Michael William Palmer

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PhD Statistics Stanford University
Masters Statistics Stanford University
Bachelors Mathematics University of California, Berkeley

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PUTTING THINGS IN EVEN BETTER ORDER: THE ADVANTAGES OF CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS' (1993) (1178)
The Estimation of Species Richness by Extrapolation (1990) (582)
EDAPHIC FACTORS AND THE LANDSCAPE-SCALE DISTRIBUTIONS OF TROPICAL RAIN FOREST TREES (1999) (520)
Sustainable Biofuels Redux (2008) (431)
Scale Dependence and the Species-Area Relationship (1994) (379)
Quantitative tools for perfecting species lists (2002) (324)
Variation in species richness: Towards a unification of hypotheses (1994) (285)
Estimating Species Richness: The Second‐Order Jackknife Reconsidered (1991) (263)
The Coexistence of Species in Fractal Landscapes (1992) (246)
Community terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms reveal insights into the diversity and dynamics of leaf endophytic bacteria (2013) (212)
Fractal geometry: a tool for describing spatial patterns of plant communities (1988) (211)
Does diversity beget diversity? A case study of crops and weeds (1997) (187)
Effects of late growing‐season and late dormant‐season prescribed fire on herbaceous vegetation in restored pine‐grassland communities (1998) (156)
Small-scale environmental heterogeneity and the analysis of species distributions along gradients (1990) (144)
Scale dependence of vegetation‐environment correlations: A case study of a North Carolina piedmont woodland (1993) (143)
Plant Virus Biodiversity and Ecology (2006) (125)
Height and stem diameter relationships for dicotyledonous trees and arborescent palms of Costa Rican tropical wet forest (1986) (114)
Standards for the writing of floras (1995) (113)
Data diving with cross‐validation: an investigation of broad‐scale gradients in Swedish weed communities (1999) (108)
On the existence of ecological communities (1994) (93)
The elevation gradient of lichen species richness in Nepal (2009) (89)
How much and at what scale? Multiscale analyses as decision support for conservation of saproxylic oak beetles (2012) (84)
Changes in the understory during 14 years following catastrophic windthrow in two Minnesota forests (2000) (78)
Spatially constrained rarefaction: incorporating the autocorrelated structure of biological communities into sample-based rarefaction. (2009) (71)
The Latitudinal Gradient of Species‐Area Relationships for Vascular Plants of North America (2007) (69)
Variation in species richness on small grassland quadrats: niche structure or small‐scale plant mobility? (1995) (68)
Non-cultivated plants of the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve of northeastern Oklahoma frequently contain virus-like sequences in particulate fractions. (2009) (67)
Optimization of Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria-Assisted Phytostabilization of Mine Tailings. (2009) (66)
Windstorm damage and forest recovery: accelerated succession, stand structure, and spatial pattern over 25 years in two Minnesota forests (2012) (63)
Artifacts and Artifictions in Biodiversity Research (2008) (62)
Pattern in Corticolous Bryophyte Communities of the North Carolina Piedmont: Do Mosses See the Forest or the Trees? (1986) (60)
Feeding in anuran communities on islands in the Danube floodplain (2001) (59)
Changes in two Minnesota forests during 14 years following catastrophic windthrow (2000) (58)
Environmental Determinants of and Impact on Childhood Asthma by the Bacterial Community in Household Dust (2010) (56)
Fire history of a prairie/forest boundary: more than 250 years of frequent fire in a North American tallgrass prairie (2011) (56)
Stand dynamics of an Appalachian old-growth forest during a severe drought episode (2003) (53)
Long-term directional changes in upland Quercus forests throughout Oklahoma, USA. (2010) (51)
Scale dependence of native and alien species richness in North American floras. (2006) (50)
Evidence for novel viruses by analysis of nucleic acids in virus-like particle fractions from Ambrosia psilostachya. (2008) (49)
