2026 Michael Kaspari: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	63	1982	1899	723	683	183	13343

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michael Kaspari is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research spans a variety of topics within environmental science, primarily focusing on ecological and biological sciences. The work addresses complex interactions within ecosystems, often examining nutrient dynamics and species behavior under changing environmental conditions.

Their recent publications include key studies such as "Nutrient dilution and climate cycles underlie declines in a dominant insect herbivore" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), "The seventh macronutrient: how sodium shortfall ramifies through populations, food webs and ecosystems" (2020, Ecology Letters), "The Invisible Hand of the Periodic Table: How Micronutrients Shape Ecology" (2021, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics), "Seasonal plasticity of thermal tolerance in ants" (2020, Ecology), and "Abiotic factors and plant biomass, not plant diversity, strongly shape grassland arthropods under drought conditions" (2020, Ecology).

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including Ellen A. R. Welti, Kirsten M. de Beurs, Michael D. Weiser, Cameron D. Siler, and Katie E. Marshall.

Kaspari's work is commonly published in journals such as Ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Ecosphere, Ecology and Evolution, and Biology Letters.

Plant and animal studies
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Species Distribution and Climate Change
Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Isotope Analysis in Ecology
Fire effects on ecosystems
Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Environmental Science
Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Ecology
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Ecological Modeling
Genetics

Throughout their career, Michael Kaspari has been recognized as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America in 2020 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2016.

Best Publications

Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

S. Joseph Wright;Joseph B. Yavitt;Nina Wurzburger;Nina Wurzburger;Benjamin L. Turner

691
Citations
Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Lina Shen;Chongqing Wen

658
Citations
Multiple nutrients limit litterfall and decomposition in a tropical forest.

Michael E. Kaspari;Michael E. Kaspari;Milton N. Garcia;Kyle Edward Harms;Kyle Edward Harms;Mirna Santana

570
Citations
The size–grain hypothesis and interspecific scaling in ants

M. Kaspari;M. D. Weiser

441
Citations
Energy, density, and constraints to species richness: ant assemblages along a productivity gradient.

Michael Kaspari;Sean O'Donnell;James R. Kercher

397
Citations
Thermal adaptation generates a diversity of thermal limits in a rainforest ant community

Michael Kaspari;Natalie A. Clay;Natalie A. Clay;Jane Lucas;Stephen P. Yanoviak

347
Citations
Community structure and the habitat templet: ants in the tropical forest canopy and litter

S. P. Yanoviak;M. Kaspari

336
Citations
Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

Robert R. Dunn;Donat Agosti;Alan N. Andersen;Xavier Arnan;Xavier Arnan

335
Citations
Species richness, species-area curves and Simpson's paradox

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

300
Citations
COLONY SIZE AS A BUFFER AGAINST SEASONALITY: BERGMANN'S RULE IN SOCIAL INSECTS

Michael Kaspari;Edward L. Vargo

287
Citations
Three energy variables predict ant abundance at a geographical scale

M Kaspari;L Alonso;S O'Donnell

251
Citations
The energetic and carbon economic origins of leaf thermoregulation

Sean T. Michaletz;Sean T. Michaletz;Michael D. Weiser;Nate G. McDowell;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou

229
Citations
Body size and microclimate use in Neotropical granivorous ants.

Michael Kaspari

228
Citations
Ant Activity along Moisture Gradients in a Neotropical Forest1

Michael Kaspari;Michael D. Weiser

206
Citations
Sodium shortage as a constraint on the carbon cycle in an inland tropical rainforest.

Michael E. Kaspari;Stephen P. Yanoviak;Robert K. Dudley;May Yuan

197
Citations
Ecological morphospace of New World ants

Michael D. Weiser;Michael Kaspari

195
Citations
Biogeochemistry and Geographical Ecology: Embracing All Twenty-Five Elements Required to Build Organisms.

Michael Kaspari;Michael Kaspari;Jennifer S. Powers

193
Citations
Spatial Grain and the Causes of Regional Diversity Gradients in Ants

Michael Kaspari;May Yuan;Leeanne Alonso

192
Citations
Plant responses to fertilization experiments in lowland, species-rich, tropical forests.

S. Joseph Wright;Benjamin L. Turner;Joseph B. Yavitt;Kyle E. Harms

191
Citations
Plant Thermoregulation: Energetics, Trait-Environment Interactions, and Carbon Economics.

Sean T. Michaletz;Sean T. Michaletz;Michael D. Weiser;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Michael Kaspari;Michael Kaspari

189
Citations
Using Ants to Monitor Environmental Change

Jonathan Majer;M. Kaspari

179
Citations
On the biogeography of salt limitation: A study of ant communities

Michael E. Kaspari;Stephen P. Yanoviak;Robert K. Dudley

175
Citations
Testing resource-based models of patchiness in four Neotropical litter ant assemblages

Michael Kaspari

167
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma

Michael D. Weiser University of Oklahoma

Stephen P. Yanoviak University of Louisville

Sean T. Michaletz University of British Columbia

Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona

Robert Dudley University of California, Berkeley

Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University

Ye Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences

Robert B. Waide University of New Mexico

External Links

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