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Carla E. Cáceres publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carla E. Cáceres sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 114 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Carla E. Cáceres D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carla E. Cáceres sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Carla E. Cáceres is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work addresses several important subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Insect Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Immunology.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range of subjects, focusing notably on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Zoonotic diseases and public health, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms.

Carla E. Cáceres has contributed frequently to several publication venues, including:

  • The American Naturalist
  • Ecology
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecological Entomology
  • Parasites & Vectors

Some recent papers authored by or involving Carla E. Cáceres are:

  • Blood meal source and mixed blood-feeding influence gut bacterial community composition in Aedes aegypti, 2021, Parasites & Vectors
  • Context-Dependent Host-Symbiont Interactions: Shifts along the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum, 2021, The American Naturalist
  • Shedding light on environmentally transmitted parasites: lighter conditions within lakes restrict epidemic size, 2020, Ecology
  • Parasite exposure and host susceptibility jointly drive the emergence of epidemics, 2020, Ecology
  • Genotypic variation in an ecologically important parasite is associated with host species, lake and spore size, 2021, Parasitology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Meghan A. Duffy
  • Spencer R. Hall
  • Tara E. Stewart Merrill
  • Ephantus J. Muturi
  • Christopher A. Dunlap

In recognition of their contributions, Carla E. Cáceres was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • The ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex

    John K. Colbourne;Michael E. Pfrender;Michael E. Pfrender;Donald Gilbert;W. Kelley Thomas

  • Filling key gaps in population and community ecology

    Anurag A. Agrawal;David D. Ackerly;Fred Adler;A. Elizabeth Arnold

  • Rapid evolution revealed by dormant eggs

    Nelson G. Hairston;Winfried Lampert;Carla E. Cáceres;Cami L. Holtmeier

  • Blowing in the wind: a field test of overland dispersal and colonization by aquatic invertebrates

    Carla E. Cáceres;Daniel A. Soluk

  • INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION IN THE ABUNDANCE, PRODUCTION, AND EMERGENCE OF DAPHNIA DIAPAUSING EGGS

    Carla E. Cáceres

  • Cladocera and Other Branchiopoda

    Stanley L. Dodson;Carla E. Cáceres;D. Christopher Rogers

  • Temporal variation, dormancy, and coexistence: a field test of the storage effect.

    Carla E. Cáceres

  • NATURAL SELECTION FOR GRAZER RESISTANCE TO TOXIC CYANOBACTERIA: EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY?

    N. G. Hairston Jr.;C. L. Holtmeier;W. Lampert;L. J. Weider

  • Food‐web responses to species invasion by a predatory invertebrate: Bythotrephes in Lake Michigan

    John T. Lehman;Carla E. Cáceres

  • Dormancy in invertebrates

    Carla E. Caceres

  • Eating yourself sick: transmission of disease as a function of foraging ecology.

    Spencer R. Hall;Lena Sivars-Becker;Claes Becker;Meghan A. Duffy

  • Fish Size and Prey Availability Affect Growth, Survival, Prey Selection, and Foraging Behavior of Larval Yellow Perch

    Brian D. S. Graeb;John M. Dettmers;David H. Wahl;Carla E. Cáceres

  • Selective predation and productivity jointly drive complex behavior in host-parasite systems

    Spencer R. Hall;Meghan A. Duffy;Carla E. Caceres

  • Distribution of crustacean diapause: micro- and macroevolutionary pattern and process

    Nelson G. Hairston;Carla E. Cáceres

  • Quality matters: resource quality for hosts and the timing of epidemics.

    Spencer R. Hall;Christine J. Knight;Claes R. Becker;Meghan A. Duffy

  • Resource Ecology of Virulence in a Planktonic Host-Parasite System: An Explanation Using Dynamic Energy Budgets

    Spencer R. Hall;Joseph L. Simonis;Joseph L. Simonis;Roger M. Nisbet;Alan J. Tessier

  • Parasitic castration: a perspective from a model of dynamic energy budgets.

    Spencer R. Hall;Claes Becker;Carla E. Cáceres

  • HOW LONG TO REST: THE ECOLOGY OF OPTIMAL DORMANCY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT

    Carla E. Cáceres;Alan J. Tessier

  • Friendly competition: evidence for a dilution effect among competitors in a planktonic host–parasite system

    Spencer R. Hall;Claes R. Becker;Joseph L. Simonis;Meghan A. Duffy

  • WARMER DOES NOT HAVE TO MEAN SICKER: TEMPERATURE AND PREDATORS CAN JOINTLY DRIVE TIMING OF EPIDEMICS

    Spencer R. Hall;Alan J. Tessier;Meghan A. Duffy;Marianne Huebner

  • To sink or swim: Variable diapause strategies among Daphnia species

    Carla E. Cáceres;Alan J. Tessier

Frequent Co-Authors

Spencer R. Hall
Spencer R. Hall Indiana University
Meghan A. Duffy
Meghan A. Duffy University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alan J. Tessier
Alan J. Tessier National Science Foundation
David J. Civitello
David J. Civitello Emory University
Nelson G. Hairston
Nelson G. Hairston Cornell University
Monica G. Turner
Monica G. Turner University of Wisconsin–Madison
A. Elizabeth Arnold
A. Elizabeth Arnold University of Arizona
Jeffrey L. Boore
Jeffrey L. Boore University of California, Berkeley
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Peter J. Hudson
Peter J. Hudson Pennsylvania State University

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