Seed dispersal by Bison bison in a tallgrass prairie (2008) (49)
Patterns of species richness among North Carolina hardwood forests: tests of two hypotheses (1991) (47)
Is the number of tree species in small tropical forest plots nonrandom (2000) (47)
Distance decay in an old-growth neotropical forest (2005) (47)
Late Quaternary environmental change inferred from phytoliths and other soil-related proxies: Case studies from the central and southern Great Plains, USA (2011) (46)
Species-area curves and the geometry of nature (2007) (44)
Land use change effects on breeding bird community composition. (1999) (44)
The montane grasslands of the Western Ghats, India: Community ecology and conservation (2007) (44)
The Vascular Flora of the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Osage County, Oklahoma (2007) (41)
Plant species composition and soil characteristics around Iranian piospheres (2012) (38)
Modeling the sampling effect in the species-time-area relationship. (2009) (38)
Influential Environmental Gradients and Spatiotemporal Patterns of Fish Assemblages in the Unimpounded Upper Mississippi River (2004) (36)
Fire Frequency Affects Structure and Composition of Xeric Forests of Eastern Oklahoma (2010) (35)
Potential biases in site and species selection for ecological monitoring (1993) (35)
Timing of disturbance and vegetation development: how sowing date affects the weed flora in spring‐sown crops (2001) (35)
Influence of late season fire on early successional vegetation of an Oklahoma prairie (2000) (34)
Tree regeneration and future dynamics of the laurel forest on Tenerife, Canary Islands (1999) (34)
Co-divergence and host-switching in the evolution of tobamoviruses. (2012) (33)
Changes in forest understory associated with Juniperus encroachment in Oklahoma, USA. (2010) (32)
Juniperus virginiana encroachment into upland oak forests alters arbuscular mycorrhizal abundance and litter chemistry (2013) (32)
Opportunities for Long-Term Ecological Research at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Oklahoma (2000) (32)
Informing conservation by identifying range shift patterns across breeding habitats and migration strategies (2016) (31)
Can settlement in natal-like habitat explain maladaptive habitat selection? (2013) (30)
How fast is the carousel? Direct indices of species mobility with examples from an Oklahoma grassland (2001) (28)
Analysis of the insect community in a stored-maize facility (2004) (28)
Detection of members of the Tombusviridae in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA. (2011) (27)
Interannual variation in weed biomass on arable land in Sweden. (2000) (25)
A MULTISCALE STUDY OF VASCULAR PLANTS IN A NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT FOREST (2007) (25)
Richness and Composition of Vascular Plants and Cryptogams along a High Elevational Gradient on Buddha Mountain, Central Tibet (2012) (25)
Species richness and soil reaction in a Northeastern Oklahoma landscape (2003) (23)
Incorporating spatial autocorrelation in rarefaction methods: Implications for ecologists and conservation biologists (2016) (23)
Scale Detection Using Semivariograms and Autocorrelograms (2002) (22)
Molecular characterization, ecology, and epidemiology of a novel Tymovirus in Asclepias viridis from Oklahoma. (2012) (22)
Biodiversity Data in the Information Age: Do 21st Century Floras Make the Grade? (2012) (22)
Tornado damage of Quercus stellata and Quercus marilandica in the Cross Timbers, Oklahoma, USA (2006) (21)
Biofuels and the Environment (2007) (20)
Temporal trends of exotic species richness in North American floras: An overview (2005) (20)
Factors Influencing Observed Variations in the Structure of Bacterial Communities On Calcite Formations in Kartchner Caverns, AZ, USA (2012) (19)
Global endemics-area relationships of vascular plants (2019) (19)
Application of herb chronology: Annual fertilization and climate reveal annual ring signatures within the roots of US tallgrass prairie plants (2016) (18)
Disentangling the role of remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy for North American plant species richness (2014) (17)
Variability in species richness within Minnesota oldfields: a use of the variance test (1987) (17)
