Publications:

Walton, B. M. 2013. Top-down regulation of litter invertebrates by a terrestrial salamander. Herpetologica 69:127-146.
Hickerson, C.A., C.D. Anthony, and B.M. Walton. 2012. Interactions among forest-floor guild members in structurally simple microhabitats. The American Midland Naturalist 168:30-42.
Ivanov, K.A., OM Lockhart, P. Keiper, B.M. Walton. 2011. Status of the exotic ant, Nylanderia flavipes (Hymenoptera:Formicidae) in northeastern Ohio. Biological Invasions 9:1945-1950.
Krebs, R.A., J.D. Hook, M.A. Hoggarth, and B.M. Walton. 2011. Evaluating the mussel fauna of the Chagrin River, a state listed ¿scenic¿ tributary of Lake Erie. Northeastern Naturalist 17:565-574.
Krebs, R.A., W.C. Borden, E.R. Steiner, M.S. Lyons, W. Zawiski, and B.M. Walton. 2010. Determinants of mussel diversity in Lake Erie tributaries. Journal of the North American Benthological Society  29: 506-520.
Walton, B.M., M. Salling, J. Wyles, and J. Wolin. 2007. Biological integrity in urban streams: toward resolving multiple dimensions of urbanization. Landscape and Urban Planning 79: 110-123.
Walton, B.M., D. Tsatiris, M. Rivera-Sostre. 2006. Salamanders in forest-floor food webs: Invertebrate species composition influences top-down effects. Pedobiologia 50:313-321.
Walton, B.M., M. Salling, J. Wyles, J. Wolin, S. Balanson, and J. Johansen. 2006. Technical Memorandum Series 1-20, Reports on project outcomes of state-wide analysis of determinants of biological integrity in urban streams, U.S. Clean Water Act 319(h) project. Reports to Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. Available on-line through CSU Environmental Institute.
Walton, B.M. , M. Salling, J. Wyles, J. Wolin, J. Wyles, and S. Balanson. 2005. Effects of urbanization on biological integrity of Columbus area streams. Report to Ohio EPA Section 319(h) Non-point Source Program. Sept. 28, 2005. Available on-line through CSU Environmental Institute. 38 pp.
Walton, B.M., M. Salling., J. Wolin, E.W. Cline, and S. Schwartz. 2005. Development of progress indicators and end-points to guide urban stream restoration efforts: analyses evaluating the performance of landscape, stream habitat, and biological indicators for discerning effects of urbanization. Center for Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy, Cleveland State University. 144 pp. (Presented to the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency).
Walton, B. M. and S. Steckler. 2005. Contrasting effects of salamanders on forest-floor macro- and mesofauna in laboratory microcosms. Pedobiologia 49: 51-60.
Walton, B. M. 2005. Salamanders in forest-floor food webs: Environmental heterogeneity affects strength of top-down effects. Pedobiologia 49: 381-393.
Balanson, S., B. M. Walton, J. Wolin, and T. Mal. 2005 Aquatic macrophyte diversity and habitat characterization of the Cuyahoga River watershed in northeastern Ohio. Ohio Journal of Science 105: 88-96.
Hickerson, C. M., C. D. Anthony, and B. M. Walton. 2005. Edge effects and intraguild predation in native and introduced centipedes: Evidence from the field and from laboratory microcosms. Oecologia 146: 110-119.
Sharp, C.C., S.E. Steckler, O.M. Lockhart, and B.M. Walton. 2005. Plethodon cinereus (eastern red-backed salamander). Predation.  Herpetological Review 36: 396-397.
Peterson, C.C., B.M. Walton, and A.F. Bennett. 2000. Metabolic costs of growth in free-living garter snakes and the energy budgets of ectotherms. Functional Ecology 13:500-507.
Peterson, C.C., B. M. Walton, and A.F. Bennett. 1998. Intrapopulation variation in ecological energetics of the garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis. Physiological Zoology 71:333-349.
Varhegyi, G., B.M. Walton, S. Mavroidis, C.A. Conaway and A.R. Gibson. 1998. Population status of anurans in northeastern Ohio. Pages 135-154 In Amphibians of the Midwest: Ecology and Conservation (M. Lanoo, ed). Indiana University Press.
Walton, B.M., C.C. Peterson, and A.F. Bennett. 1995. Is walking costly in toads?: The energetic cost of locomotion in the northern toad, Bufo boreas halophilus. Journal of Experimental Biology 197:165-178.
Walton, B.M., M.A. Gates, A. Kloos, J. Fisher. 1995. Intraspecific variability in the thermal-dependence locomotion, population growth rate, and mating ability in the ciliated protist, Euplotes vannus. Physiological Zoology 68:98-113.
Walton, B.M. 1993. Physiology and phylogeny: the evolution of locomotor energetics in hylid frogs. American Naturalist 141:26-50.
Walton, B.M., and A.F. Bennett. 1993. Thermal dependence of color change in Kenyan chameleons. Physiological Zoology 66:270-287.
Losos, J.B., B.M. Walton, A.F. Bennett. 1993. Trade-offs between sprinting and clinging ability in Kenyan chameleons. Functional Ecology 7:281-286.
Walton, B.M., B.C. Jayne, and A.F. Bennett. 1990. The energetic cost of limbless locomotion. Science 249:524-527.
Walton, B.M. 1988. Relationships among metabolic, laboratory, and field measures of organismal performance in the Fowler's toad (Bufo woodhousei fowleri). Physiological Zoology 61:107-116.
Walton, B.M. and B.D. Anderson. 1988. The aerobic cost of saltatory locomotion in the Fowler's toad (Bufo woodhousei fowleri). Journal of Experimental Biology 136:273-288.