Publications
Note: I try to keep this list up-to-date, but sometimes life happens and I fall behind. If you want to see my "real time" updated list of publications, check my google scholar page.
Peer Reviewed
Weber U.K, Nuismer S.L., Espíndola A. 2020. Patterns of floral morphology in relation to climate and floral visitors. Annals of Botany 125 (3): 433–445. doi
Kébé K., Alvarez N. Espíndola A. 2020. Oviposition choice and larval development of the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) on three cowpea varieties. Journal of Stored Products Research 86: 101578. doi
Sullivan J., Smith M. L., Espíndola A., Ruffley M., Rankin A., Tank D., Carstens B. 2019. Integrating life history traits into predictive phylogeography. Molecular Ecology 28 (8): 2062-2073. doi
Pelletier T. A., Carstens B.C., Tank D.C., Sullivan J., Espíndola A. 2018. Predicting plant conservation priorities on a global scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 115 (51): 13027-13032. doi
Espíndola A. and Pliscoff P. 2018. The relationship between pollinator visits and climatic suitabilities in specialized pollination interactions. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. doi
Sérsic A., Baranzelli M., Cosacov A., Espíndola A., Iglesias M., Chan L., Johnson L. 2018. Echoes of the whispering land: interacting roles of vicariance and selection in shaping the evolutionary divergence of two Calceolaria (Calceolariaceae) species from Patagonia and Malvinas/Falkland Islands. Evolutionary Ecology 32 (2-3): 287-314.
Smith M.L., Ruffley M., Rankin A.M., Espíndola A., Tank D.C., Sullivan J., Carstens B.C. 2018. Testing for the presence of cryptic diversity in tail-dropper slugs (Prophysaon) using molecular data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 124 (3): 518-532.
Vanbergen A., Espíndola A., Aizen M. 2018. Threats to pollinators and pollination from invasive alien species. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2: 16-25.
Ruffley M.R., Smith M.L., Espíndola A., Carstens B.C., Sullivan J., Tank D.C. 2018. Phylogeographic model selection in fastsimcoal2 and PHRAPL using herbarium specimens. Molecular Ecology 27 (4): 1012-1024.
Lucid M., Rankin A., Espíndola A., Chichester L., Ehlers S., Robinson L., Sullivan J. 2018. Taxonomy and biogeography of Hemphillia(Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Arionidae) in North American rain forests, with description of a new species (Hemphillia skadei sp. nov., Skade's Slug). Canadian Journal of Zoology 96 (4): 305-316.
*Kovács-Hostyánszki A., *Espíndola A., Vanbergen A., Settele J., Kremen C., Dicks L. 2017. Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination. Ecology Letters 20(5): 673-689. * co-first authors pdf
Murúa M., Espíndola A., González A., Medel R. 2017. Pollinators and crossability as reproductive isolation barriers in two sympatric oil-rewarding Calceolaria (Calceolariaceae) species. Evolutionary Ecology 31(4): 421-434. pdf
Sosa-Pivatto M., Cosacov A., Baranzelli M. C., Iglesias M. R., Espíndola A., Sérsic A. N. 2017. Do 120,000 years of plant-pollinator interactions predict floral phenotype divergence in Calceolaria polyrhiza? A reconstruction using species distribution models. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 11(3): 351-361. doi:10.1007/s11829-016-9490-4 pdf
Smith M., Ruffley M., Espíndola A., Tank D., Sullivan J., Carstens B. 2017. Demographic model selection using Random Forests and the Site Frequency Spectrum. Molecular Ecology 26(17): 4562-4573. doi:10.1111/mec.14223
Kébé K., Alvarez N., Tuda M., Arnqvist G., Fox C. W., Sembene M., Espíndola A.. 2017. Global phylogeography of the insect pest Callosobruchus maculatus L. (Coleoptera: Bruchinae) relates to the history of its main host, Vigna unguiculata L. Journal of Biogeography 44(11): 2515-2526. doi:10.1111/jbi.13052
Murúa M., Espíndola A., González A. and Medel R. In press. Patterns of floral evolution in oil-rewarding Calceolaria species. Plant Biology.
Suchan T., Espíndola A., Emerson B.C., Gori K., Dessimoz C., Arrigo N., Ronikier M., Alvarez N. 2017. Assessing the limitations of RAD-sequencing to resolve phylogenetic relationships within rapid radiations: the fly genus Chiastocheta as a case study. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 114: 189-198.
