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Carla M. Sgrò

Carla M. Sgrò

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
14908
World Ranking
3393
National Ranking
263

Overview

Carla M. Sgrò is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has made contributions across several fields of study, primarily focusing on Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their research explores multiple subfields including Ecology, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Core topics in their work encompass physiological and biochemical adaptations, species distribution and climate change, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, neurobiology and insect physiology research, animal behavior and reproduction, evolution and genetic dynamics, and genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms.

Notable recent publications by Carla M. Sgrò include:

  • Conservation genetics as a management tool: The five best-supported paradigms to assist the management of threatened species (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic (2021), Global Change Biology
  • Male fertility thermal limits predict vulnerability to climate warming (2021), Nature Communications
  • Opportunities and challenges in assessing climate change vulnerability through genomics (2021), Cell
  • A dietary sterol trade-off determines lifespan responses to dietary restriction in Drosophila melanogaster females (2021), eLife

Frequent co-authors in Carla M. Sgrò's research include Christen K. Mirth, Matthew D. Hall, Matthew D. W. Piper, Ary A. Hoffmann, and Brooke Zanco.

Their work has been published extensively in several venues, with repeated contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Global Change Biology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Journal of Insect Physiology.

Best Publications

  • Climate change and evolutionary adaptation

    Ary A. Hoffmann;Carla M. Sgrò

  • Assessing the benefits and risks of translocations in changing environments : a genetic perspective

    Andrew R. Weeks;Carla M. Sgro;Andrew G. Young;Richard Frankham

  • Building evolutionary resilience for conserving biodiversity under climate change

    Carla Maria Sgro;Andrew J Lowe;Ary A Hoffmann

  • What Can Plasticity Contribute to Insect Responses to Climate Change

    Carla M. Sgrò;John S. Terblanche;Ary A. Hoffmann

  • Fundamental Evolutionary Limits in Ecological Traits Drive Drosophila Species Distributions

    Vanessa M Kellermann;Belinda Van Heerwaarden;Belinda Van Heerwaarden;Carla Maria Sgro;Ary Anthony Hoffmann

  • Genetic correlations, tradeoffs and environmental variation

    Carla Maria Sgro;Ary A Hoffmann

  • Conservation genetics as a management tool: The five best-supported paradigms to assist the management of threatened species

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  • A delayed wave of death from reproduction in Drosophila.

    Carla M. Sgrò;Linda Partridge

  • Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms and adaptation.

    Ary A Hoffmann;Carla Maria Sgro;Andrew R Weeks

  • Revisiting Adaptive Potential, Population Size, and Conservation.

    Ary Anthony Hoffmann;Ary Anthony Hoffmann;Carla Sgró;Torsten Nygaard Kristensen

  • Incorporating evolutionary adaptation in species distribution modelling reduces projected vulnerability to climate change

    Alex Bush;Karel Mokany;Renee Catullo;Renee Catullo;Renee Catullo;Ary Hoffmann

  • A comprehensive assessment of geographic variation in heat tolerance and hardening capacity in populations of Drosophila melanogaster from eastern Australia.

    Carla M. Sgro;Johannes Overgaard;Torsten Nygård Kristensen;Kathrine A. Mitchell

  • Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

    Dana M. Bergstrom;Dana M. Bergstrom;Barbara C. Wienecke;John van den Hoff;Lesley Hughes

  • Evolutionary Responses of the Life History of Wild‐Caught Drosophila melanogaster to Two Standard Methods of Laboratory Culture

    Carla M. Sgrò;Linda Partridge

  • A framework for incorporating evolutionary genomics into biodiversity conservation and management

    Ary Anthony Hoffmann;Philippa C Griffin;Shannon Dillon;Renee A Catullo

  • Evolutionary consequences of cryptic genetic variation.

    Katrina McGuigan;Carla Maria Sgro

  • Limited scope for plasticity to increase upper thermal limits

    Belinda van Heerwaarden;Vanessa Kellermann;Carla M. Sgrò

  • Male fertility thermal limits predict vulnerability to climate warming.

    Belinda van Heerwaarden;Belinda van Heerwaarden;Carla M. Sgrò

  • Investigating latitudinal clines for life history and stress resistance traits in Drosophila simulans from eastern Australia

    Aston Arthur;Anton Weeks;Carla Maria Sgro

  • Experimental support that natural selection has shaped the latitudinal distribution of mitochondrial haplotypes in Australian Drosophila melanogaster

    M Florencia Camus;M Florencia Camus;Jonci N Wolff;Carla M Sgrò;Damian K Dowling

  • THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY, TRAIT VARIABILITY, TRAIT HERITABILITY, AND STRESS: A MULTIPLY REPLICATED EXPERIMENT ON COMBINED STRESSES IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER.

    Richard E. Woods;Carla M. Sgrò;Miriam J. Hercus;Ary A. Hoffmann

  • Lifespan extension by dietary restriction in female Drosophila melanogaster is not caused by a reduction in vitellogenesis or ovarian activity.

    William Mair;Carla Maria Sgro;Alice P Johnson;Tracey Chapman

Frequent Co-Authors

Ary A. Hoffmann
Ary A. Hoffmann University of Melbourne
Linda Partridge
Linda Partridge Max Planck Society
Torsten Nygaard Kristensen
Torsten Nygaard Kristensen Aalborg University
Volker Loeschcke
Volker Loeschcke Aarhus University
Johannes Overgaard
Johannes Overgaard Aarhus University
Timothy Connallon
Timothy Connallon Monash University
Paul Sunnucks
Paul Sunnucks Monash University
Dustin J. Marshall
Dustin J. Marshall Monash University
John Terblanche
John Terblanche Stellenbosch University
John G. Oakeshott
John G. Oakeshott Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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