Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Qamd638AAAAJ

Hirsch index: 55; i10 index: 141; 37 publications in high impact journals: Nature (2 papers in Nature + 4 papers in Nature journals); Science (1 paper in Science + 1 in Science Advances); PNAS (7 papers); Ecology Letters (5 papers); Ecology (17 papers)

186. Connors, C.J., M.L. Forister, A.M. Smilanich, J.O. Stireman, and L.A. Dyer. 2026. Host morphology structures trophic interactions in a hyperdiverse lineage of parasitoid flies. Ecology Letters, in review.

185. Sakhalkar, S.P., … L.A. Dyer, … and R. Tropek. 2026. Global patterns in plant–pollinator specialisation. Nature Ecology & Evolution, in press.

184. Balmaki, B. and L.A. Dyer. 2026. Reorganizing Butterfly–Plant Interaction Networks Under Environmental Change: Conservation and Ecological Sustainability. Ecologies, in press.

183. Balmaki, B., M. Rostami, and L.A. Dyer. 2026. Historical restructuring of butterfly–pollen networks: plant-resource shifts and implications for pollination resilience. Scientific Reports, in review.

182. Kay, E.R., K. Lunaria, L.A. Richards, L.A. Dyer, and M.L. Forister. 2026. Bugs in the bud: An entomological road trip through Cannabis fields of the West. Journal of Applied Entomology, in press.

181. Villamarin-Cortez S, Obando-Tello B, Román-RR R, Noriega JA, Yánez Coronel WJ, Dyer L.A. 2026. Agroforestry benefits on dung beetle diversity of the Andean-Chocó region in Ecuador. PeerJ 14:e21163. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21163

180. de Brito Freire Jr, G., I.P. dos Santos Ribeiro, A.C.L. de Matos, S.C. Schirmer, E.G. Santos, F.V. da Costa, F.M. Gawryszewski, L.A. Dyer, O.J. Marini-Filho, and P. Togni. 2026. Concrete jungle: habitat heterogeneity acts as environmental filter on multidimensional diversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in urban savannahs of Cerrado biome. Urban Ecosystems 29:110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-026-01951-3

179. Uckele, K.A., C.S. Philbin, L.A. Richards, L.A. Dyer, J.P. Jahner, and T.L. Parchman. 2026. Admixture and environment shape population genetic and phytochemical variation across a conifer hybrid zone (Juniperus, Cupressaceae). Journal of Heredity esag004.

178. Chambers, J.Q., A.J.N. Lima, G. Pastorello, B.O. Gimenez, L. Meng, L.A. Dyer, Y. Feng, C.S. da Silva, R.C. de Oliveira, A. Weber, C. Koven, R. Negrón-Juárez, G.C. Spanner, T.D. Gaui, C.G. Fontes, A.C. de Araújo, N. McDowell, R. Leung, D.M. Marra, J. Warren, D.C. Souza, C. Wright, K. Jardine, M. Longo, C. Xu, P.V.A. Fine, R.A. Fisher, J. Tomasella, J. dos Santos, and N. Higuchi. 2025. Hot droughts in the Amazon: a window to a future hypertropical climate. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09728-y [supporting data and code: Dyer, L.A., J.Q. Chambers, G. Pastorello, and A. Weber. 2025. Hot droughts and forest tree dynamics in the Amazon—statistical models, scripts, data, and outputs. Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE), United States; Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Tropics.]

177. Christensen, T., L.A. Dyer, C. Halsch, A. Shapiro, A.M. Smilanich, and M.L. Forister. 2025. Specialized flower visitation in montane butterflies is associated with positive population trajectories over time. Ecology 106:e70236. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70236.

176. Philbin, C.S., Burroughs, M., Richards, L.A., Faske, T.M., Dyer, L.A., Parchman, T.L. and Jeffrey, C.S. 2025. Leveraging phytochemical variation in Piper scintillans Trel. to discover novel flavanone meroterpenes. Phytochemistry Letters 69:103134.

175. Oliveira, C.R.; Burroughs, M.J.; Richards, L.A.; Dyer, L.A.; Urbano-Muñoz, F.; Lee, C.; Warner, M.; Dodson, C.D.; Wallace, I.S.; Jeffrey, C.S. 2025. 1H-NMR Guided Isolation of Bioactive Compounds from Species of the Genus Piper. Molecules 30:2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30092020.

174. Christensen, T., L.A. Dyer, M.L. Forister, M.D. Bowers, A. Carper, M.B. Teglas, P. Hurtado, V. Peechatt, and A.M. Smilanich. 2025. Disease from leaves to landscapes: Viral hotspots are determined by spatial arrangement and phytochemistry of host plants in specialist caterpillars. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292:20242753. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2753

173. Kay, E.R., C.S. Philbin, L.A. Richards, M.L. Forister, C. Jeffrey and L.A. Dyer. 2025. Effects of water and wind stress on phytochemical diversity, cannabinoid composition, and arthropod diversity in hemp. Plants 14:474. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14030474.

172. Rostami, M., L. Kydd, B. Balmaki, L.A. Dyer and J.M. Allen. 2025. Deep Learning for Accurate Classification of Conifer Pollen Grains: Enhancing Species Identification in Palynology. Frontiers in Big Data 8, x. doi: 10.3389/fdata.2025.1507036.

171. Dyer, L.A., Smilanich, A.M., Gompert, Z. and Forister, M.L. 2024. Insect conservation, technological traps, and the fading arts of natural history and field ecology. Current Opinion in Insect Science, p.101261.

170. Forister, M.L., Dyer, L.A., Gompert, Z. and Smilanich, A.M. 2024. Editorial overview: Global change biology: Novel perspectives on futures, mechanisms, and the human element of insect conservation in the Anthropocene. Current Opinion in Insect Science 62(C).

169. Christensen, T., M.L. Forister, A.M. Smilanich, L.A. Dyer. 2024. Host plant-mediation of viral transmission and its consequences for a native butterfly. Ecology 105:e4282. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4282.

168. Vaudo, A. Dyer, L.A., and A. Leonard. 2024. Pollen nutrition structures bee and plant community interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 121(3):e2317228120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2317228120

167. Rostami, M., Balmaki, B., Allen, J., and L.A. Dyer. 2024. Transforming Palynology: Deep Learning Approaches to inform Climate, Ecological, and Environmental Studies. Applications in Plant Sciences.

