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Conrad C. Labandeira

Conrad C. Labandeira

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
73
Citations
15679
World Ranking
1207
National Ranking
447

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Conrad C. Labandeira is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution in the United States and has contributed significantly to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, particularly focusing on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of Conrad C. Labandeira's research include:

  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fossil Insects in Amber
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Labandeira include:

  • Ecology and Evolution of Gall-Inducing Arthropods: The Pattern From the Terrestrial Fossil Record, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Arthropod and Pathogen Damage on Fossil and Modern Plants: Exploring the Origins and Evolution of Herbivory on Land, 2023, Annual Review of Entomology

Other notable papers in the broader research context involving related scientific topics include:

  • Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests, 2021, Science
  • Are Insects Heading Toward Their First Mass Extinction? Distinguishing Turnover From Crises in Their Fossil Record, 2020, Annals of the Entomological Society of America
  • Generalist Pollen-Feeding Beetles during the Mid-Cretaceous, 2020, iScience

Labandeira frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Dong Ren
  • S. Augusta Maccracken
  • Lifang Xiao
  • Anshuman Swain
  • Torsten Wappler

The primary publication venues where Labandeira has contributed multiple works are:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Ecosphere
  • Ecology
  • New Phytologist
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Conrad C. Labandeira's research broadly investigates the relationship between plants and arthropods over geological time, with attention to fossil records and evolutionary processes impacting herbivory and parasitism. This work integrates paleontological evidence to contextualize modern ecological interactions and evolutionary history.

Labandeira has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, reflecting engagement with the geological and biological science communities.

Best Publications

  • Insect diversity in the fossil record

    Conrad C. Labandeira;J. John Sepkoski

  • INSECT MOUTHPARTS:Ascertaining the Paleobiology of Insect Feeding Strategies

    Conrad C. Labandeira

  • Ninety-seven million years of angiosperm-insect association: paleobiological insights into the meaning of coevolution

    Conrad C. Labandeira;D. L. Dilcher;Donald R. Davis;D. L. Wagner

  • EARLY HISTORY OF ARTHROPOD AND VASCULAR PLANT ASSOCIATIONS

    Conrad C. Labandeira

  • Impact of the terminal Cretaceous event on plant–insect associations

    Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Kirk R. Johnson;Peter Wilf

  • A Probable Pollination Mode Before Angiosperms: Eurasian, Long-Proboscid Scorpionflies

    Dong Ren;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Jorge A. Santiago-Blay;Jorge A. Santiago-Blay;Alexandr Rasnitsyn;Alexandr Rasnitsyn

  • Sharply increased insect herbivory during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.

    Ellen D. Currano;Ellen D. Currano;Peter Wilf;Scott L. Wing;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira

  • Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia, are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforest

    Scott L. Wing;Fabiany Herrera;Fabiany Herrera;Carlos A. Jaramillo;Carolina Gómez-Navarro;Carolina Gómez-Navarro

  • Response of Plant-Insect Associations to Paleocene-Eocene Warming

    Peter Wilf;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira

  • Quaternary Insects and Their Environments.Scott A. Elias

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  • The four phases of plant-arthropod associations in deep time

    Conrad C. Labandeira

  • the history of associations between plants and animals

    Conrad C. Labandeira;C. Herrera;O Pellmyr

  • Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

    S. Kathleen Lyons;Kathryn L. Amatangelo;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Antoine Bercovici

  • Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests.

    Mónica R. Carvalho;Mónica R. Carvalho;Carlos Jaramillo;Carlos Jaramillo;Carlos Jaramillo;Felipe de la Parra;Dayenari Caballero-Rodríguez

  • Pollination drops, pollen, and insect pollination of Mesozoic gymnosperms

    Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Jiří Kvaček;Mikhail B. Mostovski;Mikhail B. Mostovski

  • Oribatid mites and the decomposition of plant tissues in Paleozoic coal-swamp forests

    Conrad C. Labandeira;Tom L. Phillips;Roy A. Norton

  • The Fossil Record of Plant-Insect Dynamics

    Conrad C. Labandeira;Ellen D. Currano

  • Timing the radiations of leaf beetles: hispines on gingers from latest cretaceous to recent.

    Peter Wilf;Conrad C. Labandeira;W. John Kress;Charles L. Staines

  • Decoupled Plant and Insect Diversity After the End-Cretaceous Extinction

    Peter Wilf;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Kirk R. Johnson;Beth Ellis

  • The origin of herbivory on land: Initial patterns of plant tissue consumption by arthropods

    Conrad C. Labandeira

  • Insect herbivory, plant defense, and early Cenozoic climate change

    Peter Wilf;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Kirk R. Johnson;Phyllis D. Coley

  • Portrait of a Gondwanan ecosystem: A new late Permian fossil locality from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Rose Prevec;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Johann Neveling;Robert A. Gastaldo

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Wilf
Peter Wilf Pennsylvania State University
Chungkun Shih
Chungkun Shih National Museum of Natural History
Dong Ren
Dong Ren Capital Normal University
Kirk R. Johnson
Kirk R. Johnson National Museum of Natural History
Torsten Wappler
Torsten Wappler Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Scott L. Wing
Scott L. Wing National Museum of Natural History
Cindy V. Looy
Cindy V. Looy University of California, Berkeley
Gary R. Graves
Gary R. Graves National Museum of Natural History
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Anna K. Behrensmeyer National Museum of Natural History
Jussi T. Eronen
Jussi T. Eronen University of Helsinki

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