David F. Westneat

David F. Westneat

University of Kentucky

H-index: 49

North America-United States

About David F. Westneat

David F. Westneat, With an exceptional h-index of 49 and a recent h-index of 25 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Kentucky, specializes in the field of Behavioral Ecology, Avian social and reproductive behavior.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

The incubation environment does not explain significant variation in heart rate plasticity among avian embryos

The impact of parental and developmental stress on DNA methylation in the avian hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis

Biological links between personality and plasticity: testing some alternative hypotheses

Climate change and its effects on body size and shape: the role of endocrine mechanisms

Among‐population variation in telomere regulatory proteins and their potential role as hidden drivers of intraspecific variation in life history

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Describing posterior distributions of variance components: Problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation

Epigenetic modification of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis during development in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)

David F. Westneat Information

University

Position

Department of Biology

Citations(all)

11360

Citations(since 2020)

2938

Cited By

9174

hIndex(all)

49

hIndex(since 2020)

25

i10Index(all)

101

i10Index(since 2020)

50

Email

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David F. Westneat Skills & Research Interests

Behavioral Ecology

Avian social and reproductive behavior

Top articles of David F. Westneat

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

The incubation environment does not explain significant variation in heart rate plasticity among avian embryos

Journal of Experimental Biology

Alexandra G Cones

Eve R Schneider

David F Westneat

2024/3/1

The impact of parental and developmental stress on DNA methylation in the avian hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis

Molecular Ecology

Stefanie J Siller Wilks

Britt J Heidinger

David F Westneat

Joseph Solomon

Dustin R Rubenstein

2024/3

Biological links between personality and plasticity: testing some alternative hypotheses

The American Naturalist

David F Westneat

2024/2/1

Climate change and its effects on body size and shape: the role of endocrine mechanisms

Gabrielle R Names

Jennifer L Grindstaff

David F Westneat

Britt J Heidinger

2024/3/25

Among‐population variation in telomere regulatory proteins and their potential role as hidden drivers of intraspecific variation in life history

Journal of Animal Ecology

Sarah E Wolf

Mary J Woodruff

David A Chang van Oordt

Ethan D Clotfelter

Daniel A Cristol

...

2024/3/21

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Perspective

Sunkyung Kim

Jing Chen

Feiya Ou

Tian-Tian Liu

Suin Jo

...

2024/3/4

Describing posterior distributions of variance components: Problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Joel L Pick

Claudia Kasper

Hassen Allegue

Niels J Dingemanse

Ned A Dochtermann

...

2023/10

Epigenetic modification of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis during development in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Stefanie J Siller Wilks

David F Westneat

Britt J Heidinger

Joseph Solomon

Dustin R Rubenstein

2023/9/15

House sparrows exhibit individual differences in generalization when confronted with different novel stimuli

Ethology

Allison L McLaughlin

David F Westneat

2023/8

Early‐life telomeres are influenced by environments acting at multiple temporal and spatial scales

Molecular Ecology

David F Westneat

Rebecca C Young

Alexandra G Cones

Aurelia C Kucera

Angelo Anacleto

...

2023/11

Variation in embryonic metabolic reaction norms and the role of the environment

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Alexandra G Cones

David F Westneat

2023/7/1

The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Lucyna Halupka

Debora Arlt

Jere Tolvanen

Alexandre Millon

Pierre Bize

...

2023/5/9

The evolutionary ecology of variation in labile traits: selection on its among-and within-individual components

Evolution

Yimen G Araya-Ajoy

Niels J Dingemanse

David F Westneat

Jonathan Wright

2023/10/1

A reaction norm framework for the evolution of learning: how cumulative experience shapes phenotypic plasticity

Jonathan Wright

Thomas R Haaland

Niels J Dingemanse

David F Westneat

2022/10

Preserving avian blood and DNA sampled in the wild: A survey of personal experiences

Ecology and Evolution

Irene Di Lecce

Joanna Sudyka

David F Westneat

Marta Szulkin

2022/8

Estimating (non) linear selection on reaction norms: A general framework for labile traits

Jordan Scott Martin

Yimen G Araya-Ajoy

Niels J Dingemanse

Alastair J Wilson

David Westneat

2021/3/19

Developmental sequences, social feedbacks, and tasks: a comment on Loftus et al.

Behavioral Ecology

David F Westneat

2021/1/1

dalmatian: A Package for Fitting Double Hierarchical Linear Models in R via JAGS and nimble

Journal of Statistical Software

Simon Bonner

Han-Na Kim

David Westneat

Ariane Mutzel

Jonathan Wright

...

2021/11/30

Longer telomeres during early life predict higher lifetime reproductive success in females but not males

Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Britt J Heidinger

Aurelia C Kucera

Jeff D Kittilson

David F Westneat

2021/5/26

Most published selection gradients are underestimated: Why this is and how to fix it

Evolution

Niels Jeroen Dingemanse

Yimen G Araya-Ajoy

David F Westneat

2021/4/1

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