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

 

 

 

 

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Updates


March/22/2012
Paper in press:
How to discover interactions between eggs, larvae, adult insects and host plants using DNA barcodes:
García–Robledo*, C., E.K. Kuprewicz*, C.L. Staines, W. J. Kress and T.L. Erwin. (In Press). Using a comprehensive DNA barcode library to detect novel egg and larval host plant associations in a Cephaloleia Rolled-leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

March/8/2012
A note on our project at the Smithsonian website:
"Going for the gut: DNA from beetle stomachs reveals complex network" (click here)

January/8/2012
New paper:
Tropical plant – herbivore networks: reconstructing species interactions using DNA barcodes
García–Robledo, C., D.L. Erickson, C.L. Staines, T.L. Erwin and W. J. Kress. (In Press). Tropical plant – herbivore networks: reconstructing species interactions using DNA barcodes. PLOS ONE 8(1): e52967. doi:52910.51371/journal.pone.0052967


 

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 2013