Publications

Co-Edited Book

2009. Zaccone, G., C. Perrière, A. Mathis and B. G. Kapoor (Eds.). Fish Defenses, Volume 2: Pathogens, Parasites and Predators. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire.

Articles and book chapters

2019

  • Gardner, K.M., R.L. Hunt,, and A. Mathis. Response to conspecific alarm cues by larval and juvenile spotter salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) Ethology Ecology and Evolution DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2019.1691058 (84)
  • Lynn, C.S., B. Dalton, and A. Mathis. Territorial behaviour in southern red-backed and Ozark zigzag salamanders: effects of sex, species, and ownership. Behaviour 156: 1017-1037 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003554 (83)

2018

  • Settle, R.A., J.A. Ettling, M.D. Wanner, C. Schuette, J.T. Briggler, and A. Mathis. Quantitative behavioral analysis of first successful captive breeding of endangered Ozark Hellbenders. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6: 205 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00205 (82)
  • Settle, R.A., J.T. Briggler, and A. Mathis. A quantitative field study of paternal care in Ozark hellbenders, North America's giant salamanders. Journal of Ethology 36: 235-242 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-018-0553-0 (81)
  • Crane, A.L., E.J. Helton, M.C. Ferrari, and A. Mathis. Learning to find food: evidence for embryonic sensitization and juvenile social learning in a salamander. Animal behaviour 142: 199-206 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.06.021 (80)

2017

  • Heuring, C.A., W.L. Heuring, A.L. Crane, and A. Mathis. Effects of diet quality and stress on interference behaviour of larval Ringed Salamanders. Amphibia-Reptilia 38: 89-96 DOI:10.1163/15685381-00003089 (79)

2016

  • Mathis, A and A.L. Crane. Call, J., G.M. Burghardt, I.M. Pepperberg, C.T. Snowden, T. Zentall (Eds.). Chemoreception, Eolume 2: APA Handbook of comparative psychology: Perception, learning, and cognition. American Psychological Association, Washington DC, US. DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0000012-004 (78)
  • Anderson, K.A. and A. Mathis. Friends in low places: responses of a benthic stream fish to intra-prey-guild alarm cues. Ethology 122:954-962. DOI:10.1111/eth.12563 (77)
  • Abudayah, W.H. and A. Mathis. Predator recognition learning in rainbow darters Etheostoma caeruleum: specific learning and neophobia. Journal of Fish Biology 89: 1612-1623. DIO:10.1111/jfb.13061 (76)
  • Brinkman, L.C., J.M. Ray, A. Mathis, and B.D. Green. Filling in the gaps: natural history and conversation of Bolitoglossine Salamanders in Central Panama. Copeia 104: 140-148. DOI:10.1643/CE-14-213 (75)
  • Bortosky, R. and A. Mathis. Honest signaling in aggressive contests between Ozark zigzag salamanders (Plethodon angusticlavius). Copeia 104: 60-66. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1643/CE-14-201 (74)

2015

  • Crane, A. and A. Mathis. Observation of predation by a lycosid spider on a captive-reared salamander larvae (Ambystoma annulatum). Herpetology Notes 8: 455-457. (73)
  • Crane, A.L., M.J. Lampe, and A. Mathis.Maladaptive behavioural phenotypes in captive‐reared darters (Etheostoma caeruleum, Storer 1845). Journal of Applied Ichthyology 31:787-792. DOI:10.1111/jai.12769 (72)

2014

  • Dalton, B. and A. Mathis. Identification of sex and parasitism by the Ozark zigzag salamander. Chemoecology 24:189-199. (71)
  • Heuring, W. L. and A. Mathis. Landmark learning by juvenile salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum). Behavioral Processes 108:173–17.DOI:10.1016/j.beproc.2014.10.015 (70)
  • Jefferson, D. M., M. Ferrari, A. Mathis, K. Hobson, E. Britzke, A. Blaustein, A. Crane, and D. Chivers. Shifty salamanders: transient trophic polymorphism and cannibalism within natural populations of larval ambystomatid salamanders. Frontiers in Zoology 1(1):76. DOI: 10.1186/s12983-014-0076-7 (69)

2013

  • Unger, S. D., A. Mathis, and R. Wilkinson. A comparison of sperm health in declining and stable populations of hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis and C. a. bishopi). The American Midland Naturalist 170:382-392. (68)
  • Crane, A. L. M. Lampe and A. Mathis. Decting danger from pre-guild members: behavioural and metabolic responses of Ozark zigzag salamanders to alarm secretions from earthworms. Ethology, Ecology & Evolution, DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2013.800162. (67)
  • Crane, A. L. and A. Mathis. Learning about danger by young hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis): are antipredator strategies ontogenetically plastic? Amphibia-Reptilia 34:119-124. (66)
  • Heuring, W. L. and A. Mathis. Landmark learning by juvenile salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum). Behavioral Processes 108:173–17.doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2014.10.015 (70)
  • Unger, S. D. and A. Mathis. Larval growth and the potential for head-starting of Eastern and Ozark Hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis and C. a. bishopi). Herpetological Review 44: 547-550. (65)

