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1986

Overview

Michael Salmon is affiliated with Florida Atlantic University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science with a focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Genetics.

The main topics they have addressed in their work include Turtle Biology and Conservation, Avian ecology and behavior, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Marine animal studies overview, Physiological and biochemical adaptations, and Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

Their recent publications cover a range of subjects primarily related to marine turtles and ecological behaviors. These include:

  • Adaptation of sea turtles to climate warming: Will phenological responses be sufficient to counteract changes in reproductive output? (2023, Global Change Biology)
  • Linking Ecology, Morphology, and Behavior to Conservation: Lessons Learned from Studies of Sea Turtles (2020, Integrative and Comparative Biology)
  • Evidence for Synchronous Hatching in Marine Turtle (Caretta caretta) Embryos and Its Influence on the Timing of Nest Emergence (2021, Chelonian Conservation and Biology)
  • Differences in visual perception are correlated with variation in sea-finding behaviour between hatchling leatherback, Dermochelys coriacea, and loggerhead, Caretta caretta, marine turtles (2022, Animal Behaviour)
  • Impact of Sargassum Accumulations on Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) Hatchling Recruitment in SE Florida, U.S.A. (2022, Journal of Coastal Research)

The scientist has frequently collaborated with colleagues such as Jeanette Wyneken, Samantha E. Trail, Mariana M. P. B. Fuentes, Armando J. B. Santos, and F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois.

Their research has been published multiple times in the following venues:

  • Chelonian Conservation and Biology (2 publications)
  • Global Change Biology (1 publication)
  • Animal Behaviour (1 publication)
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology (1 publication)
  • Journal of Coastal Research (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF MATING SYSTEMS OF FIDDLER CRABS (GENUS UCA)

    John H. Christy;Michael Salmon

  • Acoustic detection and communication by decapod crustaceans.

    Arthur N. Popper;Michael Salmon;Kenneth W. Horch

  • Combat in the Fiddler Crabs Uca Pugilator and U. Pugnax: a Quantitative Analysis

    Gary W. Hyatt;Michael Salmon

  • Frenzy and Postfrenzy Swimming Activity in Loggerhead, Green, and Leatherback Hatchling Sea Turtles

    Jeanette Wyneken;Michael Salmon

  • Home range and habitat use of juvenile Atlantic green turtles (Chelonia mydas L.) on shallow reef habitats in Palm Beach, Florida, USA

    Christopher Makowski;Jeffrey A. Seminoff;Michael Salmon

  • Egg Failure in Natural and Relocated Sea Turtle Nests

    J. Wyneken;T. J. Burke;M. Salmon;D. K. Pedersen

  • Orientation, Navigation, and Natal Beach Homing in Sea Turtles

    Kenneth J. Lohmann;Blair E. Witherington;Catherine M. F. Lohmann;Michael Salmon

  • Competitive interactions between artificial lighting and natural cues during seafinding by hatchling marine turtles

    Susan M. Tuxbury;Michael Salmon

  • Orientation and swimming behavior of hatchling loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta L. during their offshore migration

    Michael Salmon;Jeanette Wyneken

  • EffEcts of ArtificiAl Night lightiNg oN AmphibiANs ANd rEptilEs iN UrbAN ENviroNmENts

    Gad Perry;Bryant W. Buchanan;Robert N. Fisher;Mike Salmon

  • Artificial night lighting and sea turtles

    Michael Salmon

  • Visual and Acoustical Signalling during Courtship by Fiddler Crabs (Genus Uca)

    Michael Salmon;Samuel P. Atsaides

  • Seafinding By Hatchling Sea Turtles: Role of Brightness, Silhouette and Beach Slope as Orientation Cues

    Michael Salmon;Jeanette Wyneken;Elizabeth Fritz;Mark Lucas

  • GEOMAGNETIC ORIENTATION OF LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLES: EVIDENCE FOR AN INCLINATION COMPASS

    Phillip Light;Michael Salmon;Kenneth J. Lohmann

  • The courtship, aggression and mating system of a “primitive” fiddler crab (Uca vocans: Ocypodidae)

    Michael Salmon

  • On the Reproductive Behavior of the Fiddler Crab Uca thayeri, with Comparisons to U. pugilator and U. vocans: Evidence for Behavioral Convergence

    Michael Salmon

  • BEHAVIOR OF LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLES ON AN URBAN BEACH. I: CORRELATES OF NEST PLACEMENT

    Michael Salmon;Raymond Reiners;Craig Lavin;Jeanette Wyneken

  • Communal Nursing in Mice: Influence of Multiple Mothers on the Growth of the Young

    Anne Sayler;Michael Salmon

  • An Ethological Analysis of Communal Nursing By the House Mouse (Mus Musculus)

    Anne Sayler;Michael Salmon

  • Natural history and social organization of the semiterrestrial grapsid crab Pachygrapsus transversus (Gibbes)

    Lawrence G. Abele;Paul J. Campanella;Michael Salmon

  • The behavior and ecology of snapping shrimp (Crustacea: Alpheus heterochelis and Alpheus normanni )

    B. A. Nolan;M. Salmon

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth J. Lohmann
Kenneth J. Lohmann University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard B. Forward
Richard B. Forward Duke University
Mark T. Hamann
Mark T. Hamann Medical University of South Carolina
John H. Christy
John H. Christy Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Steven G. Morgan
Steven G. Morgan University of California, Davis
Gregory S. Whitt
Gregory S. Whitt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Arthur N. Popper
Arthur N. Popper University of Maryland, College Park
Michael E. Q. Pilson
Michael E. Q. Pilson University of Rhode Island
Osmund Holm-Hansen
Osmund Holm-Hansen University of California, San Diego
John E. Randall
John E. Randall Bernice P. Bishop Museum

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