Publications

• Duffus, N.E., Atkins, T.B., zu Ermgassen, S.O., Grenyer, R., Bull, J.W., Castell, D.A., Stone, B., Tooher, N., Milner-Gulland, E.J. and Lewis, O.T., (2025). A globally influential area-condition metric is a poor proxy for invertebrate biodiversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, in press.

• Wong, M., Choi, Y.H., Brassard, F., Leong, C.M., Tsang, T., Lewis, O.T. and Guenard, B. (preprint). Functional traits drive the competitive assembly of mangrove ant communities and influence colony performance in competition mesocosms. EcoEvoRxiv, https://doi.org/10.32942/X2563C

• Viswanathan, A., Bagchi, R., Ghazoul, J., Honwad, G. and Lewis, O.T. (2025). Impacts of forest fragmentation on interactions between plants and their insect herbivores and fungal pathogens. Ecological Applications, in press.

• Marsh, C., Turner, E., Blonder, B. W., Bongalov, B., Both, S., Cruz, R., . . . Hector, A. (2025). Tropical forest clearance impacts biodiversity and function, whereas logging changes structure. Science 387, 171-175. doi:10.1126/science.adf9856

• Ashton, L., Boyle, M., Dias-Silva, K., Dongmo, M., França, F.M., Gregory, N., Kitching, R.L., Ledger, M., Lewis, O.T., Sharp, A., Stork, N.E., Williamson, J., Bonebrake, T.  (2025). Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests. Nature Reviews Biodiversity, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00038-9.

• Martinez-Nuñez, C., Velado-Alonso, E., Avelino, J., Rey, P. J., ten Hoopen, G. M., Pe’er, G., . . . Lewis, O.T., Perfecto, I., & Bartomeus, I. (2024). Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development. Nature Sustainability. doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01483-8

• Wang, H., Liu, T, Sun, S., Lewis, O.T. &  Xi, X (2024). Temporal variability in host availability alters the outcome of competition between two parasitoid species. Journal of Animal Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14191.

• Twyford AD, Beasley J, Barnes I et al. (2024). A DNA barcoding framework for taxonomic verification in the Darwin Tree of Life Project [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Wellcome Open Res 9:339 (https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21143.1)

• Ewers, R.M et al. (2024). Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate. Nature 631, 808–813. 

• Mulhair, P.O., Crowley, L., Boyes, D.H., Lewis, O.T., Holland, P.W.H. (2023). Opsin gene duplication in Lepidoptera: retrotransposition, sex linkage, and gene expression. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2023;, msad241, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad241