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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2025
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Steven J. Beaupré

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Researcher

Also affiliated: Oklahoma State University (1998); CARE USA (1995); Fairleigh Dickinson University (2017); Arizona State University (1995–1998); University of Pennsylvania (1995); Stetson University (2015)

Faculty Researcher

27 h-index 55 pubs 1,891 cited

  • Animals
  • Energy Metabolism
  • Lizards
  • Crotalus
  • Male
  • Temperature
  • Female
  • Body Temperature
  • Reproduction
  • Diet
  • Body Temperature Regulation
  • Snakes
  • Viviparity, Nonmammalian
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Arkansas

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Steven J. Beaupré's research program focuses on the physiological ecology of ectotherms, investigating how environmental factors influence their energy budgets and life history strategies. His work examines the metabolic costs and energetic consequences of essential biological processes, such as digestion and molting (ecdysis), in reptiles. Beaupré has published extensively on these topics, with recent work exploring the thermal sensitivity of digestion in prairie lizards (Sceloporus consobrinus) and the metabolic effort associated with ecdysis in timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus).

His research also addresses the impacts of environmental change on animal populations. Beaupré's publications analyze time-energy constraints to understand how factors like temperature and prey availability can affect terrestrial ectotherm survival and contribute to local extinctions. He has investigated how nighttime warming and prey availability interact to influence physiology in lizards and has explored temperature manipulation as a means to induce ecdysis in rattlesnakes. Beaupré collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Allison R. Litmer and Maxwell D. Carnes-Mason, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications. His scholarly output is reflected in an h-index of 27, with over 1,800 citations across 55 publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 27
  • Publications: 55
  • Citations: 1,891

Selected Publications

  • Nighttime warming and prey availability interact to influence physiology in prairie lizards (<i>Sceloporus consobrinus</i>) (2025)
    Journal of Experimental Biology DOI OpenAlex
  • Temperature Manipulation Induces Ecdysis in Lab-Held Rattlesnakes (2025)
    Ichthyology & Herpetology DOI OpenAlex
  • Field-Based Observations of Strike-Induced Chemosensory Searching (SICS) in Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) Reveal a Potential Role for Olfaction via Ventilation Patterns (2024)
    Ichthyology & Herpetology DOI OpenAlex
  • The Metabolic Effort and Duration of Ecdysis in Timber Rattlesnakes: Implications for Time-Energy Budgets of Reptiles (2024)
    Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Thermal sensitivity of digestion in Sceloporus consobrinus, with comments on geographic variation (2024)
    Journal of Thermal Biology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Cycling temperature treatments affect estimates of digestive performance in prairie lizards (<i>Sceloporus consobrinus</i>) (2024)
    Journal of Experimental Biology 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Frequency and Timing of Ecdysis in Free-Ranging Timber Rattlesnakes (2023)
    Herpetologica 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Analyzing Time-Energy Constraints to Understand the Links between Environmental Change and Local Extinctions in Terrestrial Ectotherms (2021)
    The American Naturalist 13 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Integrating bioenergetics and conservation biology: thermal sensitivity of digestive performance in Eastern Collared Lizards (Crotaphytus collaris) may affect population persistence (2020)
    Conservation Physiology 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The effect of body posture on available habitat and activity-time in a lizard: Implications for thermal ecology studies (2019)
    Journal of Thermal Biology 16 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Book Reviews (2018)
    Copeia DOI OpenAlex
  • Habitat Loss and Local Extinction: Linking Population Declines of Eastern Collared Lizards (<i>Crotaphytus collaris</i>) to Habitat Degradation in Ozark Glades (2018)
    Journal of Herpetology 25 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Annual energy budgets of the timber rattlesnake: Advancements, refinements, and open questions (2017)
    3 citations OpenAlex
  • The Mating System and Reproductive Life History of Female Timber Rattlesnakes in Northwestern Arkansas (2016)
    Copeia 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Population Genetics of the Copperhead at Its Most Northeastern Distribution (2016)
    Copeia 9 citations DOI OpenAlex

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