Kress, John
Former Curator
Systematic Biology: systematics of Heliconia and other Zingiberales, especially with regards to reproductive biology, allozyme and molecular variation, and cladistic relationships; generic concepts in the Zingiberales; phylogeny and evolution of the monocotyledons.`Evolutionary Biology: plant reproductive biology; the evolution of breeding and pollination systems; genetic diversity and speciation in tropical angiosperms.`Conservation Biology: forest fragmentation, gene flow, and genetic variation in tropical and temperate plant species.
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- Sherkow, Jacob S., Barker, Katharine B., Braverman, Irus, Cook-Deegan, Robert, Durbin, Richard, Easter, Carla L., Goldstein, Melissa M., Hudson, Maui, Kress, W. J., Lewin, Harris A., Mathews, Debra J. H., McCarthy, Catherine, McCartney, Ann M., da Silva, Manuela, Torrance, Andrew W., and Greely, Henry T. 2022. "Ethical, legal, and social issues in the Earth BioGenome Project." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, (4). , https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115859119. 2022
- Kress, W. J., Soltis, Douglas E., Kersey, Paul J., Wegrzyn, Jill L., Leebens-Mack, James, Gostel, Morgan R., Liu, Xin, and Soltis, Pamela S. 2022. "Green plant genomes: What we know in an era of rapidly expanding opportunities." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, (4). , https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115640118. 2022
- Kress, W. John and Krupnick, Gary A. 2022. "Lords of the biosphere: Plant winners and losers in the Anthropocene." Plants People Planet, Hoboken; New Jersey: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10252. 2022
- Palmer, Christine M., Wershoven, Nicole L., Martinson, Sharon J., ter Hofstede, Hannah M., Kress, W. John, and Symes, Laurel B. 2022. "Patterns of Herbivory in Neotropical Forest Katydids as Revealed by DNA Barcoding of Digestive Tract Contents." Diversity-Basel, 14, (2), Basel; Switzerland: MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14020152. 2022
- Lewin, Harris A., Richards, Stephen, Lieberman Aiden, Erez, Allende, Miguel L., Archibald, John M., Bálint, Miklós, Barker, Katharine B., Baumgartner, Bridget, Belov, Katherine, Bertorelle, Giorgio, Blaxter, Mark L., Cai, Jing, Caperello, Nicolette D., Carlson, Keith, Castilla-Rubio, Juan, Chaw, Shu-Miaw, Chen, Lei, Childers, Anna K., Coddington, Jonathan A., Conde, Dalia A., Corominas, Montserrat, Crandall, Keith A., Crawford, Andrew J., DiPalma, Federica, Durbin, Richard et al. 2022. "The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, (4). , https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115635118. 2022
- Gostel, Morgan R. and Kress, W. John. 2022. "The Expanding Role of DNA Barcodes: Indispensable Tools for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation." Diversity, 14, (3). Basel, Switzerland: MDPI, https://doi.org/10.3390/d14030213. 2022
- Kress, W. John. 2022. "Thomas E. Lovejoy III (1941-2021)-An individual for all times and places, especially in the tropics." Biotropica, Hoboken; New Jersey: Wiley, https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13102. 2022
- Blaxter, Mark, Archibald, John M., Childers, Anna K., Coddington, Jonathan A., Crandall, Keith A., Di Palma, Federica, Durbin, Richard, Edwards, Scott V., Graves, Jennifer A. M., Hackett, Kevin J., Hall, Neil, Jarvis, Erich D., Johnson, Rebecca N., Karlsson, Elinor K., Kress, W. J., Kuraku, Shigehiro, Lawniczak, Mara K. N., Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Lopez, Jose V., Moran, Nancy A., Robinson, Gene E., Ryder, Oliver A., Shapiro, Beth, Soltis, Pamela S., Warnow, Tandy et al. 2022. "Why sequence all eukaryotes?" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, (4). , https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115636118. 2022
- Wiegand, Thorsten, Wang, Xugao, Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J., Bourg, Norman A., Cao, Min, Ci, Xiuqin, Davies, Stuart J., Hao, Zhanqing, Howe, Robert W., Kress, W. John, Lian, Juyu, Li, Jie, Lin, Luxiang, Lin, Yiching, Ma, Keping, McShea, William, Mi, Xiangcheng, Su, Sheng-Hsin, Sun, I-Fang, Wolf, Amy, Ye, Wanhui, and Huth, Andreas. 2021. "Consequences of spatial patterns for coexistence in species-rich plant communities." Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01440-0 2021
- Yu, Jie, Wu, Xi, Liu, Chang, Newmaster, Steve, Ragupathy, Subramanyam, and Kress, W. John. 2021. "Progress in the use of DNA barcodes in the identification and classification of medicinal plants." Ecotoxicology and environmental safety 208:111691-111691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.111691 2021
- Gostel, Morgan R., Zúñiga, Jose D., Kress, W. John, Funk, Vicki A., and Puente-Lelievre, Caroline. 2020. "Author Correction: Microfluidic Enrichment Barcoding (MEBarcoding): a new method for high throughput plant DNA barcoding." Scientific Reports 10 (1):https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69598-4 2020
