Oklahoma State University	Department of Zoology

Stanley F. Fox Regents Professor & Curator of Herpetology Ph.D., 1973, Yale University Email: stanley.fox@okstate.edu Phone: 405-744-9682 Lab Page

(Behavioral Ecology; Evolutionary Ecology; Herpetology)

Specific Interests

In general, I advance and utilize a field experimental approach to behavioral and evolutionary ecology, employing lizards and frogs as model subjects. I am particularly interested in the development of lizard social organization at both the ontogenetic and evolutionary levels, studying lizards in the United States, Mexico, and Chile. I am also interested in the behavioral ecology associated with tail autotomy in lizards, exploring the use of the tail in lizards as a status signalling badge. I also conduct field and laboratory studies of Crotaphytus collaris, especially in regards to the intrasexual and intersexual components of sexual selection. I have conducted research on herp community ecology as well; I recently completed a long-term study of the effects of local and landscape-level habitat features in predicting herp communities before and after large-scale watershed manipulations in the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas. Finally, I am involved in research related to worldwide amphibian declines. I am presently investigating the reasons for the disappearance of an indigenous, Patagonian frog of Argentina from large parts of its extremely limited distribution. Introduced fish predators and the two pathogens so important in amphibian declines elsewhere in the world, ranavirus and the chytrid fungus Bd, are involved. Our study was the first to document the presence of ranaviral disease in amphibians in any part of South America.

Selected Publications

• Fox, S. F., A. L. Greer, R. Torres-Cervantes, and J. P. Collins. 2006. First case of ranavirus-associated morbidity and mortality in natural populations of a South American frog, Atelognathus patagonicus. Dis. Aquat. Org. 72:87-92.
• Husak, J. F., M. B. Lovern, S. F. Fox, and R. A. Van Den Bussche. 2006. Faster lizards sire more offspring: sexual selection on whole-animal performance. Evolution 60:2122-2130.
• Husak, J. F., and S. F. Fox. 2006. Field use of sprint speed by collared lizards (Crotaphytus collaris): compensation and sexual selection. Evolution 60:1888-1895.
• Fox, S. F., J. H. Yoshioka, M. E. Cuello, and C. Ubeda. 2005. Status, distribution, and ecology of a threatened semi-aquatic frog (Atelognathus patagonicus) of northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Copeia. 2005:920-928.
• Fox, S.F., J.K. McCoy, and T.A. Baird (eds.). 2003. Lizard Social Behavior. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Fox, S.F. and P.A. Shipman. 2003. Social behavior at high and low elevations: environmental release and phylogenetic effects in Liolaemus. In Lizard Social Behavior, S.F. Fox, J.K. McCoy, and T.A. Baird, (eds.). Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Fox, S.F. and J.K. McCoy. 2000. The effects of tail loss on survival, growth, reproduction, and sex ratio of offspring in the lizard Uta stansburiana in the field. Oecologia 122:327-334.
• Baird, T.A., S.F. Fox, and J.K. McCoy. 1997. Population differences in the roles of size and coloration in intra- and intersexual selection in the collared lizard, Crotaphytus collaris: influence of habitat and social organization. Behavioral Ecology 8:506-517.