Matthew L. Forister

13.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
154 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Matthew L. Forister is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew L. Forister has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 58 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 56 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Matthew L. Forister's work include Plant and animal studies (111 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (57 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (44 papers). Matthew L. Forister is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (111 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (57 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (44 papers). Matthew L. Forister collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Brazil. Matthew L. Forister's co-authors include James A. Fordyce, Chris C. Nice, Arthur M. Shapiro, Daniel I. Bolnick, C. Darrin Hulsey, Richard Svanbäck, Louie H. Yang, Jeremy M. Davis, Zachariah Gompert and Eliza M. Grames and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Matthew L. Forister

148 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Ecology of Individuals: Incidence and Implications of Individual Specialization

2003 2.2k citations James A. Fordyce, Matthew L. Forister et al. profile →
Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts

2021 840 citations David L. Wagner, Eliza M. Grames et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Insects and recent climate change

2021 304 citations Christopher A. Halsch, Arthur M. Shapiro et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Declines in insect abundance and diversity: We know enough to act now

2019 220 citations Matthew L. Forister et al. Conservation Science and Practice profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew L. Forister United States	38	4.4k	2.8k	2.5k	2.4k	1.7k	154	8.1k
James A. Fordyce United States	40	4.3k 1.0×	3.3k 1.2×	2.7k 1.1×	2.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	128	8.6k
Paulo A. V. Borges Portugal	42	3.2k 0.7×	2.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	2.8k 1.2×	2.4k 1.4×	327	7.5k
John T. Longino United States	33	4.1k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	98	7.1k
Dries Bonte Belgium	44	3.3k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	2.5k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	282	7.0k
David L. Wagner United States	32	4.7k 1.1×	1.6k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	144	7.2k
Hans Van Dyck Belgium	45	4.7k 1.1×	2.1k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	3.3k 1.4×	2.2k 1.3×	140	7.4k
Carol L. Boggs United States	47	4.6k 1.1×	1.9k 0.7×	2.8k 1.1×	2.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	100	7.5k
Vojtêch Novotný Czechia	43	4.6k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	3.5k 1.5×	1.3k 0.8×	195	7.1k
Yves Basset Panama	46	5.0k 1.1×	2.3k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	3.6k 1.5×	1.5k 0.9×	148	7.2k
Juan J. Morrone Mexico	49	5.3k 1.2×	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	2.7k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	341	10.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew L. Forister

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Smilanich, Angela M., et al.. (2025). Disease from leaves to landscapes: viral hotspots are determined by spatial arrangement and phytochemistry of host plants in specialist caterpillars. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2041). 20242753–20242753.

Forister, Matthew L., et al.. (2025). Climate Change, Weather, and Geography Shape Seed Mass Variation and Decline Across Western North America. Global Change Biology. 31(8). e70416–e70416.

So, Kevin Kam Fung, Joshua G. Harrison, Zachariah Gompert, et al.. (2025). High Quality Diet Enhances Immune Response and Affects Gene Expression During Viral Infection in an Insect Herbivore. Molecular Ecology. 34(15). e17694–e17694. 1 indexed citations

Burns, Trudy L., et al.. (2025). Pesticide contamination detected across five wildlife refuges in the Sacramento Valley of California. The Science of The Total Environment. 969. 178991–178991. 1 indexed citations

Dyer, Lee A., Angela M. Smilanich, Zachariah Gompert, & Matthew L. Forister. (2024). Insect conservation, technological traps, and the fading arts of natural history and field ecology. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 66. 101261–101261.

Halsch, Christopher A., Arthur M. Shapiro, James H. Thorne, et al.. (2023). Thirty‐six years of butterfly monitoring, snow cover, and plant productivity reveal negative impacts of warmer winters and increased productivity on montane species. Global Change Biology. 30(1). 2 indexed citations

Halsch, Christopher A., et al.. (2023). Additive and interactive effects of anthropogenic stressors on an insect herbivore. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(1996). 20222431–20222431. 3 indexed citations

Massad, Tara Joy, Lee A. Dyer, Yasmine Antonini, et al.. (2023). Intra- and interspecific diversity in a tropical plant clade alter herbivory and ecosystem resilience. eLife. 12. 3 indexed citations

Grames, Eliza M., Graham A. Montgomery, Douglas Boyes, et al.. (2022). A framework and case study to systematically identify long‐term insect abundance and diversity datasets. Conservation Science and Practice. 4(6). 10 indexed citations

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Harrison, Joshua G., et al.. (2022). Experimental removal of extracellular egg‐associated microbes has long‐lasting effects for larval performance. Functional Ecology. 36(12). 3248–3258. 2 indexed citations

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Wagner, David L., Eliza M. Grames, Matthew L. Forister, May R. Berenbaum, & David Stopak. (2021). Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(2). 840 indexed citations breakdown →

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Harrison, Joshua G., C. Alex Buerkle, Daniel Cook, et al.. (2021). A suite of rare microbes interacts with a dominant, heritable, fungal endophyte to influence plant trait expression. The ISME Journal. 15(9). 2763–2778. 23 indexed citations

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Espeset, Anne & Matthew L. Forister. (2021). In Search of an Honest Butterfly: Sexually Selected Wing Coloration and Reproductive Traits From Wild Populations of the Cabbage White Butterfly. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 115(2). 156–162. 2 indexed citations

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Gompert, Zachariah, et al.. (2019). Genomic evidence of genetic variation with pleiotropic effects on caterpillar fitness and plant traits in a model legume. Molecular Ecology. 28(12). 2967–2985. 15 indexed citations

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Harrison, Joshua G., Casey S. Philbin, Craig D. Dodson, et al.. (2019). Host plant-dependent effects of microbes and phytochemistry on the insect immune response. Oecologia. 191(1). 141–152. 24 indexed citations

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Lucas, Lauren K., et al.. (2018). The predictability of genomic changes underlying a recent host shift in Melissa blue butterflies. Molecular Ecology. 27(12). 2651–2666. 26 indexed citations

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Harrison, Joshua G., Casey S. Philbin, Zachariah Gompert, et al.. (2018). Deconstruction of a plant‐arthropod community reveals influential plant traits with nonlinear effects on arthropod assemblages. Functional Ecology. 32(5). 1317–1328. 17 indexed citations

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Glassmire, Andrea E., Christopher S. Jeffrey, Matthew L. Forister, et al.. (2016). Intraspecific phytochemical variation shapes community and population structure for specialist caterpillars. New Phytologist. 212(1). 208–219. 74 indexed citations

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Fordyce, James A., Zachariah Gompert, Matthew L. Forister, & Chris C. Nice. (2011). A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Ecological Count Data: A Flexible Tool for Ecologists. PLoS ONE. 6(11). e26785–e26785. 68 indexed citations

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Gompert, Zachariah, James A. Fordyce, Matthew L. Forister, & Chris C. Nice. (2008). Recent colonization and radiation of North American Lycaeides (Plebejus) inferred from mtDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48(2). 481–490. 28 indexed citations

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