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Colors highlight<\/span>: Graduate students<\/span>, Undergraduate students<\/span> and Postdoctoral researchers<\/span> in our laboratory<\/p>\n

2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hern\u00e1ndez, G.G.<\/span>, Slot, M., da Cunha Godoy, L., Castro-Lara, R., Alejandra P\u00e9rez-Enr\u00edquez, A., Seemann , J. and Garcia-Robledo, C.<\/strong> (Online First). Keeping up with the heat: Long-term dynamics and plasticity of heat tolerance in a tropical plant community New Phytologist. <\/strong>–:<\/strong> __-__<\/p>\n

2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda-Robledo C. and  <\/strong>Alvarado, J. (2025). Integration of an invasive plant in hummingbird and flower mite networks is driven by ecological fitting and generalization Biotropica. <\/strong>57:<\/strong> e70050<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda-Robledo C.<\/strong>, Dierick, D., Manser, K. (2025). Electric transportation and electroreception in hummingbird flower mites. PNAS<\/strong>. 122: e2419214122.
Press release: NY Times<\/a><\/p>\n

Chaves-Fallas, J. M.,  Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.<\/strong>, Carlsen, M. M., Vargas, O. Orlando Vargas (2025). Impact of host biogeography, ecology, evolutionary history, and architecture on the structure of rolled-leaf beetle assemblages of Costa Rican Zingiberales. Biotropica.<\/strong> 2025;57:e13402.<\/p>\n

2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Haren\u010d\u00e1r, J., Salazar-Amoretti,D., Garcia-Robledo<\/strong>, C. and Kay, K. (2024). Growth-defense trade-offs promote habitat isolation between recently-diverged species. Ecology and Evolution.<\/strong> 14:e11609.<\/p>\n

Kuprewicz, E. K.<\/strong> and Garcia-Robledo, C.<\/strong> (2024). Biting into “Science Cookies”: Are seed fates determined by seed size or chemistry? OCELOTS, QUBES Educational Resources<\/strong>. doi:10.25334\/YM5S-3T40. (Peer-reviewed pedagogy publication)<\/span><\/p>\n

Garcia-Robledo, C.<\/strong> and Kuprewicz, E. K.<\/strong> (2024). What is a species? Using DNA barcodes to identify species and determine insect responses to global warming.OCELOTS, QUBES Educational Resources.<\/strong> doi:10.25334\/FQQ0-PS90 (Peer-reviewed pedagogy publication)<\/span><\/p>\n

2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

Buckley, L. B., Carrington, E., Dillon, M. E., Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.<\/strong>, Roberts, S. B., Wegrzyn, J. L., & Urban, M. C. (2023). Characterizing biological responses to climate variability and extremes to improve biodiversity projections. PLOS Climate<\/strong>, 2<\/i>(6), e0000226. doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pclm.0000226<\/a><\/p>\n

Harvey, J., Tougeron, K., Gols, R., Heinen, R., Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.<\/strong>  [plus 64 authors]  (2023). Scientists\u2019 warning on climate change and insects. Ecological Monographs. 93<\/i>(1): <\/strong>e1553. doi.org\/10.1002\/ecm.1553<\/a><\/p>\n

2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hern\u00e1ndez,G. G.<\/span>, Perez,T. M. , Vargas, O. M., Kress, W. J., Molina-Bravo, R., Cordero, R. A., Seemann, J.R and Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.<\/strong>  (2022). Evolutionary history constrains heat tolerance of native and exotic tropical Zingiberales. Functional Ecology 36:<\/strong> 3073-3084. doi.org\/10.1111\/1365-2435.14191<\/a><\/p>\n

Bota-Sierra, C., Garcia-Robledo, C.<\/strong>, Escobar, F., Novelo-Guti\u00e9rrez, R. and Londo\u00f1o, G. (2022). Environment, taxonomy, and morphology constrain insect thermal physiologies along tropical mountains.  Functional Ecology <\/strong>36: 1924-1935. doi.org\/10.1111\/1365-2435.14083<\/a><\/p>\n

Bizzarri, L.<\/span>, Baer,C.S.<\/span>, and Garcia-Robledo, C.<\/strong> (2022). DNA barcoding reveals generalization and host overlap in hummingbird flower mites: implications for the Mating Rendezvous<\/em> Hypothesis. The American Naturalist <\/strong>199: 576-583. doi.org\/10.5061\/dryad.crjdfn35b<\/a>
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Bizzarri, L.<\/span>, Kuprewicz, E.K.<\/strong>, Varma, M.<\/span> and Garcia-Robledo, C.<\/strong> (2022). Phoretic specialization on insect herbivores facilitates mite transportation to host plants.  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata<\/strong> 170: 361-367.<\/span> doi.org\/10.1111\/eea.13140<\/a><\/p>\n

2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garcia-Robledo C. <\/strong>and Baer, C. <\/span>(2021). Positive genetic covariance and limited thermal tolerance constrain tropical insect responses to global warming. Journal of Evolutionary Biology <\/strong>34: 1432-1446. doi.org\/10.1111\/jeb.13905<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Duffy, M., Garcia-Robledo, C., <\/strong>Wale, N.,  Zaman, L., Gordon, S., Grant, N.A., Green, D.A., Kamath, A., Penczykowski, R.M. and Rebolleda-G\u00f3mez, M. (2021) Model systems in ecology, evolutionary biology, and behavior: A call for diversity in our model systems and discipline.  The American Naturalist <\/strong>198: 53<\/span>\u2013<\/span>68<\/span>. doi.org\/10.1086\/714574<\/a>
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Garcia-Robledo C. <\/strong>and Baer, C. <\/span>(2021). Demographic attritions, elevational refugia, and the resilience of insect populations to projected global warming. The American Naturalist<\/strong> 198:<\/strong> 113<\/span>\u2013<\/span>127<\/span>. doi.org\/10.1086\/714525<\/a>
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Gonz\u00e1lez-Tokman, D., Gil-P\u00e9rez, Y., Serv\u00edn-Pastor, M., Alvarado, F., Escobar, F. Baena-D\u00edaz, F., Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.,<\/strong> Mart\u00ednez M, I. (2021) Effect of chemical pollution and parasitism on heat tolerance in dung beetles. Journal of Economic Entomology <\/strong>114: 462-467
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2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garcia-Robledo C., Baer, C.<\/span><\/strong>, Sarathy, V<\/span> and Lippert, K.<\/span> (2020). Evolutionary history, not ecogeographic rules, explains size variation of tropical insects along elevational gradients Functional Ecology. <\/strong>34: 2513-2523. doi.org\/10.1111\/1365-2435.13666<\/a>
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Garcia-Robledo C.<\/strong>, Kuprewicz, E.K.<\/strong>  & Kress, W.J. (2020). Remembrance: Terry L. Erwin (1940\u20132020) – Un cient\u00edfico muy Agra<\/em>-dable. Biotropica<\/strong> 52: 785-786<\/span>. [pdf<\/a>]. doi.org\/10.1111\/btp.12828<\/a><\/p>\n

Garcia-Robledo C.*<\/strong>, Kuprewicz, E.K.<\/strong>*, Baer, C.S.<\/strong>,<\/span> Clifton, E., Hern\u00e1ndez, G.G.<\/span> & Wagner, D.L. (2020) The Erwin equation of biodiversity: from little steps to quantum leaps in the discovery of tropical insect diversity. Biotropica <\/strong>52: 590-597<\/span> (*Equally authored paper). doi.org\/10.1111\/btp.12811<\/a><\/p>\n

Meza-Parral, Y., Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.<\/strong>, 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 <\/strong>89: 102529 doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jtherbio.2020.102565<\/a><\/p>\n

Baer, C.S<\/strong><\/span>., Dierick, D. and Garcia-Robledo C.<\/strong> (2020) Portable heaters for microhabitat heating experiments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution <\/strong>11: 727-732. doi.org\/10.1111\/2041-210X.13391<\/a><\/p>\n

Garcia-Robledo C.<\/strong>, Kuprewicz, E.K.<\/strong>, Dierick, D., Hurley, S.<\/span> and Langevin, A.<\/span> (2020) The affordable laboratory of climate change: devices to estimate ectotherm vital rates under projected global warming. Ecosphere<\/strong> 11: e03083. doi.org\/10.1002\/ecs2.3083<\/a><\/p>\n

2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bernal, X.E. et al.<\/em> (2019). Empowering Latina scientists. Science<\/strong>, 363: 825-826.<\/p>\n

Gonz\u00e1lez-Tokman, D, Baena-D\u00edaz, F., Escobar, F., Kuprewicz, E.<\/strong>, and  Garcia-Robledo, C<\/strong>. Energy storage, body size and immune response of herbivore beetles at two different elevations in Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Biology<\/strong> 67: 608-620.<\/p>\n

Kuprewicz, E.K.<\/strong> and Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.<\/strong>  (2019) Deciphering seed dispersal decisions: Size, not tannin content, drives seed fate and survival in a tropical forest. Ecosphere <\/strong>10:0255<\/span><\/span>1. 10.1002\/ecs2.2551<\/span><\/p>\n

2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kress, J.W., Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C., <\/strong>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 <\/strong>68: 162-167
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Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.<\/strong> 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<\/strong> 43: 162-167<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.<\/strong>, Charlotten-Silva, M<\/span>., Cruz, C.<\/span>, and Kuprewicz, E. K.<\/strong> (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 <\/strong>77: 7-13.<\/span>
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2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.<\/strong> 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<\/strong> 49: 803-810 [Best paper of the year, Julie Denslow Award, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation – ATBC]<\/span>
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2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.,<\/strong> Erin K. Kuprewicz<\/strong>, 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<\/strong> 113: 680 – 685.<\/p>\n

McClearn D, E. Castro, R. Coleman, J. Espeleta, C. Garcia-Robledo<\/strong>, A. Gilman, J. Gonzalez, A.T. Joyce, E.K. Kuprewicz<\/strong>, 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<\/strong>. Chicago, Il.<\/p>\n

2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

J. Kress, C. Garc\u00eda-Robledo<\/strong>,M. Uriarte and D. L. Erickson (2015). DNA barcodes for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution<\/strong> 30: 25 – 35.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.,<\/strong> C.L. Staines and W J. Kress (2015). A new species of bromeliad-feeding Cephaloleia <\/em>Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) from Costa Rica: evidence from DNA barcodes, larval and adult morphology and insect diets. ZooKeys<\/strong> 477: 143 – 155.<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Staines, C.L. and C. Garc\u00eda-Robledo<\/strong>. (2014). Monograph: The genus Cephaloleia<\/em>, Chevrolat 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae). ZooKeys<\/strong> 436: 1-355.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.,<\/strong> E.K. Kuprewicz<\/strong> et al. (2014). First Record of the Genus Chelobasis Gray, 1832 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) in Mexico (North America). The Coleopterists Bulletin<\/strong> 68: 774 – 775.<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.*,<\/strong>, E.K. Kuprewicz<\/strong>*, 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<\/em> Rolled-leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Biological Journal of the Linnean Society<\/strong> 110: 189 – 198. (*Equally authored paper)<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.,<\/strong> D.L. Erickson, C.L. Staines, T.L. Erwin and W. J. Kress. (2013). Tropical plant \u2013 herbivore networks: reconstructing species interactions using DNA barcodes. PLOS ONE<\/strong>. 8(1): e52967. doi:52910.51371\/journal.pone.0052967.<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> 2 : 1446 – 1457.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> 25 : 38 – 53.<\/p>\n