2012

  • Crane A. L., C. McGrane, and A. Mathis A (2012) Socially facilitated antipredator behavior by ringed salamanders (Ambystoma annulatum). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66:811-817. (64)
  • Mathis, A. and S. D. Unger. Learning to avoid dangerous habitat types by aquatic salamanders, Eurycea tynerensis. Ethology 118:57-62. (63)
  • Crane, A. L., C. E. McGrane, and A. Mathis. Behavioral and physiological responses of Ozark zigzag salamanders to stimuli from an invasive predator: the armadillo. International Journal of Ecology 2012: doi:10.1155/2012/658437 [on-line journal] (62)

2011

  • Crane, A., A. K. Fritts, A. Mathis, J. C. Lisek, and M. C. Barnhart. Do gill parasites influence the foraging and antipredator behaviour of rainbow darters, Etheostoma caeruleum? Animal Behaviour 83:817-823. (58)
  • Crane, A. L. and A. Mathis. Morphological and behavioral changes of salamanders infected with amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). IRCF Reptiles and Amphibians 18:139-143. (57)
  • Crane, A. L. and A. Mathis. Landmark learning by the Ozark zigzag salamander, Plethodon angusticlavius. Current Zoology 57:85−490. (56)
  • Gall, B. G. and A. Mathis. Ontogenetic shift in response to amphibian alarm cues by banded sculpins (Cottus carolinae).Copeia 2011:5—8. (55)

2010

  • Gall, B. G., A. L. Crane, and A. Mathis. Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis (eastern hellbender). Secretion production. Herpetological Review 41:59. (54)

2009

  • Mathis, A. Alarm responses as a defense: chemical alarm cues in nonostariophysan fishes. Pp. 323-386. In: Fish Defenses, Volume 2: Pathogens, Parasites and Predators. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire. (53)
  • Gall, B. G., and A. Mathis. Innate predator recognition in larval hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) and the problem of introduced trout. Ethology 116:47-58. (52)
  • Crane, A. L., D. Woods, and A. Mathis. Behavioural responses to alarm pheromones by free-ranging rainbow darters (Etheostoma caeruleum). Behaviour 146:1565-1572. (51)

2008

  • King, R., R. Gosnell, and A. Mathis. Discrimination of predatory versus nonpredatory mammals by box turtles, Terrapene carolina. Chemoecology 18:61-64. (49)

2007

  • Chivers, D.P., B.D. Wisenden, C. J. Hindman, T. A. Michalak, R. C. Kusch, S. G. W. Kaminskyj, K. L. Jack, M. C. O. Ferrari, R. J. Pollock, C. F. Halbgewachs, M. S. Pollock, S. Alemadi, C. T. James, R. K. Savaloja, C. P. Goater, A. Corwin, R. S. Mirza, J. M. Kiesecker, G. E. Brown, J. C. Adrian, Jr., P. H. Krone, A. R. Blaustein, & A. Mathis. Epidermal ‘alarm substance’ cells of fishes are maintained by non-alarm functions: possible defence against pathogens, parasites and UVB radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274: 2611-2619. (48)
  • Commens, A. and A. Mathis. Response of three species of darters of the Genus Etheostoma to chemical alarm signals from conspecifics and congeners. Copeia 2007:838—843. (47)

2006

  • Gibson, A. and A. Mathis. Opercular beat rate for rainbow darters, Etheostoma caeruleum, exposed to chemical stimuli from conspecific and heterospecific fishes. Journal of Fish Biology 69:224-232. (46)
  • Mirza, R. S., A. Mathis, and D. P. Chivers. Does temporal variation in predation risk influence the intensity of antipredator responses? A test of the risk allocation hypothesis. Ethology 112:43—511. (45)

2004

  • Hickman, C. R., M. D. Stone, and A. Mathis. Priority use of chemical over visual cues for detection of predators by neotenic graybelly salamanders, Eurycea multiplicata griseogaster. Herpetologica 60:203-210. (44)
  • Watson, T. R., A. Mathis, and R. Thompson. Influence of physical stress, distress cues, and predator kairomones on the foraging behavior of Ozark zigzag salamanders, Plethodon angusticlavius. Behavioural Processes 65:201-209. (43)

