Recent Publications

Smaller beaks for colder winters: Thermoregulation drives beak size evolution in Australasian songbirds

| Evolution
Author(s): Nicholas R. Friedman, Lenka Harmáčková, Evan P. Economo, Vladimír Remeš


Improved efficacy of an arthropod toxin expressing fungus against insecticide-resistant malaria-vector mosquitoes

| Scientific Reports
Author(s): Etienne Bilgo, Brian Lovett, Weiguo Fang, Niraj Bende, Glenn F. King, Abdoulaye Diabate, Raymond J. St. Leger


Economic analysis of revenue losses and control costs associated with the spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura), in the California raspberry industry

| Pest Management Science
Author(s): Derek Farnsworth, Kelly A Hamby, Mark Bolda, Rachael E Goodhue, Jeffrey C Williams, Frank G Zalom


Do 120,000 years of plant–pollinator interactions predict floral phenotype divergence in Calceolaria polyrhiza? A reconstruction using species distribution models

| Arthropod-Plant Interactions
Author(s): M. Sosa-Pivatto, A. Cosacov, M. C. Baranzelli, M. R. Iglesias, A. Espíndola, A. N. Sérsic


Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

| Nature Ecology & Evolution
Author(s): Wayne Dawson, Dietmar Moser, Mark van Kleunen, Holger Kreft, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Patrick Weigelt, Marten Winter, Bernd Lenzner, Tim M. Blackburn, et. al


Life history traits influence the strength of distance- and density-dependence at different life stages of two Amazonian palms

| Annals of Botany
Author(s): Juanita Choo, Cecilia Carasco, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Beryl B. Simpson, Evan P. Economo


Effects of the emerald ash borer invasion on the community composition of arthropods associated with ash tree boles in Maryland, U.S.A.

| Agricultural and Forest Entomology
Author(s): David E. Jennings, Jian J. Duan, Dick Bean, Kimberly A. Rice, Gaye L. Williams, Steven K. Bell, Aaron S. Shurtleff, Paula M. Shrewsbury


Assembling a species–area curve through colonization, speciation and human‐mediated introduction

| Journal of Biogeography
Author(s): Evan P. Economo, Milan Janda, Benoit Guénard, Eli Sarnat


Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination

| Ecology Letters
Author(s): Anikó Kovács‐Hostyánszki, Anahí Espíndola, Adam J. Vanbergen, Josef Settele, Claire Kremen, Lynn V. Dicks


Mountain metacommunities: climate and spatial connectivity shape ant diversity in a complex landscape

| Ecography
Author(s): Cong Liu, Kenneth L. Dudley, Zheng-Hui Xu, Evan P. Economo


The Insect Pathogens

| Microbiology Spectrum
Author(s): Brian Lovett, Raymond J. St. Leger


The genetic basis for variation in resistance to infection in the Drosophila melanogaster genetic reference panel

| PLOS Pathogens
Author(s): Jonathan B. Wang, Hsiao-Ling Lu, Raymond J. St. Leger


X-Ray microtomography for ant taxonomy: An exploration and case study with two new Terataner (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) species from Madagascar

| PLOS ONE
Author(s): Francisco Hita Garcia, Georg Fischer, Cong Liu, Tracy L. Audisio, Gary D. Alpert, Brian L. Fisher, Evan P. Economo, William Oki Wong


Fly Models of Human Diseases

| Academic Press


Island ecology and evolution: challenges in the Anthropocene

| Environmental Conservation
Author(s): Graham, N. R., Gruner, D. S., Lim, J. Y., Gillespie, R. G.


PREVENTING MALARIA PARASITE TRANSMISSION WITH TRANSGENIC ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGI

| AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE


Movements of four native Hawaiian birds across a naturally fragmented landscape

| Journal of Avian Biology
Author(s): Knowlton, J. L., Flaspohler, D. J., Paxton, E. H., Fukami, T., Giardina, C. P., Gruner, D. S., Rankin, E. E. W.


Evaluation of infiltration-based stormwater management to restore hydrological processes in urban headwater streams

| Hydrological Processes
Author(s): Fanelli, R., Prestegaard, K., Palmer, M.


Drivers of change of pollinators, pollination networks and pollination

| The assessment report on pollinators, pollination and food production of the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services


Using Reduced Tillage and Cover Crop Residue to Manage Weeds in Organic Vegetable Production

| Weed Technology
Author(s): Chen, G., Kolb, L., Leslie, A., Hooks, C.R.R.


Behavioural differences of Heterodera glycines and Meloidogyne incognita infective juveniles exposed to root extracts in vitro

| Nematology
Author(s): Masler, E.P., Rogers, S.T., Hooks, C.R.R.


Effects of strip-tilled cover cropping on the population density of thrips and predatory insects in a cucurbit agroecosystem

| Journal of Asia Pacific Entomology
Author(s): Manandhar, R., Wang, K.-H., Hooks, C.R.R., Wright, M.G.