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  • 2015 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

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Gary G. Mittelbach is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their academic work spans various aspects of ecological research.

In 2015, Gary G. Mittelbach was recognized as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), an acknowledgment conferred without a specific citation provided.

There are no recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, or detailed main or subfields of study available to characterize their scientific output further from the current data.

Best Publications

  • ENERGY, WATER, AND BROAD-SCALE GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS

    Bradford A. Hawkins;Richard Field;Howard V. Cornell;David J. Currie

  • An Experimental Test of the Effects of Predation Risk on Habitat Use in Fish

    Earl E. Werner;James F. Gilliam;Donald J. Hall;Gary G. Mittelbach

  • Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Douglas W. Schemske;Howard V. Cornell;Andrew P. Allen

  • The Relationship Between Productivity and Species Richness

    R. B. Waide;M. R. Willig;C. F. Steiner;G. Mittelbach

  • Is There a Latitudinal Gradient in the Importance of Biotic Interactions

    Douglas W. Schemske;Gary G. Mittelbach;Howard V. Cornell;James M. Sobel

  • WHAT IS THE OBSERVED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIES RICHNESS AND PRODUCTIVITY

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Christopher F. Steiner;Samuel M. Scheiner;Katherine L. Gross

  • Predictions and tests of climate‐based hypotheses of broad‐scale variation in taxonomic richness

    David J. Currie;Gary G. Mittelbach;Howard V. Cornell;Richard Field

  • Foraging Efficiency and Body Size: A Study of Optimal Diet and Habitat Use by Bluegills

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Gary G. Mittelbach

  • Spatial species-richness gradients across scales: a meta-analysis

    Richard Field;Bradford A. Hawkins;Howard V. Cornell;David J. Currie

  • The ontogeny of piscivory and its ecological consequences

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Lennart Persson

  • Experimental Tests of Optimal Habitat Use in Fish: The Role of Relative Habitat Profitability

    Earl E. Werner;Gary G. Mittelbach;Donald J. Hall;James F. Gilliam

  • Predation and Resource Partitioning in Two Sunfishes (Centrarchidae)

    Gary G. Mittelbach

  • The Role of Indirect Effects in Food Webs

    Peter A. Abrams;Bruce A. Menge;Gary G. Mittelbach;David A. Spiller

  • Competition Among Refuging Sunfishes and Effects of Fish Density on Littoral Zone Invertebrates

    Gary G. Mittelbach

  • Predator Avoidance and Community Structure: Interactions among Piscivores, Planktivores, and Plankton

    Andrew M. Turner;Gary G. Mittelbach

  • Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on community assembly.

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Douglas W. Schemske

  • The Role of Foraging Profitability and Experience in Habitat Use by the Bluegill Sunfish

    Earl E. Werner;Gary G. Mittelbach;Donald J. Hall

  • Effects of Body Size on the Predator‐Prey Interaction Between Pumpkinseed Sunfish and Gastropods

    Craig W. Osenberg;Gary G. Mittelbach

  • Species richness, species-area curves and Simpson's paradox

    Samuel M. Scheiner;Stephen B. Cox;Michael Willig;Gary G. Mittelbach

  • Species loss and the structure and functioning of multitrophic aquatic systems

    Owen L. Petchey;Amy L. Downing;Gary G. Mittelbach;Lennart Persson

  • What is the observed relationship between species richness and productivity? Commentary. Author's reply

    Robert J. Whittaker;Einar Heegaard;Gary G. Mittelbach;Samuel M. Scheiner

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Brian J. McGill

Frequent Co-Authors

Katherine L. Gross
Katherine L. Gross Michigan State University
Craig W. Osenberg
Craig W. Osenberg University of Georgia
Brian J. McGill
Brian J. McGill University of Maine
Howard V. Cornell
Howard V. Cornell University of California, Davis
Earl E. Werner
Earl E. Werner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Douglas W. Schemske
Douglas W. Schemske Michigan State University
Bradford A. Hawkins
Bradford A. Hawkins University of California, Irvine
Richard Field
Richard Field University of Nottingham
David J. Currie
David J. Currie University of Ottawa
John Turner
John Turner Natural Environment Research Council

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