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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Ethan J. Royal

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Also affiliated: Associated Press (2024); Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (2024–2025); Human Growth Foundation (2024); University of Maine (2025)

Postdoc Researcher

3 h-index 9 pubs 20 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Ethan J. Royal is a postdoctoral fellow whose research investigates the ecological factors influencing animal populations. His work has examined the relationship between landscape and vegetation characteristics and herpetofaunal assemblages in Gulf Coastal Plain pine forests. Royal has also studied how legacy land use predicts occupancy patterns for prairie-associated herpetofauna in Western Arkansas and the effects of prairie degradation and restoration on box turtle thermal ecology. His publications also explore the foraging behaviors of pygmy rattlesnakes in relation to prey species presence, translocation strategies for box turtles in urbanizing landscapes, and the ecology of snake assemblages in coastal Maine. He has also investigated the role of non-native crayfish as prey for native fishing spiders. Royal has a h-index of 3 and has published 9 papers with 20 citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 3
  • Publications: 9
  • Citations: 20

Selected Publications

  • Non-Native Crayfish Procambarus clarkii as Prey of the Native Fishing Spider Dolomedes triton (2026)
    Southeastern Naturalist DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluating translocation strategies for box turtles in urbanising landscapes (2024)
    Wildlife Research 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Ecology of an Insular Snake Assemblage in Coastal Maine (2024)
    Northeastern Naturalist DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of Prairie Degradation and Restoration on Box Turtle Thermal Ecology (2023)
    Journal of Herpetology 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Trap Escape as a Driver of Capture Probability in Semiaquatic Snakes (2023)
    Herpetologica DOI OpenAlex
  • Legacy land use predicts occupancy patterns of prairie-associated herpetofauna in Western Arkansas (2022)
    Landscape Ecology 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Influence of landscape and vegetation characteristics on herpetofaunal assemblages in Gulf Coastal Plain pine forests (2022)
    Journal of Wildlife Management 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Effects of Prey Species Presence on Pygmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius) Foraging Behaviors (2021)
    Southeastern Naturalist 2 citations DOI OpenAlex

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