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D. Lawrence Venable

D. Lawrence Venable

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
10235
World Ranking
3465
National Ranking
1216

Overview

D. Lawrence Venable is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist has contributed significantly to subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

Their work encompasses a range of topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Genetic diversity and population structure, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Archaeology and Natural History, and Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies.

Among their recent scholarly publications are:

  • "Offspring polymorphism and bet hedging: a large-scale, phylogenetic analysis", 2020, Ecology Letters
  • "One hundred and six years of change in a Sonoran Desert plant community: Impact of climate anomalies and trends in species sensitivities", 2023, Ecology
  • "Extinction Risk of Sonoran Desert Annuals Following Potential Changes in Precipitation Regimes", 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Shifting Precipitation Regimes Influence Optimal Germination Strategies and Population Dynamics in Bet-Hedging Desert Annuals", 2024, The American Naturalist
  • "Chromosome-scale reference genome ofPectocarya recurvata, a species with one of the smallest genome sizes in Boraginaceae", 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent publication venues for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Ecology Letters, Ecology, The American Naturalist, and Applications in Plant Sciences.

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Jennifer R. Gremer
  • Charlotte Brown
  • Susana Rodríguez-Buriticá
  • Deborah E. Goldberg
  • Frank W. Reichenbacher

Best Publications

  • Delayed germination and dispersal in desert annuals: Escape in space and time

    D. Lawrence Venable;Lawrence Lawlor

  • BET HEDGING IN A GUILD OF DESERT ANNUALS

    D. Lawrence Venable

  • Functional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effect.

    Amy L. Angert;Travis E. Huxman;Peter Chesson;D. Lawrence Venable

  • Seed Banks in Desert Annuals: Implications for Persistence and Coexistence in Variable Environments

    Catherine E. Pake;D. Lawrence Venable

  • The evolution of seed dormancy: environmental cues, evolutionary hubs, and diversification of the seed plants

    Charles G. Willis;Charles G. Willis;Carol C. Baskin;Jerry M. Baskin;Josh R. Auld

  • Size-number trade-offs and the variation of seed size with plant resource status

    D. Lawrence Venable

  • The Evolutionary Ecology of Seed Heteromorphism

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  • Diversity and temporal change in the effective pollinators of Asclepias tuberosa

    Mark Fishbein;D. Lawrence Venable

  • Bet hedging in desert winter annual plants: optimal germination strategies in a variable environment.

    Jennifer R. Gremer;D. Lawrence Venable

  • EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF SEED-BANK ANNUALS IN TEMPORALLY VARYING ENVIRONMENTS

    Joel S. Brown;D. Lawrence Venable

  • Seed Germination in Desert Annuals: An Empirical Test of Adaptive Bet Hedging

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  • Ecology of achene dimorphism in Heterotheca latifolia. I. Achene structure, germination and dispersal.

    D. L. Venable;D. A. Levin

  • Macroevolutionary chemical escalation in an ancient plant–herbivore arms race

    Judith X. Becerra;Koji Noge;D. Lawrence Venable

  • Contemporary climate change in the Sonoran Desert favors cold-adapted species

    Sarah Kimball;Amy L. Angert;Travis E. Huxman;D. Lawrence Venable

  • CHAPTER 5 – Modeling the Evolutionary Ecology of Seed Banks

    D. Lawrence Venable

  • Is Coexistence of Sonoran Desert Annuals Mediated by Temporal Variability Reproductive Success

    Catherine E. Pake;D. Lawrence Venable

  • Macroevolution of insect-plant associations: the relevance of host biogeography to host affiliation.

    Judith X. Becerra;D. Lawrence Venable

  • The contribution of germination functional traits to population dynamics of a desert plant community.

    Zhenying Huang;Shuangshuang Liu;Kent J. Bradford;Travis E. Huxman

  • The population-dynamic functions of seed dispersal

    D. L. Venable;J. S. Brown

  • The Ecology of Seed Heteromorphism in Heterosperma Pinnatum in Central Mexico

    D. Lawrence Venable;Alberto Burquez;Gabriela Corral;Eduardo Morales

  • DORMANCY AND GERMINATION IN A GUILD OF SONORAN DESERT ANNUALS

    Sandy Adondakis;D. Lawrence Venable

  • THE SELECTIVE INTERACTIONS OF DISPERSAL, DORMANCY, AND SEED SIZE AS ADAPTATIONS FOR REDUCING RISK

    D. Lawrence Venable;Joel S. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Amy L. Angert
Amy L. Angert University of British Columbia
Travis E. Huxman
Travis E. Huxman University of California, Irvine
Greg A. Barron-Gafford
Greg A. Barron-Gafford University of Arizona
Joel S. Brown
Joel S. Brown University of Illinois at Chicago
Peter Chesson
Peter Chesson University of Arizona
Kent J. Bradford
Kent J. Bradford University of California, Davis
Mark Rees
Mark Rees University of Sheffield
David G. Lloyd
David G. Lloyd University of Canterbury
Zhenying Huang
Zhenying Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kathleen Donohue
Kathleen Donohue Duke University

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