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Overview

Ryan Calsbeek is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work often intersects with subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Smart Materials for Construction
  • Plant and animal studies

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on ecological and evolutionary dynamics in animal populations. Notable papers include:

  • Individual contributions to group chorus dynamics influence access to mating opportunities in wood frogs, 2022, Ecology Letters
  • Sex-specific heritabilities for length at maturity among Pacific salmonids and their consequences for evolution in response to artificial selection, 2023, Evolutionary Applications
  • Salted roads lead to oedema and reduced locomotor function in amphibian populations, 2022, Freshwater Biology
  • Evolutionary trade-offs may interact with physiological constraints to maintain color variation, 2020, Ecological Monographs
  • Reproductive trade-offs and phenotypic selection change with body condition, but not with predation regime, across island lizard populations, 2021, Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Frequent publication venues for the scientist's contributions are:

  • Evolutionary Applications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology Letters
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Ecological Monographs

Collaborative work features frequent coauthors such as:

  • Francisco Javier Zamora-Camacho
  • Madilyn M. Gamble
  • Steven P. Brady
  • Débora Goedert
  • Lauren E. Frymus

Best Publications

  • Sexually antagonistic selection, sexual dimorphism, and the resolution of intralocus sexual conflict.

    Robert M. Cox;Ryan Calsbeek

  • Patterns of molecular evolution and diversification in a biodiversity hotspot: the California Floristic Province

    Ryan Calsbeek;John N. Thompson;James E. Richardson

  • The quick and the dead: correlational selection on morphology, performance, and habitat use in island lizards.

    Ryan Calsbeek;Duncan J. Irschick

  • The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology

    Erik I. Svensson;Ryan Calsbeek

  • Natural selection on thermal performance in a novel thermal environment

    Michael L. Logan;Robert M. Cox;Ryan Calsbeek

  • Experimental evidence for physiological costs underlying the trade-off between reproduction and survival.

    Robert M. Cox;Elizabeth U. Parker;Diane M. Cheney;Andrea L. Liebl

  • Experimentally assessing the relative importance of predation and competition as agents of selection

    Ryan Calsbeek;Robert M. Cox

  • An experimental test of the ideal despotic distribution

    Ryan Calsbeek;Barry Sinervo

  • Self-recognition, color signals, and cycles of greenbeard mutualism and altruism.

    Barry Sinervo;Alexis Chaine;Jean Clobert;Ryan Calsbeek

  • Testosterone, growth and the evolution of sexual size dimorphism

    R. M. Cox;D. S. Stenquist;R. Calsbeek

  • Ocean currents mediate evolution in island lizards

    Ryan Calsbeek;Thomas B. Smith

  • The Developmental, Physiological, Neural, and Genetical Causes and Consequences of Frequency-Dependent Selection in the Wild

    Barry Sinervo;Ryan Calsbeek

  • Severe costs of reproduction persist in Anolis lizards despite the evolution of a single-egg clutch.

    Robert M. Cox;Ryan Calsbeek

  • SEX‐SPECIFIC SELECTION AND INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM

    Robert M. Cox;Ryan Calsbeek

  • Testing alternative mechanisms of evolutionary divergence in an African rain forest passerine bird

    T. B. Smith;R. Calsbeek;R. K. Wayne;K. H. Holder

  • The impact of climate change measured at relevant spatial scales: new hope for tropical lizards

    Michael L. Logan;Ryan K. Huynh;Rachel A. Precious;Ryan G. Calsbeek

  • Within-clutch variation in offspring sex determined by differences in sire body size: cryptic mate choice in the wild.

    Ryan Calsbeek;Barry Sinervo

  • PROBING THE ADAPTIVE LANDSCAPE USING EXPERIMENTAL ISLANDS: DENSITY-DEPENDENT NATURAL SELECTION ON LIZARD BODY SIZE

    Ryan Calsbeek;Ryan Calsbeek;Thomas B. Smith

  • Uncoupling direct and indirect components of female choice in the wild

    Ryan Calsbeek;Barry Sinervo

  • Fitness consequences of sex-specific selection

    Timothy Connallon;Timothy Connallon;Robert M Cox;Ryan Calsbeek

  • Multiple paternity and sperm storage lead to increased genetic diversity in Anolis lizards

    Ryan Calsbeek;Camille Bonneaud;Setal Prabhu;Nicholas Manoukis

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Cox
Robert M. Cox University of Virginia
Barry Sinervo
Barry Sinervo University of California, Santa Cruz
Suzanne H. Alonzo
Suzanne H. Alonzo University of California, Santa Cruz
Erik I. Svensson
Erik I. Svensson Lund University
John N. Thompson
John N. Thompson University of California, Santa Cruz
Robert K. Wayne
Robert K. Wayne University of California, Los Angeles
Jean Clobert
Jean Clobert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Timothy Connallon
Timothy Connallon Monash University
Shaun S. Killen
Shaun S. Killen University of Glasgow
Wolfgang Buermann
Wolfgang Buermann University of Augsburg

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