S. Blair Hedges

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S. Blair Hedges

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Biology

      • Laura H. Carnell Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BIOL 3101

Evolution

Undergraduate

BIOL 4391

Accelerated Research in Biology

Undergraduate

BIOL 5101

Evolution

Graduate

BIOL 8210

Seminar

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Schools, M. & Hedges, S.B. (2024). A new forest lizard fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Diploglossidae, Celestinae). Zootaxa, 5554(1), 1-306. New Zealand. 10.11646/zootaxa.5554.1.1

  • Hedges, S.B. (2022). A new species of frog from the Caribbean island of Montserrat (Eleutherodactylidae, Eleutherodactylus). Zootaxa, 5219(4), 375-387. New Zealand. 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.4.5

  • T, M.A.L., Schools, M., & Hedges, S.B. (2022). A new genus and species of Caribbean forest lizard (Diploglossidae; Celestinae) from southern Hispaniola. Zootaxa, 5219(3), 201-226. New Zealand. 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.3.1

  • Grace, M.K., Akçakaya, H.R., Bennett, E.L., Brooks, T.M., Heath, A., Hedges, S., Hilton-Taylor, C., Hoffmann, M., Hochkirch, A., Jenkins, R., Keith, D.A., Long, B., Mallon, D.P., Meijaard, E., Milner-Gulland, E., Rodriguez, J.P., Stephenson, P., Stuart, S.N., Young, R.P., Acebes, P., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Alvarez-Clare, S., Andriantsimanarilafy, R.R., Arbetman, M., Azat, C., Bacchetta, G., Badola, R., Barcelos, L.M., Barreiros, J.P., Basak, S., Berger, D.J., Bhattacharyya, S., Bino, G., Borges, P.A., Boughton, R.K., Brockmann, H.J., Buckley, H.L., Burfield, I.J., Burton, J., Camacho-Badani, T., Cano-Alonso, L.S., Carmichael, R.H., Carrero, C., Carroll, J.P., Catsadorakis, G., Chapple, D.G., Chapron, G., Chowdhury, G.W., Claassens, L., Cogoni, D., Constantine, R., Craig, C.A., Cunningham, A.A., Dahal, N., Daltry, J.C., Das, G.C., Dasgupta, N., Davey, A., Davies, K., Develey, P., Elangovan, V., Fairclough, D., Febbraro, M.D., Fenu, G., Fernandes, F.M., Fernandez, E.P., Finucci, B., Földesi, R., Foley, C.M., Ford, M., Forstner, M.R., García, N., Garcia-Sandoval, R., Gardner, P.C., Garibay-Orijel, R., Gatan-Balbas, M., Gauto, I., Ghazi, M.G.U., Godfrey, S.S., Gollock, M., González, B.A., Grant, T.D., Gray, T., Gregory, A.J., Grunsven, R.H.v., Gryzenhout, M., Guernsey, N.C., Gupta, G., Hagen, C., Hagen, C.A., Hall, M.B., Hallerman, E., Hare, K., Hart, T., Hartdegen, R., Harvey-Brown, Y., Hatfield, R., Hawke, T., Hermes, C., Hitchmough, R., Hoffmann, P.M., Howarth, C., Hudson, M.A., Hussain, S.A., Huveneers, C., Jacques, H., Jorgensen, D., Katdare, S., Katsis, L.K., Kaul, R., Kaunda-Arara, B., Keith-Diagne, L., Kraus, D.T., Lima, T.M.d., Lindeman, K., Linsky, J., Louis, E., Loy, A., Lughadha, E.N., Mangel, J.C., Marinari, P.E., Martin, G.M., Martinelli, G., McGowan, P.J., McInnes, A., Mendes, E.T.B., Millard, M.J., Mirande, C., Money, D., Monks, J.M., Morales, C.L., Mumu, N.N., Negrao, R., Nguyen, A.H., Niloy, M.N.H., Norbury, G.L., Nordmeyer, C., Norris, D., O'Brien, M., Oda, G.A., Orsenigo, S., Outerbridge, M.E., Pasachnik, S., Pérez-Jiménez, J.C., Pike, C., Pilkington, F., Plumb, G., Portela, R.d.C.Q., Prohaska, A., Quintana, M.G., Rakotondrasoa, E.F., Ranglack, D.H., Rankou, H., Rawat, A.P., Reardon, J.T., Rheingantz, M.L., Richter, S.C., Rivers, M.C., Rogers, L.R., Rosa, P.d., Rose, P., Royer, E., Ryan, C., Mitcheson, Y.J.S.d., Salmon, L., Salvador, C.H., Samways, M.J., Sanjuan, T., Santos, A.S.D., Sasaki, H., Schutz, E., Scott, H.A., Scott, R.M., Serena, F., Sharma, S.P., Shuey, J.A., Silva, C.J.P., Simaika, J.P., Smith, D.R., Spaet, J.L., Sultana, S., Talukdar, B.K., Tatayah, V., Thomas, P., Tringali, A., Trinh-Dinh, H., Tuboi, C., Usmani, A.A., Vasco-Palacios, A.M., Vié, J., Virens, J., Walker, A., Wallace, B., Waller, L.J., Wang, H., Wearn, O.R., Weerd, M.v., Weigmann, S., Willcox, D., Woinarski, J., Yong, J.W., & Young, S. (2021). Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact. Conserv Biol, 35(6), 1833-1849. United States. 10.1111/cobi.13756

