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D-Index
68
Citations
13315
World Ranking
1561
National Ranking
572

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Joseph Travis is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broad fields, they specialize in subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, nature and landscape conservation, and global and planetary change.

The research topics covered by Joseph Travis include animal behavior and reproduction, plant and animal studies, fish ecology and management studies, evolution and genetic dynamics, genetic diversity and population structure, wildlife ecology and conservation, and marine and fisheries research.

Joseph Travis has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • The American Naturalist
  • Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Animal Ecology

Their recent publications span a variety of topics and years. Notable papers include:

  • "Where Is Natural History in Ecological, Evolutionary, and Behavioral Science?" (2020, The American Naturalist)
  • "Density-Dependent Selection" (2023, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics)

Frequent collaborators of Joseph Travis include:

  • David N. Reznick
  • Ronald D. Bassar
  • Tim Coulson
  • Tomos Potter
  • Anja Felmy

Joseph Travis has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2015 and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1991.

Best Publications

  • The Role of Abiotic Factors in Community Organization

    William A. Dunson;Joseph Travis

  • Nontraditional Regression Analyses

    Joel C. Trexler;Joseph Travis

  • A Morphological Approach to the Study of Avian Community Organization

    Robert E. Ricklefs;Joseph Travis

  • How can the functional response best be determined

    Joel C. Trexler;Charles E. McCulloch;Joseph Travis

  • Local adaptation in Trinidadian guppies alters ecosystem processes

    Ronald D. Bassar;Michael C. Marshall;Andrés López-Sepulcre;Eugenia Zandonà

  • The role of relative body size in a predator-prey relationship between dragonfly naliads and larval anurans

    Joseph Travis;W. Hubert Keen;John Juilianna

  • Sensory bias as an explanation for the evolution of mate preferences

    Rebecca C. Fuller;David Houle;Joseph Travis

  • Anuran size at metamorphosis: experimental test of a model based on intraspecific competition

    Joseph Travis

  • Metamorphic responses to changing food levels in two species of hylid frogs

    J. Leips;J. Travis

  • MATE CHOICE IN THE SAILFIN MOLLY, POECILIA LATIPINNA.

    Margaret B. Ptacek;Joseph Travis

  • The Role of Optimizing Selection in Natural Populations

    Joseph Travis

  • Competition and Spacing in Plant Communities: The Arizona Upland Association

    Richard I. Yeaton;Joseph Travis;Ellen Gilinsky

  • PHENOTYPIC VARIATION AND THE OUTCOME OF INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION IN HYLID TADPOLES.

    Joseph Travis

  • How and When Selection Experiments Might Actually be Useful

    Rebecca C. Fuller;Charles F. Baer;Joseph Travis

  • A QUANTITATIVE‐GENETIC ANALYSIS OF LARVAL LIFE‐HISTORY TRAITS IN HYLA CRUCIFER

    Joseph Travis;Sharon B. Emerson;Michael Blouin

  • The Evolutionary Role of Indirect Effects in Communities

    Thomas E. Miller;Joseph Travis

  • Genetic and environmental variation in the visual properties of bluefin killifish, Lucania goodei.

    R. C. Fuller;K. L. Carleton;J. M. Fadool;T. C. Spady

  • Critical Literature Review of the Evidence for Unpalatability of Amphibian Eggs and Larvae

    Margaret S. Gunzburger;Joseph Travis

  • POECILIA MEXICANA IS THE RECENT FEMALE PARENT OF THE UNISEXUAL FISH P. FORMOSA.

    John C. Avise;Joel C. Trexler;Joseph Travis;William S. Nelson

  • Fertility Advertisement by Female Sailfin Mollies, Poecilia latipinna (Pisces: Poeciliidae)

    James A. Farr;Joseph Travis

Frequent Co-Authors

David N. Reznick
David N. Reznick University of California, Riverside
Joel C. Trexler
Joel C. Trexler Florida International University
Tim Coulson
Tim Coulson University of Oxford
Alexander S. Flecker
Alexander S. Flecker Cornell University
Steven A. Thomas
Steven A. Thomas University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Catherine M. Pringle
Catherine M. Pringle University of Georgia
F. Helen Rodd
F. Helen Rodd University of Toronto
Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs University of Missouri–St. Louis
William A. Dunson
William A. Dunson Pennsylvania State University
Michael S. Blouin
Michael S. Blouin Oregon State University

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