People.

Jen Sheridan

• Lead Scientist
• Post-Doc
  • Jen Sheridan
• Graduate Students
  • Ng Jia Jun Daniel
  • Sam Howard
• Honours students
  • Anne Devan
  • Teo Yea Tian
• Undergrad Research
  • Alicia Tan Wei-Ping
• Alumni
  • Ng Tze How
  • Pei Hiang
  • Jonathan Ngiam
  • Ong Xueyuan
• External collaborators
  • NUS High School

My research interests can be broadly defined as tropical conservation biology. I utilize frogs as my study organism because of their fascinating biology: as a taxonomic group they are unbelievably well adapted to almost every environment, able to tolerate freezing and desert droughts, but at the species level they are extremely sensitive to environmental changes. This makes them great study organisms for evolution, ecology, and conservation.

I joined Dr. Bickford’s lab as a post-doctoral fellow in July 2009. Our goals are to determine 1) whether current levels of anuran abundance and diversity differ significantly from historical surveys and 2) whether changes in abundance and diversity are correlated with changes in temperature, rainfall, net primary productivity, and land cover. We aim to visit sites that have been surveyed 23-80 years ago, including Singapore, Thailand, Sabah, and Sarawak.

My future plans include establishing a research program on SE Asian herps, becoming more active in mitigating climate change, and reducing my impact on the planet while helping others do the same. I also hope to continue working with Round River Conservation Studies in Namibia, and to help them establish a program in SE Asia.

Publications

Sheridan, J.A. Reproductive variation of three common frogs in distant locations: comparison of seasonal and aseasonal breeding sites.  In press, Journal of Tropical Ecology.

Sheridan, J.A. Clutch size across elevation: an examination of trends at the species, generic, and family levels.  In review. Copeia.

Sheridan, J.A., J.S.W. Tan, and C.H. Diong. Lack of response to drying environments in two SE Asian tadpoles.  In review. Journal of Zoology.

Sheridan, J.A., D. Bickford, K.F.Y. Su, and R. Meier. An examination of call and genetic variation in three wide-ranging Southeast Asian anuran species. In review. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.

Sheridan, J.A. and J.F. Ocock. 2008. Parental care in Chiromantis hansenae (Anura, Rhacophoridae).  Copeia. (4) 733-736.

Sheridan, J.A.  2008. Ecology and behavior of Polypedates lecuomystax (Anura: Rhacophoridae) in northeast Thailand. Herpetological Review. 39 (2) 165-169.

McLeod, D.S., J.A. Sheridan, W. Jiraungkoorskul, and W. Khonsue. 2008. Survey for chytrid fungus in Thai amphibians. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 56 (1) 191-196.

Sheridan, J.A., S.R. Beissinger, and C.R. Hughes.  2004.  Weak association between measures of health and reproductive success in green-rumped parrotlets (Forpus passerinus) in Venezuela.  The Auk 121(3):717-725.