Eric R. Pianka. Mailing Address and Phone Numbers

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1 Mailing Address and Phone Numbers Eric R. Pianka Integrative Biology C0930, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Office Phone (512) ; FAX (512) ; Home (830) World Wide Web Home Page: Entry in Wikipedia: Birth Date and Place January 23, 1939; Hilt, Siskiyou County, California Academic Training B. A., (Biology), Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1960 Ph. D., (Zoology), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1965 D. Sc., (Ecology), University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W. A., 1990 Academic History National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University and the University of Western Australia, Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Texas, Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Texas, Professor of Zoology, University of Texas, Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor of Zoology, 1986-present (for life) Honors and Awards Ctenotus piankai (Storr 1968) Guggenheim Fellow, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1981 Biographee in "American Men and Women of Science" Biographee in "Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology" Biographee in "Who's Who in America" Biographee in "Who's Who in the World" Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professorship in Zoology, (for life). Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Australia, D. Sc., (Ecology), University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W. A., 1990 Oochoristica piankai (Bursey, Goldberg, and Woolery 1996) Dean's Fellow, Fall Semester 1998 Teaching Excellence Award, College of Natural Sciences 1999 Skrjabinodon piankai (Bursey and Goldberg 1999) Big XII Faculty Fellowship, Dean's Fellow, Fall Semester 2003 Best non-fiction book, Oklahoma Center for the Book, 2004 Distinguished Herpetologist, Herpetologists' League, 2004 Herpetologists League session titled "Ecology and Evolution of Reptiles: A Tribute to Eric Pianka Distinguished Lecturer, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer Award at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Featured in a 2004 Russian book "Faces of Ecology" by G. C. Rosenberg along with many famous Russian ecologists as well as other luminaries including Lucretius, Leonardo da Vinci, Carl von Linne (Linnaeus), Lavoisier, Lamarck, Goethe, Malthus, Humbolt, von Bauer, Verhulst, Pearl, Liebig, Darwin, Haeckel, Warming, Birge, Lotka, Volterra, Raunkiaer, Thoreau, Tansley, Teilhard de Chardin, Clements, Shelford, H. A. Gleason, H. Walter, Thinemann, Braun-Blanquet, Jacques Cousteau, W. C. Allee, R. A. Fisher, Charles Elton, Andrewartha and Birch, R. H. Whittaker, R. P. McIntosh, W. T. Edmondson, Howard and Eugene Odum, J. T. Curtis, Raymond Lindeman, John L. Harper,

2 2 Philip Grime, Lester Brown, G. E. Hutchinson, R. H. MacArthur, Albert Schweitzer, Ilya Prigogine, Lynn Margulis, Ramon Margalef, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, R. E. Ricklefs, Paul Ehrlich, and Al Gore. Lawrence Slobodkin Lecture in Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Grand Prize, Ninth Annual UT Coop Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards, March 23, Engraved Stone in Oklahoma Heritage Walkway, Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, Norman Inaugural Address for Ecology, Evolution and Behavior program, Texas A & M. University Distinguished Scientist, Texas Academy of Science, 2006 Distinguished Invited Speaker to the Lucian Symposium, St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas Honorary Member, French Varanid Association, 2008 Carleton College Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Achievement, 2010 Society Memberships Herpetologists' League, life member American Society of Naturalists (elected 1971) Ecological Society of America, life member Society for the Study of Evolution, life member Western Australian Naturalists' Club, life member Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, life member American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, life member Society Offices and Other Positions Held Managing Editor, The American Naturalist, Editorial Board, The American Naturalist, Editorial Board, BioScience, Board of Governors, American Society Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, (elected) Research Associate in Herpetology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Board of Editors, National Geographic Research, Governing Board, Second World Congress of Herpetology, Board of Editors, Research and Exploration, Associate Editor, Desert Ecology Series, University of Arizona Press IUCN/Species Survival Commission, Australasian Reptile and Amphibian Specialist Group Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology. Academic Press. Research Associate, Department of Terrestrial Vertebrates, Western Australian Museum Webmaster, Texas Bison Association ( Editorial Board, Journal of Ecosystem & Ecography, Committee Memberships Zoology Excellence Committee, Zoology Department, University of Texas at Austin, 1970 (elected). Faculty Recruitment Committees, Zoology Department, University of Texas at Austin, , , , U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Site Visit Committee to evaluate the Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology of the University of California at Los Angeles and at the Nevada Atomic Test Site. E. R. D. A Advisory Committee for Systematics Resources in Herpetology, National Science Foundation, Building and Space Committee, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Advisor, Graduate Studies Committee of Division of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin,

3 Chairman, Graduate Admissions, Teaching Assistantships and Fellowships Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, Dean's Committee to Evaluate the Zoology Department of Pomona College, Claremont, California, Chairman, Computer Committee, Zoology Department, University of Texas, Long Range Planning Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, Faculty Research Grants Review Committee, University Research Institute, Graduate Studies, University of Texas at Austin Budget Council Salary Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas, International Herpetological Committee, World Congress of Herpetology, (elected). Graduate Admissions, Teaching Assistantships and Fellowships Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Student Evaluation and Fellowships Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, Space Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, Junior Faculty Evaluation and Promotion Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, Operations Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, Courses and Curriculum Committee, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Budget Council Faculty Salary Review Committee (Teaching), Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, Teaching Excellence Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Junior Faculty Evaluation Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, 1999 Post Tenure Review Committee, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Graduate Student Evaluation Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, Chairman, Reeder Fellowships Committee, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Ecology Search Committees, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Faculty Salary Review Committee, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Faculty Merit Review Committee, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Faculty Merit Review Committee, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Graduate Students Raymond B. Huey (M. A., 1969) Ecological relations of sympatric Phyllodactylus in the Sechura desert of Peru. Ph.D., Harvard University (1975); Miller Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Univ. California at Berkeley; Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. [W. F. Blair was Huey s official supervisor, but he and I both consider our mentor-pupil relationship as an unofficial sponsorship.] 3

