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Douglas S. Glazier

Douglas S. Glazier

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
7091
World Ranking
6065
National Ranking
2060

Overview

Douglas S. Glazier is affiliated with Juniata College in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science. Their research spans various subfields including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, genetics, physiology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their main research topics involve physiological and biochemical adaptations, fish ecology and management studies, adipose tissue and metabolism, animal behavior and reproduction, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, and parasite biology and host interactions.

Douglas S. Glazier has published frequently in several scientific journals. The most common venues include:

  • Biology
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Biology Letters
  • Academia Biology
  • Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Recent notable papers authored by Douglas S. Glazier are:

  • Variable metabolic scaling breaks the law: from 'Newtonian' to 'Darwinian' approaches (2022) published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • How Metabolic Rate Relates to Cell Size (2022) published in Biology
  • Biological scaling analyses are more than statistical line fitting (2021) published in Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Activity alters how temperature influences intraspecific metabolic scaling: testing the metabolic-level boundaries hypothesis (2020) published in Journal of Comparative Physiology B

Among their frequent collaborators are Vojsava Gjoni, Jeff S. Wesner, Marco Cantonati, R. J. Fensham, and Lawrence E. Stevens. These collaborations demonstrate a pattern of joint research in related areas within environmental and biological sciences.

Best Publications

  • Beyond the '3/4-power law': variation in the intra- and interspecific scaling of metabolic rate in animals.

    Douglas S. Glazier

  • The intraspecific scaling of metabolic rate with body mass in fishes depends on lifestyle and temperature.

    Shaun S. Killen;David Atkinson;David Atkinson;Douglas S. Glazier

  • A unifying explanation for diverse metabolic scaling in animals and plants.

    Douglas S. Glazier

  • Is metabolic rate a universal 'pacemaker' for biological processes?

    Douglas S. Glazier

  • Effects of Food, Genotype, and Maternal Size and Age on Offspring Investment in Daphnia Magna

    Douglas S. Glazier

  • The 3/4-Power Law Is Not Universal: Evolution of Isometric, Ontogenetic Metabolic Scaling in Pelagic Animals

    Douglas S. Glazier

  • Ecological influences and morphological correlates of resting and maximal metabolic rates across teleost fish species

    Shaun S. Killen;Douglas S. Glazier;Enrico L. Rezende;Timothy D. Clark;Timothy D. Clark

  • Metabolic Scaling in Complex Living Systems

    Douglas S. Glazier

  • Effects of metabolic level on the body size scaling of metabolic rate in birds and mammals

    Douglas S Glazier

  • The fauna of North American temperate cold springs: patterns and hypotheses

    D.S. Glazier

  • Activity affects intraspecific body-size scaling of metabolic rate in ectothermic animals

    Douglas Stewart Glazier

  • Trade-offs between reproductive and somatic (storage) investments in animals: a comparative test of the Van Noordwijk and De Jong model

    D.S. Glazier

  • Energy allocation rules inDaphnia magna: clonal and age differences in the effects of food limitation.

    Douglas S. Glazier;Peter Calow

  • Body shape shifting during growth permits tests that distinguish between competing geometric theories of metabolic scaling.

    Andrew G. Hirst;Andrew G. Hirst;Douglas S. Glazier;David Atkinson

  • Ecological effects on metabolic scaling: amphipod responses to fish predators in freshwater springs

    Douglas S. Glazier;Eric M. Butler;Sara A. Lombardi;Travis J. Deptola

  • Ecological Shifts and the Evolution of Geographically Restricted Species of North American Peromyscus (Mice)

    Douglas S. Glazier

  • Energetics of Litter Size in Five Species of Peromyscus with Generalizations for Other Mammals

    Douglas S. Glazier

  • Variable metabolic scaling breaks the law: from ‘Newtonian’ to ‘Darwinian’ approaches

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  • Metabolic level and size scaling of rates of respiration and growth in unicellular organisms

    Douglas S. Glazier

  • Macroinvertebrate assemblages in Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) springs

    Douglas S. Glazier;James L. Gooch

  • Relationship between metabolic rate and energy expenditure for lactation in Peromyscus

    Douglas S Glazier

  • Is fatter fitter? Body storage and reproduction in ten populations of the freshwater amphipod Gammarus minus.

    Douglas S. Glazier

Frequent Co-Authors

David Atkinson
David Atkinson University of Liverpool
Andrew G. Hirst
Andrew G. Hirst University of Liverpool
Alberto Basset
Alberto Basset University of Salento
Susana Clusella-Trullas
Susana Clusella-Trullas Stellenbosch University
Shaun S. Killen
Shaun S. Killen University of Glasgow
John Terblanche
John Terblanche Stellenbosch University
Roderick J. Fensham
Roderick J. Fensham University of Queensland
Marco Cantonati
Marco Cantonati Drexel University
Nico Goldscheider
Nico Goldscheider Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Lhoussaine Bouchaou
Lhoussaine Bouchaou Université Ibn Zohr

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