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61
Citations
12215
World Ranking
2221
National Ranking
796

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1983 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jeffrey S. Levinton is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work addresses a range of topics that include Crustacean biology and ecology, Marine and fisheries research, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Physiological and biochemical adaptations, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior.

The scientist's research contributions can be traced through their numerous publications in several key venues. Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, the Journal of Crustacean Biology, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, and the Journal of Thermal Biology.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Jeffrey S. Levinton are:

  • What global biogeochemical consequences will marine animal-sediment interactions have during climate change?, 2021, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Thermal stress: The role of body size and the giant major claw in survival and heat transfer of a fiddler crab (Leptuca pugilator), 2020, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
  • Two species of fiddler crab show no cost of bearing a sexually selected giant claw in predator escape behaviors, 2021, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
  • Direct and biometrical estimates of the closing force of major claws of the sand fiddler crab Leptuca pugilator (Bosc, 1801) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae): Support for the weakening combatant hypothesis, 2021, Journal of Crustacean Biology
  • Length of a sexually selected ornament-armament in fiddler crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae): One way, over deep time and space, 2021, Journal of Crustacean Biology

They have also contributed to book publications, including the book Marine Biology published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

Frequent coauthors in Jeffrey S. Levinton's work include:

  • Thomas S. Bianchi
  • Robert C. Aller
  • Trisha B. Atwood
  • Lisa A. Levin
  • Jack J. Middelburg

The main research areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach involving ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, history and philosophy of science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. Subfields of study include:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Awards received include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2000, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1983.

Best Publications

  • Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology

    Jeffrey S. Levinton

  • Ecology of Deposit-Feeding Animals in Marine Sediments

    Glenn R. Lopez;Jeffrey S. Levinton

  • Genetics, paleontology, and macroevolution

    Jeffrey S. Levinton

  • Molecular Evidence for Deep Precambrian Divergences Among Metazoan Phyla

    Gregory A. Wray;Jeffrey S. Levinton;Leo H. Shapiro

  • THE PALEOECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF OPPORTUNISTIC SPECIES

    Jeffrey S. Levinton

  • Stability and Trophic Structure in Deposit-Feeding and Suspension-Feeding Communities

    Jeffrey Levinton

  • Rapid Evolution of Metal Resistance in a Benthic Oligochaete Inhabiting a Metal-polluted Site

    P. L. Klerks;J. S. Levinton

  • Particle sorting in bivalves: in vivo determination of the pallial organs of selection

    J. E. Ward;J. S. Levinton;S. E. Shumway;T. Cucci

  • Latitudinal Differentiation in Copepod Growth: An Adaptation to Temperature

    Darcy J. Lonsdale;Jeffrey S. Levinton

  • Grazing and Control of Coral Reef Community Structure by Diadema antillarum Philippi (Echinodermata: Echinoidea): A Preliminary Study

    P. Sammarco;J. S. Levinton;John C. Ogden

  • The effect of grazing by the detritivore Orchestia grillus on Spartina litter and its associated microbial community.

    G R Lopez;J S Levinton;L B Slobodkin

  • Cadmium resistance in an oligochaete and its effect on cadmium trophic transfer to an omnivorous shrimp

    William G. Wallace;Glenn R. Lopez;Jeffrey S. Levinton

  • Costs of bearing a sexually selected ornamental weapon in a fiddler crab

    Bengt J. Allen;Jeffrey S. Levinton

  • Molecular phylogeny analysis of fiddler crabs: test of the hypothesis of increasing behavioral complexity in evolution

    Christian Sturmbauer;Jeffrey S. Levinton;John Christy

  • Selective feeding and biodeposition by zebra mussels and their relation to changes in phytoplankton composition and seston load

    S. M. Baker;J. S. Levinton;J. P. Kurdziel;S. E. Shumway

  • THE LATITUDINAL COMPENSATION HYPOTHESIS: GROWTH DATA AND A MODEL OF LATITUDINAL GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION BASED UPON ENERGY BUDGETS. I. INTERSPECIFIC COMPARISON OF OPHRYOTROCHA (POLYCHAETA: DORVILLEIDAE).

    Jeffrey S. Levinton

  • Bioturbators as Ecosystem Engineers: Control of the Sediment Fabric, Inter-Individual Interactions, and Material Fluxes

    Jeffrey Levinton

  • Ecology of marine deposit feeders

    Glenn Lopez;Gary Taghon;Jeffrey S. Levinton

  • Site of particle selection in a bivalve mollusc

    J. Evan Ward;Jeffrey S. Levinton;Sandra E. Shumway;Terry Cucci

  • The availability of microorganisms attached to sediment particles as food for Hydrobia ventrosa Montagu (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)

    Glenn R. Lopez;Jeffrey S. Levinton

  • Rapid loss of genetically based resistance to metals after the cleanup of a Superfund site

    Jeffrey S. Levinton;E. Suatoni;William Wallace;Ruth Junkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Brendan P. Kelaher
Brendan P. Kelaher Southern Cross University
John R. Waldman
John R. Waldman Queens College, CUNY
Sandra E. Shumway
Sandra E. Shumway University of Connecticut
Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy
Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy University of Southern California
Richard K. Bambach
Richard K. Bambach National Museum of Natural History
Nicholas S. Fisher
Nicholas S. Fisher Stony Brook University
Benjamin S. Twining
Benjamin S. Twining Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Karl W. Flessa
Karl W. Flessa University of Arizona
Christian Sturmbauer
Christian Sturmbauer University of Graz
Gregory A. Wray
Gregory A. Wray Duke University

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