Dallin Kohler joined the lab to start his master’s degree in the fall of 2023. His thesis is focused on analyzing the patterns distribution of the amphibians of northeast China through the lenses of phylogeography, habitat suitability, and interspecific competition. Dallin cares strongly about wildlife conservation and hopes his research will yield conservation insights on the frogs and salamanders of the region. He is an avid iNaturalist user and can be found at inaturalist.org/people/k0ng. Dallin’s research can be found on ResearchGate.
Dallin Kohler于2023年秋季加入实验室开始攻读硕士学位。他论文的主要是研
究从谱系地理学、生境适宜性和种间竞争等方面分析中国东北两栖动物的分布
格局。Dallin非常关心野生动物保护，并希望他的研究成果能给地区内蛙类和蝾
螈的保护提供新的视角。同时，他也是一位狂热的iNaturalist用户，你可以在
inaturalist.org/people/k0ng上找到他。Dallin的研究在这里ResearchGate。
Dallin grew up in Boise, Idaho, USA, and graduated with a bachelor’s in conservation biology from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA. In the US, Dallin conducted research on Arizona mountain kingsnakes (Lampropeltis pyromelana) and worked as a field technician surveying for Mojave desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii).
Dallin出生于美国爱达荷州博伊西，毕业于美国犹他州杨百翰大学，获得保护生
物学学士学位，他对亚利桑那州的山王蛇(Lampropeltis pyromelana)进行了研
究，并担任了莫哈韦沙漠陆龟(Gopherus agassizii)研究的野外技术员。
Publications from the lab:
Zhang X., Othman S.N., Kohler D., Wu Z., Wang Z. & Borzée A. (2024). Combined climate change and dispersal capacity positively affect Hoplobatrachus chinensis occupancy of agricultural wetlands. iScience. 27(9):110732. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110732
Borzée A., Angulo A., Meredith H., Taguchi Y., Groffen J., Kohler D., Abernethy J., Othman S. N., Messenger, K., Heo K., Wan L., Um T. E., Zhang X., Shin Y., Bae Y., Wang Z., Qiu Z. & Pearce R. (2024). Protecting Japanese Giant Salamanders (Andrias japonicus) in the Nawa River Basin, Japan: policy recommendations addressing water pollution and waterway disruption. Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science. 2:1348251. DOI: 10.3389/famrs.2024.1348251
Kohler D. B., Zhang X., Messenger K. R., Chin K. Y. A., Ghosh D., Othman S. N., Wang Z., Amin H., Prasad V. K., Wu Z. & Borzée A. (2024). At home in Jiangsu: Habitat suitability modeling and new records for five species of amphibian and reptile in Jiangsu, China. Herpetozoa 37:85-93. DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e117370.
Kohler D. B., Um T. E., Othman S.N. & Borzée A. (2023). Dryophytes immaculatus (Chinese Immaculate Treefrog). Predation. Herpetological Review. 54(4):627-628.
Laboratory of Animal Behaviour and Conservation 