- Wood, Jana, Yasmin-Karim, Sayeda, Moreau, Michele, Kumar, Rajiv, Akwanwi, Janet, Derek, Atoh, Atoneche, Fred, Kress, W. John, and Ngwa, A. Wilfred. 2020. "Characterization of Isolated Extracts from Justicia Plant Leaves used as Remedy for Anemia." Molecules 25 (3):Article E534. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25030534 2020
- Kress, W. John, Mazet, Jonna A. K., and Hebert, Paul D. N. 2020. "Intercepting pandemics through genomics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (25):13852-13855. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009508117 2020
- Gostel, Morgan R., Zúñiga, Jose D., Kress, W. John, Funk, Vicki A., and Puente-Lelievre, Caroline. 2020. "Microfluidic Enrichment Barcoding (MEBarcoding): a new method for high throughput plant DNA barcoding." Scientific Reports 10:Article 8701. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64919-z 2020
- Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, Kuprewicz, Erin K., and Kress, W. John. 2020. "REMEMBRANCE: Terry L. Erwin (1940-2020): Un cientifico muy Agra-dable." Biotropica 52 (4):785-786. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12828 2020
- Pei, Nancai and Kress, W. John. 2020. "Research in Forest Biology in the Era of Climate Change and Rapid Urbanization." Forests 11 (1):Article 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11010026 2020
- Gill, Brian A., Musili, Paul M., Kurukura, Samson, Hassan, Abidikadir A., Goheen, Jacob R., Kress, W. John, Kuzmina, Maria, Pringle, Robert M., and Kartzinel, Tyler R. 2019. "Plant DNA-barcode library and community phylogeny for a semi-arid East African savanna." Molecular Ecology Resources 19 (4):838-846. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13001 2019
- Comita, Liza S., Uriarte, María, Forero-Montaña, Jimena, Kress, W. John, Swenson, Nathan G., Thompson, Jill, Umaña, María Natalia, and Zimmerman, Jess K. 2018. "Changes in Phylogenetic Community Structure of the Seedling Layer Following Hurricane Disturbance in a Human-Impacted Tropical Forest." Forests 9 (9):556. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9090556 2018
- Kress, W. John, Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, Soares, Joao V. B., Jacobs, David, Wilson, Katharine, Lopez, Ida C., and Belhumeur, Peter N. 2018. "Citizen Science and Climate Change: Mapping the Range Expansions of Native and Exotic Plants with the Mobile App Leafsnap." Bioscience 68 (5):348-358. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy019 2018
- Chauvin, K. M., Asner, G. P., Martin, R. E., Kress, W. John, Wright, S. Joseph, and Field, C. B. 2018. "Decoupled dimensions of leaf economic and anti-herbivore defense strategies in a tropical canopy tree community." Oecologia 186 (3):765-782. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-4043-9 2018
- Lewin, Harris A., Robinson, Gene E., Kress, W. John, Baker, William J., Coddington, Jonathan, Crandall, Keith A., Durbin, Richard, Edwards, Scott V., Forest, Felix, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Goldstein, Melissa M., Grigoriev, Igor V., Hackett, Kevin J., Haussler, David, Jarvis, Erich D., Johnson, Warren E., Patrinos, Aristides, Richards, Stephen, Castilla-Rubio, Juan Carlos, van Sluys, Marie-Anne, Soltis, Pamela S., Xu, Xun, Yang, Huanming, and Zhang, Guojie. 2018. "Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (17):4325-4333. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720115115 2018
- Chen, Lei, Comita, Liza S., Wright, S. Joseph, Swenson, Nathan G., Zimmerman, Jess K., Mi, Xiangcheng, Hao, Zhanqing, Ye, Wanhui, Hubbell, Stephen P., Kress, W. John, Uriarte, Maria, Thompson, Jill, Nytch, Christopher J., Wang, Xugao, Lian, Juyu, and Ma, Keping. 2018. "Forest tree neighborhoods are structured more by negative conspecific density dependence than by interactions among closely related species." Ecography 41 (7):1114-1123. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03389 2018
- Kress, W. John, Knapp, Sandra, Stoev, Pavel, and Penev, Lyubomir. 2018. "PhytoKeys at 100: progress in sustainability, innovation, and speed to enhance publication in plant systematics." Phytokeys (100): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.100.27591 2018
- Carlsen, Mónica M., Fér, Tomáš, Schmickl, Roswitha, Leong-Škorničková, Jana, Newman, Mark, and Kress, W. John. 2018. "Resolving the rapid plant radiation of early diverging lineages in the tropical Zingiberales: pushing the limits of genomic data." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 128:55-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.07.020 2018
- Pei, Nancai, Chen, Bufeng, and Kress, W. John. 2017. "Advances of Community-Level Plant DNA Barcoding in China." Frontiers in Plant Science 8 (225):https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.00225 2017
