Prof. Dr. Robert Eric Ricklefs

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEcology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems,Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology
Keywordsaging, life history evolution, environmental physiology, energetics, growth

Current contact address

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Martin WikelskiVogelwarte Radolfzell, Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensbiologie, Radolfzell
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2009

Programme(s)

2009Humboldt Research Award Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2011Robert Eric Ricklefs: A biogeographical perspective on ecological systems: some personal reflections. In: Journal of Biogeography, 2011,
2011Robert Eric Ricklefs: Applying a regional community concept to forest birds of eastern North America. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 2011, 2300-2305
2011Hong Qian, Robert Eric Ricklefs: Latitude, tree species diversity and the metabolic theory of ecology. In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2011, 362-365
2011Knud A. jonsson, Pierre-Henri Fabre, Robert Eric Ricklefs, Jon Fjeldsa: Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011, 2328-2333
2010Robert Eric Ricklefs, Diana Outlaw: A molecular clock for malaria parasites. In: Science, 2010, 226-229
2010Michaela Hau, Robert Eric Ricklefs, Martin Wikelski, Kelly A. Lee, and Jeffrey D. Brawn: Corticosterone, testosterone and life-history strategies of birds. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2010, 3203-3212
2010Qinfeng Guo, Robert Eric Ricklefs: Domestic exotics and the perception of invasibility. In: Diversity and Distributions, 2010, 1034-1039
2010Robert E. Ricklefs: Embryo growth rates in birds and mammals. In: Functional Ecology, 2010, 588-596
2010Robert E. Ricklefs: Evolutionary diversification, coevolution between populations and their antagonists, and the filling of niche space. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2010, 1265-1272
2010Robert E. Ricklefs: Insights from comparative analysis of aging in birds and mammals. In: Aging Cell, 2010, 273-284
2010Robert Eric Ricklefs: Life history connections to rates of aging in terrestrial vertebrates. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA , 2010, 10314-10319
2010Robert E. Ricklefs: Parental investment and avian reproductive rate: Williams's principle reconsidered. In: American Naturalist, 2010, 350-361