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Karen M. Warkentin

Karen M. Warkentin

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
38
Citations
4459
World Ranking
6727
National Ranking
2266

Overview

Karen M. Warkentin is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with notable contributions to global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics of their work include amphibian and reptile biology, animal behavior and reproduction, physiological and biochemical adaptations, neurobiology and insect physiology research, plant and animal studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, and species distribution and climate change.

Their recent publications encompass studies related to amphibians and fishes in ecological and evolutionary contexts. Some examples of these publications are:

  • The evolution of extended parental care in glassfrogs: Do egg-clutch phenotypes mediate coevolution between the sexes? (2020, Ecological Monographs)
  • Multimodal mechanosensing enables treefrog embryos to escape egg-predators (2020, Journal of Experimental Biology)
  • Dehydration-Induced Mortality and Premature Hatching in Gliding Treefrogs with Even Small Reductions in Humidity (2021, Ichthyology & Herpetology)
  • Paternal care regulates the timing, synchrony and success of hatching in a coral reef fish (2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Frog embryos use multiple levels of temporal pattern in risk assessment for vibration-cued escape hatching (2022, Animal Cognition)

The scientist has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Integrative Organismal Biology
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Ecological Monographs

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Julie Jung
  • Brandon A. Güell
  • J. Gregory McDaniel
  • Javier Méndez-Narváez
  • María José Salazar-Nicholls

Best Publications

  • Adaptive plasticity in hatching age: a response to predation risk trade-offs.

    Karen M. Warkentin

  • Wasp predation and wasp-induced hatching of red-eyed treefrog eggs.

    Karen M. Warkentin

  • Environmentally cued hatching across taxa: embryos respond to risk and opportunity.

    Karen M Warkentin

  • Plasticity of hatching in amphibians: evolution, trade-offs, cues and mechanisms

    Karen M. Warkentin

  • How do embryos assess risk? Vibrational cues in predator-induced hatching of red-eyed treefrogs

    Karen M. Warkentin;Karen M. Warkentin

  • EGG‐KILLING FUNGUS INDUCES EARLY HATCHING OF RED‐EYED TREEFROG EGGS

    Karen M. Warkentin;Cameron Robert Currie;Cameron Robert Currie;Stephen A. Rehner

  • Fish and dragonfly nymph predators induce opposite shifts in color and morphology of tadpoles

    Justin C. Touchon;Karen M. Warkentin

  • The shape of things to come: linking developmental plasticity to post‐metamorphic morphology in anurans

    I. Gomez-Mestre;I. Gomez-Mestre;I. Gomez-Mestre;V. L. Saccoccio;T. Iijima;E. M. Collins

  • EVOLUTION OF ADAPTIVE PLASTICITY: RISK‐SENSITIVE HATCHING IN NEOTROPICAL LEAF‐BREEDING TREEFROGS

    Ivan Gomez-Mestre;John J. Wiens;Karen M. Warkentin

  • Effects of hatching age on development and hatchling morphology in the red-eyed tree frog, Agalychnis callidryas

    Karen M. Warkentin

  • Vibrational Signaling in the Agonistic Interactions of Red-Eyed Treefrogs

    Michael S. Caldwell;Gregory R. Johnston;Gregory R. Johnston;J. Gregory McDaniel;Karen M. Warkentin;Karen M. Warkentin

  • Amphibian embryo and parental defenses and a larval predator reduce egg mortality from water mold.

    Ivan Gomez-Mestre;Justin C. Touchon;Karen M. Warkentin

  • Reproductive mode plasticity : Aquatic and terrestrial oviposition in a treefrog

    Justin Charles Touchon;Karen Michelle Warkentin

  • 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

  • The development of behavioral defenses: a mechanistic analysis of vulnerability in red-eyed tree frog hatchlings

    Karen M. Warkentin

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

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

  • Hatching plasticity in two temperate anurans: responses to a pathogen and predation cues

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  • Hatching Timing, Oxygen Availability, and External Gill Regression in the Tree Frog, Agalychnis callidryas

    Karen M. Warkentin

  • Patterns of parental care in Neotropical glassfrogs: fieldwork alters hypotheses of sex-role evolution

    Jesse Delia;Laura Bravo‐Valencia;Karen M. Warkentin;Karen M. Warkentin

  • Temporal pattern cues in vibrational risk assessment by embryos of the red-eyed treefrog, Agalychnis callidryas

    Karen M. Warkentin;Michael S. Caldwell;J. Gregory McDaniel

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Vonesh
James R. Vonesh Virginia Commonwealth University
Ivan Gomez-Mestre
Ivan Gomez-Mestre Spanish National Research Council
Richard J. Wassersug
Richard J. Wassersug University of British Columbia
Cameron R. Currie
Cameron R. Currie University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gil G. Rosenthal
Gil G. Rosenthal University of Padua
Stephen A. Rehner
Stephen A. Rehner Agricultural Research Service
Benjamin M. Bolker
Benjamin M. Bolker McMaster University
Walter Wilczynski
Walter Wilczynski Georgia State University
John J. Wiens
John J. Wiens University of Arizona
Lori A. Brotto
Lori A. Brotto University of British Columbia

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