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1457
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533

Overview

Lauren J. Chapman is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and aquatic science. Their work spans several specialized subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their main areas of study include fish ecology and management, physiological and biochemical adaptations, aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as fish biology, ecology, and behavior. They have also contributed to research concerning aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior and marine and fisheries research.

Frequent publication venues for their research include the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Environmental Biology of Fishes, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Great Lakes Research, and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Among Lauren J. Chapman's recent papers are:

  • Cycles of fusion and fission enabled rapid parallel adaptive radiations in African cichlids, 2023, Science
  • The future of sub-Saharan Africa's biodiversity in the face of climate and societal change, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Coping with climate change: Phenotypic plasticity in an imperilled freshwater fish in response to elevated water temperature, 2021, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Caribbean mangrove forests act as coral refugia by reducing light stress and increasing coral richness, 2021, Ecosphere
  • Take time to look at the fish: Behavioral response to acute thermal challenge in two Amazonian cichlids, 2021, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology

Their frequent co-authors include Anthony Taabu-Munyaho, Nicholas E. Mandrak, Erin K. Francispillai, Stefan Mucha, and Rüdiger Krahe, each of whom has collaborated on multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Ecological constraints on group size : an analysis of spider monkey and chimpanzee subgroups

    Colin A. Chapman;Richard W. Wrangham;Lauren J. Chapman

  • Estimators of Fruit Abundance of Tropical Trees1

    Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Richard Wangham;Kevin Hunt

  • Biodiversity and Fishery Sustainability in the Lake Victoria Basin: An Unexpected Marriage?

    John S. Balirwa;Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Ian G. Cowx

  • A long-term evaluation of fruiting phenology: importance of climate change

    Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Thomas T. Struhsaker;Amy E. Zanne

  • Fruit and flower phenology at two sites in Kibale National Park, Uganda

    C. A. Chapman;R. W. Wrangham;L. J. Chapman;D. K. Kennard

  • Indices of Habitat-wide Fruit Abundance in Tropical Forests1

    Colin A. Chapman;Richard Wrangham;Lauren J. Chapman

  • Physiological refugia: swamps, hypoxia tolerance and maintenance of fish diversity in the Lake Victoria region.

    Lauren J Chapman;Colin A Chapman;Colin A Chapman;Frank G Nordlie;Amanda E Rosenberger

  • Forest Regeneration in Logged and Unlogged Forests of Kibale National Park, Uganda

    Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman

  • Survival without Dispersers: Seedling Recruitment under Parents

    Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman

  • Land use and the ecology of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages of high‐altitude rainforest streams in Uganda

    Aventino Kasangaki;Lauren J. Chapman;John Balirwa

  • Variation in the Nutritional Value of Primate Foods: Among Trees, Time Periods, and Areas

    Colin A. Chapman;Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Karyn D. Rode;Erin M. Hauck

  • Seed dispersal by forest chimpanzees in Uganda

    Richard W. Wrangham;Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman

  • Foraging challenges of red colobus monkeys: influence of nutrients and secondary compounds.

    Colin A Chapman;Lauren J Chapman;Lauren J Chapman

  • Forest Restoration in Abandoned Agricultural Land: a Case Study from East Africa

    Colin A. Chapman;Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman

  • Constraints on Group Size in Red Colobus and Red-tailed Guenons: Examining the Generality of the Ecological Constraints Model

    Colin A. Chapman;Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman

  • Spatial and temporal variability in the structure of a tropical forest

    C. A. Chapman;L. J. Chapman;R. Wrangham;G. Isabirye-Basuta

  • Application of Protein-to-Fiber Ratios to Predict Colobine Abundance on Different Spatial Scales

    Colin A. Chapman;Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Karen A. Bjorndal;Daphne A. Onderdonk

  • Frugivory and the fate of dispersed and non-dispersed seeds of six African tree species

    Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman

  • Nuclear markers reveal unexpected genetic variation and a Congolese-Nilotic origin of the Lake Victoria cichlid species flock.

    Ole Seehausen;Ole Seehausen;Egbert Koetsier;Maria Victoria Schneider;Lauren J. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman

  • Predicting folivorous primate abundance: Validation of a nutritional model

    Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Michael J. Lawes

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE Predicting Folivorous Primate Abundance: Validation of a Nutritional Model

    Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Michael J. Lawes

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin A. Chapman
Colin A. Chapman Vancouver Island University
Les Kaufman
Les Kaufman Boston University
Ole Seehausen
Ole Seehausen University of Bern
Richard W. Wrangham
Richard W. Wrangham Harvard University
Amy E. Zanne
Amy E. Zanne University of Miami
Joel N. Hartter
Joel N. Hartter University of Colorado Boulder
Joanna E. Lambert
Joanna E. Lambert University of Colorado Boulder
Michael J. Lawes
Michael J. Lawes University of KwaZulu-Natal
Lee Russell McDowell
Lee Russell McDowell University of Florida
Andrew P. Hendry
Andrew P. Hendry McGill University

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