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Matthew E. Gifford Data-verified
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Assistant Professor
faculty
17 h-index
65 pubs
1,294 cited
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Biography and Research Information
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Matthew E. Gifford's research investigates the ecological and evolutionary factors influencing terrestrial ectotherms, with a focus on lizards. His work examines how environmental changes impact local extinction events and explores the links between time-energy constraints and species survival. Gifford has studied the predatory behavior of insectivorous lizards on orthopteran communities, analyzing the macronutrient content of arthropods and its seasonal and taxonomic variations. He also investigates the physiological trade-offs within individual lizards, exploring performance differences and their relationship to ventral blue coloration in male prairie lizards. Gifford's methodological contributions include the development of cost-effective and accurate 3D-printed models for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments. He has also contributed to the field by facilitating a chromosome-level genome assembly for the eastern fence lizard, a model organism for physiological and evolutionary ecology. Gifford's scholarly output includes 65 publications with 1,289 citations and an h-index of 17.
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- h-index: 17
- Publications: 65
- Citations: 1,294
Selected Publications
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Live birth in lizards: A process-based model for the roles of temperature, behavior, and life-history (2025)
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Feeding status impacts thermoregulation and its repeatability across day and night in a diurnal lizard (2025)
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Intraspecific interactions and thermal refuge availability interactively influence ectotherm thermoregulation but not energy dynamics (2025)
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Variable juvenile growth rates and offspring size: a response to anthropogenic shifts in prey size among populations (2024)
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3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments (2023)
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3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments (2023)
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Seasonal and taxonomic variation in arthropod macronutrient content (2023)
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3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments (2023)
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Plastic juvenile growth rates and offspring size: A response to anthropogenic shifts in prey size among populations (2023)
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Within‐individual covariation masks an among‐individual performance tradeoff in the prairie lizard (2023)
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Senescence and Differential Size-Based Survival in Puerto Rican Giant Groundlizards, Pholidoscelis exsul (Squamata: Teiidae), on Guana Island, British Virgin Islands (2022)
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Variable stoichiometric and macronutrient responses to lizard predation in Ozark glade grasshopper communities (2022)
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Behavioral Response to Simulated Environmental Conditions in a Montane Salamander (2022)
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The Effect of an Insectivorous Lizard Predator (Crotaphytus collaris) on Ozark Glade Orthopteran Assemblages (2022)
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A chromosome-level genome assembly for the eastern fence lizard ( <i>Sceloporus undulatus</i> ), a reptile model for physiological and evolutionary ecology (2021)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Ian T. Clifton
University of Arkansas at Little Rock (US)
5 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- Plastic juvenile growth rates and offspring size: A response to anthropogenic shifts in prey size among populations
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- Variable juvenile growth rates and offspring size: a response to anthropogenic shifts in prey size among populations
Christian L. Cox
Florida International University (US)
4 shared publications
- A chromosome-level genome assembly for the eastern fence lizard ( <i>Sceloporus undulatus</i> ), a reptile model for physiological and evolutionary ecology
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
Eric J. Gangloff
Ohio Wesleyan University (US)
4 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- Feeding status impacts thermoregulation and its repeatability across day and night in a diurnal lizard
Guillermo Garcia‐Costoya
University of Nevada, Reno (US)
4 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- Live birth in lizards: A process-based model for the roles of temperature, behavior, and life-history
Michael L. Logan
University of Nevada, Reno (US)
4 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- Live birth in lizards: A process-based model for the roles of temperature, behavior, and life-history
Karla Alujević
University of Nevada, Reno (US)
3 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
Leah A. Bakewell
Florida International University (US)
3 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
Luke O. Frishkoff
The University of Texas at Arlington (US)
3 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
Madison Glenwinkel
University of Nevada, Reno (US)
3 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
Samir A. K. Gulati
University of Nevada, Reno (US)
3 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
Alyssa Head
Ohio Wesleyan University (US)
3 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
Monica Miles
The University of Texas at Arlington (US)
3 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
Ciara Pettit
Ohio Wesleyan University (US)
3 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
Charles M. Watson
Texas A&M University – San Antonio (US)
3 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
Kelly L. Wuthrich
Florida International University (US)
3 shared publications
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
- 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments
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