Host-parasitoid relationships within figs of an invasive fig tree: a fig wasp community structured by gall size

The impact of fig wasps (Chalcidoidea), new to the Mediterranean, on reproduction of an invasive fig tree Ficus microcarpa (Moraceae) and their potential for its biological control

(2015) Rong Wang et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

The fig wasp followers and colonists of a widely introduced fig tree,Ficus microcarpa

(2015) Rong Wang et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Plant reproductive traits mediate tritrophic feedback effects within an obligate brood-site pollination mutualism

(2015) Anusha Krishnan et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

(2015) M. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

piecewiseSEM: Piecewise structural equation modelling inr for ecology, evolution, and systematics

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

(2015) Rong Wang et al.   Ecology and Evolution

First record of an apparently rare fig wasp feeding strategy: obligate seed predation

(2014) RONG WANG et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Parasitism of a pollinator fig wasp: mortalities are higher in figs with more pollinators, but are not related to local densities of figs

(2013) NAZIA SULEMAN et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Secondary galling: a novel feeding strategy among ‘non-pollinating’ fig wasps fromFicus curtipes

(2013) HUAN-HUAN CHEN et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Convergent structure of multitrophic communities over three continents

(2013) Simon T. Segar et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The dominant exploiters of the fig/pollinator mutualism vary across continents, but their costs fall consistently on the male reproductive function of figs

(2012) SIMON T. SEGAR et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Urbanized landscapes favored by fig-eating birds increase invasive but not native juvenile strangler fig abundance

(2012) Trevor Caughlin et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2012) YAN CHEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Molecular approaches identify known species, reveal cryptic species and verify host specificity of Chinese Philotrypesis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

(2012) MEI-JIAO ZHOU et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

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

(2012) Hui Yu et al.   PLoS One

An Extreme Case of Plant–Insect Codiversification: Figs and Fig-Pollinating Wasps

(2012) Astrid Cruaud et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Comparisons of host mitochondrial, nuclear and endosymbiont bacterial genes reveal cryptic fig wasp species and the effects of Wolbachiaon host mtDNA evolution and diversity

(2011) Xiao-Jing Sun et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Emergent insights from the synthesis of conceptual frameworks for biological invasions

(2011) J. Gurevitch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2010) S. G. Compton et al.   Biology Letters

Speciation in fig wasps

(2010) JAMES M. COOK et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Co-invasion by Pinus and its mycorrhizal fungi

(2010) Ian A. Dickie et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

COI and ITS2 sequences delimit species, reveal cryptic taxa and host specificity of fig-associated Sycophila (Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae)

(2009) YANWEI LI et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Evolutionary Ecology of Figs and Their Associates: Recent Progress and Outstanding Puzzles

(2008) Edward Allen Herre et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

A Role for Parasites in Stabilising the Fig-Pollinator Mutualism

(2008) Derek W Dunn et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY