Colors highlight: Graduate students, Undergraduate students and Postdoctoral researchers in our laboratory
2024
Chaves-Fallas, J. M., García-Robledo, C., Carlsen, M. M., Vargas, O. Orlando Vargas (Accepted). Impact of host biogeography, ecology, evolutionary history, and architecture on the structure of rolled-leaf beetle assemblages of Costa Rican Zingiberales. Biotropica. __-__.
Harenčár, J., Salazar-Amoretti,D., Garcia-Robledo, C. and Kay, K. (2024). Growth-defense trade-offs promote habitat isolation between recently-diverged species. Ecology and Evolution. 14:e11609.
Kuprewicz, E. K. and Garcia-Robledo, C. and (2024). Biting into “Science Cookies”: Are seed fates determined by seed size or chemistry? OCELOTS, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/YM5S-3T40. (Peer-reviewed pedagogy publication)
Garcia-Robledo, C. and Kuprewicz, E. K. (2024). What is a species? Using DNA barcodes to identify species and determine insect responses to global warming.OCELOTS, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/FQQ0-PS90 (Peer-reviewed pedagogy publication)
2023
Buckley, L. B., Carrington, E., Dillon, M. E., García-Robledo, C., Roberts, S. B., Wegrzyn, J. L., & Urban, M. C. (2023). Characterizing biological responses to climate variability and extremes to improve biodiversity projections. PLOS Climate, 2(6), e0000226. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000226
Harvey, J., Tougeron, K., Gols, R., Heinen, R., García-Robledo, C. [plus 64 authors] (2023). Scientists’ warning on climate change and insects. Ecological Monographs. 93(1): e1553. doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1553
2022
Hernández,G. G., Perez,T. M. , Vargas, O. M., Kress, W. J., Molina-Bravo, R., Cordero, R. A., Seemann, J.R and García-Robledo, C. (2022). Evolutionary history constrains heat tolerance of native and exotic tropical Zingiberales. Functional Ecology 36: 3073-3084. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14191
Bota-Sierra, C., Garcia-Robledo, C., Escobar, F., Novelo-Gutiérrez, R. and Londoño, G. (2022). Environment, taxonomy, and morphology constrain insect thermal physiologies along tropical mountains. Functional Ecology 36: 1924-1935. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14083
Bizzarri, L., Baer,C.S., and Garcia-Robledo, C. (2022). DNA barcoding reveals generalization and host overlap in hummingbird flower mites: implications for the Mating Rendezvous Hypothesis. The American Naturalist 199: 576-583. doi.org/10.5061/dryad.crjdfn35b
Bizzarri, L., Kuprewicz, E.K., Varma, M. and Garcia-Robledo, C. (2022). Phoretic specialization on insect herbivores facilitates mite transportation to host plants. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 170: 361-367. doi.org/10.1111/eea.13140
2021
Garcia-Robledo C. and Baer, C. (2021). Positive genetic covariance and limited thermal tolerance constrain tropical insect responses to global warming. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34: 1432-1446. doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13905
Duffy, M., Garcia-Robledo, C., Wale, N., Zaman, L., Gordon, S., Grant, N.A., Green, D.A., Kamath, A., Penczykowski, R.M. and Rebolleda-Gómez, M. (2021) Model systems in ecology, evolutionary biology, and behavior: A call for diversity in our model systems and discipline. The American Naturalist 198: 53–68. doi.org/10.1086/714574
Garcia-Robledo C. and Baer, C. (2021). Demographic attritions, elevational refugia, and the resilience of insect populations to projected global warming. The American Naturalist 198: 113–127. doi.org/10.1086/714525
González-Tokman, D., Gil-Pérez, Y., Servín-Pastor, M., Alvarado, F., Escobar, F. Baena-Díaz, F., García-Robledo, C., Martínez M, I. (2021) Effect of chemical pollution and parasitism on heat tolerance in dung beetles. Journal of Economic Entomology 114: 462-467
2020
Garcia-Robledo C., Baer, C., Sarathy, V and Lippert, K. (2020). Evolutionary history, not ecogeographic rules, explains size variation of tropical insects along elevational gradients Functional Ecology. 34: 2513-2523. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13666
Garcia-Robledo C., Kuprewicz, E.K. & Kress, W.J. (2020). Remembrance: Terry L. Erwin (1940–2020) – Un científico muy Agra-dable. Biotropica 52: 785-786. [pdf]. doi.org/10.1111/btp.12828
Garcia-Robledo C.*, Kuprewicz, E.K.*, Baer, C.S., Clifton, E., Hernández, G.G. & Wagner, D.L. (2020) The Erwin equation of biodiversity: from little steps to quantum leaps in the discovery of tropical insect diversity. Biotropica 52: 590-597 (*Equally authored paper). doi.org/10.1111/btp.12811
Meza-Parral, Y., García-Robledo, C., Pineda, E., Escobar, F., & Donnelly, M. A. (2020) Standardized ethograms and a device for assessing amphibian thermal responses in a warming world. Journal of Thermal Biology 89: 102529 doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2020.102565
Baer, C.S., Dierick, D. and Garcia-Robledo C. (2020) Portable heaters for microhabitat heating experiments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11: 727-732. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13391
Garcia-Robledo C., Kuprewicz, E.K., Dierick, D., Hurley, S. and Langevin, A. (2020) The affordable laboratory of climate change: devices to estimate ectotherm vital rates under projected global warming. Ecosphere 11: e03083. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3083
2019
Bernal, X.E. et al. (2019). Empowering Latina scientists. Science, 363: 825-826.
