Peter Wilf

IEE Faculty Member
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Geosciences

Research Summary

Research interests include paleobotany, paleobiology and paleoclimatology. Research uses fossil plants to investigate ancient ecosystems, past environmental change, and the evolution and extinction of plants and plant-insect associations to emphasize questions with relevance for modern climate change, biodiversity, biogeography and ecological processes. Three specific areas of research include the end-Cretaceous (K-T) mass extinction and Eocene global warming, origins of South American plant diversity and the evolution of plant-insect associations.

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Projects

Recent Publications

Putative Celtis Leaves from Eocene Patagonia are Allied with Asian Anacardiaceae

Wilf, P., González, C. C., Gandolfo, M. A. & Zamaloa, M. C., Apr 30 2024, In: Ameghiniana. 61, 2, p. 73-92 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

AVIAN FORAGING ON AN INTERTIDAL MUDFLAT SUCCESSION IN THE EOCENE TANJUNG FORMATION, ASEM ASEM BASIN, SOUTH KALIMANTAN, INDONESIAN BORNEO

Zonneveld, J. P., Zaim, Y., Rizal, Y., Aswan, A., Ciochon, R. L., Smith, T., Head, J., Wilf, P. & Bloch, J. I., Mar 2024, In: Palaios. 39, 3, p. 67-96 30 p.

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A new fossil Acmopyle with accessory transfusion tissue and potential reproductive buds: Direct evidence for ever-wet rainforests in Eocene Patagonia

Andruchow-Colombo, A., Rossetto-Harris, G., Brodribb, T. J., Gandolfo, M. A. & Wilf, P., Aug 2023, In: American journal of botany. 110, 8, e16221.

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Fossil berries reveal global radiation of the nightshade family by the early Cenozoic

Deanna, R., Martínez, C., Manchester, S., Wilf, P., Campos, A., Knapp, S., Chiarini, F. E., Barboza, G. E., Bernardello, G., Sauquet, H., Dean, E., Orejuela, A. & Smith, S. D., Jun 2023, In: New Phytologist. 238, 6, p. 2685-2697 13 p.

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Insect herbivore and fungal communities on Agathis (Araucariaceae) from the latest Cretaceous to Recent

Donovan, M. P., Wilf, P., Iglesias, A., Cúneo, N. R. & Labandeira, C. C., 2023, In: PhytoKeys. 226, p. 109-158 50 p.

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Do Southeast Asia's paleo-Antarctic trees cool the planet?

Wilf, P. & Kooyman, R. M., Sep 2023, In: New Phytologist. 239, 5, p. 1556-1566 11 p.

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The first Gondwanan Euphorbiaceae fossils reset the biogeographic history of the Macaranga-Mallotus clade

Wilf, P., Iglesias, A. & Gandolfo, M. A., May 2023, In: American journal of botany. 110, 5, e16169.

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The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity

Benton, M. J., Wilf, P. & Sauquet, H., Mar 2022, In: New Phytologist. 233, 5, p. 2017-2035 19 p.

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Gondwanan survivor lineages and the high-risk biogeography of Anthropocene Southeast Asia

Kooyman, R. M., Ivory, S. J., Benfield, A. J. & Wilf, P., Jul 2022, In: Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 60, 4, p. 715-727 13 p.

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Cunoniaceae infructescences from the early Eocene Laguna del Hunco flora, Patagonia, Argentina

Matel, T. P., Gandolfo, M. A., Hermsen, E. J. & Wilf, P., Jun 2022, In: American journal of botany. 109, 6, p. 986-1003 18 p.

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Rapid character scoring and tabulation of large leaf-image libraries using Adobe Bridge

Rossetto-Harris, G., Stiles, E., Wilf, P., Donovan, M. P. & Zou, X., Nov 1 2022, In: Applications in Plant Sciences. 10, 6, e11500.

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Decoding family-level features for modern and fossil leaves from computer-vision heat maps

Spagnuolo, E. J., Wilf, P. & Serre, T., May 2022, In: American journal of botany. 109, 5, p. 768-788 21 p.

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First fossil-leaf floras from Brunei Darussalam show dipterocarp dominance in Borneo by the Pliocene

Wilf, P., Zou, X., Donovan, M. P., Kocsis, L., Briguglio, A., Shaw, D., Slik, J. F. & Lambiase, J. J., Mar 2022, In: PeerJ. 10, e12949.

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Reaffirming the phyllocladoid affinities of Huncocladus laubenfelsii (Podocarpaceae) from the early Eocene of Patagonia: A comment on Dörken et al. (2021)

Andruchow-Colombo, A., Wilf, P. & Escapa, I. H., Dec 1 2021, In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 197, 4, p. 554-557 4 p.

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First south american record of winteroxylon, eocene of laguna del hunco (Chubut, patagonia, argentina): New link to australasia and malesia

Brea, M., Iglesias, A., Wilf, P., Moya, E. & Gandolfo, M. A., Mar 1 2021, In: International journal of plant sciences. 182, 3, p. 185-197 13 p.

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