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Overview

Ken Oyama is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Their research focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, covering a range of topics primarily related to ecology, plant science, and genetics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The subfields Ken Oyama has contributed to are:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology
  • Genetics

The primary topics explored in their work are:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

Ken Oyama has published extensively in several scientific journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Botanical Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • European Journal of Forest Research
  • American Journal of Botany

Some recent publications by Ken Oyama include:

  • "Morphological variation of leaf traits in the Ternstroemia lineata species complex (Ericales: Penthaphylacaceae) in response to geographic and climatic variation," 2020, PeerJ
  • "Genomic signatures of the evolution of defence against its natural enemies in the poisonous and medicinal plant Datura stramonium (Solanaceae)," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Environmental filters determine the distribution of tree species in a threatened biodiversity hotspot in western Mexico," 2020, Botanical Sciences
  • "Climate change, a booster of disease outbreaks by the plant pathogen Phytophthora in oak forests," 2023, Rhizosphere
  • "The role of wood anatomical traits in the coexistence of oak species along an environmental gradient," 2021, AoB Plants

Ken Oyama has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Antonio González-Rodríguez
  • Pablo Cuevas-Reyes
  • Yurixhi Maldonado-López
  • Marcílio Fagundes
  • Andrés Torres-Miranda

Best Publications

  • Diversity of gall-inducing insects in a Mexican tropical dry forest: the importance of plant species richness, life-forms, host plant age and plant density

    Pablo Cuevas-Reyes;Mauricio Quesada;Paul Hanson;Paul Hanson;Rodolfo Dirzo

  • Seedling functional types in a lowland rain forest in Mexico.

    Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez;Miguel Martínez Ramos;Ken Oyama

  • Natural hybridization and hybrid zones between Quercus crassifolia and Quercus crassipes (Fagaceae) in Mexico: morphological and molecular evidence.

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  • Endogenous Plant Cell Wall Digestion: A Key Mechanism in Insect Evolution

    Hirofumi Watanabe;Horacio Cano-Camacho;Ken Oyama

  • The effects of domestication of Brassica and Phaseolus on the interaction between phytophagous insects and parasitoids.

    Betty Benrey;Alicia Callejas;Leticia Rios;Ken Oyama

  • ECOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS OF MEXICAN RAIN FOREST TREES

    Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez;Ken Oyama

  • Variation in leaf trichomes of Wigandia urens: environmental factors and physiological consequences.

    Leticia B. Pérez-Estrada;Zenón Cano-Santana;Ken Oyama

  • Genetic structure and differentiation of wild and domesticated populations of Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) from Mexico

    S. Hernández-Verdugo;R. Luna-Reyes;K. Oyama

  • Morphological and RAPD analysis of hybridization between Quercus affinis and Q-laurina (Fagaceae), two Mexican red oaks

    Antonio González-Rodríguez;Dulce M. Arias;Susana Valencia;Ken Oyama

  • Pollinator-dependent food production in Mexico.

    Lorena Ashworth;Lorena Ashworth;Mauricio Quesada;Alejandro Casas;Ramiro Aguilar;Ramiro Aguilar

  • Variation in Growth and Reproduction in the Neotropical Dioecious Palm Chamaedorea Tepejilote

    Ken Oyama

  • Genetic Structure of Wild and Domesticated Populations of Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) from Northwestern Mexico Analyzed by RAPDs

    Ken Oyama;Sergio Hernández-Verdugo;Carla Sánchez;Antonio González-Rodríguez

  • Interspecific gene flow in a multispecies oak hybrid zone in the Sierra Tarahumara of Mexico

    Juan Manuel Peñaloza-Ramírez;Antonio González-Rodríguez;Luis Mendoza-Cuenca;Henri Caron

  • Effects of defoliation on growth, reproduction, and survival of a neotropical dioecious palm, Chamaedorea tepejilote.