2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.<\/strong> 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<\/strong>. 80: 976 – 989.<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.<\/strong> (2010). Restoration of plant -pollinator interactions: pollination neighborhood and asymmetric pollen flow between restored habitats in a beetle-pollinated aroid. Restoration Ecology<\/strong>.18: 94 -102.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.,<\/strong> Horvitz, C.C. and Staines, C.L. (2010). Adult and larval morphology, host plants, adult longevity and notes on natural history in Cephaloleia<\/em> \u201crolled-leaf beetles\u201d (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Zootaxa.<\/strong>2610: 50 -68.<\/p>\n

Kuprewicz, E.K.<\/strong> and C. Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo.<\/strong> (2010). Mammal and insect seed predation of a chemically and structurally-defended Fabaceae, Mucuna holtonii<\/em>, in a Costa Rican rain forest . Journal of Tropical Ecology.<\/strong>26: 263 -269.<\/p>\n

2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong>131: 115 -120.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.<\/strong> and E.K. Kuprewicz<\/strong> (2009).Vertebrate fruit removal and ant seed dispersal in the neotropical ginger Renealmia alpinia<\/em> (Zingiberaceae). Biotropica. 41: 209 – 214. (Equally authored paper).<\/p>\n

2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.<\/strong> (2008). Asymmetry in pollen flow promotes gender specialization in morphs of the distylous neotropical herb Arcytophyllum lavarum (Rubiaceae). Evolutionary ecology.<\/strong> 22: 743 \u2013 755.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.<\/strong> and C. Staines. (2008). Herbivory in gingers from latest Cretaceous to present: is the ichnogenus Cephaloleichnites<\/em> (Hispinae, Coleoptera) a rolled-leaf beetle?. Journal of Paleontology.<\/strong> 82: 1035 \u2013 1037.<\/p>\n

2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.<\/strong>, E.K. Kuprewicz<\/strong> and C. Staines. (2007). Hispine-like herbivore damage in Canna bangii (Zingiberales, Cannaceae) by Anopsilus <\/em>weevils (Curculionidae, Baridinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin.<\/strong> 61: 468 – 470.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C.<\/strong>, and F. Mora. (2007). Pollination Biology and the Impact of Floral Display, Pollen Donors and Distyly on Seed Production in Arcytophyllum lavarum<\/em> (Rubiaceae). Plant biology<\/strong>. 9: 453-461.<\/p>\n

2005<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda\u2013Robledo, C<\/strong>., P. Quintero-Mar\u00edn. F. Mora-Kepfer. 2005. Geographic Variation and Succession of Arthropod Communities in Inflorescences and Infructescences of Xanthosoma<\/em> (Araceae). Biotropica.<\/strong> 37: 650-656.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda -Robledo, C.,<\/strong> 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<\/em> (Araceae). Biotropica.<\/strong> 37: 373-380.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.<\/strong> 2005. Comparison between two methods to measure herbivory. Is herbivory in the Neotropics more severe than we thought? Journal of Tropical Biology<\/strong>. 53: 111-114.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.,<\/strong> and C. Murcia. 2005. Comparative habitat susceptibility to invasion by Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis<\/em>: Oleaceae) in a tropical Andean landscape. Biological Invasions<\/strong>. 7: 405-415<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda-Robledo, C.<\/strong> , G. Kattan, C. Murcia and P. Quintero. 2004. Beetle pollination and fruit predation in Xanthosoma daguense<\/em> (Araceae). Journal of Tropical Ecology<\/strong>. 20: 459 \u2013 469.<\/p>\n

Book<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda-Robledo C.<\/strong>, L. M. Constantino, M. D. Heredia and G. Kattan. 2002. Field guide to the butterflies of the Eastern Andes cordillera of Colombia. [Gu\u00eda de Campo de las Mariposas Comunes de la Cordillera Central de Colombia]. (Book in spanish). Wildlife Conservation Society. Cali, Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t