Assistant Professor
Miami University
Department of Zoology
212 Pearson Hall
Oxford, OH 45056

My research questions revolve around my core interest in conservation biology. My main objective as a scientist is to understand the origin and maintenance of biological diversity, and how anthropogenic changes in the physical, biological, and chemical environment affect communities. For my dissertation, I focused on the effects of a single insecticide, carbaryl, and examined how it's impact on the amphibian community changed in the presence of other natural stressors like predation, competition, and pond drying. For more information about my current research, please see: http://www.users.muohio.edu/boonemd/.

Boone, M.D. 2005. Juvenile frogs compensate for small metamorph size with terrestrial growth: overcoming the effects of larval density and insecticide exposure. Journal of Herpetology 39:416-423.

Boone, M.D., C.M. Bridges, J.F. Fairchild and E.E. Little. 2005. Effects of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and insecticide exposure on populations of the green frog, Rana clamitans. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 24:1267-1272.

Boone, M.D., E.E. Little and R.D. Semlitsch. 2004. Overwintered bullfrog tadpoles negatively affect salamanders and anurans in native amphibian communities. Copeia 2004:683-690.

Boone, M.D., R.D. Semlitsch, J.F. Fairchild and B.B. Rothermel. 2004. Effects of an insecticide on amphibians in large-scale experimental ponds. Ecological Applications 14:685-691.

Boone, M.D. and S.M. James. 2003. Interactions of an insecticide, herbicide, and natural stressors in amphibian community mesocosms. Ecological Applications 13:829-841.

Boone, M.D. and R.D. Semlitsch. 2002. Interactions of an insecticide with competition and pond drying in amphibian communities. Ecological Applications 12:307-316.

Boone, M.D. and R.D. Semlitsch. 2001. Interactions of an insecticide with larval density and predation in experimental amphibian communities. Conservation Biology 15:228-238.