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Overview

William E. Snyder is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States and has a substantial body of research focusing on agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including insect science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, ecology, and ecological modeling.

Their main research topics cover insect-plant interactions and control, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, insect and pesticide research, Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, plant parasitism and resistance, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Snyder include:

  • No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research sites, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Are we overestimating risk of enteric pathogen spillover from wild birds to humans?, 2020, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Selection for high levels of resistance to double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) in Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say) using non-transgenic foliar delivery, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture, 2024, Science
  • Recent climate change is creating hotspots of butterfly increase and decline across North America, 2021, Global Change Biology

Snyder frequently collaborates with other researchers. Key coauthors include:

  • Michael S. Crossley
  • Olivia M. Smith
  • Jeb P. Owen
  • Zhen Fu
  • David W. Crowder

Their publications appear repeatedly in several scientific venues, such as:

  • Biological Control
  • Ecological Applications
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Insects

Best Publications

  • Organic agriculture promotes evenness and natural pest control

    David W. Crowder;Tobin D. Northfield;Michael R. Strand;William E. Snyder

  • Niche Partitioning Increases Resource Exploitation by Diverse Communities

    Deborah L. Finke;Deborah L. Finke;William E. Snyder

  • Are the conservation of natural enemy biodiversity and biological control compatible goals

    Cory S. Straub;Deborah L. Finke;Deborah L. Finke;William E. Snyder

  • INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SPECIALIST AND GENERALIST NATURAL ENEMIES: PARASITOIDS, PREDATORS, AND PEA APHID BIOCONTROL

    William E. Snyder;Anthony R. Ives

  • A synthesis of subdisciplines: predator–prey interactions, and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

    Anthony R. Ives;Bradley J. Cardinale;Bradley J. Cardinale;William E. Snyder

  • GENERALIST PREDATORS DISRUPT BIOLOGICAL CONTROL BY A SPECIALIST PARASITOID

    William E. Snyder;Anthony R. Ives

  • A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes.

    Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Christina M. Kennedy;Claire Kremen;Péter Batáry

  • Ecological Effects of Invasive Arthropod Generalist Predators

    William E. Snyder;Edward W. Evans

  • Predator biodiversity strengthens herbivore suppression

    William E. Snyder;Gretchen B. Snyder;Deborah L. Finke;Cory S. Straub

  • Species identity dominates the relationship between predator biodiversity and herbivore suppression.

    Cory S. Straub;William E. Snyder

  • Predator Interference and the Establishment of Generalist Predator Populations for Biocontrol

    William E. Snyder;David H. Wise

  • Give predators a complement: Conserving natural enemy biodiversity to improve biocontrol

    William E. Snyder;William E. Snyder

  • CONTRASTING TROPHIC CASCADES GENERATED BY A COMMUNITY OF GENERALIST PREDATORS

    William E. Snyder;David H. Wise

  • No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research sites

    Michael S. Crossley;Amanda R. Meier;Emily M. Baldwin;Lauren L. Berry

  • Intraguild predation and successful invasion by introduced ladybird beetles

    William E. Snyder;Garrett M. Clevenger;Sanford D. Eigenbrode

  • Alternative prey disrupt biocontrol by a guild of generalist predators

    A.M. Koss;W.E. Snyder

  • Polyphagy complicates conservation biological control that targets generalist predators

    R. P. Prasad;W. E. Snyder

  • Increasing enemy biodiversity strengthens herbivore suppression on two plant species.

    Cory S. Straub;William E. Snyder

  • The Red Queen in a potato field: integrated pest management versus chemical dependency in Colorado potato beetle control.

    Andrei Alyokhin;David Mota-Sanchez;Mitchell Baker;William E Snyder

  • Nutritional Benefits of Cannibalism for the Lady Beetle Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) When Prey Quality is Poor

    William E. Snyder;Sarah B. Joseph;R. F. Preziosi;Allen J. Moore

  • Biodiversity and insect pests: key issues for sustainable management.

    Geoff Gurr;Stephen D. Wratten;William E. Snyder;Donna M. Y. Read

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Crowder
David W. Crowder Washington State University
Sanford D. Eigenbrode
Sanford D. Eigenbrode University of Idaho
John P. Reganold
John P. Reganold Washington State University
David H. Wise
David H. Wise University of Illinois at Chicago
Claire Kremen
Claire Kremen University of British Columbia
Anthony R. Ives
Anthony R. Ives University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
Daniel S. Karp
Daniel S. Karp University of California, Davis
Nilsa A. Bosque-Pérez
Nilsa A. Bosque-Pérez University of Idaho
Geoff M. Gurr
Geoff M. Gurr Charles Sturt University

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