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photo of Charles Drost
Name:
Drost, Charles
Title:
Research Zoologist
Discipline(s):
Zoology
Research Station:
CPRS
Work Address:
USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, 2255 N. Gemini Drive, Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Telephone Number:
(928)556-7187
Email Address:
charles_drost@usgs.gov or charles.drost@nau.edu

Biographical Sketch:

Charles Drost is a Research Zoologist for the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, Colorado Plateau Research Station in Flagstaff, Arizona. His research for the past 10 years has focused on inventory and population studies of amphibians, reptiles, and small mammals, primarily in the Colorado Plateau region and in southern California. Current projects include an inventory and assessment of leopard frogs in the Glen Canyon and Grand Canyon region, inventory of small mammals on National Park Service lands in northern Arizona and in the California deserts, and ecological studies of the Threatened island night lizard on the California Channel Islands. He has authored or contributed to a number of project reports on inventory, monitoring, and population studies of amphibians in the southwestern United States.

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Publications, Maps, and other Products

  1. Drost, Charles. 2007. Multi-species community response to extirpation of a top carnivore on San Miguel Island, Channel Islands, California. USGS presentation to the Ecological Society of America meeting. [Presentation with Abstract]
  2. Boykin, K., B. Thompson, R. Deitner, D. Schrupp, D. Bradford, L. O'Brien, C. Drost, S. Propeck-Grey, W. Rieth, K. Thomas, W. Kepner, J. Lowry, C. Cross, B. Jones, T. Hamer, C. Mettenbrink, K. Oakes, J. Prior-Magee, K. Schulz, J. Wynne, C. King, J. Puttere, S. Schrader, & Z. Schwenke. 2006. Predicted animal habitat distributions and species richness - Chapter 3. USGS Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Final Report. [Technical Report]
  3. Drost, Charles A. 2005. Vertebrates of Montezuma Castle National Monument: Present status and historical changes. Colorado Plateau II (Chapter 16). University of Arizona Press. [Book Chapter]
  4. Schwemm, C., C. Drost, & J. Orrock. 2005. An ecological monitoring parable: System-level changes following the loss of island foxes at Channel Islands National Park. Natural Resource Year in Review - 2005. US National Park Service. [Technical Report]
  5. Drost, C, & McEachern. 2005. Santa Cruz Island Feral Pig Pre-eradication Ecological Monitoring Study - Progress Report 36 pp. USGS. [Technical Report]
  6. Drost, C. A. 2005. Declining riparian species: Leopard Frogs in Grand Canyon and Glen Canyon. USGS Pp. 116-117 in Circular 1282 The State of the Colorado River Ecosystem in Grand Canyon. [Technical Report]
  7. Gelczis, L. & C. Drost. 2004. A surprise in Surprise Canyon: a new amphibian species for Grand Canyon National Park. Nature Notes, Fall 2004, pp1-3. [Journal Article]
  8. Drost, C. 2004. Field studies for the visitor experience and resource protection program at the Flagstaff Area Monuments. USGS. [Technical Report]
  9. Drost, C., & M. Johnson. 2004. Develop and populate an avifauna database at Mesa Verde National Park: 2004 Progress Report. USGS. [Technical Report]
  10. Drost, C. 2004. Inventory of small and medium-sized mammals at Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Manzanar National Historic Site, and the Mojave National Preserve Progress Report 2004. USGS. [Technical Report]
  11. Drost, C. 2004. Inventory of amphibians, reptiles, and bats on the Northern Channel Islands, Channel Islands National Park - Progress Report. USGS. [Technical Report]
  12. Drost, C. 2004. Population Status and Viability of Leopard Frogs (Rana pipiens) in Grand Canyon and Glen Canyon: Progress Report 2003. USGS. [Technical Report]
  13. Drost, C. & K. Pearson. 2003. A study of burrowing animals and their impact to archaeological sites at El Morro National Monument: Progres Report. USGS. [Technical Report]
  14. Drost C., M. Johnson. 2003. Develop and populate an avifauna database at Mesa Verde National Park: 2003 Progress Report. USGS. [Technical Report]
