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D-Index
74
Citations
22238
World Ranking
1109
National Ranking
417

Barry Sinervo publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barry Sinervo sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 195 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Barry Sinervo D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barry Sinervo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Barry Sinervo was affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research focused primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on ecological modeling and the study of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's work explored several interconnected subfields, including ecological modeling, global and planetary change, plant science, and the biology of amphibians and reptiles. Their research topics covered a wide range, such as species distribution and climate change, amphibian and reptile biology, plant and animal studies, animal behavior and reproduction, physiological and biochemical adaptations, wildlife ecology and conservation, and turtle biology and conservation.

Barry Sinervo contributed numerous articles to various scientific journals, addressing themes related to climate change and animal physiology. Some of their recent significant papers include:

  • Water loss and temperature interact to compound amphibian vulnerability to climate change, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Time of activity is a better predictor of the distribution of a tropical lizard than pure environmental temperatures, 2020, Oikos
  • Are ectotherm brains vulnerable to global warming?, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • How will climate change impact fossorial lizard species? Two examples in the Baja California Peninsula, 2020, Journal of Thermal Biology
  • Looking at the past to infer into the future: Thermal traits track environmental change in Liolaemidae*, 2021, Evolution

Their frequent collaborators included scholars such as Donald B. Miles, Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetano, Thomas de Solan, Patrice David, and Pierre-André Crochet.

Barry Sinervo published extensively in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Thermal Biology, Evolution, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Global Change Biology. Their contributions to the Journal of Thermal Biology were particularly notable for the number of publications in that venue.

Best Publications

  • Erosion of lizard diversity by climate change and altered thermal niches.

    Barry Sinervo;Barry Sinervo;Fausto Méndez-de-la-Cruz;Donald B. Miles;Donald B. Miles;Benoit Heulin

  • The rock–paper–scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies

    B. Sinervo;C. M. Lively

  • Behavioral drive versus behavioral inertia in evolution: a null model approach.

    Raymond B. Huey;Paul E. Hertz;B. Sinervo

  • Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

    David Haussler;Stephen J. O'Brien;Oliver A. Ryder;F. Keith Barker

  • Role of Gene Interactions in Hybrid Speciation: Evidence from Ancient and Experimental Hybrids

    Loren H. Rieseberg;Barry Sinervo;C. Randal Linder;Mark C. Ungerer

  • Correlational selection and the evolution of genomic architecture

    B Sinervo;Erik Svensson

  • THE EVOLUTION OF MATERNAL INVESTMENT IN LIZARDS: AN EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EGG SIZE AND ITS EFFECTS ON OFFSPRING PERFORMANCE.

    Barry Sinervo

  • Density cycles and an offspring quantity and quality game driven by natural selection

    Barry Sinervo;Erik Svensson;Erik Svensson;Tosha Comendant

  • Testosterone, Endurance, and Darwinian Fitness: Natural and Sexual Selection on the Physiological Bases of Alternative Male Behaviors in Side-Blotched Lizards

    Barry Sinervo;Barry Sinervo;Donald B. Miles;W.Anthony Frankino;Matthew Klukowski

  • The effects of morphology and perch diameter on sprint performance of Anolis lizards

    Jonathan B. Losos;Barry Sinervo

  • Allometric engineering: a causal analysis of natural selection on offspring size.

    Barry Sinervo;Kelly Zamudio;Paul Doughty;Raymond B. Huey

  • Adaptive genetic variation in the wild

    Timothy A. Mousseau;Barry Sinervo;John A. Endler

  • Proximate constraints on the evolution of egg size, number, and total clutch mass in lizards.

    Barry Sinervo;Paul Licht

  • The complex drivers of thermal acclimation and breadth in ectotherms

    Jason R. Rohr;David J. Civitello;David J. Civitello;Jeremy M. Cohen;Elizabeth A. Roznik;Elizabeth A. Roznik

  • Polygyny, mate-guarding, and posthumous fertilization as alternative male mating strategies

    Kelly R. Zamudio;Barry Sinervo

  • Thermal sensitivity of growth rate in hatchling Sceloporus lizards: environmental, behavioral and genetic aspects.

    Barry Sinervo;Stephen C. Adolph

  • Hormonal and physiological control of clutch size, egg size, and egg shape in side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana) : constraints on the evolution of lizard life histories

    Barry Sinervo;Paul Licht

  • Allometric engineering: an experimental test of the causes of interpopulational differences in performance.

    Barry Sinervo;Raymond B. Huey

  • COSTS OF REPRODUCTION IN THE WILD: PATH ANALYSIS OF NATURAL SELECTION AND EXPERIMENTAL TESTS OF CAUSATION.

    Barry Sinervo;Dale F. DeNardo

  • MECHANISTIC AND SELECTIVE CAUSES OF LIFE HISTORY TRADE-OFFS AND PLASTICITY

    Barry Sinervo;Erik Svensson

  • Ecological morphology: Integrative organismal biology

    Barry Sinervo

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald B. Miles
Donald B. Miles Ohio University
Jean Clobert
Jean Clobert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Erik I. Svensson
Erik I. Svensson Lund University
Ryan Calsbeek
Ryan Calsbeek Dartmouth College
Daniel Friedman
Daniel Friedman University of California, Santa Cruz
Andrew G. McAdam
Andrew G. McAdam University of Colorado Boulder
Jack W. Sites
Jack W. Sites Brigham Young University
Raymond B. Huey
Raymond B. Huey University of Washington
David J. Civitello
David J. Civitello Emory University
Vladimir V. Pravosudov
Vladimir V. Pravosudov University of Nevada Reno

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