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  • 2017 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Priyanga Amarasekare is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with specific emphasis on ecology, ecological modeling, genetics, and global and planetary change. The scientist's work spans several subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Key topics within Amarasekare's research include physiological and biochemical adaptations, species distribution and climate change, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, evolution and genetic dynamics, plant and animal studies, animal behavior and reproduction, and evolutionary game theory and cooperation.

Amarasekare's recent published papers encompass a range of ecological and biological subjects. Notable works include:

  • Latitudinal directionality in ectotherm invasion success (2020), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Predicting the fundamental thermal niche of ectotherms (2024), published in Ecology
  • Surviving Racism and Sexism in Academia: Sharing Experiences, Insights, and Perspectives (2022), published in Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
  • Persistence of tri-trophic interactions in seasonal environments (2020), published in Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Predicting the Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases in a Warming World (2022), published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent publication venues for Amarasekare include:

  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Amarasekare has collaborated regularly with several coauthors in their field. Frequent collaborators include Margaret W. Simon, Rosa M. McGuire, Robert M. Ewers, C. David L. Orme, and Guilherme Casas Goncalves.

Recognition of Amarasekare's contributions includes being named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology

    M. A. Leibold;M. Holyoak;N. Mouquet;N. Mouquet;P. Amarasekare

  • Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Priyanga Amarasekare;Márcio S. Araújo;Reinhard Bürger

  • Pollen limitation of plant reproduction: Ecological and evolutionary causes and consequences

    Tia-Lynn Ashman;Tiffany M Knight;Janette A Steets;Priyanga Amarasekare

  • Competitive coexistence in spatially structured environments: a synthesis

    Priyanga Amarasekare

  • Spatial heterogeneity, source-sink dynamics, and the local coexistence of competing species.

    Priyanga Amarasekare;Roger M. Nisbet

  • The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities.

    Mark C. Urban;Mathew A. Leibold;Priyanga Amarasekare;Luc De Meester

  • Interference competition and species coexistence.

    Priyanga Amarasekare

  • Allee effects in metapopulation dynamics.

    Priyanga Amarasekare

  • A framework for elucidating the temperature dependence of fitness.

    Priyanga Amarasekare;Van Savage

  • Spatial Dynamics of Foodwebs

    Priyanga Amarasekare

  • Mechanisms of coexistence in competitive metacommunities

    Priyanga Amarasekare;Martha F. Hoopes;Nicolas Mouquet;Marcel Holyoak

  • INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LOCAL DYNAMICS AND DISPERSAL : INSIGHTS FROM SINGLE SPECIES MODELS

    Priyanga Amarasekare

  • Effects of warming on predator-prey interactions - a resource-based approach and a theoretical synthesis.

    Wojciech Uszko;Sebastian Diehl;Göran Englund;Priyanga Amarasekare

  • Coexistence of competing parasitoids on a patchily distributed host: local vs. spatial mechanisms

    Priyanga Amarasekare

  • The role of density-dependent dispersal in source-sink dynamics.

    Priyanga Amarasekare

  • Patch Dynamics and Metapopulation Theory: The Case of Successional Species

    Priyanga Amarasekare;Hugh P. Possingham

  • Alternative stable states and regional community structure.

    Jonathan B. Shurin;Priyanga Amarasekare;Jonathan M. Chase;Robert D. Holt

  • Effects of temperature on consumer-resource interactions.

    Priyanga Amarasekare

  • Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics Enable Coexistence via Neighbor-Dependent Selection

    David A. Vasseur;Priyanga Amarasekare;Volker H. W. Rudolf;Jonathan M. Levine

  • Predicting phenological shifts in a changing climate.

    Katherine Scranton;Priyanga Amarasekare

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan M. Chase
Jonathan M. Chase Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Tiffany M. Knight
Tiffany M. Knight Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Robert D. Holt
Robert D. Holt University of Florida
Nicolas Mouquet
Nicolas Mouquet University of Montpellier
Mathew A. Leibold
Mathew A. Leibold University of Florida
David A. Vasseur
David A. Vasseur Yale University
Jonathan B. Shurin
Jonathan B. Shurin University of California, San Diego
Ulrich Brose
Ulrich Brose Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jonathan M. Levine
Jonathan M. Levine Princeton University
Mark C. Urban
Mark C. Urban University of Connecticut

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