| An update of Wallace’s zoogeographic regions of the world BG Holt, JP Lessard, MK Borregaard, SA Fritz, MB Araújo, D Dimitrov, ... Science 339 (6115), 74-78, 2013 | 892 | 2013 |
| Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains NJ Sanders, JP Lessard, MC Fitzpatrick, RR Dunn Global Ecology and Biogeography 16 (5), 640-649, 2007 | 285 | 2007 |
| Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness RR Dunn, D Agosti, AN Andersen, X Arnan, CA Bruhl, X Cerdá, ... Ecology Letters 12 (4), 324-333, 2009 | 247 | 2009 |
| Inferring local ecological processes amid species pool influences JP Lessard, J Belmaker, JA Myers, JM Chase, C Rahbek Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27 (11), 600-607, 2012 | 184 | 2012 |
| Strong influence of regional species pools on continent-wide structuring of local communities JP Lessard, MK Borregaard, JA Fordyce, C Rahbek, MD Weiser, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1727), 266-274, 2012 | 110 | 2012 |
| Introducing the biogeographic species pool DW Carstensen, JP Lessard, BG Holt, M Krabbe Borregaard, C Rahbek Ecography 36 (12), 1310-1318, 2013 | 97 | 2013 |
| Temperature-mediated coexistence in temperate forest ant communities JP Lessard, RR Dunn, NJ Sanders Insectes Sociaux 56 (2), 149-156, 2009 | 97 | 2009 |
| Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants CN Jenkins, NJ Sanders, AN Andersen, X Arnan, CA Brühl, X Cerda, ... Diversity and Distributions 17 (4), 652-662, 2011 | 90 | 2011 |
| Invasive ants alter the phylogenetic structure of ant communities JP Lessard, JA Fordyce, NJ Gotelli, NJ Sanders Ecology 90 (10), 2664-2669, 2009 | 81 | 2009 |
| The effects of urbanization on ant assemblages (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) associated with the Molson Nature Reserve, Quebec JP Lessard, CM Buddle The Canadian Entomologist 137 (2), 215-225, 2005 | 75 | 2005 |
| Determinants of the detrital arthropod community structure: the effects of temperature and resources along an environmental gradient JP Lessard, TE Sackett, WN Reynolds, DA Fowler, NJ Sanders Oikos 120 (3), 333-343, 2011 | 65 | 2011 |
| Climate mediates the effects of disturbance on ant assemblage structure H Gibb, NJ Sanders, RR Dunn, S Watson, M Photakis, S Abril, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1808), 20150418, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| Rarity and diversity in forest ant assemblages of Great Smoky Mountains National Park JP Lessard, RR Dunn, CR Parker, NJ Sanders Southeastern Naturalist 6 (sp2), 215-228, 2007 | 55 | 2007 |
| Non-additive effects of genotypic diversity increase floral abundance and abundance of floral visitors MA Genung, JP Lessard, CB Brown, WA Bunn, MA Cregger, ... PLoS One 5 (1), e8711, 2010 | 53 | 2010 |
| The tropical ant mosaic in a primary Bornean rain forest DW Davidson, JP Lessard, CR Bernau, SC Cook Biotropica 39 (4), 468-475, 2007 | 53 | 2007 |
| Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework B Blonder, D Nogués-Bravo, MK Borregaard, JC Donoghue II, ... Ecology 96, 972-985, 2015 | 52 | 2015 |
| Process-based species pools reveal the hidden signature of biotic interactions amid the influence of temperature filtering JP Lessard, BG Weinstein, MK Borregaard, KA Marske, DR Martin, ... The American Naturalist 187 (1), 75-88, 2016 | 51 | 2016 |
| Global ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) biodiversity and biogeography-a new database and its possibilities. RR Dunn, NJ Sanders, MC Fitzpatrick, E Laurent, JP Lessard, D Agosti, ... Myrmecological News, 2007 | 47 | 2007 |
| Niche filtering rather than partitioning shapes the structure of temperate forest ant communities D Fowler, JP Lessard, NJ Sanders Journal of Animal Ecology 83 (4), 943-952, 2014 | 43 | 2014 |
| The importance of parasite geography and spillover effects for global patterns of host–parasite associations in two invasive species K Wells, RB O'Hara, S Morand, JP Lessard, A Ribas Diversity and Distributions 21 (4), 477-486, 2015 | 42 | 2015 |
Nathan SandersProfessor, University of MichiganVerified email at umich.edu