Espíndola A., Ruffley M., Smith M., Carstens B. C., Tank D., Sullivan J. 2016. Identifying cryptic diversity with predictive phylogeography. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 283 (1841). pdf
Dicks L. V., Viana B., Bommarco R., Brosi B., Arizmendi M. del C., Cunningham S. A., Galetto L., Hill R., Lopes A. V., Pires C., Taki H., Potts S. G., Espíndola A., Imperatriz-Fonseca V., Ngo H. T., Aizen M. A., Biesmeijer J. C., Breeze T. D., Garibaldi L. A., Settele J., Vanbergen A. J. 2016. Response to Tagliabue et al, on treatment of GM crops in 'Ten policies for pollinators'. Science eLetters. pdf
Kébé K., Alvarez N., Espíndola A., Justy F., Olivieri I., Sembène M. 2016. Insights into the genetic structure of the cowpea pest Callosobruchus maculatus in Africa. Journal of Pest Science 89: 449–458. pdf
Metzger G., Espíndola A., Waits L. P. and Sullivan J. 2015. Genetic structure across broad spatial and temporal scales: Rocky Mountain tailed frogs (Ascaphus montanus; Anura: Ascaphidae) in the Inland Temperate Rainforest. Journal of Heredity 106 (6): 700-710. pdf
Triponez Y., Arrigo N., Espíndola A. and Alvarez N. 2015. Decoupled post-glacial history in mutualistic plant-insect interactions: insights from the yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris) and its associated oil-collecting bees (Macropis europaea and M. fulvipes). Journal of Biogeography 42 (4): 630–640. pdf
Murúa M. and Espíndola A. 2015. Pollination syndromes in a specialized plant-pollinator interaction: does floral morphology predict pollinators in Calceolaria? Plant Biology 17 (2): 551–557. pdf
Espíndola A., Carstens B. and Alvarez N. 2014. Comparative phylogeography of mutualists and the effect of the host on the genetic structure of its partners. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113 (4): 1021–1035. pdf
Delplancke M., Alvarez N., Benoit L., Espíndola A., Joly H. I., Neuenschwander S. and Arrigo N. 2013. Evolutionary history of almond tree domestication in the Mediterranean basin. Molecular Ecology 22 (4): 1092–1104. pdf
Pellissier L., Espíndola A., Pradervand J.-N., Dubuis A., Pottier J., Ferrier S. and Guisan A. 2013. A probabilistic approach to niche-based community models for spatial forecasts of assemblage properties and their uncertainties. Journal of Biogeography 40 (10): 1939–1946. pdf
Kozuharova E., Kochmarov V., Kachaunova E., Espíndola A., Aleksandrov B., Mincheva I. 2013. Distribution of Arum in Bulgaria. Flora Mediterranea 24: 51–62. pdf
Espíndola A., Buerki S. and Alvarez N. 2012. Ecological and historical drivers of diversification in the fly genus Chiastocheta Pokorny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63 (2): 466–474. pdf
Revel N., Alvarez N., Gibernau M. and Espíndola A. 2012. Investigating the relationship between pollination strategies and the size-advantage model in zoophilous plants using the reproductive biology of Arum cylindraceum and other European Arum species as case studies. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 6: 1. 35–44. pdf
Delplancke M., Alvarez N., Espíndola A., Joly L H.I., Brouck E., Benoit L. and Arrigo N. 2012. Gene flow among wild and domesticated almond species: insights from chloroplast and nuclear markers. Evolutionary Applications 5 (4): 317–329. pdf
Espíndola A., Pellissier L., Maiorano L., Hordijk W., Guisan A. and Alvarez N. 2012. Predicting present and future intra-specific genetic structure through niche hindcasting across 24 millennia. Ecology Letters 15 (7): 649–657. pdf
Espíndola A., Buerki S., Jacquier A., Ježek J. and Alvarez N. 2012. Molecular relationships and diversification in the subfamily Psychodinae (Diptera: Psychodidae). Zoologica Scripta 41 (5): 489–498. pdf
Pellissier L., Alvarez N., Espíndola A., Pottier J., Dubuis A., Pradervand J.-N., Guisan A. 2012. Phylogenetic alpha and beta diversities of butterfly communities correlate with climate in the western Swiss Alps. Ecography 36 (5): 541–550. pdf
Espíndola A., Pellissier L. and Alvarez N. 2011. Variation in the proportion of flower visitors of Arum maculatum along its distributional range in relation with community-based climatic niche analyses. OIKOS 120: 728–734. pdf
Espíndola A. and Alvarez N. 2011. Comparative phylogeography in a specific and obligate pollination antagonism. PLoS ONE 6: 12. e28662. pdf
Espíndola A., Buerki S., Bedalov M., Küpfer P. and Alvarez N. 2010. New insights into the phylogenetics and biogeography of Arum(Araceae): unravelling its evolutionary history. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 163, 14–32. pdf
Kébé K., Alvarez N. Espíndola A. 2020. Oviposition choice and larval development of the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) on three cowpea varieties. Journal of Stored Products Research 86: 101578. doi
Sullivan J., Smith M. L., Espíndola A., Ruffley M., Rankin A., Tank D., Carstens B. 2019. Integrating life history traits into predictive phylogeography. Molecular Ecology 28 (8): 2062-2073. doi
Pelletier T. A., Carstens B.C., Tank D.C., Sullivan J., Espíndola A. 2018. Predicting plant conservation priorities on a global scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 115 (51): 13027-13032. doi
Espíndola A. and Pliscoff P. 2018. The relationship between pollinator visits and climatic suitabilities in specialized pollination interactions. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. doi
Sérsic A., Baranzelli M., Cosacov A., Espíndola A., Iglesias M., Chan L., Johnson L. 2018. Echoes of the whispering land: interacting roles of vicariance and selection in shaping the evolutionary divergence of two Calceolaria (Calceolariaceae) species from Patagonia and Malvinas/Falkland Islands. Evolutionary Ecology 32 (2-3): 287-314.
