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Steven Price
Interim Chair, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Professor of Stream and Riparian Ecology
Professional Profile
Research in the Price Lab focuses on the population ecology and conservation of semi-aquatic and aquatic animals. Most of our research centers on reptiles and amphibians, groups that are experiencing severe and unprecedented population declines.
Although we have broad interests, we often conduct research in the following areas: 1) examining the resistance and resilience of semi-aquatic reptile and amphibian populations to land-use and hydrologic change, and 2) assessing the influence of biophysical conditions on population vital rates, such as survivorship, recruitment, and temporal emigration, and behaviors (e.g., movement).
Additionally, we have strong interests in wildlife monitoring and management, freshwater biology, forest ecology, urban ecology, vertebrate natural history and landscape ecology.
Education
- Ph.D., Biology, Wake Forest University, 2011
- M.S., Environmental Science and Policy, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2003
- B.S., Biology and Environmental Science, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2000
Associated Departments
Scholars@UK
Habitat associations of six-lined racerunners in longleaf pine managed with a short fire rotation for northern bobwhites
Samek, I. W., Price, S. J., Terhune, T. M. & McNeil, D. J., Dec 2024, In: Ecosphere. 15, 12, e70126.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A broadly applicable, objective freshwater mussel assemblage health index (MAHI)
Haag, W. R., Burrow, A. K., Dubose, T. P. & Price, S. J., Jun 2024, In: Freshwater Science. 43, 2, p. 150-168 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Response of Red-backed Salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) to the Forestry Reclamation Approach on Legacy Surface Mines in the Monongahela National Forest (West Virginia)
Price, S. J., Davenport, R. N., Sherman, L., Larkin, J. L., Cox, J., Newman, J. C. & Barton, C., Jun 2024, In: Ecological Restoration. 42, 2, p. 105-107 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Bat Activity on High Elevation Reforested Coal Mines in the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia
Snyder, B., Barton, C., Lacki, M., Price, S. & Hackworth, Z., Jun 2024, In: Ecological Restoration. 42, 2, p. 108-122 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Wetland Creation and Reforestation of Legacy Surface Mines in the Central Appalachian Region (USA): A Potential Climate-Adaptation Approach for Pond-Breeding Amphibians?
Sherman, L., Barton, C. D., Guzy, J. C., Davenport, R. N., Cox, J. J., Larkin, J. L., Fearer, T., Newman, J. C. & Price, S. J., May 2024, In: Water (Switzerland). 16, 9, 1202.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Inter- and intra-specific dietary overlap in predacious bi-phasic salamanders
Hutton, J. M., Richter, S. C. & Price, S. J., Sep 2023, In: Hydrobiologia. 850, 16, p. 3461-3480 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Salamander Movement Propensity Resists Effects of Supraseasonal Drought
Greene, K. M., Van Cleve, J. & Price, S. J., Feb 27 2023, In: Ichthyology and Herpetology. 111, 1, p. 109-118 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Effects of food abundance on juvenile freshwater mussel survival and growth in aquaculture, and comparison with growth in streams
White, D. E. J., Haag, W. R., McGregor, M. A. & Price, S. J., Nov 15 2022, In: Aquaculture. 560, 738473.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The population genetics of the causative agent of snake fungal disease indicate recent introductions to the USA
Ladner, J. T., Palmer, J. M., Ettinger, C. L., Stajich, J. E., Farrell, T. M., Glorioso, B. M., Lawson, B., Price, S. J., Stengle, A. G., Grear, D. A. & Lorch, J. M., Jun 2022, In: PLoS Biology. 20, 6, e3001676.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Diet of the southern ravine salamander Plethodon richmondi
Gadd, S. J., Hutton, J. M. & Price, S. J., Dec 2021, In: Herpetological Bulletin. 158, p. 11-15 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Evaluation of created wetlands as amphibian habitat on a reforested surface mine
Lambert, M., Drayer, A. N., Leuenberger, W., Price, S. J. & Barton, C., Nov 2021, In: Ecological Engineering. 171, 106386.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activity, Movements, and Microenvironment Associations of Siren intermedia (Lesser Siren) in a Western Kentucky Wetland Complex
Davis, A. G., Leuenberger, W., Drayer, A. N. & Price, S. J., May 2021, In: Northeastern Naturalist. 28, 2, p. 114-126 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Diet composition: A proximate mechanism explaining stream salamander declines in surface waters with elevated specific conductivity
Hutton, J. M., Price, S. J., Richter, S. C. & Barton, C. D., Sep 2021, In: Global Ecology and Conservation. 29, e01719.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Confirmed cases of ophidiomycosis in museum specimens from as early as 1945, united states
Lorch, J. M., Price, S. J., Lankton, J. S. & Drayer, A. N., Jul 2021, In: Emerging Infectious Diseases. 27, 7, p. 1986-1989 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Predicting and mapping plethodontid salamander abundance using LiDAR-derived terrain and vegetation characteristics
