Publications

Research publications from the past five years, spanning tropical forest ecology, genomics, plant–microbe interactions and plant reproduction.

Layered buttress roots of a tropical forest tree

2022–2026

Recent research

2026

Host specificity of fungal pathogens covaries with climate: Implications for intraspecific plant interactions

Abigail S. Neat, Felipe Albornoz, Kyle A. Gervers, Posy E. Busby, F. Andrew Jones

Ecology 107 (4), e70357

Maternal sex influences seed dormancy in a gynodioecious species

Brooklyn A. Richards, F. Andrew Jones, Thomas N. Kaye

AoB PLANTS 18 (4), plag031

Sex‐biased seed predation in a gynodioecious species, Sidalcea campestris

Brooklyn A. Richards, Susan M. Waters, F. Andrew Jones, Thomas N. Kaye

American Journal of Botany 113 (5), e70207

Pollinator‐mediated fitness differences do not fully explain the maintenance of gynodioecy in Sidalcea campestris

Brooklyn A. Richards, Thomas N. Kaye, F. Andrew Jones

American Journal of Botany 113 (2), e70154

2025

Genomic demography predicts community dynamics in a temperate montane forest

James P. O’Dwyer, James A. Lutz, Tyler Schappe, Dana Alegre, Andrew N. Black, Niklaus J. Grünwald, F. Andrew Jones

Science 389 (6766), eadu6396

2024

Understanding the Eco-Evolutionary Mechanisms That Maintain Genetic and Species Diversity of Tropical Trees on Barro Colorado Island

F. Andrew Jones, James L. Hamrick

The First 100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado: Plant and Ecosystem Science, Volume 1, 371–379. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.26882386

Limited intraspecific variation in drought resistance along a pronounced tropical rainfall gradient

Liza S. Comita, F. Andrew Jones, Eric J. Manzané-Pinzón, Leonor Álvarez-Cansino, Ivania Cerón-Souza, Blexein Contreras, Nelson Jaén-Barrios, Natalie Ferro, Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (23), e2316971121

2023

Molecular identification and mapping of mixed root samples to species and individuals

Andy Jones

New Phytologist 238 (3), 924–925. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18817

Pollinator foraging tactics have divergent consequences for the mating system of a tropical plant

Felipe Torres‐Vanegas, Adam S. Hadley, Urs G. Kormann, F. Andrew Jones, Matthew G. Betts, Helene H. Wagner

New Phytologist 237 (3), 1050-1066

Widespread variation in functional trait–vital rate relationships in tropical tree seedlings across a precipitation and soil phosphorus gradient

Luke Browne, Lars Markesteijn, Eric Manzané‐Pinzón, S. Joseph Wright, Robert Bagchi, Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht, F. Andrew Jones, Liza S. Comita

Functional Ecology 37 (2), 248-260

2022

Cryptic species diversity in a widespread neotropical tree genus: The case of Cedrela odorata

Kristen N. Finch, F. Andrew Jones, Richard C. Cronn

American Journal of Botany 109 (10), 1622-1640

A New Oomycete Metabarcoding Method Using the rps10 Gene

Zachary S. L. Foster, Felipe E. Albornoz, Valerie J. Fieland, Meredith M. Larsen, F. Andrew Jones, Brett M. Tyler, Hai D. T. Nguyen, Treena I. Burgess, Carolyn Riddell, Hermann Voglmayr, Frank N. Martin, Niklaus J. Grünwald

Phytobiomes Journal 6 (3), 214-226

Turgor loss point predicts survival responses to experimental and natural drought in tropical tree seedlings

Leonor Álvarez‐Cansino, Liza S. Comita, F. Andrew Jones, Eric Manzané‐Pinzón, Luke Browne, Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht

Ecology 103 (6), e3700

Tree species diversity increases with conspecific negative density dependence across an elevation gradient

Joseph A. LaManna, F. Andrew Jones, David M. Bell, Robert J. Pabst, David C. Shaw

Ecology Letters 25 (5), 1237-1249

Do experimental drought stress and species’ drought sensitivity influence herbivory in tropical tree seedlings?

Andrew J. Muehleisen, Eric Manzané‐Pinzón, Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht, F. Andrew Jones, Liza S. Comita

Biotropica 54 (3), 619-626

Elevated inbreeding in Heliconia tortuosa is determined by tropical forest stand age, isolation and loss of hummingbird functional diversity

F. Andrew Jones, Adam S. Hadley, Kaitlin Bonner, Rakan A. Zahawi, W. Douglas Robinson, Urs G. Kormann, Matthew G. Betts

Molecular Ecology 31 (17), 4465–4477