List of works - George D. Weiblen

60 million years of co-divergence in the fig-wasp symbiosis

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2005)

A cross-continental comparison of assemblages of seed- and fruit-feeding insects in tropical rain forests: Faunal composition and rates of attack

article

A new Cannabis genome assembly associates elevated cannabidiol (CBD) with hemp introgressed into marijuana

scientific article published on 28 February 2021

An altitudinal comparison of caterpillar (Lepidoptera) assemblages on Ficus trees in Papua New Guinea

scholarly article by Vojtech Novotny et al published 2 June 2005 in Journal of Biogeography

An extreme case of plant-insect codiversification: figs and fig-pollinating wasps

scientific article

Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide

scientific article

Biogeography and divergence times in the mulberry family (Moraceae).

scientific article

CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change.

scientific article

Colonising aliens: caterpillars (Lepidoptera) feeding on Piper aduncum and P. umbellatum in rainforests of Papua New Guinea

scholarly article by Vojtěch Novotný et al published December 2003 in Ecological Entomology

Common spatial patterns of trees in various tropical forests: Small trees are associated with increased diversity at small spatial scales

scientific article published in 2021

Community structure of insect herbivores is driven by conservatism, escalation and divergence of defensive traits in Ficus

scientific article

Compound Specific Trends of Chemical Defences in Ficus Along an Elevational Gradient Reflect a Complex Selective Landscape

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Conservation and biological monitoring of tropical forests: the role of parataxonomists

scientific article published in 2004

Correction

The American Naturalist, published 2011

DNA Barcodes of Caterpillars (Lepidoptera) from Papua New Guinea

scholarly article by Scott E. Miller et al published January 2013 in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

DNA Barcodes of Lepidoptera Reared from Yawan, Papua New Guinea

scholarly article by Scott E. Miller et al published April 2015 in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan-tropical study of the effects of litter type, litter placement and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient

article by Jennifer S Powers et al published July 2009 in Journal of Ecology

Determinants of Piper (Piperaceae) climber composition in a lowland tropical rainforest in New Guinea

scholarly article

Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Echoes of ancient introgression punctuate stable genomic lineages in the evolution of figs

scientific article published in 2023

Estimating global arthropod species richness: refining probabilistic models using probability bounds analysis

scientific article

Evolution and classification of figs (Ficus, Moraceae) and their close relatives (Castilleae) united by involucral bracts

scientific article

Faster speciation of fig-wasps than their host figs leads to decoupled speciation dynamics: Snapshots across the speciation continuum

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

Five NewFicusSpecies (Moraceae) from Melanesia

scientific article

ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

scientific article

Front Cover

Frugivorous weevils are too rare to cause Janzen–Connell effects in New Guinea lowland rain forest

article by Richard Ctvrtecka et al published 7 August 2014 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Fruit sizes and the structure of frugivorous communities in a New Guinea lowland rainforest

scholarly article by Richard Ctvrtecka et al published 31 March 2016 in Austral Ecology

Gene duplication and divergence affecting drug content in Cannabis sativa

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Global importance of large-diameter trees

scientific article published in 2018

Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant-herbivore food webs from a tropical forest

scientific article

High specialization and limited structural change in plant-herbivore networks along a successional chronosequence in tropical montane forest

article

Host specificity and interaction networks of insects feeding on seeds and fruits in tropical rainforests

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

Insects on plants: explaining the paradox of low diversity within specialist herbivore guilds

scientific article

Inter‐specific aggression generates ant mosaics in canopies of primary tropical rainforest

scientific article published on 23 April 2021

Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world’s most linguistically diverse nation

scientific article

Low beta diversity of herbivorous insects in tropical forests.

scientific article

Low host specificity in species-rich assemblages of xylem- and phloem-feeding herbivores (Auchenorrhyncha) in a New Guinea lowland rain forest

article

Low host specificity of herbivorous insects in a tropical forest

scientific article

Molecular dating and biogeography of fig-pollinating wasps

scientific article published on 13 June 2009

No tree an island: the plant-caterpillar food web of a secondary rain forest in New Guinea

article

Oviposition strategies, host coercion and the stable exploitation of figs by wasps.

