Presenter - Michelle Boone

Michelle’s lab at Miami University (Boone Lab) has been trying to understand factors that contribute to range contraction and population declines in a species of concern in the state of Ohio, the Blanchard's cricket frog (Acris blandchardi). Over the last decade,  they have evaluated the effects of land use change, agricultural pesticides, and widespread pathogens to understand factors that may help and harm populations of cricket frogs with an eye toward creating win-wins for amphibian and human coexistence. 

Michelle Boone is an associate professor at Miami University whose lab focuses on research from laboratory and field experiments to the landscape-level studies evaluating human-wildlife conflicts using amphibians as model species..