Determinants of taxonomic composition of plant viruses at the Nature Conservancy’s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Oklahoma (2015) (17)
Tundra to Tropics: The Floristic Plant Geography of North America (2010) (16)
Long‐term late season mowing maintains diversity in southern US tallgrass prairie invaded by Bothriochloa ischaemum (2016) (14)
Indices for detecting differences in species composition: some simplifications of RDA and CCA. (2008) (14)
Plant species invasions along the latitudinal gradient in the United States: comment. (2006) (13)
TRENDS IN THE MEASUREMENT OF ALPHA DIVERSITY IN THE LAST TWO DECADES (2005) (12)
A 12‐year study on the scaling of vascular plant composition in an Oklahoma tallgrass prairie (2010) (12)
The effect of Juniperus virginiana on plant species composition in an Oklahoma grassland (2006) (12)
Vascular Flora of the Duke Forest, North Carolina (1990) (11)
Quantifying the influence of environmental texture on the rate of species turnover: evidence from two habitats (2011) (11)
Patterns of native and exotic vascular plant richness along an elevational gradient from sea level to the summit of the Appalachian Mountains, U.S.A (2010) (11)
Influence of climate, elevation, and land use in regional herpetofaunal distribution in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan (2005) (11)
Lessons from the prairie: Research at The Nature Conservancy’s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (2009) (10)
Detection of members of the Secoviridae in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA. (2012) (10)
Belowground annual ring growth coordinates with aboveground phenology and timing of carbon storage in two tallgrass prairie forb species. (2018) (10)
Mechanistic explanations of community structure: Introduction (1999) (10)
Harvesting Our Meadows for Biofuel? (2006) (10)
Changes in the distributions of epiphytic lichens in southern Sweden using a new statistical method (2009) (9)
Diatom Genus Diversity and Assemblage Structure in Relation to Salinity at the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma (2006) (9)
LIHD biofuels: toward a sustainable future (2007) (9)
Annual rings of perennial forbs and mature oaks show similar effects of climate but inconsistent responses to fire in the North American prairie–forest ecotone (2017) (8)
Effects of a Tornado on Birds in a Cross Timbers Community (2010) (8)
Genomic characterization of Ambrosia asymptomatic virus 1 and evidence of other Tymovirales members in the Oklahoma tallgrass prairie revealed by sequence analysis (2014) (8)
The Unimodal (Species Richness-Biomass) Relationship in Microcommunities Emerging from Soil Seed Banks (1997) (8)
Extending the quasi-neutral concept (2001) (6)
Discovery of the First Nearctic Moss-Eating Flea Beetle, Distigmoptera borealis Blake, 1943 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) (2019) (6)
Effect of Clipping, Fertilization and Water Stress on Species Composition of Experimental Plant Communities Along a Simulated Soil Gradient (2006) (5)
UTILITY OF HERBACEOUS ANNUAL RINGS AS MARKERS OF PLANT RESPONSE TO DISTURBANCE: A CASE STUDY USING ROOTS OF A COMMON MILKWEED SPECIES OF THE US TALLGRASS PRAIRIE (2019) (5)
Effects of initial plant species richness in microcosms: preliminary results (2001) (5)
The effects of organic amendment and soil emplacement method on manufactured soil quality and growth of amenity woodland at a former cokeworks site (2014) (5)
A Bibliography of North Carolina Local Floras (2010) (4)
Soil biological quality in short- and long-term field trials with conventional and organic fertility input types (2007) (4)
First North American Records of Porphyrosela minuta Clarke (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), with Notes on its Native Congener, P. desmodiella (Clemens) (2017) (4)
Latitudinal trends in genus richness of vascular plants in the Eocene and Oligocene of North America (2016) (4)
A new species of Marmara (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae: Marmarinae), with an Annotated List of Known Hostplants for the Genus. (2017) (4)
Vascular Plant Diversity in Oklahoma (1993) (4)
The effects of taxonomic rank on climatic calibrations: A test using extant floras of United States counties (2017) (3)
