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Richard M. Sibly is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Genetics.

Their work addresses various main topics, including:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction

Recent publications by Richard M. Sibly include:

  • "Multiple environmental controls explain global patterns in soil animal communities," 2020, published in Oecologia
  • "Assessing the sublethal impacts of anthropogenic stressors on fish: An energy-budget approach," 2020, Fish and Fisheries
  • "The importance of including habitat-specific behaviour in models of butterfly movement," 2020, Oecologia
  • "Simulating the summer feeding distribution of Northeast Atlantic mackerel with a mechanistic individual-based model," 2020, Progress In Oceanography
  • "Potential Consequences of Climate and Management Scenarios for the Northeast Atlantic Mackerel Fishery," 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Richard M. Sibly often publishes in several venues including:

  • Oecologia
  • Journal of Zoology
  • Ecological Modelling
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Fish and Fisheries

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Kieran Hyder
  • Robin J. Boyd
  • Nicola Walker
  • Joseph W. Watson
  • Robert Thorpe

Best Publications

  • Principles of Ecotoxicology

    Colin Harold Walker;R. M. Sibly;Stephen P. Hopkin;D.B. Peakall

  • Physiological ecology of animals

    Richard M. Sibly;Peter Calow

  • Why are organisms usually bigger in colder environments? Making sense of a life history puzzle.

    David Atkinson;Richard M. Sibly

  • Producers and scroungers: A general model and its application to captive flocks of house sparrows

    C.J. Barnard;R.M. Sibly

  • Physiological ecology of animals : an evolutionary approach

    R. M. Sibly;Peter Calow

  • Population growth rate and its determinants: an overview.

    Richard M. Sibly;Jim Hone

  • Strategies of digestion and defecation

    R.M. Sibly

  • Optimal foraging when regulating intake of multiple nutrients

    Stephen J. Simpson;Richard M. Sibly;Kwang Pum Lee;Spencer T. Behmer

  • On the Regulation of Populations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, and Insects

    Richard M. Sibly;Daniel Barker;Michael C. Denham;Michael C. Denham;Michael C. Denham;Jim Hone;Jim Hone;Jim Hone

  • A life‐cycle theory of responses to stress

    R. M. Sibly;Peter Calow

  • Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of life

    John P. DeLong;Jordan G. Okie;Melanie E. Moses;Richard M. Sibly

  • DYNAMIC MODELS OF ENERGY ALLOCATION AND INVESTMENT

    Nicolas Perrin;Richard M. Sibly

  • Metabolic ecology : a scaling approach

    Richard M. Sibly;James H. Brown;Astrid Kodric-Brown

  • Effects of body size and lifestyle on evolution of mammal life histories.

    Richard M. Sibly;James H. Brown

  • The allometry of ornaments and weapons

    Astrid Kodric-Brown;Richard M. Sibly;James H. Brown

  • Optimal group size is unstable

    R.M. Sibly

  • ON THE FITNESS OF BEHAVIOR SEQUENCES

    Richard Sibly;David McFarland

  • The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals

    Felisa A. Smith;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown;Daniel P. Costa

  • How rearing temperature affects optimal adult size in ectotherms

    R. M. Sibly;D. Atkinson

  • A Physiological Basis of Population Processes: Ecotoxicological Implications

    P. Calow;R. M. Sibly

  • Splitting behaviour into bouts

    R.M. Sibly;H.M.R. Nott;D.J. Fletcher

  • New directions in ecological physiology: edited by M.E. Feder, A.F. Bennett, W.W. Burggren and R.B. Huey, Cambridge University Press, 1987. £30.00/$49.50 hbk, £12.50/$19.50 pbk (x + 364 pages) ISBN 0 521 34138 8

    Richard Sibly

Frequent Co-Authors

James H. Brown
James H. Brown University of New Mexico
Valery E. Forbes
Valery E. Forbes University of Minnesota
Chris J. Topping
Chris J. Topping Aarhus University
Amanda Callaghan
Amanda Callaghan University of Reading
Jacob Nabe-Nielsen
Jacob Nabe-Nielsen Aarhus University
Volker Grimm
Volker Grimm Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jim Hone
Jim Hone University of Canberra
Richard E. Connon
Richard E. Connon University of California, Davis
Astrid Kodric-Brown
Astrid Kodric-Brown University of New Mexico
Felisa A. Smith
Felisa A. Smith University of New Mexico

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