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Overview

William G. R. Crampton is affiliated with the University of Central Florida in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with particular attention to subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, aquatic science, ecology, molecular biology, and immunology.

Their work extensively covers topics related to fish biology, ecology, and behavior, as well as fish ecology and management studies. Detailed subjects also explored include physiological and biochemical adaptations, ichthyology and marine biology, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, and identification and quantification in food.

Frequent coauthors with whom they have collaborated include Flávio César Thadeo de Lima, Nathan R. Lovejoy, Roberto Esser dos Reis, Joseph C. Waddell, and Nathan K. Lujan.

William G. R. Crampton has published articles in various scientific journals. Some of the venues where their work appears most often include Scientific Data, Scientific Reports, Ecological Monographs, Oikos, and the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Selected recent publications are:

  • Biogeochemical water type influences community composition, species richness, and biomass in megadiverse Amazonian fish assemblages (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Reproductive effort and terminal investment in a multispecies assemblage of Amazon electric fish (2021, Ecological Monographs)
  • Environmental correlates of circannual breeding periodicity in a multi-species assemblage of Amazonian electric fishes (2020, Environmental Biology of Fishes)
  • A new taxonomist-curated reference library of DNA barcodes for Neotropical electric fish (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes) (2022, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society)
  • Geomorphological habitat type drives variation in temporal species turnover but not temporal nestedness in Amazonian fish assemblages (2023, Oikos)

Best Publications

  • Miocene marine incursions and marine/freshwater transitions: Evidence from Neotropical fishes

    Nathan R. Lovejoy;James S. Albert;William G.R. Crampton

  • Miocene tectonism and the separation of cis- and trans-Andean river basins: Evidence from Neotropical fishes

    James S. Albert;Nathan R. Lovejoy;William G.R. Crampton

  • Sexual Signal Evolution Outpaces Ecological Divergence during Electric Fish Species Radiation

    Matthew E. Arnegard;Peter B. McIntyre;Luke J. Harmon;Miriam L. Zelditch

  • Diversity and Phylogeny of Neotropical Electric Fishes (Gymnotiformes)

    James S. Albert;William G. R. Crampton

  • Effects of anoxia on the distribution, respiratory strategies and electric signal diversity of gymnotiform fishes

    W. G. R. Crampton

  • Electroreception, electrogenesis and electric signal evolution

    William G. R. Crampton

  • Seven new species of the Neotropical electric fish Gymnotus (Teleostei, Gymnotiformes) with a redescription of G. carapo (Linnaeus)

    James S. Albert;William G.R. Crampton

  • A comparison of fish diversity and abundance between nutrient-rich and nutrient-poor lakes in the Upper Amazon

    Peter A. Henderson;William G. R. Crampton

  • Phylogenetic systematics and historical biogeography of the Neotropical electric fish Gymnotus (Teleostei: Gymnotidae)

    J. S. Albert;W. G. R. Crampton;D. H. Thorsen;N. R. Lovejoy

  • An Ecological Perspective on Diversity and Distributions

    William G. R. Crampton

  • Phylogeny, biogeography, and electric signal evolution of Neotropical knifefishes of the genus Gymnotus (Osteichthyes: Gymnotidae).

    Nathan R Lovejoy;Kristie Lester;William G. R Crampton;Fernando Portella de Luna Marques

  • Revision of the polytypic electric fish Gymnotus carapo (Gymnotiformes, Teleostei), with descriptions of seven subspecies

    Jack M. Craig;William G. R. Crampton;James S. Albert

  • ELECTRIC SIGNAL DESIGN AND HABITAT PREFERENCES IN A SPECIES RICH ASSEMBLAGE OF GYMNOTIFORM FISHES FROM THE UPPER AMAZON BASIN

    W. G. R. Crampton

  • Unexpected species diversity in electric eels with a description of the strongest living bioelectricity generator.

    C. David de Santana;William G. R. Crampton;Casey B. Dillman;Casey B. Dillman;Renata G. Frederico

  • A New Species of Gymnotus (Gymnotiformes, Gymnotidae) from Uruguay: Description of a Model Species in Neurophysiological Research

    Mathilde M. Richer-de-Forges;William G. R. Crampton;James S. Albert

  • Chromosomal evidence for a putative cryptic species in the Gymnotus carapo species-complex (Gymnotiformes, Gymnotidae)

    Susana S.R. Milhomem;Julio C. Pieczarka;William G.R. Crampton;Danillo S. Silva

  • Ecology and life history of an Amazon floodplain cichlid: the discus fish Symphysodon (Perciformes: Cichlidae)

    William G. R. Crampton

  • A new Gymnotus (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) from the Pantanal Matogrossense of Brazil and adjacent drainages: continued documentation of a cryptic fauna

    Flora M.C. Fernandes;James S. Albert;Maria D.F.Z. Daniel-Silva;Carlos E. Lopes

  • Nesting and Paternal Care in the Weakly Electric Fish Gymnotus (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) with Descriptions of Larval and Adult Electric Organ Discharges of Two Species

    William G. R. Crampton;Carl D. Hopkins

  • Gymnotiform fish : an important component of Amazonian floodplain fish communities

    W. G. R. Crampton

  • Biogeochemical water type influences community composition, species richness, and biomass in megadiverse Amazonian fish assemblages.

    Juan David Bogotá-Gregory;Flávio C. T. Lima;Sandra B. Correa;Cárlison Silva-Oliveira

Frequent Co-Authors

James S. Albert
James S. Albert University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Nathan R. Lovejoy
Nathan R. Lovejoy University of Toronto
Lauren J. Chapman
Lauren J. Chapman University of Florida
Laurence D. Hurst
Laurence D. Hurst University of Bath
Peter Henderson
Peter Henderson University of Oxford
Jansen Zuanon
Jansen Zuanon National Institute of Amazonian Research
Peter B. McIntyre
Peter B. McIntyre Cornell University
Luke J. Harmon
Luke J. Harmon University of Idaho
David G. Jenkins
David G. Jenkins University of Central Florida

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