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Scott A. Wissinger

Scott A. Wissinger

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
32
Citations
4501
World Ranking
8046
National Ranking
2668

Overview

Scott A. Wissinger is affiliated with Allegheny College in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on ecology and related subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, and aspects of management, monitoring, policy, and law. They also explore topics within ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Environmental Conservation and Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics

Scott A. Wissinger has contributed to several research papers, with selected recent publications as follows:

  • "Perils of life on the edge: Climatic threats to global diversity patterns of wetland macroinvertebrates," 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Elevation alters outcome of competition between resident and range-shifting species," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Relationships between macroinvertebrates and detritus in freshwater wetlands," 2021, Freshwater Science
  • "Consequences of climate-induced range expansions on multiple ecosystem functions," 2023, Communications Biology
  • "A global assessment of environmental and climate influences on wetland macroinvertebrate community structure and function," 2024, Global Change Biology

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Wissinger include:

  • Hamish S. Greig
  • Isaac D. Shepard
  • Brad W. Taylor
  • Darold P. Batzer
  • Jared A. Balik

Their research has been published repeatedly in a core set of journals, including:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Freshwater Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Communications Biology
  • Journal of Animal Ecology

Best Publications

  • Ecology of Insect Communities in Nontidal Wetlands

    Darold P. Batzer;Scott A. Wissinger

  • Cyclic Colonization in Predictably Ephemeral Habitats: A Template for Biological Control in Annual Crop Systems

    Scott A. Wissinger

  • Invertebrates in freshwater wetlands of North America : ecology and management

    Darold P. Batzer;Russell Ben Rader;Scott A. Wissinger

  • Intraguild Predation and Competition Between Larval Dragonflies: Direct and Indirect Effects on Shared Prey

    Scott Wissinger;Jill McGrady

  • Niche Overlap and the Potential for Competition and Intraguild Predation Between Size‐Structured Populations

    Scott A. Wissinger

  • FORAGING TRADE-OFFS ALONG A PREDATOR–PERMANENCE GRADIENT IN SUBALPINE WETLANDS

    Scott A. Wissinger;Scott A. Wissinger;Howard H. Whiteman;Howard H. Whiteman;Grace B. Sparks;Grace B. Sparks;Gretchen L. Rouse;Gretchen L. Rouse

  • Intraguild predation and cannibalism among larvae of detritivorous caddisflies in subalpine wetlands

    Scott A. Wissinger;Grace B. Sparks;Gretchen L. Rouse;Wendy S. Brown

  • Caddisfly life histories along permanence gradients in high‐altitude wetlands in Colorado (U.S.A.)

    Scott A. Wissinger;Scott A. Wissinger;Wendy S. Brown;Jason E. Jannot;Jason E. Jannot;Jason E. Jannot

  • Life history and size structure of larval dragonfly populations

    Scott A. Wissinger

  • Seasonal Variation in the Intensity of Competition and Predation Among Dragonfly Larvae

    Scott A. Wissinger

  • Bioassessment and management of North American freshwater wetlands

    Russell B. Rader;Darold P. Batzer;Scott A. Wissinger

  • Consumptive and nonconsumptive effects of cannibalism in fluctuating age-structured populations

    Scott A. Wissinger;Scott A. Wissinger;Howard H. Whiteman;Howard H. Whiteman;Mathieu Denoël;Mathieu Denoël;Miranda L. Mumford;Miranda L. Mumford

  • Larval cannibalism, time constraints, and adult fitness in caddisflies that inhabit temporary wetlands

    Scott Wissinger;Scott Wissinger;Jeff Steinmetz;Jeff Steinmetz;Jeff Steinmetz;J. Scott Alexander;J. Scott Alexander;J. Scott Alexander;Wendy Brown

  • Effects of food availability on larval development and inter-instar predation among larvae of Libellula lydia and Libellula luctuosa (Odonata: Anisoptera).

    Scott A. Wissinger

  • 6. Wetland Animal Ecology

    Darold P. Batzer;Robert Cooper;Scott A. Wissinger

  • Spatial distribution, life history and estimates of survivorship in a fourteen-species assemblage of larval dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera)

    Scott A. Wissinger

  • Growth and foraging consequences of facultative paedomorphosis in the tiger salamander,Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum

    Howard H. Whiteman;Scott A. Wissinger;Wendy S. Brown

  • Fluctuation in a Rocky Mountain Population of Salamanders: Anthropogenic Acidification or Natural Variation?

    Scott A. Wissinger;Howard H. Whiteman

  • Absence of species replacements between permanent and temporary lentic communities in New Zealand

    Scott A. Wissinger;Hamish S. Greig;Angus R. McIntosh

  • Snowmelt ponds in Wisconsin. Influence of hydroperiod on invertebrate community structure.

    D. W. Schneider;D. P. Batzer;R. B. Rader;S. A. Wissinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathieu Denoël
Mathieu Denoël University of Liège
Darold P. Batzer
Darold P. Batzer University of Georgia
Angus R. McIntosh
Angus R. McIntosh University of Canterbury
Jeffrey R. Lucas
Jeffrey R. Lucas Purdue University West Lafayette
Robert J. Cooper
Robert J. Cooper University of Georgia
Barbara L. Peckarsky
Barbara L. Peckarsky University of Wisconsin–Madison

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