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19917
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2258
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806

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robert J. Marquis is affiliated with the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the domains of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with substantial contributions to subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Ecology, and Insect Science.

Their topics of investigation cover a variety of areas such as Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, and Lepidoptera Biology and Taxonomy.

Frequent co-authors include Wesley Dáttilo, Luis Abdala-Roberts, Suzanne Koptur, Christina S. Baer, and Kateřina Sam.

Marquis has published multiple papers in renowned scientific journals and venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Between predators and parasitoids: Complex interactions among shelter traits, predation and parasitism in a shelter-building caterpillar community (2020, Functional Ecology)
  • Climate variability and aridity modulate the role of leaf shelters for arthropods: A global experiment (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • Ecosystem engineering in the arboreal realm: heterogeneity of wood-boring beetle cavities and their use by cavity-nesting ants (2021, Oecologia)
  • Ontogenetic consistency in oak defence syndromes (2020, Journal of Ecology)
  • Testing the role of local plant chemical diversity on plant-herbivore interactions and plant species coexistence (2022, Ecology)

Marquis' research appears regularly in several publication venues, including Oecologia, Ecology, Biotropica, Ecological Entomology, and Functional Ecology.

They have contributed to book literature with at least one work published by Springer International Publishing titled Caterpillars in the Middle (2022).

Marquis was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

    James A. Estes;John Terborgh;Justin S. Brashares;Mary E. Power

  • The Cerrados of Brazil: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savanna

    Paulo S. Oliveira;Robert J. Marquis

  • Ecosystem Services Provided by Birds

    Christopher J. Whelan;Daniel G. Wenny;Robert J. Marquis

  • Facing herbivory as you grow up: the ontogeny of resistance in plants

    Karina Boege;Karina Boege;Robert J. Marquis

  • THE EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF TOLERANCE TO CONSUMER DAMAGE

    Kirk A. Stowe;Robert J. Marquis;Cris G. Hochwender;Ellen L. Simms

  • The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

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

  • Host specificity of Lepidoptera in tropical and temperate forests

    L. A. Dyer;M. S. Singer;J. T. Lill;J. O. Stireman

  • Insectivorous Birds Increase Growth of White Oak through Consumption of Leaf-Chewing Insects

    Robert J. Marquis;Christopher J. Whelan

  • Climatic unpredictability and parasitism of caterpillars: Implications of global warming

    John O. Stireman Iii;Lee A. Dyer;D. H. Janzen;M. S. Singer

  • Leaf Herbivores Decrease Fitness of a Tropical Plant

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  • FITNESS IMPACTS OF HERBIVORY THROUGH INDIRECT EFFECTS ON PLANT–POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS IN OENOTHERA MACROCARPA

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  • 4. The Fire Factor

    Heloisa S. Miranda;Mercedes M. C. Bustamante;Antonio C. Miranda

  • Feeny revisited: condensed tannins as anti‐herbivore defences in leaf‐chewing herbivore communities of Quercus

    Rebecca E. Forkner;Robert J. Marquis;John T. Lill

  • Ecological And Evolutionary Legacy Of Megafauna Extinctions

    Mauro Galetti;Mauro Galetti;Marcos Moleón;Marcos Moleón;Pedro Jordano;Mathias M. Pires

  • Host plants influence parasitism of forest caterpillars

    J. T. Lill;J. T. Lill;R. J. Marquis;R. E. Ricklefs

  • 18. Biodiversity and Conservation Priorities in the Cerrado Region

    Roberto B. Cavalcanti;Carlos A. Joly

  • ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING BY CATERPILLARS INCREASES INSECT HERBIVORE DIVERSITY ON WHITE OAK

    John T. Lill;Robert J. Marquis

  • A Bite is a Bite is a Bite? Constraints on Response to Folivory in Piper Arieianum (Piperaceae)

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  • The effects of leaf quality on herbivore performance and attack from natural enemies.

    John T. Lill;Robert J. Marquis

  • Invasive honeysuckle eradication reduces tick-borne disease risk by altering host dynamics

    Brian F. Allan;Humberto P. Dutra;Lisa S. Goessling;Kirk Barnett

  • INDUCED DEFENSE IN WHITE OAK: EFFECTS ON HERBIVORES AND CONSEQUENCES FOR THE PLANT

    Eric N. Wold;Robert J. Marquis

  • Patterns and correlates of interspecific variation in foliar insect herbivory and pathogen attack in Brazilian cerrado

    Robert J. Marquis;Ivone R. Diniz;Helena C. Morais

  • The potential for and constraints on the evolution of compensatory ability in Asclepias syriaca.

    C. G. Hochwender;R. J. Marquis;K. A. Stowe

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs University of Missouri–St. Louis
Phyllis D. Coley
Phyllis D. Coley University of Utah
Paulo R. Guimarães
Paulo R. Guimarães Universidade de São Paulo
Lee A. Dyer
Lee A. Dyer University of Nevada Reno
John O. Stireman
John O. Stireman Wright State University
John L. Orrock
John L. Orrock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Pedro Jordano
Pedro Jordano Spanish National Research Council
Thomas A. Kursar
Thomas A. Kursar University of Utah
Victoria L. Sork
Victoria L. Sork University of California, Los Angeles
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos
Heraldo L. Vasconcelos Federal University of Uberlândia

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