scientific article published in June 2004

Patterns of nitrogen‐fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America

scholarly article

Phylogenetic dispersion of host use in a tropical insect herbivore community

scientific article published on July 2006

Phylogenetic trophic specialization: a robust comparison of herbivorous guilds

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Phylogeny, biogeography, and ecology of Ficus section Malvanthera (Moraceae).

scientific article

Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale

scientific article

Pollination along an elevational gradient mediated both by floral scent and pollinator compatibility in the fig and fig-wasp mutualism

scientific article published on 23 April 2018

Population genetics of ecological communities with DNA barcodes: an example from New Guinea Lepidoptera

scientific article

Predicting distributions of <i>Wolbachia</i> strains through host ecological contact—Who's manipulating whom?

scientific article published in 2022

Predicting tropical insect herbivore abundance from host plant traits and phylogeny

article

Quantifying uncertainty in estimation of tropical arthropod species richness.

scientific article

Quantitative assessment of plant-arthropod interactions in forest canopies: A plot-based approach

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale"

scientific article published in Science

Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale"

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Soil nitrogen concentration mediates the relationship between leguminous trees and neighbor diversity in tropical forests

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Spatial covariance of herbivorous and predatory guilds of forest canopy arthropods along a latitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Spatial patterns of tree species distribution in New Guinea primary and secondary lowland rain forest

scholarly article by Pavel Fibich et al published 11 January 2016 in Journal of Vegetation Science

Spatial scale changes the relationship between beta diversity, species richness and latitude

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

Spatial scaling of plant and bird diversity from 50 to 10,000 ha in a lowland tropical rainforest

scientific article published on 05 May 2021

Species swarms and their caterpillar colonisers: phylogeny and polyphenols determine host plant specificity in New Guinean Lepidoptera

scientific article published in 2024

The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

scientific article

The insect‐focused classification of fruit syndromes in tropical rain forests: An inter‐continental comparison

scientific article published in 2019

The world’s hotspot of linguistic and biocultural diversity under threat

preprint

Tropical forest dynamics in unstable terrain: a case study from New Guinea

article by John B. Vincent et al published 25 April 2018 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Validating a predictive model of cannabinoid inheritance with feral, clinical, and industrial Cannabis sativa

scientific article published on 25 October 2020

Variably hungry caterpillars: predictive models and foliar chemistry suggest how to eat a rainforest.

scientific article published in November 2017

Why are there more arboreal ant species in primary than in secondary tropical forests?

scientific article

Why are there so many species of herbivorous insects in tropical rainforests?

scientific article published on 13 July 2006

List of works by George D. Weiblen

60 million years of co-divergence in the fig-wasp symbiosis

A cross-continental comparison of assemblages of seed- and fruit-feeding insects in tropical rain forests: Faunal composition and rates of attack

A new Cannabis genome assembly associates elevated cannabidiol (CBD) with hemp introgressed into marijuana

An altitudinal comparison of caterpillar (Lepidoptera) assemblages on Ficus trees in Papua New Guinea

An extreme case of plant-insect codiversification: figs and fig-pollinating wasps

Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide

Biogeography and divergence times in the mulberry family (Moraceae).

CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change.

Colonising aliens: caterpillars (Lepidoptera) feeding on Piper aduncum and P. umbellatum in rainforests of Papua New Guinea

Common spatial patterns of trees in various tropical forests: Small trees are associated with increased diversity at small spatial scales

Community structure of insect herbivores is driven by conservatism, escalation and divergence of defensive traits in Ficus

Compound Specific Trends of Chemical Defences in Ficus Along an Elevational Gradient Reflect a Complex Selective Landscape

Conservation and biological monitoring of tropical forests: the role of parataxonomists