2003

  • Mathis, A. Use of chemical cues in detection of conspecific predators and prey by newts, Notophthalmus viridescens. Chemoecology 13:193-197. (42)
  • Mathis, A. and D. P. Chivers. Overriding the oddity effect in mixed-species aggregations: group choice by armored and non-armored prey. Behavioral Ecology 14: 334-339. (41)
  • Frese, P. W., A. Mathis, and R. Wilkinson. Population characteristics, growth, and spatial activity of Siren intermedia in an intensively managed wetland. Southwestern Naturalist 48:534-542. (40)
  • Mathis, A., K. L. Murray, and C. R. Hickman. Do experience and body size play a role in responses of larval ringed salamander, Ambystoma annulatum, to predator kairomones? Laboratory and field assays. Ethology 109:159-170. (39)
  • Wheeler, B. A., E. Prosen, A. Mathis, and R. F. Wilkinson. Population declines of a long-lived salamander: a 20+-year study of hellbenders. Biological Conservation 109:151-156. (38)

2001

  • Maksimowich, D. and A. Mathis. Pheromonal markers as indictors of parasite load: parasite-mediated behavior in salamanders (Plethodon angusticlavius). Acta Ethologica 3:83-87. (37)

2000

  • Mathis, A. and F. Vincent. Differential use of visual and chemical cues in predator recognition and threat-sensitive antipredator behaviour by larval central newts, Notophthalmus viridescens. Canadian Journal of Zoology 78: 1646-1652. (36)
  • Whitham, J. and A. Mathis. Effects of hunger and predation risk on foraging behavior of graybelly salamanders, Eurycea multiplicata. Journal of Chemical Ecology 26:1659-1665. (35)
  • Sullivan, A. M., P. W. Frese, and A. Mathis. Does the aquatic salamander, Siren intermedia, respond to chemical cues from prey? Journal of Herpetology 34:607-611. (34)
  • Goddard, K. and A. Mathis. Opercular flaps as sexual ornaments for male longear sunfish (Lepomis megolotis): male condition and male-male competition. Ethology 106:631-643. (33)
  • Maksimowich, D. and A. Mathis. Parasitized salamanders are inferior competitors for territories and food resources. Ethology 106:319-329. (32)
  • Mathis, A., D. W. Schmidt, and K. A. Medley. The influence of residency status on agonistic behavior of male and female Ozark zigzag salamanders, Plethodon angusticlavius. The American Midland Naturalist 143:245-249 . (31)

1999

  • Commens, A. and A. Mathis. Alarm pheromones of rainbow darters (Etheostoma caeruleum): responses to skin extracts of conspecifics and congeners (Etheostoma juliae). Journal of Fish Biology 55:1359-1362. (30)
  • Anderson, M. and A. Mathis. Diets of two sympatric tropical salamanders, Bolitoglossa mexicana and B. rufescens, with notes on reproduction for B. rufescens. Journal of Herpetology 33:601-607. (29)
  • Mathis, A. and E. Britzke. Asymmetries in body size and experience influence agonistic displays in the zigzag salamander, Plethodon angusticlavius. Herpetologica 55:344-352. (28)

1998

  • Mathis, A., K. Deckard and C. Duer. Laboratory evidence for territorial behavior by the southern red-backed salamander, Plethodon serratus: Influence of residency status and pheromonal advertisement. Southwestern Naturalist 43:1-5. (27)
  • Mathis, A. and D. Lancaster. Response of terrestrial salamanders to chemical stimuli from distressed conspecifics. Amphibia-Reptilia 19:330-335. (26)
  • Summey, M. R. and A. Mathis. Alarm responses to chemical stimuli from damaged conspecifics by three species of Neotropical tadpoles. Herpetologica 54:402-408. (25)
  • Mason, R. T., D. P. Chivers, A. Mathis, and A. R. Blaustein. Bioassay Methods for amphibians and reptiles In: Methods in Chemical Ecology, Volume II, Bioassay Methods (J.G. Millar and K. F. Haynes, eds.), pp.271-325. Chapman and Hall. London. (24)
  • Woody, D. and A. Mathis. Acquired recognition of chemical stimuli from an unfamiliar predator: Associative learning by adult newts, Notophthalmus viridescens. Copeia 1998:1027-1031. (23)

1997

  • Goddard, K. and A. Mathis. Do opercular flaps of male longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis) serve as sexual ornaments during female mate choice? Ethology, Ecology, and Evolution 3:223-231. (22)
  • Woody, D. and A. Mathis. Avoidance of areas labeled with chemical stimuli from damaged conspecifics by adult newts, Notophthalmus viridescens, in a natural habitat. Journal of Herpetology 31:316-318. (21)
  • Mathis, A. and W.W. Hoback. The influence of chemical stimuli from predators on pre-copulatory pairing by the amphipod, Gammarus pseudolimnaeus. Ethology 103:33-40. (20)
  • Goddard, K. and A. Mathis. Microhabitat preferences of longear sunfish: low light intensity versus submerged cover. Environmental Biology of Fishes 49:495-499. (19)

