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50
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3749
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1309

Overview

Matthew L. Forister is a researcher affiliated with the University of Nevada Reno in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Genetics.

Their research topics encompass a variety of areas including Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, as well as Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Lee A. Dyer, Christopher A. Halsch, Angela M. Smilanich, James A. Fordyce, and Chris C. Nice.

Matthew L. Forister has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication platforms include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Ecology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Ecological Monographs.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West (2021) in Science
  • Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Scientists' warning on climate change and insects (2022) in Ecological Monographs
  • Insects and recent climate change (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Loss of dominant caterpillar genera in a protected tropical forest (2020) in Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • The Ecology of Individuals: Incidence and Implications of Individual Specialization

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Richard Svanbäck;Richard Svanbäck;James A. Fordyce;Louie H. Yang

  • Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts

    David L. Wagner;Eliza M. Grames;Matthew L. Forister;May R. Berenbaum

  • The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

    Matthew L. Forister;Vojtech Novotny;Vojtech Novotny;Anna K. Panorska;Leontine Baje

  • Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

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  • Compounded effects of climate change and habitat alteration shift patterns of butterfly diversity

    Matthew L. Forister;Andrew C. McCall;Nathan J. Sanders;James A. Fordyce

  • Insects and recent climate change

    Christopher A. Halsch;Arthur M. Shapiro;James A. Fordyce;Chris C. Nice

  • Homoploid hybrid speciation in an extreme habitat.

    Zachariah Gompert;James A. Fordyce;Matthew L. Forister;Arthur M. Shapiro

  • Revisiting the Evolution of Ecological Specialization, With Emphasis on Insect-Plant Interactions

    M. L. Forister;Lee A. Dyer;M. S. Singer;John O. Stireman Iii

  • Climatic trends and advancing spring flight of butterflies in lowland California

    Matthew L. Forister;Arthur M. Shapiro

  • Phytochemical diversity drives plant-insect community diversity

    Lora A. Richards;Lee A. Dyer;Matthew L. Forister;Angela M. Smilanich

  • Declines in insect abundance and diversity: We know enough to act now

    Matthew L. Forister;Emma M. Pelton;Scott H. Black

  • Admixture and the organization of genetic diversity in a butterfly species complex revealed through common and rare genetic variants.

    Zachariah Gompert;Lauren K. Lucas;Lauren K. Lucas;C. Alex Buerkle;Matthew L. Forister

  • Genomic regions with a history of divergent selection affect fitness of hybrids between two butterfly species.

    Zachariah Gompert;Lauren K. Lucas;Chris C. Nice;James A. Fordyce

  • Widespread mito-nuclear discordance with evidence for introgressive hybridization and selective sweeps in Lycaeides.

    Zachariah Gompert;Matthew L. Forister;James A. Fordyce;Chris C. Nice

  • Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West

    M. L. Forister;C. A. Halsch;C. C. Nice;J. A. Fordyce

  • The significance of wing pattern diversity in the Lycaenidae: mate discrimination by two recently diverged species

    J. A. Fordyce;C. C. Nice;M. L. Forister;A. M. Shapiro

  • Increasing neonicotinoid use and the declining butterfly fauna of lowland California.

    Matthew L. Forister;Bruce Cousens;Joshua G. Harrison;Kayce Anderson

  • Bayesian analysis of molecular variance in pyrosequences quantifies population genetic structure across the genome of Lycaeides butterflies.

    Zachariah Gompert;Matthew L. Forister;James A. Fordyce;Chris C. Nice

  • Identifying units for conservation using molecular systematics: the cautionary tale of the Karner blue butterfly

    Zachariah Gompert;Chris C. Nice;James A. Fordyce;Matthew L. Forister

  • Embracing Colonizations: A New Paradigm for Species Association Dynamics

    Sören Nylin;Salvatore Agosta;Staffan Bensch;Walter A. Boeger

  • Intraspecific phytochemical variation shapes community and population structure for specialist caterpillars

    Andrea E. Glassmire;Christopher S. Jeffrey;Matthew L. Forister;Thomas L. Parchman

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Fordyce
James A. Fordyce University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Chris C. Nice
Chris C. Nice Texas State University
Zachariah Gompert
Zachariah Gompert Utah State University
Lee A. Dyer
Lee A. Dyer University of Nevada Reno
C. Alex Buerkle
C. Alex Buerkle University of Wyoming
James H. Thorne
James H. Thorne University of California, Davis
Thomas L. Parchman
Thomas L. Parchman University of Nevada Reno
James P. Pitts
James P. Pitts Utah State University
Dennis D. Murphy
Dennis D. Murphy University of Nevada Reno
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London

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