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  1. Using metabolic and thermal ecology to predict temperature dependent ecosystem activity: a test with prairie ants

    Article • Ecology, July 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  2. Taxonomic decomposition of the latitudinal gradient in species diversity of North American floras

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, November 2017, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  3. Nutrition modifies critical thermal maximum of a dominant canopy ant

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  4. Thermal adaptation and phosphorus shape thermal performance in an assemblage of rainforest ants

    Article • Ecology, December 2015, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  5. Plant Thermoregulation: Energetics, Trait–Environment Interactions, and Carbon Economics

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  6. Reproduction-dispersal tradeoffs in ant queens

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  7. Urine as an important source of sodium increases decomposition in an inland but not coastal tropical forest

    Article • Oecologia, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  8. Thermal adaptation generates a diversity of thermal limits in a rainforest ant community

    Article • Global Change Biology, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  9. Metabolism and the Rise of Fungus Cultivation by Ants

    Article • The American Naturalist, September 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Jonathan Zvi Shik, Dr Jon N Seal, Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Jon N Seal

  10. Short-term sodium inputs attract microbi-detritivores and their predators

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, August 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  11. Road salt offers insights into the connections between diet and neural development

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

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

    Article • Ecology, April 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  13. Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

    Article • Science, February 2014, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  14. Manna from heaven: Refuse from an arboreal ant links aboveground and belowground processes in a lowland tropical forest

    Article • Ecosphere, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  15. The life history continuum hypothesis links traits of male ants with life outside the nest

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, September 2013, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  16. Trees as templates for trophic structure of tropical litter arthropod fauna

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  17. Nutrient enrichment increased species richness of leaf litter fungal assemblages in a tropical forest

    Article • Molecular Ecology, April 2013, Wiley

    Dr Bradley S Stevenson, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  18. The Art of Ecology: Writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson . Edited by David K. Skelly, David M. Post, and Melinda D. Smith; Foreword by, Thomas E. Lovejoy. New Haven (Connecticut): Yale University Press. $22.00 (paper). xii + 356 p.; ill.; no index. ISBN: ...

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  19. Using nutritional ecology to predict community structure: a field test in Neotropical ants

    Article • Ecosphere, November 2012, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  20. Towards a general life-history model of the superorganism: predicting the survival, growth and reproduction of ant societies

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Chen Hou, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  21. Stoichiometry

    Article • March 2012, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  22. A life history continuum in the males of a Neotropical ant assemblage: refuting the sperm vessel hypothesis

    Article • The Science of Nature, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jonathan Zvi Shik, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  23. Variable Responses of Lowland Tropical Forest Nutrient Status to Fertilization and Litter Manipulation

    Article • Ecosystems, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emma J Sayer, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  24. Distributional (In)Congruence of Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  25. Energy, taxonomic aggregation, and the geography of ant abundance

    Article • Ecography, January 2012, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  26. Diet composition does not affect ant colony tempo

    Article • Functional Ecology, December 2011, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan Zvi Shik, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  27. Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions . By Mark W. Moffett. Berkeley (California): University of California Press. $29.95. vii + 280 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978‐0‐520‐26199‐0. 2010.

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, December 2011, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  28. Lust for Salt in the Western Amazon

    Article • Biotropica, November 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  29. Preliminary Assessment of Metabolic Costs of the Nematode Myrmeconema neotropicum on its Host, the Tropical Ant Cephalotes atratus

    Article • Journal of Parasitology, October 2011, American Society of Parasitologists

    Dr Jonathan Zvi Shik, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  30. Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

    Article • Ecology, August 2011, Wiley

    Dr Emma J Sayer, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  31. Predation and patchiness in the tropical litter: do swarm-raiding army ants skim the cream or drain the bottle?

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, March 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  32. Elevational and geographic variation in army ant swarm raid rates

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  33. Scaling community structure: how bacteria, fungi, and ant taxocenes differentiate along a tropical forest floor

    Article • Ecology, August 2010, Wiley

    Dr Bradley S Stevenson, Dr Jonathan Zvi Shik, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  34. Eusocial insects as superorganisms

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Chen Hou, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  35. Salted roads and sodium limitation in a northern forest ant community

    Article • Ecological Entomology, June 2010, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  36. Canopy and litter ant assemblages share similar climate-species density relationships

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  37. More food, less habitat: how necromass and leaf litter decomposition combine to regulate a litter ant community

    Article • Ecological Entomology, April 2010, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan Zvi Shik, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  38. Trees as templates for tropical litter arthropod diversity

    Article • Oecologia, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  39. Aerial manoeuvrability in wingless gliding ants (Cephalotes atratus)

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  40. Scaling community structure: how bacteria, fungi, and ant taxocenes differentiate along a tropical forest floor

    Article • Ecology, March 2010, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  41. Energetic basis of colonial living in social insects

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Chen Hou, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  42. An Ant Cornucopia, Translated The Lives of Ants . Laurent Keller and Élisabeth Gordon . Oxford University Press, 2009. 256 pp., illus. $27.95 (ISBN 9780199541867 cloth).

