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Overview

Erik Wapstra is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

Their research topics cover a range of areas focused on amphibians and reptiles, animal behavior and reproduction, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, genetic diversity and population structure, species distribution and climate change, telomeres and senescence, as well as chromosomal and genetic variations.

Frequent collaborators include Geoffrey M. While, Mats Olsson, Tariq Ezaz, Jason Dobry, and Christopher P. Burridge, reflecting substantial cooperative research efforts.

Published work by Wapstra has appeared repeatedly in venues such as bioRxiv, Zenodo, Biological Conservation, Molecular Ecology, and the Australian Journal of Zoology. They have contributed several papers focusing on Australian reptiles and genetic factors related to conservation and physiology.

  • Reptiles on the brink: identifying the Australian terrestrial snake and lizard species most at risk of extinction (2020, Pacific Conservation Biology)
  • Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk (2021, Biological Conservation)
  • Of telomeres and temperature: Measuring thermal effects on telomeres in ectothermic animals (2021, Molecular Ecology)
  • Australian lizards are outstanding models for reproductive biology research (2021, Australian Journal of Zoology)
  • Telomere length varies substantially between blood cell types in a reptile (2020, Royal Society Open Science)

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

    Gretta T. Pecl;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Johann D. Bell;Johann D. Bell;Julia Blanchard

  • Major histocompatibility complex and mate choice in sand lizards.

    Mats Olsson;Thomas Madsen;Jessica Nordby;Erik Wapstra

  • Sexual dimorphism in lizard body shape: the roles of sexual selection and fecundity selection.

    Mats Olsson;Mats Olsson;Richard Shine;Erik Wapstra;Beata Ujvari;Beata Ujvari

  • Managing consequences of climate-driven species redistribution requires integration of ecology, conservation and social science

    Timothy C. Bonebrake;Christopher J. Brown;Johann D. Bell;Johann D. Bell;Julia L. Blanchard

  • Climate-driven population divergence in sex-determining systems

    Ido Pen;Tobias Uller;Barbara Feldmeyer;Anna Harts

  • Testosterone, ticks and travels: a test of the immunocompetence-handicap hypothesis in free-ranging male sand lizards.

    Mats Olsson;Erik Wapstra;Thomas Madsen;Bengt Silverin

  • Evolution of maternal effects: past and present.

    Timothy A Mousseau;Tobias Uller;Erik Wapstra;Alexander V Badyaev

  • Maternal basking opportunity affects juvenile phenotype in a viviparous lizard

    E. Wapstra

  • The evolution of sex ratios and sex-determining systems

    Tobias Uller;Ido Pen;Erik Wapstra;Leo W. Beukeboom

  • Climate effects on offspring sex ratio in a viviparous lizard.

    Erik Wapstra;Tobias Uller;Tobias Uller;David L. Sinn;Mats Olsson

  • Maternal care in a social lizard: links between female aggression and offspring fitness

    D.L. Sinn;G.M. While;E. Wapstra

  • Geographic variation in age and size at maturity in a small Australian viviparous skink

    Erik Wapstra;Roy Swain;Julianne M. O'Reilly

  • Sex differences in sand lizard telomere inheritance: paternal epigenetic effects increases telomere heritability and offspring survival.

    Mats Olsson;Mats Olsson;Angela Pauliny;Erik Wapstra;Tobias Uller

  • Can Teacher Collaboration Overcome Barriers to Interdisciplinary Learning in a Disciplinary University? A Case Study Using Climate Change.

    Emma Pharo;Aidan Davison;Kristin Warr;Melissa Nursey-Bray

  • Chromosomics: Bridging the Gap between Genomes and Chromosomes.

    Janine E Deakin;Sally Potter;Sally Potter;Rachel O'Neill;Aurora Ruiz-Herrera

  • Maternal basking behaviour determines offspring sex in a viviparous reptile.

    Erik Wapstra;Mats Olsson;Richard Shine;Ashley Edwards

  • Giving offspring a head start in life: field and experimental evidence for selection on maternal basking behaviour in lizards

    Erik Wapstra;Tobias Uller;Tobias Uller;Geoffrey While;Mats Olsson

  • Ectothermic telomeres: it's time they came in from the cold.

    Mats M Olsson;Erik Erik Wapstra;Christopher R Friesen

  • Asynchronous Male and Female Gonadal Cycles and Plasma Steroid Concentrations in a Viviparous Lizard, Niveoscincus ocellatus (Scincidae), from Tasmania

    Susan M. Jones;Erik Wapstra;Roy Swain

  • Mating system variation and morph fluctuations in a polymorphic lizard

    Mats Olsson;Mo Healey;Erik Wapstra;Tonia Schwartz

  • The diversity of population responses to environmental change.

    Fernando Colchero;Owen R Jones;Dalia A. Conde;David Hodgson

  • Climate effects on offspring sex ratios in a viviparous lizard

    T Uller;E Wapstra

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey M. While
Geoffrey M. While University of Tasmania
Mats Olsson
Mats Olsson University of Gothenburg
Tobias Uller
Tobias Uller Lund University
Thomas Madsen
Thomas Madsen Deakin University
Richard Shine
Richard Shine Macquarie University
Beata Ujvari
Beata Ujvari Deakin University
Christopher P. Burridge
Christopher P. Burridge University of Tasmania
David G. Chapple
David G. Chapple Monash University
Alistair J. Hobday
Alistair J. Hobday Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jan Komdeur
Jan Komdeur University of Groningen

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