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58
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14523
World Ranking
2538
National Ranking
900

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George D. Weiblen is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Their scientific work also connects with Molecular Biology and Pharmacology as subfields of study.

Their main research topics include Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, GABA and Rice Research, and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions.

Frequently publishing in notable venues, George D. Weiblen has contributed to journals such as:

  • New Phytologist
  • Communications Biology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecology Letters
  • Oikos

Recent papers associated with their work include:

  • New Guinea has the world's richest island flora, 2020, Nature
  • A new Cannabis genome assembly associates elevated cannabidiol (CBD) with hemp introgressed into marijuana, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Soil nitrogen concentration mediates the relationship between leguminous trees and neighbor diversity in tropical forests, 2020, Communications Biology

George D. Weiblen has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Vojtěch Novotný
  • Jonathan P. Wenger
  • Jill Thompson
  • Stuart J. Davies
  • María Uriarte

Best Publications

  • Low host specificity of herbivorous insects in a tropical forest

    Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset;Scott E. Miller;George D. Weiblen

  • Why Are There So Many Species of Herbivorous Insects in Tropical Rainforests

    Vojtech Novotny;Pavel Drozd;Scott E. Miller;Miroslav Kulfan

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

    Matthew L. Forister;Vojtech Novotny;Vojtech Novotny;Anna K. Panorska;Leontine Baje

  • HOW TO BE A FIG WASP

    George D. Weiblen

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Untangling Multiple Factors in Spatial Distributions: Lilies, Gophers, and Rocks

    James D. Thomson;James D. Thomson;George Weiblen;Barbara A. Thomson;Satie Alfaro

  • 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

  • Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant–herbivore food webs from a tropical forest

    Vojtech Novotny;Scott E. Miller;Leontine Baje;Solomon Balagawi

  • Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan‐tropical study of the effects of litter type, litter placement and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient

    Jennifer S Powers;Rebecca A Montgomery;E Carol Adair;Francis Q Brearley

  • Low beta diversity of herbivorous insects in tropical forests.

    Vojtech Novotny;Scott E. Miller;Jiri Hulcr;Jiri Hulcr;Richard Arthur Ian Drew

  • Quantifying uncertainty in estimation of tropical arthropod species richness.

    Andrew J. Hamilton;Yves Basset;Kurt K. Benke;Peter S. Grimbacher

  • Root Carbon Dioxide Fixation by Phosphorus-Deficient Lupinus albus (Contribution to Organic Acid Exudation by Proteoid Roots)

    Jane F. Johnson;Deborah L. Allan;Carroll P. Vance;George Weiblen

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • Phylogenetic relationships of functionally dioecious FICUS (Moraceae) based on ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology.

    George D. Weiblen

  • Biogeography and divergence times in the mulberry family (Moraceae)

    Nyree J.C. Zerega;Wendy L. Clement;Shannon L. Datwyler;George D. Weiblen

  • 60 million years of co-divergence in the fig–wasp symbiosis

    Nina Rønsted;George D Weiblen;James M Cook;Nicolas Salamin

  • Phylogenetic Analysis of Dioecy in Monocotyledons.

    George D. Weiblen;George D. Weiblen;Ryan K. Oyama;Michael J. Donoghue

  • Phylogenetic dispersion of host use in a tropical insect herbivore community

    George D. Weiblen;Campbell O. Webb;Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset

  • Speciation in fig pollinators and parasites.

    George D. Weiblen;George D. Weiblen;Guy L. Bush

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Supporting Online Material for Why Are There So Many Species of Herbivorous Insects in Tropical Rainforests

    Vojtech Novotny;Pavel Drozd;Scott E. Miller;Miroslav Kulfan

Frequent Co-Authors

Vojtech Novotny
Vojtech Novotny Czech Academy of Sciences
Yves Basset
Yves Basset Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Scott E. Miller
Scott E. Miller National Museum of Natural History
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Fangliang He
Fangliang He University of Alberta
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Royal Forest Department
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Geoffrey G. Parker
Geoffrey G. Parker Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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