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

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.

Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

2016 503 citations Jizhong Zhou, Ye Deng et al. profile →
Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

2011 472 citations Michael Kaspari et al. Ecology profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael Kaspari	4.6k	3.8k	2.5k	2.5k	1.5k	148	8.5k
Paul Eggleton	6.4k 1.4×	5.4k 1.4×	3.0k 1.2×	2.6k 1.0×	2.6k 1.7×	159	10.6k
David E. Bignell	4.4k 0.9×	3.9k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	2.0k 1.4×	75	7.8k
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos	5.0k 1.1×	3.5k 0.9×	4.0k 1.6×	2.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	185	9.3k
Eelke Jongejans	3.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.3×	3.2k 1.3×	2.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	120	7.3k
Javier Retana	3.7k 0.8×	2.4k 0.6×	4.8k 1.9×	2.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	186	10.2k
Nigel E. Stork	5.0k 1.1×	2.4k 0.6×	4.2k 1.7×	3.9k 1.6×	2.8k 1.9×	147	11.8k
Nathan J. Sanders	6.7k 1.4×	3.5k 0.9×	6.9k 2.7×	5.2k 2.1×	1.7k 1.1×	193	14.4k
Ulrich Brose	4.7k 1.0×	2.0k 0.5×	4.9k 1.9×	6.7k 2.7×	1.2k 0.8×	140	12.2k
Inara R. Leal	3.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	2.5k 1.0×	970 0.4×	769 0.5×	159	5.6k
K. Eduard Linsenmair	6.8k 1.5×	3.9k 1.0×	2.9k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	3.0k 2.0×	239	10.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Kaspari

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20 of 20 papers shown

Welti, Ellen A. R. & Michael Kaspari. (2024). Elevated CO2, nutrition dilution, and shifts in Earth’s insect abundance. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 65. 101255–101255. 2 indexed citations

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).

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

Kaspari, Michael. (2020). The seventh macronutrient: how sodium shortfall ramifies through populations, food webs and ecosystems. Ecology Letters. 23(7). 1153–1168. 98 indexed citations

Kaspari, Michael, et al.. (2020). Micronutrients enhance macronutrient effects in a meta‐analysis of grassland arthropod abundance. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(12). 2273–2288. 24 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

Spicer, Michelle Elise, et al.. (2017). Thermal constraints on foraging of tropical canopy ants. Oecologia. 183(4). 1007–1017. 44 indexed citations

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

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

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Clay, Natalie A., David A. Donoso, & Michael Kaspari. (2014). Urine as an important source of sodium increases decomposition in an inland but not coastal tropical forest. Oecologia. 177(2). 571–579. 33 indexed citations

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Shik, Jonathan Z., et al.. (2012). A life history continuum in the males of a Neotropical ant assemblage: refuting the sperm vessel hypothesis. Die Naturwissenschaften. 99(3). 191–197. 13 indexed citations

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Shik, Jonathan Z., Michael Kaspari, & Stephen P. Yanoviak. (2011). Preliminary Assessment of Metabolic Costs of the Nematode Myrmeconema neotropicum on its Host, the Tropical Ant Cephalotes atratus. Journal of Parasitology. 97(5). 958–959. 5 indexed citations

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Kaspari, Michael, et al.. (2010). Scaling community structure: how bacteria, fungi, and ant taxocenes differentiate along a tropical forest floor. Ecology. 91(8). 2221–2226. 22 indexed citations

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Donoso, David A., et al.. (2010). Trees as templates for tropical litter arthropod diversity. Oecologia. 164(1). 201–211. 55 indexed citations

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Kaspari, Michael & Stephen P. Yanoviak. (2009). Biogeochemistry and the structure of tropical brown food webs. Ecology. 90(12). 3342–3351. 107 indexed citations

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Kaspari, Michael, Stephen P. Yanoviak, & Robert Dudley. (2008). On the biogeography of salt limitation: A study of ant communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(46). 17848–17851. 117 indexed citations

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Lattke, John E., Michael Kaspari, & Sean O’Donnell. (2008). Las hormigas ecitoninas de Venezuela (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ecitoninae): elenco preliminar. Entomotrópica: Revista internacional para el estudio de la entomología tropical. 22(3). 153–170. 1 indexed citations

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Kaspari, Michael & Sean O’Donnell. (2003). High rates of army ant raids in the Neotropics and implications for ant colony and community structure. Evolutionary ecology research. 5(6). 933–939. 69 indexed citations

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Kaspari, Michael, May Yuan, & Leeanne Alonso. (2003). Spatial Grain and the Causes of Regional Diversity Gradients in Ants. The American Naturalist. 161(3). 459–477. 127 indexed citations

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Kaspari, Michael. (1996). Worker size and seed size selection by harvester ants in a neotropical forest. Oecologia. 105(3). 397–404. 107 indexed citations

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