- Shapcott, Alison, Liu, Yining, Howard, Marion, Forster, Paul I., Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., Faith, Daniel P., Shimizu, Yoko, and McDonald, William J. F. 2017. "Comparing Floristic Diversity and Conservation Priorities across South East Queensland Regional Rain Forest Ecosystems Using Phylodiversity Indexes." International Journal of Plant Sciences 178 (3):211-229. https://doi.org/10.1086/690022 2017
- Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, Horvitz, Carol C., Kress, W. John, Carvajal-Acosta, A., Erwin, Terry L., and Staines, Charles L. 2017. "Experimental assemblage of novel plant-herbivore interactions: ecological host shifts after 40 million years of isolation." Biotropica 49 (6):803-810. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12464 2017
- Baker, Timothy R., Pennington, R. Toby, Dexter, Kyle G., Fine, Paul V. A., Fortune-Hopkins, Helen, Honorio, Euridice N., Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau, Klitgård, Bente B., Lewis, Gwilym P., de Lima, Haroldo C., Ashton, Peter, Baraloto, Christopher, Davies, Stuart, Donoghue, Michael J., Kaye, Maria, Kress, W. John, Lehmann, Caroline E. R., Monteagudo, Abel, Phillips, Oliver L., and Vasquez, Rodolfo. 2017. "Maximising Synergy among Tropical Plant Systematists, Ecologists, and Evolutionary Biologists." Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32 (4):258-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.01.007 2017
- Gevú, Kathlyn Vasconcelos, Lima, Helena Regina Pinto, Kress, W. John, and Da Cunha, Maura. 2017. "Morphological analysis of vessel elements for systematic study of three Zingiberaceae tribes." Journal of Plant Research 130 (3):527-538. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-017-0911-y 2017
- Lowman, Margaret D. and Kress, W. John. 2017. "Museum careers – so much more than curating collections!." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15 (7):404-405. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1524 2017
- Kress, W. John. 2017. "Plant DNA barcodes: Applications today and in the future." Journal of Systematics and Evolution 55 (4):291-307. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12254 2017
- Crane, Peter R., Ge, Song, Hong, De-Yuan, Huang, Hong-Wen, Jiao, Gen-Lin, Knapp, Sandra, Kress, W. John, Mooney, Harold, Raven, Peter H., Wen, Jun, Wu, Wei-Hua, Yang, Huan-Ming, Zhu, Wei-Hua, and Zhu, Yu-Xian. 2017. "The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences." Taxon 66 (5):1261-1262. https://doi.org/10.12705/665.34 2017
- Crane, Peter R., Ge, Song, Hong, De-Yuan, Huang, Hong-Wen, Jiao, Gen-Lin, Knapp, Sandra, Kress, W. John, Mooney, Harold, Raven, Peter H., Wen, Jun, Wu, Wei-Hua, Yang, Huan-Ming, Zhu, Wei-Hua, and Zhu, Yu-Xian. 2017. "The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences Uniting plant sciences and society to build a green, sustainable Earth." Phytokeys (86): 3-7. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.86.20859 2017
- Crane, Peter R., Ge, Song, Hong, De-Yuan, Huang, Hong-Wen, Jiao, Gen-Lin, Knapp, Sandra, Kress, W. John, Mooney, Harold, Raven, Peter H., Wen, Jun, Wu, Wei-Hua, Yang, Huan-Ming, Zhu, Wei-Hua, and Zhu, Yu-Xian. 2017. "The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences-Uniting plant sciences and society to build a green, sustainable Earth." Journal of Systematics and Evolution 55 (5):415-416. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12283 2017
- Kress, W. John and Knapp, Sandra. 2017. "The Shenzhen Declaration on Plant Sciences: Too late or just in time?." Phytokeys (86): 1-2. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.86.20712 2017
- Costion, Craig M., Kress, W. John, and Crayn, Darren M. 2016. "DNA Barcodes Confirm the Taxonomic and Conservation Status of a Species of Tree on the Brink of Extinction in the Pacific." PloS One 11 (6):https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155118 2016
- Zhao, Jian-Li, Xia, Yong-Mei, Cannon, Charles H., Kress, W. John, and Li, Qing-Jun. 2016. "Evolutionary diversification of alpine ginger reflects the early uplift of the Himalayan–Tibetan Plateau and rapid extrusion of Indochina." Gondwana Research 32:232-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2015.02.004 2016
- Muscarella, Robert, Uriarte, Maria, Aide, T. Mitchell, Erickson, David L., Forero-Montana, Jimena, Kress, W. John, Swenson, Nathan G., and Zimmerman, Jess K. 2016. "Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico." Journal of Vegetation Science 27 (2):283-294. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12354 2016
- García-Robledo, Carlos, Kuprewicz, Erin K., Staines, Charles L., Erwin, Terry L., and Kress, W. John. 2016. "Limited tolerance by insects to high temperatures across tropical elevational gradients and the implications of global warming for extinction." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (3):680-685. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1507681113 2016
