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John H. Christy is affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Their research spans multiple fields including Environmental Science, Engineering, and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on subfields such as Ecology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's main research topics include Crustacean biology and ecology, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and fisheries research, Marine and coastal plant biology, Energy Load and Power Forecasting, Smart Grid Energy Management, and Smart Grid and Power Systems.

Among recent papers are:

  • Data-driven adaptive Lyapunov function based graphical deep convolutional neural network for smart grid congestion management, 2024, Electric Power Systems Research
  • Fiddler crabs and their above-ground sedimentary structures: a review, 2020, Journal of Ethology
  • Costs and compensation in zooplankton pigmentation under countervailing threats of ultraviolet radiation and predation, 2020, Oecologia
  • Claws and claw waving attract both sexes in the dotillid crab Ilyoplax pusilla, 2021, Journal of Ethology
  • Multiple and Extra-Pair Mating in a Pair-Living Hermaphrodite, the Intertidal Limpet Siphonaria gigas, 2020, Integrative Organismal Biology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Christy include Pandia Rajan Jeyaraj, Juan Carlos Farias Pardo, Gabriel Stefanelli-Silva, Tânia Márcia Costa, and Samuel M. Bashevkin.

The regular venues for publishing work include the Journal of Ethology, Electric Power Systems Research, Oecologia, and Integrative Organismal Biology. These venues reflect the diversity of the scientist's research interests bridging ecology, marine biology, and engineering.

Best Publications

  • ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF MATING SYSTEMS OF FIDDLER CRABS (GENUS UCA)

    John H. Christy;Michael Salmon

  • Mimicry, Mate Choice, and the Sensory Trap Hypothesis

    John H. Christy

  • ADAPTIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TIMING OF LARVAL RELEASE BY CRABS

    Steven G. Morgan;John H. Christy

  • Adaptive Significance of Reproductive Cycles in the Fiddler Crab Uca pugilator: A Hypothesis

    John H. Christy

  • ADAPTIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF SEMILUNAR CYCLES OF LARVAL RELEASE IN FIDDLER CRABS (GENUS UCA): TEST OF AN HYPOTHESIS

    John H. Christy

  • Dishonest signalling in a fiddler crab

    Patricia R. Y. Backwell;John H. Christy;Steven R. Telford;Michael D. Jennions

  • Competitive mating, mate choice and mating associations of brachyuran crabs

    John H. Christy

  • Burrow structure and use in the sand fiddler crab, Uca pugilator (Bosc)

    John H. Christy

  • Female choice in the resource-defense mating system of the sand fiddler crab, Uca pugilator

    John H. Christy

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

    Christian Sturmbauer;Jeffrey S. Levinton;John Christy

  • Elevated predation risk changes mating behaviour and courtship in a fiddler crab

    Tsunenori Koga;Patricia R. Y. Backwell;Michael D. Jennions;John H. Christy

  • Synchronized courtship in fiddler crabs

    Patricia R. Y. Backwell;Michael D. Jennions;N. I. Passmore;John H. Christy

  • TIMING OF LARVAL PRODUCTION AND FLUX OF INVERTEBRATE LARVAE IN A WELL-MIXED ESTUARY

    John H. Christy;Stephen E. Stancyk

  • Male-biased predation of a fiddler crab

    Tsunenori Koga;Patricia R. Y. Backwell;John H. Christy;Minoru Murai

  • Prey availability and selective foraging in shorebirds

    Patricia R.Y Backwell;Patrick D O’Hara;John H Christy

  • Rapid development of megalopae of the fiddler crab ilea pugilator reared over sediment: implications for models of larval recruitment

    John H. Christy

  • Comparative Studies of Reproductive Behavior in Mantis Shrimps and Fiddler Crabs

    John H. Christy;Michael Salmon

  • Female Choice in the Synchronously Waving Fiddler Crab Uca annulipes

    P. R. Y. Backwell;Jennions;J. H. Christy;N. I. Passmore

  • PLASTICITY, CONSTRAINT, AND OPTIMALITY IN REPRODUCTIVE TIMING'

    Steven G. Morgan;John H. Christy

  • Timing of larval release by intertidal crabs on an exposed shore

    John H. Christy

Frequent Co-Authors

Patricia R. Y. Backwell
Patricia R. Y. Backwell Australian National University
Steven G. Morgan
Steven G. Morgan University of California, Davis
Michael D. Jennions
Michael D. Jennions Australian National University
Rachel Collin
Rachel Collin Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Seiji Goshima
Seiji Goshima Hokkaido University
Jeffrey S. Levinton
Jeffrey S. Levinton Stony Brook University
Christian Sturmbauer
Christian Sturmbauer University of Graz
Michael Salmon
Michael Salmon Florida Atlantic University
Todd E. Dawson
Todd E. Dawson University of California, Berkeley
Hsi-Te Shih
Hsi-Te Shih National Chung Hsing University

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