Caleb Hickman

Education Hickman put his education and career focus on working with mammals, reptiles, and plants in different environments. After graduating from high school, he attended Missouri Valley College to earn his bachelor's. Hickman manages projects within the 57,000-acre Qualla Boundary in North Carolina, his priorities are on endangered and culturally important species.

Publications Mathis, A., Murray, K. L., & Hickman, C. R. (2003). Do experience and body size play a role in responses of larval ringed salamanders, Ambystoma annulatum, to predator kairomones? Laboratory and field tests. Ethology, 109(2), 159-170. Hickman, C. R., Stone, M. D., & Mathis, A. (2004). Priority use of chemical over visual cues for detection of predators by graybelly salamanders, Eurycea multiplicata griseogaster. Herpetologica, 60(2), 203-210. Watling, J. I., Hickman, C. R., Lee, E., Wang, K., & Orrock, J. L. (2011). Extracts of the invasive shrub Lonicera maackii increase mortality and alter behavior of amphibian larvae. Oecologia, 165, 153-159. Watling, J. I., Hickman, C. R., & Orrock, J. L. (2011). Invasive shrub alters native forest amphibian communities. Biological Conservation, 144(11), 2597-2601. Watling, J. I., Hickman, C. R., & Orrock, J. L. (2011). Predators and invasive plants affect the performance of amphibian larvae. Oikos, 120(5), 735-39.