- Howard, Marion G., McDonald, William J. F., Forster, Paul I., Kress, W. John, Erickson, David, Faith, Daniel P., and Shapcott, Alison. 2016. "Patterns of Phylogenetic Diversity of Subtropical Rainforest of the Great Sandy Region, Australia Indicate Long Term Climatic Refugia." PloS One 11 (4):https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153565 2016
- Wills, Christopher, Harms, Kyle E., Wiegand, Thorsten, Punchi-Manage, Ruwan, Gilbert, Gregory S., Erickson, David, Kress, W. John, Hubbell, Stephen P., Gunatilleke, C. V. S., and Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N. 2016. "Persistence of Neighborhood Demographic Influences over Long Phylogenetic Distances May Help Drive Post-Speciation Adaptation in Tropical Forests." PLOS ONE 11 (6):1-24. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156913 2016
- McManus, Kelly M., Asner, Gregory P., Martin, Roberta E., Dexter, Kyle G., Kress, W. John, and Field, Christopher B. 2016. "Phylogenetic Structure of Foliar Spectral Traits in Tropical Forest Canopies." Remote Sensing 8 (3):196. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8030196 2016
- Temeles, Ethan J., Newman, Julia T., Newman, Jennifer H., Cho, Se Yeon, Mazzotta, Alexandra R., and Kress, W. John. 2016. "Pollinator Competition as a Driver of Floral Divergence: An Experimental Test." PloS One 11 (1):https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146431 2016
- Muscarella, Robert, Uriarte, María, Erickson, David L., Swenson, Nathan G., Kress, W. John, and Zimmerman, Jess K. 2016. "Variation of tropical forest assembly processes across regional environmental gradients." Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 23:52-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2016.09.007 2016
- Fan, Yong-Li, Kress, W. John, and Li, Qing-Jun. 2015. "A New Secondary Pollen Presentation Mechanism from a Wild Ginger (Zingiber densissimum) and Its Functional Roles in Pollination Process." PloS One 10 (12):https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143812 2015
- García-Robledo, Carlos, Staines, Charles L., and Kress, W. John. 2015. "A new species of bromeliad-feeding Cephaloleia Chevrolat (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) from Costa Rica: evidence from DNA barcodes, larval and adult morphology and insect diets." ZooKeys (477): 143-155. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.477.8220 2015
- Pei, Nancai, Erickson, David L., Chen, Bufeng, Ge, Xuejun, Mi, Xiangcheng, Swenson, Nathan G., Zhang, Jin-Long, Jones, Frank A., Huang, Chun-Lin, Ye, Wanhui, Hao, Zhanqing, Hsieh, Chang-Fu, Lum, Shawn, Bourg, Norman A., Parker, John D., Zimmerman, Jess K., McShea, William J., Lopez, Ida C., Sun, I. F., Davies, Stuart J., Ma, Keping, and Kress, W. John. 2015. "Closely-related taxa influence woody species discrimination via DNA barcoding: evidence from global forest dynamics plots." Scientific Reports 5 (15127):https://doi.org/10.1038/srep15127 2015
- Kress, W. John, García-Robledo, Carlos, Uriarte, Maria, and Erickson, David L. 2015. "DNA barcodes for ecology, evolution, and conservation." Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30 (1):25-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.10.008 2015
- Kartzinel, Tyler R., Chen, Patricia A., Coverdale, Tyler C., Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, Kuzmina, Maria L., Rubenstein, Daniel I., Wang, Wei, and Pringle, Robert M. 2015. "DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112 (26):8019-8024. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503283112 2015
- Shapcott, Alison, Forster, Paul I., Guymer, Gordon P., McDonald, William J. F., Faith, Daniel P., Erickson, David L., and Kress, W. John. 2015. "Mapping Biodiversity and Setting Conservation Priorities for SE Queensland's Rainforests Using DNA Barcoding." PloS One 10 (3):https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122164 2015
- Pei, Nan-Cai, Kress, W. John, Chen, Bu-Feng, Erickson, David L., Wong, Khoon Meng, Zhang, Jin-Long, Ye, Wan-Hui, Huang, Zhong-Liang, and Zhang, Dian-Xiang. 2015. "Phylogenetic and climatic constraints drive flowering phenological patterns in a subtropical nature reserve." Journal of Plant Ecology 8 (2):187-196. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtv009 2015
- Lemoine, Nathan P., Shue, Jessica, Verrico, Brittany, Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, and Parker, John D. 2015. "Phylogenetic relatedness and leaf functional traits, not introduced status, influence community assembly." Ecology 96 (10):2605-2612. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1883.1 2015
- Betts, Matthew G., Hadley, Adam S., and Kress, W. John. 2015. "Pollinator recognition by a keystone tropical plant." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112 (11):3433-3438. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419522112 2015
