Publications
† Indicates co-first authorship
2025
Y Shin, SN Othman, D Kohler, I Maslova, KR Messenger, A Borzée. In press. Contributions to the knowledge of pitvipers (Viperidae: Gloydius) in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: identification, description of specimens, and geographic distribution. ZooKeys
2024
A Borzée, A Angulo, H Meredith, J Groffen, …, Y Shin, Y Bae, Z Wang, Z Qiu, R Pearce. 2024. Protecting Japanese Giant Salamanders (Andrias japonicus) in the Nawa River Basin, Japan: policy recommendations addressing water pollution and waterway disruption. Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science 2: 1348251. PDF
JY Jeon, Y Shin, AJ Mularo, X Feng, JA DeWoody. 2024. The integration of whole-genome resequencing and ecological niche modeling to conserve profiles of local adaptation. Diversity and Distributions 30: e13847. PDF
I-K Park, Y Shin, H-J Baek, J Kim, D-I Kim, M Seok, Y Oh, D Park. 2024. Establishment potential across South Korea for two gecko species, Gekko japonicus and G. swinhonis, adapted to different climates. NeoBiota 93: 39-62. PDF
A Borzée, Y Shin, Y Bae, D Jeong, H Amin, M-S Min, SN Othman. 2024. S Min, SN Othman. 2024. From Korean to northeast Asian endemicity: on the occurrence of Pelophylax chosenicus along the Eastern Coastal Yellow Sea. Frontiers of Biogeography 16: e62301. PDF
Y Shin†, K Heo†, SN Othman, Y Jang, M-S Min, A Borzée. 2024. Tracing the geographic origin of a nonnative Red-banded Snake (Colubridae: Lycodon rufozonatus) found on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. Herpetologica 80: 30-39. PDF
2023
Y Peng, Y Li, G Cao, H Li, Y Shin, Z Piao, F Perez, W Zhu, A Borzée. 2023. Estimation of habitat suitability and landscape connectivity for Liaoning and Jilin clawed salamanders (Hynobiidae: Onychodactylus) in the transboundary region between the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Global Ecology and Conservation 48: e02694. PDF
J Li, Y Shin, M Hong, Y Jang, A Borzée. 2023. Is ultra-violet fluorescence a trait related to breeding in the Mongolian racerunner (Eremias argus; Lacertidae, Reptilia)? Journal of Biological Research – Thessaloniki 30:3. PDF
A Borzée, M Rodriguez, N Bhatri, YI Kim, ….., VK Prasad, Y Jang, Y Shin, SN Othman. 2023. Policy recommendation on the Rana trade towards the Republic of Korea. Frontiers in Environmental Science 11: 1097849. PDF
D Jeong, Y Shin, B Lim, H Serret, Y Jang. 2023. Do Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica gutturalis) prefer to breed in inhabited houses in South Korea? The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 134: 633-641. PDF
2022
Y Shin, K Kim, J Groffen, D Woo, E Song, A Borzée. 2022. Citizen science and roadkill trends in the Korean herpetofauna: the importance of spatially biased and unstandardized data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 944318. PDF
SN Othman, Y Shin, H-T Kim, M-F Chuang, Y Bae, J Hoti, Y Zhang, Y Jang, A Borzée. 2022. Evaluating the efficiency of popular species identification methods, and comparative workflow using morphometry and barcoding bioinformatics for taxonomy and origin of traded cryptic brown frogs. Global Ecology and Conservation 38: e02253. PDF
A Borzée, Y Shin, N Poyarkov, JY Jeon, HJ Baek, CH Lee, J An, YJ Hong, M-S Min. 2022. Dwindling in the mountains: description of a critically endangered and microendemic Onychodactylus species (Amphibia, Hynobiidae) from the Korean Peninsula. Zoological Research 43: 750−755. PDF
2021
Y Shin, M-S Min, A Borzée. 2021. Driven to the edge: Species distribution modeling of a Clawed Salamander (Hynobiidae: Onychodactylus koreanus) predicts range shifts and drastic decrease of suitable habitats in response to climate change. Ecology and Evolution 11: 14669-14688. PDF
