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Overview

R. Brian Langerhans is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with a primary focus on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's work covers subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Genetics.

Central topics in their research include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Marine and Fisheries Research, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, and Plant and Animal Studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Langerhans comprise Kaj Hulthén, P. Anders Nilsson, Christer Brönmark, Jerker Vinterstare, and Lars-Anders Hansson.

The scientist has published in various venues multiple times. Publications frequently appear in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Journal of Animal Ecology, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, Ocean & Coastal Management, and Ecology and Evolution.

Some recent papers include:

  • Fluctuating selection maintains distinct species phenotypes in an ecological community in the wild, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Diel vertical migration of copepods and its environmental drivers in subtropical Bahamian blue holes, 2020, Aquatic Ecology
  • Natural and anthropogenic sources of habitat variation influence exploration behaviour, stress response, and brain morphology in a coastal fish, 2021, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Inland blue holes of The Bahamas - chemistry and biology in a unique aquatic environment, 2020, Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für Hydrobiologie
  • Predation shapes behavioral lateralization: insights from an adaptive radiation of livebearing fish, 2021, Behavioral Ecology

Best Publications

  • PREDATOR‐DRIVEN PHENOTYPIC DIVERSIFICATION IN GAMBUSIA AFFINIS

    R. Brian Langerhans;Craig A. Layman;A. Mona Shokrollahi;Thomas J. DeWitt

  • Shared and Unique Features of Evolutionary Diversification

    R. Brian Langerhans;Thomas J. DeWitt

  • Habitat‐associated morphological divergence in two Neotropical fish species

    R. Brian Langerhans;Craig A. Layman;Aimee K. Langerhans;Thomas J. Dewitt

  • Predictability of phenotypic differentiation across flow regimes in fishes

    R Brian Langerhans

  • Ecology and Evolution of Swimming Performance in Fishes: Predicting Evolution with Biomechanics

    R. Brian Langerhans;David N. Reznick

  • ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION IN GAMBUSIA FISHES

    R. Brian Langerhans;Matthew E. Gifford;Everton O. Joseph

  • Ecological correlates of risk and incidence of West Nile virus in the United States

    Brian F. Allan;R. Brian Langerhans;Wade A. Ryberg;William J. Landesman

  • Trade‐off between steady and unsteady swimming underlies predator‐driven divergence in Gambusia affinis

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  • Male genital size reflects a tradeoff between attracting mates and avoiding predators in two live-bearing fish species

    R. Brian Langerhans;Craig A. Layman;Thomas J. DeWitt

  • Ecology and Evolution of Swimming Performance in Fishes : Predicting Evolution with Biomechanics

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  • Ecological opportunity and the adaptive diversification of lineages.

    Gary A. Wellborn;R. Brian Langerhans

  • Rapid temporal reversal in predator-driven natural selection.

    Jonathan B. Losos;Thomas W. Schoener;R. Brian Langerhans;David A. Spiller

  • Body shape, burst speed and escape behavior of larval anurans

    Gage H. Dayton;Daniel Saenz;Kristen A. Baum;R. Brian Langerhans

  • Inter-annual associations between precipitation and human incidence of West Nile virus in the United States.

    William J. Landesman;Brian F. Allan;R. Brian Langerhans;Tiffany M. Knight

  • Evolutionary consequences of predation: avoidance, escape, reproduction, and diversification

    R. Brian Langerhans

  • Plasticity constrained: over-generalized induction cues cause maladaptive phenotypes

    R. Brian Langerhans;Thomas J. DeWitt

  • Morphology, performance, fitness: functional insight into a post-Pleistocene radiation of mosquitofish

    R. Brian Langerhans

  • Multiple prey traits, multiple predators: keys to understanding complex community dynamics

    Thomas J. DeWitt;R.Brian Langerhans

  • Correlated evolution of personality, morphology and performance.

    Elizabeth M.A. Kern;Detric Robinson;Erika Gass;John Godwin

  • Predation’s Role in Life-History Evolution of a Livebearing Fish and a Test of the Trexler-DeAngelis Model of Maternal Provisioning

    Rüdiger Riesch;Ryan A. Martin;R. Brian Langerhans

  • SHARED AND UNIQUE FEATURES OF DIVERSIFICATION IN GREATER ANTILLEAN ANOLIS ECOMORPHS

    R. Brian Langerhans;Jason H. Knouft;Jonathan B. Losos

  • Speciation by selection: A framework for understanding ecology's role in speciation

    R. Brian Langerhans;Rüdiger Riesch

Frequent Co-Authors

Rüdiger Riesch
Rüdiger Riesch Royal Holloway University of London
Craig A. Layman
Craig A. Layman Wake Forest University
P. Anders Nilsson
P. Anders Nilsson Lund University
M. Nils Peterson
M. Nils Peterson North Carolina State University
Christer Brönmark
Christer Brönmark Lund University
Lars-Anders Hansson
Lars-Anders Hansson Lund University
Karin Rengefors
Karin Rengefors Lund University
Martin Plath
Martin Plath Universidade de São Paulo
David N. Reznick
David N. Reznick University of California, Riverside
Jonathan B. Losos
Jonathan B. Losos Washington University in St. Louis

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