166. Baguley, J.G., M.A. Rostami, E. Baldrighi, H.W. Bang, L.A. Dyer, and P.A. Montagna. 2024. Harpacticoid copepods expand the scope and provide family-level indicators of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill deep-sea impacts. Ecological Indicators 202:116343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116343.

165. Doan, L.M., Miller, J.S., Brown, J.W., Forister, M.L., and L.A. Dyer. 2024. Two new species of the hyperdiverse geometrid moth genus Eois (Lepidoptera; Geometridae; Larentiinae) from Ecuador, with descriptions of early stages. Zookeys. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1192.111275.

164. Fernando Campos-Moreno, D., L.A. Alberto Lara-Perez, L.A. Dyer, J.B. Whitfield, and C. Pozo. 2025. A new species of Enicospilus Stephens, 1835 (Ichneumonidae, Ophioninae) from southern Mexico, parasitic on Zanola verago Cramer, 1777 (Lepidoptera, Apatelodidae) feeding on Piper neesianum C. DC. (Piperaceae). Diversity 17:466.

163. Freire, G., Salcido, D., Dyer, L.A., and I. Diniz. 2024. Habitat heterogeneity shapes multiple diversity dimensions of fruit-feeding butterflies in an environmental gradient in the Brazilian Cerrado. Forest Ecology and Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121747.

162. Balmaki, B., Rostami, M., Allen, J., and L.A. Dyer. 2024. Effects of climate change on Lepidoptera pollen loads and pollination services in space and time. Oecologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-024-05533-y.

161. Grele, A., Massad, T.J., Uckele, K.A., Dyer, L.A., Antonini, Y., Braga, L., Forister, M.L., Sulca-Garro, L., Kato, M., Lopez, H.G., Nascimento, A.R., and L.R. Richards. 2024. Intra and interspecific diversity in a tropical plant clade alter herbivory and ecosystem resilience. Elife. https://elifesciences.org/articles/86988.

160. Halsch, C., Shapiro, A., Dyer, L.A., Smilanich, A.M., Parra, A., Gompert, Z., and M.L. Forister. 2023. Thirty-six years of butterfly monitoring, snow cover, and plant productivity reveal negative impacts of warmer winters and increased productivity on montane species. Global Change Biology e17044.

159. Dyer, L.A. 2023. Book Review: Essential Entomology. American Entomologist 69:53–54.

158. Robinson, M.L., P.G. Hahn, B.D. Inouye, N. Underwood, S.R. Whitehead, K.C. Abbott, E.M. Bruna, N.I. Cacho, L.A. Dyer, et al., and W.C. Wetzel. 2023. Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory. Science 382:679–683.

157. Jin S, KS Parks, DH Janzen, W Hallwachs, LA Dyer, & JB Whitfield. 2023. The Wing Interference Patterns (WIPs) of Parapanteles (Braconidae: Microgastrinae): demonstrating a powerful and accessible tool for species-level identification of small winged insects. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96:967–982. doi: 10.3897/jhr.96.111382.

156. Rostami, M.A., Balmaki, B., Dyer, L.A., Allen, J.M., Sallam, M.F., and F. Frontalini. 2023. Efficient Pollen Grain Classification using pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Study. Journal of Big Data 10:151.

155. Massad, T., Nascimento, A.R., Campos, D., Simbaña, W., Lopez, H.G., Garro, L.S., Lepesqueur, C., Richards, L., Forister, M., Stireman, J.O., Tepe, E., and L.A. Dyer. 2023. Variation in the strength of local and regional determinants of herbivory across the Neotropics. Oikos e10218. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10218

154. Glassmire, A.E., Carson, W.P., Smilanich, A.M. … and L.A. Dyer. 2023. Multiple and contrasting pressures determine intraspecific phytochemical variation in a tropical shrub. Oecologia 201:991–1003. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05364-3

153. Rabelo RS, Dyer LA, Yamaguchi LF, Diniz I, Simbaña W, Kussano AJM, Kato MJ and Massad TJ. 2023. Plasticity in plant defense and the role of phytochemical dissimilarity in limiting specialist herbivory. Front. Ecol. Evol. 11:1175590. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1175590

152. Flores, S., Forister, M.L., Sulbaran, H., Díaz, R. and Dyer, L.A. 2023. Extreme drought disrupts plant phenology: Insights from 35 years of cloud forest data in Venezuela. Ecology, p.e4012. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4012

151. Carrington-Hoekstra, P., Fernandez-Triana, J., Dyer, L.A., and J. Whitfield. 2023. Larissimus nigricans n. sp. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), a new reared species of a rare neotropical genus recovered through biodiversity inventory in Ecuador. Zookeys 1156:15–24. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1156.101396

150. Rostami M, Frontalini F, Armynot du Châtelet E, Francescangeli F, Alves Martins MV, De Marco R, Dinelli E, Tramontana M, Dyer LA, Abraham R, Bout-Roumazeilles V, Delattre M, Spagnoli F. 2023. Understanding the Distributions of Benthic Foraminifera in the Adriatic Sea with Gradient Forest and Structural Equation Models. Applied Sciences 13(2):794. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13020794

149. Balmaki, Masoud A Rostami, Tara Christensen, Elizabeth A Leger, Julie M Allen, Chris R Feldman, Matthew L Forister, Lee A Dyer. 2022. Modern Approaches for Leveraging Biodiversity Collections to Understand Change in Plant-Insect Interactions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.924941.

148. Massad, T.J., Richards, L.A., Philbin, Yamaguchi, L., Kato, M.J., Jeffrey, C.S., Oliveira, C., Ochsenrider, K., de Moraes, M., Tepe, E.J., Cebrian Torrejon, G., Sandivo, M., and L.A. Dyer. 2022. The chemical ecology of tropical forest diversity: Environmental variation, chemical similarity, herbivory, and richness. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3762.

147. Harvey, J. ….. L.A. Dyer, et al. 2023. Scientists’ warning on climate change and insects. Ecological Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1553.

146. Balmaki, B., Christensen, T. and Dyer, L.A. 2022. Reconstructing Butterfly-Pollen Interaction Networks through Periods of Anthropogenic Drought in the Great Basin (USA) over the Past Century. Anthropocene, p.100325.

