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Walter D. Koenig

Cornell University · US
Area of research
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics · Ecology
Research interest
Research interests include Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.
h-index
74
citations
19,232
works
377
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2023cited by 64position: middledoi
North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East
2022cited by 62position: middledoi
Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects
Nature Communications 2021cited by 99position: middledoi
Mast seeding patterns are asynchronous at a continental scale
Nature Plants 2020cited by 74position: lastdoi
Biogeography and phylogeny of masting: do global patterns fit functional hypotheses?
New Phytologist 2020cited by 66position: lastdoi
Climate Dipoles as Continental Drivers of Plant and Animal Populations
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2020cited by 56position: lastdoi
From theory to experiments for testing the proximate mechanisms of mast seeding: an agenda for an experimental ecology
Ecology Letters 2019cited by 84position: middledoi
Nutrient scarcity as a selective pressure for mast seeding
Nature Plants 2019cited by 75position: middledoi
Inter-annual variation in seed production has increased over time (1900–2014)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2017cited by 107position: lastdoi
Drivers of synchrony of acorn production in the valley oak (<i>Quercus lobata</i>) at two spatial scales
Ecology 2017cited by 34position: firstdoi
Mechanisms of mast seeding: resources, weather, cues, and selection
New Phytologist 2016cited by 335position: middledoi
Scatter-hoarding corvids as seed dispersers for oaks and pines: A review of a widely distributed mutualism and its utility to habitat restoration
Ornithological Applications 2016cited by 136position: middledoi
Temporally increasing spatial synchrony of North American temperature and bird populations
Nature Climate Change 2016cited by 121position: firstdoi
Climatic dipoles drive two principal modes of North American boreal bird irruption
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2015cited by 71position: lastdoi
Environmental drivers of mast‐seeding in Mediterranean oak species: does leaf habit matter?
Journal of Ecology 2015cited by 61position: middledoi
Landscape genetics and population structure in Valley Oak (<i>Quercus lobata</i> Née)
American Journal of Botany 2015cited by 25position: lastdoi
What drives masting? The phenological synchrony hypothesis
Ecology 2014cited by 163position: firstdoi
What We Don't Know, and What Needs to be Known, about the Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker<i>Melanerpes formicivorus</i>
Acta Ornithologica 2014cited by 11position: firstdoi
Cues versus proximate drivers: testing the mechanism behind masting behavior
Oikos 2013cited by 102position: middledoi
Large‐scale spatial synchrony and cross‐synchrony in acorn production by two California oaks
Ecology 2013cited by 92position: firstdoi

Grants

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Evolution of Cooperation in Social Woodpeckers
NSF1455881$120,7432015–2018PIRePORTER
LTREB RENEWAL: Phenology and masting in California oaks
NSF1256394$465,1822013–2021PIRePORTER
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Reproductive Sharing and Fitness in Cooperative Societies
NSF0918944$320,9502009–2015PIRePORTER
LTREB: Phenology and Masting in California Oaks
NSF0816691$444,4782008–2014PIRePORTER
An experimental study of ecological constraints in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker
NSF0516851$289,9542006–2009PIRePORTER
Travel Support for the 11th International Society Behavioral Ecology Meeting to be held in Tours, France, 23-28 July 2006
NSF0543546$18,0002006–2006PIRePORTER
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Adaptive Functions of California Towhee (Pipilo crissalis) Duet Song
NSF0407974$10,0002004–2007PIRePORTER
Travel Support for the 10th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Meeting to be Held in Jyvaskyla, Finland, July 2004
NSF0317159$15,0002003–2004PIRePORTER
LTREB: Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding
NSF0090807$310,4302001–2007PIRePORTER
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Cooperation and Conflict within Reproductive Coalitions of Wild Turkeys (Meleagris Gallopavo)
NSF0104967$10,0002001–2003PIRePORTER
Ecology and Evolution of Social Behavior
NSF9600782$189,0001996–2000PIRePORTER
Travel Grant for 6th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Meeting to be held in Canberra, Australia, September 29 to October 4, 1996
NSF9600793$7,5001996–1996PIRePORTER
Ecology and Evolution of Social Behavior
NSF9307502$220,2641993–1997PIRePORTER
Ecology and Evolution of Social Behavior
NSF9021659$43,7251991–1993PIRePORTER
REU: Ecology and Evolution of Social Behavior
NSF8704992$58,7401987–1991PIRePORTER
Ecology and Evolution of Social Behavior
NSF8410809$95,0001985–1988PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Ian S. Pearse · United States Geological Survey8 papers (2013–2020) · 5 papers (2017–2020)Johannes M. H. Knops · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University4 papers (2013–2017)Mario B. Pesendorfer · Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences3 papers (2016–2019)Benjamin Zuckerberg · University of Wisconsin–Madison2 papers (2015–2020)Mary V. Ashley · University of Illinois Chicago2 papers (2015–2017)Michał Bogdziewicz · Tufts University2 papers (2019–2019)Julio L. Betancourt · University of Arizona2 papers (2015–2020)Courtenay Strong · University of Utah2 papers (2015–2020) · 2 papers (2019–2019)Andrew Hacket‐Pain · University of Liverpool2 papers (2019–2019) · 1 papers (2020–2020) · 1 papers (2014–2014)Ivan A. Janssens · University of Antwerp1 papers (2019–2019)Josep Peñuelas · Nanjing University1 papers (2019–2019) · 1 papers (2019–2019)Scott A. Morrison · University of California, Davis1 papers (2016–2016)David N. Zaya · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign1 papers (2017–2017) · 1 papers (2019–2019) · 1 papers (2015–2015)