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1194

Overview

James A. Fordyce is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on ecology and insect-related studies.

Their work engages extensively with subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology. This specialization is reflected in the main topics of their research which cover Plant and Animal Studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Insect and Pesticide Research, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Fordyce's list of frequent coauthors includes Matthew L. Forister, Chris C. Nice, Christopher A. Halsch, C. Alex Buerkle, and Sarah L. Lebeis. These collaborations highlight a research network that is active across related ecological and biological sciences.

Frequent publication venues for Fordyce include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Ecological Monographs

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Fordyce demonstrate contributions to understanding climate change impacts on insects and ecological interactions:

  • Scientists' warning on climate change and insects, 2022, Ecological Monographs
  • Insects and recent climate change, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West, 2021, Science
  • Codependency between plant and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities: what is the evidence?, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Recent hybrids recapitulate ancient hybrid outcomes, 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • The Ecology of Individuals: Incidence and Implications of Individual Specialization

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Richard Svanbäck;Richard Svanbäck;James A. Fordyce;Louie H. Yang

  • Plant genotypic diversity predicts community structure and governs an ecosystem process.

    Gregory M. Crutsinger;Michael D. Collins;James A. Fordyce;Zachariah Gompert

  • MEASURING INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL RESOURCE SPECIALIZATION

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Louie H. Yang;James A. Fordyce;Jeremy M. Davis

  • Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

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  • Compounded effects of climate change and habitat alteration shift patterns of butterfly diversity

    Matthew L. Forister;Andrew C. McCall;Nathan J. Sanders;James A. Fordyce

  • Insects and recent climate change

    Christopher A. Halsch;Arthur M. Shapiro;James A. Fordyce;Chris C. Nice

  • The evolutionary consequences of ecological interactions mediated through phenotypic plasticity

    James A. Fordyce

  • Homoploid hybrid speciation in an extreme habitat.

    Zachariah Gompert;James A. Fordyce;Matthew L. Forister;Arthur M. Shapiro

  • Can optimal defence theory be used to predict the distribution of plant chemical defences

    Andrew C. McCall;James A. Fordyce

  • What, if anything, is sympatric speciation?

    B. M. Fitzpatrick;J. A. Fordyce;S. Gavrilets

  • Pattern, process and geographic modes of speciation

    B. M. Fitzpatrick;J. A. Fordyce;S. Gavrilets;S. Gavrilets

  • Admixture and the organization of genetic diversity in a butterfly species complex revealed through common and rare genetic variants.

    Zachariah Gompert;Lauren K. Lucas;Lauren K. Lucas;C. Alex Buerkle;Matthew L. Forister

  • What can DNA tell us about biological invasions

    Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick;James A. Fordyce;Matthew L. Niemiller;R. Graham Reynolds

  • The role of plant trichomes and caterpillar group size on growth and defence of the pipevine swallowtail Battus philenor

    James A. Fordyce;Anurag A. Agrawal

  • Genomic regions with a history of divergent selection affect fitness of hybrids between two butterfly species.

    Zachariah Gompert;Lauren K. Lucas;Chris C. Nice;James A. Fordyce

  • Host shifts and evolutionary radiations of butterflies.

    James A. Fordyce

  • Widespread mito-nuclear discordance with evidence for introgressive hybridization and selective sweeps in Lycaeides.

    Zachariah Gompert;Matthew L. Forister;James A. Fordyce;Chris C. Nice

  • Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West

    M. L. Forister;C. A. Halsch;C. C. Nice;J. A. Fordyce

  • The significance of wing pattern diversity in the Lycaenidae: mate discrimination by two recently diverged species

    J. A. Fordyce;C. C. Nice;M. L. Forister;A. M. Shapiro

  • Bayesian analysis of molecular variance in pyrosequences quantifies population genetic structure across the genome of Lycaeides butterflies.

    Zachariah Gompert;Matthew L. Forister;James A. Fordyce;Chris C. Nice

  • Strong influence of regional species pools on continent-wide structuring of local communities

    Jean-Philippe Lessard;Jean-Philippe Lessard;Michael K. Borregaard;James A. Fordyce;Carsten Rahbek

  • ARE INDUCED DEFENSES COSTLY? CONSEQUENCES OF PREDATOR-INDUCED DEFENSES IN WESTERN TOADS, BUFO BOREAS

    Michael F. Benard;James A. Fordyce

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris C. Nice
Chris C. Nice Texas State University
Matthew L. Forister
Matthew L. Forister University of Nevada Reno
Zachariah Gompert
Zachariah Gompert Utah State University
C. Alex Buerkle
C. Alex Buerkle University of Wyoming
Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick
Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Nathan J. Sanders
Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James H. Thorne
James H. Thorne University of California, Davis
Daniel Simberloff
Daniel Simberloff University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Philip J. DeVries
Philip J. DeVries University of New Orleans
Richard Svanbäck
Richard Svanbäck Uppsala University

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