- Chen, Juan, Zhao, Jietang, Erickson, David L., Xia, Nianhe, and Kress, W. John. 2015. "Testing DNA barcodes in closely related species of Curcuma (Zingiberaceae) from Myanmar and China." Molecular Ecology Resources 15 (2):337-348. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12319 2015
- Costion, Craig M., Simpson, Lalita, Pert, Petina L., Carlsen, Monica M., Kress, W. John, and Crayn, Darren. 2015. "Will tropical mountaintop plant species survive climate change? Identifying key knowledge gaps using species distribution modelling in Australia." Biological Conservation 191:322-330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.07.022 2015
- Muscarella, Robert, Uriarte, María, Erickson, David L., Swenson, Nathan G., Zimmerman, Jess K., and Kress, W. John. 2014. "A well-resolved phylogeny of the trees of puerto rico based on DNA barcode sequence data." PloS One 9 (11):1-11. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112843 2014
- Erickson, David L., Jones, Frank A., Swenson, Nathan G., Pei, Nancai, Bourg, Norman, Chen, Wenna, Davies, Stuart James, Ge, Xue-jun, Hao, Zhanqing, Howe, Robert W., Huang, Chun Lin, Larson, Andrew J., Lum, Shawn K., Lutz, James, Ma, Keping, Meegaskumbura, Madhava, Mi, Xiangcheng, Parker, John D., Sun, I. Fang, Wright, S. Joseph, Wolf, Amy T., Xing, Dinglian, Zimmerman, Jess K., and Kress, W. John. 2014. "Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach." Frontiers in Genetics 5:358. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2014.00358 2014
- Lasky, Jesse R., Uriarte, María, Boukili, Vanessa K., Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, and Chazdon, Robin L. 2014. "Corrigendum to “The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession”." Ecology Letters 17 (11):1478-1478. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12370 2014
- Lasky, Jesse R., Uriarte, María, Boukili, Vanessa K., Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, and Chazdon, Robin L. 2014. "The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession." Ecology Letters 17 (9):1158-1167. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12322 2014
- Kress, W. John. 2014. "Valuing collections." Science 346 (6215):1310. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa4115 2014
- Martin, Adam R., Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, and Thomas, Sean C. 2014. "Wood nitrogen concentrations in tropical trees: phylogenetic patterns and ecological correlates." New Phytologist 204 (3):484-495. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12943 2014
- Gowda, Vinita and Kress, W. John. 2013. "A Geographic Mosaic of Plant–Pollinator Interactions in the Eastern Caribbean Islands." Biotropica 45 (2):224-235. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00915.x 2013
- Côrtes, Marina C., Uriarte, María, Lemes, Maristerra R., Gribel, Rogério, Kress, W. John, Smouse, Peter E., and Bruna, Emilio M. 2013. "Low plant density enhances gene dispersal in the Amazonian understory herb Heliconia acuminata." Molecular ecology 22 (22):5716-5729. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12495 2013
- Temeles, Ethan J., Rah, Y. J., Andicoechea, J., Byanova, K. L., Giller, G. S. J., Stolk, S. B., and Kress, W. John. 2013. "Pollinator-mediated selection in a specialized hummingbird-Heliconia system in the Eastern Caribbean." Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26 (2):347-356. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12053 2013
- Swenson, Nathan G., Mi, Xiangcheng, Kress, W. John, Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, María, and Zimmerman, Jess K. 2013. "Species-time-area and phylogenetic-time-area relationships in tropical tree communities." Ecology and Evolution 3 (5):1173-1183. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.526 2013
- García-Robledo, Carlos, Erickson, David L., Staines, Charles L., Erwin, Terry L., and Kress, W. John. 2013. "Tropical Plant–Herbivore Networks: Reconstructing Species Interactions Using DNA Barcodes." PLoS ONE 8 (1):e52967. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052967 2013
- García-Robledo, Carlos, Kuprewicz, Erin K., Staines, Charles L., Kress, W. John, and Erwin, Terry L. 2013. "Using a comprehensive DNA barcode library to detect novel egg and larval host plant associations in a Cephaloleia rolled-leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110 (1):189-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12115 2013
- Laurance, William F., Carolina Useche, D., Rendeiro, Julio, Kalka, Margareta, Bradshaw, Corey J. A., Sloan, Sean P., Laurance, Susan G., Campbell, Mason, Abernethy, Kate, Alvarez, Patricia, Arroyo-Rodriguez, Victor, Ashton, Peter, Benítez-Malvido, Julieta, Blom, Allard, Bobo, Kadiri S., Cannon, Charles H., Cao, Min, Carroll, Richard, Chapman, Colin, Coates, Rosamond, Cords, Marina, Danielsen, Finn, De Dijn, Bart, Dinerstein, Eric, Donnelly, Maureen A. et al. 2012. "Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas." Nature 489:290-294. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11318 2012
