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D-Index
55
Citations
21333
World Ranking
2902
National Ranking
1026

Overview

Thomas O. Crist is affiliated with Miami University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing on several interconnected subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science, Plant Science, and Genetics.

The scientist's work encompasses varied topics such as Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and the Effects of Fire on Ecosystems.

Frequent publication venues for their research include Ecosphere, Biological Invasions, Ecological Applications, Ecosystems, and Agricultural and Forest Entomology.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Thomas O. Crist include:

  • Floral resources of an invasive shrub alter native bee communities at different vertical strata in forest-edge habitat, 2020, Biological Invasions
  • Bee communities and pollination services in adjacent crop fields following flower removal in an invasive forest shrub, 2020, Ecological Applications
  • Interactive Effects of White-Tailed Deer, an Invasive Shrub, and Exotic Earthworms on Leaf Litter Decomposition, 2020, Ecosystems
  • Differential patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity for two groups of canopy arthropods across spatial scales, 2023, Ecosphere
  • Indirect effects of deer on insect pests and soybean plants, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Thomas O. Crist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Michael B. Mahon, Hannah J. Penn, Michael J. Cunningham-Minnick, Kaitlin Campbell, and Valerie E. Peters.

Best Publications

  • Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

    Marti J. Anderson;Thomas O. Crist;Jonathan M. Chase;Mark Vellend

  • Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses

    Teja Tscharntke;Jason M. Tylianakis;Tatyana A. Rand;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham

  • Functional landscape heterogeneity and animal biodiversity in agricultural landscapes

    Lenore Fahrig;Jacques Baudry;Lluís Brotons;Françoise G. Burel

  • Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale

    Teja Tscharntke;Riccardo Bommarco;Yann Clough;Thomas O. Crist

  • Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Liza S. Comita;Liza S. Comita;Jonathan M. Chase;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders

  • Reprint of “Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale” [Biol. Control 43 (2007) 294–309]

    Teja Tscharntke;Riccardo Bommarco;Yann Clough;Thomas O. Crist

  • The spread of invasive species and infectious disease as drivers of ecosystem change

    Todd A Crowl;Thomas O Crist;Robert R Parmenter;Gary Belovsky

  • Partitioning Species Diversity across Landscapes and Regions: A Hierarchical Analysis of α, β, and γ Diversity

    Thomas O Crist;Joseph A Veech;Jon C Gering;Keith S Summerville

  • Critical Thresholds in Species' Responses to Landscape Structure

    Thomas O. Crist;Thomas O. Crist

  • The additive partitioning of species diversity: recent revival of an old idea

    Joseph A. Veech;Keith S. Summerville;Thomas O. Crist;Jon C. Gering

  • Animal movements and population dynamics in heterogeneous landscapes

    A. R. Johnson;J. A. Wiens;B. T. Milne;T. O. Crist

  • Additive Partitioning of Species Diversity across Multiple Spatial Scales: Implications for Regional Conservation of Biodiversity

    Jon C. Gering;Thomas O. Crist;Joseph A. Veech

  • Life-history traits predict species responses to habitat area and isolation: a cross-continental synthesis

    Erik Öckinger;Oliver Schweiger;Thomas O. Crist;Diane M. Debinski

  • Harvester Ants (Pogonomyrmex spp.): Their Community and Ecosystem Influences

    James A. MacMahon;John F. Mull;Thomas O. Crist

  • Animal movement in heterogeneous landscapes: an experiment with Eleodes beetles in shortgrass prairie.

    T. O. Crist;D. S. Guertin;J. A. Wiens;B. T. Milne

  • Additive partitioning of rarefaction curves and species–area relationships: unifying α‐, β‐ and γ‐diversity with sample size and habitat area

    Thomas O. Crist;Joseph A. Veech

  • The alpha–beta–regional relationship: providing new insights into local–regional patterns of species richness and scale dependence of diversity components

    Jon C. Gering;Thomas O. Crist

  • EFFECTS OF TIMBER HARVEST ON FOREST LEPIDOPTERA: COMMUNITY, GUILD, AND SPECIES RESPONSES

    Keith S. Summerville;Thomas O. Crist

  • Fractal patterns of insect movement in microlandscape mosaics

    John A. Wiens;Thomas O. Crist;Bruce T. Milne

  • Harvester Ant Foraging and Shrub-Steppe Seeds: Interactions of Seed Resources and Seed Use

    Thomas O. Crist;James A. MacMahon

  • IDEA AND PERSPECTIVE Functional landscape heterogeneity and animal biodiversity in agricultural landscapes

    Lenore Fahrig;Jacques Baudry;Thomas O. Crist;Robert J. Fuller

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph A. Veech
Joseph A. Veech Texas State University
John A. Wiens
John A. Wiens Colorado State University
James C. Stegen
James C. Stegen Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nathan J. Sanders
Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Liza S. Comita
Liza S. Comita Yale University
Mark Vellend
Mark Vellend Université de Sherbrooke
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles
Marti J. Anderson
Marti J. Anderson Massey University
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen

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