Research Associate
Dept. of Biology
Boston University
5 Cummington Street
Boston MA 02215
Research Interests
See people.bu.edu/kwarken for further information on research in the Warkentin lab.
Recent Publications
Gomez-Mestre, I. , J.J. Wiens & K.M. Warkentin. Evolution of adaptive plasticity: risk-sensitive hatching in neotropical leaf-breeding treefrogs (Agalychnis: Hylidae). Ecological Mongraphs. [Accepted for publication 8/07]
Warkentin, K.M. 2007. Oxygen, gills, and embryo behavior: mechanisms of adaptive plasticity in hatching. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A. In Press, doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.02.009
Gomez-Mestre I. and K.M. Warkentin. 2007. To hatch and hatch not: similar selective trade-offs but different responses to egg predators in two closely related, syntopic treefrogs. Oecologia. 153: 197-206.
Warkentin, K.M., M.S. Caldwell , T.D. Siok, A.T. D’Amato and J.G. McDaniel. 2007. Flexible information sampling in vibrational risk assessment by red-eyed treefrog embryos. Journal of Experimental Biology, 210: 614-619.
Warkentin, K.M., M.S. Caldwell & J. G. McDaniel. 2006. Temporal pattern cues in vibrational risk assessment by red-eyed treefrog embryos, Agalychnis callidryas. Journal of Experimental Biology, 209:1376-1384.
Vonesh, J.R. & K.M. Warkentin. 2006. Opposite shifts in size at metamorphosis in response to larval and metamorph predators. Ecology 87: 556-562.
Warkentin, K. M., C.R. Buckley & K.A. Metcalf. 2006. Development of red-eyed treefrog eggs affects efficiency and choices of egg-foraging wasps. Animal Behaviour 71: 417-425.
Gomez-Mestre, I., J.C. Touchon & K.M. Warkentin. 2006. Amphibian embryo and parental defenses and a larval predator reduce egg mortality from water mold. Ecology, 87: 2570-2581.
Warkentin, K. M., I. Gomez-Mestre & J.G. McDaniel. 2005. Development, surface exposure, and embryo behavior affect oxygen levels in eggs of the red-eyed treefrog, Agalychnis callidryas. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 78: 956-966.
arkentin, K.M. 2005. How do embryos assess risk? Vibrational cues in predator-induced hatching of red-eyed treefrogs. Animal Behaviour 70: 59-71.
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