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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Poster presented at OHPARC meeting
I presented a poster on long-term changes in salamander body size at the annual Ohio Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 6 months ago
Since 2005, I have been formally cataloguing the amphibians and reptiles of Wooster Memorial Park (Wayne Co., Ohio). As of the spring of 2022, I was aware of seven species of salamanders, five species of frogs, […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 11 months ago
David Raines (’15) and I co-authored a poster entitled “Does past reproductive success influence subsequent reproductive performance?” at the recent Evolution conference in Cleveland, Ohio. This poster […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 1 year, 1 month ago
Congrats to Alexa Rojas (’18), Haley Hartman (’18) and Blake Marlowe (’17) on the recent publication of their (combined) undergraduate thesis research in the Journal of Herpetology!
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 1 year, 8 months ago
This morning a new strawberry poison dart frog metamorph made its first appearance. Brightened what had been a bit of a gloomy day. Welcome to this thing called life, little one.
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 1 year, 10 months ago
Back in June, Dr. Katherine Krynak (Ohio Northern University), John McCall (Michigan Tech. University) and I completed our fifth year of field surveys for Blanchard’s cricket frog, with the help of three awesome […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 2 years, 3 months ago
The online early version of our new paper on glass frog communities in old-growth and second-growth rain forests is now available. This paper is the result of seven expeditions over five years to Costa Rica and […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 2 years, 6 months ago
2020 has been a long year for everyone and it was a challenging to finish my salamander fieldwork for this year. I have several large, ongoing projects with local salamanders but under normal circumstances, I […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 2 years, 10 months ago
Since 2011, I have been the director of the Fern Valley Field Station, the College of Wooster’s outdoor learning laboratory. This 56-acre property was generously donated to the College by David and Betty Wilkin. M […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 3 years ago
After over two years of research and compiling information, I am happy to say that my new website “Phytotelm Breeding Frogs of the World” has launched! Phytotelm breeding frogs are those that reproduce in pla […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 3 years, 4 months ago
Just a few days ago, our first paper on melanistic gray squirrels appeared in the journal Ecology and Evolution. This paper was ten years in the making, as the first squirrel surveys in this effort were conducted […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 3 years, 5 months ago
I sit here in mid-December with the thermometer holding steady at 19 degrees F (-7 degrees C) and all the frogs, snakes, salamanders and lizards in Ohio are down for a long winter’s nap. Only a few weeks ago, h […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 3 years, 7 months ago
Thanks to Dr. Cori Richards-Zawacki at the University of Pittsburgh and the hard work of Mackenzie Goltz (’20), we now have a dart frog colony at the College of Wooster! These little beauties are originally from P […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 3 years, 10 months ago
I’ve done a variety of things in my life for a job. Fast food employee, warehouse worker, grocery store shelf-stocker, golf caddy, corn detasseler. And, this past week, I pursued gainful employment as a snake c […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years, 1 month ago
A beautiful spring day this morning and instead of staring at a mountain of email in my office, I went out to Wooster Memorial Park. The fresh air and sunshine did me good. Trees are leafing out, migratory […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years, 2 months ago
On March 20th, the Ohio Chapter of Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conversation (PARC) held its 2nd annual meeting. My student Jesse Garrett-Larsen (’19) and I attended and presented this poster on our work on […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years, 6 months ago
Recently, two colleagues and I described two more new species in the frog genus Guibemantis. This brings the total number of species in the genus to thirteen, more than doubling the known diversity in this group […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years, 6 months ago
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 4 years, 10 months ago
Body coloration is important to organisms for a wide range of reasons including mate attraction, camouflage and thermoregulation. Short term changes in body coloration in frogs have been reported for a number of […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 5 years ago
My colleagues and I have just published a paper describing a new rain forest frog in the genus Guibemantis from northern Madagascar.
We named it Guibemantis milingilingy, the latter part of which means “in […]
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