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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Refreshed 2026-10-05

William H. Kirkpatrick

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Instructor

Also affiliated: University of Tennessee at Knoxville (2018–2022)

2 h-index 9 pubs 31 cited

  • Temperature
  • Nesting Behavior
  • Animals
  • Female
  • Coleoptera
  • Colinus
  • Quail
  • Sexual Behavior, Animal
  • Songbirds
  • Passeriformes
  • Swallows
  • Feces
  • Male
  • Maternal Behavior
  • Reproduction

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

William H. Kirkpatrick's research investigates the influence of environmental temperature on animal reproductive and breeding behaviors. His work includes studies on dung beetles, specifically *Phanaeus vindex*, examining how mean temperature and temperature variance affect their reproductive actions. Kirkpatrick has also studied avian species, including Scaled Quail and Northern Bobwhite, and cavity-nesting birds, analyzing the impact of thermal variability and mean temperature on their breeding behaviors and offspring outcomes. His research also explores the broader role of behavior in responses to anthropogenic environmental changes. Kirkpatrick has 9 publications and 31 citations, with an h-index of 2. He has collaborated with Erin L. Sauer and Sarah E. DuRant, both from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, on multiple publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 2
  • Publications: 9
  • Citations: 31

Positions

  • Instructor 2026–present
    University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Biological Sciences ORCID
  • PhD Candidate 2019–2025
    University of Arkansas Biological Sciences ORCID
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant 2017–2019
    The University of Tennessee Knoxville Biological Sciences ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Thermal Variation and Mean Temperature Independently Affect Breeding Behavior Across Temporal Scales in Two Cavity-nesting Birds (2026)
    Integrative and Comparative Biology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • The Role of Behavior in Responses to Anthropogenic Changes (2026)
    Integrative and Comparative Biology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Multiple Aspects of Environmental Temperature have Complex Interactions with Avian Parental Behavior to Influence Offspring Outcomes (2025)
    Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science OpenAlex
  • Critical reproductive behaviors in Scaled Quail and Northern Bobwhite are affected by thermal variability and mean temperature (2025)
    Journal of Thermal Biology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Critical reproductive behaviors in Scaled Quail and Northern Bobwhite are affected by thermal variability and mean temperature (2023)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex
  • Experimental increases in temperature mean and variance alter reproductive behaviors in the dung beetle Phanaeus vindex (2021)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex

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17 Collaborators 11 Institutions 2 Countries

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