  • Daz, L.M., G, A.F., Salas, D., & Hedges, S.B. (2021). A new semifossorial snake of the genus Arrhyton (Squamata: Dipsadidae) from eastern Cuba, with taxonomic comments on other species. Zootaxa, 5052(3), 406-418. New Zealand. 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.3.6

  • Grace, M., kçakaya, H.A., Bull, J., Carrero, C., Davies, K., Hedges, S., Hoffmann, M., Long, B., Lughadha, E., Martin, G., Pilkington, F., Rivers, M., Young, R., & Milner-Gulland, E. (2021). Building robust, practicable counterfactuals and scenarios to evaluate the impact of species conservation interventions using inferential approaches. Biological Conservation, 261. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109259.

  • Su, D., Yang, L., Shi, X., Ma, X., Zhou, X., Hedges, S.B., & Zhong, B. (2021). Large-Scale Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal the Monophyly of Bryophytes and Neoproterozoic Origin of Land Plants. Mol Biol Evol, 38(8), 3332-3344. United States. 10.1093/molbev/msab106

  • Schools, M. & Hedges, S.B. (2021). Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the Neotropical forest lizards (Squamata, Diploglossidae). Zootaxa, 4974(2), 201257. New Zealand. 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.1

  • Chapple, D., Roll, U., Böhm, M., Aguilar, R., Amey, A., Austin, C., Baling, M., Barley, A., Bates, M., Bauer, A., Blackburn, D., Bowles, P., Brown, R., Chandramouli, S., Chirio, L., Cogger, H., Colli, G., Conradie, W., Couper, P., Cowan, M., Craig, M., Das, I., Datta-Roy, A., Dickman, C., Ellis, R., Fenner, A., Ford, S., Ganesh, S., Gardner, M., Geissler, P., Gillespie, G., Glaw, F., Greenlees, M., Griffith, O., Grismer, L., Haines, M., Harris, D., Hedges, S., Hitchmough, R., Hoskin, C., Hutchinson, M., Ineich, I., Janssen, J., Johnston, G., Karin, B., Keogh, J., Kraus, F., LeBreton, M., Lymberakis, P., Masroor, R., McDonald, P., Mecke, S., Melville, J., Melzer, S., Michael, D., Miralles, A., Mitchell, N., Nelson, N., Nguyen, T., Nogueira, C.d.C., Ota, H., Pafilis, P., Pauwels, O., Perera, A., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Reed, R., Ribeiro-Júnior, M., Riley, J., Rocha, S., Rutherford, P., Sadlier, R., Shacham, B., Shea, G., Shine, R., Slavenko, A., Stow, A., Sumner, J., Tallowin, O., Teale, R., Torres-Carvajal, O., Trape, J., Uetz, P., Ukuwela, K., Valentine, L., Dyke, J.V., Winkel, D.v., Vasconcelos, R., Vences, M., Wagner, P., Wapstra, E., While, G., Whiting, M., Whittington, C., Wilson, S., Ziegler, T., Tingley, R., & Meiri, S. (2021). Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk. Biological Conservation, 257. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109101.

  • Keller, H.R., Kim, H.K., Jo, Y., Gress, R.E., Hong, C., & Park, J. (2020). The Abundance and Availability of Cytokine Receptor IL-2Rβ (CD122) Constrain the Lymphopenia-Induced Homeostatic Proliferation of Naive CD4 T Cells. J Immunol, 204(12), 3227-3235. England. 10.4049/jimmunol.1901276

  • Akçakaya, H.R., Rodrigues, A.S., Keith, D.A., Milner-Gulland, E., Sanderson, E.W., Hedges, S., Mallon, D.P., Grace, M.K., Long, B., Meijaard, E., & Stephenson, P. (2020). Assessing ecological function in the context of species recovery. Conserv Biol, 34(3), 561-571. United States. 10.1111/cobi.13425

  • McCranie, J.R., Matthews, A.J., & Hedges, S.B. (2020). A morphological and molecular revision of lizards of the genus Marisora Hedges amp; Conn (Squamata: Mabuyidae) from Central America and Mexico, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa, 4763(3), zootaxa.4763.3.1. New Zealand. 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.3.1

  • Gray, T., O'Kelly, H., Eames, J., & Hedges, S. (2020). Conservation concessions to avert the South East Asian biodiversity crisis? Lessons from Cambodia. Animal Conservation, 23(1), 1-2. doi: 10.1111/acv.12497.

  • Saaban, S., Yasak, M.N., Gumal, M., Oziar, A., Cheong, F., Shaari, Z., Tyson, M., & Hedges, S. (2020). Viability and management of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) population in the Endau Rompin landscape, Peninsular Malaysia. PeerJ, 8, e8209. United States. 10.7717/peerj.8209