Ben Dalton

PhD Student - Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Forestry and Environmental Conservation Department

Office: G17 Lehotsky
Phone: 864-656-3302

Email: bddalto@clemson.edu

Educational Background

MS Biology
Missouri State University 2013

BA Biology
William Jewell College 2009

Courses Taught

Vertebrate Biology Lab (BIOL 3070)
Hellbender Ecology Creative Inquiry (FNR 4700-043)
Animal Behavior and Personality Creative Inquiry (FNR 4700-076)
Intro to Scientific Writing (WFB 9610)

Profile

Hello! I'm a PhD student in Dr. Cathy Jachowski's Freshwater Conservation Ecology Lab. My research involves investigating resource use and demography of hellbender salamanders in North Carolina, and how the spatial extent of land use influences those populations. For my master's I studied woodland salamander territoriality and pheromonal communication. I was also involved in an undergraduate research project examining the effects of hurricane disturbance on frog population dynamics.

Research Interests

Resource use
Landscape/riverscape processes
Scale of conservation
Behavioral ecology

Publications

Rossell Jr, CR, B Dalton, LA Williams, AD Cameron (2023) Arboreal habitat use by green salamander (Aneides aeneus) hatchlings on the Blue Ridge Escarpment. Herpetological Review, 54, 365-367.

Dalton, B, R Settle, K Medley, A Mathis (2020) When neighbors cheat: a test of the dear enemy phenomenon in southern red-backed salamanders. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74, 56.

Lynn, CS, B Dalton, A Mathis (2019) Territorial behaviour in southern red-backed and Ozark zigzag salamanders: effects of sex, species and ownership. Behaviour, 156, 1017-1037.

Klawinski, PD, B Dalton, AB Shiels (2014) Coqui frog populations are negatively affected by canopy opening but not detritus deposition following an experimental hurricane in a tropical rainforest. Forest Ecology and Management, 332, 118-123.

Dalton, B, A Mathis (2014) Identification of sex and parasitism via pheromones by the Ozark zigzag salamander. Chemoecology, 24, 189-199.

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