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
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
Patagonia’s diverse but homogeneous early paleocene forests: Angiosperm leaves from the Danian Salamanca and Peñas Coloradas formations, San Jorge Basin, Chubut, Argentina
Iglesias, A., Wilf, P., Stiles, E. & Wilf, R., 2021, In: Palaeontologia Electronica. 24, 1, p. 1-88 88 p., a02.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
An image dataset of cleared, x-rayed, and fossil leaves vetted to plant family for human and machine learning
Wilf, P., Wing, S. L., Meyer, H. W., Rose, J. A., Saha, R., Serre, T., Cúneo, N. R., Donovan, M. P., Erwin, D. M., Gandolfo, M. A., González-Akre, E., Herrera, F., Hu, S., Iglesias, A., Johnson, K. R., Karim, T. S. & Zou, X., 2021, In: PhytoKeys. 187, p. 93-128 36 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Early eocene spore and pollen assemblages from the laguna del hunco fossil lake beds, patagonia, argentina
Barreda, V. D., Zamaloa, M. D. C., Gandolfo, M. A., Jaramillo, C. & Wilf, P., Jul 1 2020, In: International journal of plant sciences. 181, 6, p. 594-615 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
New physaloid fruit-fossil species from early Eocene South America
Deanna, R., Wilf, P. & Gandolfo, M. A., Dec 2020, In: American journal of botany. 107, 12, p. 1749-1762 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Persistent biotic interactions of a Gondwanan conifer from Cretaceous Patagonia to modern Malesia
Donovan, M. P., Wilf, P., Iglesias, A., Cúneo, N. R. & Labandeira, C. C., Dec 2020, In: Communications Biology. 3, 1, 708.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review