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D-Index
34
Citations
5745
World Ranking
7541
National Ranking
2538

Wyatt F. Cross publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wyatt F. Cross sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 95 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Wyatt F. Cross D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wyatt F. Cross sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wyatt F. Cross is affiliated with Montana State University in the United States and specializes in environmental science, with a particular focus on ecological and aquatic systems. Their research primarily addresses issues related to the dynamics of freshwater ecosystems, nutrient cycling, and the ecological behaviors of aquatic organisms.

The main fields of study for Cross include environmental science, with significant contributions to subfields such as ecology, nature and landscape conservation, environmental chemistry, global and planetary change, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Key research topics covered by Cross consist of fish ecology and management studies, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, soil and water nutrient dynamics, isotope analysis in ecology, physiological and biochemical adaptations, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cross include Jonathan P. Benstead, James M. Hood, Alexander D. Huryn, Gísli Már Gíslason, and Jón S. Ólafsson.

Cross publishes regularly in scientific journals, appearing most often in the following venues:

  • Ecology
  • Ecology Letters
  • Global Change Biology
  • Functional Ecology
  • Science

Some recent representative papers by Cross are:

  • "Nutrient enrichment intensifies the effects of warming on metabolic balance of stream ecosystems," 2022, Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • "A global synthesis of human impacts on the multifunctionality of streams and rivers," 2022, Global Change Biology
  • "The ghosts of ecosystem engineers: Legacy effects of biogenic modifications," 2022, Functional Ecology
  • "Food web controls on mercury fluxes and fate in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Global Patterns and Controls of Nutrient Immobilization on Decomposing Cellulose in Riverine Ecosystems," 2022, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Best Publications

  • Ecological stoichiometry in freshwater benthic systems: recent progress and perspectives

    Wyatt F. Cross;Jonathan P. Benstead;Paul C. Frost;Steven A. Thomas

  • Consumer‐resource stoichiometry in detritus‐based streams

    Wyatt F. Cross;Jonathan P. Benstead;Jonathan P. Benstead;Amy D. Rosemond;J. Bruce Wallace

  • Threshold elemental ratios of carbon and phosphorus in aquatic consumers.

    Paul C. Frost;Jonathan P. Benstead;Wyatt F. Cross;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Interactions between temperature and nutrients across levels of ecological organization.

    Wyatt F. Cross;James M. Hood;Jonathan P. Benstead;Alexander D. Huryn

  • WHOLE‐SYSTEM NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT INCREASES SECONDARY PRODUCTION IN A DETRITUS‐BASED ECOSYSTEM

    W. F. Cross;J. B. Wallace;A. D. Rosemond;S. L. Eggert

  • Ecological Networks in a Changing Climate

    Guy Woodward;Jonathan P. Benstead;Oliver S. Beveridge;Julia Blanchard

  • Food-web dynamics in a large river discontinuum

    Wyatt F. Cross;Wyatt F. Cross;Colden V. Baxter;Emma J. Rosi-Marshall;Emma J. Rosi-Marshall;Robert O. Hall

  • Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones

    Scott D. Tiegs;David M. Costello;Mark W. Isken;Guy Woodward

  • Ecosystem ecology meets adaptive management: food web response to a controlled flood on the Colorado River, Glen Canyon.

    Wyatt F. Cross;Wyatt F. Cross;Colden V. Baxter;Kevin C. Donner;Emma J. Rosi-Marshall

  • Long-term nutrient enrichment decouples predator and prey production

    John M. Davis;Amy D. Rosemond;Susan L. Eggert;Wyatt F. Cross

  • Nutrients stimulate leaf breakdown rates and detritivore biomass: bottom-up effects via heterotrophic pathways

    Jennifer L. Greenwood;Jennifer L. Greenwood;Amy D. Rosemond;J. Bruce Wallace;Wyatt F. Cross;Wyatt F. Cross

  • Impacts of Warming on the Structure and Functioning of Aquatic Communities: Individual- to Ecosystem-Level Responses

    Eoin J. O'Gorman;Doris E. Pichler;Georgina Adams;Georgina Adams;Jonathan P. Benstead

  • Nutrient enrichment reduces constraints on material flows in a detritus-based food web.

    Wyatt F. Cross;J. Bruce Wallace;Amy D. Rosemond

  • Climate change and geothermal ecosystems: natural laboratories, sentinel systems, and future refugia

    Eoin J. O'Gorman;Jonathan P. Benstead;Wyatt F. Cross;Nikolai Friberg

  • Nutrient enrichment alters storage and fluxes of detritus in a headwater stream ecosystem.

    Jonathan P. Benstead;Amy D. Rosemond;Wyatt F. Cross;J. Bruce Wallace

  • Bridging food webs, ecosystem metabolism, and biogeochemistry using ecological stoichiometry theory

    Nina Welti;Nina Welti;Maren Striebel;Amber J. Ulseth;Wyatt F. Cross

  • A global synthesis of human impacts on the multifunctionality of streams and rivers

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  • Secondary production, longevity and resource consumption rates of freshwater shrimps in two tropical streams with contrasting geomorphology and food web structure

    Wyatt F. Cross;Alan P. Covich;Todd A. Crowl;Jonathan P. Benstead

  • Intra- and interspecific competition among coexisting lotic snails

    Wyatt F. Cross;Arthur C. Benke

  • Ecological stoichiometry in freshwater benthic ecosystems: an introduction

    Paul C. Frost;Wyatt F. Cross;Jonathan P. Benstead

  • Does N2 fixation amplify the temperature dependence of ecosystem metabolism

    Jill R. Welter;Jonathan P. Benstead;Wyatt F. Cross;James M. Hood

  • 2017 Montana Climate Assessment: Stakeholder driven, science informed

    Cathy Whitlock;Wyatt F. Cross;Bruce D. Maxwell;Nick Silverman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan P. Benstead
Jonathan P. Benstead University of Alabama
Alexander D. Huryn
Alexander D. Huryn University of Alabama
Amy D. Rosemond
Amy D. Rosemond University of Georgia
J. Bruce Wallace
J. Bruce Wallace University of Georgia
Colden V. Baxter
Colden V. Baxter Idaho State University
Robert O. Hall
Robert O. Hall University of Montana
Guy Woodward
Guy Woodward Imperial College London
Emma J. Rosi-Marshall
Emma J. Rosi-Marshall Loyola University Chicago
Nikolai Friberg
Nikolai Friberg Aarhus University
Paul C. Frost
Paul C. Frost Trent University

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