Brett R. Riddle

Professor

Ph.D. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Biogeography; Molecular Systematics of Mammals; Conservation Biology

brett.riddle@unlv.edu

Brett R. Riddle is a Professor in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research focuses primarily on the history of biodiversity in western North America, with ongoing projects including: historical assembly of the warm desert biotas; phylogeography of Great Basin montane island biotas; and molecular systematics and biogeography of diverse North American rodent groups. He is cofounder and past President of the International Biogeography Society, an editor of the Journal of Biogeography, and and associate editor of Systematic Biology. He is a coauthor of "Biogeography: third edition", Sinauer Associates - the most comprehensive available textbook and reference book on Biogeography. "Biogeography: fourth edition" is scheduled for publication in 2010.

Selected Publications

 

• Riddle, B.R., R.J. Ladle, S. Lourie, and R.J. Whittaker. accepted. Chapter 4: Basic biogeography: estimating biodiversity and mapping nature. in Conservation Biogeography (R.J. Whittaker and R.J. Ladle, eds.). Oxford University Press.
• Oláh-Hemmings, V., J.R. Jaeger, M.J. Sredl, M.A. Schlaepfer, R.D. Jennings, C.A. Drost, D.F. Bradford, and B.R. Riddle. in press. Phylgeography of declining relict and lowland leopard frogs in the desert Southwest of North America. Journal of Zoology.
• Neiswenter, S.A. and B.R. Riddle. in press. Evolution of silky pocket mice in the Perognathus flavus species-group: diversification in emerging grasslands in western North America. Journal of Mammalogy.
• Mantooth, S. J., and B.R. Riddle. in press . Molecular biogeography: the intersection between geographic and molecular variation. invited review, Geography Compass.
• Riddle, B.R. in press. The expanding role of phylogeography in historical biogeography, ecology, evolution, and conservation / global change biology. Pp. xxx-xxx, in The Handbook of Biogeography (A. Millington, M. Blumler, G. MacDonald, and U. Shickhoff eds.). Sage Publications Limited.
• Hafner, D.J. and B.R. Riddle. in press. Boundaries and barriers of North American warm deserts: an evolutionary perspective. Pp. xxx-xxx, in Palaeogeography and Palaeobiogeography: Biodiversity in Space and Time. (P. Upchurch, A McGowan, and C. Slater, eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton.
• Houston, D., D. K. Shiozawa, and B. R. Riddle. in press. Phylogenetic relationships of the western North American cyprinid genus Richardsonius, with an overview of phylogeographic structure. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
• Riddle, B.R. 2009. What is modern biogeography without phylogeography? Journal of Biogeography 36:1-2.
• Jezkova, T., J. R. Jaeger, Z. L. Marshall, and B.R. Riddle. 2009. Pleistocene impacts on the phylogeography of the desert pocket mouse (Chaetodipus penicillatus). Journal of Mammalogy 90: 306-320.
• Riddle, B.R., and R.J. Whittaker. 2009. The first humans, the second orangutan and the third chimpanzee. Journal of Biogeography 36:1821-1822.
• Riddle, B.R., M.N. Dawson, E.A. Hadly, D.J. Hafner, M.J. Hickerson, S.J. Mantooth, and A.D. Yoder. 2008. The role of molecular genetics in sculpting the future of integrative biogeography. Progress in Physical Geography 32: 173-202.
• McGuire, J.A., C.W. Linkem, M.S. Koo, D.W. Hutchinson, A.K. Lappin, D.I. Orange, J. Lemos- Espinal, B.R. Riddle, and J.R. Jaeger. 2007. Mitochondrial introgression and incomplete lineage sorting through space and time: phylogenetics of crotaphytid lizards. Evolution 61: 2879-2897.
• Hafner, J.C, J.E. Light, D.J. Hafner, M.S. Hafner, E. Reddington, D.S. Rogers, and B.R. Riddle. 2007. Basal clades and molecular systematics of heteromyid rodents. Journal of Mammalogy 88:1129-1145.
• Riddle, B. R. and D. J. Hafner. 2007. Phylogeography in historical biogeography: investigating the biogeographic histories of populations, species, and young biotas. Pp. xxx-xxx, in Biogeography in a Changing World (M.C. Ebach and R. Tangney, eds.). CRC Press.
• Spellman, G.M., B.R. Riddle, and J. Klicka. 2007. Phylogeography of the Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli): diversification, introgression, and expansion in response to Quaternary climate change. Molecular Ecology 16:1055-1068.
• Lomolino, M. V., B. R. Riddle, and J. H. Brown. 2006. Biogeography, third edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc.
