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David H. Wise is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental and biological sciences, with a strong focus on ecology and related subfields.

The primary fields of study for David H. Wise include Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broader disciplines, their work covers subfields such as Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Genetics.

The central topics explored in their research encompass Plant and Animal Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Genetic Diversity and Population Structure.

David H. Wise has contributed to several publications, with recent papers including:

  • Effects of enhanced productivity of resources shared by predators in a food-web module: Comparing results of a field experiment to predictions of mathematical models of intra-guild predation, 2021, Ecology and Evolution
  • Rodent suppression of seedling establishment in tropical pasture, 2021, Oecologia
  • Pattern of seasonal variation in rates of predation between spider families is temporally stable in a food web with widespread intraguild predation, 2023, PLoS ONE

The frequent co-authors collaborating with David H. Wise include Monica Farfan, Crystal A. Guzmán, Henry F. Howe, Rosamond Coates, and Jenny Zambrano.

Publications have appeared primarily in venues such as Ecology and Evolution, Oecologia, and PLoS ONE.

Best Publications

  • Spiders in Ecological Webs

    David H. Wise

  • Terrestrial trophic cascades : how much do they trickle?

    Juraj Halaj;David H. Wise

  • Cannibalism, food limitation, intraspecific competition, and the regulation of spider populations

    David H. Wise

  • BOTTOM-UP LIMITATION OF PREDACEOUS ARTHROPODS IN A DETRITUS-BASED TERRESTRIAL FOOD WEB

    Benrong Chen;David H. Wise

  • Growth, development, and survival of a generalist predator fed single- and mixed-species diets of different quality.

    Søren Toft;David H. Wise

  • Spider predation on forest-floor Collembola and evidence for indirect effects on decomposition

    Kendra L. Lawrence;David H. Wise

  • IMPACT OF A DETRITAL SUBSIDY ON TROPHIC CASCADES IN A TERRESTRIAL GRAZING FOOD WEB

    Juraj Halaj;David H. Wise

  • Food Limitation of the Spider Linyphia marginata: Experimental Field Studies

    David H. Wise

  • Predator Interference and the Establishment of Generalist Predator Populations for Biocontrol

    William E. Snyder;David H. Wise

  • CONTRASTING TROPHIC CASCADES GENERATED BY A COMMUNITY OF GENERALIST PREDATORS

    William E. Snyder;David H. Wise

  • Cannibalism Regulates Densities of Young Wolf Spiders: Evidence From Field and Laboratory Experiments

    James D. Wagner;James D. Wagner;David H. Wise

  • Effects of an experimental increase in prey abundance upon the reproductive rates of two orb-weaving spider species (Araneae: Araneidae)

    David H. Wise

  • Inferring trophic positions of generalist predators and their linkage to the detrital food web in agroecosystems : a stable isotope analysis

    Denise M. McNabb;Juraj Halaj;David H. Wise

  • Climbing to reach females: Romeo should be small.

    Jordi Moya-Laraño;Juraj Halaj;David H. Wise

  • Invasive plants have different effects on trophic structure of green and brown food webs in terrestrial ecosystems: a meta-analysis.

    Matthew A. McCary;Robin Mores;Monica A. Farfan;David H. Wise

  • Predicted climate change alters the indirect effect of predators on an ecosystem process

    Janet R. Lensing;David H. Wise

  • Using stable isotopes to reveal shifts in prey consumption by generalist predators.

    David H. Wise;Denise M. Moldenhauer;Juraj Halaj

  • SPIDERS IN DECOMPOSITION FOOD WEBS OF AGROECOSYSTEMS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

    David H. Wise;William E. Snyder;Juraj Halaj

  • Cursorial spiders retard initial aphid population growth at low densities in winter wheat.

    Klaus Birkhofer;E. Gavish-Regev;K. Endlweber;Y.D. Lubin

  • Subsidy from the detrital food web, but not microhabitat complexity, affects the role of generalist predators in an aboveground herbivore food web

    Klaus Birkhofer;David H. Wise;Stefan Scheu

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
William E. Snyder
William E. Snyder University of Georgia
Klaus Birkhofer
Klaus Birkhofer Brandenburg University of Technology
Miquel A. Gonzalez-Meler
Miquel A. Gonzalez-Meler University of Illinois at Chicago
Julie D. Jastrow
Julie D. Jastrow Argonne National Laboratory
Richard J. Norby
Richard J. Norby University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Neil C. Sturchio
Neil C. Sturchio University of Delaware
Susan I. Stewart
Susan I. Stewart University of Wisconsin–Madison
John J. Obrycki
John J. Obrycki University of Kentucky
Yael Lubin
Yael Lubin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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