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David K. Skelly

David K. Skelly

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
12637
World Ranking
3581
National Ranking
1250

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2003 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

David K. Skelly is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, focusing especially on ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their work frequently addresses themes related to species distribution, climate change, and amphibian and reptile biology. Other notable areas of study include animal behavior and reproduction, plant and animal studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics, wildlife ecology and conservation, and viral infections and vectors.

Skelly's recent publications include studies on climate variability and species evolution. Notable papers are:

  • Metamorphosis in an Era of Increasing Climate Variability, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Estimating species relative abundances from museum records, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Phenological delay despite warming in wood frog Rana sylvatica reproductive timing: a 20-year study, 2020, Ecography
  • Rapid microgeographic evolution in response to climate change, 2021, Evolution
  • Temperature-mediated trade-off between development and performance in larval wood frogs (Rana sylvatica), 2020, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology

Frequent coauthors in their work include A. Z. Andis Arietta, L. Kealoha Freidenburg, Adriana Rubinstein, Logan S. Billet, and Mark C. Urban.

The scientist has published multiple papers in the following venues:

  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecography
  • Evolution
  • Ecology

Skelly's research also includes subfields such as ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, and global and planetary change, contributing across interconnected domains of environmental research.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010 and as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2003.

Best Publications

  • MECHANISMS CREATING COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ACROSS A FRESHWATER HABITAT GRADIENT

    Gary A. Wellborn;David K. Skelly;Earl E. Werner

  • Behavioral and Life‐Historical Responses of Larval American Toads to an Odonate Predator

    David K. Skelly;Earl E. Werner

  • Microgeographic adaptation and the spatial scale of evolution

    Jonathan L. Richardson;Mark C. Urban;Daniel I. Bolnick;David K. Skelly

  • Activity level and the susceptibility of anuran larvae to predation

    David K. Skelly

  • LONG-TERM DISTRIBUTIONAL DYNAMICS OF A MICHIGAN AMPHIBIAN ASSEMBLAGE

    David K. Skelly;Earl E. Werner;Spencer A. Cortwright

  • Amphibian species richness across environmental gradients

    Earl E. Werner;David K. Skelly;Rick A. Relyea;Kerry L. Yurewicz

  • FOREST CANOPY AND THE PERFORMANCE OF LARVAL AMPHIBIANS

    D. K. Skelly;L. K. Freidenburg;J. M. Kiesecker

  • Forest fragmentation predicts local scale heterogeneity of Lyme disease risk

    John S. Brownstein;John S. Brownstein;John S. Brownstein;David K. Skelly;Theodore R. Holford;Durland Fish

  • A Toad More Traveled: The Heterogeneous Invasion Dynamics of Cane Toads in Australia

    Mark C. Urban;Ben L. Phillips;David K. Skelly;Richard Shine

  • The cane toad's (Chaunus [Bufo] marinus) increasing ability to invade Australia is revealed by a dynamically updated range model

    Mark C Urban;Ben L Phillips;David K Skelly;Richard Shine

  • Biotic Multipliers of Climate Change

    Phoebe L. Zarnetske;David K. Skelly;Mark C. Urban

  • Pond Drying, Predators, and the Distribution of Pseudacris Tadpoles

    David K. Skelly

  • Evolutionary responses to climate change.

    David K. Skelly;Liana N. Joseph;Hugh P. Possingham;L. Kealoha Freidenburg

  • Field Evidence for a Cost of Behavioral Antipredator Response in a Larval Amphibian

    David K. Skelly

  • Behavioral reduction of infection risk

    Joseph M. Kiesecker;David K. Skelly;Karen H. Beard;Evan Preisser

  • Stream communities across a rural–urban landscape gradient

    Mark C. Urban;David K. Skelly;Denise Burchsted;William Price

  • EFFECT OF FOOD AND PREDATORS ON THE ACTIVITY OF FOUR LARVAL RANID FROGS

    Bradley R. Anholt;Earl Werner;David K. Skelly

  • An examination of amphibian sensitivity to environmental contaminants: are amphibians poor canaries?

    Jacob L. Kerby;Kathryn L. Richards-Hrdlicka;Andrew Storfer;David K. Skelly

  • A Behavioral Trade-Off and Its Consequences for the Distribution of Pseudacris Treefrog Larvae

    David K. Skelly

  • EXPERIMENTAL VENUE AND ESTIMATION OF INTERACTION STRENGTH

    David K. Skelly

Frequent Co-Authors

Earl E. Werner
Earl E. Werner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark C. Urban
Mark C. Urban University of Connecticut
Joseph M. Kiesecker
Joseph M. Kiesecker The Nature Conservancy
John S. Brownstein
John S. Brownstein Boston Children's Hospital
Richard Shine
Richard Shine Macquarie University
Rick A. Relyea
Rick A. Relyea University of Missouri
Karen H. Beard
Karen H. Beard Utah State University
Francesco Bullo
Francesco Bullo University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter R. Leavitt
Peter R. Leavitt University of Regina

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