- Nicole, Silvia, Negrisolo, Enrico, Eccher, Giulia, Mantovani, Roberto, Patarnello, Tomaso, Erickson, David L., Kress, W. John, and Barcaccia, Gianni. 2012. "DNA Barcoding as a Reliable Method for the Authentication of Commercial Seafood Products." Food Technology and Biotechnology 50 (4):387-398. 2012
- Gowda, Vinita, Erickson, David L., and Kress, W. John. 2012. "Development and characterization of microsatellite loci for two Caribbean Heliconia (Heliconiaceae: H. bihai and H. caribaea)." American Journal of Botany 99 (2):e81-e83. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1100386 2012
- Kress, W. John, Lopez, Ida C., and Erickson, David L. 2012. "Generating Plant DNA Barcodes for Trees in Long-Term Forest Dynamics Plots." in DNA Barcodes, edited by Kress, W. John and Erickson, David L., 441-458. Humana Press. 2012
- Specht, Chelsea D., Yockteng, Roxana, Almeida, Ana Maria, Kirchoff, Bruce K., and Kress, W. John. 2012. "Homoplasy, Pollination, and Emerging Complexity During the Evolution of Floral Development in the Tropical Gingers (Zingiberales)." Botanical Review 78 (4):440-462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12229-012-9111-6 2012
- Cron, Glynis V., Pirone, Cary, Bartlett, Madelaine, Kress, W. John, and Specht, Chelsea. 2012. "Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolution in the Strelitziaceae (Zingiberales)." Systematic Botany 37 (3):606-619. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364412X648562 2012
- Swenson, Nathan G., Erickson, David L., Mi, Xiangcheng, Bourg, Norman Alan, Forero-Montana, Jimena, Ge, Xuejun, Howe, Robert, Lake, Jeffrey K., Liu, Xiaojuan, Ma, Keping, Pei, Nancai, Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, María, Wolf, Amy T., Wright, S. Joseph, Ye, Wanhu, Zhang, Jinlong, Zimmerman, Jess, and Kress, W. John. 2012. "Phylogenetic and Functional Alpha and Beta Diversity in Temperate and Tropical Tree Communities." Ecology 93 (8):S112-S125. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-0402.1 2012
- Swenson, Nathan G., Stegen, James C., Davies, Stuart James, Erickson, David L., Forero-Montaña, Jimena, Hurlbert, Allen H., Kress, W. John, Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, María, Wright, S. Joseph, and Zimmerman, Jess K. 2012. "Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity." Ecology 93 (3):490-499. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-1180.1 2012
- Gowda, Vinita, Temeles, Ethan J., and Kress, W. John. 2012. "Territorial Fidelity to Nectar Sources by Purple-throated Caribs, Eulampis Jugularis." Wilson Journal of Ornithology 124 (1):81-86. https://doi.org/10.1676/11-061.1 2012
- Mi, Xiangcheng, Swenson, Nathan G., Valencia, Renato, Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., Perez, Alvaro J., Ren, Haibao, Su, Sheng-Hsin, Gunatilleke, Nimal, Gunatilleke, Savi, Hao, Zhanqing, Ye, Wanhui, Cao, Min, Suresh, H. S., Dattaraja, H. S., Sukumar, R., and Ma, Keping. 2012. "The Contribution of Rare Species to Community Phylogenetic Diversity across a Global Network of Forest Plots." American Naturalist 180 (1):E17-E30. https://doi.org/10.1086/665999 2012
- Gowda, Vinita, Kress, W. John, and Htun, Thet. 2012. "Two new species of Gingers (Zingiberaceae) from Myanmar." PhytoKeys 13:5-14. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.13.2670 2012
- Fleming, Theodore H. and Kress, W. John. 2011. "A brief history of fruits and frugivores." Acta Oecologica 37 (6):521-530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2011.01.016 2011
- Nicolè, Silvia, Erickson, David L., Ambrosi, Daria, Bellucci, Elisa, Lucchin, Margherita, Papa, Roberto, Kress, W. John, and Barcaccia, Gianni. 2011. "Biodiversity studies in Phaseolus species by DNA barcoding." Genome 54 (7):529-545. https://doi.org/10.1139/g11-018 2011
- Whitfeld, T. J. S., Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., and Weiblen, G. D. 2011. "Change in community phylogenetic structure during tropical forest succession: evidence from New Guinea." Ecography 35 (9):821-830. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07181.x 2011
- Penev, Lyubomir, Stoev, Pavel, Kress, W. John, Knapp, S., and Erwin, Terry L. 2011. "Cybertaxonomy, semantic markup and semantic enhancements: The PhytoKeys and ZooKeys experience." South African Journal of Botany 77 (2):560-560. 2011
- Pei, Nancai, Lian, Ju-Yu, Erickson, David L., Swenson, Nathan G., Kress, W. John, Ye, Wan-Hui, and Ge, Xue-jun. 2011. "Exploring Tree-Habitat Associations in a Chinese Subtropical Forest Plot Using a Molecular Phylogeny Generated from DNA Barcode Loci." Plos One 6 (6):1-9. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021273 2011
- Gagnon, Paul R., Bruna, Emilio M., Rubim, Paulo, Darrigo, Maria Rosa, Littell, Ramon C., Uriarte, Maria, and Kress, W. John. 2011. "Growth of an understory herb is chronically reduced in Amazonian forest fragments." Biological Conservation 144 (2):830-835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2010.11.015 2011