4 Richard D. Howard (M. A., 1972). Influence of sexual selection and interspecific competition on mockingbird song. Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan (1977); Professor, Purdue University. Jos. J. Schall (Ph. D., 1976). Comparative ecology of sympatric parthenogenetic and bisexual species of Cnemidophorus. Professor, University of Vermont, Burlington. Nancy T. Burley (Ph. D., 1977). Mate choice and sexual Selection in the pigeon, Columba livia. Assistant Professor, McGill University, ; Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, ; Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, ; Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, ; Professor, Univ. California, Irvine. Anthony J. Joern (Ph. D., 1977). Co-sponsored with L. R. Lawlor, Guild and community structure in primary consumers: Resource utilization in arid grassland grasshopper communities (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Professor, Kansas State University, Manhattan. Mary Lee Wissink George (Ph. D., 1980). Hummingbird foraging behavior and pollination energetics of Malvaviscus arboreus. Duncan Alexander MacKay (Ph. D., 1982). Co-sponsored with M. Singer, Search behavior and host plant selection by ovipositing Euphydryas editha butterflies. Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia. Christopher Schneider (M. S., 1987). Comparative ecology of two guilds of shorebirds on the south Texas coast. (Ph. D., University of California at Berkeley, 1993). Associate Professor, Boston University. Kirk O. Winemiller (Ph. D., 1987). Co-sponsored with C. Hubbs, Tests of ecomorphological and community level convergence among neotropical stream fish assemblages. Fulbright Research Scholar to Zambia, Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Department of Zoology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, George Mercer Award, Ecological Society of America, Regents Professor, Section of Ecology, Evolution & Systematic Biology, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A and M University. 4 Mitchell A. Leslie (M. A., 1988). The evolutionary omission: Lizard displays and evolution.curator, Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, Texas, Editor, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Austin, Texas, Science Writer, Stanford University Medical School. Currently a freelance science writer for Science magazine, among others. Daniel T. Haydon (Ph. D., 1992). Stability and complexity revisited. Postdoctoral research associate, Oxford University, U.K.; University of British Columbia; Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Midlothian, Scotland; Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Currently a Lecturer, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. Zoological Society of London's Scientific Medal; awarded to a scientist under the age of 40 years, for distinguished work in Zoology, Ray R. Radtkey (Ph. D., 1993). Co-sponsored with M. Singer, Evaluating the role of ecological interactions in species evolution: two examples combining historical and ecological information. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Univ. Calif. San Diego, La Jolla. Currently a researcher with Nanogen, Inc. Gad Perry (Ph.D., 1995). The evolutionary ecology of lizard foraging: A comparative study. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ohio State University; Postdoctoral, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University.

5 Monica Swartz (Ph.D., 1997). Behavioral and population ecology of the army ant Eciton burchelli and ant-following birds. Fulbright to Costa Rica, Taught field courses in Amazonian Peru for Evergreen College, Olympia, Washington, and in neotropical Ecuador for Boston University. Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of California, Riverside, Currently Lead Scientist for the Coachella Valley Water District. Nancy Heger (Ph. D., 2000). The impact of size on thermal efficiency: size related costs and benefits in Varanus giganteus. Taught at Southwest Texas University; Senior Systems Analyst at the University of Texas; Assistant Professor, Cameron University. L. Ramakrishnan (Ph. D., 2000). Environmental variability and ecological dynamics in spatially structured populations. Taught at the University of Texas before returning to India. Currently population scientist and Country Director of 'Solidarity and Action against the HIV Infection in India' in Chennai, India. W. Bryan Jennings (Ph. D., 2002). Phylogeny, ecology, and the nature of cladogenesis in Australian pygopodid lizards. Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Washington, Seattle, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Assistant Professor at Humbolt State University. Wendy L. Hodges (Ph. D., 2002). Phrynosoma systematics, comparative reproductive ecology, and conservation of a Texas native. Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of California, Riverside; NSF Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of California, Riverside. Assistant Professor, University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Carla G. Guthrie (Ph. D., 2005). Co-sponsored with L. E. Gilbert. Diversity in Motion: The influence of dispersal and metacommunity spatial structure in Heliconia phyteltomata. Natural Resource Specialist, Texas Water Development Board. Stephen E. Goodyear (M. A., 2011). Variation in diet and habitat resource use in desert adapted lizards in Western Australia. Current Graduate Student Alison M. Gainsbury Postdoctoral Researchers Diane W. Davidson, University of Arizona, (now at the University of Utah). Allen R. Lewis, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Daniel T. Haydon, University of Texas at Austin, Cheong H. Diong, Biology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 1999 Monica Swartz, University of Texas at Austin, L. Ramakrishnan, University of Texas at Austin, Cristiano Nogueira, Universidade de Brasilia, Consultant and Reviewer for the Following Journals and Organizations Journal Articles: 5 American Midland Naturalist, American Naturalist, American Scientist, Animal Behaviour, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Auk, Australian Journal of Ecology, Australian Journal of Zoology, Australian Wildlife Research, Biological Conservation, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Biological Reviews, Biology Letters, BioScience, Biotropica, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Conservation Biology, Copeia, Ecological Modelling, Ecological Monographs, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Emu, Ethology, Evolution, Ethology Ecology and Evolution, Functional

