Michael D. Collins

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Michael D. Collins is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Parasitology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael D. Collins has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, 8 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 8 papers in Parasitology. Recurrent topics in Michael D. Collins's work include Vector-borne infectious diseases (8 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (7 papers). Michael D. Collins is often cited by papers focused on Vector-borne infectious diseases (8 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (7 papers). Michael D. Collins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Indonesia. Michael D. Collins's co-authors include Nathan J. Sanders, Gregory M. Crutsinger, James A. Fordyce, Zachariah Gompert, Chris C. Nice, Daniel Simberloff, Diego P. Vázquez, Edward F. Connor, Reto Knutti and Gab Abramowitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael D. Collins

22 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

Plant Genotypic Diversity Predicts Community Structure and Governs an Ecosystem Process

2006 647 citations Gregory M. Crutsinger, Michael D. Collins et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael D. Collins United States	14	601	514	456	239	212	22	1.3k
Swen C. Renner Austria	18	485 0.8×	506 1.0×	626 1.4×	157 0.7×	267 1.3×	63	1.4k
Anton Krištín Slovakia	19	517 0.9×	348 0.7×	589 1.3×	78 0.3×	172 0.8×	89	1.1k
Michelle H. Hersh United States	14	431 0.7×	753 1.5×	308 0.7×	340 1.4×	597 2.8×	18	1.6k
Christine Strüssmann Brazil	19	386 0.6×	467 0.9×	532 1.2×	115 0.5×	854 4.0×	85	1.6k
Cristián F. Estades Chile	21	344 0.6×	571 1.1×	907 2.0×	121 0.5×	364 1.7×	64	1.4k
David T. Barnett United States	16	512 0.9×	946 1.8×	781 1.7×	84 0.4×	309 1.5×	38	1.6k
Melinda L. Moir Australia	20	523 0.9×	398 0.8×	393 0.9×	56 0.2×	163 0.8×	56	1.1k
A. S. van Jaarsveld South Africa	22	266 0.4×	608 1.2×	671 1.5×	92 0.4×	382 1.8×	57	1.4k
Roger William Hutchings Brazil	12	414 0.7×	773 1.5×	457 1.0×	44 0.2×	373 1.8×	14	1.3k
Torstein Solhøy Norway	20	590 1.0×	308 0.6×	679 1.5×	49 0.2×	197 0.9×	50	1.2k

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Houston, Allan E., et al.. (2020). Avian haemosporidian prevalence and its relationship to host traits in Western Tennessee. Journal für Ornithologie. 161(4). 995–1010. 6 indexed citations

Fecchio, Alan, Michael D. Collins, Jeffrey A. Bell, et al.. (2019). Bird Tissues from Museum Collections are Reliable for Assessing Avian Haemosporidian Diversity. Journal of Parasitology. 105(3). 446–446. 7 indexed citations

Fecchio, Alan, Rafael B. P. Pinheiro, Gabriel Felix, et al.. (2017). Host community similarity and geography shape the diversity and distribution of haemosporidian parasites in Amazonian birds. Ecography. 41(3). 505–515. 60 indexed citations

Collins, Michael D., et al.. (2017). Neotropical Migrants Exhibit Variable Body-Size Changes Over Time and Space. Northeastern Naturalist. 24(1). 82–96. 3 indexed citations

Ellis, Vincenzo A., Matthew C. I. Medeiros, Michael D. Collins, et al.. (2016). Prevalence of avian haemosporidian parasites is positively related to the abundance of host species at multiple sites within a region. Parasitology Research. 116(1). 73–80. 27 indexed citations

Collins, Michael D., et al.. (2016). Heterogeneous changes in avian body size across and within species. Journal für Ornithologie. 158(1). 39–52. 12 indexed citations

Matthews, Alix E., et al.. (2015). Avian haemosporidian prevalence and its relationship to host life histories in eastern Tennessee. Journal für Ornithologie. 157(2). 533–548. 36 indexed citations

Fryxell, Rebecca Trout, James E. Moore, Michael D. Collins, et al.. (2015). Habitat and Vegetation Variables Are Not Enough When Predicting Tick Populations in the Southeastern United States. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0144092–e0144092. 39 indexed citations

Ellis, Vincenzo A., Michael D. Collins, Matthew C. I. Medeiros, et al.. (2015). Local host specialization, host-switching, and dispersal shape the regional distributions of avian haemosporidian parasites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(36). 11294–11299. 68 indexed citations

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Connor, Edward F., Michael D. Collins, & Daniel Simberloff. (2013). The checkered history of checkerboard distributions. Ecology. 94(11). 2403–2414. 56 indexed citations

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Collins, Michael D., Daniel Simberloff, & Edward F. Connor. (2011). Binary matrices and checkerboard distributions of birds in the Bismarck Archipelago. Journal of Biogeography. 38(12). 2373–2383. 19 indexed citations

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Knutti, Reto, Gab Abramowitz, Michael D. Collins, et al.. (2010). Good Practice Guidance Paper on Assessing and Combining Multi Model Climate Projections. elib (German Aerospace Center). 135 indexed citations

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Collins, Michael D., et al.. (2008). GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF SONG SIMILARITY IN THE DICKCISSEL (SPIZA AMERICANA). The Auk. 125(4). 953–964. 9 indexed citations

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Crutsinger, Gregory M., Michael D. Collins, James A. Fordyce, & Nathan J. Sanders. (2007). Temporal dynamics in non‐additive responses of arthropods to host‐plant genotypic diversity. Oikos. 117(2). 255–264. 36 indexed citations

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Collins, Michael D. & Daniel Simberloff. (2007). Rarefaction and nonrandom spatial dispersion patterns. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 16(1). 89–103. 33 indexed citations

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Crutsinger, Gregory M., Michael D. Collins, James A. Fordyce, et al.. (2006). Plant Genotypic Diversity Predicts Community Structure and Governs an Ecosystem Process. Science. 313(5789). 966–968. 647 indexed citations breakdown →

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Collins, Michael D.. (2006). Avian Community Ecology: Patterns of Co-occurrence, Nestedness, and Morphology. 1 indexed citations

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Collins, Michael D., Diego P. Vázquez, & Nathan J. Sanders. (2002). Species-area curves, homogenization and the loss of global diversity. Evolutionary ecology research. 4(3). 457–464. 61 indexed citations

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Vázquez, Diego P., Sean M. McMahon, Norris Z. Muth, & Michael D. Collins. (2002). The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 269(2). 249–250. 38 indexed citations

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Yanders, A.F., et al.. (1985). Mutagenicity of bottom sediment from a water reservoir. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 4(1). 13–19. 13 indexed citations

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