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Fisheries Division
205D Anderson
UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
& University of Alaska Southeast
11275 Glacier Hwy
Juneau, AK 99801-8625
Phone: (907) 796-6330
david.tallmon@uas.alaska.edu

David Tallmon Associate Professor

Fish and Fisheries Genetics • Fisheries Genetics and Aquaculture

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Specialties

Education

Research Overview

My general interests are in evolution, ecology and conservation biology. My focus is on understanding the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of natural populations using demographic and genetic models, molecular genetic data and field data. I have long-standing interest in combining population genomics and demographic information to infer important evolutionary and demographic parameters for wild populations. More recently, my post-docs and I have focused upon the role of phenotypic plasticity in adaptation.

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Publications

Kovach, R.P., J.E. Joyce, J.D. Echave, M.S. Lindberg, and D.A. Tallmon. Earlier migration timing and decreasing phenotypic variation for multiple salmonid species. In press PLoS ONE.

C.A. Bergstrom, A.R. Whiteley, D.A. Tallmon. 2012. The heritable basis and cost of phenotypic plasticity in coast range sculpins. 25:2526‑2536. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi: 10.1111/j.1420‑9101.2012.02624.x

Kovach, R.P., A.J. Gharrett, and D.A. Tallmon. 2012. Genetic change for earlier migration timing and loss of biocomplexity in a pink salmon population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 279:3861‑3869. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1158.

Tallmon, D.A., R. Waples, D. Gregovich, and M.K. Schwartz. 2012. Detecting population recovery using gametic disequilibrium‑based effective population size estimates. Conservation Genetics Resources 4:987‑999. doi:10.1007/s12686‑012‑9689‑3

Stoutamore, J.L., C.N. Love, S.L. Lance, K.L. Jones and D.A. Tallmon. 2012. Development of polymorphic microsatellite markers for blue king crab (Paralithodes platypus). Conservation Genetics Resources 4:897‑899. doi:10.1007/s12686‑012‑9668‑8

Hansen, M.M., I. Olivieri, D.M. Waller, E.E. Nielsen, F.W. Allendorf, M.K. Schwartz, C.S. Baker, D.P. Gregovich, J.A. Jackson, K.C. Kendall, L. Laikre, K. McKelvey, M.C. Neel, I. Olivieri, N. Ryman, R. Short Bull, J.B. Stetz, D.A. Tallmon, C.D. Vojta, and R.S. Waples. 2012. Monitoring adaptive genetic responses to environmental change. Molecular Ecology 21:1311‑1329.

Tallmon, D.A. 2012. Tributyltin contamination and imposex in Alaska harbors. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 88:245‑249.

Moore, J., D. Tallmon, J. Nielsen, and S. Pyare. 2011. Effects of the landscape on boreal toad gene flow: does the pattern‑process relationship hold true across distinct landscapes at the northern range margin? Molecular Ecology 20:4858‑4869.

Stetz, J.B., K.C. Kendall, C.D. Voijta, F.W. Allendorf, M.K. Schwartz, C.S. Baker, D.P. Gregovich, M.M. Hansen, J.A. Jackson, L. Laikre, K. McKelvey, M.C. Neel, I. Olivieri, N. Ryman, R. Short Bull, D.A. Tallmon, D.M. Waller, and R.S. Waples. 2011. Genetic monitoring for managers: A new online resource. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 2(2):216‑219.

Whiteley, A. R., C.A. Bergstrom, T. Linderoth, and D.A. Tallmon. 2011. The spectre of past spectral conditions: colour plasticity, crypsis and predation risk in freshwater sculpin from newly deglaciated streams. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 20:80-91.

Barry, P.D., S.L. Tamone, and D.A. Tallmon. 2011. A comparison of tagging methodology for North Pacific giant octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini). Fisheries Research 109:370-372.

Kelly, B.P., A.R. Whiteley, and D.A. Tallmon. 2010. The Arctic melting pot. Nature 468:891.

Kovach, R. and D.A. Tallmon. 2010. Strong influence of microhabitat on survival for an intertidal snail, Nucella lima. Hydrobiologia 652:49-56.

Tallmon, D.A., D. Gregovich, R. Waples, C.S. Baker, J. Jackson, B.L. Taylor, E. Archer, K.K. Martien, F.W. Allendorf, and M.K. Schwartz. 2010. When are genetic methods useful for estimating contemporary abundance and detecting population trends? Molecular Ecology Resources 10:684-292.

Barry, P., and D. A. Tallmon. 2010. Genetic differentiation of a subspecies of spruce grouse (Falcipennis canadensis isleibi) in an endemism hotspot. The Auk 127(3):617‑625.

Luikart, G., N. Ryman; D. A. Tallmon, M. K. Schwartz, F. W Allendorf. 2010. Estimation of population and effective population sizes: the increasing usefulness of DNA‑based approaches. Conservation Genetics 11:355‑373.

Laikre, L., F.W. Allendorf, L.C. Aroner, C.S. Baker, D.P. Gregovich, M.M. Hansen, J.J. Jackson, K.C. Kendall, K. McKelvey, M.C. Neel, I. Olivieri, N. Ryman, M.K. Schwartz, R. Shortbull, J.B. Stetz, D.A. Tallmon, B.L. Taylor, C.D. Vojta, D.M. Waller, and R.S. Waples. 2010. Neglect of genetic diversity in implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Conservation Biology 24:86‑88.

