Doing science is sometimes great fun. Below are papers that are among my personal favorites. They aren’t necessarily my “best” papers, but these projects were memorable – for a variety of reasons – and done with wonderful colleagues. You can access a list of all of my publications and links to citations here.
In looking over this list, I see that my selections were strongly biased towards my recent papers. I suspect that is inevitable, simply because those projects are still relatively fresh in my mind. [And, of course, my interests have changed over time.]*
Huey, R. B. and D. B. Miles. 2022. Signatures of geography, climate, and foliage on given names of baby girls. Evolutionary Human Sciences 4, E56. Note: Elizabeth Pennisi reviewed our article in Science
Huey, R. B., and L.B. Buckley. 2022. Designing a seasonal acclimation study presents challenges and opportunities. Integrative Organismal Biology 4: obac016.
Huey, R.B., D. B. Miles, and E. R. Pianka. 2021. Seasonality in Kgalagadi lizards: inferences from legacy data. The American Naturalist 198:759-771.
Huey, R. B., L. Ma, O. Levy, and M. R. Kearney. 2020. Three questions about the eco-physiology of overwintering underground. Ecology Letters 24:170-185.
Huey, R. B., C. Carroll, R. Salisbury, and J.-L. Wang. 2020. Mountaineers on Mount Everest: Effects of age, sex, experience, and crowding on rates of success and death. PLoS ONE 15(8): e0236919.
Huey, R. B., and J. G. Kingsolver. 2019. Climate warming, resource availability, and the metabolic meltdown of ectotherms. The American Naturalis t 194:E140–E150.
Sinclair, B. J., K. E. Marshall, M. A. Sewell, D. L. Levesque, C. S. Willett, S. Slotsbo, Y. Dong, D. G. Harley, D. J. Marshall, B. S. Helmuth, R. B. Huey. 2016. Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures? Ecology Letters 19:1372-1285.
Huey, R. B. and C. Deutsch. 2016. PERSPECTIVE: How Frigatebirds soar around the Doldrums. Science 353:26-27.
Buckley, L. B. and R. B. Huey. 2016. How extreme temperatures impact organisms and the evolution of their thermal tolerance. Integrative and Comparative Biology 56:98-109.
Otero, L. M., R. B. Huey, and G. C. Gorman. 2015. A few meters matter: Local habitats drive reproductive cycles in a tropical lizard. The American Naturalist 186:E72-E80.
Sunday, J. M., A. E. Bates, M. R. Kearney, R. K. Colwell, N. K. Dulvy, J. T. Longino, and R. B. Huey. 2014. Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: 5610-5615.
Huey, R. B., M. R. Kearney, A. Krockenberger, J. A. M. Holtum, M. Jess, and S. E. Williams 2012. Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: roles of behaviour, physiology and adaptation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367:1665-1679.
Anderson, J. L., L. Albergotti, R. B. Huey, and P.C. Phillips. 2011. Does thermoregulatory behavior maximize reproductive fitness of natural isolates of Caenorhabditis elegans? BMC Evolutionary Biology 22:257. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-157
Dillon, M. E., G. Wang, and R. B. Huey. 2010. Global metabolic impacts of recent climate warming. Nature 467:704-706.
Huey, R. B. and F. Rosenzweig. 2009. Laboratory evolution meets Catch 22: balancing simplicity and realism.pp. 671-707 in: Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications (T. Garland, Jr., and M. R. Rose, eds). University of California Press, Berkeley.
Huey, R. B., J. J. Tewksbury, C. A. Deutsch, L. J. Vitt, P. E. Hertz, and H. J. Álvarez Pérez. 2009. Why tropical forest lizards are vulnerable to climate warming. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276:1939-1948.
Martin, T. L., and R. B. Huey. 2008. Why “suboptimal” is optimal: Jensen’s inequality and ectotherm thermal preferences. The American Naturalist 171:E102-E118.
Huey, R. B. and A. F. Bennett. 2008.. Bart’s familiar quotations: the enduring biological wisdom of George A. Bartholomew. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 81:519-525.
Deutsch, C. A., J. J. Tewksbury, R. B. Huey, K. S. Sheldon, C. K. Ghalambor, D. C. Haak, and P. R. Martin. 2008. Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 105:6668-6672.
Frazier, M., R. B. Huey, and D. Berrigan. 2006. Thermodynamics constrains the evolution of insect population growth rates: “warmer is better.” American Naturalist 168:512-520.
