Michael D. Weiser

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Michael D. Weiser is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael D. Weiser has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 27 papers in Genetics and 24 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Michael D. Weiser's work include Plant and animal studies (35 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (24 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (24 papers). Michael D. Weiser is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (35 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (24 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (24 papers). Michael D. Weiser collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Michael D. Weiser's co-authors include Michael Kaspari, Nathan G. Swenson, Brian J. Enquist, Robert R. Dunn, Jizhong Zhou, Benoît Guénard, Sean T. Michaletz, Brian A. Maurer, Brian J. McGill and Andrew J. Kerkhoff and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael D. Weiser

61 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

2016 503 citations Jizhong Zhou, Ye Deng et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael D. Weiser United States	33	1.9k	1.5k	1.3k	1.2k	778	66	4.1k
Björn C. Rall Germany	37	1.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	910 0.7×	2.2k 1.8×	755 1.0×	51	4.2k
Helene H. Wagner Canada	33	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	746 1.0×	65	4.4k
Élisa Thébault France	31	2.7k 1.5×	2.1k 1.4×	729 0.6×	1.8k 1.4×	570 0.7×	58	4.8k
Inara R. Leal Brazil	40	3.3k 1.8×	2.5k 1.6×	2.2k 1.7×	970 0.8×	458 0.6×	159	5.6k
Walter Durka Germany	42	3.0k 1.6×	2.7k 1.8×	1.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	848 1.1×	172	6.0k
Carlos Roberto Fonseca Brazil	29	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	615 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	764 1.0×	74	3.6k
Ian P. Vaughan United Kingdom	32	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	568 0.4×	1.9k 1.6×	665 0.9×	92	4.3k
Peter Lesica United States	31	1.7k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	794 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	654 0.8×	119	3.9k
Mark Emmerson United Kingdom	31	2.1k 1.1×	2.2k 1.5×	789 0.6×	2.9k 2.4×	739 0.9×	80	5.8k
Darién E. Prado Argentina	18	2.0k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	585 0.5×	593 0.5×	551 0.7×	61	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael D. Weiser

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael D. Weiser

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Kaspari, Michael, et al.. (2024). Geographic gradients in a functional trait: Drivers of body size and size diversity of ground invertebrate communities. Ecosphere. 15(3).

Guénard, Benoît, Robert R. Dunn, Evan P. Economo, et al.. (2022). Warm and arid regions of the world are hotspots of superorganism complexity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1968). 20211899–20211899. 12 indexed citations

Kaspari, Michael, Michael D. Weiser, Katie E. Marshall, Cameron D. Siler, & Kirsten M. de Beurs. (2022). Temperature–habitat interactions constrain seasonal activity in a continental array of pitfall traps. Ecology. 104(1). e3855–e3855. 2 indexed citations

Buzzard, Vanessa, Sean T. Michaletz, Ye Deng, et al.. (2019). Continental scale structuring of forest and soil diversity via functional traits. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(9). 1298–1308. 44 indexed citations

Economo, Evan P., Nitish Narula, Nicholas R. Friedman, Michael D. Weiser, & Benoît Guénard. (2018). Macroecology and macroevolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in ants. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1778–1778. 145 indexed citations

Swenson, Nathan G., Michael D. Weiser, E. Emiel van Loon, et al.. (2017). Strong biotic influences on regional patterns of climate regulation services. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 31(5). 787–803. 9 indexed citations

Michaletz, Sean T., Michael D. Weiser, Nate G. McDowell, et al.. (2016). The energetic and carbon economic origins of leaf thermoregulation. Nature Plants. 2(9). 16129–16129. 163 indexed citations

Zhou, Jizhong, Ye Deng, Lina Shen, et al.. (2016). Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12083–12083. 503 indexed citations breakdown →

Tu, Qichao, Ye Deng, Qingyun Yan, et al.. (2016). Biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six forests in the North America. Molecular Ecology. 25(12). 2937–2948. 82 indexed citations

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Xing, Dingliang, Nathan G. Swenson, Michael D. Weiser, & Zhanqing Hao. (2014). Determinants of species abundance for eastern North American trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 23(8). 903–911. 12 indexed citations

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Lucky, Andrea, Michelle Trautwein, Benoît Guénard, Michael D. Weiser, & Robert R. Dunn. (2013). Tracing the Rise of Ants - Out of the Ground. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e84012–e84012. 56 indexed citations

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Jenkins, Clinton N., Benoît Guénard, Sarah E. Diamond, Michael D. Weiser, & Robert R. Dunn. (2013). Conservation implications of divergent global patterns of ant and vertebrate diversity. Diversity and Distributions. 19(8). 1084–1092. 20 indexed citations

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Siefert, Andrew, Catherine Ravenscroft, Michael D. Weiser, & Nathan G. Swenson. (2012). Functional beta-diversity patterns reveal deterministic community assembly processes in eastern North American trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 22(6). 682–691. 122 indexed citations

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Fitzpatrick, Matthew C., Nathan J. Sanders, Simon Ferrier, et al.. (2011). Forecasting the future of biodiversity: a test of single‐ and multi‐species models for ants in North America. Ecography. 34(5). 836–847. 80 indexed citations

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Kaspari, Michael & Michael D. Weiser. (2011). Energy, taxonomic aggregation, and the geography of ant abundance. Ecography. 35(1). 65–72. 20 indexed citations

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Swenson, Nathan G. & Michael D. Weiser. (2010). Plant geography upon the basis of functional traits: an example from eastern North American trees. Ecology. 91(8). 2234–2241. 117 indexed citations

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Weiser, Michael D., Brian J. Enquist, Brad Boyle, et al.. (2007). Latitudinal patterns of range size and species richness of New World woody plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 16(5). 679–688. 51 indexed citations

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McGill, Brian J., Brian A. Maurer, & Michael D. Weiser. (2006). EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF NEUTRAL THEORY. Ecology. 87(6). 1411–1423. 288 indexed citations

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Weiser, Michael D.. (2002). Removal of Rhododendron macrophyllum petals by Camponotus modoc. Western North American Naturalist. 62(4). 15.

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Weiser, Michael D., et al.. (1992). The Writing Autobiography: Where To Begin in a Two-Year College Writing Course.. Teaching English in the Two-Year College. 20(1). 18–22. 5 indexed citations

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