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Kevin Healy

Researcher at Trinity College, Dublin

Publications -  24
Citations -  1509

Kevin Healy is an academic researcher from Trinity College, Dublin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Venom. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 19 publications receiving 1050 citations. Previous affiliations of Kevin Healy include University of St Andrews & National University of Ireland, Galway.

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Navigating the complexity of ecological stability

TL;DR: This work assesses the scientific and policy literature and provides recommendations for theoreticians, empiricists and policymakers on how to better integrate the multidimensional nature of ecological stability into their research, policies and actions.
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On the dimensionality of ecological stability

TL;DR: This work presents a new view of ecological stability that recognises explicitly the non-independence of components of stability, and proposes a multidimensional stability framework that gives a far richer understanding of how communities respond to perturbations.
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Ecology and mode-of-life explain lifespan variation in birds and mammals

TL;DR: It is shown that, over and above the effect of body mass, the most important factor enabling longer lifespan is the ability to fly, which was true for non-volant species, where lifespan correlated positively with both arboreality and fossoriality.
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Animal life history is shaped by the pace of life and the distribution of age-specific mortality and reproduction

TL;DR: Analysis of demographic data from 121 species shows that animal life history strategies vary across two axes of variation defined by the pace of life and the distribution of a species’ mortality and reproduction over their life course.
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Metabolic rate and body size are linked with perception of temporal information

TL;DR: A phylogenetic comparative analysis of a wide range of vertebrates is carried out to suggest that time perception may constitute an important and overlooked dimension of niche differentiation.