Smith M.L., Ruffley M., Rankin A.M., Espíndola A., Tank D.C., Sullivan J., Carstens B.C. 2018. Testing for the presence of cryptic diversity in tail-dropper slugs (Prophysaon) using molecular data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 124 (3): 518-532.
Vanbergen A., Espíndola A., Aizen M. 2018. Threats to pollinators and pollination from invasive alien species. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2: 16-25.
Ruffley M.R., Smith M.L., Espíndola A., Carstens B.C., Sullivan J., Tank D.C. 2018. Phylogeographic model selection in fastsimcoal2 and PHRAPL using herbarium specimens. Molecular Ecology 27 (4): 1012-1024.
Lucid M., Rankin A., Espíndola A., Chichester L., Ehlers S., Robinson L., Sullivan J. 2018. Taxonomy and biogeography of Hemphillia(Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Arionidae) in North American rain forests, with description of a new species (Hemphillia skadei sp. nov., Skade's Slug). Canadian Journal of Zoology 96 (4): 305-316.
*Kovács-Hostyánszki A., *Espíndola A., Vanbergen A., Settele J., Kremen C., Dicks L. 2017. Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination. Ecology Letters 20(5): 673-689. * co-first authors pdf
Murúa M., Espíndola A., González A., Medel R. 2017. Pollinators and crossability as reproductive isolation barriers in two sympatric oil-rewarding Calceolaria (Calceolariaceae) species. Evolutionary Ecology 31(4): 421-434. pdf
Sosa-Pivatto M., Cosacov A., Baranzelli M. C., Iglesias M. R., Espíndola A., Sérsic A. N. 2017. Do 120,000 years of plant-pollinator interactions predict floral phenotype divergence in Calceolaria polyrhiza? A reconstruction using species distribution models. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 11(3): 351-361. doi:10.1007/s11829-016-9490-4 pdf
Smith M., Ruffley M., Espíndola A., Tank D., Sullivan J., Carstens B. 2017. Demographic model selection using Random Forests and the Site Frequency Spectrum. Molecular Ecology 26(17): 4562-4573. doi:10.1111/mec.14223
Kébé K., Alvarez N., Tuda M., Arnqvist G., Fox C. W., Sembene M., Espíndola A.. 2017. Global phylogeography of the insect pest Callosobruchus maculatus L. (Coleoptera: Bruchinae) relates to the history of its main host, Vigna unguiculata L. Journal of Biogeography 44(11): 2515-2526. doi:10.1111/jbi.13052
Murúa M., Espíndola A., González A. and Medel R. In press. Patterns of floral evolution in oil-rewarding Calceolaria species. Plant Biology.
Suchan T., Espíndola A., Emerson B.C., Gori K., Dessimoz C., Arrigo N., Ronikier M., Alvarez N. 2017. Assessing the limitations of RAD-sequencing to resolve phylogenetic relationships within rapid radiations: the fly genus Chiastocheta as a case study. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 114: 189-198.
