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75
Citations
24983
World Ranking
1049
National Ranking
393

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1990 - George Mercer Award, The Ecological Society of America

Overview

Richard Karban is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science.

Their work covers several main topics including Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Insect and Pesticide Research, and Forest Insect Ecology and Management.

Recent publications by Richard Karban include the following papers:

  • Plant Communication, 2021, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Other notable papers from the recent data, though not all authored by Karban, illustrate the context of relevant research areas:

  • Advances in the Evolution and Ecology of 13- and 17-Year Periodical Cicadas, 2021, Annual Review of Entomology
  • Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory, 2023, Science
  • Mucilage binding to ground protects seeds of many plants from harvester ants: A functional investigation, 2021, Functional Ecology
  • Risk of herbivory negatively correlates with the diversity of volatile emissions involved in plant communication, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors associated with Richard Karban include:

  • Patrick Grof-Tisza
  • Adam Pepi
  • Vincent S. Pan
  • Mikaela Huntzinger
  • Kaori Shiojiri

Richard Karban's publications commonly appear in venues such as Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Oecologia, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Arthropod-Plant Interactions, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

In addition to articles, Richard Karban has published books through Princeton University Press. Two editions of a book titled "How to Do Ecology" were published in 2023.

The scientist has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009, Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2017, and the George Mercer Award from The Ecological Society of America in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Induced Responses to Herbivory

    Richard Karban;Ian T. Baldwin

  • Induced plant responses and information content about risk of herbivory.

    Richard Karban;Anurag A. Agrawal;Jennifer S. Thaler;Lynn S. Adler

  • Induced Plant Responses to Herbivory

    R. Karban;J. H. Myers

  • Explaining evolution of plant communication by airborne signals.

    Martin Heil;Richard Karban

  • Communication between plants : induced resistance in wild tobacco plants following clipping of neighboring sagebrush

    R. Karban;I. T. Baldwin;K. J. Baxter;G. Laue

  • The ecology and evolution of induced resistance against herbivores

    Richard Karban

  • The ecosystem and evolutionary contexts of allelopathy

    Inderjit;David A. Wardle;Richard Karban;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Exogenous jasmonates simulate insect wounding in tomato plants (Lycopersicon esculentum) in the laboratory and field.

    Jennifer S. Thaler;Michael J. Stout;Richard Karban;Sean S. Duffey

  • Damage-induced resistance in sagebrush: volatiles are key to intra- and interplant communication.

    Richard Karban;Kaori Shiojiri;Mikaela Huntzinger;Andrew C. McCall

  • Jasmonate-mediated induced plant resistance affects a community of herbivores.

    Jennifer S. Thaler;Michael J. Stout;Richard Karban;Sean S. Duffey

  • Plant behaviour and communication

    Richard Karban

  • Breakdown of an ant-plant mutualism follows the loss of large herbivores from an African savanna.

    Todd M. Palmer;Maureen L. Stanton;Truman P. Young;Jacob R. Goheen

  • Volatile communication between plants that affects herbivory: a meta‐analysis

    Richard Karban;Louie H. Yang;Kyle F. Edwards

  • THE BENEFITS OF INDUCED DEFENSES AGAINST HERBIVORES

    Richard Karban;Anurag A. Agrawal;Marc Mangel

  • Cross-talk between jasmonate and salicylate plant defense pathways: effects on several plant parasites

    Jennifer S. Thaler;Richard Karban;Diane E. Ullman;Karina Boege

  • Variability in plant nutrients reduces insect herbivore performance

    William C. Wetzel;William C. Wetzel;Heather M. Kharouba;Heather M. Kharouba;Moria Robinson;Marcel Holyoak

  • Induced resistance of cotton seedlings to mites.

    Richard Karban;James R. Carey

  • WHY INDUCED DEFENSES MAY BE FAVORED OVER CONSTITUTIVE STRATEGIES IN PLANTS

    Anurag A. Agrawal;Richard Karban

  • Induced resistance and interspecific competition between spider mites and a vascular wilt fungus.

    Richard Karban;Rodney Adamchak;William C. Schnathorst

  • Kin recognition affects plant communication and defence

    Richard Karban;Kaori Shiojiri;Satomi Ishizaki;William C. Wetzel

  • Defended Fortresses or Moving Targets? Another Model of Inducible Defenses Inspired by Military Metaphors

    Frederick R. Adler;Richard Karban

  • Damage to sagebrush attracts predators but this does not reduce herbivory

    Richard Karban

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel Holyoak
Marcel Holyoak University of California, Davis
Jennifer S. Thaler
Jennifer S. Thaler Cornell University
Ian S. Pearse
Ian S. Pearse United States Geological Survey
Sharon Y. Strauss
Sharon Y. Strauss University of California, Davis
Ian T. Baldwin
Ian T. Baldwin Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Anurag A. Agrawal
Anurag A. Agrawal Cornell University
Louie H. Yang
Louie H. Yang University of California, Davis
John L. Orrock
John L. Orrock University of Wisconsin–Madison
James D. Blande
James D. Blande University of Eastern Finland
John L. Maron
John L. Maron University of Montana

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