Jacob Johnson in the field on a research project

Publications

Here are my published research papers. Publications marked "in press" or "in preparation" are coming soon!

  1. Caspi, T., Johnson, J. R., Lambert, M. R., Schell, C. J., & Sih, A. (2022). Behavioral plasticity can facilitate evolution in urban environments. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 37(12), 1092–1103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.08.002

  2. Michel, A., Johnson, J.R., Szeligowski, R., Ritchie, E., & Sih, A. (2023). Integrating sensory ecology and predator-prey theory to understand animal responses to fire. Ecology Letters.

  3. Johnson, J., Sheehy, K. & Laskowski, K., Playing Dice With Behavior: Drivers of Stochastic Individuality. Trends in Ecology and Evolution (in press).

  4. DuBay, S. G., Wu, Y., Scott, G. R., Qu, Y., Liu, Q., Smith, J. H., Xin, C., Hart Reeve, A., Juncheng, C., Meyer, D., Wang, J., Johnson, J., Cheviron, Z. A., Lei, F., & Bates, J. (2020). Life history predicts flight muscle phenotype and function in birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(5), 1262–1276. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13190

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Presentations: 

  1. Invited speaker,  "Wide-scale Vocalization Changes In Urban Songbirds" Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference (2021).

  2. Invited speaker, "Behavioral Responses to Wildfire Smoke in Arthropods." Davis Animal Behavior Graduate Group Conference (2022).

  3. Invited speaker, "Hot Temperatures, Hot Tempers: Aggression in Wildfire-Affected Dark-eyed Juncos." Animal Behavior Society Conference (2023). 

  4. Invited speaker, “Fire Island, Urban Island.” University of Cork Ecology Lecture Series (2024).

  5. Invited speaker, “Surviving Mordor: Behavior and Fitness in Postfire Birds.” Animal Behavior Graduate Conference (2025).


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