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D-Index
42
Citations
10836
World Ranking
5442
National Ranking
1850

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dianna K. Padilla is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States, with research focused primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work intersects several subfields, including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's research centers around marine biology, ecology, and environmental impacts on marine organisms. Key topics covered include Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, as well as Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry. Dianna K. Padilla has also contributed to studies on Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Morphological Variations and Asymmetry, Mollusks and Parasites Studies, and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Padilla include Maria Rosa, Lisa M. Milke, Dylan H. Redman, David Veilleux, and Mark S. Dixon.

Among recent publications are:

  • Changes in Food Selection through Ontogeny in Crassostrea gigas Larvae, 2020, Biological Bulletin
  • Introduced predator elicits population-specific responses from prey, 2020, Biological Invasions
  • Determinants of food selection by bivalve larvae, 2022, Invertebrate Biology
  • Local differences in robustness to ocean acidification, 2024, Biology Open
  • Modeling Organismal Responses to Changing Environments, 2024, Integrative and Comparative Biology

Publication venues where Padilla frequently publishes include Biological Bulletin, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Biological Invasions, Invertebrate Biology, and Biology Open.

In recognition of their contributions to the scientific community, Dianna K. Padilla was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Are invasive species a major cause of extinctions

    Jessica Gurevitch;Dianna K. Padilla

  • Ecological consequences of phenotypic plasticity.

    Benjamin G. Miner;Sonia E. Sultan;Steven G. Morgan;Dianna K. Padilla;Dianna K. Padilla

  • Ecological neighborhoods: scaling environmental patterns

    John F. Addicott;John M. Aho;Michael F. Antolin;Dianna K. Padilla

  • Beyond ballast water: aquarium and ornamental trades as sources of invasive species in aquatic ecosystems

    Dianna K. Padilla;Susan L. Williams

  • Plastic inducible morphologies are not always adaptive: the importance of time delays in a stochastic environment

    Dianna K. Padilla;Stephen C. Adolph;Stephen C. Adolph

  • Changes in Global Economies and Trade: the Potential Spread of Exotic Freshwater Bivalves

    Alexander Y. Karatayev;Dianna K. Padilla;Dan Minchin;Demetrio Boltovskoy

  • Impacts of Zebra Mussels on Aquatic Communities and their Role as Ecosystem Engineers

    Alexander Y. Karatayev;Lyubov E. Burlakova;Dianna K. Padilla

  • Geographic spread of exotic species: Ecological lessons and opportunities from the invasion of the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha

    Ladd E. Johnson;Dianna K. Padilla

  • Zebra versus quagga mussels: a review of their spread, population dynamics, and ecosystem impacts

    Alexander Y. Karatayev;Lyubov E. Burlakova;Dianna K. Padilla

  • Models to Predict Potential Occurrence and Density of the Zebra Mussel, Dreissena polymorpha

    Charles W. Ramcharan;Dianna K. Padilla;Stanley I. Dodson

  • ESTIMATING THE PROBABILITY OF LONG-DISTANCE OVERLAND DISPERSAL OF INVADING AQUATIC SPECIES

    Lucy A. J. Buchan;Dianna K. Padilla

  • THE INVASIVE BIVALVES DREISSENA POLYMORPHA AND LIMNOPERNA FORTUNEI: PARALLELS, CONTRASTS, POTENTIAL SPREAD AND INVASION IMPACTS

    Alexander Y. Karatayev;Demetrio Boltovskoy;Dianna K. Padilla;Dianna K. Padilla;Lyubov E. Burlakova

  • Invaders are not a random selection of species

    Alexander Y. Karatayev;Lyubov E. Burlakova;Dianna K. Padilla;Sergey E. Mastitsky

  • Structural resistance of algae to herbivores

    D. K. Padilla

  • Grand challenges in organismal biology

    Kurt Schwenk;Dianna K. Padilla;George S. Bakken;Robert J. Full

  • PREDICTING THE LIKELIHOOD OF EURASIAN WATERMILFOIL PRESENCE IN LAKES, A MACROPHYTE MONITORING TOOL

    Lucy A. J. Buchan;Dianna K. Padilla

  • Context-dependent Impacts of a Non-native Ecosystem Engineer, the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas

    Dianna K Padilla

  • The Impact of Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas) Invasion on Unionid Bivalves

    Lyubov E. Burlakova;Alexander Y. Karatayev;Dianna K. Padilla

  • Paradigm lost: reconsidering functional form and group hypotheses in marine ecology

    Dianna K Padilla;Bengt J Allen

  • Changes in the distribution and abundance of Dreissena polymorpha within lakes through time

    Lyubov E. Burlakova;Alexander Y. Karatayev;Dianna K. Padilla

Frequent Co-Authors

Lyubov E. Burlakova
Lyubov E. Burlakova Buffalo State College
Alexander Y. Karatayev
Alexander Y. Karatayev Buffalo State College
Demetrio Boltovskoy
Demetrio Boltovskoy National University of Cuyo
Sandra E. Shumway
Sandra E. Shumway University of Connecticut
Richard C. Lathrop
Richard C. Lathrop University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ladd E. Johnson
Ladd E. Johnson Université Laval
Jessica Gurevitch
Jessica Gurevitch Stony Brook University
Robert J. Full
Robert J. Full University of California, Berkeley
Billie J. Swalla
Billie J. Swalla University of Washington
Daniel E. Dykhuizen
Daniel E. Dykhuizen Stony Brook University

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