    Ken Oyama;Ana Mendoza

  • LEAF FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY INCREASES WITH HYBRIDIZATION AND INTROGRESSION BETWEEN QUERCUS MAGNOLIIFOLIA AND QUERCUS RESINOSA (FAGACEAE) THROUGH AN ALTITUDINAL GRADIENT IN MEXICO

    Ana Luisa Albarrán‐Lara;Luis Mendoza‐Cuenca;Susana Valencia‐Avalos;Antonio González‐Rodríguez

  • Leaf morphometric variation in Quercus affinis and Q. laurina (Fagaceae), two hybridizing Mexican red oaks

    Antonio González-Rodríguez;Ken Oyama

  • Species richness of gall-forming insects in a tropical rain forest: correlations with plant diversity and soil fertility

    Pablo Cuevas-Reyes;Cristina Siebe;Miguel Martínez-Ramos;Ken Oyama

  • Differentiation in seed germination among populations of Capsicum annuum along a latitudinal gradient in Mexico

    Sergio Hernández-Verdugo;Ken Oyama;Carlos Vázquez-Yanes

  • Effect of hybridization of the Quercus crassifolia × Quercus crassipes complex on the community structure of endophagous insects

    Efraín Tovar-Sánchez;Ken Oyama

  • Landscape genomics provides evidence of climate‐associated genetic variation in Mexican populations of Quercus rugosa

    Karina Martins;Karina Martins;Paul F. Gugger;Paul F. Gugger;Jesus Llanderal-Mendoza;Antonio González-Rodríguez

  • Foliar morphological variation in the white oak Quercus rugosa Nee (Fagaceae) along a latitudinal gradient in Mexico: Potential implications for management and conservation

    Dolores Uribe-Salas;Dolores Uribe-Salas;Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero;Antonio González-Rodríguez;Oswaldo Téllez-Valdéz

  • Conservation biogeography of red oaks (Quercus, section Lobatae) in Mexico and Central America.

    Andrés Torres-Miranda;Isolda Luna-Vega;Ken Oyama

  • Conservation genetics of an endemic and endangered epiphytic Laelia speciosa (Orchidaceae).

    Irene Ávila-Díaz;Ken Oyama

  • Spatial patterns of herbivory by gall-forming insects: a test of the soil fertility hypothesis in a Mexican tropical dry forest

    Pablo Cuevas-Reyes;Mauricio Quesada;Christina Siebe;Ken Oyama

  • Chloroplast DNA variation in the Quercus affinis-Q. laurina complex in Mexico: geographical structure and associations with nuclear and morphological variation.

    A. González-Rodríguez;J. F. Bain;J. L. Golden;K. Oyama

  • Interactions between galling insects and leaf-feeding insects : the role of plant phenolic compounds and their possible interference with herbivores

    Enrique Pascual-Alvarado;Pablo Cuevas-Reyes;Mauricio Quesada;Ken Oyama

  • Conservation genetics of the east Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in Michoacan, Mexico.

    Omar Chassin-Noria;Alberto Abreu-Grobois;Peter H Dutton;Ken Oyama

  • Abundance and Leaf Damage Caused by Gall-Inducing Insects in a Mexican Tropical Dry Forest1

    Pablo Cuevas-Reyes;Mauricio Quesada;Ken Oyama

  • Structural and functional traits predict short term response of tropical dry forests to a high intensity hurricane

    Diana Laura Jimenez-Rodríguez;Mariana Yolotl Alvarez-Añorve;Marisela Pineda-Cortes;Jose Israel Flores-Puerto

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio González-Rodríguez
Antonio González-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Mauricio Quesada
Mauricio Quesada National Autonomous University of Mexico
Rodolfo Dirzo
Rodolfo Dirzo Stanford University
G. Wilson Fernandes
G. Wilson Fernandes Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Alejandro Casas
Alejandro Casas National Autonomous University of Mexico
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Victoria L. Sork
Victoria L. Sork University of California, Los Angeles
Miguel Martínez-Ramos
Miguel Martínez-Ramos National Autonomous University of Mexico
Gwilym P. Lewis
Gwilym P. Lewis Royal Botanic Gardens
Mark W. Chase
Mark W. Chase Royal Botanic Gardens

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