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Last published 2026
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Michelle A. Evans‐White

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Federal Grant PI High Impact

Researcher

Also affiliated: University of Notre Dame (2004–2009); Kansas State University (2000–2008); Conway School of Landscape Design (2017)

Faculty Researcher

30 h-index 74 pubs 3,339 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 focuses on ecological stoichiometry, particularly concerning nutrient cycling and its impacts on aquatic and riparian ecosystems. Her work investigates how elements like phosphorus and sodium influence plant and animal life, as well as ecosystem processes. Evans‐White has examined the effects of struvite-phosphorus on greenhouse gas emissions and plant responses in rice production systems, and the impact of water regimes and fertilizer sources on these emissions.

Her investigations extend to riparian detrital systems, where she has studied the effects of sodium stress and salty litter on ecological processes. Evans‐White also employs predictive modeling to understand habitat distribution for species, such as winter stoneflies in Arkansas. Her research has been supported by significant federal funding, including multiple grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling over $8 million, for projects related to terrestrial riparian-stream carbon connections, landscape ecology, and ecosystem assessment at the nexus of food, energy, and water systems. She is recognized as a highly cited, high-impact researcher with a career h-index of 30 across 74 publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 30
  • Publications: 74
  • Citations: 3,339

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

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

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