Sandy Kawano

512 total citations
20 papers, 330 citations indexed

About

Sandy Kawano is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandy Kawano has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 330 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 6 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Sandy Kawano's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (8 papers), Robotic Locomotion and Control (5 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (4 papers). Sandy Kawano is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (8 papers), Robotic Locomotion and Control (5 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (4 papers). Sandy Kawano collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Sandy Kawano's co-authors include Richard W. Blob, Heiko L. Schoenfuss, William C. Bridges, Takashi Maie, Margaret B. Ptacek, Chaohui Gong, Howie Choset, Daniel I. Goldman, Henry C. Astley and Perrin Schiebel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Journal of Experimental Biology.

In The Last Decade

Sandy Kawano

18 papers receiving 326 citations

Peers

Sandy Kawano
Cinnamon M. Pace United States
Christopher P. Kenaley United States
Sarah J. Longo United States
María Laura Habegger United States
Vikram B. Baliga Canada
Takashi Maie United States
Nicholas J. Gidmark United States
Aaron M. Olsen United States
Kara Feilich United States
Brett R. Aiello United States
Cinnamon M. Pace United States
Sandy Kawano
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Fields of papers citing papers by Sandy Kawano

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sandy Kawano

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Park, Grace, et al.. (2025). Salamander ecomorphology reveals a unique suite of climbing adaptations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2053). 20251295–20251295.
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Kawano, Sandy, et al.. (2024). Applying 3D Models of Giant Salamanders to Explore Form–Function Relationships in Early Digit-Bearing Tetrapods. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 64(3). 715–728.
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Blob, Richard W., et al.. (2022). Kinematic comparisons between mudskipper fins and salamander limbs during terrestrial locomotion. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology. 337(6). 612–625. 5 indexed citations
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Kawano, Sandy & Richard W. Blob. (2022). Terrestrial force production by the limbs of a semi-aquatic salamander provides insight into the evolution of terrestrial locomotor mechanics. Journal of Experimental Biology. 225(7). 7 indexed citations
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Anderson, Philip S. L. & Sandy Kawano. (2022). Different Traits at Different Rates: The Effects of Dynamic Strain Rate on Structural Traits in Biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 62(3). 683–699. 7 indexed citations
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Summers, Adam P., et al.. (2022). SegmentGeometry: A Tool for Measuring Second Moment of Area in 3D Slicer. Integrative Organismal Biology. 4(1). obac009–obac009. 15 indexed citations
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Gibb, Alice C., et al.. (2022). A Step Forward: Functional Diversity and Emerging Themes of Slow-Speed Locomotion in Vertebrates. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 62(5). 1235–1245. 2 indexed citations
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Kawano, Sandy, et al.. (2022). Mudskippers Modulate their Locomotor Kinematics when Moving on Deformable and Inclined Substrates. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 62(5). 1335–1356. 7 indexed citations
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Schoenfuss, Heiko L., Takashi Maie, Sandy Kawano, & Richard W. Blob. (2019). Performance across extreme environments: comparing waterfall climbing among amphidromous gobioid fishes from Caribbean and Pacific Islands. Société Française d'Ichtyologie. 7 indexed citations
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Kawano, Sandy. (2017). Turtle shells have built-in shock absorbers. Journal of Experimental Biology. 220(9). 1545–1546. 1 indexed citations
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Kawano, Sandy. (2017). When natural armour does more than protect. Journal of Experimental Biology. 220(21). 3840–3840. 1 indexed citations
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McInroe, Benjamin, Henry C. Astley, Chaohui Gong, et al.. (2016). Tail use improves performance on soft substrates in models of early vertebrate land locomotors. Science. 353(6295). 154–158. 73 indexed citations
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Kawano, Sandy, D. Ross Economy, Marian Kennedy, Delphine Dean, & Richard W. Blob. (2015). Comparative limb bone loading in the humerus and femur of the tiger salamander Ambystoma tigrinum: testing the ‘mixed-chain’ hypothesis for skeletal safety factors. Journal of Experimental Biology. 219(Pt 3). 341–53. 14 indexed citations
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Kawano, Sandy. (2014). Evaluation of the functional capabilities of fins and limbs for moving on land: Insights into the invasion of land by tetrapods. TigerPrints (Clemson University). 2 indexed citations
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Kawano, Sandy & Richard W. Blob. (2013). Propulsive Forces of Mudskipper Fins and Salamander Limbs during Terrestrial Locomotion: Implications for the Invasion of Land. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53(2). 283–294. 86 indexed citations
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Kawano, Sandy, et al.. (2013). Foraging Behavior Delays Mechanically-Stimulated Escape Responses in Fish. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53(5). 780–786. 11 indexed citations
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Kawano, Sandy, William C. Bridges, Heiko L. Schoenfuss, Takashi Maie, & Richard W. Blob. (2012). Differences in locomotor behavior correspond to different patterns of morphological selection in two species of waterfall-climbing gobiid fishes. Evolutionary Ecology. 27(5). 949–969. 16 indexed citations
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Blob, Richard W., Sandy Kawano, William C. Bridges, et al.. (2010). Morphological Selection and the Evaluation of Potential Tradeoffs Between Escape from Predators and the Climbing of Waterfalls in the Hawaiian Stream Goby Sicyopterus stimpsoni. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 50(6). 1185–1199. 62 indexed citations

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