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Ecology and Evolution

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136
Citations
71323
World Ranking
56
National Ranking
23

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1974 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Robert E. Ricklefs is affiliated with the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Environmental Science and Immunology and Microbiology. Their work frequently explores subfields including Parasitology, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Infectious Diseases.

The main topics addressed in Ricklefs's research include Bird parasitology and diseases, Vector-borne infectious diseases, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Viral Infections and Vectors, Avian ecology and behavior, Plant and animal studies, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Recent publications by Robert E. Ricklefs include the following:

  • Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions, 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Evolutionary assembly of flowering plants into sky islands, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Relationship of minimum winter temperature and temperature seasonality to the northern range limit and species richness of trees in North America, 2022, Journal of Geographical Sciences
  • Loss of forest cover and host functional diversity increases prevalence of avian malaria parasites in the Atlantic Forest, 2021, International Journal for Parasitology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Alan Fecchio
  • Geoffrey Lau
  • Carlos Daniel Cadena
  • Benjamin G. Freeman
  • Jeffrey A. Bell

Robert E. Ricklefs's work has appeared in several publication venues repeatedly, such as:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Parasitology
  • Journal of Geographical Sciences

Throughout their career, Ricklefs received recognition through awards that include being named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America in 2012, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1984, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1974.

Best Publications

  • Community Diversity: Relative Roles of Local and Regional Processes

    Robert E. Ricklefs

  • An analysis of nesting mortality in birds

    Robert E. Ricklefs

  • PATTERNS OF GROWTH IN BIRDS

    Robert E. Ricklefs

  • Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Douglas W. Schemske;Howard V. Cornell;Andrew P. Allen

  • Species diversity in ecological communities: historical and geographical perspectives.

    Robert E. Ricklefs;Dolph Schluter

  • The physiology/life-history nexus

    Robert E. Ricklefs;Martin Wikelski

  • A comprehensive framework for global patterns in biodiversity

    Robert E. Ricklefs

  • Adaptation and diversification on islands

    Jonathan B. Losos;Robert E. Ricklefs

  • Early bursts of body size and shape evolution are rare in comparative data.

    Luke J Harmon;Luke J Harmon;Jonathan B Losos;T Jonathan Davies;Rosemary G Gillespie

  • A Graphical Method of Fitting Equations to Growth Curves

    Robert E. Ricklefs

  • Disintegration of the ecological community.

    Robert E. Ricklefs

  • Large-scale processes and the Asian bias in species diversity of temperate plants

    Hong Qian;Robert E. Ricklefs

  • Avian growth and development : evolution within the altricial-precocial spectrum

    J. Matthias Starck;Robert E. Ricklefs

  • Environmental Heterogeneity and Plant Species Diversity: A Hypothesis

    Robert E. Ricklefs

  • The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

    Matthew L. Forister;Vojtech Novotny;Vojtech Novotny;Anna K. Panorska;Leontine Baje

  • The roles of island area per se and habitat diversity in the species-area relationships of four Lesser Antillean faunal groups

    Robert E. Ricklefs;Robert E. Ricklefs;Irby J. Lovette;Irby J. Lovette

  • Estimating diversification rates from phylogenetic information

    Robert E. Ricklefs

  • Host specificity of Lepidoptera in tropical and temperate forests

    L. A. Dyer;M. S. Singer;J. T. Lill;J. O. Stireman

  • Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson

    Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Daniel Simberloff;Robert E. Ricklefs;Robin Aguilée

  • Diversification and host switching in avian malaria parasites

    Robert E. Ricklefs;Sylvia M. Fallon

  • COMPETITION AND THE STRUCTURE OF BIRD COMMUNITIES

    Robert E. Ricklefs;Martin L. Cody

Frequent Co-Authors

Hong Qian
Hong Qian Illinois State Museum
Eldredge Bermingham
Eldredge Bermingham Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Vincenzo A. Ellis
Vincenzo A. Ellis University of Delaware
Susanne S. Renner
Susanne S. Renner Washington University in St. Louis
Irby J. Lovette
Irby J. Lovette Cornell University
Joseph B. Williams
Joseph B. Williams The Ohio State University
Patricia G. Parker
Patricia G. Parker University of Missouri–St. Louis
Jeffrey D. Brawn
Jeffrey D. Brawn University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
W. Douglas Robinson
W. Douglas Robinson Oregon State University
Gediminas Valkiūnas
Gediminas Valkiūnas Nature Research Centre

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