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2024
Ehlman SM, Scherer U, Bierbach D, Stärk L, Beese M, and Wolf M. Developmental arcs of plasticity in whole movement repertoires of a clonal fish. Preprint available on bioarxiv.
Scherer U, Laskowski KL, Kressler M, Ehlman SM, Wolf M, and Bierbach D. Predator exposure early in life shapes behavioral development and individual variation in a clonal fish. Scientific Reports 14:21668.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-72550-5
2023
Scherer U, Ehlman SM, Bierbach D, Krause J, and Wolf M. 2023. Reproductive individuality of clonal fish raised in near-identical environments and its link to early-life behavioral individuality. Nature Communications 14:7652. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43069-6
Ehlman SM, Scherer U, Bierbach D, Francisco FA, Laskowski KL, Krause J, and Wolf M. 2023. Leveraging big data to uncover the eco-evolutionary factors shaping behavioral development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290:20222115. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2115
Snell-Rood EC and Ehlman SM. 2023. Developing the genotype-to-phenotype relationship in evolutionary theory: a primer of developmental features. Evolution & Development 25:393-409. https://doi.org/10.1111/ede.12434
2022
Ehlman SM, Scherer U, and Wolf M. 2022. Developmental feedbacks and the emergence of individuality. Royal Society Open Science 9:221189. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221189
Pollack L, Munson A, Savoca MS, Trimmer PC, Ehlman SM, Gil MA, and Sih A. 2022. Enhancing the ecological realism of evolutionary mismatch theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37:233-245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.10.011
2021
Snell-Rood EC and Ehlman SM. 2021. The Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Phenotypic Plasticity. In Phenotypic Plasticity: Consequences and Controversies. Ed. D. Pfennig. CRC Press. 139-160. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429343001
2020
Ehlman SM, Torresdal JD, and Fraser DF. 2020. Altered visual environment affects a tropical freshwater fish assemblage through impacts on predator-prey interactions. Freshwater Biology 65:316-324. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13425
Miller SE, Barrow LN, Ehlman SM, Goodheart JA, Greiman SE, Lutz HL, Misiewicz TM, Smith SM, Tan M, Thawley CJ, Cook JA, and Light JE. 2020. Building biological collections for the 21st century and beyond. BioScience 70: 674-687. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa069
2019
Ehlman SM, Halpin R, Jones C, Munson A, Pollack L, and Sih A. 2019. Intermediate turbidity elicits the greatest anti-predator response and generates repeatable behaviour in mosquitofish. Animal Behaviour 158:101-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.10.006
Crowley PH, Trimmer PC, Cuello WS, Ehlman SM, Spiegel O, and Sih A. 2019. Predicting habitat choice after rapid environmental change. The American Naturalist 193:619-632. https://doi.org/10.1086/702590
Ehlman SM, Trimmer PC, and Sih A. 2019. Prey responses to exotic predators: effects of old risks and new cues. The American Naturalist 193:586-587. https://doi.org/10.1086/702252
Chmura H, Kharouba H, Ashander J, Ehlman SM, Rivest E, and Yang LH. 2019. The mechanisms of phenology: the patterns and processes of phenological shifts. Ecological Monographs 89:e01337. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1337
2018
Saaristo M, Brodin T, Balshine S, Bertram MG, Brooks BW, Ehlman SM, McCallum ES, Sih A, Sundin J, Wong BBM, and Arnold K. 2018. Direct and indirect effects of chemical contaminants on the behaviour, ecology and evolution of wildlife. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285:20181297. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1297
Davis BE, Komoroske LM, Hansen MJ, Poletto JB, Miller NA, Perry E, Ehlman SM, Wheeler S, Sih A, Todgham AE, and Fangue NA. 2018. Juvenile rockfish show resilience to CO2-acidification and hypoxia across multiple biological scales. Conservation Physiology 6:coy038. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coy038
Ehlman SM, Martinez D, and Sih A. 2018. Male guppies compensate for lost time when mating in turbid water. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72:46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-018-2468-8
2017
Trimmer PC, Ehlman SM, McNamara JM, and Sih A. 2017. The erroneous signals of detection theory. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20171852. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1852
Trimmer PC, Ehlman SM, and Sih A. 2017. Predicting behavioural responses to rapidly-altered environments: state-dependent detection theory. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20162108. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2108
2016
Sih A, Trimmer PC, Ehlman SM. 2016. A conceptual framework for understanding behavioral responses to HIREC. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 12:109-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.09.014
Crowley PH, Ehlman SM, Korn E, and Sih A. 2016. Dealing with stochastic environmental variation in space and time: bet-hedging by generalist, specialist, and diversified strategies. Theoretical Ecology 9:149-161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-015-0272-x
2015 and prior
Ehlman SM, Sandkam BA, Breden F, and Sih A. 2015. Developmental plasticity in vision and behavior may help guppies overcome increased turbidity. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 201:1125-1135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-015-1041-4
Sih A, Ehlman SM, and Halpin, R. 2015. On connecting behavioral responses to HIREC to ecological outcomes: a comment on Wong and Candolin. Behavioral Ecology 26:676-677. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/aru229
Ehlman SM, Cox JJ, and Crowley PH. 2013. Evaporative water loss, spatial distributions, and survival in white-nose-syndrome-affected little brown myotis: a model. Journal of Mammalogy 94:572-583. https://doi.org/10.1644/12-MAMM-A-111.1
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