Publications

​Peer-reviewed
 

1. Sanderson, J.A., Xiong, Z., Folfas, E., Laboy González, A.A., Lange, Z.K., Murray, A.H., Ortiz Jiménez, E.A., Frishkoff, L.O., Ord, T.J., Mahler, D.L. (Accepted). Signal transmission and function in the complex displays of Puerto Rican Anolis lizards. Animal Behaviour.
    

2. Lange, Z.K., Bodensteiner, B.L., Nicholson, D.J., Lertzman-Lepofsky, G., Murray, A.H., Folfas, E., Domínguez-Guerrero, S., Mahler, D.L., Muñoz, M.M., Frishkoff, L.O. 2025. Lizard thermal physiology drives abundance peaks along environmental gradients, but only weakly predicts distributional limits. The American Naturalist, 206(3): E47-62. https://doi.org/10.1086/736566, ASN Press Release
    

3. Klinges, D.H., Randriambololona, T., Lange, Z.K., Laterza-Barbosa, J., Randrianandrasana, H., Scheffers, B.R. 2024. Vertical and diel niches modulate thermal selection by rainforest frogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Biology, 291: 20241497. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1497
    

4. Tumulty, J.P., Lange, Z.K., Bee, M.A. 2022. Identity signaling, identity reception, and the evolution of social recognition in a Neotropical frog. Evolution, 76(1): 158-170. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.1440
    

5. Lange, Z.K., Alarcón, C. 2020. Terrapene o. ornata (Ornate box turtle) Diet. Herpetological Review, 51(3): 583-4.

Submitted
 

1. Hulshof, C.M., Lange, Z.K., Lopez-Bustamante, P. (Submitted). Why biomes don't move at climate speed: a global synthesis of ecotone migration.
    

2. Lange, Z.K., Folfas, E., Murray, A.H., Nicholson, D.J., Wright-Poteet, T., Frishkoff, L.O. (Submitted). Ecological opportunity and vertical niche filling of insular reptile and amphibian radiations.
    

3. Murray, A.H., Folfas, E., Page, M., Lange, Z.K., Mruzek, J.L., Frishkoff, L.O. (Submitted). Competition and the century-long decline of a once common lizard, Sceloporus consobrinus. Pre-print available

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In preparation
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1. Lange, Z.K., Lawing, D., Folfas, E., Murray, A.H., Nicholson, D.J., Frishkoff, L.O. Community convergence driven by local conditions, not convergent species.
    

2. Folfas, E., Flores, J., Lawing, D., Lange, Z.K., Lertzman-Lepofsky, G., Murray, A.H., Nicholson, D.J., Xiong, Z., Mahler, D.L., Frishkoff, L.O. Resource availability, independent of climate, predicts diversity and abundance in lizard communities.
    

3. Nicholson, D.J., Lertzman-Lepofsky, G., Lange, Z.K., Folfas, E., Murray, A.H., Mahler, D.L., Frishkoff, L.O. What drives and constrains habitat use in Anolis: competition, climate, community, or character?