Kevin B Lunde

Graduate Student
B.S.  Biology  University of California San Diego, 1998

137 Mulford Hall, #3114 Resh Lab
Berkeley, California, United States 94720
klunde@nature.berkeley.edu
  
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I am working on a project studying the effects of urbanization on watersheds in the San Francisco Bay Area using macroinvertebrates as bioindicators.

I have studied amphibian malformations caused by a trematode parasite (Ribeiroia ondatrae) since 1998. This multihost parasite causes limb malformations in numerous species of amphibians across the United States. Field and laboratory work conducted with Pieter Johnson (http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/facultysites/pieter/index.htm) demonstrated that this parasite was the cause of malformations in nine amphibian species in the western United States, including Pacific treefrogs and western toads. I will be investigating the effect of light, temperature, and nutrients on snail host abundance at Hopland Research and Extension Center.

While stormwater management manuals purport that stormwater ponds and wetlands provide habitat for wildlife, there has been no investigation of this in Northern California. I will document the insect and amphibian communities in these sites and determine what water quality, structural, and management factors limit and promote species richness.

Johnson, P.T.J., K.B. Lunde, E.G. Ritchie, and A.E. Launer. 1999. The effect of trematode infection on amphibian limb development and survivorship. Science 284:802-804.

Johnson, P.T.J., K.B. Lunde, R.T. Haight, J. Bowerman, and A.R. Blaustein. 2001. Ribeiroia ondatrae (Trematoda: Digenea) infection induces severe limb malformations in western toads (Bufo boreas). Canadian Journal of Zoology 79:370-379.

Johnson, P.T.J., K.B. Lunde, E.M. Thurman, E.G. Ritchie, S.W. Wray, D.R. Sutherland, J.M. Kapfer, T.J. Frest, and A.R. Blaustein. 2002. Ribeiroia ondatrae (Trematoda) infection linked to amphibian malformations in the western United States. Ecological Monographs 72:151-168.

Lannoo, M.J., D.R. Sutherland, P. Jones, D. Rosenberry, R.W. Klaver, D.M. Hoppe, P.T.J. Johnson, K.B. Lunde, C. Facemire, and J.M. Kapfer. 2003. Multiple causes for the malformed frog phenomenon. ASTM STP 1443, Multiple Stressor Effects in Relation to Declining Amphibian Populations, G. Linder, E. Little, S. Krest, and D. Sparling, Eds. American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshoshocken, PA.

Johnson, P.T.J, K.B. Lunde, D.A. Zelmer, and J.K. Werner. 2003. Limb deformities as an emerging parasitic disease in amphibians: Evidence from museum specimens and resurvey data. Conservation Biology 17:1724-1737.

Johnson, P.T.J., and K.B. Lunde. 2005. Parasites and Limb Malformations. Pages 124-138 In: Status and Conservation of U.S. Amphibians. Edited by M.J. Lannoo. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

O’Riordan, D.L., K.B. Lunde, J. Urschitz, and K. Glanz. 2005. A non-invasive objective measure of sunscreen use and reapplication. Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 14:722-726.