145. Sudta, C., Salcido, D.M., Forister, M.L., Walla, T., Villamarín-Cortez, S. and Dyer, L.A. 2022. Jack-of-all-trades paradigm meets long-term data: generalist herbivores are more widespread and locally less abundant. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13972.

144. Campos-Moreno, D.F., Gates, M.W., Zhang, Y.M., Pérez-Lachaud, G., Dyer, L.A., Whitfield, J.B., and C. Pozo. 2022. Aximopsis gabrielae sp. nov.: a new gregarious parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) of the skipper Quadrus cerialis Stoll (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) feeding on Piper amalago L. in southern Mexico. Journal of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2022.2025940.

143. Wagner, D.; Fox, R., Salcido, D.M., and L.A. Dyer. 2021. A window to the world of global insect declines: moth biodiversity trends are complex and heterogeneous. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 118(2):e2002549117. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002549117.

142. Uckele, K.A., Jahner, J.P., Tepe, E.J., Richards, L.A., Dyer, L.A., Ochsenrider, K.M., Philbin, C.S., Kato, M.J., Yamaguchi, L.F., Forister, M.L. and Smilanich, A.M. 2021. Phytochemistry reflects different evolutionary history in traditional classes versus specialized structural motifs. Scientific Reports 11:17247. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96431-3

141. Philbin, C.S., Dyer, L.A., Jeffrey, C.S., Glassmire, A.E. and Richards, L.A. 2022. Structural and compositional dimensions of phytochemical diversity in the genus Piper reflect distinct ecological modes of action. Journal of Ecology 2021;00:1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13691

140. Freire, G.B., Silva, T., Oliveira, H., Collier, C., Rodrigues, H.P., Dias, J.P., Santos, J.P., Marini-Filho, O.J., Freitas, A.V., Smilanich, A.M. and Dyer, L.A. 2021. Good Things Come in Larger Packages: Size Matters for Adult Fruit-Feeding Butterfly Dispersal and Larval Diet Breadth. Diversity 13:664. doi: 10.3390/d13120664

139. Salcido, D.M., Sudta, C., and L.A. Dyer. 2022. Plant-caterpillar-parasitoid natural history studies over decades and across large geographic gradients provide insight into specialization, interaction diversity, and global change. Chapter 19 in: Marquis, R.J. and S. Koptur (editors), Caterpillars in the middle. Springer Nature.

138. Serejo Rabelo, R., Dyer, L.A., Lepesqueur, C., Salcido, D.M., da Silva, T.P., Rodrigues, H.P., Trindade, T.P., Diniz, I.R., Rangel Nascimento, A., Tepe, E.J., and T.J. Massad. 2021. Tritrophic interaction diversity in gallery forests—a biologically rich and understudied component of the Brazilian cerrado. Plant-Arthropod Interactions. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11829-021-09856-y

137. Campos‐Moreno, D.F., Dyer, L.A., Salcido, D., Massad, T.J., Pérez‐Lachaud, G., Tepe, E.J., Whitfield, J.B. and Pozo, C. 2021. Importance of interaction rewiring in determining spatial and temporal turnover of tritrophic (Piper‐caterpillar‐parasitoid) metanetworks in the Yucatán Península, México. Biotropica 53:1071–1081. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12946

136. Rostami, M.A., Frontalini, F., Giordano, P., Alves Martins, M.V., Dyer, L.A., and F. Spganoli. 2021. Testing the applicability of random forest modeling to examine benthic foraminiferal responses to multiple environmental parameters. Marine Environmental Research 172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105502.

135. Dyer, L.A. and Jeffrey, C.S. 2021. Chemically Mediated Multi-trophic Interactions. In Plant-Animal Interactions (pp. 17–38). Springer, Cham.

134. Maynard, L.; H. Slinn, A. Glassmire, B. Matarrita-Carranza, C. Dodson, T. Nguyen, M. Burroughs, L.A. Dyer, C. Jeffrey, S. Whitehead. 2020. Secondary metabolites in a neotropical shrub: spatiotemporal allocation and role in fruit defense and dispersal. Ecology 101:e03192. 10.1002/ecy.3192.

133. Parks, K.S., D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, J. Fernández-Triana, L.A. Dyer, J.J. Rodriguez, D.C. Arias-Penna, and J.B. Whitfield. 2020. A five-gene molecular phylogeny reveals Parapanteles Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to be polyphyletic as currently composed. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 150:106859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106859

132. Lumpkin, Will P., Kincade R. Stirek, and L.A. Dyer. 2020. Macrophyte Diversity and Complexity Reduce Larval Mosquito Abundance. Journal of Medical Entomology 57:1041–1048.

131. Harvey, J.A., Heinen, R., Armbrecht, I., Dyer, L.A., et al. 2020. International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-019-1079-8.

130. Salcido, D.M., Forister, M.L., Lopez, H.G. and Dyer, L.A. 2020. Loss of dominant caterpillar genera in a protected tropical forest. Scientific Reports 10:422. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-57226-9.

129. Arias-Penna, D.C., J.B. Whitfield, D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, L.A. Dyer, M.A. Smith, P.D.N. Hebert, J.L. Fernández-Triana. 2019. A species-level taxonomic review and host associations of Glyptapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) with an emphasis on 136 new reared species from Costa Rica and Ecuador. Zookeys 890:1–685. 10.3897/zookeys.890.35786

128. Loudermilk, E.L., J.E. Dell, L.A. Richards, J.J. O’Brien, E.L. A.T. Hudak, S.M. Pokswinski, B.C. Bright, J.K. Hiers, B.W. Williams, and L.A. Dyer. 2019. Simulating Groundcover Community Assembly in a Frequently Burned Ecosystem Using a Simple Neutral Model. Frontiers in Plant Science 10:1107. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01107.

127. Brown, J.W., Dyer, L.A., Villamarín-Cortez, S., and D.M. Salcido. 2019. New larval host records for Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) from an Ecuadorian Andean cloud forest. Insecta Mundi 0720:1–12.