González-Tokman, D, Baena-Díaz, F., Escobar, F., Kuprewicz, E., and Garcia-Robledo, C. Energy storage, body size and immune response of herbivore beetles at two different elevations in Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Biology 67: 608-620.
Kuprewicz, E.K. and García-Robledo, C. (2019) Deciphering seed dispersal decisions: Size, not tannin content, drives seed fate and survival in a tropical forest. Ecosphere 10:02551. 10.1002/ecs2.2551
2018
Kress, J.W., García-Robledo, C., Soares, J., Jacobs, D., Wilson, K., Lopez, I. and Belhumeur, P. (2018). Citizen Science and Climate Change: Mapping Range Expansions of Native and Exotic Plants with the Mobile App Leafsnap. Bioscience 68: 162-167
García-Robledo, C. Chuquillanqui, H, Kuprewicz, E.K. and Escobar, F. (2018). Lower thermal tolerance in nocturnal than in diurnal ants: a challenge for nocturnal ectotherms facing global warming. Ecological Entomology 43: 162-167
García-Robledo, C., Charlotten-Silva, M., Cruz, C., and Kuprewicz, E. K. (2018). Low quality diet and challenging temperatures affect vital rates, but not thermal tolerance in a tropical insect expanding its diet to an exotic plant. Journal of Thermal Biology 77: 7-13.
2017
García-Robledo, C. Horvitz, C.C., Kress, J.W., Carvajal-Acosta, N., Erwin, T.L. and Staines, C.L. (2017). Experimental assemblage of novel plant-herbivore interactions: ecological host shifts after 40 million years of isolation. Biotropica 49: 803-810 [Best paper of the year, Julie Denslow Award, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation – ATBC]
2016
García-Robledo, C., Erin K. Kuprewicz, Charles L. Staines, Terry L. Erwin and W. John Kress. (2016). Limited tolerance by insects to high temperatures across tropical elevational gradients and the implications of global warming for extinction. PNAS 113: 680 – 685.
McClearn D, E. Castro, R. Coleman, J. Espeleta, C. Garcia-Robledo, A. Gilman, J. Gonzalez, A.T. Joyce, E.K. Kuprewicz, J. Longino, N. Michel, C.M. Rodriguez, A. Romero, C. Soto, O. Vargas, A. Wendt, S. Whitfield and R.M. Timm. (2016). The Caribbean Lowland Evergreen Moist Forests.pp. 527 – 590. In: Kappelle, M. (ed.). Costa Rican Ecosystems. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago, Il.
2015
J. Kress, C. García-Robledo,M. Uriarte and D. L. Erickson (2015). DNA barcodes for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30: 25 – 35.
García-Robledo, C., C.L. Staines and W J. Kress (2015). A new species of bromeliad-feeding Cephaloleia Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) from Costa Rica: evidence from DNA barcodes, larval and adult morphology and insect diets. ZooKeys 477: 143 – 155.
2014
Staines, C.L. and C. García-Robledo. (2014). Monograph: The genus Cephaloleia, Chevrolat 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae). ZooKeys 436: 1-355.
García-Robledo, C., E.K. Kuprewicz et al. (2014). First Record of the Genus Chelobasis Gray, 1832 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) in Mexico (North America). The Coleopterists Bulletin 68: 774 – 775.
2013
García–Robledo, C.*,, E.K. Kuprewicz*, C.L. Staines, W. J. Kress and T.L. Erwin. (2013). Using a comprehensive DNA barcode library to detect novel egg and larval host plant associations in a Cephaloleia Rolled-leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110: 189 – 198. (*Equally authored paper)
García–Robledo, C., D.L. Erickson, C.L. Staines, T.L. Erwin and W. J. Kress. (2013). Tropical plant – herbivore networks: reconstructing species interactions using DNA barcodes. PLOS ONE. 8(1): e52967. doi:52910.51371/journal.pone.0052967.