Agriculture fine sediment : sources, pathways and mitigation (2012) (3)
Vascular Plant Checklists from Oklahoma (2007) (3)
The Need for Savanna Restoration in the Cross Timbers (2007) (3)
Gradient Analysis of Ecological Communities (Ordination) (2017) (3)
Fuzzy sets or blurry artifacts? A comment on Zhang and Oxley (1994) (3)
Pegomya disticha Griffiths and P. cedrica Huckett (Diptera: Anthomyiidae)-first documented case of insects trespassing the silica barrier of Common scouring-rush, Equisetum hyemale L. (2020) (2)
Spatial Structure Alters the Shape of the Unimodal Species Richness-Biomass Relationship in a Neutral Model (2010) (2)
Out in the Cold: Trophic Resource Use by the Common Frog (Rana temporaria) Populations Inhabiting Extreme Habitats (2018) (2)
Thirteen new species of Agromyzidae (Diptera) from the United States, with new host and distribution records for 32 additional species. (2021) (2)
The importance of spatial and temporal perspectives for understanding vegetation pattern and process: Introduction (1997) (1)
Blurry artifacts: a retraction (1995) (1)
Draft Application of herb-chronology : Annual fertilization and climate reveal annual ring signatures within the roots of U (2016) (1)
Richness and Composition of Vascular Plants and Cryptogams along a High Elevational Gradient on Buddha Mountain, Central Tibet (2012) (1)
CASTANEA The Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society Biodiversity Data in the Information Age : Do 21 st Century Floras Make the Grade ? (2012) (1)
Examining the assumptions of heterogeneity-based management for promoting plant diversity in a disturbance-prone ecosystem (2019) (1)
Biogeomorphology. Heather A. Viles (1989) (0)
Mechanistic explanations of community structure (1999) (0)
Genomic characterization of Ambrosia asymptomatic virus 1 and evidence of other Tymovirales members in the Oklahoma tallgrass prairie revealed by sequence analysis (2014) (0)
Community terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms reveal insights into the diversity and dynamics of leaf endophytic bacteria (2013) (0)
N released from organic amendments is affected by soil management history (2007) (0)
Book Review:Statistical Inference. Paul H. Garthwaite, Ian T. Jolliffe, Byron Jones (1997) (0)
Society for Range Management Land Use Change Effects on Breeding Bird Community Composition Author ( s ) : (2008) (0)
Mechanistic explanations of community structure : Introduction Lep (1999) (0)
Computer program reviews, a new feature in the Journal of Vegetation Science (2002) (0)
Neolasioptera Spp. (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Stem Galls of Verbesina (Asteraceae) with the Description of a New Species (2019) (0)
Spatial Scale and Biodiversity (2019) (0)
Informing conservation by identifying range shift patterns across breeding habitats and migration strategies (2016) (0)
Metriocnemus erythranthei sp. nov. and Limnophyes viribus sp. nov. (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae): leafminers of monkeyflowers, speedwells, and other herbaceous plants, with new observations on the ecology and habitats of other leaf-mining Chironomidae. (2023) (0)
Importance of scale and density of hollow oaks for saproxylic oak beetles (2009) (0)
The Effects of Removal of Juniperus virginiana L. Trees and Litter from a Central Oklahoma Grassland (2011) (0)
DISTRIBUTION OF A TYMOVIRUS IN TIME AND SPACE IN ASCLEPIAS VIRIDIS FROM THE TALLGRASS PRAIRIE PRESERVE OF OKLAHOMA 1 , 2 (2008) (0)
F-16 Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared System for Night (LANTIRN) and the Night Close Air Support (CAS) Mission (1989) (0)
Spatio-temporal range shift of epiphytic lichens within a distribution area (2008) (0)
Uncertainties in Extraction of Contaminants From Unsaturated Soil Samples (2001) (0)
Windstorm damage and forest recovery: accelerated succession, stand structure, and spatial pattern over 25 years in two Minnesota forests (2012) (0)
A LARGE-SCALE SCALE BOOK (2000) (0)
Vascular Plant Communities Associated with Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Colonies in Southern Shortgrass Prairie (2015) (0)
Mechanistic explanations of community structure Editors (1999) (0)