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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
107
Citations
52045
World Ranking
198
National Ranking
86

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award

Overview

Andrew Sih is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these areas, their work engages deeply with subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Social Psychology, Global and Planetary Change, and Genetics.

The scientist's main topics of study include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and animal studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Primate Behavior and Ecology, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Andrew Sih has published extensively in various journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Animal Behaviour
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The American Naturalist

Recent publications include:

  • Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution, 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Beyond spatial overlap: harnessing new technologies to resolve the complexities of predator-prey interactions, 2022, Oikos
  • Behavioral plasticity can facilitate evolution in urban environments, 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • A framework and standardized terminology to facilitate the study of predation-risk effects, 2020, Ecology
  • Bugs scaring bugs: enemy-risk effects in biological control systems, 2020, Ecology Letters

The scientist frequently collaborates with peers in their field. Notable co-authors include David L. Sinn, Orr Spiegel, Marcus Michelangeli, Eric Payne, and M. Gardner. Each of these collaborators has coauthored multiple publications with Andrew Sih.

Best Publications

  • Behavioral syndromes: an ecological and evolutionary overview.

    Andrew Sih;Alison Marie Bell;J. Chadwick Johnson

  • Costs and limits of phenotypic plasticity.

    Thomas J. DeWitt;Andrew Sih;David Sloan Wilson

  • Behavioral syndromes: An integrative overview

    Andrew Sih;Alison M. Bell;Alison M. Bell;J. Chadwick Johnson;J. Chadwick Johnson;Robert E. Ziemba

  • Predation, Competition, and Prey Communities: A Review of Field Experiments

    Andrew Sih;Philip Crowley;Mark McPeek;James Petranka

  • Predation: direct and indirect impacts on aquatic communities

    W. Charles Kerfoot;Andrew Sih

  • Emergent impacts of multiple predators on prey

    Andrew Sih;Goran Englund;David Wooster

  • Evolution and behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change.

    Andrew Sih;Maud C. O. Ferrari;David J. Harris

  • Optimal behavior: can foragers balance two conflicting demands?

    Andrew Sih

  • Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes

    Andrew Sih;Julien Cote;Mara Evans;Sean Fogarty

  • Exposure to predation generates personality in threespined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

    Alison Marie Bell;Andrew Sih

  • Predator-prey naïveté, antipredator behavior, and the ecology of predator invasions

    Andrew Sih;Daniel I. Bolnick;Barney Luttbeg;John L. Orrock

  • Personality-dependent dispersal: characterization, ontogeny and consequences for spatially structured populations.

    J Cote;J Clobert;Tomas Brodin;Tomas Brodin;S Fogarty

  • Understanding variation in behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change: a conceptual overview

    Andrew Sih

  • Linking behavioural syndromes and cognition: a behavioural ecology perspective

    Andrew Sih;Marco Del Giudice

  • Antipredator defenses and the persistence of amphibian larvae with fishes

    Lee B. Kats;James W. Petranka;Andrew Sih

  • Optimal diet theory: when does it work, and when and why does it fail?

    Andrew Sih;Bent Christensen

  • Animal personality and state–behaviour feedbacks: a review and guide for empiricists

    Andrew Sih;Kimberley J. Mathot;Maria Moiron;Pierre-Olivier Montiglio

  • Insights for Behavioral Ecology from Behavioral Syndromes

    Andrew Sih;Alison M. Bell

  • Prey Uncertainty and the Balancing of Antipredator and Feeding Needs

    Andrew Sih

  • Behavioural syndromes in fishes: a review with implications for ecology and fisheries management

    J L Conrad;K L Weinersmith;Tomas Brodin;J B Saltz;J B Saltz

  • Foraging Strategies and the Avoidance of Predation by an Aquatic Insect, Notonecta Hoffmanni

    Andrew Sih

Frequent Co-Authors

Julien Cote
Julien Cote Paul Sabatier University
Tomas Brodin
Tomas Brodin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Lee B. Kats
Lee B. Kats Pepperdine University
Orr Spiegel
Orr Spiegel Tel Aviv University
Alison M. Bell
Alison M. Bell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
C. Michael Bull
C. Michael Bull Flinders University
Philip H. Crowley
Philip H. Crowley University of Kentucky
Stephanie S. Godfrey
Stephanie S. Godfrey University of Otago
John L. Orrock
John L. Orrock University of Wisconsin–Madison
James W. Petranka
James W. Petranka University of North Carolina at Asheville

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