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Last published 2025
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Simon P. Tye

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Researcher

Also affiliated: University of Nebraska at Kearney (2017–2021)

Faculty Researcher

8 h-index 18 pubs 183 cited

  • Animals
  • Ecosystem
  • Food Chain
  • Predatory Behavior
  • Lakes
  • Biological Evolution
  • Phylogeny
  • Ecology
  • Biomass
  • Diatoms
  • Evolution, Molecular
  • Odonata
  • Selection, Genetic
  • Forecasting
  • Population Density

Biography and Research Information

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Simon P. Tye's research investigates ecological dynamics and evolutionary processes, with a recent focus on the impacts of climate change on aquatic ecosystems and the broader tree of life. His work has examined how climate warming influences mass mortality events in north temperate lakes and how these events can restructure food webs through trophic decoupling. Tye also studies the fundamental principles of species coexistence, exploring how fitness components across life cycles can constrain competition. His publications address predator-prey interactions, including the immune function of prey in the presence of predators, and temporal partitioning of vertebrates on beaver lodges. Furthermore, Tye has contributed to understanding evolutionary mechanisms, with research on diatom evolution through phylogenomics and meta-analytical evidence for frequency-dependent selection across diverse taxa. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 8, with 152 total citations across 18 publications. Key collaborators at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville include Adam M. Siepielski, Wade A. Boys, and Taylor Ping.

Metrics

  • h-index: 8
  • Publications: 18
  • Citations: 183

Selected Publications

  • Phylogenomics reveals the slow-burning fuse of diatom evolution (2025)
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 13 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Meta‐analytical evidence for frequency‐dependent selection across the tree of life (2024)
    Ecology Letters 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Predator mass mortality events restructure food webs through trophic decoupling (2024)
    Nature 16 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Predator mass mortality events restructure freshwater food webs via trophic decoupling (2023)
    Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) DOI OpenAlex
  • Interactions between fitness components across the life cycle constrain competitor coexistence (2023)
    Journal of Animal Ecology 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Climate warming amplifies the frequency of fish mass mortality events across north temperate lakes (2022)
    Limnology and Oceanography Letters 48 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A common measure of prey immune function is not constrained by the cascading effects of predators (2021)
    Evolutionary Ecology 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Insect Species Coexistence and Conservation Amidst Global Change (2021)
    Elsevier eBooks 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Predators weaken prey intraspecific competition through phenotypic selection (2020)
    Ecology Letters 34 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Population‐level variation of digestive physiology costs of mounting an immune response in damselflies (2020)
    Ecological Entomology 6 citations DOI OpenAlex

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