6 6 Ecology, Herpetologica, Herpetological Review, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Arid Environments, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Experimental Zoology: Molecular and Developmental Evolution Journal of Herpetology, Journal of Mammalogy, Journal of Morphology, Theoretical Biology, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Journal of Zoology, Marine Biology, Nature, Northwestern Naturalist, Oecologia, Oecologia Generalis, Oikos, Paleobiology, Prairie Naturalist, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, Quarterly Review of Biology, Records of the Western Australian Museum, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, Science, Southwestern Naturalist, Texas Journal of Science, The American Naturalist, Theoretical Population Biology, Vegetatio Theses, Dissertations, Reports and/or Books: Academic Press; Andhra University; Appleton-Century-Crofts; Australian Biological and Environmental Survey; BioSystems Inc.; Bharathidasan University; Cambridge University Press; Chanticleer Press; Chapman and Hall; Columbia University Press; Cornell University Press; Harper and Row; Houghton Mifflin; La Trobe University; Macmillan Publishing Company; Madras University; Macquarie University; McGill University; McGraw-Hill; Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas; Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan; National Geographic Society; Oxford University Press; Prentice-Hall; Princeton University Press; Simon and Schuster; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama; Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; University of Adelaide; University of Arizona Press; University of British Columbia; University of California Press; University of Oslo; University of Sydney; University of Texas Press; University of Western Australia; Wadsworth Publishing Company; William C. Brown, Publishers; Williams and Wilkins. Grant Proposals: American Philosophical Society; Australian Research Council; C. S. I. R. O. Research Grants, Canberra, Australia; Israel Science Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Murdock Charitable Trust; National Geographic Society; Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain); Organization for Tropical Studies; Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Vicerrectoria Academica Direccion de Investigacion; Queen Elizabeth II Fellowships; Seaver Science Research Fund; U. S. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; The Center for Field Research; U. S. Department of Energy; U. S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; U. S. National Science Foundation; U. S. Smithsonian Institution; U. S. Israel Binational Science Foundation Promotions and Tenure Decisions: Barnard University; Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Harvard University; Indiana University; James Cook University; Oklahoma State University; Oregon State University; Savannah River Ecology Laboratory; Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Davis; University of California, Irvine; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Chicago; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Georgia; University of Indiana; University of Kentucky; University of Leeds; University of Maryland; University of Miami; University of Michigan; University of Missouri, Columbia; University of Missouri, St. Louis; University of Nebraska; University of Oklahoma; University of Pennsylvania; University of Vermont; University of Virginia; University of Wisconsin, Madison; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Washington State University; Wayne State University Book Reviews: American Scientist, American Zoologist, BioScience, Cladistics, Copeia, EcoScience, Herpetologica, Herpetological Review, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Vegetation Science, Journal of Wildlife Management, Nature, Quarterly Review of Biology, Science

7 7 Invited Lectures: 1965: Stanford University; University of Washington; University of Illinois (Urbana) 1966: Princeton University; University of California at Berkeley (A. A. A. S. Meetings); Washington University (St. Louis) 1968: Princeton University; University of Texas at Austin; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama) 1969: University of Missouri (Columbia) 1971: Stanford University; University of California at Los Angeles 1972: Texas A. and M. University; Kansas State University (Manhattan); University of Texas Marine Science Institute 1973: University of California (Irvine); University of California at Los Angeles; Princeton University; University of Maryland (College Park) 1974: University of Connecticut; Yale University; Colorado State University; North Texas State University; Duke University; University of California at Berkeley 1975: Utah State University (two lectures); Baylor University; Carleton College (two lectures); Oregon State University (Corvallis A. I. B. S. Meetings); University of Oslo (Norway); University of Lund (Sweden) 1976: University of Texas Marine Science Institute (Port Aransas); Institute of Ecology (Guild Workshop, Denver); Namib Desert Research Station (Gobabeb, Namibia); Ohio State University (Colloquium Speaker in Biological Sciences); University of Montana, Graduate Student Selected Speaker, (two seminars); Chairman at Ecological Society of America meetings in New Orleans 1977: University of Nebraska (Lincoln); University of Texas at Austin, Paleobiology Discussion Group; University of Florida (Symposium co-chairman and speaker); University of Minnesota 1978: State University of New York at Albany; University of Oslo (Norway); University of Kansas, Lawrence (Visiting Professor); University of British Columbia (Vancouver); University of Calgary; Miami University (Ohio); Wayne State University, Graduate Student Selected Speaker; University of Michigan; University of Western Australia, Nedlands (two seminars); Second International Congress of Ecology, Jerusalem (two lectures) 1979: Kansas State University (Manhattan); University of Colorado (Boulder) 1980: University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada); University of Florida (Gainesville); Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden); University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway); North Texas State University (Denton); Oklahoma State University; American Society of Zoologists (Seattle) 1981: Visiting Professor, University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras and Mayaguez) 1982: University of California, Davis 1983: University of Alaska, Fairbanks 1985: Palm Springs Desert Museum; University of Vermont, Burlington 1986: Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago 1987: Brock University, St. Catherine, Ontario; Trinity University, San Antonio; Savannah River Ecology Laboratory; University of Tennessee; Texas A. and. M. University; Universität der Zürich. 1988: University of Kansas, Lawrence; Trinity University, San Antonio; University of