Espíndola A., Ruffley M., Smith M., Carstens B. C., Tank D., Sullivan J. 2016. Identifying cryptic diversity with predictive phylogeography. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 283 (1841). pdf
Dicks L. V., Viana B., Bommarco R., Brosi B., Arizmendi M. del C., Cunningham S. A., Galetto L., Hill R., Lopes A. V., Pires C., Taki H., Potts S. G., Espíndola A., Imperatriz-Fonseca V., Ngo H. T., Aizen M. A., Biesmeijer J. C., Breeze T. D., Garibaldi L. A., Settele J., Vanbergen A. J. 2016. Response to Tagliabue et al, on treatment of GM crops in 'Ten policies for pollinators'. Science eLetters. pdf
Kébé K., Alvarez N., Espíndola A., Justy F., Olivieri I., Sembène M. 2016. Insights into the genetic structure of the cowpea pest Callosobruchus maculatus in Africa. Journal of Pest Science 89: 449–458. pdf
Metzger G., Espíndola A., Waits L. P. and Sullivan J. 2015. Genetic structure across broad spatial and temporal scales: Rocky Mountain tailed frogs (Ascaphus montanus; Anura: Ascaphidae) in the Inland Temperate Rainforest. Journal of Heredity 106 (6): 700-710. pdf
Triponez Y., Arrigo N., Espíndola A. and Alvarez N. 2015. Decoupled post-glacial history in mutualistic plant-insect interactions: insights from the yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris) and its associated oil-collecting bees (Macropis europaea and M. fulvipes). Journal of Biogeography 42 (4): 630–640. pdf
Murúa M. and Espíndola A. 2015. Pollination syndromes in a specialized plant-pollinator interaction: does floral morphology predict pollinators in Calceolaria? Plant Biology 17 (2): 551–557. pdf
Espíndola A., Carstens B. and Alvarez N. 2014. Comparative phylogeography of mutualists and the effect of the host on the genetic structure of its partners. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113 (4): 1021–1035. pdf
Delplancke M., Alvarez N., Benoit L., Espíndola A., Joly H. I., Neuenschwander S. and Arrigo N. 2013. Evolutionary history of almond tree domestication in the Mediterranean basin. Molecular Ecology 22 (4): 1092–1104. pdf
Pellissier L., Espíndola A., Pradervand J.-N., Dubuis A., Pottier J., Ferrier S. and Guisan A. 2013. A probabilistic approach to niche-based community models for spatial forecasts of assemblage properties and their uncertainties. Journal of Biogeography 40 (10): 1939–1946. pdf
Kozuharova E., Kochmarov V., Kachaunova E., Espíndola A., Aleksandrov B., Mincheva I. 2013. Distribution of Arum in Bulgaria. Flora Mediterranea 24: 51–62. pdf
Espíndola A., Buerki S. and Alvarez N. 2012. Ecological and historical drivers of diversification in the fly genus Chiastocheta Pokorny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63 (2): 466–474. pdf
Revel N., Alvarez N., Gibernau M. and Espíndola A. 2012. Investigating the relationship between pollination strategies and the size-advantage model in zoophilous plants using the reproductive biology of Arum cylindraceum and other European Arum species as case studies. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 6: 1. 35–44. pdf
Delplancke M., Alvarez N., Espíndola A., Joly L H.I., Brouck E., Benoit L. and Arrigo N. 2012. Gene flow among wild and domesticated almond species: insights from chloroplast and nuclear markers. Evolutionary Applications 5 (4): 317–329. pdf
Espíndola A., Pellissier L., Maiorano L., Hordijk W., Guisan A. and Alvarez N. 2012. Predicting present and future intra-specific genetic structure through niche hindcasting across 24 millennia. Ecology Letters 15 (7): 649–657. pdf
Espíndola A., Buerki S., Jacquier A., Ježek J. and Alvarez N. 2012. Molecular relationships and diversification in the subfamily Psychodinae (Diptera: Psychodidae). Zoologica Scripta 41 (5): 489–498. pdf
Pellissier L., Alvarez N., Espíndola A., Pottier J., Dubuis A., Pradervand J.-N., Guisan A. 2012. Phylogenetic alpha and beta diversities of butterfly communities correlate with climate in the western Swiss Alps. Ecography 36 (5): 541–550. pdf
Espíndola A., Pellissier L. and Alvarez N. 2011. Variation in the proportion of flower visitors of Arum maculatum along its distributional range in relation with community-based climatic niche analyses. OIKOS 120: 728–734. pdf
Espíndola A. and Alvarez N. 2011. Comparative phylogeography in a specific and obligate pollination antagonism. PLoS ONE 6: 12. e28662. pdf
Espíndola A., Buerki S., Bedalov M., Küpfer P. and Alvarez N. 2010. New insights into the phylogenetics and biogeography of Arum(Araceae): unravelling its evolutionary history. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 163, 14–32. pdf
Non-Peer Reviewed
Alvarez N. and Espíndola A. 2010. Comprendre la dispersion des espèces dans l’espace et dans le temps: un défi pour les biogéographes. Actes de la Société Jurassienne d’Emulation. Pp. 27–41. pdf
