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Gary A. Polis

Active 1980–2006

36
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19,199
Citations
36
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Citations

Citations per year for Gary A. Polis1980: 4 citations1981: 5 citations1982: 1 citations1984: 5 citations1986: 4 citations1987: 4 citations1988: 13 citations1989: 8 citations1990: 4 citations1991: 6 citations1992: 17 citations1993: 22 citations1994: 25 citations1995: 15 citations1996: 42 citations1997: 48 citations1998: 79 citations1999: 120 citations2000: 118 citations2001: 81 citations2002: 159 citations2003: 114 citations2004: 136 citations2005: 173 citations2006: 110 citations2007: 92 citations2008: 103 citations2009: 80 citations2010: 62 citations2011: 63 citations2012: 65 citations2013: 34 citations2014: 32 citations2015: 55 citations2016: 42 citations2017: 43 citations2018: 38 citations2019: 80 citations2020: 86 citations2021: 55 citations2022: 36 citations2023: 29 citations2024: 58 citations2025: 25 citations2026: 5 citations1983: no citations, so this year is not shown1985: no citations, so this year is not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 696 citing papers, 32.1% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 163 citing papers, 7.5% of this breakdownCanada: 153 citing papers, 7% of this breakdownGermany: 115 citing papers, 5.3% of this breakdownChina: 85 citing papers, 3.9% of this breakdownSpain: 84 citing papers, 3.9% of this breakdownSweden: 81 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownAustralia: 76 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownFrance: 50 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownNetherlands: 50 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 46 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownJapan: 41 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Environmental Science41.9%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences26.9%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.9%
  • Medicine8%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences4.4%
  • Social Sciences2%
  • Other5.9%

Topics

  • Plant and animal studies11%
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies6.1%
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics5.8%
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation4.3%
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies4%
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models3.9%
  • Other64.9%

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  1. A Theoretical Framework for Intraguild Predation

    Authors: Robert D. Holt, Gary A. Polis - The American Naturalist 1997 cited by 1,237

  2. The Ecology and Evolution of Intraguild Predation: Potential Competitors That Eat Each Other

    Authors: Gary A. Polis, C. Myers, Robert D. Holt - Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1989 cited by 2,130

  3. The Evolution and Dynamics of Intraspecific Predation

    Authors: Gary A. Polis - Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1981 cited by 1,329

  4. Intraguild predation: The dynamics of complex trophic interactions

    Authors: Gary A. Polis, Robert D. Holt - Trends in Ecology & Evolution 1992 cited by 967

  5. Toward an Integration of Landscape and Food Web Ecology: The Dynamics of Spatially Subsidized Food Webs

    Authors: Gary A. Polis, Wendy B. Anderson, Robert D. Holt - Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1997 cited by 2,361

  6. Complex Trophic Interactions in Deserts: An Empirical Critique of Food-Web Theory

    Authors: Gary A. Polis - The American Naturalist 1991 cited by 1,037

  7. Food Web Complexity and Community Dynamics

    Authors: Gary A. Polis, Donald R. Strong - The American Naturalist 1996 cited by 2,103

  8. Linking Marine and Terrestrial Food Webs: Allochthonous Input from the Ocean Supports High Secondary Productivity on Small Islands and Coastal Land Communities

    Authors: Gary A. Polis, Stephen D. Hurd - The American Naturalist 1996 cited by 817

  9. Why Are Parts of the World Green? Multiple Factors Control Productivity and the Distribution of Biomass

    Authors: Gary A. Polis - Oikos 1999 cited by 584

  10. Time, Space, and Life History: Influences on Food Webs

    Authors: Gary A. Polis, Robert D. Holt, Bruce A. Menge, Kirk O. Winemiller - Food Webs 1996 cited by 200

  11. ARTHROPODS THAT PREY ON VERTEBRATES

    Authors: Sharon J. McCormick, Gary A. Polis - Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1982 cited by 175

  12. Food Webs

    Authors: Gary A. Polis, Kirk O. Winemiller - 1996 cited by 168

  13. Allochthonous Input Across Habitats, Subsidized Consumers, and Apparent Trophic Cascades: Examples from the Ocean-Land Interface

    Authors: Gary A. Polis, Stephen D. Hurd - Food Webs 1996 cited by 156

  14. Population Biology of a Desert Scorpion: Survivorship, Microhabitat, and the Evolution of Life History Strategy

    Authors: Gary A. Polis, Roger D. Farley - Ecology 1980 cited by 78

  15. When is a trophic cascade a trophic cascade?

    Authors: Gary A. Polis, Anna L. W. Sears, Gary R. Huxel, Donald R. Strong, John L. Maron - Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2000 cited by 535

  16. Extreme climatic events shape arid and semiarid ecosystems

    Authors: Milena Holmgren, Paul Stapp, Chris R. Dickman, Carlos Gracia, Sonia Graham, Julio R. Gutiérrez, Christine L. Hice, Fabián M. Jaksić, Douglas Kelt, Mike Letnic, Maurício Lima, Bernat Claramunt López, Peter L. Meserve, W. Bryan Milstead, Gary A. Polis, M. Andrea Previtali, Michael Richter, Santiago Sabaté, Francisco A. Squeo - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2006 cited by 470

  17. Extraordinarily high spider densities on islands: flow of energy from the marine to terrestrial food webs and the absence of predation.

    Authors: Gary A. Polis, Stephen D. Hurd - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1995 cited by 362

  18. Improving Food Webs

    Authors: Joel E. Cohen, R. A. Beaver, Steven H. Cousins, Donald L. DeAngelis, Lloyd Goldwasser, K. L. Heong, Robert D. Holt, Alan J. Kohn, John H. Lawton, N. D. Martinez, Robert T. O’Malley, L. M. Page, Bernard C. Patten, Stuart L. Pimm, Gary A. Polis, Marcel Rejmánek, T. W. Schoener, Kenneth G. Schoenly, W. Gary Sprules, John M. Teal, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Phil H. Warren, Henry M. Wilbur, Peter Yodzis - Ecology 1993 cited by 279

  19. Intraguild Predation and Competition Among Desert Scorpions

    Authors: Gary A. Polis, Sharon J. McCormick - Ecology 1987 cited by 196

  20. Exploitation Competition and the Evolution of Interference, Cannibalism, and Intraguild Predation in Age/Size-Structured Populations

    Authors: Gary A. Polis - Size-Structured Populations 1988 cited by 132

  21. The effect of cannibalism on the demography and activity of a natural population of desert scorpions

    Authors: Gary A. Polis - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 1980 cited by 103

  22. Food Webs: Integration of Patterns and Dynamics.

    Authors: David M. Lodge, Gary A. Polis, Kirk O. Winemiller - Ecology 1997 cited by 804

  23. Nutrient fluxes from water to land: seabirds affect plant nutrient status on Gulf of California islands

    Authors: Wendy B. Anderson, Gary A. Polis - Oecologia 1999 cited by 409

  24. TROPHIC RANK AND THE SPECIES–AREA RELATIONSHIP

    Authors: Robert D. Holt, John H. Lawton, Gary A. Polis, Neo D. Martinez - Ecology 1999 cited by 400