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Overview

Kenneth Petren is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, with a focus on Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broad fields, their work delves into subfields such as Ecology, Genetics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their scholarly output covers several core topics, including:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Plant and animal studies

One recent publication by Kenneth Petren is titled "A hidden finch from the Galapagos Islands: a genetically and morphologically distinctive woodpecker finch from San Cristobal Island", published in 2024 in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Collaborations have been an aspect of Petren's research approach, frequently co-authoring with colleagues such as Lucinda P. Lawson, Erwin Nemeth, Michael Dvorak, Francesca Cunninghame, and Birgit Feßl. Their publication record also reflects a connection to the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society as a frequent venue for dissemination.

Petren's work integrates aspects of ecology and genetics to explore population structure and species differentiation, notably within avian species. The study of avian ecology and behavior, combined with genetic research methods, contributes to understanding biodiversity and evolutionary patterns in natural habitats like the Galapagos Islands.

Their interdisciplinary scope brings together molecular biology techniques with ecological observations, bridging laboratory-based genetic insights and field-based behavioral studies. This approach is evident in their interest in both environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, illustrating an engagement with both organismal biology and the broader ecological context.

Best Publications

  • A comparative analysis of clinging ability among pad‐bearing lizards

    Duncan J. Irschick;Christopher C. Austin;Ken Petren;Robert N. Fisher;Robert N. Fisher

  • An experimental demonstration of exploitation competition in an ongoing invasion

    Kenneth Petren;Ted J. Case

  • A phylogeny of Darwin's finches based on microsatellite DNA length variation

    Kenneth Petren;B. Rosemary Grant;Peter R. Grant

  • Invasions and Competitive Displacement among House Geckos in the Tropical Pacific

    Ted J. Case;Douglas T. Bolger;Ken Petren

  • Environmental conditions affect the magnitude of inbreeding depression in survival of Darwin's finches.

    Lukas F. Keller;Peter R. Grant;B. Rosemary Grant;Kenneth Petren

  • Comparative landscape genetics and the adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches: the role of peripheral isolation.

    K. Petren;P. R. Grant;B. R. Grant;L. F. Keller

  • Colonization and diversification of Galápagos terrestrial fauna: a phylogenetic and biogeographical synthesis.

    Christine E Parent;Adalgisa Caccone;Kenneth Petren

  • CONVERGENT EVOLUTION OF DARWIN'S FINCHES CAUSED BY INTROGRESSIVE HYBRIDIZATION AND SELECTION

    Peter R. Grant;B. Rosemary Grant;Jeffrey A. Markert;Jeffrey A. Markert;Jeffrey A. Markert;Lukas F. Keller

  • Hybridization in the Recent Past

    Peter R. Grant;B. Rosemary Grant;K. Petren

  • Experimental ecology : issues and perspectives

    William J. Resetarits;Joseph Bernardo

  • Effects of El Niño events on Darwin's finch productivity

    Peter R. Grant;B. Rosemary Grant;Lukas F. Keller;Kenneth Petren

  • Habitat structure determines competition intensity and invasion success in gecko lizards

    Kenneth Petren;Ted J. Case

  • Mechanisms in the Competitive Success of an Invading Sexual Gecko over an Asexual Native.

    Kenneth Petren;Douglas T. Bolger;Ted J. Case

  • Microsatellite primers from Geospiza fortis and cross-species amplification in Darwin's finches.

    K. Petren

  • Behavioural mechanisms of invasion and displacement in Pacific island geckos (Hemidactylus)

    Elizabeth A. Dame;Kenneth Petren

  • Heritability of morphological traits in Darwin’s Finches: misidentified paternity and maternal effects

    L F Keller;P R Grant;B R Grant;K Petren

  • Boldness underlies foraging success of invasive Lepidodactylus lugubris geckos in the human landscape.

    Kristen Harfmann Short;Kenneth Petren

  • Development of habitat structure through succession in an Amazonian floodplain forest

    J. Terborgh;K. Petren

  • 110 years of Avipoxvirus in the Galapagos Islands.

    Patricia G. Parker;Elizabeth L Buckles;Heather L. Farrington;Kenneth Petren

  • A PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF BODY SIZE EVOLUTION AND BIOGEOGRAPHY IN CHUCKWALLAS (SAUROMALUS) AND OTHER IGUANINES.

    Kenneth Petren;Ted J. Case

  • The allopatric phase of speciation: the sharp-beaked ground finch (Geospiza difficilis) on the Galápagos islands

    Peter R. Grant;B. Rosemary Grant;Kenneth Petren

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter R. Grant
Peter R. Grant Princeton University
B. Rosemary Grant
B. Rosemary Grant Princeton University
Lukas F. Keller
Lukas F. Keller University of Zurich
Ted J. Case
Ted J. Case University of California, San Diego
Robert N. Fisher
Robert N. Fisher United States Geological Survey
Noah K. Whiteman
Noah K. Whiteman University of California, Berkeley
Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs University of Missouri–St. Louis
Antonis Rokas
Antonis Rokas Vanderbilt University
Patricia G. Parker
Patricia G. Parker University of Missouri–St. Louis
Scott M. Williams
Scott M. Williams Case Western Reserve University

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