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35
Citations
7139
World Ranking
7282
National Ranking
2449

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Eric P. Palkovacs is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Genetics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work covers a range of main topics such as Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine and fisheries research, Genetic diversity and population structure, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, and Physiological and biochemical adaptations.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Eric P. Palkovacs include:

  • Conserving intraspecific variation for nature's contributions to people, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Recent declines in salmon body size impact ecosystems and fisheries, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics in cities, 2020, Evolutionary Applications
  • The Complexity of Urban Eco-evolutionary Dynamics, 2020, BioScience
  • Evolutionary origins for ecological patterns in space, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors of Eric P. Palkovacs include:

  • Michael T. Kinnison
  • Andrew P. Hendry
  • David C. Fryxell
  • Kevin S. Simon
  • Simone Des Roches

Publications by Eric P. Palkovacs appear regularly in venues such as:

  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • Oecologia
  • Evolutionary Applications
  • BioScience
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Eric P. Palkovacs was awarded the Hellman Fellow in 2015.

Best Publications

  • The ecological importance of intraspecific variation

    Simone Des Roches;David M. Post;Nash E. Turley;Joseph K. Bailey

  • Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in community and ecosystem ecology: interactions between the ecological theatre and the evolutionary play.

    David M. Post;Eric P. Palkovacs

  • Niche Construction Theory: A Practical Guide for Ecologists

    John Odling-Smee;Douglas H. Erwin;Eric P. Palkovacs;Marcus W. Feldman

  • Global urban signatures of phenotypic change in animal and plant populations.

    Marina Alberti;Cristian Correa;John M. Marzluff;Andrew P. Hendry

  • Intraspecific variation in a predator affects community structure and cascading trophic interactions.

    David M. Post;Eric P. Palkovacs;Erika G. Schielke;Stanley I. Dodson

  • Conserving intraspecific variation for nature’s contributions to people

    Simone Des Roches;Simone Des Roches;Linwood H. Pendleton;Beth Shapiro;Eric P. Palkovacs

  • Fates beyond traits: ecological consequences of human-induced trait change

    Eric P. Palkovacs;Michael T. Kinnison;Cristian Correa;Christopher M. Dalton

  • Explaining adaptive shifts in body size on islands: a life history approach

    Eric P. Palkovacs

  • Experimental evaluation of evolution and coevolution as agents of ecosystem change in Trinidadian streams

    Eric P. Palkovacs;Michael C. Marshall;Brad A. Lamphere;Benjamin R. Lynch

  • Experimental evidence that phenotypic divergence in predators drives community divergence in prey

    Eric P. Palkovacs;David M. Post

  • Recent declines in salmon body size impact ecosystems and fisheries

    K. B. Oke;K. B. Oke;C. J. Cunningham;C. J. Cunningham;P. A. H. Westley;M. L. Baskett

  • The Complexity of Urban Eco-evolutionary Dynamics

    Marina Alberti;Eric P Palkovacs;Simone Des Roches;Luc De Meester;Luc De Meester

  • Socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics in cities.

    Simone Des Roches;Kristien Inge Brans;Max R. Lambert;L. Ruth Rivkin

  • Independent evolutionary origins of landlocked alewife populations and rapid parallel evolution of phenotypic traits.

    Eric P. Palkovacs;Kirstin B. Dion;David M. Post;Adalgisa Caccone

  • Human disturbance causes the formation of a hybrid swarm between two naturally sympatric fish species.

    Daniel J. Hasselman;Emily E. Argo;Meghan C. Mcbride;Paul Bentzen

  • Eco-evolutionary interactions between predators and prey: can predator-induced changes to prey communities feed back to shape predator foraging traits?

    Eric P. Palkovacs;David M. Post

  • Sex ratio variation shapes the ecological effects of a globally introduced freshwater fish.

    David C. Fryxell;Heather A. Arnett;Travis M. Apgar;Michael T. Kinnison

  • Eco-Evolutionary Trophic Dynamics: Loss of Top Predators Drives Trophic Evolution and Ecology of Prey

    Eric P. Palkovacs;Ben A. Wasserman;Ben A. Wasserman;Michael T. Kinnison

  • Evolutionary origins for ecological patterns in space.

    Mark C Urban;Sharon Y Strauss;Fanie Pelletier;Eric P Palkovacs

  • The Evolutionary Consequences of Dams and Other Barriers for Riverine Fishes

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  • The evolutionary origin of Indian Ocean tortoises (Dipsochelys).

    Eric P Palkovacs;Justin Gerlach;Adalgisa Caccone

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael T. Kinnison
Michael T. Kinnison University of Maine
David M. Post
David M. Post Yale University
Andrew P. Hendry
Andrew P. Hendry McGill University
Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
Adalgisa Caccone
Adalgisa Caccone Yale University
Stephan B. Munch
Stephan B. Munch University of California, Santa Cruz
Joseph K. Bailey
Joseph K. Bailey University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Stephanie M. Carlson
Stephanie M. Carlson University of California, Berkeley
Mark C. Urban
Mark C. Urban University of Connecticut
Marina Alberti
Marina Alberti University of Washington

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