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Graham H. Pyke is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and has concentrated their research on topics within agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. Their work encompasses multiple subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, global and planetary change, molecular biology, and genetics.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as plant and animal studies, plant parasitism and resistance, animal behavior and reproduction, climate change and geoengineering, amphibian and reptile biology, plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, and plant reproductive biology.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with them include Zong-Xin Ren, Judith Trunschke, Klaus Lunau, John R. Kalman, and Corey J. A. Bradshaw.

Graham H. Pyke's publications appear often in the following venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • Plant Biology
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Science

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • "Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future," 2021, Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • "Flower Color Evolution and the Evidence of Pollinator-Mediated Selection," 2021, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity," 2022, Science
  • "Patterns of floral nectar standing crops allow plants to manipulate their pollinators," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Nectar mimicry: a new phenomenon," 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Optimal foraging: A selective review of theory and tests

    G.H. Pyke;H.R. Pulliam;Eric Charnov

  • Optimal Foraging Theory: A Critical Review

    G H Pyke

  • What does it cost a plant to produce floral nectar

    Graham H. Pyke

  • Optimal foraging: movement patterns of bumblebees between inflorescences.

    Graham H. Pyke

  • A review of the biology of Gambusia affinis and G. holbrooki.

    Graham H. Pyke

  • Plague Minnow or Mosquito Fish? A Review of the Biology and Impacts of Introduced Gambusia Species

    Graham H. Pyke

  • Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future

    Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Corey J. A. Bradshaw;Paul R. Ehrlich;Andrew Beattie;Gerardo Ceballos

  • Biological collections and ecological/environmental research: a review, some observations and a look to the future.

    Graham H. Pyke;Paul R. Ehrlich

  • The production of dilute nectars by hummingbird and honeyeater flowers

    Graham H. Pyke;Nickolas M. Waser

  • REPRODUCTION IN POLEMONIUM: ASSESSING THE FACTORS LIMITING SEED SET

    Michael Zimmerman;Graham H. Pyke

  • Optimal foraging in bumblebees and coevolution with their plants.

    Graham H. Pyke;Graham H. Pyke

  • Optimal foraging in hummingbirds : testing the marginal value theorem

    Graham H. Pyke

  • The scanning behavior of juncos: A game-theoretical approach

    H.Ronald Pulliam;Graham H. Pyke;Thomas Caraco

  • Pollination biology in the Snowy Mountains of Australia: Comparisons with montane Colorado, USA

    David W. Inouye;Graham H. Pyke

  • Local Geographic Distributions of Bumblebees Near Crested Butte, Colorado: Competition and Community Structure

    Graham H. Pyke;Graham H. Pyke

  • Optimal foraging in bumblebees: Rule of movement between flowers within inflorescences

    Graham H. Pyke

  • Understanding movements of organisms: it's time to abandon the Lévy foraging hypothesis

    Graham H. Pyke;Graham H. Pyke;Graham H. Pyke

  • Effects of climate change on phenologies and distributions of bumble bees and the plants they visit

    Graham H. Pyke;James D. Thomson;James D. Thomson;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye;Timothy J. Miller

  • Are animals efficient harvesters

    Graham H. Pyke

  • The foraging behaviour of Australian honeyeaters: a review and some comparisons with hummingbirds

    Graham H. Pyke

  • THE ECONOMICS OF TERRITORY SIZE AND TIME BUDGET IN THE GOLDEN-WINGED SUNBIRD

    Graham H. Pyke

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry F. Recher
Harry F. Recher Edith Cowan University
David W. Inouye
David W. Inouye University of Maryland, College Park
James D. Thomson
James D. Thomson University of Toronto
Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul R. Ehrlich Stanford University
Nickolas M. Waser
Nickolas M. Waser University of California, Riverside
Paul Garner
Paul Garner Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Thomas R. Burkot
Thomas R. Burkot Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine
Trent D. Penman
Trent D. Penman University of Melbourne
John Harte
John Harte University of California, Berkeley
Shane T. Ahyong
Shane T. Ahyong Australian Museum

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