Correction

DNA Barcodes of Caterpillars (Lepidoptera) from Papua New Guinea

DNA Barcodes of Lepidoptera Reared from Yawan, Papua New Guinea

Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan-tropical study of the effects of litter type, litter placement and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient

Determinants of Piper (Piperaceae) climber composition in a lowland tropical rainforest in New Guinea

Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees

Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world

Echoes of ancient introgression punctuate stable genomic lineages in the evolution of figs

Estimating global arthropod species richness: refining probabilistic models using probability bounds analysis

Evolution and classification of figs (Ficus, Moraceae) and their close relatives (Castilleae) united by involucral bracts

Faster speciation of fig-wasps than their host figs leads to decoupled speciation dynamics: Snapshots across the speciation continuum

Five NewFicusSpecies (Moraceae) from Melanesia

ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

Front Cover

Frugivorous weevils are too rare to cause Janzen–Connell effects in New Guinea lowland rain forest

Fruit sizes and the structure of frugivorous communities in a New Guinea lowland rainforest

Gene duplication and divergence affecting drug content in Cannabis sativa

Global importance of large-diameter trees

Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant-herbivore food webs from a tropical forest

High specialization and limited structural change in plant-herbivore networks along a successional chronosequence in tropical montane forest

Host specificity and interaction networks of insects feeding on seeds and fruits in tropical rainforests

Insects on plants: explaining the paradox of low diversity within specialist herbivore guilds

Inter‐specific aggression generates ant mosaics in canopies of primary tropical rainforest

Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world’s most linguistically diverse nation

Low beta diversity of herbivorous insects in tropical forests.

Low host specificity in species-rich assemblages of xylem- and phloem-feeding herbivores (Auchenorrhyncha) in a New Guinea lowland rain forest

Low host specificity of herbivorous insects in a tropical forest

Molecular dating and biogeography of fig-pollinating wasps

No tree an island: the plant-caterpillar food web of a secondary rain forest in New Guinea

Oviposition strategies, host coercion and the stable exploitation of figs by wasps.

Patterns of nitrogen‐fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America

Phylogenetic dispersion of host use in a tropical insect herbivore community

Phylogenetic trophic specialization: a robust comparison of herbivorous guilds

Phylogeny, biogeography, and ecology of Ficus section Malvanthera (Moraceae).

Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale

Pollination along an elevational gradient mediated both by floral scent and pollinator compatibility in the fig and fig-wasp mutualism

Population genetics of ecological communities with DNA barcodes: an example from New Guinea Lepidoptera

Predicting distributions of <i>Wolbachia</i> strains through host ecological contact—Who's manipulating whom?

Predicting tropical insect herbivore abundance from host plant traits and phylogeny

Quantifying uncertainty in estimation of tropical arthropod species richness.

Quantitative assessment of plant-arthropod interactions in forest canopies: A plot-based approach

Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale"

Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale"

Soil nitrogen concentration mediates the relationship between leguminous trees and neighbor diversity in tropical forests

Spatial covariance of herbivorous and predatory guilds of forest canopy arthropods along a latitudinal gradient

Spatial patterns of tree species distribution in New Guinea primary and secondary lowland rain forest

Spatial scale changes the relationship between beta diversity, species richness and latitude

Spatial scaling of plant and bird diversity from 50 to 10,000 ha in a lowland tropical rainforest

Species swarms and their caterpillar colonisers: phylogeny and polyphenols determine host plant specificity in New Guinean Lepidoptera

The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

The insect‐focused classification of fruit syndromes in tropical rain forests: An inter‐continental comparison

The world’s hotspot of linguistic and biocultural diversity under threat

Tropical forest dynamics in unstable terrain: a case study from New Guinea

Validating a predictive model of cannabinoid inheritance with feral, clinical, and industrial Cannabis sativa

Variably hungry caterpillars: predictive models and foliar chemistry suggest how to eat a rainforest.

Why are there more arboreal ant species in primary than in secondary tropical forests?

Why are there so many species of herbivorous insects in tropical rainforests?