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Overview

Todd M. Palmer is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research spans several key areas within environmental and biological sciences, with a focus on ecological dynamics, species interactions, and conservation biology.

The main fields of study for Palmer include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, Palmer's work delves into subfields such as:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Genetics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change

Palmer's research topics prominently cover:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Gut microbiota and health

Frequently publishing in scientific journals, Palmer's main venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecology
  • Current Biology
  • Science
  • Molecular Ecology

Recent selected papers authored or co-authored by Palmer highlight diverse aspects of ecology and organismal interactions. These include:

  • Herbivory limits success of vegetation restoration globally, 2023, Science
  • Disruption of an ant-plant mutualism shapes interactions between lions and their primary prey, 2024, Science
  • Harnessing ecological theory to enhance ecosystem restoration, 2024, Current Biology
  • Large herbivores transform plant-pollinator networks in an African savanna, 2021, Current Biology
  • Mussels drive polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) biomagnification in a coastal food web, 2021, Scientific Reports

Palmer has collaborated extensively with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Jacob R. Goheen
  • Patrick Milligan
  • Corinna Riginos
  • Robert M. Pringle
  • Tyler R. Kartzinel

Best Publications

  • Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

    Gerardo Ceballos;Paul R. Ehrlich;Anthony D. Barnosky;Andrés García

  • Reciprocal Rewards Stabilize Cooperation in the Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

    E. Toby Kiers;Marie Duhamel;Marie Duhamel;Yugandhar Beesetty;Yugandhar Beesetty;Jerry A. Mensah

  • Mutualisms in a changing world: an evolutionary perspective

    E. Toby Kiers;Todd M. Palmer;Anthony R. Ives;John F. Bruno

  • Skin shedding and tissue regeneration in African spiny mice ( Acomys )

    Ashley W. Seifert;Ashley W. Seifert;Stephen G. Kiama;Megan G. Seifert;Jacob R. Goheen

  • Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Jason Pither;Anke Jentsch;Marcelo Sternberg

  • Breakdown of an ant-plant mutualism follows the loss of large herbivores from an African savanna.

    Todd M. Palmer;Maureen L. Stanton;Truman P. Young;Jacob R. Goheen

  • Spatial pattern enhances ecosystem functioning in an African savanna

    Robert Mitchell Pringle;Daniel F. Doak;Alison K. Brody;Rudy Jocqué

  • Competition and compensation among cattle, zebras, and elephants in a semi-arid savanna in Laikipia, Kenya

    Truman P. Young;Todd M. Palmer;Michelle E. Gadd

  • Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism.

    Todd M. Palmer;Daniel F. Doak;Maureen L. Stanton;Judith L. Bronstein

  • Competition and Coexistence: Exploring Mechanisms That Restrict and Maintain Diversity within Mutualist Guilds

    Todd M. Palmer;Maureen L. Stanton;Truman P. Young

  • KLEE: A long‐term multi‐species herbivore exclusion experiment in Laikipia, Kenya

    T.P. Young;B.D. Okello;D. Kinyua;T.M. Palmer

  • Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity

    Sally E. Koerner;Melinda D. Smith;Deron E. Burkepile;Niall P. Hanan

  • Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny

    Adam T. Ford;Jacob R. Goheen;Tobias O. Otieno;Laura Bidner

  • SPATIAL HABITAT HETEROGENEITY INFLUENCES COMPETITION AND COEXISTENCE IN AN AFRICAN ACACIA ANT GUILD

    Todd M. Palmer

  • The influences of patch shape and boundary contrast on insect response to fragmentation in California grasslands

    Sharon K. Collinge;Todd M. Palmer

  • Large herbivores facilitate savanna tree establishment via diverse and indirect pathways

    Jacob R. Goheen;Todd M. Palmer;Felicia Keesing;Corinna Riginos

  • Sterilization and canopy modification of a swollen thorn acacia tree by a plant-ant

    Maureen L. Stanton;Todd M. Palmer;Truman P. Young;Amanda Evans

  • Predator-induced collapse of niche structure and species coexistence

    Robert M Pringle;Tyler R Kartzinel;Tyler R Kartzinel;Todd M Palmer;Timothy J Thurman;Timothy J Thurman

  • Short-term dynamics of an acacia ant community in Laikipia, Kenya.

    Todd M. Palmer;Truman P. Young;Maureen L. Stanton;Elizabeth Wenk

  • Defensive Plant-Ants Stabilize Megaherbivore-Driven Landscape Change in an African Savanna

    Jacob R. Goheen;Jacob R. Goheen;Todd M. Palmer

  • COMPETITION–COLONIZATION TRADE-OFFS IN A GUILD OF AFRICAN ACACIA-ANTS

    M. L. Stanton;T. M. Palmer;T. P. Young

  • PERSPECTIVE Mutualisms in a changing world: an evolutionary perspective

    E. Toby Kiers;Todd M. Palmer;Anthony R. Ives;John F. Bruno

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacob R. Goheen
Jacob R. Goheen University of Wyoming
Robert M. Pringle
Robert M. Pringle Princeton University
Truman P. Young
Truman P. Young University of California, Davis
Maureen L. Stanton
Maureen L. Stanton University of California, Davis
Corinna Riginos
Corinna Riginos University of Wyoming
Daniel F. Doak
Daniel F. Doak University of Colorado Boulder
Hillary S. Young
Hillary S. Young University of California, Santa Barbara
Kristofer M. Helgen
Kristofer M. Helgen Australian Museum
Mahesh Sankaran
Mahesh Sankaran University of Leeds
Lauchlan H. Fraser
Lauchlan H. Fraser Thompson Rivers University

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