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List of works by Stephen G. Compton

African Fig Wasp Communities: Undersaturation and Latitudinal Gradients in Species Richness

scholarly article

Ancient fig wasps indicate at least 34 Myr of stasis in their mutualism with fig trees

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2010)

Competitive exclusion among fig wasps achieved via entrainment of host plant flowering phenology

scientific article

Contrasting genetic responses to population fragmentation in a coevolving fig and fig wasp across a mainland–island archipelago

scientific article published on July 23, 2013

Extremely high proportions of male flowers and geographic variation in floral ratios within male figs of Ficus tikoua despite pollinators displaying active pollen collection

scientific article published on 9 January 2016

Fig trees at the northern limit of their range: the distributions of cryptic pollinators indicate multiple glacial refugia

scientific article published on February 15, 2012

Fragmentation reduces regional-scale spatial genetic structure in a wind-pollinated tree because genetic barriers are removed

scientific article

Geographic and taxonomic distribution of a positive interaction: ant-tended homopterans indirectly benefit figs across southern Africa

scientific article

Herbivory of tropical rain forest tree seedlings correlates with future mortality

scientific article

Host pollination mode and mutualist pollinator presence: net effect of internally ovipositing parasite in the fig-wasp mutualism

scientific article published on 24 December 2008

Insect responses to host plant provision beyond natural boundaries: latitudinal and altitudinal variation in a Chinese fig wasp community

scientific article

Larger fig wasps are more careful about which figs to enter--with good reason

scientific article

Movements of genes between populations: are pollinators more effective at transferring their own or plant genetic markers?

scientific article published in June 2015

Moving Your Sons to Safety: Galls Containing Male Fig Wasps Expand into the Centre of Figs, Away From Enemies

scientific article published on January 25, 2012

Only pollinator fig wasps have males that collaborate to release their females from figs of an Asian fig tree

scientific article published on November 30, 2011

Phenological adaptations in Ficus tikoua exhibit convergence with unrelated extra-tropical fig trees

scientific article

Premature attraction of pollinators to inaccessible figs of Ficus altissima: a search for ecological and evolutionary consequences

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

Riparian Ficus tree communities: the distribution and abundance of riparian fig trees in northern Thailand

scientific article

Seasonality of Leaf and Fig Production in Ficus squamosa, a Fig Tree with Seeds Dispersed by Water

scientific article

Sex ratio strategies and the evolution of cue use.

scientific article published in June 2005

Spatial heterogeneity and host repression in fig-fig wasp mutualism

scientific article published on 11 April 2015

The mechanism of pollinator specificity between two sympatric fig varieties: a combination of olfactory signals and contact cues

scientific article published on November 23, 2012

The mechanism of sex ratio adjustment in a pollinating fig wasp

scientific article published in July 2008

Wind-borne insects mediate directional pollen transfer between desert fig trees 160 kilometers apart

scientific article (publication date: December 2009)