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32
Citations
4895
World Ranking
8030
National Ranking
2662

Overview

James R. Vonesh is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a notable emphasis on ecology and related subfields.

The scientist's work encompasses several specialized areas including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, and public health as connected to environmental and occupational health. Their studies explore various topics such as ecology and vegetation dynamics, animal behavior and reproduction, mosquito-borne diseases and control, species distribution and climate change, physiological and biochemical adaptations, and insect-plant interactions.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Michael McCoy, Andrew T. Davidson, Elizabeth Hamman, Charles Ryland Stunkle, and Pietro Landi.

James R. Vonesh has published research in several academic journals. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Functional Ecology
  • Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
  • Biological Invasions
  • Ecology
  • PeerJ

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Asymmetrical effects of temperature on stage-structured predator-prey interactions, 2021, Functional Ecology
  • Phenology of Rock Pool Mosquitoes in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: Surveys Reveal Apparent Winter Hatching of Aedes japonicus and the Potential For Asymmetrical Stage-Specific Interactions, 2020, Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
  • Predicting invasive consumer impact via the comparative functional response approach: linking application to ecological theory, 2022, Biological Invasions
  • Warming and top-down control of stage-structured prey: Linking theory to patterns in natural systems, 2023, Ecology
  • Incorporating nonlinearity with generalized functional responses to simulate multiple predator effects, 2022, PeerJ

Best Publications

  • Predator-prey naïveté, antipredator behavior, and the ecology of predator invasions

    Andrew Sih;Daniel I. Bolnick;Barney Luttbeg;John L. Orrock

  • Complex life cycles and density dependence: assessing the contribution of egg mortality to amphibian declines.

    James R. Vonesh;Omar De la Cruz

  • IMPACTS OF ROAD DEICING SALT ON THE DEMOGRAPHY OF VERNAL POOL-BREEDING AMPHIBIANS

    Nancy E. Karraker;James P. Gibbs;James R. Vonesh

  • The influence of intraguild predation on prey suppression and prey release: a meta-analysis

    Heather D. Vance-Chalcraft;Jay A. Rosenheim;James R. Vonesh;Craig W. Osenberg

  • Size correction: comparing morphological traits among populations and environments

    Michael W. McCoy;Benjamin M. Bolker;Craig W. Osenberg;Benjamin G. Miner;Benjamin G. Miner

  • FROM INDIVIDUALS TO ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: TOWARD AN INTEGRATION OF EVOLUTIONARY AND ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY

    Oswald J. Schmitz;Jonathan H. Grabowski;Barbara L. Peckarsky;Evan L. Preisser

  • COMPENSATORY LARVAL RESPONSES SHIFT TRADE‐OFFS ASSOCIATED WITH PREDATOR‐INDUCED HATCHING PLASTICITY

    James R. Vonesh;Benjamin M. Bolker

  • Patterns of Richness and Abundance in a Tropical African Leaf-litter Herpetofauna1

    James R. Vonesh

  • Costs of predator-induced phenotypic plasticity: A graphical model for predicting the contribution of nonconsumptive and consumptive effects of predators on prey

    Scott D. Peacor;Barbara L. Peckarsky;Geoffrey C. Trussell;James R. Vonesh

  • PREDATOR-INDUCED SHIFTS IN MOSQUITO OVIPOSITION SITE SELECTION: A META-ANALYSIS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR VECTOR CONTROL

    James R. Vonesh;Leon Blaustein

  • Predator effects on aquatic community assembly: disentangling the roles of habitat selection and post-colonization processes

    James R. Vonesh;Johanna M. Kraus;J. Shoshana Rosenberg;Jonathan M. Chase

  • OPPOSITE SHIFTS IN SIZE AT METAMORPHOSIS IN RESPONSE TO LARVAL AND METAMORPH PREDATORS

    James R. Vonesh;Karen M. Warkentin

  • Effects of plastic hatching timing carry over through metamorphosis in red-eyed treefrogs

    Justin C. Touchon;Justin C. Touchon;Michael W. McCoy;Michael W. McCoy;James R. Vonesh;Karen M. Warkentin;Karen M. Warkentin

  • Carry-over effects of the larval environment on post-metamorphic performance in two hylid frogs.

    Benjamin G. Van Allen;Benjamin G. Van Allen;Venetia S. Briggs;Michael W. McCoy;James R. Vonesh

  • Predicting predation through prey ontogeny using size-dependent functional response models.

    Michael W. McCoy;Benjamin M. Bolker;Karen M. Warkentin;James R. Vonesh

  • Citizen science reveals widespread negative effects of roads on amphibian distributions

    Bradley J. Cosentino;David M. Marsh;Kara S. Jones;Joseph J. Apodaca

  • Multi-predator effects across life-history stages: non-additivity of egg- and larval-stage predation in an African treefrog

    James R. Vonesh;Craig W. Osenberg

  • Egg predation and predator‐induced hatching plasticity in the African reed frog, Hyperolius spinigularis

    James R. Vonesh

  • Sequential predator effects across three life stages of the African tree frog, Hyperolius spinigularis

    James R Vonesh;James R Vonesh

  • Feedbacks between community assembly and habitat selection shape variation in local colonization.

    Johanna M. Kraus;James R. Vonesh

  • Pesticide alters habitat selection and aquatic community composition.

    James R. Vonesh;James R. Vonesh;Johanna M. Kraus

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen M. Warkentin
Karen M. Warkentin Boston University
Craig W. Osenberg
Craig W. Osenberg University of Georgia
Andrew Sih
Andrew Sih University of California, Davis
Scott D. Peacor
Scott D. Peacor Michigan State University
Barbara L. Peckarsky
Barbara L. Peckarsky University of Wisconsin–Madison
John L. Orrock
John L. Orrock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Evan L. Preisser
Evan L. Preisser University of Rhode Island
Benjamin M. Bolker
Benjamin M. Bolker McMaster University
Karen H. Beard
Karen H. Beard Utah State University
Res Altwegg
Res Altwegg University of Cape Town

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