Publications

Selected publications. For a complete list, see Google Scholar. Where possible, I link to open-access (OA) versions or local PDFs.

  1. Cárdenas, R.E., Rodríguez-Ortega, C., Utreras, D., Forrister, D.L., Endara, M.-J., Queenborough, S.A., Alvia, P., Menéndez-Guerrero, P.A., Báez, S., Donoso, D.A. (2024). Long-term strict ant–plant mutualism identity characterizes growth rate and leaf shearing resistance of an Amazonian myrmecophyte. Scientific Reports 14(1): 17813.
  2. Endara, M.-J., Forrister, D.L., Coley, P.D. (2023). The evolutionary ecology of plant chemical defenses: from molecules to communities. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics: 107–127.
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  3. Walker, T.W.N., Schrodt, F., Allard, P.M., Defossez, E., Jassey, V.E.J., Schuman, M.C., Alexander, J.M., Baines, O., Baldy, V., Bardgett, R.D., Capdevila, P., Coley, P.D., van Dam, N.M., David, B., Descombes, P., Endara, M.J., Fernandez, C., Forrister, D.L., Gargallo-Garriga, A., … Peñuelas, J. (2023). Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function. Science Advances 9(35): eadi4029.
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  4. Rice, M.C., Little, J.H., Forrister, D.L., Machado, J., Clark, N.L., & Gagnon, J.A. (2023). Gadusol is a maternally provided sunscreen that protects fish embryos from DNA damage. Current Biology 33(15): 3229–3237.e4.
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  5. Forrister, D.L., Endara, M., Soule, A.J., Younkin, G.C., Mills, A.G., Lokvam, J., et al. (2022). Diversity and Divergence: Evolution of secondary metabolism in the tropical tree genus Inga. New Phytologist, 631–642.
  6. Tozetto, L., Forrister, D.L., Duval, M., Hays, T., Garwood, N.C., Vargas, R., et al. (2022). Army ant males lose seasonality at a site on the equator. Biotropica.
  7. Guevara Andino, J.E., Hernández, C., Valencia, R., Forrister, D. & Endara, M.-J. (2022). Accelerating the discovery of rare tree species in Amazonian forests: integrating long monitoring tree plot data with metabolomics and phylogenetics for the description of a new species in the hyperdiverse genus Inga Mill. PeerJ 10: e13767.
  8. Donoso, D.A., Basset, Y., Shik, J.Z., Forrister, D.L., Uquillas, A., Salazar-Méndez, Y., et al. (2022). Male ant reproductive investment in a seasonal wet tropical forest: Consequences of future climate change. PLOS ONE 17: e0271198.
  9. Bradshaw, A.J., Dentinger, B., Backman, T., Ramírez-Cruz, V., Forrister, D., Winter, J., et al. (2022). DNA Authentication and Chemical Analysis of Psilocybe Mushrooms Reveal Widespread Taxonomic Misdeterminations and Inconsistencies in Metabolites. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 88: e01498-22.
  10. Endara, M.-J., Forrister, D., Nicholls, J., Stone, G.N., Kursar, T. & Coley, P. (2022). Impacts of Plant Defenses on Host Choice by Lepidoptera in Neotropical Rainforests. In: Caterpillars in the Middle: Tritrophic Interactions in a Changing World. Springer.
  11. Endara, M.J., Soule, A.J., Forrister, D.L., Dexter, K.G., Pennington, R.T., Nicholls, J.A., et al. (2022). The role of plant secondary metabolites in shaping regional and local plant community assembly. Journal of Ecology 110: 34–45.
  12. Walker, T., Alexander, J.M., Allard, P.-M., Baines, O., Baldy, V., Bardgett, R., … Forrister, D.L., Soule, A. (2022). Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology. Journal of Ecology 110: 4–20.
  13. Forrister, D.L., Endara, M.J., Younkin, G.C., Coley, P.D. & Kursar, T.A. (2019). Herbivores as drivers of negative density dependence in tropical forest saplings. Science 363: 1213–1216.
  14. Schneider, G.F., Coley, P.D., Younkin, G.C., Forrister, D.L., Mills, A.G. & Kursar, T.A. (2019). Phenolics lie at the centre of functional versatility in the responses of two phytochemically diverse tropical trees to canopy thinning. Journal of Experimental Botany 70: 5853–5864.
  15. Endara, M.J., Nicholls, J.A., Coley, P.D., Forrister, D.L., Younkin, G.C., Dexter, K.G., et al. (2018). Tracking of host defenses and phylogeny during the radiation of neotropical Inga-feeding sawflies (Hymenoptera; Argidae). Frontiers in Plant Science 9.
  16. Endara, M.J., Coley, P.D., Wiggins, N.L., Forrister, D.L., Younkin, G.C., Nicholls, J.A., et al. (2018). Chemocoding as an identification tool where morphological- and DNA-based methods fall short: Inga as a case study. New Phytologist 218: 847–858.
  17. Wiggins, N.L., Forrister, D.L., Endara, M.J., Coley, P.D. & Kursar, T.A. (2016). Quantitative and qualitative shifts in defensive metabolites define chemical defense investment during leaf development in Inga, a genus of tropical trees. Ecology and Evolution 6: 478–492.