Christina S. Baer, Ph.D.

Asterisks indicate undergraduate student co-authors. Daggers indicate equal first authors.

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Baer, C. S., C. Martínez*, B. Mora*, and C. Garcia-Robledo. In preparation. Experimental heating causes taxonomic and functional shifts in rolled-leaf invertebrate communities.

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Marquis, R. J., C. S. Baer, J. T. Lill, and G. Wang. 2022. The impact of construct building by caterpillars on arthropod colonists in a world of climate change. In Caterpillars in the Middle. Springer International Publishing.

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Bizzarri, L., C. S. Baer, and C. García-Robledo. 2022. Debunking the Host Fidelity Hypothesis: DNA barcoding reveals generalization in hummingbird flower mites. The American Naturalist 199:576-583. doi.org/10.1086/718474

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Baer, C. S. and R. J. Marquis. 2021. Experimental shelter-switching shows shelter type alters predation of caterpillars (Hesperiidae). Behavioral Ecology 32:1012-1021. doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab057

 

García-Robledo, C. and C. S. Baer. 2021. Demographic attritions, elevational refugia, and the resilience of insect populations to projected global warming. The American Naturalist 198:113-127. doi.org/10.1086/714525

 

García-Robledo, C., C. S. Baer, K. Lippert*, and V. Sarathy*. 2020. Evolutionary history, not the ectotherm temperature-rule size explains size variation of tropical insects along elevational gradients. Functional Ecology 34:2513-2523. PDF

 

Baer, C. S., and R. J. Marquis. 2020. Between predators and parasitoids: complex interactions among shelter traits, predation, and parasitism in a shelter-building caterpillar community. Functional Ecology 34:2186-2198. PDF

 

García-Robledo, C. †, E. K. Kuprewicz†, C. S. Baer, E. Clifton, G. Hernandez, D. L. Wagner. 2020. The Erwin Equation of Biodiversity: from little steps to quantum leaps in the discovery of tropical diversity. Biotropica 52:590-597. PDF

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Baer, C. S., D. Dierick, and C. Garcia-Robledo. 2020. Portable heaters for microhabitat heating experiments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11:727-732. PDF

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Baer, C. S. 2019. Field guide to the common shelter-building caterpillars of Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica. PDF

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Baer, C. S. 2018. Shelter building and extrafloral nectar exploitation by a member of the Aristotelia corallina species complex (Gelechiidae) on Costa Rican acacias. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 72:44-52. PDF  

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Marquis, R. J., D. Salazar, C. S. Baer, J. Reinhardt, G. Priest, and K. Barnett. 2016. Ode to Ehrlich and Raven, or how herbivorous insects might drive plant speciation. Ecology 97:2939-2951. PDF

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Baer, C. S. and R. J. Marquis. 2014. Native leaf-tying caterpillars influence host plant use by the invasive Asiatic oak weevil through ecosystem engineering.  Ecology 95:1472-1478. PDF

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Wang, G. H., R. J. Marquis, and C.S. Baer. 2012.  Both host plant and ecosystem engineer identity influence leaf-tie impacts on the arthropod community of Quercus.  Ecology 93:2186-2197. PDF