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 current President of the International Biogeography Society, and an editor of the Journal of Biogeography.

Selected Publications

• Lomolino, M. V., B. R. Riddle, and J. H. Brown. 2005. Biogeography, third edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc.
• Riddle, B. R. and D. J. Hafner. In Press. 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.