- Kress, W. John and Penev, Lyubomir. 2011. "Innovative electronic publication in plant systematics: PhytoKeys and the changes to the "Botanical Code" accepted at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne." PhytoKeys 6:1-4. 2011
- Martén-Rodríguez, Silvana, Kress, W. John, Temeles, Ethan J., and Meléndez-Ackerman, Elvia. 2011. "Plant–pollinator interactions and floral convergence in two species of Heliconia from the Caribbean Islands." Oecologia 167 (4):1075-1083. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-011-2043-8 2011
- Zhang, Z. Q., Kress, W. John, Xie, W. J., Ren, P. Y., Gao, J. Y., and Li, Q. J. 2011. "Reproductive biology of two Himalayan alpine gingers (Roscoea spp., Zingiberaceae) in China: pollination syndrome and compensatory floral mechanisms." Plant Biology 13 (4):582-589. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1438-8677.2010.00423.x 2011
- Jones, F. Andrew, Erickson, David L., Bernal, Moises A., Bermingham, Eldredge, Kress, W. John, Herre, Edward Allen, Muller-Landau, Helene C., and Turner, Benjamin L. 2011. "The Roots of Diversity: Below Ground Species Richness and Rooting Distributions in a Tropical Forest Revealed by DNA Barcodes and Inverse Modeling." PLoS ONE 6 (9):1-10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0024506 2011
- Westbrook, Jared W., Kitajima, Kaoru, Burleigh, J. Gordon, Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., and Wright, S. Joseph. 2011. "What Makes a Leaf Tough? Patterns of Correlated Evolution between Leaf Toughness Traits and Demographic Rates among 197 Shade-Tolerant Woody Species in a Neotropical Forest." American Naturalist 177 (6):800-811. https://doi.org/10.1086/659963 2011
- Kress, W. John, Mood, John, Sabu, Mamiyil, Prince, Linda, Dey, Santanu, and Sanoj, E. 2010. "Larsenianthus , a New Asian Genus of Gingers (Zingiberaceae) with Four Species." PhytoKeys 1:15-32. 2010
- Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., Swenson, Nathan G., Thompson, Jill, Uriarte, Maria, and Zimmerman, Jess K. 2010. "Advances in the Use of DNA Barcodes to Build a Community Phylogeny for Tropical Trees in a Puerto Rican Forest Dynamics Plot." PLoS ONE 5 (11):e15409. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015409 2010
- Penev, Lyubomir, Kress, W. John, Knapp, Sandra, Li, De-Zhu, and Renner, Susanne S. 2010. "Fast, linked, and open – the future of taxonomic publishing for plants: launching the journal PhytoKeys." PhytoKeys 1 (1-14):https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.1.642 2010
- Temeles, Ethan J. and Kress, W. John. 2010. "Mate choice and mate competition by a tropical hummingbird at a floral resource." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277:1607-1613. 2010
- Yu, F., Kress, W. John, and Gao, J. Y. 2010. "Morphology, distribution, and chromosome counts of two varieties of Hedychium villosum (Zingiberaceae)." Journal of Systematics and Evolution 48 (5):344-349. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-6831.2010.00094.x 2010
- Schreeg, Laura A., Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., and Swenson, Nathan G. 2010. "Phylogenetic Analysis of Local-Scale Tree Soil Associations in a Lowland Moist Tropical Forest." Plos One 5 (10):e13685. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013685 2010
- Liu, Ai-Zhong, Kress, W. John, and Li, De-Zhu. 2010. "Phylogenetic analyses of the banana family (Musaceae) based on nuclear ribosomal (ITS) and chloroplast (trnL-F) evidence." Taxon 59 (1):20-28. 2010
- Penev, Lyubomir, Agosti, Donat, Georgiev, Teodor, Catapano, Terry, Miller, Jeremy, Blagoderov, Vladimir, Roberts, David, Smith, Vincent S., Brake, Irina, Ryrcroft, Simon, Scott, Ben, Johnson, Norman F., Morris, Robert A., Sautter, Guido, Chavan, Vishwas, Robertson, Tim, Remsen, David, Stoev, Pavel, Parr, Cynthia Sims, Knapp, Sandra, Kress, W. John, Thompson, F. Christian, and Erwin, Terry L. 2010. "Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples." ZooKeys 50:1-16. 2010
- Uriarte, María, Swenson, Nathan G., Chazdon, Robin L., Comita, Liza S., Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., Forero-Montaña, Jimena, Zimmerman, Jess K., and Thompson, Jill. 2010. "Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly." Ecology Letters 13 (12):1503-1514. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01541.x 2010
- Hollingsworth, Peter M., Forrest, Laura L., Spouge, John L., Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Ratnasingham, Sujeevan, van der Bank, Michelle, Chase, Mark W., Cowan, Robyn S., Erickson, David L., Fazekas, Aron J., Graham, Sean W., James, Karen E., Kim, Ki-Joong, Kress, W. John, Schneider, Harald, van AlphenStahl, Jonathan, Barrett, Spencer C. H., van den Berg, Cassio, Bogarin, Diego, Burgess, Kevin S., Cameron, Kenneth M., Carine, Mark, Chacón, Juliana, Clark, Alexandra, Clarkson, James J. et al. 2009. "A DNA barcode for land plants." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106 (31):12794-12797. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905845106 2009
