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62
Citations
31142
World Ranking
2012
National Ranking
729

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1978 - George Mercer Award, The Ecological Society of America

Overview

Earl E. Werner is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science.

The scientist's work addresses several subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Ecology. Within these areas, their main topics of study include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, and Avian ecology and behavior.

Werner's publication record features research primarily published in the journal Ecology and Evolution. Among their recent scholarly contributions is the paper titled "Similar Conditions With Opposite Effects: Predation-Risk Effects on Prey Abundance Are Highly Contingent", published in 2025 in the same venue. This paper has garnered citations reflecting ongoing engagement in the scientific community.

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Bradley R. Anholt, Scott D. Peacor, Clayton E. Cressler, Kevin L. Pangle, and Alexandra Rafalski. These collaborative efforts underscore a networked research approach within their fields of study.

Earl E. Werner received the George Mercer Award from The Ecological Society of America in 1978, an acknowledgment situated within their career timeline.

  • Similar Conditions With Opposite Effects: Predation-Risk Effects on Prey Abundance Are Highly Contingent (2025, Ecology and Evolution)

  • Bradley R. Anholt
  • Scott D. Peacor
  • Clayton E. Cressler
  • Kevin L. Pangle
  • Alexandra Rafalski

  • Ecology and Evolution

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Science

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Genetics
  • Ecology

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Avian ecology and behavior

Best Publications

  • THE ONTOGENETIC NICHE AND SPECIES INTERACTIONS IN SIZE-STRUCTURED POPULATIONS

    Earl E. Werner;James F. Gilliam

  • An Experimental Test of the Effects of Predation Risk on Habitat Use in Fish

    Earl E. Werner;James F. Gilliam;Donald J. Hall;Gary G. Mittelbach

  • A REVIEW OF TRAIT-MEDIATED INDIRECT INTERACTIONS IN ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES

    Earl E. Werner;Scott D. Peacor

  • MECHANISMS CREATING COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ACROSS A FRESHWATER HABITAT GRADIENT

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

  • Optimal Foraging and the Size Selection of Prey by the Bluegill Sunfish (Lepomis Macrochirus)

    Earl E. Werner;Donald J. Hall

  • Ecological consequences of the trade-off between growth and mortality rates mediated by foraging activity.

    Earl E. Werner;Bradley R. Anholt

  • Ontogenetic Habitat Shifts in Bluegill: The Foraging Rate‐Predation Risk Trade‐off

    Earl E. Werner;Donald J. Hall

  • Amphibian metamorphosis growth rate predation risk and the optimal size at transformation

    Earl E. Werner

  • AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO THE PRODUCTION DYNAMICS AND STRUCTURE OF FRESHWATER ANIMAL COMMUNITIES1

    Donald J. Hall;William E. Cooper;Earl E. Werner

  • Filling key gaps in population and community ecology

    Anurag A. Agrawal;David D. Ackerly;Fred Adler;A. Elizabeth Arnold

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

    David K. Skelly;Earl E. Werner

  • Species Packing and Niche Complementarity in Three Sunfishes

    Earl E. Werner

  • The Fish Size, Prey Size, Handling Time Relation in Several Sunfishes and Some Implications

    Earl E. Werner

  • Interaction Between Food Availability and Predation Mortality Mediated by Adaptive Behavior

    Bradley R. Anholt;Earl E. Werner

  • The contribution of trait-mediated indirect effects to the net effects of a predator.

    Scott D. Peacor;Earl E. Werner

  • Experimental Tests of Optimal Habitat Use in Fish: The Role of Relative Habitat Profitability

    Earl E. Werner;Gary G. Mittelbach;Donald J. Hall;James F. Gilliam

  • Foraging Efficiency and Habitat Switching in Competiting Sunfishes

    Earl E. Werner;Donald J. Hall

  • Habitat Partitioning in a Freshwater Fish Community

    Earl E. Werner;Donald J. Hall;Dennis R. Laughlin;Donald J. Wagner

  • Predator-induced behavioral indirect effects: consequences to competitive interactions in anuran larvae

    Earl E. Werner;Bradley R. Anholt

  • Niche shifts in sunfishes: experimental evidence and significance.

    EE Werner;DJ Hal

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott D. Peacor
Scott D. Peacor Michigan State University
David K. Skelly
David K. Skelly Yale University
Gary G. Mittelbach
Gary G. Mittelbach Michigan State University
Bradley R. Anholt
Bradley R. Anholt University of Victoria
Rick A. Relyea
Rick A. Relyea University of Missouri
Frederick R. Adler
Frederick R. Adler University of Utah
Donald Scavia
Donald Scavia University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Monica G. Turner
Monica G. Turner University of Wisconsin–Madison
A. Elizabeth Arnold
A. Elizabeth Arnold University of Arizona
Peter J. Hudson
Peter J. Hudson Pennsylvania State University

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