Balanyá, J., J. M. Oller, R. B. Huey, G. W. Gilchrist, and L. Serra. 2006. Global genetic change tracks global climate warming in Drosophila subobscura. Science 313:1773-1775.
Huey, R. B. and P. D. Ward. 2005. Climbing a Triassic Mt. Everest: Into thinner air. JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) 295:1761-1762.
Huey, R. B. and P. D. Ward. 2005. Hypoxia, global warming, and terrestrial Late Permian extinctions. Science 308:398-401.
Huey, R. B., P. E. Hertz, and B. Sinervo. 2003. Behavioral drive versus behavioral inertia in evolution: a null model approach. The American Naturalist 161:357-366.
Huey, R. B., and D. Berrigan. 2001. Temperature, demography, and ectotherm fitness. The American Naturalist 158:204-210.
Huey, R. B., E. R. Pianka, and L. J. Vitt. 2001. How often do lizards ‘run on empty’? Ecology 82:1-7.
Huey, R. B. and X. Eguskitza. 2000. Supplemental oxygen and death rates on Everest and K2. JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) 284:181.
Huey, R. B., G.W. Gilchrist, M. Carlsen, and L. Serra 2000. Rapid evolution of a latitudinal cline in body size in an introduced fly. Science 287:308-309.
Zamudio, K., R. B. Huey, and W. D. Crill. 1995. Bigger isn’t always better: developmental and parental temperature and male territoriality in Drosophila melanogaster. Animal Behavior 49:671-677.
Hertz, P. E., R. B. Huey, and R. D. Stevenson. 1993. Evaluating temperature regulation by field-active ectotherms: The Fallacy of the Inappropriate Question. American Naturalist 142:796-818. Cited by 967.
Sinervo, B., and R. B. Huey. 1990. Allometric engineering: an experimental test of the causes of interpopulational differences in performance. Science 248:1106-1109.
Huey, R. B., and J. G. Kingsolver. 1989. Evolution of thermal sensitivity of ectotherms. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 4:131-135.
Huey, R. B., C. R. Peterson, S. J. Arnold, and W. P. Porter. 1989. Hot rocks and not-so-hot rocks: retreat-site selection by garter snakes and its thermal consequences. Ecology 70:931-944.
Huey, R. B., and A. E. Dunham. 1987. The repeatability of locomotor performance in natural populations of the lizard Sceloporus merriami. Evolution 41:1116-1120.
Huey, R. B., and A. F. Bennett. 1987. Phylogenetic studies of coadaptation: preferred temperatures versus optimal performance temperatures of lizards. Evolution 41:1098-1115.
Huey, R. B. and P. E. Hertz. 1984. Is a jack-of-all-temperatures a master of none? Evolution 38:441-444.
Bennett, A. F., R. H. Huey, H. B. John-Alder, and K. A. Nagy). 1984. The parasol tail and thermoregulatory behavior of the Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris). Physiological Zoology 57:57-62.
Huey, R. B. 1982. Temperature, physiology, and the ecology of reptiles. pp. 25-91, In: C. Gans and F. H. Pough, eds., Biology of the Reptilia Vol. 12, Physiology (C). Academic Press, London.
Hertz, P. E., R. B. Huey, and E. Nevo. 1982. Fight versus flight: thermal dependence of defensive behaviour in a lizard. Animal Behaviour 30:676-679.
Huey, R. B., and E. R. Pianka. 1981. Ecological consequences of foraging mode. Ecology 62:991-999.
Huey, R. B., and R. D. Stevenson. 1979. Integrating thermal physiology and ecology of ectotherms: a discussion of approaches. American Zoologist 19:357-366.
Huey, R. B. 1979. The compleat dictionary of zoology: I. Vernacular words in herpetology. Quarterly Review of Biology 54:301-307.
Huey, R. B. 1978. Latitudinal pattern of between-altitude faunal similarity: Mountains might be “higher” in the tropics. The American Naturalist 112:225-229.
Huey, R. B. and E. R. Pianka. 1977. Natural selection for juvenile lizards mimicking noxious beetles. Science (Wash., D.C.) 195:201-203.
Huey, R. B. and M. Slatkin. 1976. Cost and benefits of lizard thermoregulation. Quarterly Review of Biology 51:363-384.
Huey, R. B. 1974. Behavioral thermoregulation in lizards: importance of associated costs. Science (Wash., D.C.) 184:1001-1003.