  15. Drost C.A., E.H. Paxton, M.K. Sogge, M.J. Whitfield. 2003. Food habits of the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher during the nesting season. Studies in Avian Biology no. 26: 96-103. [Journal Article]
  16. Hart, J. & C. Drost. 2002. Inventory of small and medium-sized mammals at Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Manzanar National Historic Site, and the Mojave National Preserve: 2002 Progress Report. USGS. [Technical Report]
  17. van Riper C. III, C. A. Drost, J. A. Hart. 2002. Habitat partitioning by neotropical migrant warblers along the lower Colorado River corridor. . Pp 140-141 In: Meeting Resource Management Needs: The fourth conference on research and resource management in the southwestern deserts (W. L. Halvorson and B. S. Gebow, Eds.). USGS Sonoran Desert Research Station, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson. 154 pp. . [Book Chapter]
  18. Rorabaugh J.C., M.J. Sredl, V. Miera, C.A. Drost. 2002. Continued invasion of an introduced frog (Rana berlandieri): southwestern Arizona, southeastern California, and Rio Colorado, Mexico. Southwest Naturalist 47: 12-20. [Journal Article]
  19. Persons T.B., C.A. Drost. 2001. Mapping and biological reconnaissance of earth crack and blowhole features at Wupatki National Monument, Arizona. Unpublished report to National Park Service. USGS Colorado Plateau Field Station, Flagstaff, Arizona. [Technical Report]
  20. Drost C.A., T.B. Persons, E.M. Nowak. 2001. Survey of the Herpetofauna of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau. C. van Riper III, K. A. Thomas, and M. A. Stuart, eds. [Proceedings]
  21. Drost C., D.J. Mattson, M.J. Johnson, A. Cully, M. Bogan, E. Nowak, T. Persons, J. Spence, K. Thomas, M. Stuart. 2000. Biological inventory of National Park areas on the southern Colorado Plateau. For US National Park Service Southern Colorado Plateau Network. Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit and USGS Colorado Plateau Field Station, Flagstaff , AZ. 209pp. (INVITED technical plan; rated second-best inventory plan nationwide ). [Technical Report]
  22. Drost C.A., E.M. Nowak, T. Persons . 1999. Inventory and monitoring methods for amphibians and reptiles at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Unpublished report to National Park Service. USGS Colorado Plateau Field Station, Flagstaff, Arizona. [Technical Report]
  23. Drost C.A., D.W. Blinn. 1997. Invertebrate Community of Roaring Springs Cave, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Southwest Naturalist. [Journal Article]
  24. Drost C.A., M.K. Sogge. 1996. Preliminary survey of leopard frogs in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Proceedings of the Second Biennial Conference on Research on the Colorado Plateau. National Park Service Transactions and Proceeding Series NPS/NRNAU/NRTP-95/11. [Proceedings]
  25. Drost C.A., G.M. Fellers. 1996. Collapse of a Regional Frog Fauna in the Yosemite Area of the California Sierra Nevada, USA. Conservation Biology 10(2):414-425. [Journal Article]
  26. Drost C.A., E.T. Deshler. 1995. Status of reptiles and amphibians on the Colorado Plateau. Pages 326-328 In: E. T. LaRoe et al. (eds.), Our Living Resources: a report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems. National Biological Service, Washington, D. C. [Book Chapter]
  27. Drost C.A., G.M. Fellers. 1995. Non-native animals on public lands. Pages 440-442 In: E. T. LaRoe et al. (eds.), Our Living Resources: a report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems. National Biological Service, Washington, D. C. [Book Chapter]
  28. Drost C.A., D.B. Lewis. 1995. Xantus' Murrelet (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus). In: The birds of North America, A. Poole and F. Gill, eds. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. [Book Chapter]
  29. Fellers G.M., C.A. Drost. 1994. Sampling with artificial cover. pp. 146-149 in: Heyer, W. Ronald, et al. (eds.) Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity: Standard Methods for Amphibians. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C. [Book Chapter]