Michael Kaspari

11.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
148 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Michael Kaspari is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Kaspari has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 86 papers in Genetics and 49 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Michael Kaspari's work include Plant and animal studies (94 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (83 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (48 papers). Michael Kaspari is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (94 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (83 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (48 papers). Michael Kaspari collaborates with scholars based in United States, Panama and Canada. Michael Kaspari's co-authors include Stephen P. Yanoviak, Michael D. Weiser, Sean O’Donnell, Robert Dudley, Natalie A. Clay, S. Joseph Wright‬, Joseph B. Yavitt, Milton N. Garcia, Kyle E. Harms and Jelena Bujan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael Kaspari

147 papers receiving 8.3k 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.

Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

2016 503 citations Michael D. Weiser, Michael Kaspari et al. profile →
Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

2011 472 citations S. Joseph Wright‬, Joseph B. Yavitt et al. Ecology profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Kaspari

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Kaspari. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Kaspari based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Kaspari. Michael Kaspari is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Elevated CO2, nutrition dilution, and shifts in Earth’s insect abundance 2024 ·Current Opinion in Insect Science ·Ellen A. R. Welti, Michael Kaspari	2
2	Geographic gradients in a functional trait: Drivers of body size and size diversity of ground invertebrate communities 2024 ·Ecosphere ·Michael Kaspari, Katie E. Marshall, Michael D. Weiser, Cameron D. Siler, (unknown), Kirsten M. de Beurs	0
3	Nutrient dilution and the future of herbivore populations 2024 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Michael Kaspari, Ellen A. R. Welti	14
4	Temperature–habitat interactions constrain seasonal activity in a continental array of pitfall traps 2022 ·Ecology ·Michael Kaspari, Michael D. Weiser, Katie E. Marshall, Cameron D. Siler, Kirsten M. de Beurs	2
5	The seventh macronutrient: how sodium shortfall ramifies through populations, food webs and ecosystems 2020 ·Ecology Letters ·Michael Kaspari	98
6	Micronutrients enhance macronutrient effects in a meta‐analysis of grassland arthropod abundance 2020 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·(unknown), (unknown), Michael Kaspari, Lara Souza, Chelse M. Prather, (unknown), Ellen A. R. Welti	24
7	Nutrition modifies critical thermal maximum of a dominant canopy ant 2017 ·Journal of Insect Physiology ·Jelena Bujan, Michael Kaspari	47
8	Metabolism and the Rise of Fungus Cultivation by Ants 2014 ·The American Naturalist ·Jonathan Z. Shik, Juan C. Santos, Jon N. Seal, Adam D. Kay, Ulrich G. Mueller, Michael Kaspari	26
9	A life history continuum in the males of a Neotropical ant assemblage: refuting the sperm vessel hypothesis 2012 ·Die Naturwissenschaften ·Jonathan Z. Shik, (unknown), Adam D. Kay, Michael Kaspari	13
10	Predation and patchiness in the tropical litter: do swarm-raiding army ants skim the cream or drain the bottle? 2011 ·Journal of Animal Ecology ·Michael Kaspari, Scott Powell, John E. Lattke, Sean O’Donnell	37
11	Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest breakdown → 2011 ·Ecology ·S. Joseph Wright‬, Joseph B. Yavitt, Nina Wurzburger, Benjamin L. Turner, Edmund V. J. Tanner, Emma J. Sayer, Louis S. Santiago, Michael Kaspari, Lars O. Hedin, Kyle E. Harms, Milton N. Garcia, Marife D. Corre	472
12	Preliminary Assessment of Metabolic Costs of the Nematode Myrmeconema neotropicum on its Host, the Tropical Ant Cephalotes atratus 2011 ·Journal of Parasitology ·Jonathan Z. Shik, Michael Kaspari, Stephen P. Yanoviak	5
13	Scaling community structure: how bacteria, fungi, and ant taxocenes differentiate along a tropical forest floor 2010 ·Ecology ·Michael Kaspari, Bradley S. Stevenson, Jonathan Z. Shik, (unknown)	22
14	Trees as templates for tropical litter arthropod diversity 2010 ·Oecologia ·David A. Donoso, (unknown), Michael Kaspari	55
15	On the biogeography of salt limitation: A study of ant communities 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Michael Kaspari, Stephen P. Yanoviak, Robert Dudley	117
16	Las hormigas ecitoninas de Venezuela (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ecitoninae): elenco preliminar 2008 ·Entomotrópica: Revista internacional para el estudio de la entomología tropical ·John E. Lattke, Michael Kaspari, Sean O’Donnell	1
17	Bottom-up and top-down regulation of decomposition in a tropical forest 2007 ·Oecologia ·(unknown), Michael Kaspari	61
18	Directed aerial descent in canopy ants 2005 ·Nature ·Stephen P. Yanoviak, Robert Dudley, Michael Kaspari	103
19	Energy gradients and the geographic distribution of local ant diversity 2004 ·Oecologia ·Michael Kaspari, Philip S. Ward, May Yuan	102
20	High rates of army ant raids in the Neotropics and implications for ant colony and community structure 2003 ·Evolutionary ecology research ·Michael Kaspari, Sean O’Donnell	69

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