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Morgan M. Sparks

Environmental Science · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1965Rising activity
Fish Ecology and Management StudiesGenetic diversity and population structureMarine and fisheries researchEnvironmental DNA in Biodiversity StudiesResearch, Science, and Academia

Publications

23

Citations

195

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

61

Publishing since 1965

Research summary
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Morgan M. Sparks studies how fish, particularly salmon, respond to environmental conditions such as water temperature, focusing on early life stages like egg incubation, hatching, and emergence timing. This work combines field studies, common-garden experiments, and genetic/population approaches to understand thermal adaptation and how climate warming may affect fish development. The research also includes building open-source tools for predicting fish hatch and emergence timing.

Fish early life history and phenologyThermal adaptation and phenotypic plasticityClimate change impacts on aquatic speciesSalmon population genetics and ecologyResearch software tools for fisheries science

Publication output has been steady at about one paper per year for most of the decade, with a recent increase in 2023 and 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.6/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 1 publication182019: 1 publication192020: 1 publication202021: 1 publication212022: 1 publication222023: 3 publications3232024: 1 publication242025: 3 publications32526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×3
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences×2
  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences×1
  • Evolutionary Applications×1
  • Molecular Ecology×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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