Eric Pianka
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Eric Pianka's Degrees
- PhD Ecology University of Washington
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eric Rodger Pianka was an American herpetologist and evolutionary ecologist. Early life Pianka was born in Siskiyou County in 1939. At age 13, he was seriously injured in a bazooka blast in the front yard of his childhood home in Yreka, California. His left leg became gangrenous, and he lost 10 cm of his tibia, as well as the terminal digit of the middle finger on his right hand. Pianka's childhood injury left him with a short and partially paralyzed leg. In later life, his short leg resulted in spinal scoliosis and cervical spondylosis.
Eric Pianka's Published Works
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Published Works
- On Optimal Use of a Patchy Environment (1966) (4170)
- On r- and K-Selection (1970) (3348)
- The structure of lizard communities (1973) (2399)
- Latitudinal Gradients in Species Diversity: A Review of Concepts (1966) (1658)
- Niche overlap and diffuse competition. (1974) (1022)
- Ecological Consequences of Foraging Mode (1981) (977)
- The conservation status of the world's reptiles (2013) (731)
- Age-Specific Reproductive Tactics (1975) (625)
- Ecology And Natural History Of Desert Lizards (1986) (560)
- Lizard Ecology: Studies of a Model Organism (1983) (502)
- Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity (2003) (495)
- Convexity, Desert Lizards, and Spatial Heterogeneity (1966) (408)
- Organization in Natural Assemblages of Desert Lizards and Tropical Fishes (1990) (393)
- Ecology and natural history of desert lizards : analyses of the ecological niche and community structure. (1986) (391)
- Sympatry of Desert Lizards (Ctenotus) in Western Australia (1969) (358)
- Animal foraging: past, present and future. (1997) (344)
- On Lizard Species Diversity: North American Flatland Deserts (1967) (335)
- Natural Selection of Optimal Reproductive Tactics (1976) (319)
- r and K Selection or b and d Selection? (1972) (314)
- Geographical Trends in Numbers of Species (1978) (297)
- Comparative Autecology of the Lizard Cnemidophorus Tigris in Different Parts of Its Georgraphic Range (1970) (278)
- Lizard Ecology: Historical and Experimental Perspectives (1994) (277)
- History and the Global Ecology of Squamate Reptiles (2003) (260)
- Seasonal Variation in Thermoregulatory Behavior and Body Temperature of Diurnal Kalahari Lizards (1977) (256)
- Latitudinal gradients in species diversity (1989) (242)
- Functional traits, convergent evolution, and periodic tables of niches (2015) (237)
- Ecology of Horned Lizards: A Review with Special Reference to Phrynosoma platyrhinos (1975) (235)
- Convergent evolution. (1969) (233)
- Comparative Ecology of Twelve Species of Nocturnal Lizards (Gekkonidae) in the Western Australian Desert (1976) (209)
- Deep history impacts present-day ecology and biodiversity (2005) (185)
- Guild structure in desert lizards (1980) (170)
- Guild structure in desert lizards (1980) (170)
- Habitat Specificity, Speciation, and Species Density in Australian Desert Lizards (1969) (163)
- Varanoid Lizards of the World (2004) (162)
- Evolution of Escape Behavior Diversity (1980) (138)
- Comparative Ecology of Populations of the Lizard Uta stansburiana (1975) (134)
- The Ecology of Moloch horridus (Lacertilia: Agamidae) in Western Australia (1970) (124)
- Assessing biodiversity with species accumulation curves; inventories of small reptiles by pit-trapping in Western Australia (2003) (119)
- Evolutionary Ecology (2004) (118)
- HOW OFTEN DO LIZARDS “RUN ON EMPTY”? (2001) (117)
- Comparative Ecology, Resource Utilization and Niche Segregation among Gekkonid Lizards in the Southern Kalahari (1978) (111)
- Ecological Shifts in Sympatry: Kalahari Fossorial Lizards (Typhlosaurus) (1974) (109)
- Sexual Selection, Sex Ratio and Mating System (1963) (108)
