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2025
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Matthew E. Gifford
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Assistant Professor
Also affiliated: Science Museum of Minnesota (2011); University of Minnesota (2008–2011); University of Louisville (2014); Washington University in St. Louis (2004–2008); The University of Texas at Tyler (2004–2008); Engineering Associates (United States) (1995); Conway School of Landscape Design (2015–2025); University of Tulsa (2016)
Faculty Researcher
17 h-index
65 pubs
1,314 cited
Research Areas
Biomedical Subjects
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Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Matthew E. Gifford's research focuses on the ecological and physiological factors influencing ectotherm populations. He investigates the links between environmental change and local extinctions, particularly in terrestrial ectotherms, by analyzing time-energy constraints. Gifford has also explored the nutritional content of arthropods and its seasonal and taxonomic variation, examining how these factors influence lizard predation and grasshopper communities.
His work utilizes various methodologies, including the development and application of 3D-printed models for quantifying thermal environments and the generation of chromosome-level genome assemblies. Gifford has published on the reproductive success, survival, and coloration of prairie lizards and has explored within-individual performance tradeoffs. His research network includes collaborators from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Southern Arkansas University.
Metrics
- h-index: 17
- Publications: 65
- Citations: 1,314
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
5 shared publications
In database
- 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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