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Cameron K. Ghalambor is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on ecological and evolutionary topics.

The scientist's work addresses numerous subfields, including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Genetics. The central themes of their research include Species Distribution and Climate Change, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Avian Ecology and Behavior, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Key recent publications by Cameron K. Ghalambor include:

  • Distinguishing between active plasticity due to thermal acclimation and passive plasticity due to Q10 effects: Why methodology matters, 2020, Functional Ecology
  • Trade-offs, Pleiotropy, and Shared Molecular Pathways: A Unified View of Constraints on Adaptation, 2020, Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Temperature dependence of metabolic rate in tropical and temperate aquatic insects: Support for the Climate Variability Hypothesis in mayflies but not stoneflies, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Acute, diel, and annual temperature variability and the thermal biology of ectotherms, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Genes, Environments, and Phenotypic Plasticity in Immunology, 2021, Trends in Immunology

Their frequent co-authors include W. Chris Funk, T. Scott Sillett, Alisha A. Shah, Alexander Mauro, and Rebecca G. Cheek. This collaborative network supports a diverse range of studies across ecological and evolutionary biology.

Cameron K. Ghalambor's publications have appeared regularly in multiple respected venues, reflecting a broad research influence. These frequent publication venues include:

  • Birds of the World
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Global Change Biology
  • The American Naturalist
  • Biology Letters

This scientist does not have recorded book publications but has contributed extensively through peer-reviewed journals and multi-author studies. Their research integrates field and laboratory data to explore the adaptive responses of species to environmental variability and climate change, combining physiological, behavioral, and genetic perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude.

    Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Raymond B. Huey;Kimberly S. Sheldon

  • Adaptive versus non‐adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments

    C. K. Ghalambor;J. K. McKAY;S. P. Carroll;D. N. Reznick

  • The population ecology of contemporary adaptations: What empirical studies reveal about the conditions that promote adaptive evolution

    David N. Reznick;Cameron K. Ghalambor

  • Are mountain passes higher in the tropics? Janzen's hypothesis revisited

    Cameron K. Ghalambor;Raymond B. Huey;Paul R. Martin;Joshua J. Tewksbury

  • Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity

    Courtney J Murren;Josh R. Auld;Hilary S Callahan;Cameron K Ghalambor

  • Non-adaptive plasticity potentiates rapid adaptive evolution of gene expression in nature

    Cameron K. Ghalambor;Kim L. Hoke;Emily W. Ruell;Eva K. Fischer

  • Fecundity-Survival Trade-Offs and Parental Risk-Taking in Birds

    Cameron K. Ghalambor;Thomas E. Martin

  • Do faster starts increase the probability of evading predators

    J. A. Walker;C. K. Ghalambor;O. L. Griset;D. McKENNEY

  • Effect of extrinsic mortality on the evolution of senescence in guppies

    David N. Reznick;Michael J. Bryant;Michael J. Bryant;Derek Roff;Cameron K. Ghalambor

  • Constraints on adaptive evolution : the functional trade-off between reproduction and fast-start swimming performance in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

    Cameron K. Ghalambor;David N. Reznick;Jeffrey A. Walker

  • Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

    Kevin J. Gaston;Steven L. Chown;Piero Calosi;Joseph Bernardo

  • Evolution of life histories along elevational gradients: Trade-off between parental care and fecundity

    Alexander V. Badyaev;Cameron K. Ghalambor

  • Narrow thermal tolerance and low dispersal drive higher speciation in tropical mountains.

    Nicholas R. Polato;Brian A. Gill;Alisha A. Shah;Miranda M. Gray

  • Comparative manipulation of predation risk in incubating birds reveals variability in the plasticity of responses

    Cameron K. Ghalambor;Thomas E. Martin

  • Multi-trait Selection, Adaptation, and Constraints on the Evolution of Burst Swimming Performance

    Cameron K. Ghalambor;Jeffrey A. Walker;David N. Reznick

  • Males Feeding Females During Incubation. I. Required by Microclimate or Constrained by Nest Predation

    Thomas E. Martin;Cameron K. Ghalambor

  • Parental investment strategies in two species of nuthatch vary with stage-specific predation risk and reproductive effort.

    Cameron K. Ghalambor;Thomas E. Martin

  • Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in an island songbird exposed to a novel predation risk

    Susana I. Peluc;T. Scott Sillett;John T. Rotenberry;Cameron K. Ghalambor

  • Local adaptation and the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata).

    Julián Torres-Dowdall;Julián Torres-Dowdall;Corey A. Handelsman;David N. Reznick;Cameron K. Ghalambor

  • Can commercial fishing cause evolution? Answers from guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

    David N Reznick;Cameron K Ghalambor

  • Synthesis Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

    Kevin J. Gaston;Steven L. Chown;Piero Calosi;Joseph Bernardo

Frequent Co-Authors

David N. Reznick
David N. Reznick University of California, Riverside
T. Scott Sillett
T. Scott Sillett Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
W. Chris Funk
W. Chris Funk Colorado State University
Steven A. Thomas
Steven A. Thomas University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Kelly R. Zamudio
Kelly R. Zamudio Cornell University
N. LeRoy Poff
N. LeRoy Poff Colorado State University
Alexander S. Flecker
Alexander S. Flecker Cornell University
Juan M. Guayasamin
Juan M. Guayasamin Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Andrea C. Encalada
Andrea C. Encalada Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Thomas E. Martin
Thomas E. Martin University of Montana

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