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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Recent Publications
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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, JW. F. & Lambiase, J. J., Mar 2022, In: PeerJ. 10, e12949.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Unexpected larger distribution of paleogene stem-rollers (AVES, CORACII): new evidence from the Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina
Degrange, F. J., Pol, D., Puerta, P. & Wilf, P., Dec 2021, In: Scientific reports. 11, 1, 1363.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Facies interpretation and geochronology of diverse Eocene floras and faunas, northwest Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina
Gosses, J., Carroll, A. R., Bruck, B. T., Singer, B. S., Jicha, B. R., Aragón, E., Walters, A. P. & Wilf, P., Mar 2021, In: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 133, 3-4, p. 740-752 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review