Rana draytonii) in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 18:427-435. pdf

Adams, A.J., R.L. Grasso, and R.L. Mazur. 2023. Safe harbor: translocating California red-legged frogs to a climate refuge in Yosemite National Park. Animal Conservation: 1-3. link

Adams, A.J., K.C. Brown, M. R. Jennings, and R.L. Grasso. 2023. Homecoming or new pad: historical evidence for California red-legged frogs and other amphibians in the Yosemite region, California. Northwestern Naturalist 104:1-25. link

Adams, A.J., J. Bushell, and R.L. Grasso. 2022. To Treat or Not to Treat? Experimental Pathogen Exposure, Treatment, and Release of a Threatened Amphibian. Ecosphere 13:e4294. link

Adams, A.J., A. Peralta-Garcia, C.A. Flores-López, J. H. Valdez-Villavicencio, and Cheryl J. Briggs. 2022. High fungal pathogen loads and prevalence in Baja California amphibian communities: The importance of species, elevation, and historical context. Global Ecology and Conservation 33:e01968. link

Kupferberg, S. J., H. Moidu, A. J. Adams, A. Catenazzi, M. Grefsrud, S. Bobzien, R. Leidy, and S.M. Carlson. 2021. Seasonal drought and its effects on frog population dynamics and amphibian disease in intermittent streams. Ecohydrology 15:e2395. link

Balantic, C., A.J. Adams, S. Gross, R. Mazur, S. Sawyer, J. Tucker, M. Vernon, C. Mengelt, J. Morales, J.H. Thorne, T.M. Brown, N. Athearn, and T.M. Morelli. 2021. Toward climate change refugia conservation at an ecoregion scale. Conservation Science and Practice: e497. link

Adams, A.J., A. Pessier, P. Cranston, and R.L. Grasso. 2020. Chytridiomycosis-induced mortality in a threatened anuran. PLoS One 15:e0241119. link

Forbes, E., P.S. Alagona, A.J. Adams, S.E. Anderson, K.C. Brown, J. Colby, S.D. Cooper, S.M. Denny, E.H. Hiroyasu, R. Heilmayr, B.E. Kendall, J.A. Martin, M. Hardesty-Moore, A.M. Mychajliw, B.P. Tyrrell, and Z.S. Welch. 2020. Analogies for a No-Analog World: Tackling Uncertainties in Reintroduction Planning. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. pdf

Adams, A.J. 2020. Using Natural History to Unlock the Past for the Future of Ecological Inquiry. Journal of Natural History Education and Experience 14:3-5. pdf

McKeon, S., L. Weber, A.J. Adams, and T.L. Fleischner. 2020. Human Dimensions: Natural History as the Innate Foundation of Ecology. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 101:e01656. link

Peralta-Garcia, A., A.J. Adams, C.J. Briggs, P. Galina-Tessaro, J.H. Valdez-Villavicencio, B.D. Hollingsworth, H.B. Shaffer, and R.N. Fisher. 2018. Occurrence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in anurans of the Mediterranean region of Baja California, México. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 127:193-200. pdf

Adams, A.J., A.P. Pessier, and C.J. Briggs. 2017. Rapid extirpation of a North American frog coincides with an increase in fungal pathogen prevalence: Historical analysis and implications for reintroduction. Ecology and Evolution 7:10216–10232. link

Adams, A.J., S.J. Kupferberg, M.Q. Wilber, M. Grefsrud, S. Bobzien, V.T. Vredenburg, and C.J. Briggs. 2017. Extreme drought, host density, sex, and bullfrogs influence fungal pathogen infection in a declining lotic amphibian. Ecosphere 8: e01740. link

Adams, A.J., C.J. Dellith, and S.S. Sweet. 2016. Rana aurora (Northern red-legged frog). Transport. Herpetological Review 47: 648. pdf

Adams, A.J., J.P. LaBonte, K.L. Richards-Hrdlicka, M.J. Ball, M.H. Toothman, and C.J. Briggs. 2015. DNA extraction method affects detection of a fungal pathogen in specimens using qPCR. PLoS ONE 10: e0135389. link

Mendelson, J.R., and A.J. Adams. 2014. Diadophis punctatus (Ring-necked snake) Diet. Herpetological Review 45: 709-710. pdf

Dissertation

Adams, A.J. 2017. Decline and localized extirpation of the foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii) in the presence of the fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: Contemporary and historical perspectives. PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara. 142 pp. Link

Technical Publications & Policy Documents

Adams, A.J. 2022. Surveys for amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area at California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) reintroduction sites: 2020-2021. Prepared for: U.S. National Park Service, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Thousand Oaks, California. 10 pp.

Adams, A.J., S.J. Kupferberg, and C.S. Goldberg. 2022. South Coast DPS foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii) reintroduction feasibility study: habitat suitability assessment report. Prepared for: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ventura, California. 10 pp.

Adams, A.J. 2021. Southern Sierra Nevada foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii) egg mass surveys: Spring 2021, with October 2021 addendum. Prepared for U.S. National Park Service, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, California. 16 pp.

Adams, A.J., and C.S. Goldberg. 2021. Southern Sierra Nevada foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii) reintroduction feasibility study and recommendations for recovery actions: 2020 report. Prepared for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Science Applications, Sacramento, California. 34 pp.

Adams, A.J. 2018. Final report and recommendations for pond management at the University of California Natural Reserve System’s Sedgwick Reserve. Prepared for Sedgwick Reserve, Santa Ynez, California. 49 pp.

Adams, A.J., and K. McCurdy. 2018. Sedgwick Reserve Pond Management Plan. 41 pp.

Adams, A.J. and E.A. Wilson. 2017. Final Report on Amphibian Surveys: UCSB Sedgwick Reserve, Winter 2017. Prepared for Sedgwick Reserve, Santa Ynez, California. 22 pp. pdf

Goldberg, J., S. Jewell, A. Picco, A. Adams, J. Bader, J. Ballard, and I. Posano. 2016. Interim Rule: Injurious Wildlife Species; Listing Salamanders Due to Risk of Salamander Chytrid Fungus. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C. 23 pp.

Adams, A.J., C. Darst, and C. Rutherford. 2015. Draft recovery plan for the Santa Barbara County Distinct Population Segment of the California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office, Ventura, California: 76pp.

Adams, A.J. and K. Drexhage. 2009. California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense), Santa Barbara County Distinct Population Segment 5-year review: Summary and evaluation. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office, Ventura, California: 59 pp. pdf

Popular Science Writing & Op-Eds

Adams, A.J. 2022. ‘Vaccinating’ frogs may or may not protect them against a pandemic – but it does provide another option for conservation. The Conversation.

Adams, A.J. 2018. Thinking Like a Hungry Bear: Revealing California grizzly diets from museum specimens, California Grizzly Study Group Blog.

Adams, A.J. 2018. Unnatural Disaster: A (Wild)fire-side Story, Guest blog for Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere.

Adams, A.J. 2016. Environmental Conference Cuts Travel Emissions, Fosters Communication. UCSB Daily Nexus. May 26, 2016.

Adams, A.J. 2016. UCSB Campus a Haven for Birdwatchers. UCSB Daily Nexus. May 12, 2016.

Adams, A.J. 2014. Banking on conservation: California tiger salamander recovery in Santa Barbara County. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Field Notes.

Creative Nonfiction & Poetry

Adams, A.J. 2022. Headstarting. Consilience, Issue 9.

Adams, A.J. 2022. Thomas. Changing Skies: Writing on the Climate Crisis, Vol. 1.