126. Dell, J.E., D.M. Salcido, L.A. Richards, J.J. O’Brien, E.L. Loudermilk, W. Lumpkin, S.M. Pokswinski, and L.A. Dyer. 2019. Interaction Diversity Maintains Resiliency in a Frequently Disturbed Ecosystem. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00145

125. Dyer, L.A. and M.L. Forister. 2018. Challenges and advances in the study of latitudinal gradients in multitrophic interactions, with a focus on consumer specialization. Current Opinion in Insect Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2018.11.008

124. Glassmire, A.E., Philbin, C., Richards, L.A., Jeffrey, C.S., Snook, J.S., and Dyer, L.A. 2018. Proximity to canopy mediates changes in the defensive chemistry and herbivore loads of an understory tropical shrub, Piper kelleyi. Ecology Letters 22:332–341. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13194.

123. Pardikes, N.A., M.L. Forister, and L.A. Dyer. 2018. Preference and performance of Lepidoptera varies with tree age in juniper woodlands. Ecological Entomology 44:140–150. DOI: 10.1111/een.12682.

122. Lepesqueur, C., S. Scherrer, M.C. Vieira, M. Almeida-Neto, D.M. Salcido, L.A. Dyer, I. Rezende Diniz. 2018. Changing interactions among persistent species as the major driver of seasonal turnover in plant-caterpillar interactions. Plos ONE 13(9):e0203164.

121. Dell, J.E., L.A. Richards, J.J. O’Brien, E.L. Loudermilk, A.T. Hudak, S.M. Pokswinski, B.C. Bright, J.K. Hiers, B.W. Williams, and L.A. Dyer. 2018. Maximizing diversity for management activities: Additive partitioning of plant species diversity across a frequently burned ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management 432:409–414.

120. Dyer, L.A. 2018. Multidimensional diversity associated with plants: a view from a plant–insect interaction ecologist. American Journal of Botany 105:1–4.

119. Pardikes, N.A., W. Lumpkin, P.J. Hurtado, and L.A. Dyer. 2018. Simulated tri-trophic networks reveal complex relationships between species diversity and interaction diversity. Plos ONE 13(3):e0193822. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193822.

118. Richards, L.A., Oliveira, C. Dyer, L.A., Rumbaugh, A., Urbano-Munoz, F., Wallace, I.S., Dodson, C.D., and C. Jeffrey. 2018. Shedding light on chemically mediated tri-trophic interactions: A 1 H-NMR network approach to identify compound structural features and associated biological activity. Frontiers in Plant Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01155.

117. Dyer, L.A., Philbin, C.S., Ochsenrider, K.M., Richards, L.A., Massad, T.J., Smilanich, A.M., Forister, M.L., Parchman, T.L., Galland, L.M., Hurtado, P.J., Espeset, A.E., Dodson, C.D., and C. Jeffrey. 2018. Modern approaches to study plant–insect interactions in chemical ecology. Nature Reviews Chemistry 2:50–64.

116. Slinn H.L., Richards L.A., Dyer L.A., Hurtado P., Smilanich A.M. 2018. Across multiple species, phytochemical diversity and herbivore diet breadth have cascading effects on herbivore immunity and parasitism in a tropical model system. Frontiers in Plant Science 9:656. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00656.

115. Smilanich, A.M., Langus, T.C., Doan, L., Dyer, L.A., Harrison, J.G., Hsueh, J. and Teglas, M.B. 2018. Host plant associated enhancement of immunity and survival in virus infected caterpillars. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 151:102–112.

114. Giron D., Dubreuil G., Bennet A., Dedeine F., Dicke M., Dyer L., Erb M., Harris M.O., Huguet E., Kaloshian I., Kawakita A., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Palmer T.M., Petanidou T., Poulsen M., Sallé A., Simon J.C., Terblanche J.S., Thiéry D., Whiteman N., Woods H.A., Zchori-Fein E., and S. Pincebourde. 2018. Promises and challenges in insect–plant–microbe interactions. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 166:319–343.

113. Dyer, L.A. 2018. The Phytochemical Landscape: Linking Trophic Interactions and Nutrient Dynamics. The Quarterly Review of Biology 93:169–170.

112. Jahner, J.P., Forister, M.L., Parchman, T.L., Smilanich, A.M., Miller, J.S., Wilson, J.S., Walla, T.R., Tepe, E.J., Richards, L.A., Quijano‐Abril, M.A., Glassmire, A.E., and L.A. Dyer. 2017. Host conservatism, geography, and elevation in the evolution of a Neotropical moth radiation. Evolution 71:2885–2900.

111. Dell, J.E., L.A. Richards, J.J. O’Brien, E.L. Loudermilk, A.T. Hudak, S.M. Pokswinski, B.C. Bright, J.K. Hiers, B.W. Williams, and L.A. Dyer. 2017. Overstory-Derived Surface Fuels Mediate Plant Species Diversity in Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Forests. Ecosphere 8(10).

110. Glassmire, A.E., Jahner, J.P., Badik, K.J., Forister, M.L., Smilanich, A.M., Dyer, L.A., and Wilson, J.S. 2017. The soil mosaic hypothesis: a synthesis of multi-trophic diversification via soil heterogeneity. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution 10.4033/iee.2017.10.5.n.

109. Stireman III, J.O., Dyer, L.A., and Greeney, H.F. 2017. Specialized generalists? Food web structure of a tropical tachinid-caterpillar community? Insect Conservation and Diversity 10:367–384.

108. Dell, J.E., O’Brien, J.J., Doan, L., Richards, L.A., and Dyer, L.A. 2017. An arthropod survival strategy in a frequently burned forest. Ecology 98:2972–2974.

107. Massad, T.J., Martins de Moraes, M., Philbin, C., Oliveira, C., Cebrian Torrejon, G., Fumiko Yamaguchi, L., Jeffrey, C.S., Dyer, L.A., Richards, L.A. and Kato, M.J. 2017. Similarity in volatile communities leads to increased herbivory and greater tropical forest diversity. Ecology 98:1750–1756.

106. Seltmann, K.C., Cobb, N.S., Gall, L.F., Bartlett, C.R., Basham, M.A., Betancourt, I., Bills, C., Brandt, B., Brown, R.L., Bundy, C., Dyer, L.A., Pardikes, N., et al. 2017. LepNet: The Lepidoptera of North America Network. Zootaxa 4247:73–77.

105. Richards, L.A., Glassmire, A.E., Ochsenrider, K.M., Smilanich, A.M., Dodson, C.D., Jeffrey, C.S. and Dyer, L.A. 2016. Phytochemical diversity and synergistic effects on herbivores. Phytochemistry Reviews 15:1153–1166.

