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  1. CV.eDNA: A hybrid approach to invertebrate biomonitoring using computer vision and DNA metabarcoding

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  2. Capacity and establishment rules govern the number of nonnative species in communities of ground‐dwelling invertebrates

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, March 2024, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  3. Geographic gradients in a functional trait: Drivers of body size and size diversity of ground invertebrate communities

    Article • Ecosphere, March 2024, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  4. Temperature–habitat interactions constrain seasonal activity in a continental array of pitfall traps

    Article • Ecology, November 2022, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  5. Robust metagenomic evidence that local assemblage richness increases with latitude in ground‐active invertebrates of North America

    Article • Oikos, May 2022, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  6. Testing the role of body size and litter depth on invertebrate diversity across six forests in North America

    Article • Ecology, December 2021, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  7. Activity density at a continental scale: What drives invertebrate biomass moving across the soil surface?

    Article • Ecology, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  8. Thermal traits predict the winners and losers under climate change: an example from North American ant communities

    Article • Ecosphere, July 2021, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  9. Robust and simplified machine learning identification of pitfall trap‐collected ground beetles at the continental scale

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  10. Thermal diversity of North American ant communities: Cold tolerance but not heat tolerance tracks ecosystem temperature

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  11. Species Energy and Thermal Performance Theory Predict 20‐Year Changes in Ant Community Abundance and Richness

    Article • The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  12. Thermal disruption of soil bacterial assemblages decreases diversity and assemblage similarity

    Article • Ecosphere, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  13. Macroecology and macroevolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in ants

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  14. Temperature determines the diversity and structure of N2 O-reducing microbial assemblages

    Article • Functional Ecology, March 2018, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  15. 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

  16. Biogeochemistry drives diversity in the prokaryotes, fungi, and invertebrates of a Panama forest

    Article • Ecology, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr Zhili He, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  17. Correspondence: Reply to ‘Analytical flaws in a continental-scale forest soil microbial diversity study’

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  18. Strong biotic influences on regional patterns of climate regulation services

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, May 2017, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  19. Toward a theory for diversity gradients: the abundance-adaptation hypothesis

    Article • Ecography, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  20. A global database of ant species abundances

    Article • Ecology, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Fabricio B Baccaro, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  21. Sodium co-limits and catalyzes macronutrients in a prairie food web

    Article • Ecology, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  22. Phylogeny and the prediction of tree functional diversity across novel continental settings

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, January 2017, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  23. GlobalAnts: a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, December 2016, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  24. Indoor evidence for the contribution of soil microbes and corresponding environments to the decomposition of Pinus massoniana and Castanopsis sclerophylla litter from Thousand Island Lake

    Article • European Journal of Soil Biology, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  25. Corrigendum: The energetic and carbon economic origins of leaf thermoregulation

    Article • Nature Plants, August 2016, Nature

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  26. The energetic and carbon economic origins of leaf thermoregulation

    Article • Nature Plants, August 2016, Nature

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  27. Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  28. Biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six forests in the North America

    Article • Molecular Ecology, May 2016, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  29. Constancy in Functional Space across a Species Richness Anomaly

    Article • The American Naturalist, April 2016, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

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

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

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  31. Sodium limits litter decomposition rates in a subtropical forest: Additional tests of the sodium ecosystem respiration hypothesis

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  32. Tree height–diameter allometry across the United States

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, February 2015, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  33. Global phylogenetic structure of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole reveals the repeated evolution of macroecological patterns

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  34. On the packing and filling of functional space in eastern North American tree assemblages

    Article • Ecography, July 2014, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  35. The latitudinal species richness gradient in New World woody angiosperms is consistent with the tropical conservatism hypothesis

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

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  36. Determinants of species abundance for eastern North American trees

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  37. 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

  38. Tracing the Rise of Ants - Out of the Ground

    Article • PLOS One, December 2013, PLOS

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  39. Conservation implications of divergent global patterns of ant and vertebrate diversity

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, May 2013, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  40. Clinal variation in colony breeding structure and level of inbreeding in the subterranean termitesReticulitermes flavipesandR. grassei

    Article • Molecular Ecology, January 2013, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  41. Functional beta-diversity patterns reveal deterministic community assembly processes in eastern North American trees

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  42. Global models of ant diversity suggest regions where new discoveries are most likely are under disproportionate deforestation threat

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

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

    Article • Ecography, January 2012, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  44. The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, November 2011, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  45. Strong influence of regional species pools on continent-wide structuring of local communities

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Michael Krabbe Borregaard, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  46. Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, May 2011, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  47. Forecasting the future of biodiversity: a test of single- and multi-species models for ants in North America

    Article • Ecography, February 2011, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  48. Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, January 2011, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  49. Urban areas may serve as habitat and corridors for dry-adapted, heat tolerant species; an example from ants

    Article • Urban Ecosystems, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  50. Plant geography upon the basis of functional traits: an example from eastern North American trees

    Article • Ecology, August 2010, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  51. 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

  52. Plant Geography Upon the Basis of Functional Traits: An Example from Eastern North American Trees

    Article • Ecology, March 2010, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  53. More individuals but fewer species: testing the 'more individuals hypothesis' in a diverse tropical fauna

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

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  54. Geographic Gradients

    Article • November 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  55. 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

  56. Latitudinal patterns of range size and species richness of New World woody plants

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, September 2007, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

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

    Article • Ecological Entomology, June 2007, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  58. EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF NEUTRAL THEORY

    Article • Ecology, June 2006, Wiley

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

  59. Ecological morphospace of New World ants

    Article • Ecological Entomology, April 2006, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  60. Ant Activity along Moisture Gradients in a Neotropical Forest1

    Article • Biotropica, March 2006, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  61. Species richness, environmental heterogeneity and area: a case study based on land snails in Skyros archipelago (Aegean Sea, Greece)

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, October 2005, Wiley

    Professor Kostas A. Triantis, Dr Michael D. Weiser

  62. Extreme genetic differences between queens and workers in hybridizing Pogonomyrmex harvester ants

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2002, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Michael D. Weiser

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

    Article • Functional Ecology, August 1999, Wiley

    Dr. Michael Kaspari, Dr Michael D. Weiser