Gary Allan Polis

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Gary Allan Polis is affiliated with the following schools: Vanderbilt University, University of Kansas, University of California, Riverside, University of California, Davis

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Gary Allan Polis

Biology

#3935

World Rank

#5944

Historical Rank

#1544

USA Rank

Zoology

#330

World Rank

#762

Historical Rank

#107

USA Rank

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Biology

Gary Allan Polis's Degrees

PhD Ecology University of California, Davis
Masters Zoology University of California, Davis
Bachelors Zoology University of California, Davis

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According to Wikipedia, Gary Allan Polis was an arachnologist and the world's leading expert on scorpions. Education and career Polis was born in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Loyola University in 1969. Polis received an M.A. in 1975 and a Ph.D. in biology in 1977 from the University of California, Riverside.

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Gary Allan Polis's Published Works

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Published Works

THE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF INTRAGUILD PREDATION: Potential Competitors That Eat Each Other (1989) (2093)
Food Web Complexity and Community Dynamics (1996) (1996)
TOWARD AN INTEGRATION OF LANDSCAPE AND FOOD WEB ECOLOGY : The Dynamics of Spatially Subsidized Food Webs (2005) (1438)
The Evolution and Dynamics of Intraspecific Predation (1981) (1267)
A Theoretical Framework for Intraguild Predation (1997) (1045)
Complex Trophic Interactions in Deserts: An Empirical Critique of Food-Web Theory (1991) (944)
Intraguild predation: The dynamics of complex trophic interactions. (1992) (886)
Linking Marine and Terrestrial Food Webs: Allochthonous Input from the Ocean Supports High Secondary Productivity on Small Islands and Coastal Land Communities (1996) (773)
Food webs: integration of patterns and dynamics (1997) (753)
The Biology of Scorpions (1990) (571)
Why Are Parts of the World Green? Multiple Factors Control Productivity and the Distribution of Biomass (1999) (500)
Extreme climatic events shape arid and semiarid ecosystems (2006) (441)
TROPHIC RANK AND THE SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP (1999) (424)
Age Structure Component of Niche Width and Intraspecific Resource Partitioning: Can Age Groups Function as Ecological Species? (1984) (376)
Nutrient fluxes from water to land: seabirds affect plant nutrient status on Gulf of California islands (1999) (370)
Extraordinarily high spider densities on islands: flow of energy from the marine to terrestrial food webs and the absence of predation. (1995) (343)
Improving Food Webs (1993) (282)
THE DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF COYOTES: THE EFFECTS OF ALLOCHTHONOUS FOOD SUBSIDIES FROM THE SEA (1998) (261)
BOTTOM-UP DYNAMICS OF ALLOCHTHONOUS INPUT: DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF SEABIRDS ON ISLANDS (2000) (259)
EL NIÑO EFFECTS ON THE DYNAMICS AND CONTROL OF ANISLAND ECOSYSTEM IN THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA (1997) (227)
Food webs at the landscape level (2004) (221)
Time, Space, and Life History: Influences on Food Webs (1996) (203)
Intraguild Predation and Competition Among Desert Scorpions (1987) (194)
Frontiers of Ecology (2001) (180)
Allochthonous Input Across Habitats, Subsidized Consumers, and Apparent Trophic Cascades: Examples from the Ocean-Land Interface (1996) (172)
Food webs, trophic cascades and community structure (2006) (160)
Marine Subsidies of Island Communities in the Gulf of California: Evidence from Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes (1998) (157)
Stable isotopes reveal strong marine and El Niño effects on island food webs (1999) (155)
ARTHROPODS THAT PREY ON VERTEBRATES (1982) (154)
Scorpion Biology and Research (2001) (152)
Exploitation Competition and the Evolution of Interference, Cannibalism, and Intraguild Predation in Age/Size-Structured Populations (1988) (145)
Effects of partitioning allochthonous and autochthonous resources on food web stability (2002) (142)
Ecology: Stability is woven by complex webs (1998) (137)
A Survey of Intraspecific Predation among Reptiles and Amphibians (1985) (135)