104. Glassmire, A.E., Jeffrey, C.S., Forister, M.L., Parchman, T.L., Nice, C.C., Jahner, J.P., Wilson, J.S., Walla, T.R., Richards, L.A., Smilanich, A.M., Leonard, M.D., Morrison, C.R., Simbaña, W., Salagaje, L.A., Dodson, C.D., Miller, J.S., Tepe, E.J., Villamarin-Cortez, S. and Dyer, L.A. 2016. Intraspecific phytochemical variation shapes community and population structure for specialist caterpillars. New Phytologist 212:208–219.

103. Rodríguez-Castañeda, G., Brehm, G., Fiedler, K. and Dyer, L.A. 2016. Ant predation on herbivores through a multitrophic lens: how effects of ants on plant herbivore defense and natural enemies vary along temperature gradients. Current Opinion in Insect Science 14:73–80.

102. Hansen, A.C., A.E. Glassmire, L.A. Dyer, and A.M. Smilanich. 2017. Patterns in parasitism frequency explained by diet and immunity. Ecography 40:803–805.

101. Smilanich, A.M., R.M. Fincher, and L.A. Dyer. 2016. Does plant-apparency matter? Insights from 30 years of data reveal clear patterns of the effects of plant chemistry on herbivores. New Phytologist 210:1944–1047.

100. Scherrer, S., C. Lepesqueur, M.C. Vieira, M. Almeida-Neto, L.A. Dyer, M.L. Forister, I. Rezende Diniz. 2016. Seasonal variation in host plant specialization by folivorous lepidopterans: contrasting patterns at the species and community levels. Biotropica 48:491–498.

99. Dyer, L.A. and M.L. Forister. 2016. Wherefore and whither the modeler: understanding the population dynamics of monarchs will require integrative and quantitative techniques. Annals of the Entomological Society of America.

98. Dyer, L.A. and M.L. Forister. 2015. The lives of Lepidopterists. Springer.

97. Richards, L.A., L.A. Dyer, M.L. Forister, A.M. Smilanich, C.D. Dodson, M.D. Leonard and C.S. Jeffrey. 2015. Phytochemical diversity drives tropical plant-insect community diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:10973–10978.

96. Greeney, H.F., R. Meneses, C.E. Hamilton, E.R. Hough, E.K. Austudillo, E. Lichter-Marck, R.W. Mannan, N. Snyder, H. Snyder, C.M. Ripplinger, S.M. Wethington, and L.A. Dyer. 2015. Trait-mediated trophic cascade creates enemy-free space for nesting hummingbirds. Science Advances 1:e1500310.

95. Davis, A.K. and L.A. Dyer. 2015. Long-term trends in eastern North American monarch butterflies: a collection of studies focusing on spring, summer and fall dynamics. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 108:661–663.

94. Pardikes, N.A., A.M. Shapiro, L.A. Dyer, and M.L. Forister. 2015. Global weather and local butterflies: variable responses to a large-scale climate pattern along an elevational gradient. Ecology 96:2891–2901.

93. Forister, M.L., Novotny, V., Panorska, A.K., Baje, L., Basset, Y., Butterill, P.T., Cizek, L., Coley, P.D., Dem, F., Diniz, I.R., Drozd, P., Fox, M., Glassmire, A., Hazen, R., Hrcek, J., Jahner, J.P., Kama, O., Kozubowski, T.J., Kursar, T.A., Lewis, O.T., Lill, J., Marquis, R.J., Miller, S.E., Morais, H.C., Murakami, M., Nickel, H., Pardikes, N., Ricklefs, R.E., Singer, M.S., Smilanich, A.M., Stireman, J.O., Villamarín-Cortez, S., Vodka, S., Volf, M., Wagner, D.L., Walla, T., Weiblen, G.D., and L.A. Dyer. 2015. Global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:442–447.

92. Dyer, L.A., T.J. Massad, and M.L. Forister. 2015. The question of scale in trophic ecology. Pages 288–317 in: Hanley, T. and K. La Pierre (eds.). Trophic Ecology: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Interactions across Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA.

91. Lampert, E., L.A. Dyer, and M.D. Bowers. 2014. Dietary specialization and the effects of plant species on potential multitrophic interactions of three species of nymphaline caterpillars. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 153:207–215.

90. Datillo, W. and L.A. Dyer. 2014. Canopy Openness Enhances Diversity of Ant–Plant Interactions in the Brazilian Amazon Rain Forest. Biotropica 46:712–719.

89. Dyer, L.A., T.L. Parchman, C.S. Jeffrey, and L.A. Richards. 2014. New dimensions of tropical diversity: an inordinate fondness for insect molecules, taxa, and trophic interactions. Current Opinions in Insect Science 2:14–19.

88. Jeffrey, C.S., M.D. Leonard, A.E. Glassmire, C.D. Dodson, L.A. Richards, M.J. Kato, and L.A. Dyer. 2014. Anti-herbivore prenylated benzoic acid derivatives from Piper kelleyi. Journal of Natural Products 77:148–153.

87. Tepe, E.J., Rodríguez-Castañeda, G., Glassmire, A.E., and L.A. Dyer. 2014. Piper kelleyi, a hotspot of ecological interactions and a new species from Ecuador and Peru. PhytoKeys 34:19–32.

86. Whitehead, S.R., Jeffrey, C.S., Leonard, M.D., Dodson, C.D., Dyer, L.A., and M.D. Bowers. 2013. Patterns of Secondary Metabolite Allocation to Fruits and Seeds in Piper reticulatum. Journal of Chemical Ecology 39:1373–1384.

85. Mramba, L.K., Barber, S., Hommola, K., Dyer, L.A., Wilson, J.S., Forister, M.L., and W.R. Gilks. 2013. Permutation tests for analyzing cospeciation in multiple phylogenies: applications in tri-trophic ecology. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 12:679–701.

84. Dyer, L.A. and D.K. Letourneau. 2013. Can Climate Change Trigger Massive Diversity Cascades in Terrestrial Ecosystems? Diversity 5:1–35.

83. Dyer, L.A., Richards, L.A., Short, S.A., Dodson, C.D. 2013. Effects of CO2 and temperature on tritrophic interactions. PLOS ONE 8(4):e62528.

