MICHAEL KASPARI

• University of Nebraska. B.S. with distinction (Biological Sciences). 1983. Thesis: "A selective test of foraging theory using an assemblage of grassland birds."
  
• University of Nebraska. M.S. (Ecology and Systematics) 1985. Thesis: "The ecology and evolution of prey preparation". Advisor: Dr. Anthony Joern. University of Arizona.
  
• Ph.D. (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). 1992. Dissertation: "Niche relationships in an assemblage of neotropical granivorous ants." Advisor: Dr. Michael Rosenzweig

• University of Texas. Post-Doctoral Research Biologist. Ecology and biological control of Solenopsis invicta, the red imported fire ant. 1992 to July 1993.
  
• University of Guelph. NATO Post-doctoral Fellow. The synergy of neighborhood size and niche partitioning in maintaining species diversity August 1993-December 1993.
  
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. D.O.E. Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship. Body size as a link between climate and community structure. January 1994-July 1995.
  
• University of Oklahoma. Assistant Professor of Zoology. August 1995

• Kaspari, M. in press Testing resource-based models of patchiness in 4 Neotropical litter ant assemblages. Oikos
  
• Kaspari, M. 1996 Worker size and seed size selection by harvester ants in a Neotropical forest. Oecologia 105:397-404
  
• Kaspari, M. 1996 Litter Ant Patchiness at the m2 scale:distubanc dynamics in three Neotropical forests. Oecologia 107:265-273
  
• Kaspari, M and E. Vargo. 1995. Does colony size buffer environmental variation? Bergmann=92s rule and social insects. American Naturalist 145:610-632
  
• Kaspari, M. 1993 Body size and microclimate use in neotropical granivorous ants. Oecologia 96:500-507

• Kaspari, M. 1993 Removal of seeds from Neotropical frugivore droppings: ant responses to seed number. Oecologia 95:81-88. Kaspari,
  
• M and E. Vargo. 1994 Nest site selection by fire ant queens. Insectes Sociaux 41: 331-333 Young, B.E., M. Kaspari, and T.E.
  
• Martin. 1990. Species-specific nest site selection by birds in Ant Acacia Trees. Biotropica 22:310-315. Kaspari, M and M. Byrne.
  
• 1995 Caste allocation in litter Pheidole: lessons from plant defense theory. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 37:255-263 Kaspari, M.
  
• 1990. Prey preparation and the determinants of handling time. Animal Behaviour 40:118-126.