Carlos Garcia-Robledo, Ph.D.
Smithsonian Institution Fellow
Departments of Botany and Entomology
e-mail: garciac [at] si.edu

 

 

 

 

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Updates

3/28/2012
New paper in press:
Parent-offspring conflicts in novel plant-herbivore interactions
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.__:__ - ___.

2/1/2012
British Ecological Society Award
Young Investigator Prize Winners
 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. (More)

1/1/2012
New paper:
Genetics of novel plant-herbivore interactions
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.

I am a Smithsonian Institution Post-doctoral Fellow in the Departments of Botany and Entomology at the National Museum of Natural History. My post-doctoral project explores the effects of climate change on host plant extinctions and the co-extinctions of associated insect herbivores.

I am also studying the genetics and demography of insect herbivores colonizing novel host plants. The main objective of this project is to understand the evolutionary and demographic responses of organisms to novel environments.

I also use various tropical pollination, plant-herbivore and seed dispersal systems, as well as invasive plant species as study models to understand different processes involved in the ecology, evolution and conservation of tropical plant-animal interactions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last update: March 2012