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José Pedro do Amaral

Instructor
Department of Biology
Western Kentucky University
TCNW, room 107
Bowling Green, KY 42101
(270) 745-8765 (office) (270) 745-6856 (fax)


Specialty — Ecophysiology of reptiles and amphibians, with emphasis on their thermal ecophysiology. Herpetology.

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WWW: http://balrog.wku.edu/~amaral/KY/

Research Interests:

Ecophysiology of reptiles and amphibians, with emphasis on their thermal ecophysiology. Ecophysiology of ectotherms, thermoregulatory activities, thermoregulatory cycles, thermoregulatory precision, regulation mechanisms, and thermal and energetic models. Philopatry and orientation in reptiles and amphibians. Sound communication and species similarities. Morphological adaptations and differences between sexes.

Computers and UNIX. Statistics and modelling of systems and organisms. R and LATEX.

Drawing and painting, with emphasis on scientific illustration. Photography, especially black and white photography and digital images.

Academic:

Recent Publications:

  1. Miguel Tejedo, Rafael Márquez, Juan F. Beltrán, Federico Marangoni, Diego Llusia, Mark Cambron, Iván Gómez-Mestre, Albert Meier, Xavier Eekhout, Richard G. Bowker, Maribel Benítez, Catarina N. Moreira, Eduardo G. Crespo, José Pedro Sousa do Amaral, and Mario Penna. 2008. Las investigaciones sobre anfibios en el Parque Natural Sierra Norte. In: Menor, A. y Cuenca, I. (Coord.) Investigación científica y conservación en el Parque Natural Sierra Norte de Sevilla. Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Medio Ambiente. Sevilla. ISBN: 978–84–96776–50–0. pdf file icon
  2. Márquez, R., Penna, M., Marques, P., do Amaral, J. P. S. 2005. The advertisement calls of Eupsophus calcaratus and E. roseus (Amphibia, Anura, Leptodactylidae): a quantitative comparison. J. Herp. 15(4):257–263. pdf file icon

Outside interests:

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Photos
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Illustrations
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Drawings
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