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Ecology and Evolution

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99
Citations
49356
World Ranking
288
National Ranking
118

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1998 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Raymond B. Huey is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with particular attention to ecology, ecological modeling, and global and planetary change. Their work also intersects with genetics and broader fields encompassing ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's main topics of research include species distribution and climate change, amphibian and reptile biology, physiological and biochemical adaptations, animal behavior and reproduction, wildlife ecology and conservation, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, and climate change and health impacts.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Raymond B. Huey include Donald B. Miles, Michael Kearney, Lauren B. Buckley, Barry Sinervo, and Jeffrey E. Lovich.

Major publication venues for their work consist of Science, Ecology Letters, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Raymond B. Huey are:

  • Three questions about the eco-physiology of overwintering underground, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Mountaineers on Mount Everest: Effects of age, sex, experience, and crowding on rates of success and death, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Lizards, toepads, and the ghost of hurricanes past, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Other relevant research papers from frequent co-authors include:

  • Asymmetry of thermal sensitivity and the thermal risk of climate change, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Modelling the joint effects of body size and microclimate on heat budgets and foraging opportunities of ectotherms, 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Raymond B. Huey has been recognized with several awards, including Fellow status at the Ecological Society of America in 2017, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007, and Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude.

    Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Raymond B. Huey;Kimberly S. Sheldon

  • Integrating Thermal Physiology and Ecology of Ectotherms: A Discussion of Approaches

    Raymond B. Huey;R.D. Stevenson

  • Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: roles of behaviour, physiology and adaptation

    Raymond B. Huey;Michael R. Kearney;Andrew Krockenberger;Joseph A. M. Holtum

  • Evolution of thermal sensitivity of ectotherm performance.

    Raymond B. Huey;Joel G. Kingsolver

  • Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate

    Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Michelle Tigchelaar;David S. Battisti

  • Cost and benefits of lizard thermoregulation.

    Raymond B. Huey;Montgomery Slatkin

  • Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation

    Jennifer M. Sunday;Jennifer M. Sunday;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates;Michael R. Kearney;Robert K. Colwell;Robert K. Colwell

  • PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF HABITAT SELECTION

    Raymond B. Huey

  • Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals

    Joshua J. Tewksbury;Raymond B. Huey;Curtis A. Deutsch

  • Why tropical forest lizards are vulnerable to climate warming

    Raymond B. Huey;Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Laurie J. Vitt

  • Global metabolic impacts of recent climate warming

    Michael E. Dillon;George Wang;George Wang;Raymond B. Huey

  • Evaluating temperature regulation by field-active ectotherms: the fallacy of the inappropriate question.

    Paul E. Hertz;Raymond B. Huey;R. D. Stevenson

  • Size, temperature, and fitness: Three rules

    Joel G. Kingsolver;Raymond B. Huey

  • Rapid evolution of a geographic cline in size in an introduced fly.

    Raymond B. Huey;George W. Gilchrist;Margen L. Carlson;David Berrigan

  • Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures

    Brent J. Sinclair;Katie E. Marshall;Mary A. Sewell;Danielle L. Levesque

  • Are mountain passes higher in the tropics? Janzen's hypothesis revisited

    Cameron K. Ghalambor;Raymond B. Huey;Paul R. Martin;Joshua J. Tewksbury

  • Behavioral drive versus behavioral inertia in evolution: a null model approach.

    Raymond B. Huey;Paul E. Hertz;B. Sinervo

  • Climate change tightens a metabolic constraint on marine habitats

    Curtis Deutsch;Aaron Ferrel;Brad Seibel;Hans Otto Pörtner

  • Why “Suboptimal” Is Optimal: Jensen’s Inequality and Ectotherm Thermal Preferences

    Tara Laine Martin;Raymond B. Huey

  • PHYLOGENETIC STUDIES OF COADAPTATION: PREFERRED TEMPERATURES VERSUS OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE TEMPERATURES OF LIZARDS.

    Raymond B. Huey;Albert F. Bennett

  • Biotic interactions and global change

    Peter M. Kareiva;Joel G. Kingsolver;Raymond B. Huey

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric R. Pianka
Eric R. Pianka The University of Texas at Austin
Joel G. Kingsolver
Joel G. Kingsolver University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Albert F. Bennett
Albert F. Bennett University of California, Irvine
Theodore Garland
Theodore Garland University of California, Riverside
Joshua J. Tewksbury
Joshua J. Tewksbury University of Colorado Boulder
Curtis Deutsch
Curtis Deutsch Princeton University
Patricia Gibert
Patricia Gibert Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Marta Pascual
Marta Pascual University of Barcelona
Barry Sinervo
Barry Sinervo University of California, Santa Cruz
Lauren B. Buckley
Lauren B. Buckley University of Washington

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