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Last published 2026
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Michelle A. Evans‐White

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Federal Grant PI High Impact

Professor, Vice Chair, and Graduate Studies Coordinator

Also affiliated: University of Notre Dame (2004–2009); Kansas State University (2000–2008)

30 h-index 76 pubs 3,370 cited

  • Ecosystem
  • Rivers
  • Animals
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Plant Leaves
  • Phosphorus
  • Feeding Behavior
  • Natural Gas
  • Zea mays
  • Invertebrates
  • Water
  • Nitrogen
  • Carbon
  • Arkansas

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Michelle A. Evans‐White's research investigates the ecological impacts of environmental contaminants, particularly focusing on aquatic ecosystems. Her work has examined the toxicity of substances like ionic liquids and toxins in transgenic crop byproducts on organisms such as Daphnia magna. Evans‐White also studies the effects of agricultural practices on stream ecosystems, including nutrient cycling and the decomposition of crop detritus. Her research explores biodiversity and elemental composition within benthic macroinvertebrate communities across various water-quality gradients.

Metrics

  • h-index: 30
  • Publications: 76
  • Citations: 3,370

Positions

  • Professor, Vice Chair, and Graduate Studies Coordinator 2018–present
    University of Arkansas Fayetteville Department of Biological Sciences ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Measurement Technique Effects on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Conventionally Tilled, Furrow-Irrigated Soybean on a Silt-Loam Soil (2026)
    Atmosphere DOI OpenAlex
  • Tradeoffs between elemental homeostasis and growth govern freshwater phytoplankton responses to salinization (2025)
    Limnology and Oceanography 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Water regime and fertilizer‐phosphorus source effects on greenhouse gas emissions from rice (2024)
    Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Struvite-phosphorus effects on greenhouse gas emissions and plant and soil response in a furrow-irrigated rice production system in eastern Arkansas (2024)
    Frontiers in Climate 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Struvite Effects on Rice Growth and Productivity under Flood-Irrigation in the Greenhouse (2023)
    Agricultural Sciences 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Sodium as a subsidy in the spring: evidence for a phenology of sodium limitation (2023)
    Oecologia 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Predicting Habitat and Distribution of an Interior Highlands Regional Endemic Winter Stonefly (Allocapnia mohri) in Arkansas Using Random Forest Models (2023)
    Hydrobiology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Relationships between land use and stream chemistry in the Mulberry River basin, Arkansas (2022)
    River Research and Applications 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Ecological Stoichiometry in Streams (2021)
    Elsevier eBooks 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Salty water and salty leaf litter alters riparian detrital processes: Evidence from sodium-addition laboratory mesocosm experiments (2021)
    The Science of The Total Environment 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Too much of a good thing: Evidence of sodium stress in an inland subtropical riparian detrital system (2021)
    Applied Soil Ecology 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Soil carbon dioxide effluxes from riparian areas of two hydrogeomorphic settings in the Ozark National Forest, USA (2021)
    Geoderma Regional 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Moderate increases in channel discharge are positively related to ecosystem respiration in forested Ozark streams (2021)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • When Nutrients Become Contaminants in Aquatic Systems: Identifying Responses to Guide Terrestrial-Derived Detrital Endpoint Development for Managers (2020)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Leaf-litter stoichiometry and microbial phosphatase activity, respiration, and decomposition as phosphorus enrichment endpoints: A laboratory experiment (2020)
    Freshwater Science 5 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 4 $8,066,401 total

NSF Co-PI Sep 2021 - Aug 2026

BII: Host-Virus Evolutionary Dynamics Institute (HVEDI)

Cross-BIO Activities $6,100,000
NSF PI Mar 2021 - Feb 2025

REU SITE: Assessment and sustainable management of ecosystem at the nexus of food, energy, and water systems

RSCH EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD SITES, Cross-BIO Activities $387,283

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