82. Massad, T.J., Dyer, L.A., and G. Vega C. 2012. Costs of defense and a test of the Carbon-Nutrient Balance and Growth-Differentiation Balance Hypotheses for two co-occurring classes of plant defense. PLOS ONE 7(10):e47554.

81. Richards L.A., Lampert E.C., Bowers M.D., Dodson C.D., Smilanich A.M. and Dyer L.A. 2012. Synergistic effects of iridoid glycosides on the survival, development, and immune response of a specialist caterpillar (Junonia coenia Nymphalidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 38:1276–1284.

80. Smilanich, A.M. and L.A. Dyer. 2012. Effects of banana plantation pesticides on the immune response of lepidopteran larvae and their parasitoid natural enemies. Insects 3:616–628.

79. Wilson, J.S., Forister, M.L., Dyer, L.A., O’Connor, J.M., Burls, K., Feldman, C.R., Jaramillo, M.A., Miller, J.S., Rodríguez-Castañeda, G., Tepe, E.J., Whitfield, J.B., Young, B. 2012. Host conservatism, host shifts and diversification across three trophic levels in two Neotropical forests. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25:532–546.

78. Dyer, L.A., Wagner, D.L., Greeney, H.F., Smilanich, A.M., Massad, T.M., Robinson, M., Fox, M., Hazen, R., Glassmire, A., Pardikes, N., Fredrickson, K., Pearson, C., Gentry, G.L., and J.O. Stireman III. 2012. Novel insights into tritrophic interaction diversity and chemical ecology using 16 years of volunteer supported research. American Entomologist 58:15–19.

77. Forister, M.L., Dyer, L.A., Singer, M.S., Stireman III, J.O., and J.T. Lill. 2012. Progress and perspectives in the study of ecological specialization, with emphasis on insect-plant interactions. Ecology 93:981–991.

76. Greeney H.F., Dyer L.A., and Smilanich A.M. 2012. Feeding by lepidopteran larvae is dangerous: A review of caterpillars’ chemical, physiological, morphological, and behavioral defenses against natural enemies. Invertebrate Survival Journal 9:7–34.

75. Lampert, E.C., Dyer, L.A., and M.D. Bowers. 2011. Chemical Defense Across Three Trophic Levels: Catalpa bignonioides, the Caterpillar Ceratomia catalpae, and its Endoparasitoid Cotesia congregata. Journal of Chemical Ecology 37:1063–1070.

74. Greeney, H.F., Whitfield, J.B., Stireman III, J.O., Penz, C.M., and L.A. Dyer. 2011. The natural history of Eryphanis greeneyi (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and its enemies, with a description of a new species of braconid parasitoid and notes on its tachinid parasitoid. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 104:1078–1090.

73. Rab Green, S.B., Gentry, G.L., Greeney, H.F., and L.A. Dyer. 2011. Ecology, natural history, and larval descriptions of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae) from a cloud forest in the eastern Andes of Ecuador. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 104:1135–1148.

72. Dyer, L.A. 2011. New Synthesis. Back to the future: New approaches and directions in chemical studies of coevolution. Journal of Chemical Ecology 37:669.

71. Dyer, L.A., Carson, W.P., Leigh, E.G. 2012. Insect Outbreaks in Tropical Forests: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Consequences. In: Barbosa, P., Letourneau, D.K. and Agrawal, A.A. Insect Outbreaks Revisited. Wiley-Blackwell, New Jersey.

70. Dyer, L.A. 2011. Trophic levels. In: Gibson, D. (editor). Oxford Bibliographies Online: Ecology. Oxford University Press, New York.

69. Massad, T.J., Fincher, R.M., Smilanich, A.M., and L.A. Dyer. 2011. A quantitative evaluation of major plant defense hypotheses, nature versus nurture, and chemistry versus ants. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 5:125–139.

68. Greeney, H.F., Dyer L.A., Pyrcz T.W. 2011. First description of the early stage biology of the genus Mygona: The natural history of the saturnid butterfly, Mygona irmina in eastern Ecuador. Journal of Insect Science 11:5; available online: insectscience.org/11.5

67. Rodriguez-Castaneda, G., Forkner, R.E., Tepe, E.J., Gentry, G.L., and L.A. Dyer. 2011. Weighing defensive and nutritive roles of ant mutualists across a tropical altitudinal gradient. Biotropica 43:343–350.

66. Smilanich, A.M., J. Vargas, L.A. Dyer, and M.D. Bowers. 2011. Effects of ingested secondary metabolites on the immune response of a polyphagous caterpillar (Grammia incorrupta, Arctiidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 37:239–245.

65. Dyer, L.A., Letourneau, D.K., Vega Chavarria, G. and D. Salazar Amoretti. 2010. Herbivores on a dominant understory shrub increase local plant diversity in rain forest communities. Ecology 91:3707–3718.

64. Rodriguez-Castaneda, G., Dyer, L.A., Brehm, G., Connahs, H., Forkner, R.E., and T.R. Walla. 2010. Tropical forests are not flat: how mountains affect herbivore diversity. Ecology Letters 13:1348–1357.

63. Lampert, E.C., Dyer, L.A., and M.D. Bowers. 2010. Caterpillar Chemical Defense and Parasitoid Success: Cotesia congregata Parasitism of Ceratomia catalpa. Journal of Chemical Ecology 36:992–998.

62. Richards, L., Dyer, L.A., Smilanich, A.M., and C.D. Dodson. 2010. Synergistic effects of amides from two Piper species on generalist and specialist herbivores. Journal of Chemical Ecology 36:1105–1113.

61. Massad, T.J. and L.A Dyer. 2010. A meta-analysis of the effects of global environmental change on plant-herbivore interactions. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 4:181–188.

60. Massad, T.J., Chambers, J.Q., Rolim, S.G., Renato, M.J., and L.A. Dyer. 2010. Restoration of pasture to forest in Brazil’s Mata Atlântica: The roles of herbivory, seedling defenses, and plot design in reforestation. Restoration Ecology 19:257–267.

59. Greeney, H.F., Pyrcz, T.W. Dyer, L.A., Sánchez Z., M., and T.R. Walla. 2010. The early stages and natural history of Corades medeba Hewitson, 1850 in eastern Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Pronophilina). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 20:8–13.

