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Christopher M. Buddle

Christopher M. Buddle

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
4630
World Ranking
7387
National Ranking
458

Overview

Christopher M. Buddle is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and medicine, with a significant focus on species distribution, insect and arachnid ecology, plant and animal studies, and public health-related environmental topics.

Their recent published works include studies examining insect and arachnid populations, ecology, and physiological adaptations. Some of the papers authored or co-authored by Buddle are:

  • Small wild bee abundance declines with distance into strawberry crops regardless of field margin habitat, 2020, published in Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Thermal acclimation has limited effect on the thermal tolerances of summer-collected Arctic and sub-Arctic wolf spiders, 2021, published in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology
  • Diversity and community structure of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in suburban, field, and forest habitats in Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2021, published in The Canadian Entomologist
  • Tundra wolf spider (Araneae: Lycosidae) abundance and phenology shift with distance from a northern highway, 2024, published in Insect Systematics and Diversity
  • Correction to: Phylogeography of higher Diptera in glacial and postglacial grasslands in western North America, 2020, published in BMC Ecology

Buddle's frequent co-authors include Gail MacInnis, Jessica R. K. Forrest, Susan E. Anthony, Toke T. Høye, and Nils Hein.

The venues where Buddle has published reflect a diverse engagement with ecological and physiological research, including:

  • Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology
  • The Canadian Entomologist
  • Insect Systematics and Diversity
  • BMC Ecology

Their main fields of study are Environmental Science and Medicine. Within these fields, Buddle's research delves into subfields such as ecological modeling, genetics, ecology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and evolutionary behavior and systematics.

The key research topics covered in Buddle's work include:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Malaria Research and Control

Best Publications

  • Arthropod responses to harvesting and wildfire: Implications for emulation of natural disturbance in forest management

    Christopher M. Buddle;David W. Langor;Greg R. Pohl;John R. Spence

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • Succession of boreal forest spider assemblages following wildfire and harvesting

    Christopher M. Buddle;John R. Spence;David W. Langor

  • Pitfall Trap Size and Capture of Three Taxa of Litter-Dwelling Arthropods: Implications for Biodiversity Studies

    Timothy T. Work;Christopher M. Buddle;Luisiana M. Korinus;John R. Spence

  • Taxonomic and functional trait diversity of wild bees in different urban settings

    Étienne Normandin;Nicolas J. Vereecken;Christopher M. Buddle;Valérie Fournier

  • Should biomass be considered more frequently as a currency in terrestrial arthropod community analyses

    Michel Saint-Germain;Michel Saint-Germain;Christopher M. Buddle;Maxim Larrivée;Alida Mercado

  • Host-use patterns of saproxylic phloeophagous and xylophagous Coleoptera adults and larvae along the decay gradient in standing dead black spruce and aspen

    Michel Saint-Germain;Pierre Drapeau;Christopher M. Buddle

  • Does species‐level resolution matter? Taxonomic sufficiency in terrestrial arthropod biodiversity studies

    Laura L. Timms;Joseph J. Bowden;Keith S. Summerville;Chris M. Buddle

  • The importance and use of taxon sampling curves for comparative biodiversity research with forest arthropod assemblages.

    Christopher M. Buddle;Julien Beguin;Elise Bolduc;Alida Mercado

  • Short-term response of ground beetles (Coleoptera:Carabidae) to fire and logging in a spruce-dominated boreal landscape

    Michel Saint-Germain;Michel Saint-Germain;Maxim Larrivée;Maxim Larrivée;Pierre Drapeau;Lenore Fahrig

  • Declining diversity and abundance of High Arctic fly assemblages over two decades of rapid climate warming

    Sarah Loboda;Jade Savage;Christopher M. Buddle;Niels M. Schmidt

  • Primary attraction and random landing in host-selection by wood-feeding insects: a matter of scale?

    Michel Saint-Germain;Christopher M. Buddle;Pierre Drapeau

  • The effects of urbanization on ant assemblages (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) associated with the Molson Nature Reserve, Quebec

    Jean-Philippe Lessard;Christopher M. Buddle

  • Spider silk reduces insect herbivory

    Ann L. Rypstra;Christopher M. Buddle;Christopher M. Buddle

  • Terrestrial arthropod abundance and phenology in the Canadian Arctic: modelling resource availability for Arctic-nesting insectivorous birds

    Elise Bolduc;Nicolas Casajus;Pierre Legagneux;Laura McKinnon

  • Non-repeatable science: assessing the frequency of voucher specimen deposition reveals that most arthropod research cannot be verified.

    Shaun Turney;Elyssa R. Cameron;Christopher A. Cloutier;Christopher M. Buddle

  • Sampling Saproxylic Coleoptera: Scale Issues and the Importance of Behavior

    Michel Saint-Germain;Michel Saint-Germain;Christopher M. Buddle;Christopher M. Buddle;Pierre Drapeau

  • Diversity of canopy and understorey spiders in north‐temperate hardwood forests

    Maxim Larrivée;Christopher M. Buddle

  • LIFE HISTORY OF PARDOSA MOESTA AND PARDOSA MACKENZIANA (ARANEAE, LYCOSIDAE) IN CENTRAL ALBERTA, CANADA

    Christopher M. Buddle

  • Spiders (Araneae) associated with downed woody material in a deciduous forest in central Alberta, Canada

    Christopher M. Buddle

  • Ontogenetic shifts in competitive interactions and intra‐guild predation between two wolf spider species

    Robert A. Balfour;Christopher M. Buddle;Ann L. Rypstra;Sean E. Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Drapeau
Pierre Drapeau University of Quebec at Montreal
Matt W. Hayward
Matt W. Hayward University of Newcastle Australia
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Tony R. Walker
Tony R. Walker Dalhousie University
Patrick J. O’Farrell
Patrick J. O’Farrell University of Cape Town
Ingo Grass
Ingo Grass University of Hohenheim
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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