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341

Overview

Rick A. Relyea is affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States and has a significant body of research within Environmental Science, totaling 91 publications. Their work spans multiple specialized subfields, including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Oceanography.

The scientist's research topics have concentrated on areas such as Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Smart Materials for Construction, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Road salts, human safety, and the rising salinity of our fresh waters (2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment)
  • Prediction of stream nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations from high-frequency sensors using Random Forests Regression (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Current water quality guidelines across North America and Europe do not protect lakes from salinization (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Direct and indirect effects of climate change on distribution and community composition of macrophytes in lentic systems (2022, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • Lake salinization drives consistent losses of zooplankton abundance and diversity across coordinated mesocosm experiments (2022, Limnology and Oceanography Letters)

Rick A. Relyea frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Brian M. Mattes, Matthew S. Schuler, William D. Hintz, Devin K. Jones, and Lawrence W. Eichler. Their partnerships have contributed to multiple publications, with some co-authors appearing in a considerable number of works alongside Relyea.

The scientist's publications have appeared most often in the following venues:

  • Environmental Pollution (7 publications)
  • Freshwater Biology (3 publications)
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters (2 publications)
  • Ecosphere (2 publications)
  • Limnology and Oceanography Methods (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Ecological consequences of phenotypic plasticity.

    Benjamin G. Miner;Sonia E. Sultan;Steven G. Morgan;Dianna K. Padilla;Dianna K. Padilla

  • THE IMPACT OF INSECTICIDES AND HERBICIDES ON THE BIODIVERSITY AND PRODUCTIVITY OF AQUATIC COMMUNITIES

    Rick A. Relyea

  • Re-evaluating the costs and limits of adaptive phenotypic plasticity

    Josh R. Auld;Anurag A. Agrawal;Rick A. Relyea

  • MORPHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL PLASTICITY OF LARVAL ANURANS IN RESPONSE TO DIFFERENT PREDATORS

    Rick A. Relyea

  • Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity

    Courtney J Murren;Josh R. Auld;Hilary S Callahan;Cameron K Ghalambor

  • THE LETHAL IMPACT OF ROUNDUP ON AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL AMPHIBIANS

    Rick A. Relyea

  • A cocktail of contaminants: how mixtures of pesticides at low concentrations affect aquatic communities

    Rick A. Relyea

  • Assessing the ecology in ecotoxicology: a review and synthesis in freshwater systems

    Rick Relyea;Jason Hoverman

  • Costs of phenotypic plasticity.

    Rick A. Relyea

  • Predator-induced stress makes the pesticide carbaryl more deadly to gray treefrog tadpoles (Hyla versicolor)

    Rick A. Relyea;Nathan Mills

  • FINE-TUNED PHENOTYPES: TADPOLE PLASTICITY UNDER 16 COMBINATIONS OF PREDATORS AND COMPETITORS

    Rick A. Relyea

  • The complexity of amphibian population declines: understanding the role of cofactors in driving amphibian losses

    Andrew R. Blaustein;Barbara A. Han;Rick A. Relyea;Pieter T.J. Johnson

  • Amphibian species richness across environmental gradients

    Earl E. Werner;David K. Skelly;Rick A. Relyea;Kerry L. Yurewicz

  • The Lethal Impacts of Roundup and Predatory Stress on Six Species of North American Tadpoles

    R A Relyea

  • PREDATOR CUES AND PESTICIDES: A DOUBLE DOSE OF DANGER FOR AMPHIBIANS

    Rick A. Relyea

  • HOW PREY RESPOND TO COMBINED PREDATORS: A REVIEW AND AN EMPIRICAL TEST

    Rick A. Relyea

  • Damage, digestion, and defence : the roles of alarm cues and kairomones for inducing prey defences

    Nancy M. Schoeppner;Rick A. Relyea

  • Understanding of the impact of chemicals on amphibians: a meta-analytic review.

    Andrés Egea-Serrano;Rick A. Relyea;Miguel Tejedo;Mar Torralva

  • COMPETITOR-INDUCED PLASTICITY IN TADPOLES: CONSEQUENCES, CUES, AND CONNECTIONS TO PREDATOR-INDUCED PLASTICITY

    Rick A. Relyea

  • Selection for phenotypic plasticity in Rana sylvatica tadpoles

    Josh Van Buskirk;Rick A Relyea

  • PESTICIDES AND AMPHIBIANS: THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY CONTEXT

    Rick A. Relyea;Nancy M. Schoeppner;Jason T. Hoverman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason T. Hoverman
Jason T. Hoverman Purdue University West Lafayette
Andrew R. Blaustein
Andrew R. Blaustein Oregon State University
Earl E. Werner
Earl E. Werner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David K. Skelly
David K. Skelly Yale University
Miguel Tejedo
Miguel Tejedo Spanish National Research Council
Joel G. Kingsolver
Joel G. Kingsolver University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Deanna H. Olson
Deanna H. Olson US Forest Service
Raymond D. Semlitsch
Raymond D. Semlitsch University of Missouri
Stephen Demarais
Stephen Demarais Mississippi State University
Miriam E. Katz
Miriam E. Katz Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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