58. Greeney, H.F., Dyer, L.A., DeVries, P.J., Walla, T.R., Salazar Vega, L., Simbaña, W. and L. Salagaje. 2010. Early stages and natural history of Perisama oppelii (Latreille, 1811) (Nymphalidae, Lepidoptera) in Eastern Ecuador. Kempffiana 6:16–30.

56. Dyer, L.A., T.R. Walla, H.F. Greeney, J.O. Stireman III, and R.F. Hazen. 2010. Diversity of interactions: A metric for studies of biodiversity. Biotropica 42:281–289.

55. Smilanich, A.M., L.A. Dyer, M.D. Bowers, and J.Q. Chambers. 2009. Immunological costs to specialization and the evolution of insect diet breadth. Ecology Letters 12:612–621.

54. Smilanich, A.M., L.A. Dyer, and G.L. Gentry. 2009. The insect immune response and other putative defenses as effective predictors of parasitism. Ecology 90:1434–1440.

53. Carlson, J.C., L.A. Dyer, F.X. Omlin, and J.C. Beier. 2009. Diversity Cascades and Malaria Vectors. Journal of Medical Entomology 46:460–464.

52. Miller, J. and L.A. Dyer. 2009. Special Feature: Diversity of insect-plant interactions in the eastern Andes of Ecuador. Journal of Insect Science 9:26, available online: insectscience.org/9.26.

51. Stireman III, J.O., H.F. Greeny, and L.A. Dyer. 2009. Species richness and host associations of Lepidoptera-attacking Tachinidae in the northeast Ecuadorian Andes. Journal of Insect Science 9:39, available online: insectscience.org/9.39.

50. Tepe, E.J., W.A. Kelley, G. Rodríguez-Castañeda, and L.A. Dyer. 2009. Characterizing the cauline domatia of two newly discovered Ecuadorian ant-plants in Piper: an example of convergent evolution. Journal of Insect Science 9:27, available online: insectscience.org/9.27.

49. Connahs, H., G. Rodríguez-Castañeda, T. Walters, T.R. Walla and L.A. Dyer. 2009. Geographical variation in host-specificity and parasitoid pressure of an herbivore (Geometridae) associated with the tropical genus Piper. Journal of Insect Science 9:28, available online: insectscience.org/9.28.

48. Greeney, H.F., T.W. Pyrcz, M.R. Hualingua, P.J. DeVries, and L.A. Dyer. 2009. The early stages of Pedaliodes poesia (Hewitson, 1862) in eastern Ecuador (Lepidoptera, Satyrinae, Pronophilina). Journal of Insect Science 9:38, available online: insectscience.org/9.38.

47. Greeney, H.F., P.J. DeVries, C.M. Penz, R.B. Granizo-T, H. Connahs, J.O. Stireman III, T.R. Walla, and L.A. Dyer. 2009. The early stages and natural history of Antirrhea adoptive porphyrosticta (Watkins, 1928) in eastern Ecuador (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Morphinae). Journal of Insect Science 9:26, available online: insectscience.org/9.26.

46. Grinter, C.C., J.B. Whitfield, H. Connahs, L.A. Dyer, W. Hallwachs, and D.H. Janzen. 2009. Review of Neotropical Distatrix Mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with descriptions of six new reared species. Journal of Insect Science 9:29, available online: insectscience.org/9.29.

45. Pearson, C.V., T.J. Massad, L.A. Dyer. 2008. Diversity cascades in alfalfa fields: from plant quality to agroecosystem diversity. Environmental Entomology 37:947–955.

44. Fincher, R.M., L.A. Dyer, C.D. Dodson, J.L. Richards, M.A. Tobler, J. Searcy, J.E. Mather, A.J. Reid, J.S. Rolig and W. Pidcock. 2008. Inter- and Intraspecific comparisons of antiherbivore defenses in three species of rainforest understory shrubs. Journal of Chemical Ecology 34:558–574.

43. Dyer, L.A. 2008. The ecology of tri-trophic interactions in the tropics. Pages 275–293 in: Carson, W.P. and S.A. Schnitzer (editors). Tropical Forest Community Ecology. Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK.

42. Dyer, L.A., M.S. Singer, J.T. Lill, J.O. Stireman III, G.L. Gentry, R.J. Marquis, R.E. Ricklefs, H.F. Greeney, D.L. Wagner, H.C. Morais, I.R. Diniz, T.A. Kursar, and P.D. Coley. 2007. Host specificity of Lepidoptera in tropical and temperate forests. Nature 448:696–699.

41. Dyer, L.A. and D.K. Letourneau. 2007. Determinants of lichen diversity in a rainforest understory. Biotropica 39:525–539.

40. Dyer, L.A. 2007. Large scale gradients in tritrophic interactions. Tropinet 18:1–3.

39. Dyer, L.A. and R.E. Forkner. 2007. Why are agroecosystems green? Ecology 88:1606–1607.

38. Armstrong, M., Berkowitz, A.R., Dyer, L.A. and J. Taylor. 2007. Understanding why students underrepresented in ecology pursue ecology careers: a preliminary case study of 39 African American students. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:415–420.

37. Dyer, L.A. 2008. Do not go gentle into that tropical night. Chapter 6 in: Adams, R.A. (ed.). Into the Night: Tales of Nocturnal Wildlife Expeditions. University Press of Colorado.

36. Pearson, C.V. and L.A. Dyer. 2006. Trophic diversity in two grassland ecosystems. Journal of Insect Science 6:23.

35. Stireman III, J.O., L.A. Dyer, D.H. Janzen, M.S. Singer, J.T. Lill, R.J. Marquis, R.E. Ricklefs, G.L. Gentry, W. Hallwachs, P.D. Coley, J.A. Barone, H.F. Greeney, H. Connahs, P. Barbosa, H.C. Morais, and I.R. Diniz. 2005. Climatic unpredictability and caterpillar parasitism: implications of global warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102:17384–17387.

34. Dyer, L.A., Matlock, R.M., Cherzad, D., and R. O’Malley. 2005. Predicting successful biological control in banana plantations. Environmental Entomology 34:403–409.