- Systematics of the lizard family pygopodidae with implications for the diversification of Australian temperate biotas. (2003) (106)
- A Morphological Analysis of the Structure of Communities of Lizards in Desert Habitats (1981) (103)
- Patterns of Niche Overlap Among Broadly Sympatric Versus Narrowly Sympatric Kalahari Lizards (Scincidae: Mabuya) (1977) (100)
- Comparative ecology of Varanus in the Great Victoria Desert (1994) (97)
- Evolution of Body Size: Varanid Lizards as a Model System (1995) (96)
- Desert Lizard Diversity: Additional Comments and Some Data (1989) (87)
- Ecology of the Iguanid Lizard Callisaurus draconoides (1972) (84)
- Ecology of the Agamid Lizard Amphibolurus isolepis in Western Australia (1971) (78)
- Optimal foraging constrains macroecological patterns: body size and dietary niche breadth in lizards (2008) (70)
- Lizard Species Density in the Kalahari Desert (1971) (69)
- Zoogeography and Speciation of Australian Desert Lizards: An Ecological Perspective (1972) (64)
- Toward a Periodic Table of Niches, or Exploring the Lizard Niche Hypervolume (2017) (60)
- Natural selection for juvenile lizards mimicking noxious beetles. (1977) (59)
- Life-History Patterns of Lizards of the World (2016) (59)
- CHAPTER 8 – Long-Term Changes in Lizard Assemblages in the Great Victoria Desert: Dynamic Habitat Mosaics in Response to Wildfires (1996) (56)
- Food Web Laws or Niche Theory? Six Independent Empirical Tests (2001) (54)
- Fire-driven dynamic mosaics in the Great Victoria Desert, Australia – I. Fire geometry (2004) (54)
- Comparative Ecology of Two Lizards (1971) (52)
- Fire-driven dynamic mosaics in the Great Victoria Desert, Australia – II. A spatial and temporal landscape model (2004) (52)
- Lizards of Western Australia ii. Dragons and Monitors (1984) (51)
- Lizard responses to wildfire in arid interior Australia: Long‐term experimental data and commonalities with other studies (2012) (51)
- Resource acquisition and allocation among animals. (1981) (51)
- Species densities of Australian vertebrates (1981) (48)
- Activity areas and daily movements of an arboreal monitor lizard, Varanus tristis (Squamata : Varanidae) during the breeding season (1999) (46)
- Ecology of the Common Barking Gecko (Ptenopus garrulus) in Southern Africa (2005) (46)
- Lizard Ecology: Feeding ecology in the natural world (2007) (44)
- Lizard Thermal Biology: Do Genders Differ? (2007) (44)
- Diversity and adaptive radiations of Australian desert lizards (1981) (40)
- Body Form and Trackway Pattern in Australian Desert Monitors (Squamata: Varanidae): Comparing Zoological and Ichnological Diversity (2000) (39)
- Bird species density in the Kalahari and the Australian deserts (1971) (37)
- Monitors , Mammals , and Wallace ’ s Line (2007) (37)
- 13. TEMPORAL SEPARATION OF ACTIVITY AND INTERSPECIFIC DIETARY OVERLAP (1983) (36)
- Further Ecological Observations on the Western Banded Gecko, Coleonyx variegatus (1974) (35)
- NOTES ON THE ECOLOGY OF THE IGUANID (1973) (31)
- Experimental biogeography: interactions between stochastic, historical, and ecological processes in a model archipelago (1993) (28)
- Biogeography of nocturnal insectivores : historical events and ecological filters (1990) (24)
- Integrative biology of sticky feet in geckos. (2005) (24)
- Sympatric Ecology of Five Species of Fossorial Snakes (Elapidae) in Western Australia (2008) (24)
- New directions in biogeography? (1994) (22)
- Lizard life‐history strategies (2016) (22)
- Spatial and Temporal Variation in Diets of Sympatric Lizards (Genus Ctenotus) in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia (2011) (19)
- Some intercontinental comparisons of desert lizards. (1985) (18)
- A Biogeographic Extension of the Compression Hypothesis: Competitors in Narrow Sympatry (1979) (16)
- Body temperature distributions of active diurnal lizards in three deserts: Skewed up or skewed down? (2018) (16)
- Metapopulation theory, landscape models, and species diversity (1999) (15)