A Borzée, SN Litvinchuk, K Ri, D Andersen, TY Nam, GH Jon, HS Man, JS Choe, S Kwon, SN Othman, K Messenger, Y Bae, Y Shin, A Kim, I Maslova, J Luedtke, L Hobin, N Moores, B Seliger, F Glenk, Y Jang. 2021. Update on distribution and threat status of amphibians in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: conclusions based on field surveys, landscape modeling, molecular analyses, and call properties. Animals 11:2057. PDF
Y Shin, Y Jang, A Borzée. 2021. Snakebite envenomings in the Republic of Korea from the 1970s to the 2020s: a review. Toxicon 196: 8-18. PDF
Y Shin†, KR Messenger†, KS Koo, SC Lee, M Hou, A Borzée. 2021. How threatened is Scincella huanrenensis? An update on threats and trends. Conservation 1: 58-72. PDF
D Macias, Y Shin, A Borzée. 2021. An update on the conservation status and ecology of Korean terrestrial squamates. Journal for Nature Conservation 60: 125971. PDF
2020
Y Shin, Y Jang, SJR Allain, A Borzée. 2020. Catalogue of herpetological specimens of the Ewha Womans University Natural History Museum (EWNHM), Republic of Korea. ZooKeys 965: 103-139. PDF
A Borzée, KR Messenger, S Chae, D Andersen, J Groffen, YI Kim, J An, SN Othman, K Ri, TY Nam, Y Bae, J-L Ren, J-T Li, M-F Chuang, Y Yi, Y Shin, T Kwon, Y Jang, M-S, Min. 2020. Yellow sea mediated segregation between North East Asian Dryophytes species. PLoS ONE 15: e0234299. PDF
Short articles
I-K Park, Y Shin, D Park. 2024. Predation on a metamorphosing tadpole of the American Bullfrog, Aquarana catesbeiana (Shaw, 1802), by the fishing spider Dolomedes sulfureus, in the Republic of Korea. Herpetology Notes 17: 531-533. PDF
Y Shin, J Miller, JM Duggan. 2021. Observations on the year round communal use of an artificial structure by Northern Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus oreganus) in coastal Central California. Herpetological Bulletin 155: 25-27. PDF
Y Shin, A Borzée. 2020. Melanism in the Ussuri pitviper (Gloydius ussuriensis) from the Republic of Korea, with remarks on color variations. Jordan Journal of Natural History 7: 60-63. PDF
Y Shin, J Ambu, A Borzée. 2020. Observations on heterospecific amplexus in Asiatic toads (Anura: Bufonidae: Bufo gargarizans) in the Republic of Korea. Herpetology Notes 13: 411-413. PDF
Y Shin, D Jeong, A Borzée. 2020. Mass displacement of Korean clawed salamanders (Onychodactylus koreanus) and the threat of road-kill. Herpetological Bulletin 151: 28-31. PDF
Y Shin, Y Jang, T Kim, A Borzée. 2020. A specimen of Karsenia koreana (Caudata: Plethodontidae) misidentified as Hynobius leechii 27 years before the species’ description and additional historical record. Current Herpetology 39: 75-79. PDF
Y Shin , Y Jang, A Borzée. 2020. Limb malformations in Bombina orientalis (Anura; Bombinatoridae) in the Republic of Korea based on museum specimens. Herpetology Notes 13: 29-31. PDF
Natural history and distribution notes
J-J Strydom, Y Shin. 2022. Gloydius brevicauda (Short tailed Pitviper). Diet. Herpetological Review 53: 697-698. PDF
K Heo, Y Shin, K Messenger. 2022. Hynobius notialis (Southern Korean Salamander). Behavior. Herpetological Review 53: 642. PDF
D Jeong, B Lim, Y Shin. 2022. Dryophytes japonicus (Japanese Treefrog). Predation. Herpetological Review 53: 467-468. PDF
Y Shin, D Jeong, B Lim. 2021. Kaloula borealis (Boreal Digging Frog). Hibernaculum. Herpetological Review 52: 828-829. PDF
Y Shin, MD Cho, A Borzée. 2021. Gloydius ussuriensis (Ussuri Pitviper). Diet. Herpetological Review 52: 157-158. PDF
K Messenger, H Dahn, D Andersen, Y Shin, Y Yi, Y Bae, A Borzée. 2020. Bufo stejnegeri (Korean Water Toad). Geographical distribution. Herpetological Review 51: 532. PDF
Y Shin, Y Jang, A Borzée. 2020. Gloydius saxatilis (Rock Mamushi). Dicephalism. Herpetological Review 51: 143-144. PDF
Y Shin, Y Jang, A Borzée. 2020. Gloydius ussuriensis (Ussuri Mamushi). Disease. Herpetological Review 51: 144. PDF