Martien, K., Gregovich, D., Bravington, M., Punt, A., Strand, A., Tallmon, D.A., and Taylor, B. 2009. TOSSM: an R package for assessing performance of genetic analytical methods in a management context. Molecular Ecology Resources. 9: 1456‑1459.

Tallmon, D.A., and L. Hoferkamp. 2009. Long-term Changes in Imposex Frequency in File Dogwinkles, Nucella lima G., and Tributyltin Concentrations in Bay Mussels, Mytilus trossulus G. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 83:235‑238.

Whiteley, A.R., S.M. Gende, A.J. Gharrett, and D.A. Tallmon. 2009. Background matching and color change plasticity in colonizing freshwater sculpin populations following rapid deglaciation. Evolution 63:1519-1529.

Tallmon, D.A., A. Koyuk, G. Luikart, and M.A. Beaumont. 2008. ONeSAMP: a program
to estimate effective population size using approximate Bayesian computation. Molecular Ecology Resources 8:299-301. http://genomics.jun.alaska.edu

Tallmon, D.A., A. Koyuk, G. Luikart, and M.A. Beaumont. OneSamp: a program to estimate effective population size using approximate Bayesian computation. Accepted in Molecular Ecology Notes.

England, P., J.-M. Cornuet, P. Berhier, D.A. Tallmon, and G. Luikart. 2006. Estimating effective population size from linkage disequilibrium: severe bias in small samples. Conservation Genetics 7:303-308. Download PDF (276 KB)

Lind, A.J., H. H. Welsh, D.A. Tallmon. 2005. Population density and survival rates of the Pacific coast garter snake (Thamnophis atratus): lessons from a long-term capture-recapture study. Ecological Applications 15:294-303. Download PDF (719 KB)

Bellemain, E., J.E. Swenson, D. Tallmon, S. Brunberg, P. Taberlet. 2005. Estimating population size of elusive animals with DNA from hunter-collected feces: four methods for brown bears. Conservation Biology 19:150-161. Download PDF (323 KB)

Tallmon, D.A., and L.S. Mills. 2004 Edge-effects and isolation: red-backed voles revisited. Conservation Biology 18:1658-1664. Download PDF (193 KB)

Tallmon, D.A., G. Luikart, and R.S. Waples. 2004. The alluring simplicity and complex reality of genetic rescue. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:489-496.Download PDF (153 KB)

Tallmon, D.A., M. A. Beaumont, G.H. Luikart. 2004. Effective population size estimation using approximate Bayesian computation. Genetics 167:977-988. Download PDF (156 KB)

Tallmon,D.A., E. Bellemain, J. Swenson, P. Taberlet. 2004. Genetic monitoring of brown bear effective population size and immigration. Journal of Wildlife Management 86(4):960-965.

Luikart, G.H., P. England, D.A. Tallmon, S. Jordan, P. Taberlet. 2003. The power and promise of population genomics: from genotyping to genome-typing. Nature Reviews Genetics 4:981-994. Download PDF (281 KB)

Tallmon, D.A., E. Jules, N. Radke, L.S. Mills. 2003. Of mice and men and trillium: cascading effects of forest fragmentation. Ecological Applications 13:1193-1203. Download PDF (341 KB)

Mills, L. S., M. K. Schwartz, D. A. Tallmon, and K. P. Lair. 2003. Measuring and interpreting changes in connectivity for mammals in coniferous forests. p. 587-613 In C.J. Zabel and R.G. Anthony, editors. Mammal Community Dynamics in Western Coniferous Forests: Management and Conservation Issues. Cambridge University Press. Download PDF (1.6 MB)

Tallmon, D.A., H. M. Draheim, L. S. Mills, F. W. Allendorf. 2002. Insights into
fragmented vole populations from combined genetic and demographic data. Molecular Ecology 11:699-708. Download PDF (149 KB)

Newman, D. and D.A. Tallmon. 2001. Beneficial fitness effects of gene flow into recently isolated populations. Conservation Biology 15:1054-1063. Download PDF ( 2.6 MB)

Tallmon, D.A., W.C. Funk, W.W. Dunlap, and F.W. Allendorf. 2000. Genetic differentiation of long-toed salamander populations. Copeia 2000:27-35. Download PDF (170 KB)

Mills, L.S., J.C. Citta, K. Lair, M.K. Schwartz, and D.A. Tallmon. 2000. Estimation of population size using DNA sampling methods. Ecological Applications 10:283-294.

Funk, W. C., D.A. Tallmon, and F.W. Allendorf. 1999. Small effective population size in the long-toed salamander. Molecular Ecology 8:1633-1640.

Mills, L.S., and D.A. Tallmon. 1999. The role of genetics in understanding forest fragmentation. p 171-186. In Rochelle, J. A., L. A. Lehmann, and E. Wisniewski, editors. Forest Fragmentation: wildlife and management implications. Brill Publications, Leidon, Boston, Koln.

Schwartz, M. K., D.A. Tallmon, and G.H. Luikart. 1999. DNA-based Ne estimation: many markers, much potential, uncertain utility. Animal Conservation 2:320-322.

Jules, E.S., E.J. Frost, L.S. Mills, and D.A. Tallmon. 1999. Ecological consequences of forest fragmentation: case studies from the Siskiyou region. Natural Areas Journal 19:368-378.

Schwartz, M. K., D.A. Tallmon, and G.H. Luikart. 1998. A review of DNA-based effective and census population size estimators. Animal Conservation 1:293-299. Download PDF (74 KB)