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Overview

Eric T. Schultz is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States and focuses primarily on research within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The research conducted by Schultz centers largely on marine and fisheries research, fish ecology and management studies, isotope analysis in ecology, aquaculture nutrition and growth, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, physiological and biochemical adaptations, and animal behavior and reproduction.

Frequent collaborators include Stephen D. McCormick, Sebastián A. Klarian, Jonathan P. Velotta, Jacob M. Kasper, and Hannes Baumann.

Schultz has contributed to a variety of academic journals, often publishing multiple papers in some venues. These include Marine and Coastal Fisheries, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, and Journal of Fish Biology.

Key recent papers authored by Schultz comprise:

  • A Review of River Herring Science in Support of Species Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration, 2021, Marine and Coastal Fisheries
  • Repeated Genetic Targets of Natural Selection Underlying Adaptation of Fishes to Changing Salinity, 2022, Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Ovarian dynamics and fecundity regulation in blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis, from the Connecticut River, US, 2020, Journal of Applied Ichthyology
  • Direct and size-mediated effects of temperature and ration-dependent growth rates on energy reserves in juvenile anadromous alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus), 2021, Journal of Fish Biology
  • Spectral dissipation term for wave forecast models: experimental study, 2024, Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)

Best Publications

  • Phenotypic similarity and the evolutionary significance of countergradient variation.

    David O. Conover;Eric T. Schultz

  • THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY OF VERTEBRATES: A VIEW FROM ENERGETICS

    Eric T. Schultz

  • Social transmission of behavioural traditions in a coral reef fish

    Gene S. Helfman;Eric T. Schultz

  • Fish Schools: An Asset to Corals

    Judy L. Meyer;Eric T. Schultz;Gene S. Helfman

  • Migrating haemulid fishes as a source of nutrients and organic matter on coral reefs1

    Judy L. Meyer;Eric T. Schultz

  • Latitudinal differences in somatic energy storage: adaptive responses to seasonality in an estuarine fish (Atherinidae: Menidia menidia).

    E. T. Schultz;David O. Conover

  • Pterois volitans and Pterois miles: two valid species

    Eric T. Schultz

  • The allometry of energy reserve depletion: test of a mechanism for size-dependent winter mortality

    Eric T. Schultz;David O. Conover

  • Countergradient variation in growth among newly hatched Fundulus heteroclitus : geographic differences revealed by common-environment experiments

    E. T. Schultz;K. E. Reynolds;D. O. Conover

  • Adaptive variation in energy acquisition and allocation among latitudinal populations of the Atlantic silverside.

    Jean M. Billerbeck;Eric T. Schultz;David O. Conover

  • Tissue condition and growth rate of corals associated with schooling fish1

    Judy L. Meyer;Eric T. Schultz

  • SEXUAL SELECTION AND MALE CHARACTERISTICS IN THE BLUEHEAD WRASSE, THALASSOMA BIFASCIATUM: MATING SITE ACQUISITION, MATING SITE DEFENSE, AND FEMALE CHOICE

    Robert R. Warner;Eric T. Schultz

  • Latitudinal differences in somatic energy storage Adaptive responses to seasonality in an estuarine fish

    Eric T. Schultz;David O. Conover

  • The dead of winter: size-dependent variation and genetic differences in seasonal mortality among Atlantic silverside (Atherinidae: Menidia menidia) from different latitudes

    Eric T. Schultz;David O. Conover;Amir Ehtisham

  • Recruitment of coral-reef fishes to Bermuda: local retention or long-distance transport?

    Eric T Schultz;Robert K Cowen

  • Enhancing the Content Validity of Stated Preference Valuation: The Structure and Function of Ecological Indicators

    Robert J. Johnston;Eric T. Schultz;Kathleen Segerson;Elena Y. Besedin

  • Euryhalinity in An Evolutionary Context

    Eric T. Schultz;Stephen D. McCormick

  • Natural selection and the evolution of growth rate in the early life history: what are the trade-offs?

    David O. Conover;Eric T. Schultz

  • THE EFFECT OF BIRTH DATE ON FITNESS OF FEMALE DWARF PERCH, MICROMETRUS MINIMUS (PERCIFORMES: EMBIOTOCIDAE)

    Eric T. Schultz

  • ENERGETIC CONSTRAINTS AND SIZE-BASED TACTICS: THE ADAPTIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF BREEDING-SCHEDULE VARIATION IN A MARINE FISH (EMBIOTOCIDAE: MICROMETRUS MINIMUS)

    Eric T. Schultz;Lisa M. Clifton;Robert R. Warner

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen D. McCormick
Stephen D. McCormick University of Massachusetts Amherst
David O. Conover
David O. Conover University of Oregon
Robert J. Johnston
Robert J. Johnston Clark University
Kathleen Segerson
Kathleen Segerson University of Connecticut
Robert R. Warner
Robert R. Warner University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter J. Auster
Peter J. Auster University of Connecticut
Judy L. Meyer
Judy L. Meyer University of Georgia
Robert K. Cowen
Robert K. Cowen Oregon State University
David L. Strayer
David L. Strayer University of Utah
James D. Scott
James D. Scott National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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