Adam M. Siepielski Data-verified

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Federal Grant PI High Impact

Researcher

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-22

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33 h-index 117 pubs 4,725 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Adam M. Siepielski's research focuses on ecological interactions and their influence on species coexistence and evolution. His work investigates how factors such as reproductive interactions, parasitism, and competition shape ecological communities and drive evolutionary processes. Siepielski has examined the role of the local environment in influencing species-specific parasitism within multi-host systems and explored how climate warming can amplify mass mortality events in temperate lakes.

His research extends to understanding the constraints on species coexistence, including how interactions between fitness components across a life cycle can limit competitor success. He has also investigated the relationship between prey immune function and the cascading effects of predators. Siepielski is a recipient of federal funding from the National Science Foundation for his project "Climate warming and the collapse of trade-offs mediating species coexistence." He has published extensively, with a notable h-index of 33 and over 4,600 citations, and collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Siepielski's scholarship is recognized through his designation as a high-impact, highly cited researcher. His lab maintains an active website, indicating ongoing research and engagement within the scientific community. His recent publications address topics ranging from the effects of parasitism on host fitness to the impact of climate change on ecological systems.

Metrics

  • h-index: 33
  • Publications: 117
  • Citations: 4,725

Selected Publications

  • Predator Loss Amidst Heatwaves (2025)
  • Predator Loss Amidst Heatwaves (2025)
  • Cheating death: selection on digestive physiology overcomes expected growth costs of antipredator defences (2025)
  • Sexual Conflict in Resident Species Can Facilitate Establishment of a Maladapted Invader (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Parasitism as a driver of host diversification (2025)
    8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Chemical Sanitizer Efficacy Against Biofilms of Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella enterica, and STEC on Food Processing Surfaces (2025)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Is the local environment more important than within‐host interactions in determining coinfection? (2024)
    8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Diatom abundance in the polar oceans is predicted by genome size (2024)
    14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Meta‐analytical evidence for frequency‐dependent selection across the tree of life (2024)
    8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Rapid adaptive evolution of microbial thermal performance curves (2024)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Predator mass mortality events restructure food webs through trophic decoupling (2024)
    10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Predator mass mortality events restructure freshwater food webs via trophic decoupling (2023)
  • Interactions between fitness components across the life cycle constrain competitor coexistence (2023)
    13 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Environmental variation shapes and links parasitism to sexual selection (2023)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 1 $925,711 total

NSF PI Jun 2023 - May 2027

Climate warming and the collapse of trade-offs mediating species coexistence

Population & Community Ecology, Evolutionary Processes, EPSCoR Co-Funding $925,711

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