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65
Citations
38468
World Ranking
1733
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628

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1978 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Eric R. Pianka is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with focused subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Social Psychology, and Genetics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

The scientist's recent published papers are:

  • The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes, 2024, Science
  • Climate change and the cost-of-living squeeze in desert lizards, 2025, Science
  • How do lizard niches conserve, diverge or converge? Further exploration of saurian evolutionary ecology, 2021, BMC Ecology and Evolution
  • Seasonality in Kgalagadi Lizards: Inferences from Legacy Data, 2021, The American Naturalist
  • Myrmecophagy in lizards: evolutionary and ecological implications, 2023, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Frequent co-authors in their work include Laurie J. Vitt, Gabriel C. Costa, Guarino Rinaldi Colli, Daniel Oliveira Mesquita, and Lucas Cavalcanti. These collaborations reflect a network of research focused on evolutionary biology and ecology.

Publication venues where Eric R. Pianka's work appears frequently include:

  • Science
  • BMC Ecology and Evolution
  • The American Naturalist
  • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Eric R. Pianka has received several recognitions and awards throughout their career, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1981
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1978
  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), 2013
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014

Best Publications

  • On Optimal Use of a Patchy Environment

    Robert H. MacArthur;Eric R. Pianka

  • On r- and K-Selection

    Eric R. Pianka

  • The structure of lizard communities

    Eric R. Pianka

  • LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS IN SPECIES DIVERSITY: A REVIEW OF CONCEPTS

    Eric R. Pianka

  • Niche Overlap and Diffuse Competition

    Eric R. Pianka

  • Ecological Consequences of Foraging Mode

    Raymound B. Huey;Eric R. Pianka

  • The conservation status of the world's reptiles

    Monika Böhm;Ben Collen;Jonathan E.M. Baillie;Philip Bowles

  • Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity

    Eric R Pianka;Laurie J Vitt

  • Age-Specific Reproductive Tactics

    Eric R. Pianka;William S. Parker

  • Ecology and natural history of desert lizards

    Eric R. Pianka

  • Ecology and natural history of desert lizards : analyses of the ecological niche and community structure.

    Eric R Pianka

  • Lizard Ecology: Studies of a Model Organism

    Raymond B. Huey;Eric R. Pianka;Thomas W. Schoener

  • Convexity, Desert Lizards, and Spatial Heterogeneity

    Eric R. Pianka

  • On Lizard Species Diversity: North American Flatland Deserts

    Eric R. Pianka

  • Organization in Natural Assemblages of Desert Lizards and Tropical Fishes

    Kirk O. Winemiller;Eric R. Pianka

  • Sympatry of Desert Lizards (Ctenotus) in Western Australia

    Eric R. Pianka

  • Animal foraging: past, present and future

    Gad Perry;Eric R. Pianka

  • Natural Selection of Optimal Reproductive Tactics

    Eric R. Pianka

  • r and K Selection or b and d Selection

    Eric R. Pianka

  • Geographical Trends in Numbers of Species

    Jos. J. Schall;Eric R. Pianka

  • Ecology of Horned Lizards: A Review with Special Reference to Phrynosoma platyrhinos

    Eric R. Pianka;William S. Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurie J. Vitt
Laurie J. Vitt University of Oklahoma
Raymond B. Huey
Raymond B. Huey University of Washington
Kirk O. Winemiller
Kirk O. Winemiller Texas A&M University
Gabriel C. Costa
Gabriel C. Costa Auburn University at Montgomery
Daniel T. Haydon
Daniel T. Haydon University of Glasgow
Guarino R. Colli
Guarino R. Colli University of Brasília
James O. Farlow
James O. Farlow Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
Thomas W. Schoener
Thomas W. Schoener University of California, Davis
Truong Q. Nguyen
Truong Q. Nguyen University of California, San Diego
Stephen R. Goldberg
Stephen R. Goldberg Whittier College

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