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D-Index
40
Citations
6190
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6128
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2088

Diana L. Six 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 Diana L. Six sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 105 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Diana L. Six 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 Diana L. Six sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Diana L. Six is affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Insect Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, Insect and Pesticide Research, and Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • New Phytologist
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Symbiosis
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Forests

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Diana L. Six are:

  • Enhancing the structural diversity between forest patches-A concept and real-world experiment to study biodiversity, multifunctionality and forest resilience across spatial scales (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • Niche construction theory can link bark beetle-fungus symbiosis type and colonization behavior to large scale causal chain-effects (2020, Current Opinion in Insect Science)
  • Context Dependency in Bark Beetle-Fungus Mutualisms Revisited: Assessing Potential Shifts in Interaction Outcomes Against Varied Genetic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Backgrounds (2021, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Bark beetle mycobiome: collaboratively defined research priorities on a widespread insect-fungus symbiosis (2020, Symbiosis)
  • Mutualism is not restricted to tree-killing bark beetles and fungi: the ecological stoichiometry of secondary bark beetles, fungi, and a scavenger (2020, Ecological Entomology)

Diana L. Six has collaborated frequently with the following researchers:

  • Lorinda Bullington
  • Amy M. Trowbridge
  • Peter H. W. Biedermann
  • Dominick A. DellaSala
  • Hannah Alverson

Best Publications

  • The Evolution of Agriculture in Insects

    Ulrich G. Mueller;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nicole M. Gerardo;Duur K. Aanen;Diana L. Six

  • Ecological and Evolutionary Determinants of Bark Beetle —Fungus Symbioses

    Diana L. Six

  • The role of phytopathogenicity in bark beetle-fungus symbioses: a challenge to the classic paradigm.

    Diana L. Six;Michael J. Wingfield

  • Bark Beetle?fungus Symbioses

    Diana Six

  • Bark Beetle Population Dynamics in the Anthropocene: Challenges and Solutions

    Peter H W Biedermann;Peter H W Biedermann;Jörg Müller;Jörg Müller;Jean-Claude Grégoire;Axel Gruppe

  • Effects of Mycangial Fungi and Host Tree Species on Progeny Survival and Emergence of Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)

    D. L. Six;T. D. Paine

  • Dietary benefits of fungal associates to an eruptive herbivore: potential implications of multiple associates on host population dynamics.

    K. P. Bleiker;D. L. Six

  • Bark beetle-fungal symbiosis: Context dependency in complex associations

    Kier D. Klepzig;D.L. Six

  • Temperature determines symbiont abundance in a multipartite bark beetle-fungus ectosymbiosis.

    Diana L. Six;B. J. Bentz

  • Ergosterol content of fungi associated with Dendroctonus ponderosae and Dendroctonus rufipennis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

    Barbara J. Bentz;Diana L. Six

  • Bark beetle outbreaks in western North America: Causes and consequences

    Barbara Bentz;Jesse Logan;Jim MacMahon;Craig D. Allen

  • The bark beetle holobiont: why microbes matter.

    Diana L. Six

  • A comparison of mycangial and phoretic fungi of individual mountain pine beetles

    Diana L Six

  • Dendroctonus bark beetles as model systems for studies on symbiosis

    Diana L. Six;Kier D. Klepzig

  • Invasion of an exotic forb impacts reproductive success and site fidelity of a migratory songbird

    Yvette Katina Ortega;Kevin Scot McKelvey;Diana Lee Six

  • Abundance and dynamics of filamentous fungi in the complex ambrosia gardens of the primitively eusocial beetle Xyleborinus saxesenii Ratzeburg (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

    Peter H.W. Biedermann;Peter H.W. Biedermann;Kier D. Klepzig;Michael Taborsky;Diana L. Six

  • Fungi associated with the North American spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis

    Diana L Six;Barbara J Bentz

  • In Vitro Interactions Between Yeasts and Bacteria and the Fungal Symbionts of the Mountain Pine Beetle ( Dendroctonus ponderosae )

    Aaron S. Adams;Aaron S. Adams;Diana L. Six;Sandye M. Adams;William E. Holben

  • Parasitoids and Dipteran Predators Exploit Volatiles from Microbial Symbionts to Locate Bark Beetles

    Celia K. Boone;Diana L. Six;Yanbing Zheng;Kenneth F. Raffa

  • White Pine Blister Rust Severity and Selection of Individual Whitebark Pine by the Mountain Pine Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

    Diana L. Six;Joel Adams

  • Temporal Variation in Mycophagy and Prevalence of Fungi Associated with Developmental Stages of Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

    Aaron S. Adams;Diana L. Six

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Wingfield
Michael J. Wingfield University of Pretoria
Jolanda Roux
Jolanda Roux University of Pretoria
Barbara J. Bentz
Barbara J. Bentz US Forest Service
Kenneth F. Raffa
Kenneth F. Raffa University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kier D. Klepzig
Kier D. Klepzig Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center
Allan L. Carroll
Allan L. Carroll University of British Columbia
Nicole M. Gerardo
Nicole M. Gerardo Emory University
Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Jeffrey A. Hicke
Jeffrey A. Hicke University of Idaho
Jesse A. Logan
Jesse A. Logan US Forest Service

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