David K. Skelly

Yale University — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

48h-index10.6kcitations127works0.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Amphibian and Reptile Biology(62), Species Distribution and Climate Change(50), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(33), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(25), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(20)

Publications127 total

The transcriptomics and differential gene expression of freezing and thawing in a freeze-tolerant vertebrate
BMC Genomics·2026Open Access
Matching climate to biological scales
Trends in Ecology & Evolution·2025
Ranavirus Epizootics and Gut Bacteriome Dysbiosis in Tadpoles: Evidence for the Anna Karenina Principle?
Molecular Ecology·2025
Relative High Fitness and Genome-wide Diversity May Facilitate Plastic and Active Foragers' Diversification
2025Open Access
Sublethal effects of a mass mortality agent: pathogen-mediated plasticity of growth and development in a widespread North American amphibian
Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Long-Term Decline of the Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) in an Undeveloped Landscape
Herpetologica·2024· 1 cited
Long-term Decline of the Spotted Salamander (<i>Ambystoma maculatum</i>) in an Undeveloped Landscape
Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery·2023
Prey metabolic responses to predators depend on predator hunting mode and prey antipredator defenses
Oikos·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Asynchrony, density dependence, and persistence in an amphibian
Ecology·2022· 8 cited
Sex-Biased Mortality and Sex Reversal Shape Wild Frog Sex Ratios
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution·2021· 11 citedOpen Access
Rapid microgeographic evolution in response to climate change
Evolution·2021· 15 cited
Estimating species relative abundances from museum records
Methods in Ecology and Evolution·2021· 50 citedOpen Access
Thanks to Song et al.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution·2021· 1 cited
Metamorphosis in an Era of Increasing Climate Variability
Trends in Ecology & Evolution·2021· 69 cited
Temperature‐mediated trade‐off between development and performance in larval wood frogs (<i>Rana sylvatica</i>)
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology·2020· 11 cited
Phenological delay despite warming in wood frog <i>Rana sylvatica</i> reproductive timing: a 20‐year study
Ecography·2020· 36 citedOpen Access
Suburbanization Increases Echinostome Infection in Green Frogs and Snails
EcoHealth·2019· 9 cited
Molecular evidence for sex reversal in wild populations of green frogs ( <i>Rana clamitans</i> )
PeerJ·2019· 35 citedOpen Access
Peer Review #1 of "Molecular evidence for sex reversal in wild populations of green frogs (Rana clamitans) (v0.2)"
2019Open Access
Sexual and somatic development of wood frog tadpoles along a thermal gradient
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology·2018· 46 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Earl E. Werner(11), Mark C. Urban(10), L. Kealoha Freidenburg(9), Rick A. Relyea(7), Kerry L. Yurewicz(6), Joseph M. Kiesecker(6), Max R. Lambert(4), Christopher J. Davis(3), Jonathan Richardson(2), Ben L. Phillips(2), Richard Shine(2), Phoebe L. Zarnetske(2), M. Anders Halverson(2), Manja P. Holland(2), Susan R. Bolden(2), Gary A. Wellborn(1), Daniel I. Bolnick(1), Spencer A. Cortwright(1), Liana N. Joseph(1), Hugh P. Possingham(1)