Contreras, M., Staats, W. A. & Price, S. J., 2020, In: Forest Systems. 29, 2, p. 1-13 13 p., e005.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Maximum likelihood inference for the band-read error model for capture-recapture data with misidentification
Zhang, W., Price, S. J. & Bonner, S. J., Jun 2021, In: Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 28, 2, p. 405-422 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Effects of snake fungal disease on short-term survival, behavior, and movement in free-ranging snakes
McKenzie, J. M., Price, S. J., Connette, G. M., Bonner, S. J. & Lorch, J. M., Mar 2021, In: Ecological Applications. 31, 2, e02251.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Abundance of an invasive bivalve, Corbicula fluminea, is negatively related to growth of freshwater mussels in the wild
Haag, W. R., Culp, J., Drayer, A. N., McGregor, M. A., White, D. E. J. & Price, S. J., Mar 2021, In: Freshwater Biology. 66, 3, p. 447-457 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Factors Influencing the Occupancy and Abundance of Streamside Salamander (Ambystoma barbouri) in Kentucky Streams
Drayer, A. N., Guzy, J. C. & Price, S. J., Sep 1 2020, In: Journal of Herpetology. 54, 3, p. 299-305 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Responses of riparian reptile communities to damming and urbanization
Hunt, S. D., Guzy, J. C., Price, S. J., Halstead, B. J., Eskew, E. A. & Dorcas, M. E., Jan 2013, In: Biological Conservation. 157, p. 277-284 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
UK Research Foundation - Peer Review
Agouridis, C. (PI), Barton, C. (CoI), Gumbert, A. (CoI) & Price, S. (CoI)
KY Department of Fish and Wildlife
7/1/24 → 6/30/26
Project: Research project
Sit-and-Wait Pathogens: Disentangling The Role of Environmental Pathogen Reservoirs In Infectious Disease Dynamics
Price, S. (PI)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
9/1/23 → 6/30/28
Project: Research project
Where Have All The Mussels Gone? A Proposal to Address the Widespread Decline of Freshwater Mussels
Price, S. (PI)
12/1/23 → 12/1/24
Project: Research project
UK Research Foundation - Peer Review FY23 Kentucky
Agouridis, C. (PI), Barton, C. (CoI), Gumbert, A. (CoI) & Price, S. (CoI)
KY Department of Fish and Wildlife
4/28/23 → 6/30/24
Project: Research project
Where Have all the Mussels Gone? A Proposal to Address the Widesrpead Decline of Freshwater Mussels
Price, S. (PI)
1/1/23 → 11/1/23
Project: Research project
Applying Landscape Genomics to Infer CWD Transmission Corridors and Inform Management Activities in Western Kentucky and Tennessee.
Springer, M. (PI), Cox, J. (CoI) & Price, S. (CoI)
KY Department of Fish and Wildlife
10/21/22 → 6/30/24
Project: Research project
Kentucky Research Consortium for Energy and Environment (KRCEE): ASER Scope
Price, S. (PI), Andrews, R. (CoI) & Hampson, S. (CoI)
4/1/16 → 8/30/24
Project: Research project
Amphibian Habitat Identification on the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant and the Western Kentucky Wildlife Management Area
Price, S. (PI)
9/15/03 → 3/31/16
Project: Research project
KSEF RDE: Leveraging novel genetic and genomic technologies to understand and conserve a Kentucky state endangered giant salamander
Weisrock, D. (PI) & Price, S. (CoI)
KY Science and Technology Co Inc
7/1/13 → 6/30/15
Project: Research project
Assessment of Eastern Hellbender Populations in Kentucky: Distribution, Recruitment and Landscape Genetics
Price, S. (PI)
KY Department of Fish and Wildlife
7/1/21 → 10/31/21
Project: Research project
FA KY FY2020 AS - PRICE: Evaluating the Use of Reclaimed Forests by Threatened, Endangered and Species of Concern on Appalachian Coal Mines
Price, S. (PI), Barton, C. (CoI) & Cox, J. (CoI)
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
5/10/21 → 5/9/24
Project: Research project
Kentucky Research Consortium for Energy and Environment
Andrews, R. (PI), Andrews, W. (CoI), Anyaegbunam, C. (CoI), Bhattacharyya, D. (CoI), Filson, A. (CoI), Fryar, A. (CoI), Hampson, S. (CoI), Ormsbee, L. (CoI), Price, S. (CoI), Rohrbacher, G. (CoI), Wang, Z. (CoI), Woolery, E. (CoI), Zhu, J. (CoI) & Dinger, J. (Former CoI)
9/15/03 → 5/31/16
Project: Research project
Assessment of Eastern Hellbender Populations in Kentucky: Distribution and Recruitment
Price, S. (PI)
KY Department of Fish and Wildlife
8/9/19 → 6/30/20
Project: Research project
A Remote-Video Artificial Stream System for the Ecological Research and Education Center, University of Kentucky
Crowley, P. (PI), Higgins-Hord, L. (CoI), Higgins-Hord, L. (CoI), Price, S. (CoI) & Sargent, R. (CoI)
8/15/17 → 7/31/19
Project: Research project
Using Juvenile Freshwater Mussels as Bioindicators to Identify Causes and Sources of Stream Degradation Associated with Mussel Declines
Price, S. (PI)
8/23/16 → 12/31/18
Project: Research project
Evaluating the Impact of Snake Fungal Disease on Wild Snake Populations
Price, S. (PI)
2/5/16 → 9/30/17
Project: Research project
KSEF RDE: Dispersal Congruency and Population Structure Within Imperiled Host-parasite Systems
Price, S. (PI) & Weisrock, D. (CoI)
KY Science and Technology Co Inc
7/1/15 → 6/30/17
Project: Research project
KSEF RDE: Leveraging novel genetic and genomic technologies to understand and conserve a Kentucky state endangered giant salamander
Weisrock, D. (PI) & Price, S. (CoI)
KY Science and Technology Co Inc
7/1/13 → 6/30/15
Project: Research project