Richard Lehtinen

Biography

Courses Taught

• BIOL 100: Fighting Climate Change
• BIOL 202: Gateway to Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• BIOL 203: Research Skills for Life Scientists
• BIOL 311: Natural History of Vertebrates
• BIOL 360: Evolution
• BIOL 401: Junior Independent Study/Biostatistics

Selected Publications & Presentations

• Lehtinen, R.M., H. Hartman*, B. Marlowe* and A. Rojas*. 2022. Evidence for negative impacts on terrestrial salamanders following invasive plant removal. Journal of Herpetology 56: 92–98.
• Lehtinen, R.M., C.W. Gumpper*, K. Weiss*, L.L. Johnson*, N.G. Weltman*, M.N. Kellar*. 2021. Is second-growth rainforest good enough? Going beyond community composition. Biodiversity and Conservation 30: 781–796.
• Lehtinen, R.M., B.M. Carlson, A.R. Hamm*, A.G. Riley*, M.M. Mullen*, and W.J. Gray*. 2020. Dispatches from the neighborhood watch: Using citizen science and field survey data to document color morph frequency in space and time. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6006
• Lehtinen, R.M., F. Glaw, M. Vences, A. Rakotoarison and M.D. Scherz. 2018. Two new Pandanus frogs (Guibemantis: Mantellidae: Anura) from northern Madagascar. European Journal of Taxonomy 451: 1–20.
• Hodson, E.E.* and R.M. Lehtinen. 2017. Diverse evidence for the decline of an adaptation in a coral snake mimic. Evolutionary Biology 44: 401–410.* indicates COW undergraduate co-author

Awards & Honors

Dr. Lehtinen has published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific articles with over 40 different COW undergraduate co-authors.