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8273
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1801

Overview

Lawrence J. Weider is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with significant contributions in related subfields such as environmental chemistry, ecology, genetics, nature and landscape conservation, and plant science.

The scientist has contributed to studies across several main topics, including:

  • Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Evolution and genetic dynamics
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Wildlife ecology and conservation
  • Animal ecology and behavior studies

Lawrence J. Weider's publications appear in a range of scientific journals and venues, with notable frequent publication sites such as:

  • Molecular Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für Hydrobiologie
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications

Some recent papers by Weider include:

  • High genomic diversity in the bank vole at the northern apex of a range expansion: The role of multiple colonizations and end-glacial refugia (2020, Molecular Ecology)
  • Resurrection genomics provides molecular and phenotypic evidence of rapid adaptation to salinization in a keystone aquatic species (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • The roles of recombination and selection in shaping genomic divergence in an incipient ecological species complex (2022, Molecular Ecology)
  • Local adaptation and future climate vulnerability in a wild rodent (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Quantitative genetics of phosphorus content in the freshwater herbivore, Daphnia pulicaria (2020, Journal of Animal Ecology)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with coauthors including Matthew J. Wersebe, Emily L. Kiehnau, Silvia Marková, Michaela Horníková, and Hayley C. Lanier. Matthew J. Wersebe in particular appears as a common collaborator on various projects.

Best Publications

  • Biological stoichiometry from genes to ecosystems.

    James Elser;R. W. Sterner;E. Gorokhova;W. F. Fagan

  • Rapid evolution revealed by dormant eggs

    Nelson G. Hairston;Winfried Lampert;Carla E. Cáceres;Cami L. Holtmeier

  • NATURAL SELECTION FOR GRAZER RESISTANCE TO TOXIC CYANOBACTERIA: EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY?

    N. G. Hairston Jr.;C. L. Holtmeier;W. Lampert;L. J. Weider

  • Impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus: from genomes to natural ecosystems and agriculture

    Maïté S. Guignard;Andrew R. Leitch;Claudia Acquisti;Christophe Eizaguirre

  • A millennial-scale chronicle of evolutionary responses to cultural eutrophication in Daphnia.

    Dagmar Frisch;Philip K. Morton;Priyanka Roy Chowdhury;Billy W. Culver

  • Measurement of the carbon balance in Daphnia

    Michael Lynch;Lawrence J. Weider;Winfried Lampert

  • Plasticity of Daphnia life histories in response to chemical cues from predators

    Lawrence J. Weider;Joanna Pijanowska

  • A new approach to historical reconstruction: Combining descriptive and experimental paleolimnology

    W. Charles Kerfoot;John A. Robbins;Lawrence J. Weider

  • The Functional Significance of Ribosomal (r)DNA Variation: Impacts on the Evolutionary Ecology of Organisms

    Lawrence J. Weider;James J. Elser;Teresa J. Crease;Mariana Mateos

  • Phylogenetics and evolution of a circumarctic species complex (Cladocera: Daphnia pulex)

    J. K. Colbourne;T. J. Crease;L. J. Weider;P. D. N. Hebert

  • CLONAL-DIVERSITY PATTERNS AND BREEDING-SYSTEM VARIATION IN DAPHNIA PULEX, AN ASEXUAL-SEXUAL COMPLEX

    Paul D. N. Hebert;Robert D. Ward;Lawrence J. Weider

  • Genome streamlining and the elemental costs of growth

    Dag O. Hessen;Punidan D. Jeyasingh;Maurine Neiman;Lawrence J. Weider

  • Long-term genetic shifts in a microcrustacean egg bank associated with anthropogenic changes in the Lake Constance ecosystem

    Lawrence J. Weider;Winfried Lampert;Martin Wessels;John K. Colbourne

  • Alternative antipredator defences and genetic polymorphism in a pelagic predator–prey system

    Luc De Meester;Lawrence J. Weider;Ralph Tollrian

  • Ecological and Physiological Differentiation Among Low‐Artic Clones of Daphnia Pulex

    Lawrence J. Weider;Paul D. N. Hebert

  • Differential response of Daphnia genotypes to oxygen stress: respiration rates, hemoglobin content and low-oxygen tolerance

    Lawrence J. Weider;Winfried Lampert

  • Experimental paleoecology (resurrection ecology): Chasing Van Valen's Red Queen hypothesis

    W. Charles Kerfoot;Lawrence J. Weider

  • The evolutionary time machine: using dormant propagules to forecast how populations can adapt to changing environments

    Luisa Orsini;Luisa Orsini;Klaus Schwenk;Luc De Meester;John Kenneth Colbourne

  • HOLARCTIC PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF AN ASEXUAL SPECIES COMPLEX I. MITOCHONDRIAL DNA VARIATION IN ARCTIC DAPHNIA.

    Lawrence J. Weider;Anders Hobæk;John K. Colbourne;Teresa J. Crease

  • The evolution of salinity tolerance in Daphnia: a functional genomics approach.

    Leigh C. Latta;Lawrence J. Weider;John K. Colbourne;Michael E. Pfrender

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. N. Hebert
Paul D. N. Hebert University of Guelph
John K. Colbourne
John K. Colbourne University of Birmingham
James J. Elser
James J. Elser University of Montana
Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
Dag O. Hessen
Dag O. Hessen University of Oslo
Winfried Lampert
Winfried Lampert Max Planck Society
Joachim Mergeay
Joachim Mergeay Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Jotaro Urabe
Jotaro Urabe Tohoku University
Kumud Acharya
Kumud Acharya Desert Research Institute
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University

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