- Long-Term Changes in Lizard Assemblages in the Great Victoria Desert (1996) (15)
- Rarity in Australian desert lizards (2014) (15)
- Desert ecology. (1983) (14)
- Body Size Overlap, Habitat Partitioning, and Living Space Requirements of Terrestrial Vertebrate Predators: Implications for Large-Theropod Paleoecology (2002) (13)
- Bird censuses from desert localities in Western Australia (1970) (13)
- The Lizard Man Speaks (1994) (11)
- Life history data of lizards of the world (2015) (11)
- Natural history of thorny devils Moloch horridus (Lacertilia: Agamidae) in the Great Victoria Desert (1998) (11)
- 11 – ECOLOGY'S LEGACY FROM ROBERT MacARTHUR (2005) (10)
- Diversity and abundance of pit-trapped reptiles in Australian arid and mesic habitats: Biodiversity for environmental impact assessments (2003) (10)
- Historical introduction: On widely foraging for Kalahari lizards (2007) (9)
- The lizard kings. (2003) (8)
- Stable isotope ecology of a hyper-diverse community of scincid lizards from arid Australia (2017) (8)
- Evolutionary ecology / Eric R. Pianka (1988) (8)
- Is There Evidence for Population Regulation in Amphibians and Reptiles? (2018) (7)
- Reproductive ecology of the black-headed goanna Varanus tristis (Squamata: Varanidae) (1999) (6)
- How do lizard niches conserve, diverge or converge? Further exploration of saurian evolutionary ecology (2021) (4)
- Natural History Miscellany Lizard Thermal Biology: Do Genders Differ? (2007) (4)
- During the 20 th Century (2002) (4)
- Field Observations by Two American Varanophiles (2015) (4)
- Seasonality in Kgalagadi Lizards: Inferences from Legacy Data (2021) (4)
- The subtetly, complexity and importance of population interactions when more than two species are involved (1987) (3)
- Introduction and Acknowledgments (1994) (3)
- Biogeographica. Volume IX: A Biogeographical Analysis of the Chihuahuan Desert Through Its Herpetofauna. David J. Morafka (1978) (2)
- Putting communities together (1999) (2)
- Populations in a Seasonal Environment. Stephen D. Fretwell. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1972. xxiv, 218 pp., illus. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $4.95. Monographs in Population Biology (1972) (2)
- Advances in Herpetology and Evolutionary Biology: Essays in Honor of Ernest E. Williams.Anders G. Rhodin , Kenneth Miyata (1984) (2)
- ON THE ECOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE RARELY RECORDED GEKKONID LIZARD HETERONOTIA BINOEI IN THE GREAT VICTORIA DESERT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (2013) (2)
- TEACHING HERPETOLOGY (2008) (2)
- Evolutionarily Stable Strategies (2001) (1)
- Optimal Reproductive Tactics (2008) (1)
- Can We Slow Global Warming (1986) (1)
- Varanoid Lizards of the World , edited by Eric R . Pianka and Dennis King with Ruth Allen King (2005) (1)
- The scaly ones (2006) (1)
- Reflections on the 'real world'. (2003) (1)
- North America Data (2019) (1)
- From Racerunners to Night Lizards (2003) (1)
- A wild analogy (1985) (1)
- Data from: Toward a periodic table of niches, or exploring the lizard niche hypervolume (2019) (1)
- A General Review of Zoological Trends During the 20th Century (2003) (1)
- FAUNA of AUSTRALIA 25 . NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SQUAMATA (2000) (1)
- Links to Pianka Web Pages (2017) (0)
- Introduction: The Logic of Biology (2003) (0)
- Correspondence with Eric Pianka (2011) (0)
- Book Review:Life History and Ecology of the Slider Turtle. J. Whitfield Gibbons (1991) (0)
- Book Review:A Biologist's Basic Mathematics. Contemporary Biology. David R. Causton (1985) (0)
- Ecophysiology of Desert Reptiles. S. D. Bradshaw (1987) (0)
- Monsters and Dragons of the Lizard World (2003) (0)
- How do lizard niches conserve, diverge or converge? Further exploration of saurian evolutionary ecology (2021) (0)
- Population Biology.Thomas C. Emmel (1977) (0)
- An Introduction to Evolutionary Ecology.Andrew Cockburn (1992) (0)
