M. Alex Smith

Dispersal and the metapopulation paradigm in amphibian ecology and conservation: are all amphibian populations metapopulations?

M. Alex Smith, David M. Green · Ecography · 2005 · 921 citations

Natural Resources, Conservation Biology, Ecology +13

Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections

M. Alex Smith, Josephine Rodriguez, James B. Whitfield et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 601 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Zoology +17

DNA barcodes reveal cryptic host-specificity within the presumed polyphagous members of a genus of parasitoid flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)

M. Alex Smith, Norman E. Woodley, Daniel H. Janzen et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 585 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Entomology +15

A minimalist barcode can identify a specimen whose DNA is degraded

Mehrdad Hajibabaei, M. Alex Smith, Daniel H. Janzen et al. · Molecular Ecology Notes · 2006 · 554 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Molecular Biology +12

DNA barcoding for effective biodiversity assessment of a hyperdiverse arthropod group: the ants of Madagascar

M. Alex Smith, Brian L. Fisher, Paul D. N. Hebert · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2005 · 477 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Ecology +17