Publications (*co-first authors; ^mentored undergraduate)​

2022
Hantak, M. M., R. P. Guralnick, A. C. Cameron, A. H. Griffing, S. M. Harrington, J. L. Weinell and D. J. Paluh. 2022. Color scales with climate in North American ratsnakes: a test of the thermal melanism hypothesis using community science images. Biology Letters 18:20220403.

Balk, M. A., J. Deck, K. F. Emery, R. L. Walls, D. Reuter, R. La France, J. Arroyo-Cabrales, P. Barrett, J. Blois, A. Boileau, L. Brenskelle, N. R. Cannarozzi, A. Cruz, L. M. Davalos, N. U. de la Sancha, P. Gyawali, M. M. Hantak, S. Hopkins, B. Kholi, J. King, M. Koo, M. Lawing, H. Machado, S. S. McCrane, B. McLean, K. Meshida, M. E. Morgan, S. Pilaar Birch, D. Reed, E. J.  Reitz, N. Sewnath, N. S. Upham, A. Villaseñor, L. Yohe, E. B. Davis and R. P. Guralnick. 2022. A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data. iScience 25:105101.

Hantak, M. M., R. P. Guralnick, A. Zare and B. J. Stucky. 2022. Computer vision for assessing species color pattern variation from web-based community science images. iScience 25:104784.

Kuchta, S. R., M. M. Hantak, B. P. Waldron, C. M. Hickerson, R. M. Lehtinen and C. D. Anthony. 2022. Hybridization between the woodland salamanders Plethodon cinereus and P. electromorphus is not widespread. Ichthyology & Herpetology 110:430–438.

2021
Hantak, M. M., N. A. Federico^, D. C. Blackburn and R. P. Guralnick. 2021. Rapid phenotypic change in a polymorphic salamander over 43 years. Scientific Reports ​11:22681.

Belitz, M. W., V. Barve, J. Doby, M. M. Hantak, E. A. Larson, D. Li, J. A. Oswald, N. Sewnath, M. Walters, N. Barve, K. Earl, N. Gardner, R. P. Guralnick and B. J. Stucky. 2021. Climate drivers of adult insect activity are conditioned by life history traits. Ecology Letters 24:2687–2699.

Hantak, M. M., B. S. McLean, D. Li and R. P. Guralnick. 2021. Mammalian body size is determined by interactions between climate, urbanization, and ecological traits. Communications Biology ​4:972. 

Paluh, D. J., K. Riddell, C. M. Early, M. M. Hantak, G. F. M. Jongsma, R. M. Keeffe, F. Magalhães Silva, S. V. Nielson, M. C. Vallejo-Pareja, E. L. Stanley and D. C. Blackburn. 2021. Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution. eLife 10:e66926.

Li, D., N. Barve, L. Brenskelle, K. Earl, V. Barve, M. W. Belitz, J. Doby, M. M. Hantak, J. A. Oswald, B. J. Stucky, M. Walters and R. Guralnick. 2021. Climate, urbanization, and species traits interactively drive flowering duration. Global Change Biology 27:892–903.

2020​
Hantak, M. M.*, K. M. Brooks*^, C. M. Hickerson, C. D. Anthony and S. R. Kuchta. 2020. A spatiotemporal assessment of dietary partitioning between color morphs of a terrestrial salamander. Copeia 108:727–736.

Guralnick, R.*, M. M. Hantak*, D. Li and B. S. McLean. 2020. Body size trends in response to climate and urbanization in a widespread rodent, Peromyscus maniculatus. Scientific Reports 10:8882.

Radomski, T., M. M. Hantak, A. D. Brown and S. R. Kuchta 2020. Multilocus phylogeography of the Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus): cryptic Appalachian diversity and post-glacial range expansion. Herpetologica 76:61–73. 

Barve, V. V., L. Brenskelle, D. Li, B. J. Stucky, N. V. Barve, M. M. Hantak, B. S. McLean, D. J. Paluh, J. A. Oswald, M. Belitz, R. Folk and R. Guralnick. 2020. Methods for broad-scale plant phenology assessments using citizen scientists’ photographs. Applications in Plant Sciences 8:e11315.

2019
Hantak, M. M., R. B. Page, P. E. Converse, C. D. Anthony, C. M. Hickerson and S. R. Kuchta. 2019. Do genetic structure and landscape heterogeneity impact color morph frequency in a polymorphic salamander? Ecography 42:1383–1394.

Waldron, B. P., S. R. Kuchta, M. M. Hantak, C. M. Hickerson and C. D. Anthony. 2019. Genetic analysis of a cryptic contact zone between mitochondrial clades of the Eastern Red-backed Salamander, Plethodon cinereus. Journal of Herpetology 53:144–153.

2018
Hantak, M. M. and S. R. Kuchta. 2018. Predator perception across space and time: relative camouflage in a color polymorphic salamander. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 123:21–33.

2016
Hantak, M. M., D. J. Paluh and C. M. Hickerson. 2016. Comparison of the diets of sympatric erythristic and striped morphs of Plethodon cinereus (Eastern Red-backed Salamander). Northeastern Naturalist 23:219–228.

Hantak, M. M., D. J. Paluh and R. A. Saporito. 2016. Bufadienolide and alkaloid-based chemical defenses in two different species of Neotropical anurans are equally effective against the same arthropod predators. Journal of Tropical Ecology 32:165–169. 

2014
Paluh, D. J., M. M. Hantak and R. A. Saporito. 2014. A test of aposematism in the dendrobatid poison frog Oophaga pumilio: The importance of movement in clay model experiments. Journal of Herpetology 48:249–254. 

2013
Hantak, M. M., T. Grant, S. Reinsch, D. McGinnity, M. Loring, N. Toyooka and R. A. Saporito. 2013. Dietary alkaloid sequestration in a poison frog: An experimental test of alkaloid uptake in Melanophryniscus stelzneri (Bufonidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 39:1400–1406.

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Natural History Notes

Waldron, B. and M. M. Hantak. 2020. Plethodon cinereus (Eastern Red-backed Salamander) and Plethodon electromorphus (Northern Ravine Salamander). Hybridization. Herpetological Review 51:809–810.

Hantak, M. M., S. R. Kuchta, C. M. Hickerson and C. D. Anthony. 2015. Plethodon cinereus: Morphology. Herpetological Review 46:409–410. 

Martin, A. M. and M. M. Hantak. 2011. Plethodon cinereus (Eastern Red-backed Salamander). Tenacity and Homing. Herpetological Review 42:581–582.