1996

  • Mathis, A., D.P. Chivers and R.J.F. Smith. Cultural transmission of predator recognition in fishes: Intraspecific and interspecific learning. Animal Behaviour 51:185-201. (18)

1995

  • Mathis, A., D.P. Chivers and R.J.F. Smith. Chemical alarm signals: Predator deterrents or predator attractants? The American Naturalist 145:994-1005. (17)
  • Mathis, A., R.G. Jaeger, W.H. Keen, P.K. Ducey, S.C. Walls and B.W. Buchanan. Aggression and territoriality by salamanders and a comparison with the territorial behavior of frogs. In: Amphibian Biology, Vol. 2 (H. Heatwole and B.K. Sullivan, eds.), pp. 633-676. Surrey Beatty and Sons, New South Wales, Australia. (16)

1994

  • Mathis, A. and R. Simons. Size‑dependent responses of resident male red‑backed salamanders to chemical stimuli from conspecifics. Herpetologica 50:335‑344. (15)

1993

  • Gelowitz, C., A. Mathis and R.J.F. Smith. Chemosensory recognition of northern pike (Esox lucius) by brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans): Population differences and influence of predator diet. Behaviour 127:105‑118. (14)
  • Mathis, A. and R.J.F. Smith. Chemical arolina of northern pike (Esox lucius) by the alarm pheromone of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas). Journal of Chemical Ecology 19:1967‑1979. (13)
  • Mathis, A. and R.J.F. Smith. Intraspecific and cross‑superorder responses to a chemical alarm signal by brook stickleback. Ecology 74:2395‑2404. (12)
  • Mathis, A. and R.J.F. Smith. Chemical alarm signals increase the survival time of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) during encounters with northern pike (Esox lucius). Behavioral Ecology 4:260‑265. (11)
  • Mathis, A. and R.J.F. Smith. Fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) learn to recognize pike (Esox lucius) as predators on the basis of chemical stimuli from minnows in the pike’s diet. Animal Behaviour 46:645‑656. (10)
  • Mathis, A., D.C. Chivers, and R.J.F. Smith. Population differences in responses of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) to chemical and visual stimuli from predators. Ethology 93:31‑40. (9)

1992

  • Mathis, A. and R.J.F. Smith. Avoidance of areas marked with chemical alarm substances by fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) in a natural habitat. Canadian Journal of Zoology 70:1473‑1476. (8)

1991

  • Mathis, A. Large male advantage for access to females: evidence of male‑male competition and female discrimination in a territorial salamander. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 29:133‑138. (7)
  • Mathis, A. Territories of male and female terrestrial salamanders: costs, benefits and intersexual spatial associations. Oecologia 86:433‑440. (6)

1990

  • Mathis, A. Territorial salamanders assess sexual competitive information via chemical signals. Animal Behaviour 40:953‑962. (5)
  • Mathis, A. Territoriality in a terrestrial salamander: the influence of resource quality and body size. Behaviour 112:162‑175. (4)

1989

  • Walls, S.C., A. Mathis, R.G. Jaeger and W.F. Gergits. Male salamanders with high quality diets have faeces attractive to females. Animal Behaviour 38:546‑548. (3)
  • Mathis, A. Do seasonal spatial distributions in a terrestrial salamander reflect reproductive behavior or territoriality? Copeia 1989:788‑791. (2)

1988

  • Mathis, A. and F.R. Moore. Geomagnetism and the homeward orientation of the box turtle, Terrapene carolina. Ethology 78:265‑274. (1)

Co-edited books

  • 2009. Zaccone, G., C. Perrière, A. Mathis and B. G. Kapoor (Eds.). Fish Defenses, Volume 2: Pathogens, Parasites and Predators. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire.

Non-refereed Publications

  • 2009. Mathis, A. and A. Crane. Saving a giant salamander. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 16: 18-23.
  • 2008. Mathis, A. 2008. Are we losing Missouri’s giant salamanders? Wild Times 19(3):4-5. (5)
  • 2002. Mathis, A. 2002. The fall of Missouri’s giant salamanders: Decline of hellbender populations. The Glade 5: 2-3. (3)
  • 2000. Mathis, A., D. P. Chivers, B. D. Wisenden, G. E. Brown, and R. S. Mirza. 2000. A tribute to R. Jan F. Smith 1940-1998. Oikos 88: 100-102. (2)
  • 1999. Chivers, D. P., A. Mathis, G. E. Brown, R. S. Mirza, and B. D. Wisenden. 1999. Scratching the skin of predator-prey interaction in fishes: a tribute to R. Jan F. Smith (1940-1998). Environmental Biology of Fishes 56:343-350. (1)