Eric Pianka - Works

Works

Pianka has produced over 100 scientific papers, many highly cited and influential, and a classic textbook, Evolutionary Ecology. He also writes for the general public; his book "Lizards-Windows to the Evolution of Diversity," coauthored with longtime collaborator Laurie Vitt, won both the Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Author Award at The University of Texas at Austin and the Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Books:

  • Pianka, Eric R. (1983), Evolutionary Ecology (Fourth Edition), ISBN 0-06-045216-1
  • Pianka ER (1994). The Lizard Man Speaks. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-76552-5.
  • Pianka ER (1986). Ecology and Natural History of Desert Lizards. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08148-4.
  • Pianka, Eric and Dennis King (2004), Varanoid Lizards of the World, Indiana University Press.
  • Pianka, Eric and Laurie Vitt (2003), Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, University of California Press.

Articles:

  • MacArthur RH and ER Pianka (1966). "On the optimal use of a patchy environment.". American Naturalist 100 (916): 603–9. doi:10.1086/282454. JSTOR 2459298.
  • Sweet, Samuel S. and Eric R. Pianka, "The Lizard Kings: Small Monitors Roam to the East of an Unseen Frontier; Mammals Roam to the West", Natural History, November, 2003.

Read more about this topic:  Eric Pianka

Famous quotes containing the word works:

    “Now they express
    All that’s content to wear a worn-out coat,
    All actions done in patient hopelessness,
    All that ignores the silences of death,
    Thinking no further than the hand can hold,
    All that grows old,
    Yet works on uselessly with shortened breath.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Was it an intellectual consequence of this ‘rebirth,’ of this new dignity and rigor, that, at about the same time, his sense of beauty was observed to undergo an almost excessive resurgence, that his style took on the noble purity, simplicity and symmetry that were to set upon all his subsequent works that so evident and evidently intentional stamp of the classical master.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    “Most young black females learn to be suspicious and critical of feminist thinking long before they have any clear understanding of its theory and politics.... Without rigorously engaging feminist thought, they insist that racial separatism works best. This attitude is dangerous. It not only erases the reality of common female experience as a basis for academic study; it also constructs a framework in which differences cannot be examined comparatively.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)