Michelle A. Evans‐White Data-verified

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Federal Grant PI High Impact

Researcher

University of Arkansas

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-22

faculty

30 h-index 74 pubs 3,304 cited

Research Areas

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Michelle A. Evans‐White's research investigates ecological processes, with a particular focus on nutrient dynamics, greenhouse gas emissions, and species distribution. Her work has examined the effects of phosphorus from struvite on rice production systems, including impacts on greenhouse gas emissions and plant and soil responses. She has also studied the influence of water regime and fertilizer-phosphorus source on these emissions.

Evans‐White's research extends to the impacts of environmental stressors, such as sodium, on riparian ecosystems. Her studies have provided evidence of sodium stress in inland subtropical riparian detrital systems and explored how salty water and leaf litter alter detrital processes. She has also investigated sodium as a potential limiting factor in certain ecological contexts. Furthermore, her work includes predicting the habitat and distribution of specific invertebrate species using ecological modeling techniques.

Her federal funding includes multiple grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). As PI, she has received funding for research quantifying terrestrial riparian-stream carbon connections across a salt gradient, for initiatives shifting culture and mitigating inequities in landscape ecology, and for REU sites focused on ecosystem assessment and sustainable management at the nexus of food, energy, and water systems. She also serves as a Co-PI on an institute focused on host-virus evolutionary dynamics. Evans‐White is recognized as a highly cited researcher, with a publication record of 73 papers and over 3,290 citations.

Metrics

h-index: 30
Publications: 74
Citations: 3,304

Selected Publications

Tradeoffs between elemental homeostasis and growth govern freshwater phytoplankton responses to salinization (2025)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Water regime and fertilizer‐phosphorus source effects on greenhouse gas emissions from rice (2024)

7 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)

8 citations DOI OpenAlex
Struvite Effects on Rice Growth and Productivity under Flood-Irrigation in the Greenhouse (2023)

8 citations DOI OpenAlex
Sodium as a subsidy in the spring: evidence for a phenology of sodium limitation (2023)

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)

2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Relationships between land use and stream chemistry in the Mulberry River basin, Arkansas (2022)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Ecological Stoichiometry in Streams (2021)

2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Salty water and salty leaf litter alters riparian detrital processes: Evidence from sodium-addition laboratory mesocosm experiments (2021)

3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Too much of a good thing: Evidence of sodium stress in an inland subtropical riparian detrital system (2021)

4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Soil carbon dioxide effluxes from riparian areas of two hydrogeomorphic settings in the Ozark National Forest, USA (2021)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Moderate increases in channel discharge are positively related to ecosystem respiration in forested Ozark streams (2021)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex