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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2025
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Taylor Ping

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Researcher

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3 h-index 6 pubs 64 cited

  • Odonata
  • Predatory Behavior
  • Food Chain
  • Animals
  • Selection, Genetic
  • Fishes
  • Ecosystem
  • Lakes
  • Adaptation, Physiological
  • Phenotype
  • Life Cycle Stages
  • Population Growth
  • Reproduction
  • Digestion
  • Larva

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Taylor Ping studies the evolutionary and ecological drivers of animal behavior and physiology, with a particular focus on predator-prey interactions and their impact on fitness and population dynamics. Their research investigates how predation pressure shapes adaptive plasticity in prey defense behaviors and digestive physiology, examining trade-offs between antipredator strategies and other life-history components such as growth and reproduction. Ping's work also explores the role of local adaptation in maintaining species coexistence within ecosystems, considering how selective pressures influence phenotypic traits. Collaborations include researchers from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, such as Adam M. Siepielski, with whom Ping has co-authored five publications. Ping's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 3, with 6 total publications and 60 citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 3
  • Publications: 6
  • Citations: 64

Selected Publications

  • Evidence consistent with local adaptation to predation shaping stabilizing effects underlying local coexistence (2026)
    Ecosphere DOI OpenAlex
  • Evidence consistent with local adaptation to predation shaping stabilizing effects underlying local coexistence (2026)
    DRYAD DOI OpenAlex
  • Cheating death: selection on digestive physiology overcomes expected growth costs of antipredator defences (2025)
    Journal of Evolutionary Biology DOI OpenAlex
  • Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior (2025)
    Evolution 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Interactions between fitness components across the life cycle constrain competitor coexistence (2023)
    Journal of Animal Ecology 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A common measure of prey immune function is not constrained by the cascading effects of predators (2021)
    Evolutionary Ecology 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Predators weaken prey intraspecific competition through phenotypic selection (2020)
    Ecology Letters 34 citations DOI OpenAlex

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