8 California at Irvine; University of California at Los Angeles. 1989: Dean's Speaker, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; San Diego State University;First World Congress of Herpetology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom (Plenary Lecture on Community Ecology); Goldfield's Naturalists' Club, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. 1990: Invited Speaker, Symposium on "Indirect effects in ecological networks," Fifth International Congress of Ecology, Yokohama, Japan (declined for lack of funds); University of Western Australia, Nedlands 1991: University of Western Australia, Nedlands; C.S.I.R.O., Alice Springs; South Australian Museum; University of New England; University of Queensland; Queensland University of Technology; University of Wollongong; C.S.I.R.O., Canberra; Sydney University; World Health Organization, Kobe, Japan; University of Siena (Italy) : Oak Ridge National Laboratory; York University, Canada, Graduate Student Selected Speaker; Department of Zoology and Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma; First International Congress on Lacertids of the Mediterranean Basin, University of Athens, Greece. 1993: Second World Congress of Herpetology, Adelaide 1994: Second World Congress of Herpetology, Adelaide; Second Venezuelan Congress of Ecology, Guanare; Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (Plenary lecture in Symposium on biodiversity); Stazione Zoologica "Anton Dohrn", Napoli, Italy; Temple Junior College (Sigma Xi) 1995: Texas A. and M. University, Graduate Student Selected Speaker; Edith Cowan University, Joondalup; Edith Cowan University, Mt. Lawley. 1997: University of Oregon, Eugene. 1998: University of Southeastern Louisiana; Seventh International Congress of Ecology (Intecol) Meetings, Florence, Italy. 1999: Department of Marine Biology of Texas A&M University at Galveston; Keynote address, 19th Annual Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference, Kent State University, Graduate Student Selected Speaker; Plenary lecture, 10th Ordinary General Meeting of Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Natural History Museum of Crete, Irakleio; Plenary lecture, Asia- Pacific Congress on the Biology of the Environment, National University of Singapore. 2000: Opening address, "A General Review of Zoological Trends During the 20th Century" 18th International Congress of Zoology, Athens, Greece. 2001: Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma; University of New Orleans; BOA group and ALBA, Norrkoping, Sweden; University of Guelph 2002: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Graduate Student Selected Speaker; Albertson College of Idaho; University of Western Australia; Northern Territory University, Darwin; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde, Bad Orb, Germany 2003: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Graduate Student Selected Speaker; University of California, Irvine; University of California, Riverside 2004: Austin Herpetological Society; Keynote address, Distinguished Herpetologist, University of Oklahoma, Norman; Reflections, last talk in Herpetologists League session titled "Ecology and Evolution of Reptiles: A Tribute to Eric Pianka"; Distinguished Lecturer, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer award at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) 2005: Lawrence Slobodkin Lecture in Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Graduate Student Selected Speaker, University of Texas Dean's Scholars Friday Lunch,

9 Grants 9 College of Natural Science honors program; Texas A & M. University Inaugural Address for Ecology, Evolution and Behavior program; Third multidisciplinary world conference on monitor lizards, Alexander Koenig Museum, Bonn, Germany. 2006: University of Southeastern Louisiana ; Texas Academy of Science; Distinguished Invited Speaker to the Lucian Symposium, St. Edward's University; University of Texas at Arlington, Graduate Student Selected Speaker. 2007: University of Victoria, British Columbia, Graduate Student Selected Speaker. 2008: University of California at Santa Barbara; University of Texas Dean's Scholars Friday Lunch, College of Natural Science honors program; University of Washington, Seattle, Graduate Student Selected Speaker. 2009: University of Idaho; 4 th Brazilian Meeting of Herpetology; Texas Herpetological Society; University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 10 th Graduate Student Symposium, Graduate Student Selected Speaker. 2010: Utah State University (declined due to logistical problems). 2011: Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin (two seminars). Invited Commentator, Festsprach for Henry S. Horn, Princeton University. Graduate Program in Ecology, Dept. Zoologia, Universidade de Brasilia. 2012: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Distinguished Speaker Series. N.I.H. Predoctoral Fellowship Lizard Ecology. Stipend plus $500/year. N.I.H. Postdoctoral Fellowship Ecology of Australian Desert Lizards. Stipend plus $500/year. National Science Foundation. Research Grant GB Species Diversity of Flatland Desert Lizards. (Co-principal Investigator with R. H. MacArthur.) $6,600/two years. U.T. Graduate School Subvention Funds (set-up money). $10,000/year. National Science Foundation. Research Grant GB Environmental Determinants of Species Diversity. $21,200/year. U.T. U.R.I. Research Institute Research Leave Salary. $6,250/semester. L.A. County Museum of Natural History Foundation Ecology of Kalahari Lizards. $4,950/two years. U.T. Research Institute Special Research Grant Lizard Ecology. $500/year. National Science Foundation. Research Grant GB A Comparison of Three Independently Evolved Ecological Systems. $25,000/two years. National Geographic Society Ecology of Lizards in the Kalahari Desert. (With R. B. Huey and C. M. Cavalier.) $12,318/year. National Science Foundation. Research Grant GB-43,349 (DEB )