    Article • BioScience, January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  43. Biogeochemistry and the structure of tropical brown food webs

    Article • Ecology, December 2009, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  44. Sodium shortage as a constraint on the carbon cycle in an inland tropical rainforest

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  45. Species and site differences in Neotropical army ant emigration behaviour

    Article • Ecological Entomology, August 2009, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  46. Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

    Article • Ecology Letters, April 2009, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  47. Gliding hexapods and the origins of insect aerial behaviour

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  48. Lifespan in male ants linked to mating syndrome

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  49. Evolutionary ecology, antibiosis, and all that rot

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  50. On the biogeography of salt limitation: A study of ant communities

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  51. Biogeography of litter depth in tropical forests: evaluating the phosphorus growth rate hypothesis

    Article • Functional Ecology, October 2008, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  52. Parasite‐Induced Fruit Mimicry in a Tropical Canopy Ant

    Article • The American Naturalist, April 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  53. Multiple nutrients limit litterfall and decomposition in a tropical forest

    Article • Ecology Letters, November 2007, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  54. The size?grain hypothesis: do macroarthropods see a fractal world?

    Article • Ecological Entomology, June 2007, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  55. Army ants in four forests: geographic variation in raid rates and species composition

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, May 2007, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  56. Bottom-up and top-down regulation of decomposition in a tropical forest

    Article • Oecologia, March 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  57. Ecological morphospace of New World ants

    Article • Ecological Entomology, April 2006, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  58. Ant Activity along Moisture Gradients in a Neotropical Forest1

    Article • Biotropica, March 2006, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  59. Extraordinary Predation by the Neotropical Army Ant Cheliomyrmex andicola: Implications for the Evolution of the Army Ant Syndrome1

    Article • Biotropica, December 2005, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  60. Global energy gradients and size in colonial organisms: Worker mass and worker number in ant colonies

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  61. Directed aerial descent in canopy ants

    Article • Nature Cell Biology, February 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  62. Interactions between granivorous and omnivorous ants in a desert grassland: results from a long-term experiment

    Article • Ecological Entomology, February 2005, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  63. USING THE METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY TO PREDICT GLOBAL PATTERNS OF ABUNDANCE

    Article • Ecology, July 2004, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  64. Energy gradients and the geographic distribution of local ant diversity

    Article • Oecologia, June 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  65. Spatial Grain and the Causes of Regional Diversity Gradients in Ants

    Article • The American Naturalist, March 2003, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  66. On Ectotherm Abundance in a Seasonal Environment-Studies of a Desert Ant Assemblage

    Article • Ecology, November 2002, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  67. The phenology of a Neotropical ant assemblage: evidence for continuous and overlapping reproduction

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, September 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  68. The reproductive flight phenology of a neotropical ant assemblage

    Article • Ecological Entomology, June 2001, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  69. Taxonomic level, trophic biology and the regulation of local abundance

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, May 2001, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  70. Do Imported Fire Ants Impact Canopy Arthropods? Evidence from Simple Arboreal Pitfall Traps

    Article • The Southwestern Naturalist, June 2000, JSTOR

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

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

    Article • Oikos, May 2000, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  72. Three energy variables predict ant abundance at a geographical scale

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2000, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  73. Energy, Density, and Constraints to Species Richness: Ant Assemblages along a Productivity Gradient

    Article • The American Naturalist, February 2000, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  74. The size–grain hypothesis and interspecific scaling in ants

    Article • Functional Ecology, August 1999, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  75. Forest Litter Insect Communities: Biology and Chemical Ecology. T. N. Ananthakrishnan

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 1997, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  76. Testing Resource-Based Models of Patchiness in Four Neotropical Litter Ant Assemblages

    Article • Oikos, September 1996, JSTOR

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  77. Worker size and seed size selection by harvester ants in a neotropical forest

    Article • Oecologia, February 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  78. Litter ant patchiness at the 1-m2 scale: disturbance dynamics in three Neotropical forests

    Article • Oecologia, January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  79. Caste allocation in litter Pheidole : lessons from plant defense theory

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, October 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  80. Caste allocation in litter Pheidole: lessons from plant defense theory

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, October 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  81. Colony Size as a Buffer Against Seasonality: Bergmann's Rule in Social Insects

    Article • The American Naturalist, April 1995, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  82. Nest site selection by fire ant queens

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, September 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  83. Body size and microclimate use in Neotropical granivorous ants

    Article • Oecologia, December 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  84. Prey Choice by Three Insectivorous Grassland Birds: Reevaluating Opportunism

    Article • Oikos, December 1993, JSTOR

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  85. Removal of seeds from Neotropical frugivore droppings

    Article • Oecologia, March 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  86. Central Place Foraging in Grasshopper Sparrows: Opportunism or Optimal Foraging in a Variable Environment?

    Article • Oikos, April 1991, JSTOR

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  87. Prey preparation as a way that grasshopper sparrows (Ammodramus savannarum) increase the nutrient concentration of their prey

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 1991, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  88. Species-Specific Nest Selection by Birds in Ant-Acacia Trees

    Article • Biotropica, September 1990, JSTOR

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  89. Prey preparation and the determinants of handling time

    Article • Animal Behaviour, July 1990, Elsevier

    Dr. Michael Kaspari

  90. Aspect-Based Tagging for Collaborative Media Organization

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Michael Kaspari