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Overview

Andrew L. Rypel is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Aquatic Science.

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Nann A. Fangue
  • Peter B. Moyle
  • Gabriel P. Singer
  • Carson A. Jeffres
  • Daniel C. Reuman

They have published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecological Applications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecosphere
  • PLoS ONE

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Andrew L. Rypel are:

  • Goodbye to "Rough Fish": Paradigm Shift in the Conservation of Native Fishes, 2021, Fisheries
  • The long and the short of it: Mechanisms of synchronous and compensatory dynamics across temporal scales, 2022, Ecology
  • The spatial synchrony of species richness and its relationship to ecosystem stability, 2021, Ecology
  • Climate warming amplifies the frequency of fish mass mortality events across north temperate lakes, 2022, Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Advancing diet reconstruction in fish eye lenses, 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Growth and longevity in freshwater mussels: evolutionary and conservation implications

    Wendell R. Haag;Andrew L. Rypel;Andrew L. Rypel

  • Empirical Percentile Standard Weight Equation for the Blacktail Redhorse

    Andrew L. Rypel;Tracy J. Richter

  • What Drives Ontogenetic Niche Shifts of Fishes in Coral Reef Ecosystems

    I. A. Kimirei;I. Nagelkerken;I. Nagelkerken;M. Trommelen;P. Blankers

  • Defining a Safe Operating Space for inland recreational fisheries

    Stephen R Carpenter;William A Brock;William A Brock;Gretchen J A Hansen;Jonathan F Hansen

  • Fish die-offs are concurrent with thermal extremes in north temperate lakes

    Aaron Till;Andrew L. Rypel;Andrew Bray;Samuel B. Fey

  • Simple ecological trade-offs give rise to emergent cross-ecosystem distributions of a coral reef fish

    Monique G. G. Grol;Ivan Nagelkerken;Andrew L. Rypel;Craig A. Layman

  • Water depth modifies relative predation risk for a motile fish taxon in Bahamian tidal creeks

    Andrew L. Rypel;Craig A. Layman;D. Albrey Arrington

  • Inland Fisheries Habitat Management: Lessons Learned from Wildlife Ecology and a Proposal for Change

    Greg G. Sass;Andrew L. Rypel;Joshua D. Stafford

  • The Cold-Water Connection: Bergmann’s Rule in North American Freshwater Fishes

    Andrew L. Rypel

  • Production dynamics reveal hidden overharvest of inland recreational fisheries

    Holly S Embke;Andrew L Rypel;Stephen R Carpenter;Greg G Sass

  • HABITAT FRAgMENTATION dECREASES FISH SECONdARy pROdUCTION IN BAHAMIAN TIdAL CREEkS

    L. Valentine-Rose;C. A. Layman;D. A. Arrington;A. L. Rypel

  • Goodbye to “Rough Fish”: Paradigm Shift in the Conservation of Native Fishes

    Andrew L. Rypel;Parsa Saffarinia;Caryn C. Vaughn;Larry Nesper

  • Growth potential and predation risk drive ontogenetic shifts among nursery habitats in a coral reef fish

    Monique G. G. Grol;Andrew L. Rypel;Ivan Nagelkerken

  • Validation of annual growth rings in freshwater mussel shells using cross dating

    Andrew L. RypelA.L. Rypel;Andrew L. RypelA.L. Rypel;Wendell R. HaagW.R. Haag;Wendell R. HaagW.R. Haag;Robert H. FindlayR.H. Findlay;Robert H. FindlayR.H. Findlay

  • Meta‐analysis of growth rates for a circumpolar fish, the northern pike (Esox lucius), with emphasis on effects of continent, climate and latitude

    Andrew L. Rypel

  • Eroding productivity of walleye populations in northern Wisconsin lakes

    Andrew L. Rypel;Andrew L. Rypel;Andrew L. Rypel;Daisuke Goto;Greg G. Sass;M. Jake Vander Zanden

  • Seventy-Year Retrospective on Size-Structure Changes in the Recreational Fisheries of Wisconsin

    Andrew L. Rypel;John Lyons;Joanna D. Tober Griffin;Timothy D. Simonson

  • Variations in PCB concentrations between genders of six warmwater fish species in Lake Logan Martin, Alabama, USA

    Andrew L. Rypel;Robert H. Findlay;Justin B. Mitchell;David R. Bayne

  • Temporal heterogeneity increases with spatial heterogeneity in ecological communities.

    Scott L. Collins;Meghan L. Avolio;Corinna Gries;Lauren M. Hallett

  • The long and the short of it: Mechanisms of synchronous and compensatory dynamics across temporal scales

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  • Climate-growth relationships for largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) across three southeastern USA states

    Andrew L. Rypel

  • Trends in the Reproductive Phenology of two Great Lakes Fishes

    John Lyons;Andrew L. Rypel;Paul W. Rasmussen;Thomas E. Burzynski

Frequent Co-Authors

Greg G. Sass
Greg G. Sass Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Nann A. Fangue
Nann A. Fangue University of California, Davis
Daniel C. Reuman
Daniel C. Reuman University of Kansas
M. Jake Vander Zanden
M. Jake Vander Zanden University of Wisconsin–Madison
Peter B. Moyle
Peter B. Moyle University of California, Davis
Ivan Nagelkerken
Ivan Nagelkerken University of Adelaide
Lauren M. Hallett
Lauren M. Hallett University of Oregon
John Lyons
John Lyons University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kathryn L. Cottingham
Kathryn L. Cottingham Dartmouth College
Christoph F. J. Meyer
Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford

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