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Walter D. Koenig is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with extensive work in related subfields including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics such as Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Avian ecology and behavior, and Tree-ring climate responses.

Walter D. Koenig has contributed papers to a variety of publication venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Birds of the World
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Nature Communications
  • Current Biology

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mast seeding patterns are asynchronous at a continental scale, 2020, Nature Plants
  • North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East, 2022, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • Biogeography and phylogeny of masting: do global patterns fit functional hypotheses?, 2020, New Phytologist

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Walter D. Koenig include:

  • Eric L. Walters
  • Jalene M. LaMontagne
  • Ian S. Pearse
  • Johannes M. H. Knops
  • Jill F. Johnstone

Best Publications

  • Spatial Synchrony in Population Dynamics

    Andrew Liebhold;Walter D. Koenig;Ottar N. Bjørnstad

  • Detectability, philopatry, and the distribution of dispersal distances in vertebrates

    Walter D. Koenig;Dirk H. Van Vuren;Philip N. Hooge

  • Cooperative breeding in birds : long-term studies of ecology and behavior

    Peter B. Stacey;Walter D. Koenig

  • Spatial autocorrelation of ecological phenomena

    Walter D. Koenig

  • The Evolution of Delayed Dispersal in Cooperative Breeders

    Walter D. Koenig;Frank A. Pitelka;William J. Carmen;Ronald L. Mumme

  • Ecology and evolution of cooperative breeding in birds

    Walter D. Koenig;Janis L. Dickinson

  • Acorn Production by Oaks in Central Coastal California: Variation within and among Years

    Walter D. Koenig;Ronald L. Mumme;William J. Carmen;Mark T. Stanback

  • Patterns of Annual Seed Production by Northern Hemisphere Trees: A Global Perspective

    Walter D. Koenig;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Population ecology of the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker

    Walter D. Koenig;Ronald L. Mumme

  • The Natural History of Inbreeding and Outbreeding: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

    Walter D. Koenig;Nancy Wilmsen Thornhill

  • Mechanisms of mast seeding: resources, weather, cues, and selection.

    Ian S. Pearse;Walter D. Koenig;Dave Kelly

  • Scale of mast-seeding and tree-ring growth

    Walter D. Koenig;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Global patterns of environmental synchrony and the Moran effect

    Walter D. Koenig

  • Ecological and Social Factors Affecting Hatchability of Eggs

    Walter D. Koenig

  • Cooperative breeding in vertebrates : studies of ecology, evolution, and behavior

    Walter D. Koenig;Janis L. Dickinson

  • Life History and Demographic Variation in the California Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma californiense)

    Peter C. Trenham;Peter C. Trenham;H. Bradley Shaffer;Walter D. Koenig;Mark R. Stromberg

  • SPATIALLY AUTOCORRELATED DEMOGRAPHY AND INTERPOND DISPERSAL IN THE SALAMANDER AMBYSTOMA CALIFORNIENSE

    Peter C. Trenham;Walter D. Koenig;H. Bradley Shaffer

  • European Starlings and their effect on native cavity-nesting birds

    Walter D. Koenig

  • Dissecting components of population‐level variation in seed production and the evolution of masting behavior

    Walter D. Koenig;Dave Kelly;Victoria L. Sork;Richard P. Duncan

  • What drives masting? The phenological synchrony hypothesis

    Walter D. Koenig;Johannes M. H. Knops;William J. Carmen;Ian S. Pearse

  • Is pollen limited? The answer is blowin' in the wind

    Walter D. Koenig;Mary V. Ashley

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Janis L. Dickinson
Janis L. Dickinson Cornell University
Ronald L. Mumme
Ronald L. Mumme Allegheny College
Ian S. Pearse
Ian S. Pearse United States Geological Survey
Andrew M. Liebhold
Andrew M. Liebhold Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Benjamin Zuckerberg
Benjamin Zuckerberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Frank A. Pitelka
Frank A. Pitelka University of California, Berkeley
Mary V. Ashley
Mary V. Ashley University of Illinois at Chicago
Wesley M. Hochachka
Wesley M. Hochachka Cornell University
Victoria L. Sork
Victoria L. Sork University of California, Los Angeles

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