Daniel Haro PhD Student
dharo@ufl.edu
Research Interests
I'm interested in developing tools that use data collected through management efforts to determine Burmese python (Python bivittatus) abundance in Southern Florida. I'm currently evaluating two modeling tools: one uses contractor removals, and the other uses genetic relatedness between sampled individuals to infer population size.
About Me
I'm a first generation Mexican-American who grew up chasing lizards in the sunny chaparral hills of Southern California. My first exposure to research was volunteering with graduate students at CSU Northridge, where I helped measure ecophysiology traits of invasive Mediterranean House Geckos (Hemidactylus turcicus). I continued this trend of studying the ecophysiological traits of invasive lizards for my Masters at Cal Poly, where I studied plasticity of cold tolerance in invasive Italian Wall Lizards (Podarcis siculus). I then helped students in the Gunderson Lab at Tulane University with related project ideas involving native Green Anoles (Anolis carolinensis) and non-native Brown Anoles (Anolis sagrei). More recently, I've worked with USGS and Georgia Southern University to document and manage an incipient population of Argentine Giant Tegus (Salvator merianae) in Georgia. I've been blessed with all these opportunities, and I aim to make use of what I've learned from these experiences in my current research efforts. When not working on my dissertation research I spend my time reading, playing video games, exploring nature, and enjoying local breweries.
Education
2018 M.S. Biological Sciences California Polytechnic State University
2016 B.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology California State University Northridge
Publications
McBrayer LD, Haro D, Brennan M, Falk BG, Yackel Adams AA. 2023. Capsaicin-treated bait is ineffective in deterring non-target mammals from trap disturbance during invasive lizard control. NeoBiota 87:103–120. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.87.102969
Wohlgemuth RP, Haro D, and Liwanag HEM. 2023. Osmotic and metabolic responses to cold acclimation and acute cold challenge in a freeze avoidant lizard, Podarcis siculus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 283:111471.
Haro D, Pauly GB, and Liwanag HEM. 2023. Rapid physiological plasticity in reponse to cold acclimation for non-native Italian Wall Lizards (Podarcis siculus) from New York. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology https://doi.org/10.1086/726163.
Claunch NM, Clancy KL, Harman MEA, Hengstebeck KC, Juárez-Sánchez D, Haro D, Hartmann A, Vilchez M, McKee RK, Sutton A, and Romagosa CM. Accepted. Welcome to paradise: snake invasions on islands. In: Island Snakes Volume II. Eds: Lillywhite H, Martins M.
Eberle P, Haro D, Rekevics K and Liwanag HEM. 2022. Physiological effects of tail regeneration following autotomy in Italian Wall Lizards, Podarcis siculus. Journal of Herpetology 56:434-443.
Deery SW, Rej JE, Haro D and Gunderson AR. 2021. Heat hardening in a pair of Anolis lizards: constraints, dynamics and ecological consequences. Journal of Experimental Biology 224:240994.
Haro D, McBrayer LD, Jensen JB, Gillis JM, Lea'R B, Nafus MG, Greiman SE, Reed RN and Adams AAY. 2020. Evidence for an established population of tegu lizards (Salvator merianae) in southeastern Georgia, USA. Southeastern Naturalist 19:649-662.
Liwanag HEM, Haro D, Callejas B, Labib G, and Pauly GB. 2018. Thermal tolerance varies with age and sex for the nonnative Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus) in Southern California. Journal of Thermal Biology 78:263-269.