Marine resources subsidize insular rodent populations in the Gulf of California, Mexico (2003) (130)
MULTIFACTOR POPULATION LIMITATION: VARIABLE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CONTROL OF SPIDERS ON GULF OF CALIFORNIA ISLANDS (1998) (119)
Marine subsidies alter the diet and abundance of insular and coastal lizard populations (2005) (111)
Food Webs: What Can They Tell Us About the World? (1996) (95)
SEASONAL PATTERNS AND AGE-SPECIFIC VARIATION IN THE SURFACE ACTIVITY OF A POPULATION OF DESERT SCORPIONS IN RELATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS (1980) (90)
Population Biology of a Desert Scorpion: Survivorship, Microhabitat, and the Evolution of Life History Strategy (1980) (81)
Influence of pulsed resources and marine subsidies on insular rodent populations (2003) (81)
BEHAVIOR AND ECOLOGY OF MATING IN TH E CANNIBALISTIC SCORPION, PAR UROCTONUS MESAENSI S STAHNKE (SCORPIONIDA : VAEJOVIDAE ) (1979) (76)
Intraguild predation among aphidophagous predators (2005) (69)
Optimal and central-place foraging theory applied to a desert harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex californicus (1987) (68)
PATTERNS OF RESOURCE USE AND AGE STRUCTURE AMONG SPECIES OF DESERT SCORPION (1986) (66)
The effect of cannibalism on the demography and activity of a natural population of desert scorpions (1980) (63)
Life in sandy deserts: the scorpion model (1998) (62)
Predators of scorpions: field data and a review (1981) (58)
A synthesis of ENSO effects on drylands in Australia, North America and South America (2006) (46)
PATTERNS OF CO-EXISTENCE IN A GUILD OF RAPTORIAL SPIDERS (1979) (46)
Burrowing biology and spatial distribution of desert scorpions (1986) (45)
PREDATION AS A MAJOR COST OF REPRODUCTION IN NAMIB DESERT TENEBRIONID BEETLES (1998) (41)
Feast and famine in food webs: the effects of pulsed productivity (2004) (41)
Trends in Scorpion Diversity Along the Baja California Peninsula (1986) (39)
Home range geometry of the desert scorpion Paruroctonus mesaensis (1985) (36)
Prey and feeding phenology of the desert sand scorpion Pamroctonus mesaensis (Scorpionidae: Vaejovidae) (2009) (34)
PHENOLOGY AND LIFE HISTORY OF THE DESERT SPIDER, DIGUETIA MOJAVEA (ARANEAE, DIGUETIDAE) (1999) (26)
A survey of intraspecific predation within the class Mammalia (1984) (24)
Sociality among scorpions (1986) (24)
Foraging and evolutionary responses of desert scorpions to harsh environmental periods of food stress (1988) (23)
Characteristics and environmental determinants of natality, growth and maturity in a natural population of the desert scorpion, Paruroctonus mesaensis (Scorpionida: Vaejovidae) (2009) (22)
Scorpions as model vehicles to advance theories of population and community ecology: the role of scorpions in desert communities (1993) (21)
BROOD PARASITISM AMONG SPIDERS: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SALTICIDS AND DIGUETIA MOJAVEA (2002) (16)
Geographical analysis of scorpion populations on habitat islands (1995) (15)
On the insularity of islands (2000) (15)
A TEST OF THE CENTRAL-MARGINAL MODEL USING SAND SCORPION POPULATIONS (PARUROCTONUS MESAENSIS, VAEJOVIDAE) (1995) (14)
Imbibition of precipitated fog by Namib desert scorpions. (1990) (10)
The biology of Vaejovis littoralis Williams, an intertidal scorpion from Baja California, Mexico (2009) (8)
United framework I: interspecific interactions and species diversity in drylands (2004) (3)
The role of experiments in ecology [1] (1995) (3)
Mating by female scorpions while still carrying young. (1990) (3)
The impact of El Nino on island ecosystems in the gulf of California (1995) (2)
Multitrophic interactions in terrestrial systems (1997) (1)
The Role of Experiments in Ecology (1995) (0)
Very high spider densities on islands in the gulf of california mexico the significance of intraguild predation (1991) (0)
George Mercer Award: Lars Hedin (1997) (0)
v SCORPIONS AS MODEL VEHICLES TO ADVANCE THEORIES OF POPULATION AND COMMUNITY ECOLOGY : THE ROLE OF SCORPIONS IN DESERT COMMUNITIES o tOt : (2009) (0)
Book Review:Energetics of Desert Invertebrates. Adaptations of Desert Organisms. Harold Heatwole (1997) (0)
Sonoran Desert Summer. John Alcock (1991) (0)
Desert Wealth@@@The Ecology of Desert Communities. (1992) (0)
William S. Cooper Award: Christopher L. Fastie (1998) (0)

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