Doing science is sometimes great fun. Below are some projects that are among my personal favorites. They aren't necessarily my "best" papers - but they were all memorable experiences and were done with wonderful colleagues.
2005. | Climbing a Triassic Mt. Everest: Into thinner air. Journal of the American Medical Association 295:1761-1762. (First author, with P. D. Ward). |
2005. |
Hypoxia, global warming, and terrestrial Late Permian Extinctions. Science 308:398-401. (First author, with P. D. Ward). |
2003. |
Behavioral drive versus behavioral inertia in evolution: a null model approach. American Naturalist 161:357-366. (First author, with P. E. Hertz and B. Sinervo). |
2001. |
How often do lizards 'run on empty'? Ecology (First author, with E. R. Pianka and L. J. Vitt.) |
2000. |
Supplemental oxygen and death rates on Everest and K2. Journal of the American Medical Association 284:181. (First author, with X. Eguskitza). |
1995. |
Bigger isn't always better: developmental and parental temperature and male territoriality in Drosophila melanogaster. Animal Behavior 49:671-677. (Second author, with K. Zamudio and W. D. Crill). |
1989. |
Hot rocks and not-so-hot rocks: retreat-site selection by garter snakes and its thermal consequences. Ecology 70:931-944. (First author with C. R. Peterson, S. J. Arnold, and W. P. Porter). |
1987. |
Phylogenetic studies of coadaptation: preferred temperatures versus optimal performance temperatures of lizards. Evolution 41:1098-1115. (first author with A. F. Bennett). |
1984. |
Is a jack-of-all-temperatures a master of none? Evolution 38:441-444, (first author, with P. E. Hertz). |
1984. |
The parasol tail and thermoregulatory behavior of the Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris). Physiological Zoology 57:57-62 (second author, with A. F. Bennett, H. B. John-Alder, and K. A. Nagy).
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1982. |
Fight versus flight: thermal dependence of defensive behaviour in a lizard. Animal Behaviour 30:676-679 (second author, with P. E. Hertz and E. Nevo). |
1981. |
Ecological consequences of foraging mode. Ecology 62:991-999 (first author, with E.R. Pianka). |
1979. |
Integrating thermal physiology and ecology of ectotherms: a discussion of approaches. American Zoologist 19:357-366. (first author, with R. D. Stevenson). |
1978. |
Latitudinal pattern of between-altitude faunal similarity: Mountains might be "higher" in the tropics. American Naturalist 112:225-229. |
1977. |
Natural selection for juvenile lizards mimicking noxious beetles.Science (Wash., D.C.) 195:201-203 (first author, withE.R. Pianka). |
1976. |
Costs and benefits of lizard thermoregulation. Quarterly Review of Biology 51:363-384 (first author, with M. Slatkin). |
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