• Williams, J.A., M.J. O’Farrell, and B.R. Riddle. 2006. Community structure and habitat use by bats in a riparian corridor of the Mojave Desert of southern Nevada. Journal of Mammalogy 87:1145-1153.
• Lomolino, M.V., D.F. Sax, B.R. Riddle, and J.H. Brown. 2006. The island rule and a research agenda for studying ecogeographical patterns. Journal of Biogeography 33:1503-1510.
• Riddle, B. R. and D. J. Hafner. 2006. A step-wise approach to integrating phylogeographic and phylogenetic biogeographic perspectives on the history of a core North American warm deserts biota. Journal of Arid Environments 66:435-461.
• Hafner, D. J., and B. R. Riddle. 2005. Mammalian phylogeography and evolutionary history of northern Mexico’s deserts. pp. 225-245. in Biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation in northern Mexico. (J-L. Cartron, G. Ceballos, and R.S. Felger, eds.). Oxford University Press, New York.
• Jaeger, J. R., B. R. Riddle, and D. F. Bradford. 2005. Cryptic Neogene vicariance and Quaternary dispersal of the red-spotted toad (Bufo punctatus): insights on the evolution of North American warm desert biotas. Molecular Ecology, 14:3033-3048.
• Riddle, B. R. 2005. Is biogeography emerging from its identity crisis? Journal of Biogeography, 32: 185-186.
• Alexander, L.F., and B.R. Riddle. 2005. Phylogenetics within the family Heteromyidae. Journal of Mammalogy, 86:366-379.
• Riddle, B. R. and D. J. Hafner 2004. The past and future roles of phylogeography in historical biogeography. Pp. 93-110, in Frontiers of biogeography: new directions in the geography of nature (M. V. Lomolino and L. R. Heaney, eds.). Sinauer Associates, Inc.
• Hunter, K. H., J. L. Betancourt, B. R. Riddle, et al. 2001. Ploidy race distributions since the Last Glacial Maximum in the North American desert shrub, Larrea tridentata. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 10: 521-533.
• Hafner, D.J., B.R. Riddle, and S.T. Alvarez-Castaneda. 2001. Evolutionary relationships of white-footed mice (Peromyscus) on islands in the Sea of Cortéz, Mexico. Journal of Mammalogy.82: 775-790.
• Jaeger, J.R., B.R. Riddle, R.D. Jennings, and D.F. Bradford. 2001. Rediscovering Rana onca: evidence for phylogenetically distinct leopard frogs from the border region of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Copeia, 2001:339-354.
• Riddle, B.R., D.J. Hafner, L.F. Alexander, and J.R. Jaeger. 2000. Cryptic vicariance in the historical assembly of a Baja California Peninsular Desert biota. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA, 97: 14438-14443.
• Riddle, B.R., D.J. Hafner, and L.F. Alexander. 2000. Phylogeography and systematics of the Peromyscus eremicus species group and the historical biogeography of North American warm regional deserts. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 17:145-160.
• Riddle, B.R., D.J. Hafner, and L.F. Alexander. 2000. Evolution of Baileys’ pocket mouse (Chaetodipus baileyi), comparative biogeography of C. baileyi and the Peromyscus eremicus species-group, and historical vicariance of peninsular and continental deserts in western North America. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 17:161-172.
• Riddle, B.R., D.J. Hafner, L.F. Alexander, and J.R. Jaeger. 2000. Cryptic vicariance in the historical assembly of a Baja California Peninsular Desert biota. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA, 97: 14438-14443.
• Riddle, B.R. and D.J. Hafner. 1999. Species as units of analysis in ecology and biogeography: time to take the blinders off. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 8:433-441.
• Riddle, B.R. 1998. The historical assembly of continental biotas: Late Quaternary range- shifting, areas of endemism, and biogeographic structure in the North American mammal fauna. Ecography, 21:437-446.
• Riddle, B.R. 1996. The molecular phylogeographic bridge between deep and shallow history in continental biotas. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 11:207-211.
• Riddle, B.R. 1995. Molecular biogeography in the pocket mice (Perognathus and Chaetodipus) and grasshopper mice (Onychomys): the Late Cenozoic development of a North American aridlands rodent guild. Journal of Mammalogy 76:283-301.
• Riddle, B.R., and R.L. Honeycutt. 1990. Historical biogeography in North American arid regions: an approach using mitochondrial DNA phylogeny in grasshopper mice (genus Onychomys). Evolution 44:1-15.