33. Stireman, J.O. III, Dyer, L.A., and R.M. Matlock. 2005. Top-down forces in managed versus unmanaged habitats. Pages 303–323 in: Barbosa, P. and I. Castellanos (eds.). Ecology of Predator-Prey Interactions. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

32. Letourneau, D.K. and L.A. Dyer. 2005. Multi-trophic interactions and biodiversity: beetles, ants, caterpillars, and plants. Pages 366–385 in: Burslem, D.F.R.P.; Pinard, M.A.; Hartley, S.E. (eds.). Biotic Interactions in the Tropics: Their Role in the Maintenance of Species Diversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

31. Irschick, D., Dyer, L.A., and T. Sherry. 2005. Phylogenetic methods for studying specialization. Oikos 110:404–408.

30. Dyer, L.A., Dodson, C.D., Letourneau, D.K., Tobler, M.A., Hsu, A., and J.O. Stireman III. 2004. Ecological causes and consequences of variation in defensive chemistry of a neotropical shrub. Ecology 85:2795–2803.

29. Letourneau, D.K., Dyer, L.A., and G. Vega. 2004. Indirect effects of top predator on rain forest understory plant community. Ecology 85:2144–2152.

28. Dyer, L.A. and A.N. Palmer. 2004. Piper. A model genus for studies of evolution, chemical ecology, and trophic interactions. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

27. Dyer, L.A., Dodson, C.D., and J. Richards. 2004. Isolation, synthesis, and evolutionary ecology of Piper amides. Pages 117–139 in: Dyer, L.A. and A.N. Palmer (eds.). Piper. A model genus for studies of evolution, chemical ecology, and trophic interactions. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

26. Dyer, L.A., Gentry, G. and M. Tobler. 2004. Fitness consequences of herbivory: impacts on asexual reproduction of tropical rainforest understory plants. Biotropica 36:68–73.

25. Dyer, L.A., Dodson, C.D., Gentry, G. 2003. A bioassay for insect deterrent compounds found in plant and animal tissues. Phytochemical Analysis 14:381–388.

24. Dyer, L.A. and J.O. Stireman III. 2003. Community-wide trophic cascades and other indirect interactions in an agricultural community. Basic and Applied Ecology 4:423–432.

23. Dyer, L.A., Dodson, C.D., Stireman, J.O., Tobler, M.A., Smilanich, A.M., Fincher, R.M., and D.K. Letourneau. 2003. Synergistic effects of three Piper amides on generalist and specialist herbivores. Journal of Chemical Ecology 29:2499–2514.

22. Dyer, L.A. and D.K. Letourneau. 2003. Top-down and bottom-up diversity cascades in detrital versus living food webs. Ecology Letters 6:60–68.

21. Gentry, G.L. and L.A. Dyer. 2002. On the conditional nature of neotropical caterpillar defenses against their natural enemies. Ecology 83:3108–3119.

20. Dyer, L.A. 2002. Jungle phobias. Earthwatch 21:10–11.

19. Dyer, L.A. 2002. A quantification of predation rates, indirect positive effects on plants, and foraging variation of the giant tropical ant, Paraponera clavata. Journal of Insect Science 2.18:1–7.

18. Dyer, L.A. and G.L. Gentry. 2002. Caterpillars and parasitoids of a tropical lowland wet forest. http://www.caterpillars.org.

17. Dyer, L.A. and N. Bishop. 2001. In defense of caterpillars. Natural History 110:42–47.

16. Dyer, L.A. and P.D. Coley. 2001. Latitudinal gradients in tri-trophic interactions. Pages 67–88 in: Tscharntke, T. and Hawkins, B.A. (editors). Multitrophic Level Interactions. Cambridge University Press.

15. Dyer, L.A., Dodson, C.D., Beihoffer, J. and D.K. Letourneau. 2001. Trade offs in anti-herbivore defenses in Piper cenocladum: ant mutualists versus plant secondary metabolites. Journal of Chemical Ecology 27:581–592.

14. Dodson, C.D., Dyer, L.A., Searcy, J., Wright, Z., and D.K. Letourneau. 2000. Cenocladamide, a dihydropyridone alkaloid from Piper cenocladum. Phytochemistry 53:51–54.

13. Dyer, L.A., Williams, W., Dodson, C., and D.K. Letourneau. 2000. A commensalism between Piper marginatum Jacq. (Piperaceae) and a coccinellid beetle. Journal of Tropical Ecology 15:841–846.

12. Dyer, L.A. 2000. Cybernetic insect outbreaks. Ecology 81:3262–3263.

11. Dyer, L.A. and D.K. Letourneau. 1999. Trophic cascades in a complex, terrestrial community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96:5072–5076.

10. Dyer, L.A. and D.K. Letourneau. 1999. Relative strengths of top-down and bottom-up forces in a tropical forest community. Oecologia 119:265–274.

9. Dyer, L.A. and Gentry, G. 1999. Larval defensive mechanisms as predictors of successful biological control. Ecological Applications 9:402–408.

8. Letourneau, D.K. and L.A. Dyer. 1998. Density patterns of Piper ant-plants and associated arthropods: Top predator cascades in a terrestrial system? Biotropica 30:162–169.

7. Letourneau, D.K. and L.A. Dyer. 1998. Experimental manipulations in lowland tropical forest demonstrate top-down cascades through four trophic levels. Ecology 79:1678–1687.

6. Dyer, L.A. 1997. Effectiveness of caterpillar defenses against three species of invertebrate predators. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 34:48–68.

5. Dyer, L.A. and M.D. Bowers. 1996. The importance of sequestered iridoid glycosides as a defense against an ant predator. Journal of Chemical Ecology 22:1527–1539.

4. Folgarait, P.J., L.A. Dyer, R.J. Marquis, and H.E. Braker. 1996. Leaf-cutting ant (Atta cephalotes) preferences for five native tropical plantation tree species growing under different light conditions. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 80:521–531.

3. Dyer, L.A. 1995. Tasty generalists and nasty specialists? A comparative study of antipredator mechanisms in tropical lepidopteran larvae. Ecology 76:1483–1496.

2. De la Fuente, M.A., L.A. Dyer, and M.D. Bowers. 1994. The iridoid glycoside, catalpol, as a deterrent to the predator Camponotus floridanus (Formicidae). Chemoecology 5/6:13–18.

1. Dyer, L.A. and T. Floyd. 1993. Determinants of predation on phytophagous insects: the importance of diet breadth. Oecologia 96:575–582.