10 Ecological Constraints on the Evolution of Thermal Tolerance. $47,500/two years. National Geographic Society Ecology and Diversity of Desert Lizards in Western Australia. $12,025 plus loan of Toyota Land Cruiser. U.T. Research Institute Half-time Faculty Research Assignment. $12,550/year. 10 National Science Foundation Support for a Symposium entitled "Lizard Ecology: Studies on a Model Organism." (With R. B. Huey and T. W. Schoener.) $10,500. National Science Foundation. Research Grant DEB Ecology of Desert Lizards: A Synthesis. $30,726/two years. Harper and Row, Publishers Grant for computer costs incurred in preparation of a revision of Evolutionary Ecology. $2,500/one year. Project Quest Grant of a MacIntosh SE computer with 20 megabyte hard disk and an Imagewriter II printer. Value $3,250. U.T. Research Institute Half-time Faculty Research Assignment. $32,300. National Geographic Society Lizard Diversity and Fire Succession in Arid Australia. $25,000. U.T. Research Institute Research Grant Disturbance, Spatial Heterogeneity, and Lizard Diversity in Arid Australia. $7,500/one year. HarperCollins, Publishers Grant for computer costs incurred in preparation of a revision of Fifth Edition of Evolutionary Ecology. $2,000. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Grant No NAGW Disturbance, Spatial Heterogeneity, and Biotic Diversity in Arid Australia. (Co-principal Investigators, Melba Crawford, Byron Tapley, and Georgia Ann Klutke) $300,131/three years. National Science Foundation Research Grant No. DEB Disturbance, Spatial Heterogeneity, and Biotic Diversity in Arid Australia. (Co-principal Investigators, Melba Crawford and Byron Tapley) $250,000/three years. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Grant No. NAGW NASA SAR Overflight Project. (Co-principal Investigators, Melba Crawford and Byron Tapley) $27,267/one year. U.T. Research Institute Half-time Faculty Research Assignment. $35,060. National Geographic Society Research Grant Phylogenetic Systematics and Evolutionary Biology of a Diverse Monophyletic Group. $15,525. Dean's Fellow, Fall Semester 1998, $39,500. Big XII Faculty Fellowship, , $2500.

11 11 Dean's Fellow, Fall Semester 2003, $48,295. CAPES-UT Joint Research Program with Brazil.2008, Herpetofauna of the Central Cerrado of Brazil: A Search for the Evolutionary Hotspots with Implications for Conservation (Co-PI with Guarino R. Colli) Papers and Chapters by Eric R. Pianka (Abstracts, Letters, and Book Reviews excluded) Pianka, E. R. and H. M. Smith Distributional records for certain Mexican and Guatemalan reptiles. Herpetologica 15: Willson, M. F. and E. R. Pianka Sexual selection, sex ratio, and mating system. American Naturalist 97: Pianka, E. R Latitudinal gradients in species diversity: A review of concepts. American Naturalist 100: (Reprinted in 1981 in C. F. Jordan (ed.) Tropical Ecology, Benchmark Papers in Ecology. Hutchinson Ross Publishing Company. Reprinted in 2002 in Robin L. Chazdon and T. C. Whitmore (eds.) Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology: Classic Papers with Commentaries. University of Chicago Press, Chicago). Reprinted in 2004 in M. V. Lomolino, D. F.Sax and J. H. Brown (eds.) Foundations of Biogeography. University of Chicago Press, Chicago). Pianka, E. R Convexity, desert lizards, and spatial heterogeneity. Ecology 47: MacArthur, R. H. and E. R. Pianka On optimal use of a patchy environment. American Naturalist 100: Selected as "This Week's Citation Classic" in Current Contents (Social and Behavioral Sciences) (1988), volume 20 (number 31): page 16, in Current Contents (Arts and Humanities) (1988), volume 10 (number 31): page 16, and in Current Contents (Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences) (1988), volume 19 (number 31): page 16.) (Reprinted in 1991 in L. A. Real and J. H. Brown (eds.) Foundations of Ecology. Classic Papers with Commentaries. Univ. Chicago Press.) Pianka, E. R On lizard species diversity: North American flatland deserts. Ecology 48: Pianka, E. R Notes on the biology of Varanus eremius. Western Australian Naturalist 11: Pianka, E. R Notes on the biology of Varanus caudolineatus and Varanus gilleni. Western Australian Naturalist 11: Pianka, E. R Habitat specificity, speciation, and species density in Australian desert lizards. Ecology 50: Pianka, E. R Sympatry of desert lizards (Ctenotus) in Western Australia. Ecology 50: Pianka, E. R. and H. D. Pianka The ecology of Moloch horridus (Lacertilia: Agamidae) in Western Australia. Copeia 1970: Pianka, E. R Notes on Varanus brevicauda. Western Australian Naturalist 11:

12 Pianka, E. R Notes on the biology of Varanus gouldi flavirufus. Western Australian Naturalist 11: Pianka, H. D. and E. R. Pianka Bird censuses from desert localities in Western Australia. Emu 70: Pianka, E. R Comparative autecology of the lizard Cnemidophorus tigris in different parts of its geographic range. Ecology 51: Pianka, E. R On r and K selection. American Naturalist 104: (Reprinted in 1978 in T. H. Clutton-Brock and P. H. Harvey (eds.) Readings in Sociobiology. Freeman. Selected as "This Week's Citation Classic" in Current Contents (1979), volume 10 (number 47): page 10.) Pianka, E. R Comparative ecology of two lizards. Copeia 1971: Pianka, E. R Species diversity. Chapter in Topics in the Study of Life: The Bio Source Book, pp Harper and Row, New York. Pianka, E. R Notes on the biology of Varanus tristis. Western Australian Naturalist 11: Pianka, E. R Ecology of the agamid lizard Amphibolurus isolepis in Western Australia. Copeia 1971: Pianka, E. R Notes on the biology of Amphibolurus cristatus and Amphibolurus scutulatus. Western Australian Naturalist 12: Pianka, E. R. and R. B. Huey Bird species density in the Kalahari and the Australian deserts. Koedoe 14: Pianka, E. R Lizard species density in the Kalahari desert. Ecology 52: Pianka, E. R Zoogeography and speciation of Australian desert lizards: An ecological perspective. Copeia 1972: Pianka, E. R. and W. S. Parker Ecology of the iguanid lizard Callisaurus draconoides. Copeia 1972: Pianka, E. R r and K selection or b and d selection? American Naturalist 106: Parker, W. S. and E. R. Pianka Notes on the ecology of the iguanid lizard, Sceloporus magister. Herpetologica 29: Pianka, E. R The structure of lizard communities. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 4: Selected as "This Week's Citation Classic" in Current Contents (Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences) (1988), volume 19 (number 35): page 18.) Parker, W. S. and E. R. Pianka Further ecological observations on the western banded gecko, Coleonyx variegatus. Copeia 1974: Huey, R. B., E. R. Pianka, M. E. Egan, and L. W. Coons Ecological shifts in sympatry: Kalahari fossorial lizards (Typhlosaurus). Ecology 55:

13 13 Pianka, E. R Niche overlap and diffuse competition. Proc. Nat. Acad Sci. 71: (Reprinted in 1975 in R. H. Whittaker and S. A. Levin (eds.) Niche: theory and application, Benchmark Papers in Ecology. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross.) Huey, R. B. and E. R. Pianka Ecological character displacement in a lizard. American Zoologist 14: Pianka, E. R. and W. S. Parker Ecology of horned lizards: A review with special reference to Phrynosoma platyrhinos. Copeia 1975: Wake, D. B., R. G. Zwiefel, H. Desauer, G. Nace, E. R. Pianka, G. B. Rabb, R. Ruibal, J. Wright, and G. R. Zug Report of the Committee on Resources in Herpetology. Copeia 1975: Wake, D. B., R. G. Zwiefel, H. Desauer, G. Nace, E. R. Pianka, G. B. Rabb, R. Ruibal, J. Wright, and G. R. Zug Collections of preserved amphibians and reptiles in the United States. Herpetological Circ. 3: Wake, D. B., R. G. Zwiefel, H. Desauer, G. Nace, E. R. Pianka, G. B. Rabb, R. Ruibal, J. Wright, and G. R. Zug Recommendations for the management of herpetological museum collections. Herpetological Review 6: Pianka, E. R Niche relations of desert lizards. Chapter 12 (pp ) in M. Cody and J. Diamond (eds.) Ecology and Evolution of Communities. Harvard University Press. Pianka, E. R. and W. S. Parker Age-specific reproductive tactics. American Naturalist 109: Parker, W. S. and E. R. Pianka Comparative ecology of populations of the lizard Uta stansburiana. Copeia 1975: Pianka, E. R. and H. D. Pianka Comparative ecology of twelve species of nocturnal lizards (Gekkonidae) in the Western Australian desert. Copeia 1976: Parker, W. S. and E. R. Pianka Ecological observations on the leopard lizard Crotaphytus wislizeni in different parts of its range. Herpetologica 32: Pianka, E. R Competition and niche theory. Chapter 7 (pp ) in R. M. May (ed.) Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications. Blackwell. Pianka, E. R Natural selection of optimal reproductive tactics. American Zoologist 16: Huey, R. B. and E. R. Pianka Natural selection for juvenile lizards mimicking noxious beetles. Science 195: Pianka, E. R Reptilian species diversity. Chapter 1 (pp. 1-34) in C. Gans and D.W. Tinkle (eds.) Biology of the Reptilia, Academic Press, New York. Huey, R. B. and E. R. Pianka Patterns of niche overlap among broadly sympatric versus narrowly sympatric Kalahari lizards (Scincidae: Mabuya). Ecology 58:

14 14 Huey, R. B. and E. R. Pianka Seasonal variation in thermoregulatory behavior and body temperature of diurnal Kalahari lizards. Ecology 58: (With an Appendix by J. A. Hoffman.) Schall, J. J. and E. R. Pianka Species densities of reptiles and amphibians on the Iberian peninsula. Doñana, Acta Vertebrata: 4: Pianka, E. R. and R. B. Huey Comparative ecology, niche segregation, and resource utilization among gekkonid lizards in the southern Kalahari. Copeia 1978: Schall, J. J. and E. R. Pianka Geographical trends in numbers of species. Science 201: Schoener, T. W., R. B. Huey, and E. R. Pianka A biogeographic extension of the compression hypothesis: Competitors in narrow sympatry. American Naturalist 113: Pianka, E. R Diversity and niche structure in desert communities. Chapter 10 (pp ) in R. Perry and D.Goodall (eds.) Arid-Land Ecosystems: Structure, Function and Management, Cambridge University Press. Pianka, E. R., R. B. Huey and L. R. Lawlor Niche segregation in desert lizards. Chapter 4 (pp ) in D. J. Horn, R. Mitchell, and G. R. Stairs (eds.) Analysis of Ecological Systems. Ohio State University Press, Columbus. Schall, J. J. and E. R. Pianka Evolution of escape behavior diversity. American Naturalist 115: Pianka, E. R Konkurrenz und Theorie der ökologischen Nische. Chapter 7 (pp ) in R. M. May (ed.) Theoretische Ökologie. Verlag Chemie, Basel. Pianka, E. R Guild structure in desert lizards. Oikos 35: Huey, R. B. and E. R. Pianka Ecological consequences of foraging mode. Ecology 62: Pianka, E. R Competition and niche theory. Chapter 8 (pp ) in R. M. May (ed.) Theoretical Ecology, Second Edition, Blackwell. Pianka, E. R Diversity and adaptive radiations of Australian desert lizards. Chapter 50 (pp ) in A. Keast (ed.) Ecological Biogeography in Australia. D. W. Junk, The Hague, Netherlands. (Reprinted in 1984 as Chapter 4.6 (pp ) in M. Archer and G. Clayton (eds.) Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia. University of New South Wales, Kensington, N. S. W., Australia.) Pianka, E. R. and J. J. Schall Species densities of terrestrial vertebrates in Australia. Chapter 59 (pp ) in A. Keast (ed.) Ecological Biogeography in Australia. D. W. Junk, The Hague, Netherlands. (Reprinted in 1984 as Chapter 1.11 (pp ) in M. Archer and G. Clayton (eds.) Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia. University of New South Wales, Kensington, N. S. W., Australia.)

