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Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde is affiliated with INRAE: Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research work primarily spans multiple interconnected fields, including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad domains, they have focused on several subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecology, Insect Science, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics of Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde's research include Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, plant and animal studies, forest insect ecology and management, species distribution and climate change, Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and entomological studies and ecology.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Evaluating DNA Barcoding for Species Identification and Discovery in European Gracillariid Moths, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • A DNA barcode-based survey of wild urban bees in the Loire Valley, France, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Climate Change Alters Temperate Forest Canopies and Indirectly Reshapes Arthropod Communities, 2021, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Climate-induced forest dieback drives compositional changes in insect communities that are more pronounced for rare species, 2022, Communications Biology
  • A large-scale dataset reveals taxonomic and functional specificities of wild bee communities in urban habitats of Western Europe, 2022, Scientific Reports

Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde has frequently published in venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Forest Ecology and Management, Open Research Europe, and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Their contributions to these journals reflect a consistent interest in ecological and evolutionary biology topics.

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Christophe Bouget, Lucas Sire, Laurent Larrieu, Peter Huemer, and Rodolphe Rougerie. These collaborations indicate an active engagement within the research community, particularly in areas related to ecology, genetics, and taxonomy.

Best Publications

  • Ecological effects of invasive alien insects

    Marc Kenis;Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg;Alain Roques;Laura Timms

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

    Astrid Cruaud;Nina Ronsted;Nina Ronsted;Nina Ronsted;Bhanumas Chantarasuwan;Lien Siang Chou

  • Alien Terrestrial Invertebrates of Europe

    Alain Roques;Wolfgang Rabitsch;Jean-Yves Rasplus;Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde

  • Species-Level Para- and Polyphyly in DNA Barcode Gene Trees: Strong Operational Bias in European Lepidoptera.

    Marko Mutanen;Sami M. Kivelä;Rutger A. Vos;Camiel Doorenweerd

  • Social parasitism by male-producing reproductive workers in a eusocial insect.

    Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde;J. Will Koning;Ruth M. Brown;William C. Jordan

  • Mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA markers reveal a Balkan origin for the highly invasive horse‐chestnut leaf miner Cameraria ohridella (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae)

    R. Valade;M. Kenis;A. Hernandez-Lopez;S. Augustin

  • Tracking origins of invasive herbivores through herbaria and archival DNA: the case of the horse‐chestnut leaf miner

    David C Lees;David C Lees;H Walter Lack;Rodolphe Rougerie;Rodolphe Rougerie;Antonio Hernandez-Lopez

  • Evolutionary dynamics of host-plant use in a genus of leaf-mining moths.

    Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde;H. Charles J. Godfray;James M. Cook

  • Molecular phylogenies of fig wasps: partial cocladogenesis of pollinators and parasites.

    Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde;Jean Yves Rasplus;George D Weiblen;James M Cook

  • Fossil-calibrated molecular phylogenies reveal that leaf-mining moths radiated millions of years after their host plants.

    C Lopez-Vaamonde;N Wikström;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;H.C.J Godfray

  • Molecular analysis of parasitoid linkages (MAPL): gut contents of adult parasitoid wasps reveal larval host

    Rodolphe Rougerie;M. Alex Smith;Jose Fernandez-Triana;Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde

  • Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe

    Alain Roques;Marc Kenis;David Lees;Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde

  • Preservation of hymenopteran specimens for subsequent molecular and morphological study

    D. L. J. Quicke;C. Lopez‐Vaamonde;R. Belshaw

  • Lepidoptera. Chapter 11

    Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde;David Agassiz;Sylvie Augustin;Jurate De Prins

  • A molecular phylogeny and revised higher-level classification for the leaf-mining moth family Gracillariidae and its implications for larval host-use evolution

    Akito Y. Kawahara;David Plotkin;David Plotkin;Issei Ohshima;Carlos Lopez‐Vaamonde;Carlos Lopez‐Vaamonde

  • Other Hemiptera Sternorrhyncha (Aleyrodidae, Phylloxeroidea, and Psylloidea) and Hemiptera Auchenorrhyncha.

    D. Mifsud;C. Cocquempot;R. Mühlethaler;M. Wilson

  • Paraphyletic taxa and taxonomic chaining: evaluating the classification of braconine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) using 28S D2-3 rDNA sequences and morphological characters

    Robert Belshaw;Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde;Naci Degerli;Donald L. J. Quicke

  • Shared but overlooked: 30 species of Holarctic Microlepidoptera revealed by DNA barcodes and morphology.

    Jean-François Landry;Vazrick Nazari;Jeremy R. Dewaard;Marko Mutanen

  • Lifetime reproductive success and longevity of queens in an annual social insect.

    C. Lopez-Vaamonde;N. E. Raine;J. W. Koning;R. M. Brown

  • Promises and challenges in insect-plant interactions

    David Giron;Géraldine Dubreuil;Alison Bennett;Franck Dedeine

  • Revision of the Australian species of Pleistodontes (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae) fig-pollinating wasps and their host-plant associations

    Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde;Dale J. Dixon;James M. Cook;Jean-Yves Rasplus

  • Impact of alien terrestrial arthropods in Europe.

    M. Kenis;M. Branco;A. Roques;D. Lees

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Lees
David C. Lees Natural History Museum
Alain Roques
Alain Roques INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Marc Kenis
Marc Kenis CAB International
Jean-Yves Rasplus
Jean-Yves Rasplus INRA Biology Center for Population Management (CBGP)
Wolfgang Rabitsch
Wolfgang Rabitsch Umweltbundesamt, Austria
David B. Roy
David B. Roy UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
James M. Cook
James M. Cook Western Sydney University
Akito Y. Kawahara
Akito Y. Kawahara Florida Museum of Natural History
Atsushi Kawakita
Atsushi Kawakita University of Tokyo
Marko Mutanen
Marko Mutanen University of Oulu

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