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Overview

Arthur E. Dunham is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing notably on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work covers a range of interrelated topics, including:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Arthur E. Dunham has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers in various scientific journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Primates Can Be a Rallying Symbol to Promote Tropical Forest Restoration," 2020, Folia Primatologica
  • "Biodiversity and ecosystem services on the African continent - What is changing, and what are our options?", 2020, Environmental Development
  • "Individual-based networks reveal the highly skewed interactions of a frugivore mutualist with individual plants in a diverse community," 2021, Oikos
  • "Simplified Communities of Seed-Dispersers Limit the Composition and Flow of Seeds in Edge Habitats," 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "The Fieldwork Wellness Framework: a new approach to field research in ecology," 2023, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Their frequent co-authors include Onja H. Razafindratsima, Jadelys Tonos Luciano, Zo Samuel Ella Fenosoa, Therese Lamperty, and Jordan Karubian. This indicates collaboration across multiple projects and research topics.

The venues where Arthur E. Dunham has published frequently reflect their research emphasis, with contributions in:

  • Folia Primatologica
  • Environmental Development
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Oikos

Best Publications

  • Delayed sexual maturity and demographics of blanding's turtles (Emydoidea blandingii): implications for conservation and management of long-lived organisms

    Justin D. Congdon;Arthur E. Dunham;R. C. Van Loben Sels

  • The temperature-size rule in ectotherms: Simple evolutionary explanations may not be general

    Michael J. Angilletta;Arthur E. Dunham

  • Demographics of Common Snapping Turtles (Chelydra serpentina): Implications for Conservation and Management of Long-lived Organisms

    Justin D. Congdon;Arthur E. Dunham;R. C. Van Loben Sels

  • Interfaces between Biophysical and Physiological Ecology and the Population Ecology of Terrestrial Vertebrate Ectotherms

    Arthur E. Dunham;Bruce W. Grant;Karen L. Overall

  • ON HYPOTHESIS TESTING IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

    James F. Quinn;Arthur E. Dunham

  • Food Availability as a Proximate Factor Influencing Individual Growth Rates in the Iguanid Lizard Sceloporus Merriami

    Arthur E. Dunham

  • Thermally Imposed Time Constraints on the Activity of the Desert Lizard Sceloporus Merriami

    Bruce W. Grant;Arthur E. Dunham

  • Inferring multiple causality : the limitations of path analysis

    P. S. Petraitis;A. E. Dunham;P. H. Niewiarowski

  • Patterns of Covariation in Life History Traits of Squamate Reptiles: The Effects of Size and Phylogeny Reconsidered

    Arthur E. Dunham;Donald B. Miles

  • Elevational Covariation in Environmental Constraints and Life Histories of the Desert Lizard Sceloporus Merriami

    Bruce W. Grant;Arthur E. Dunham

  • Bergmann's Clines in Ectotherms: Illustrating a Life-History Perspective with Sceloporine Lizards

    Michael J. Angilletta;Peter H. Niewiarowski;Arthur E. Dunham;Adam D. Leache

  • Frequency of nonspecific clinical signs in dogs with separation anxiety, thunderstorm phobia, and noise phobia, alone or in combination

    Karen L. Overall;Arthur E. Dunham;Diane Frank

  • Clinical features and outcome in dogs and cats with obsessive-compulsive disorder: 126 cases (1989-2000).

    Karen L. Overall;Arthur E. Dunham

  • Historical perspectives in ecology and evolutionary biology: the use of phylogenetic comparative analyses

    Donald B. Miles;Arthur E. Dunham

  • Variation in Locomotor Performance in Demographically Known Populations of the Lizard Sceloporus merriami

    Raymond B. Huey;Arthur E. Dunham;Karen L. Overall;Robert A. Newman

  • REPEATABILITY OF LOCOMOTOR PERFORMANCE IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF THE LIZARD SCELOPORUS MERRIAMI.

    Raymond B. Huey;Arthur E. Dunham

  • AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION BETWEEN THE IGUANID LIZARDS SCELOPORUS MERRIAMI AND UROSAURUS ORNATUS

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  • The relationship of body size to survivorship of hatchling snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina): an evaluation of the “bigger is better” hypothesis

    Justin D Congdon;Roy D Nagle;Arthur E Dunham;Chirstopher W Beck

  • Optimal Diet as a Function of Absolute Abundance, Relative Abundance, and Relative Value of Available Prey

    George F. Estabrook;Arthur E. Dunham

  • Resource allocation-based life histories: a conceptual basis for studies of ecological toxicology.

    Justin D. Congdon;Arthur E. Dunham;William A. Hopkins;William A. Hopkins;Christopher L. Rowe

  • Life History and Demographic Variation in the Lizard Sceloporus Graciosus: A Long-Term Study

    Donald W. Tinkle;Arthur E. Dunham;Justin D. Congdon

  • Mammalian Metabolic Allometry: Do Intraspecific Variation, Phylogeny, and Regression Models Matter?

    Annette E. Sieg;Michael P. O’Connor;James N. McNair;Bruce W. Grant

  • THERMAL EFFECTS ON THE ENERGETICS OF LIZARD EMBRYOS: IMPLICATIONS FOR HATCHLING PHENOTYPES

    Michael J. Angilletta;R. Scott Winters;Arthur E. Dunham

  • Reconsidering the mechanistic basis of the metabolic theory of ecology

    Michael P. O'Connor;Stanley J. Kemp;Salvatore J. Agosta;Frank Hansen

  • Size at Metamorphosis and Water Loss in a Desert Anuran (Scaphiopus couchii)

    Robert A. Newman;Arthur E. Dunham

  • Comparative Analyses of Phylogenetic Effects in the Life-History Patterns of Iguanid Reptiles

    Donald B. Miles;Arthur E. Dunham

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen L. Overall
Karen L. Overall University of Pennsylvania
Donald W. Tinkle
Donald W. Tinkle University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Donald B. Miles
Donald B. Miles Ohio University
Justin D. Congdon
Justin D. Congdon University of Georgia
Michael J. Angilletta
Michael J. Angilletta Arizona State University
Raymond B. Huey
Raymond B. Huey University of Washington
William A. Hopkins
William A. Hopkins Virginia Tech
Warren P. Porter
Warren P. Porter University of Wisconsin–Madison
Frank V. Paladino
Frank V. Paladino Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
Catherine A. Forster
Catherine A. Forster George Washington University

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