15 Pianka, E. R Resource acquisition and allocation among animals. Chapter 12 (pp ) in C. Townsend and P. Calow (eds.) Physiological Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach to Resource Use. Blackwell. Ricklefs, R. E., D. Cochran, and E. R. Pianka A morphological analysis of the structure of communities of lizards in desert habitats. Ecology 62: Pianka, E. R Observations on the ecology of Varanus in the Great Victoria desert. Western Australian Naturalist 15: Pianka, E. R. and W. F. Giles Notes on the biology of two species of nocturnal skinks, Egernia inornata and Egernia striata, in the Great Victoria desert. Western Australian Naturalist 15: Huey, R. B., E. R. Pianka, and T. W. Schoener Introduction (pp. 1-6) in R. B. Huey, E. R. Pianka, and T. W. Schoener (eds.) Lizard Ecology: Studies of a Model Organism. Harvard University Press. Huey, R. B. and E. R. Pianka Temporal separation of activity and interspecific dietary overlap (with an Appendix by S. L. Pimm). Chapter 13 (pp ) in R. B. Huey, E. R. Pianka, and T. W. Schoener (eds.) Lizard Ecology: Studies of a Model Organism. Harvard University Press. Huey, R. B., E. R. Pianka, and C. M. Cavalier Ecology of Lizards in the Kalahari Desert, Africa. National Geographic Society Research Reports 16: Pianka, E. R Ecological dynamics of Australian desert lizards: or, the L-area revisited. National Geographic Society Research Reports 18: Pianka, E. R Some intercontinental comparisons of desert lizards. National Geographic Research 1: Pianka, E. R A wild analogy. BioScience 35: 685. Pianka, E. R Ecological phenomena in evolutionary perspective. Chapter 16 (pp ) in N. Polunin (ed.) Ecosystem Theory and Application. Wiley and Sons. Pianka, E. R Waiting for the apple to fall, or pooling our brainpower. Bull. Ecol. Soc. America 68: Pianka, E. R The subtlety, complexity, and importance of population interactions when more than two species are involved. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 60: Pianka, E. R Destiny. Bull. Ecol. Soc. America 69: 33. Pianka, E. R Latitudinal gradients in species diversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 4: 223. Pianka, E. R Desert lizard diversity: additional comments and some data. American Naturalist 134: Pianka, E. R The role of plants in evolutionary ecology. Evolutionary Trends in Plants 3:

16 16 Winemiller, K. O. and E. R. Pianka Organization in natural assemblages of desert lizards and tropical fishes. Ecological Monographs 60: Duellman, W. E. and E. R. Pianka Biogeography of nocturnal insectivores: historical events and ecological filters. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 21: Pianka, E. R Phrynosoma platyrhinos. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles. pp Pianka, E. R A land of lizards. Landscope 7 (3): Pianka, E. R Fire Ecology. Disturbance, spatial heterogeneity, and biotic diversity: fire succession in arid Australia. Research and Exploration 8: Pianka, E. R Evolution and the ecosystem. Pages 9-19 in S. Baba, O. Akerele, and Y. Kawaguchi (eds.) Natural Resources and Human Health - Plants of medicinal and nutritional value. Proceedings of the First World Health Organization Symposium on Plants and Health for all: Scientific Advancement, Kobe, Japan, August Elsevier Science Publishers. Pianka, E. R The state of the art in community ecology. In K. Adler (ed.) Herpetology. Current Research on the Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles. Proceedings of the First World Congress of Herpetology at Canterbury. Contributions to Herpetology, Number 9: Pianka, E. R Reproductive tactics. Pages in R. Dallai (ed.) Sex origin and evolution. Proc. of International Symposium on Origin and Evolution of Sex, Siena, September 9-11, Mucchi Editore, Italy. Pianka, E. R The many dimensions of a lizard's ecological niche. Chapter 9 (pp ) in E. D. Valakos, W. Bohme, V. Perez-Mellado, and P. Maragou (eds.) Lacertids of the Mediterranean Basin. Hellenic Zoological Society. University of Athens, Greece. Haydon, D., R. R. Radtkey, and E. R. Pianka Experimental Biogeography: Interactions between stochastic, historical, and ecological processes in a model archipelago. Chapter 11 (pp ) in R. E. Ricklefs and D. Schluter (eds.) Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives. University of Chicago Press. Heatwole, H. and E. R. Pianka Natural History of the Squamata. Pages in G. J. B. Ross (ed.) Fauna of Australia. Volume 2. Amphibia Reptilia Aves. Australian Biological and Environmental Survey, Canberra. Vitt, L. J. and E. R. Pianka Introduction and acknowledgments. Pages ix-xii in Vitt, L. J. and E. R. Pianka (eds.), Lizard Ecology: Historical and Experimental Perspectives. Princeton University Press. 403 pp. Haydon, D. T., B. I. Crother, and E. R. Pianka New directions in biogeography? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9: Pianka, E. R Comparative ecology of Varanus in the Great Victoria desert. Australian Journal of Ecology 19:

