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Overview

Michael C. Singer is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Urban Green Space and Health, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Animal and Plant Science Education, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Selected recent publications by Michael C. Singer include:

  • Colonizations cause diversification of host preferences: A mechanism explaining increased generalization at range boundaries expanding under climate change, 2021, Global Change Biology

In addition to their own work, Michael C. Singer frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Camille Parmesan
  • Gladys Barragan-Jason
  • Claire de Mazancourt
  • Michel Loreau
  • Kumar P. Mainali

The venues where Michael C. Singer's work has been published multiple times include:

  • Biological Conservation
  • Conservation Letters
  • Science Advances
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Global Change Biology

Co-authors have also published notable papers such as "Human-nature connectedness as a pathway to sustainability: A global meta-analysis" (2021) in Conservation Letters, and "Psychological and physical connections with nature improve both human well-being and nature conservation: A systematic review of meta-analyses" (2022) in Biological Conservation. Other recent papers relevant to the network of collaborators include works on indices for co-occurrence and climate change responses in Himalayan treelines.

Best Publications

  • Phenological asynchrony between herbivorous insects and their hosts: signal of climate change or pre-existing adaptive strategy?

    Michael C. Singer;Camille Parmesan

  • Genetics and the Evolution of Muellerian Mimicry in Heliconius Butterflies

    Philip Macdonald Sheppard;John Richard George Turner;K. S. Brown;W. W. Benson

  • The Definition and Measurement of Oviposition Preference in Plant-Feeding Insects

    Michael C. Singer

  • HERITABILITY OF OVIPOSITION PREFERENCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO OFFSPRING PERFORMANCE WITHIN A SINGLE INSECT POPULATION.

    M. C. Singer;D. Ng;C. D. Thomas

  • Extinction, reduction, stability and increase: The responses of checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas) populations to the California drought.

    P. R. Ehrlich;D. D. Murphy;D. D. Murphy;Michael C Singer;Michael C Singer;C. B. Sherwood;C. B. Sherwood

  • Rapid human-induced evolution of insect-host associations

    Michael C. Singer;Chris D. Thomas;Camille Parmesan

  • Checkerspot butterflies: a historical perspective.

    Paul R. Ehrlich;Raymond R. White;Michael C. Singer;Stephen W. McKechnie

  • DETERMINANTS OF MULTIPLE HOST USE BY A PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECT POPULATION

    Michael C. Singer

  • Beyond climate change attribution in conservation and ecological research

    Camille Parmesan;Michael T. Burrows;Carlos M. Duarte;Carlos M. Duarte;Carlos M. Duarte;Elvira S. Poloczanska

  • Quantification of host preference by manipulation of oviposition behavior in the butterfly Euphydryas editha

    Michael C. Singer

  • EVOLUTION OF FOOD-PLANT PREFERENCE IN THE BUTTERFLY EUPHYDRYAS EDITHA.

    Michael C. Singer

  • Complex Components of Habitat Suitability within a Butterfly Colony

    Michael C. Singer

  • Experimental confirmation that inbreeding depression increases extinction risk in butterfly populations.

    Marko Nieminen;Michael C. Singer;Wilhelm Fortelius;Katrin Schöps

  • Human–nature connectedness as a pathway to sustainability: A global meta-analysis

    Gladys Barragan-Jason;Claire de Mazancourt;Camille Parmesan;Camille Parmesan;Camille Parmesan;Michael C. Singer;Michael C. Singer;Michael C. Singer

  • CATASTROPHIC EXTINCTION OF POPULATION SOURCES IN A BUTTERFLY METAPOPULATION

    Chris D. Thomas;Michael C. Singer;David A. Boughton

  • Extinction-colonization dynamics and host-plant choice in butterfly metapopulations.

    Ilkka Hanski;Michael C. Singer

  • Evolutionary Responses of a Butterfly Metapopulation to Human- and Climate-Caused Environmental Variation

    Michael C. Singer;Chris D. Thomas

  • COMMENTARY: Overstretching attribution

    Camille Parmesan;Carlos Duarte;Elvira Poloczanska;Anthony J. Richardson

  • Dispersal and Gene Flow in a Butterfly Species

    Lawrence E. Gilbert;Michael C. Singer

  • INCORPORATION OF A EUROPEAN WEED INTO THE DIET OF A NORTH AMERICAN HERBIVORE.

    C. D. Thomas;D. Ng;Michael C Singer;J. L.B. Mallet

  • Individual selection, kin selection, and the shifting balance in the evolution of warning colours: the evidence from butterflies

    James Mallet;Michael C. Singer

Frequent Co-Authors

Camille Parmesan
Camille Parmesan The University of Texas at Austin
Chris D. Thomas
Chris D. Thomas University of York
Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul R. Ehrlich Stanford University
Ilkka Hanski
Ilkka Hanski University of Helsinki
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Lawrence E. Gilbert
Lawrence E. Gilbert The University of Texas at Austin
Anthony J. Richardson
Anthony J. Richardson University of Queensland
Alexander S. Mikheyev
Alexander S. Mikheyev Australian National University
David S. Schoeman
David S. Schoeman University of the Sunshine Coast
Elvira S. Poloczanska
Elvira S. Poloczanska Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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