2012
García–Robledo, C. and C.C. Horvitz. (2012). Parent-offspring conflicts, “optimal bad motherhood” and the “mother knows best” principles in insect herbivores colonizing novel host plants. Ecology and Evolution. 2 : 1446 – 1457.
García–Robledo, C. and C.C. Horvitz. (2012). Jack of all trades masters novel host plants: positive genetic correlations in specialist and generalist insect herbivores expanding their diets to novel hosts. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 25 : 38 – 53.
2011
García–Robledo, C. and C.C. Horvitz. (2011). Experimental demography and the vital rates of generalist and specialist insect herbivores on novel and native host plants. Journal of Animal Ecology. 80: 976 – 989.
2010
García–Robledo, C. (2010). Restoration of plant -pollinator interactions: pollination neighborhood and asymmetric pollen flow between restored habitats in a beetle-pollinated aroid. Restoration Ecology.18: 94 -102.
García–Robledo, C., Horvitz, C.C. and Staines, C.L. (2010). Adult and larval morphology, host plants, adult longevity and notes on natural history in Cephaloleia “rolled-leaf beetles” (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Zootaxa.2610: 50 -68.
Kuprewicz, E.K. and C. García–Robledo. (2010). Mammal and insect seed predation of a chemically and structurally-defended Fabaceae, Mucuna holtonii, in a Costa Rican rain forest . Journal of Tropical Ecology.26: 263 -269.
2009
García–Robledo, C. and C.C. Horvitz (2009). Host plant leaf scents attract rolled-leaf beetles to neotropical gingers (Zingiberales) in a Central American tropical rain forest. . Entomologia experimentalis et applicata.131: 115 -120.
García–Robledo, C. and E.K. Kuprewicz (2009).Vertebrate fruit removal and ant seed dispersal in the neotropical ginger Renealmia alpinia (Zingiberaceae). Biotropica. 41: 209 – 214. (Equally authored paper).
2008
García–Robledo, C. (2008). Asymmetry in pollen flow promotes gender specialization in morphs of the distylous neotropical herb Arcytophyllum lavarum (Rubiaceae). Evolutionary ecology. 22: 743 – 755.
García–Robledo, C. and C. Staines. (2008). Herbivory in gingers from latest Cretaceous to present: is the ichnogenus Cephaloleichnites (Hispinae, Coleoptera) a rolled-leaf beetle?. Journal of Paleontology. 82: 1035 – 1037.
2007
García–Robledo, C., E.K. Kuprewicz and C. Staines. (2007). Hispine-like herbivore damage in Canna bangii (Zingiberales, Cannaceae) by Anopsilus weevils (Curculionidae, Baridinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin. 61: 468 – 470.
García–Robledo, C., and F. Mora. (2007). Pollination Biology and the Impact of Floral Display, Pollen Donors and Distyly on Seed Production in Arcytophyllum lavarum (Rubiaceae). Plant biology. 9: 453-461.
2005
García–Robledo, C., P. Quintero-Marín. F. Mora-Kepfer. 2005. Geographic Variation and Succession of Arthropod Communities in Inflorescences and Infructescences of Xanthosoma (Araceae). Biotropica. 37: 650-656.
García -Robledo, C., G. Kattan, C. Murcia, P. Quintero.2005. Equal and opposite effects of floral offer and spatial distribution on fruit production and pre-dispersal seed predation in Xanthosoma daguense (Araceae). Biotropica. 37: 373-380.
García-Robledo, C. 2005. Comparison between two methods to measure herbivory. Is herbivory in the Neotropics more severe than we thought? Journal of Tropical Biology. 53: 111-114.
García-Robledo, C., and C. Murcia. 2005. Comparative habitat susceptibility to invasion by Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis: Oleaceae) in a tropical Andean landscape. Biological Invasions. 7: 405-415
2004
García-Robledo, C. , G. Kattan, C. Murcia and P. Quintero. 2004. Beetle pollination and fruit predation in Xanthosoma daguense (Araceae). Journal of Tropical Ecology. 20: 459 – 469.
Book
García-Robledo C., L. M. Constantino, M. D. Heredia and G. Kattan. 2002. Field guide to the butterflies of the Eastern Andes cordillera of Colombia. [Guía de Campo de las Mariposas Comunes de la Cordillera Central de Colombia]. (Book in spanish). Wildlife Conservation Society. Cali, Colombia.
