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Ryan Calsbeek

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

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Departments

  • Biological Sciences

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Contact Information

Email: ryan.calsbeek@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-9917
Office: 6044 Gilman

Education

B.S. Indiana University; Ph.D. University of California at Santa Cruz

Areas of Expertise

Lizards; habitats, natural selection

Selected Works

  • Calsbeek, R and E Marnocha, "Context Dependent Neighbour Recognition in Anolis Sagrei: The Importance of Habitat Structure to Territory Defense," Ethology, 112 (2006) 537-543.
  • Calsbeek, R, J H Knouft, and T B Smith, "Variation in Scale Numbers is Consistent with Ecologically Based Natural Selection Acting within and between Lizard Species," Evolutionary Ecology, 20 (2006) 377-394.
  • Sinervo, B and R Calsbeek, "The Physiological, Behavioral, and Genetical Causes and Consequences of Frequency Dependent Selection in the Wild," Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 37 (2006) 581-610.
  • Sinervo, B, R Calsbeek, T Commendant, C Both, C Adamopoulou, and J Clobert, "Genetic and Maternal Determinants of Dispersal in Color Morphs of Side-blotched Lizards," American Naturalist, 168 (2006) 88-89.
  • Sinervo, B, A Chaine, J Clobert, R Calsbeek, L Hazard, L Lancaster, A MacAdam, S Alonzo, G Corrigan, and M E Hochberg, "Color Morphs and Genetic Cycles of Greenbeard Altruism and Greenbeard Mutualism," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 103 (2006) 7372-7377.

Current Projects

"The Quick and the Dead: Locomotor Performance and Natural Selection in Island Lizards;" "Probing the Adaptive Landscape Using Experimental Islands: Density Dependent Natural Selection on Lizard Body Size;" "Correlational Selection on Heritable Polymorphic Dorsal Patterns in the Lizard," " Natural and Sexual Selection on Performance Related Morphology: A Test of Several Adaptive Hypotheses"