17 Pianka, E. R Biodiversity of Australian desert lizards. In C.-I. Peng and C. H. Chou (eds.) Biodiversity and Terrestrial Ecosystems. Institute of Botany, Academica Sinica, Monograph Series No. 14, pp Pianka, E. R Evolution of body size: Varanid lizards as a model system. American Naturalist 146: Pianka, E. R Desert lizard ecology: Panglobal comparisons. Hardun. Journal of the Israel Herpetological Information Center, No. 6: (in hebrew). Pianka, E. R Long-term changes in Lizard Assemblages in the Great Victoria Desert: Dynamic Habitat Mosaics in Response to Wildfires. Chapter 8 (pp ) in M. L. Cody and J. A. Smallwood (eds.) Long-term studies of vertebrate communities. Academic Press. Pianka, G. A., E. R. Pianka, and G. G. Thompson Egg laying by thorny devils (Moloch horridus) under natural conditions in the Great Victoria desert. J. Roy. Soc. Western Australia 79: Perry, G. and E. R. Pianka Animal foraging: past, present and future. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12: Couper, P. J. and E. R. Pianka Synonymy of Ctenotus monticola Storr, 1981 and Ctenotus hypatia Ingram and Czechura, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42: 12. Reprinted in Chondro. Journal of the Cape York Herpetological Society, 1998, pp Pianka, E. R Australia's thorny devil. Reptiles 5 (11): Pianka, E. R., D. M. Hillis, D. C. Cannatella, M. J. Ryan, and J. J. Wiens Teaching Herpetology. Herpetologica 54 (Supplement): S3-S5. Pianka, E. R. and W. L. Hodges Horned lizards. Reptiles 6 (6): Translated into Finnish in 2003, published as Sarvikonnaliskot Phrynosoma in Herpetomania 12: Pianka, G. A., E. R. Pianka, and G. G. Thompson Natural history of thorny devils Moloch horridus (Lacertilia: Agamidae) in the Great Victoria desert. J. Royal Society of Western Australia 81: Thompson, G. G., E. R. Pianka, and M. de Boer Body temperatures of an arboreal monitor lizard, Varanus tristis (Squamata: Varanidae) during the breeding season. Amphibia-Reptilia 20: Thompson, G. G. and E. R. Pianka Reproductive ecology of the black-headed goanna Varanus tristis (Squamata: Varanidae). J. Royal Society of Western Australia 82: Thompson, G. G., M. de Boer, and E. R. Pianka Activity areas and daily movements of an arboreal monitor lizard, Varanus tristis (Squamata: Varanidae) during the breeding season. Australian Journal of Ecology 24: Pearson, D. J., D. R. King, and E. R. Pianka New localities for the western pygmy possum, Cercartetus concinnus. Western Australian Naturalist 22:

18 Haydon, D. T. and E. R. Pianka Metapopulation theory, landscape models, and species diversity. EcoScience 6: Haydon, D. T., J. K. Friar, and E. R. Pianka Fire Driven Dynamic Mosaics in the Great Victoria Desert I: Fire Geometry. Landscape Ecology 15: Haydon, D. T., J. K. Friar, and E. R. Pianka Fire Driven Dynamic Mosaics in the Great Victoria Desert II: A spatial and temporal landscape model. Landscape Ecology 15: Farlow, J. O. and E. R. Pianka Body form and trackway pattern in Australian desert monitors (Squamata: Varanidae): Comparing zoological and ichnological diversity. Palaios 15: Huey, R. B., E. R. Pianka, and L. J. Vitt How often do lizards run on empty? Ecology 82: Pianka, E. R The wonderful lizards of Oz. Fauna 2: Thompson, G. G. and E. R. Pianka Allometry of clutch and neonate sizes in monitor lizards (Varanidae: Varanus). Copeia 2001: Winemiller, K. O., E. R. Pianka, L. J. Vitt, and A. Joern Food web laws or niche theory? six independent empirical tests. American Naturalist 158: Pianka, E. R The role of phylogenetics in evolutionary ecology. Pp in Herpetologia Candiana. P. Lymberakis, E. Valakos, P. Pafilis, and M. Mylonas (eds), Natural History Museum of Crete, Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Irakleio Crete Pianka, E. R Evolutionary Stable Strategies. pp in Encyclopedia of Genetics, Academic Press. Pianka, E. R Species Diversity. In the Encyclopedia of Evolution, Oxford University Press. Pianka, E. R Adaptation. In a 4 volume Encyclopedia, titled Biology for Students Vol. II. Evolution. Reference Division, Macmillan Publishing. Pianka, E. R Convergent Evolution. In a 4 volume Encyclopedia, titled Biology for Students Vol. II. Evolution. Reference Division, Macmillan Publishing. Pianka, E. R Natural Selection. In a 4 volume Encyclopedia, titled Biology for Students Vol. II. Evolution. Reference Division, Macmillan Publishing. Pianka, E. R Forward. Pages xi-xiii in J. B. Murphy, C. Ciofi, Colomba de La Panouse and T. Walsh (eds.) Komodo dragons: Biology and conservation. Smithsonian Institute Press. King, D. R., E. R. Pianka, and B. Green Biology, ecology, and evolution. Chapter 2 (pages 23-41) in J. B. Murphy, C. Ciofi, Colomba de La Panouse and T. Walsh (eds.) Komodo dragons: Biology and conservation. Smithsonian Institute Press. Pianka, E. R A general review of zoological trends during the 20th century. A. Legakis, S. Sfenthourakis, R. Polymeni, and M. Thessalou-Legaki, eds. Proc. 18th International Congress of Zoology, pp