Tiffany M. Doan

Instructor of Biology

Contact

Phone Number

(941) 487-4662

Email Address

tdoan@ncf.edu

Location

Office

Heiser Natural Sciences E257

Mail

Heiser E172C

Office / Division / Concentration

Natural Sciences Division

Biology

Education

Ph. D. in Quantitative Biology

Dr. Tiffany M. Doan is an evolutionary biologist and ecologist who specializes in the study of reptiles, particularly lizards from Latin America. She has described six lizard species and one snake species as new to science, studied how saurian malaria affects Florida’s lizard species, and examined patterns of speciation in Central and South American reptiles. She is interested in speciation, biogeography, taxonomy, community ecology, and disease ecology. Dr. Doan is also an avid scuba diver and scuba instructor and sensei of the NCF aikido martial arts club. Visit her website here: https://tiffanymdoan.weebly.com/.

Recent Courses

Foundations of Biology I
Foundations of Biology II
Foundations of Biology Laboratory
Ecology Laboratory
Animal Behavior
Animal Behavior Laboratory
Organismic Biology
Organismic Biology Laboratory
Biostatistics
Florida Natural History

Website

Recent News

Novo Collegians research lizard malaria

Professor preps for COVID-19 biology lectures

NCF Students Present at 9th World Congress of Herpetology in New Zealand

New College has strong showing at Herpetology Conference

‘Atlas of Life’ Project Features Work by New College of Florida Biology Professor

Selected Publications

*Indicates New College Student

Doan, T. M., S. A. Sheffer*, N. R. Warmington*, and E. E. Evans*. 2021. Population biology of the unusual thermoconforming lizards of the Andes Mountains of Peru (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). Austral Ecology 46:1039–1051.

Bessa*, L. B., N. M. Ely*, E. S. Calle*, B. J. LaFond*, R. P. Counsman*, L. N. Loges*, and T. M. Doan. 2020. The effect of Plasmodium floridense on relative leukocyte counts of Anolis sagrei and A. carolinensis in Florida, USA. Journal of North American Herpetology 2020:42–48.

Meiri, S., L. Avila, A. M. Bauer, D. G. Chapple, I. Das, T. M. Doan, P. Doughty, R. Ellis, L. Grismer, F. Kraus, M. Morando, P. Oliver, D. Pincheira-Donoso, M. A. Ribeiro-Junior, G. Shea, O. Torres-Carvajal, A. Slavenko, and U. Roll. 2020. The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29:1515–1530.

Doan, T. M., B. G. Devlin, and K. C. Greene. 2019. Malaria infection is lower in invasive anoles than native anoles in Central Florida, USA. Journal of Herpetology 53:22–26.

Jordan, C. N., J. L. Krumm, T. M. Doan, J. Kilgore, and D. Linton. 2019. How many critters can an island hold? Using digitized natural history collections to test real hypotheses about island biogeography. Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching, Proceedings of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education 40:1–21.

Slavenko, A., A. Feldman, A. Allison, A. M. Bauer, M. Böhm, L. Chirio, G. R. Colli, I. Das, T. M. Doan, M. LeBreton, M. Martins, D. Meirte, Z. T. Nagy, C. de C. Nogueira, O. S. G. Pauwels, D. Pincheira-Donoso, U. Roll, P. Wagner, Y. Wang, and S. Meiri. 2019. Global patterns of body size evolution in squamate reptiles are not driven by climate. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28:471–483.

Vidan, E., A. M. Bauer, F. Castro Herrera, L. Chirio, C. de Campos Nogueira, T. M. Doan, M. Hoogmoed, A. Lewin, D. Meirte, Z. T. Nagy, M. Novosolov, D. Pincheira-Donoso, O. J. S. Tallowin, O. Torres Carvajal, P. Uetz, P. Wagner, Y. Wang, J. Belmaker, and. S. Meiri. 2019. The global biogeography of lizard functional groups. Journal of Biogeography 46:2147–2158.

Meiri, S., A. M. Bauer, F. Castro-Herrera, L. Chirio, G. Colli, I. Das, T. M. Doan, L. L. Grismer, M. Hoogmoed, F. Kraus, M. LeBreton, D. Meirte, Z. T. Nagy, C. de C. Nogueira, P. Oliver, O. S. G. Pauwels, D. Pincheira-Donoso, G. Shea, R. Sindaco, O. J. S. Tallowin, J.-F. Trape, P. Uetz, P. Wagner, T. Ziegler, and U. Roll. 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24:264–273.

Roll, U., A. Feldman, M. Novosolov, A. Allison, A. M. Bauer, R. Bernard, M. Bohm, F. Castro-Herrera, L. Chirio, B. Collen, G. R. Colli, I. Das, T. M. Doan, L. L. Grismer, M. Hoogmoed, Y. Itescu, F. Kraus, M. LeBreton, A. Lewin, M. Martins, E. Maza, D. Meirte, Z. T. Nagy, C. de C. Nogueira, O. S. G. Pauwels, D. Pincheira-Donoso, G. D. Powney, R. Sindaco, O. J. S. Tallowin, O. Torres-Carvajal, J.-F. Trape, E. Vidan, P. Uetz, P. Wagner, Y. Wang, C. D. L. Orme, R. Grenyer, and S. Meiri. 2017. The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1:1677–1682. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29:1515–1530.