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Stephen P. Yanoviak is affiliated with the University of Louisville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics such as fire effects on ecosystems, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant and animal studies, forest insect ecology and management, forest ecology and management, plant responses to elevated CO2, and forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

Frequent coauthors in Stephen P. Yanoviak's publications include Evan M. Gora, Jeffrey C. Burchfield, Phillip M. Bitzer, Kane A. Lawhorn, and Cèsar Gutiérrez.

Stephen P. Yanoviak's research has appeared in multiple venues, with notable publication frequency in Ecology, Biotropica, Insect Conservation and Diversity, Global Change Biology, and New Phytologist.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Stephen P. Yanoviak illustrate a focus on insect ecology, thermal tolerance in ants, and the impacts of lightning disturbances on tropical forests. These papers include:

  • Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward (2020), Insect Conservation and Diversity
  • Seasonal plasticity of thermal tolerance in ants (2020), Ecology
  • Pantropical geography of lightning-caused disturbance and its implications for tropical forests (2020), Global Change Biology
  • Interspecific Eavesdropping on Ant Chemical Communication (2020), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • The contributions of lightning to biomass turnover, gap formation and plant mortality in a tropical forest (2021), Ecology

Best Publications

  • Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward

    Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;Yves Basset;C. Matilda Collins;Simon R. Leather

  • 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

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

    S. P. Yanoviak;M. Kaspari

  • Phyllostomid Bats of Lowland Amazonia: Effects of Habitat Alteration on Abundance

    Michael R. Willig;Steven J. Presley;Christopher P. Bloch;Christine L. Hice

  • Gliding and the Functional Origins of Flight: Biomechanical Novelty or Necessity?

    Robert Dudley;Greg Byrnes;Stephen P. Yanoviak;Brendan Borrell

  • 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

  • On the biogeography of salt limitation: A study of ant communities

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

  • Directed aerial descent in canopy ants

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

  • Predation by odonates depresses mosquito abundance in water-filled tree holes in Panama.

    Ola M. Fincke;Stephen P. Yanoviak;Richard D. Hanschu

  • Biogeochemistry and the structure of tropical brown food webs.

    Michael Kaspari;Michael Kaspari;Stephen P. Yanoviak;Stephen P. Yanoviak

  • Parasite-induced fruit mimicry in a tropical canopy ant.

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

  • Desiccation resistance in tropical insects: causes and mechanisms underlying variability in a Panama ant community.

    Jelena Bujan;Stephen P. Yanoviak;Michael Kaspari

  • Sodium fertilization increases termites and enhances decomposition in an Amazonian forest.

    Michael Kaspari;Michael Kaspari;Natalie A. Clay;David A. Donoso;David A. Donoso;Steven P. Yanoviak

  • Animal Aloft: The Origins of Aerial Behavior and Flight

    Robert Dudley;Stephen P. Yanoviak

  • Endemic Venezuelan equine encephalitis in northern Peru.

    Patricia V. Aguilar;Ivorlyne P. Greene;Lark L. Coffey;Gladys Medina;Gladys Medina

  • Lust for Salt in the Western Amazon

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

  • The Macrofauna of Water-filled Tree Holes on Barro Colorado Island, Panama1

    Stephen P. Yanoviak

  • Effects of leaf litter species on macroinvertebrate community properties and mosquito yield in Neotropical tree hole microcosms

    Stephen P. Yanoviak

  • Predation, resource availability, and community structure in Neotropical water-filled tree holes

    Stephen P. Yanoviak

  • Trees as islands: canopy ant species richness increases with the size of liana‐free trees in a Neotropical forest

    Benjamin J. Adams;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Stephen P. Yanoviak;Stephen P. Yanoviak

  • Bait Use in Tropical Litter and Canopy Ants—Evidence of Differences in Nutrient Limitation1

    Michael E. Kaspari;Stephen P. Yanoviak

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Kaspari
Michael Kaspari University of Oklahoma
Robert Dudley
Robert Dudley University of California, Berkeley
Stefan A. Schnitzer
Stefan A. Schnitzer Marquette University
Scott C. Weaver
Scott C. Weaver The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Nalini M. Nadkarni
Nalini M. Nadkarni University of Utah
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Helene C. Muller-Landau
Helene C. Muller-Landau Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
L. Philip Lounibos
L. Philip Lounibos University of Florida
Matteo Detto
Matteo Detto Princeton University
Brian L. Fisher
Brian L. Fisher California Academy of Sciences

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