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Overview

Craig E. Franklin is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research extensively covers subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Conservation Physiology
  • UQ eSpace
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Change Biology

A selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Craig E. Franklin includes:

  • Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment (2021), published in Biological Conservation
  • Living in polluted waters: A meta-analysis of the effects of nitrate and interactions with other environmental stressors on freshwater taxa (2020), published in Environmental Pollution
  • Fire and rain: A systematic review of the impacts of wildfire and associated runoff on aquatic fauna (2022), published in Global Change Biology
  • One hundred research questions in conservation physiology for generating actionable evidence to inform conservation policy and practice (2021), published in Conservation Physiology
  • Applied ecoimmunology: using immunological tools to improve conservation efforts in a changing world (2021), published in Conservation Physiology

Craig E. Franklin has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Rebecca L. Cramp, Coen Hird, Ross G. Dwyer, Steven J. Cooke, and Daniel F. Gomez Isaza, reflecting a network of research partnerships across related fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Physiological plasticity increases resilience of ectothermic animals to climate change

    Frank Seebacher;Craig R. White;Craig E. Franklin

  • What is conservation physiology? Perspectives on an increasingly integrated and essential science†

    Steven Cooke;Lawren Sack;Craig E Franklin;Anthony P Farrell

  • Testing the beneficial acclimation hypothesis

    Robbie S. Wilson;Craig E. Franklin

  • Physiological mechanisms of thermoregulation in reptiles: a review.

    Frank Seebacher;Craig E. Franklin

  • Predicting the physiological performance of ectotherms in fluctuating thermal environments.

    Amanda C. Niehaus;Michael J. Angilletta;Michael W. Sears;Craig E. Franklin

  • Determining environmental causes of biological effects: the need for a mechanistic physiological dimension in conservation biology

    Frank Seebacher;Craig E. Franklin

  • Crocodilian biology and evolution

    G. C. Grigg;F. Seebacher;C. E. Franklin

  • V-Track: software for analysing and visualising animal movement from acoustic telemetry detections

    Hamish A. Campbell;Matthew E. Watts;Ross G. Dwyer;Craig E. Franklin

  • A falsification of the thermal specialization paradigm: compensation for elevated temperatures in Antarctic fishes

    Frank Seebacher;William Davison;Cara J Lowe;Craig E Franklin

  • ADAPTATION OF RAINBOW FISH TO LAKE AND STREAM HABITATS

    Katrina McGuigan;Craig E. Franklin;Craig Moritz;Mark W. Blows

  • Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment.

    Amanda E. Bates;Richard B. Primack;Brandy S. Biggar;Tomas J. Bird

  • Physiology, Behavior, and Conservation

    Steven J. Cooke;Daniel T. Blumstein;Richard Buchholz;Timothy Caro

  • ARE MITOCHONDRIA SUBJECT TO EVOLUTIONARY TEMPERATURE ADAPTATION

    Ian A. Johnston;Helga Guderley;Craig E. Franklin;Tony Crockford

  • Antarctic fish can compensate for rising temperatures: thermal acclimation of cardiac performance in Pagothenia borchgrevinki.

    Craig E. Franklin;William Davison;Frank Seebacher

  • Urea based osmoregulation and endocrine control in elasmobranch fish with special reference to euryhalinity.

    Neil Hazon;Alan Wells;Richard D. Pillans;Jonathan P. Good

  • Increased locomotor activity and metabolism of Aedes aegypti infected with a life-shortening strain of Wolbachia pipientis.

    Oliver Evans;Eric P. Caragata;Conor J. McMeniman;Megan Woolfit

  • Freshwater to seawater acclimation of juvenile bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas): plasma osmolytes and Na+/K+-ATPase activity in gill, rectal gland, kidney and intestine.

    Richard D. Pillans;Jonathan P. Good;W. Gary Anderson;Neil Hazon

  • Thermal acclimation of locomotor performance in tadpoles of the frog Limnodynastes peronii.

    R. S. Wilson;C. E. Franklin

  • Maintaining muscle mass during extended disuse: aestivating frogs as a model species.

    Nicholas J. Hudson;Craig E. Franklin

  • Plasma osmolyte concentrations and rectal gland mass of bull sharks Carcharhinus leucas, captured along a salinity gradient.

    Richard D Pillans;Craig E Franklin

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Seebacher
Frank Seebacher University of Sydney
Robbie S. Wilson
Robbie S. Wilson University of Queensland
Gordon C. Grigg
Gordon C. Grigg University of Queensland
Craig R. White
Craig R. White Monash University
Anthony P. Farrell
Anthony P. Farrell University of British Columbia
Steven J. Cooke
Steven J. Cooke Carleton University
Ian A. Johnston
Ian A. Johnston University of St Andrews
Jodie L. Rummer
Jodie L. Rummer James Cook University
Hans Hoppeler
Hans Hoppeler University of Bern
Colin J. Limpus
Colin J. Limpus Queensland Government

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