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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1988 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Philip J. DeVries is affiliated with the University of New Orleans in the United States and specializes in the biological sciences, focusing particularly on genetics and ecology. Their research spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

Their work engages deeply in subfields such as Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Insect Science. Main research topics include Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, plant and animal studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics, species distribution and climate change, genetic diversity and population structure, biological control of invasive species, and coleoptera taxonomy and distribution.

Their notable recent publications are:

  • "Conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories explain the latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Mesoamerica is a cradle and the Atlantic Forest is a museum of Neotropical butterfly diversity: insights from the evolution and biogeography of Brassolini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)", 2021, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • "The latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae): conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories", 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Conserved ancestral tropical niche but different continental histories explain the latitudinal diversity gradient in brush-footed butterflies", 2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "Adult and early-stage characters of Brassolini contain conflicting phylogenetic signal (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) (project)", 2020, MorphoBank datasets

Frequent coauthors who have contributed to several papers with DeVries include Carla M. Penz, André Victor Lucci Freitas, Pável Matos-Maraví, Niklas Wahlberg, and Nicolas Chazot.

Their publications have appeared predominantly in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), MorphoBank datasets, Nature Communications, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Philip J. DeVries has received recognition in the form of awards such as:

  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1996
  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 1988

Best Publications

  • Species diversity in vertical, horizontal, and temporal dimensions of a fruit‐feeding butterfly community in an Ecuadorian rainforest

    Philip J. DeVRIES;Debra Murray;Russell Lande

  • Partitioning diversity for conservation analyses

    Lou Jost;Philip DeVries;Thomas Walla;Harold Greeney

  • Species diversity and community structure in neotropical fruit‐feeding butterflies

    Philip J. Devries;Thomas R. Walla

  • The Butterflies of Costa Rica and their Natural History: Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae

    George T. Austin;Paul A. Opler;Philip J. DeVries

  • Species diversity in spatial and temporal dimensions of fruit-feeding butterflies from two Ecuadorian rainforests

    Philip J. DeVRIES;Thomas R. Walla;Harold F. Greeney

  • When species accumulation curves intersect: implications for ranking diversity using small samples.

    Russell Lande;Philip J. DeVries;Thomas R. Walla

  • Vertical distribution, flight behaviour and evolution of wing morphology in Morpho butterflies.

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  • Self and cross pollination of Encyclia cordigera (Orchidaceae) in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica

    D. H. Janzen;P. DeVries;D. E. Gladstone;M. L. Higgins

  • Seasonal and Site Variation in Costa Rican Euglossine Bees at Chemical Baits in Lowland Deciduous and Evergreen Forests

    D. H. Janzen;P. J. DeVries;M. L. Higgins;L. S. Kimsey

  • Seasonal cycles of species diversity and similarity in a tropical butterfly community.

    Vidar Grøtan;Russell Lande;Russell Lande;Steinar Engen;Bernt-Erik Sæther

  • Enhancement of Symbioses Between Butterfly Caterpillars and Ants by Vibrational Communication

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  • Analyzing Spatial Structure of Communities Using the Two‐Dimensional Poisson Lognormal Species Abundance Model

    Steinar Engen;Russell Lande;Thomas Walla;Philip J. DeVries

  • Mutualism between Thisbe irenea butterflies and ants, and the role of ant ecology in the evolution of larval‐ant associations

    P. J. Devries

  • Tropical niche conservatism and the species richness gradient of North American butterflies

    Bradford A. Hawkins;Philip J. DeVries

  • Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea).

    Marianne Espeland;Marianne Espeland;Jason P.W. Hall;Philip J. DeVries;David C. Lees

  • Similarity and difference among rainforest fruit-feeding butterfly communities in Central and South America

    Philip J. DeVries;Laura G. Alexander;Isidro A. Chacon;James A. Fordyce

  • The larval ant-organs of Thisbe irenea (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) and their effects upon attending ants

    P. J. Devries

  • The systematic position of Antirrhea and Caerois, with comments on the classification of the nymphalidae (Lepidoptera)

    Philip J. DeVRIES;Ian J. Kitching;R. I. Vane-Wright

  • Associations of co-mimetic ithomiine butterflies on small spatial and temporal scales in a neotropical rainforest

    P. J. DeVRIES;R. Lande;D. Murray

  • Food intake of fruit-feeding butterflies: evidence for adaptive variation in proboscis morphology

    Freerk Molleman;Harald W. Krenn;Monique E. Van Alphen;Paul M. Brakefield

  • Comparison of acoustical signals in Maculinea butterfly caterpillars and their obligate host Myrmica ants

    P. J. Devries;R. B. Cocroft;J. Thomas

  • Estimating Brownian motion dispersal rate, longevity and population density from spatially explicit mark–recapture data on tropical butterflies

    Jarle Tufto;Russell Lande;Thor‐Harald Ringsby;Steinar Engen

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell Lande
Russell Lande Imperial College London
Lee A. Dyer
Lee A. Dyer University of Nevada Reno
James A. Fordyce
James A. Fordyce University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Steinar Engen
Steinar Engen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
André V. L. Freitas
André V. L. Freitas State University of Campinas
John O. Stireman
John O. Stireman Wright State University
Naomi E. Pierce
Naomi E. Pierce Harvard University
Ian J. Kitching
Ian J. Kitching Natural History Museum
Roger Vila
Roger Vila Spanish National Research Council
Niklas Wahlberg
Niklas Wahlberg Lund University

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