- Kress, W. John and Betancur, Julio. 2009. "A New Species of Heliconia (Heliconiaceae) from the Choco Region of Colombia." Caldasia 31 (1):99-104. 2009
- Krupnick, Gary A., Kress, W. John, and Wagner, Warren L. 2009. "Achieving Target 2 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: building a preliminary assessment of vascular plant species using data from herbarium specimens." Biodiversity and Conservation 18 (6):1459-1474. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-008-9494-1 2009
- Cortes, M. C., Gowda, V., Kress, W. John, Bruna, Emilio M., and Uriarte, M. 2009. "Characterization of 10 microsatellite markers for the understorey Amazonian herb Heliconia acuminata." Molecular Ecology Resources 9 (4):1261-1264. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02627.x 2009
- Dick, Christopher W. and Kress, W. John. 2009. "Dissecting Tropical Plant Diversity with Forest Plots and a Molecular Toolkit." Bioscience 59 (9):745-755. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2009.59.9.6 2009
- Temeles, Ethan J., Koulouris, Carolyn R., Sander, Sarah E., and Kress, W. John. 2009. "Effect of flower shape and size on foraging performance and trade-offs in a tropical hummingbird." Ecology 90 (5):1147-1161. https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0695.1 2009
- Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., Jones, F. Andrew, Swenson, Nathan G., Pérez, Rolando A., Sanjur, Oris I., and Bermingham, Eldredge. 2009. "Plant DNA Barcodes and a Community Phylogeny of a Tropical Forest Dynamics Plot in Panama." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 18621–18626. 106, (44), Washington; 2101 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20418 USA: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0909820106. 2009
- Fleming, Theodore H., Geiselman, Cullen, and Kress, W. John. 2009. "The Evolution of Bat Pollination: a Phylogenetic Perspective." Annals of Botany 104 (6):1017-1043. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcp197 2009
- Kress, W. John and Erickson, David L. 2008. "DNA barcodes: Genes, genomics, and bioinformatics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105 (8):2761-2762. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800476105 2008
- Kress, W. John and Erickson, David L. 2008. "DNA barcoding - a windfall for tropical biology?." Biotropica 40 (4):405-408. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00426.x 2008
- Erickson, David L., Spouge, John, Resch, Alissa, Weigt, Lee A., and Kress, W. John. 2008. "DNA barcoding in land plants: developing standards to quantify and maximize success." Taxon 57 (4):1304-1316. 2008
- Gowda, Vinita and Kress, W. John. 2008. "Nectar characteristics of two Eastern Caribbean Heliconias (Heliconia: Heliconiaceae." Heliconia Society International Bulletin 14 (4):6-10. 2008
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book
- Singer, Jonathan, Kress, W. John, and Hachadourian, Marc. 2013. Botanica magnifica: portraits of the world's most extraordinary flowers & plants. 1st Tiny Folio ed. Abbeville Press Publishers. 2013
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chapter
- Kress, W. John and Erickson, David L. 2012. "DNA barcodes: methods and protocols." in DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols, 3-8. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-591-6_1 2012
- Erickson, David L. and Kress, W. John. 2012. "Future directions." in DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols, 459-465. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-591-6_23 2012
- Andersson, L. L., Kress, W. John, and Maas, P. J. M. 2007. "Heliconiaceae." in Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana), edited by Funk, Vicki Ann, Hollowell, Thomas H., Berry, P. E., Kelloff, Carol L., and Alexander, Sara N., 110. Smithsonian Institution. 2007
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conference paper
- Fér, Tomáš, Schmickl, Roswitha E., Záveská, Eliška, Pospíšilová, Monika, Leong-Škorničková, Jana, Otakar, Ší, Poulsen, Axel D., Newman, Mark F., Kress, W. John, and Marhold, Karol. 2015. "Reconstruction of the Phylogeny of the family Zingiberaceae using HYB-SEQ approach." In , , 10-11. Calicut University. 2015
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dataset
- Mi, Xiangcheng, Swenson, Nathan G., Valencia, Renato, Kress, W. John, Erickson, David L., Pérez-Castañeda, Álvaro J., Ren, Haibao, Su, Sheng-Hsin, Gunatilleke, Nimal, Gunatilleke, Savi, Hao, Zhanqing, Ye, Wanhui, Cao, Min, Suresh, H. S., Dattaraja, H. S., Sukumar, R., and Ma, Keping. 2012. [Dataset] "The contribution of rare species to community phylogenetic diversity across a global network of forest plots." Distributed by Dryad Digital Repository. 2012
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