James T. Costa

James T. Costa

Western Carolina University

H-index: 25

North America-United States

About James T. Costa

James T. Costa, With an exceptional h-index of 25 and a recent h-index of 13 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Western Carolina University, specializes in the field of History of Evolutionary Biology, Darwin and Wallace studies, Social Evolution.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Alfred Russel Wallace's Unrealized Last Book: Insights from the Plan for Darwin and Wallace

Darwin and the Art of Botany: Observations on the Curious World of Plants; featuring Artwork From the Oak Spring Garden Foundation

Seeing shapes in clouds: The fallacy of deriving ecological hypotheses from statistical distributions

Myrmecochorous plants and their ant seed dispersers through successional stages in temperate cove forests

Presocial insects

Convergence of social strategies in carrion breeding insects

"There Is Hardly Any Question in Biology of More Importance:" Charles Darwin and the Nature of Variation

Invasion and high-elevation acclimation of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, in the southern Blue Ridge Escarpment region of North America

James T. Costa Information

University

Position

Executive Director Highlands Biological Station; Professor of Biology

Citations(all)

2231

Citations(since 2020)

624

Cited By

2166

hIndex(all)

25

hIndex(since 2020)

13

i10Index(all)

37

i10Index(since 2020)

16

Email

University Profile Page

Western Carolina University

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James T. Costa Skills & Research Interests

History of Evolutionary Biology

Darwin and Wallace studies

Social Evolution

Top articles of James T. Costa

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Alfred Russel Wallace's Unrealized Last Book: Insights from the Plan for Darwin and Wallace

Notes and Records

James T Costa

George Beccaloni

2023/4/5

Darwin and the Art of Botany: Observations on the Curious World of Plants; featuring Artwork From the Oak Spring Garden Foundation

James T. Costa

Bobbi Angell

2023/10

Seeing shapes in clouds: The fallacy of deriving ecological hypotheses from statistical distributions

Oikos

Robert J Warren

James T Costa

Mark A Bradford

2022/11

Myrmecochorous plants and their ant seed dispersers through successional stages in temperate cove forests

Ecological Entomology

Mary Schultz

Robert J Warren

James T. Costa

Beverly Collins

Mark Bradford

2022/5/6

Presocial insects

James T. Costa

2021

Convergence of social strategies in carrion breeding insects

BioScience

Damien Charabidze

Stephen Trumbo

Andrzej Grzywacz

James T Costa

Mark E Benbow

...

2021/10

"There Is Hardly Any Question in Biology of More Importance:" Charles Darwin and the Nature of Variation

James T Costa

2021/5/31

Invasion and high-elevation acclimation of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, in the southern Blue Ridge Escarpment region of North America

Plos One

Amanda Lytle

James T. Costa

Robert J. Warren II

2020/5/1

Four decades of Table Mountain Pine demography on Looking Glass Rock (Transylvania Co., North Carolina, USA)

Castanea

Lawrence S Barden

James T Costa

2020

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