- Ideas for Ecology Labs Ecological Lab Experiences: An Ideas Forum Larry B. Crowder (1978) (0)
- Waiting for the Apple to Fall, or Pooling Our Brainpower (1987) (0)
- Units of Natural Selection (1980) (0)
- PART I. PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY (1983) (0)
- Book Review:Foraging Theory. David W. Stephens, John R. Krebs (1988) (0)
- Do Ecosystems Converge?: Mediterranean Type Ecosystems . Origin and Structure. Francesco di Castri and Harold A. Mooney, Eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1974. xii, 406 pp., illus. $30.10. Ecological Studies, vol. 7. (1975) (0)
- Lizards as Predators (2003) (0)
- Book Review:The Behavioral Ecology of the Komodo Monitor. Walter Auffenberg (1982) (0)
- The Conservation Status of World Reptiles (2015) (0)
- 10. Dynamics: An Area Revisited (1986) (0)
- Mechanisms of Speciation. Proceedings from the International Meeting on Mechanisms of Speciation, Sponsored by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, May 4-8, 1981, Rome, Italy. Progress in Clinical and Biological Research, Volume 96.Claudio Barigozzi (1983) (0)
- Notes on the Line Drawings (1986) (0)
- Biology of the Reptilia. Volume 12: Physiology C (Physiology Ecology).Carl Gans , F. Harvey PoughBiology of the Reptilia. Volume 13: Physiology D (Physiology Ecology).Carl Gans , F. Harvey Pough (1984) (0)
- Book Review:Simon & Schuster's Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. Massimo Capula, John L. Behler (1990) (0)
- Evolutionarily Stable Strategy (2001) (0)
- From Geckos to Blind Lizards (2003) (0)
- Laurie J. Vitt and Eric R. Pianka reply [2] (2006) (0)
- 1. Three Independently Evolved Desert-Lizard Systems (1986) (0)
- Can humans share spaceship earthq (2012) (0)
- The Bengal Monitor (1995) (0)
- Lizards and Humans (2003) (0)
- Book reviewSpecies diversity: a new null model (2002) (0)
- Will gutenberg survive? (1978) (0)
- Getting around in a Complex World (2003) (0)
- Earth's Endangered Biomes Terrestrial Environments J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson (1976) (0)
- Ecology of Reptiles.Harold Heatwole , Janet Taylor (1989) (0)
- Magnificent monitors [4] (2003) (0)
- Book Review:Biology of Reptiles: An Ecological Approach. Tertiary Level Biology. Ian F. Spellerberg (1983) (0)
- THE STRUCTURE OF .:.4052 LIZARD COMMUNITIES (2016) (0)
- Populations: r- and K-Selection (2008) (0)
- 12. Conclusions and Prospects for Further Work (1986) (0)
- Evolutionary History and Phylogeny (2003) (0)
- From Girdled Lizards to Knob-Scaled Lizards (2003) (0)
- Evolutionary Ecology: Overview (2008) (0)
- Can humans share spaceship earth ? (2012) (0)
- Book Review:Biology of the Reptilia. Volume 16, Ecology B: Defense and Life History. Carl Gans, Raymond B. Huey (1988) (0)
- Are desert reptiles different? (1987) (0)
- Lizards Observed: The Bengal Monitor . Walter Auffenberg. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1994. xxviii, 560 pp., illus. $79.95. (1995) (0)
- Ecology, British Style (1985) (0)
- Hutchinson Autobiography The Kindly Fruits of the Earth: An Environmental Study of an Embryo Ecologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1979) (0)
- Book Review:Systematics and Biogeography: Cladistics and Vicariance. Gareth Nelson, Norman Platnick (1982) (0)
- DO LIZARDS " RUN ON EMPTY " ? (2001) (0)
- Challenges Facing Today's Lizard Ecologists1 (2017) (0)
- Bird Populations: Populations in a Seasonal Environment . Stephen D. Fretwell. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1972. xxiv, 218 pp., illus. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $4.95. Monographs in Population Biology. (1972) (0)
- Desert Ecology: Ecology of Desert Organisms . Gideon Louw and Mary Seely. Longman, New York, 1982. vi, 194 pp., illus. Paper, $17.50. (1983) (0)
- The Comparative Ecology of Desert Lizards@@@Ecology and Natural History of Desert Lizards: Analyses of the Ecological Niche and Community Structure. (1986) (0)
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