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53
Citations
27258
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3208
National Ranking
1133

Overview

Gary A. Polis was affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spanned multiple disciplines within the social sciences and environmental sciences, with publications reflecting an interdisciplinary approach.

The main fields of study in which Gary A. Polis contributed include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Environmental Science
  • Arts and Humanities

Within these broader fields, the subfields that were central to their work consisted of:

  • Anthropology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Archeology

Their research topics covered areas intersecting history, ecology, and archaeology. Notable topics addressed in their studies were:

  • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Archaeology and Historical Studies

Gary A. Polis frequently collaborated with a small circle of colleagues, including Tsunemi Yamashita, with whom they co-authored at least one publication. Their collaborative network appears to have been focused and specialized within their research areas.

Although there is no specific record of recent papers with detailed publication venues or years, their work evidently intersected with various research disciplines and themes of social and environmental significance. Information about book publications or awards was not available.

Their contributions were associated with respected publication venues, though no exact titles or numbers were noted. The interdisciplinary focus suggests work that bridged Anthropology, Conservation, and Historical Studies, integrating ecological concepts into the understanding of social and cultural contexts.

Best Publications

  • THE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF INTRAGUILD PREDATION: Potential Competitors That Eat Each Other

    Gary A. Polis;Christopher A. Myers;Robert D. Holt

  • Food Web Complexity and Community Dynamics

    Gary A. Polis;Donald R. Strong

  • TOWARD AN INTEGRATION OF LANDSCAPE AND FOOD WEB ECOLOGY : The Dynamics of Spatially Subsidized Food Webs

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  • The Evolution and Dynamics of Intraspecific Predation

    Gary A. Polis

  • A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR INTRAGUILD PREDATION

    Robert D. Holt;Gary A. Polis

  • COMPLEX TROPHIC INTERACTIONS IN DESERTS: AN EMPIRICAL CRITIQUE OF FOOD-WEB THEORY

    Gary A. Polis

  • Intraguild predation: The dynamics of complex trophic interactions.

    Gary A. Polis;Robert D. Holt

  • LINKING MARINE AND TERRESTRIAL FOOD WEBS: ALLOCHTHONOUS INPUT FROM THE OCEAN SUPPORTS HIGH SECONDARY PRODUCTIVITY ON SMALL ISLANDS AND COASTAL LAND COMMUNITIES

    Gary A. Polis;Stephen D. Hurd

  • Food webs: integration of patterns and dynamics

    Gary A. Polis;K. O. Winemiller

  • Why Are Parts of the World Green? Multiple Factors Control Productivity and the Distribution of Biomass

    Gary A. Polis

  • When is a trophic cascade a trophic cascade

    Gary A Polis;Anna L.W Sears;Gary R Huxel;Donald R Strong

  • Extreme climatic events shape arid and semiarid ecosystems

    Milena Holmgren;Paul Stapp;Chris R. Dickman;Carlos Gracia

  • Nutrient fluxes from water to land: seabirds affect plant nutrient status on Gulf of California islands.

    Wendy B. Anderson;Gary A. Polis

  • TROPHIC RANK AND THE SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP

    Robert D. Holt;John H. Lawton;Gary A. Polis;Neo D. Martinez

  • Food webs at the landscape level

    Gary A. Polis;Mary E. Power;Gary R. Huxel

  • Age Structure Component of Niche Width and Intraspecific Resource Partitioning: Can Age Groups Function as Ecological Species?

    Gary A. Polis

  • Extraordinarily high spider densities on islands: flow of energy from the marine to terrestrial food webs and the absence of predation

    Gary A. Polis;Stephen D. Hurd

  • The Biology of Scorpions

    Gary A. Polis

  • THE DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF COYOTES: THE EFFECTS OF ALLOCHTHONOUS FOOD SUBSIDIES FROM THE SEA

    Michael D. Rose;Gary A. Polis

  • Food webs, trophic cascades and community structure

    Gary A. Polis

  • Improving Food Webs

    J. E. Cohen;R. A. Beaver;S. H. Cousins;D. L. DeAngelis

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D. Holt
Robert D. Holt University of Florida
Kirk O. Winemiller
Kirk O. Winemiller Texas A&M University
Milena Holmgren
Milena Holmgren Wageningen University & Research
Douglas A. Kelt
Douglas A. Kelt University of California, Davis
Mary E. Power
Mary E. Power University of California, Berkeley
Mike Letnic
Mike Letnic University of New South Wales
Peter L. Meserve
Peter L. Meserve University of Idaho
Chris R. Dickman
Chris R. Dickman University of Sydney
Fabian M. Jaksic
Fabian M. Jaksic Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
John H. Lawton
John H. Lawton Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

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