Plowman, N. S., Hood, A.S.C., Moses, J., Redmond, C., Novotny, V., Klimes, P., Fayle, T. M. Network re-organisation and breakdown of an ant-plant protection mutualism with elevation Proc. R. Soc. Biol. Sci. B 284: 20162564. [ pdf file ]

Sam K, Ctvrtecka R, Miller SE, Rosati ME, Molem K, Damas K, et al. (2017) Low host specificity and abundance of frugivorous lepidoptera in the lowland rain forests of Papua New Guinea. PLoS ONE12: e0171843 [ pdf file ]

Sam, K., Koane, B., Jeppy, S., Sykorova, J. & Novotny, V. 2017. Diet of land birds along an elevational gradient in Papua New Guinea. Scientific Reports 7, 44018; doi: 10.1038/srep44018 [ pdf file ]

Beck, J. McCain, C. M., Axmacher, J. C., Ashton, L., Bärtschi, F., Brehm, G., Cizek, O., Colwell, R. K., Fiedler, K., Francois, C. L., Holloway, J. D., Intachat, J., Kadlec, T., Kitching, R. L., Maunsell, S. M., Merckx, T., Nakamura, A., Odell, E., Sang, W., Toko, P., Zamecnik, J., Zou, Y. & Novotny, V. 2016. Elevational species richness gradients in a hyperdiverse insect taxon: a global meta-study on geometrid moths. Global Ecology and Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/geb.12548 [ pdf file ]

Chmel, K., Riegert, J., Paul, L. & Novotny, V. 2016. Vertical stratification of an avian community in New Guinean tropical rainforest. Population Ecology 58, 535-547 [ pdf file ]

Colwell, R. K., Gotelli, N. J., Ashton, L., Beck, J., Brehm, G., Fayle, T. M., Fiedler, K., Forister, M. L., Kessler, M., Kitching, R. L., Klimes, P., Kluge, J., Longino, J. T., Maunsell, S. C., McCain, C. M., Moses, J., Noben, S., Sam, K., Sam, L., Shapiro, A. M., Wang, X. & Novotny, V. 2016. Midpoint attractors and species richness: Modeling the interaction between environmental drivers and geometric constraints. Ecology Letters 19, 1009-1022. [ pdf file ]

Ctvrtecka, R., Sam, K., Miller, S. E., Weiblen, G. D., & Novotny, V. 2016. Fruit sizes and the structure of frugivorous communities in a New Guinea lowland rain forest. Austral Ecology 41, 228-237. [ pdf file ]

Fibich, P., Lepš, J., Novotný, V., Klimeš, P., Tìšitel, J., Molem, K., Damas, K. & Weiblen, G.D. 2016. Spatial patterns of tree species distribution in the primary and secondary plots of a lowland rain forest. J. Vegetation Science, 27, 328-339, [ pdf file ]

Leponce M., Novotny V., Pascal O., Robillard T., Legendre F., Villemant C., Munzinger J., Molino J.F., Drew R., Odegaard F., Schmidl J., Tishechkin A., Sam K., Bickel D., Dahl C., Damas K., Fayle T. M., Gewa B., Jacquemin J., Keltim M., Klimes P., Koane B., Kua J., Mantilleri A., Mogia M., Molem K., Moses J., Nowatuo H., Orivel J., Pintaud J.C., Roisin Y., Sam L., Siki B., Soldati L., Soulier-Perkins A., Tulai S., Yombai J., Wardhaugh C. & Basset Y. 2016. Land module of Our Planet Reviewed – Papua New Guinea: aims, methods and first taxonomical results. In Robillard T., Legendre F., Villemant C. & Leponce M. (eds), Insects of Mount Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea. Museum national d Histoire naturelle, 209). ISBN : 978-2-85653-784-8. [ pdf file ]

Novotny, V. 2016. Ecology, Conservation, and Adventure of the Tropical Forests in Asia and New Guinea. Conservation Biology DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12682 (Book Review) [ pdf file ]

Robillard T., Legendre F., Villemant C. & Leponce M. (eds), Insects of Mount Wilhelm, Papua
New Guinea. French National Museum of Natural History, 595 pp., ISBN : 978-2-85653-784-8.

Segar, S. T., Volf, M., Zima, J., Isua, B., Sisol, M., Sam, L., Sam, K., Souto-Vilaros, D. & Novotny, V. 2016. Speciation in a keystone plant genus is driven by elevation: a case study in New Guinean Ficus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology doi: 10.1111/jeb.13020 [ pdf file ]

Schmiedel, U., Araya, Y., Bortolotto, I. M., Boeckenhoff, L., Hallwachs, W., Janzen, D., Kolipaka, S. S., Novotny, V., Palm, M., Parfondry, & M., Smanis, A. & Toko, P. 2016. The role of paraecologists and parataxonomists in leading citizen science into the biodiversity-rich world. Conservation Biology 30, 506-519 [ pdf file ]

Adamski, D. & Miller, S. E. 2015. Two new yellow-banded sister species of Syntomaula Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Cosmopteridae) from Papua New Guinea associated with Rubiaceae. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 69, 307–316. [ pdf file ]

Anderson-Teixeira, K.; Davies, S.; Bennett, A.; Gonzalez-Akre, E.; Muller-Landau, H.; Wright, S; Abu Salim, K.; Almeyda Zambrano, A.; Baltzer, J.; Basset, Y.; Bourg, N.; Broadbent, E.; Brockelman, W.; Bunyavejchewin, S.; Burslem, D.; Butt, N.; Cao, M.; Cárdenas, D.; Clay, K.; Cordell, S.; Deng, X.; Detto, M.; Du, X.; Duque, A.; Erikson, D.; Ewango, C.; Fischer, G.;
Fletcher, C.; Giardina, C. P; Gilbert, G.; Gunatilleke, N.; Gunatilleke, S.; Hao, Z.; Hargrove, W.; Hart, T.; Hau, B.; He, F.; Hoffman, F.; Hower, R; Hubbell, S.; Inman-Narahari, F.; Jansen, P.; Jiang, M.; Kanzaki, M.; Kenfack, D.; Kibet, S.; Kinnaird, M.; Král, K.; Kumar, J.; Larson, A.; Li, Y.; Li, X.; Liu, S.; Lum, S.; Lutz, J.; Ma, K.; Maddalena, D.; Makana, J-R; Malhi, Y.; Marthews, T.; Mat S., Rafizah; McMahon, S.; McShea, W.; Memiaghe, H.; Mi, X.; Mizuno, T.; Myers, J.; Novotny, V.; de Oliveira, A.; Ong, P.; Orwig, D.; Ostertag, R.; den Ouden, J.; Parker, G.; Phillips, R.; Rahman, A.; Sack, L.; Sri-ngernyuang, K.; Sukumar, R.; Sun, I-F.; Sungpalee, W.; Tan, S.; Thomas, S.; Thomas, D.; Thompson, J.; Turner, B.; Uriarte, M.; Valencia, R.; Vallejo, M.; Vincentini, A.; Vrska, T.; Wang, X.; Weiblen, G.; Wolf, A.; Xu, H.; Wang, X.; Yap, S.; Zimmerman, J.. 2015. CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change. Global Change Biology 21, 528-549, doi: 10.1111/gcb.12712 [ pdf file ]

Butterill, P. & Novotny, V. 2015. Gall-forming insects in a lowland tropical rainforest: low species diversity in an extremely specialized guild. Ecological Entomology, 40, 409-419, DOI: 10.1111/een.12198 [ pdf file ]

Fayle, T. M., Turner, E. C., Basset, Y., Ewers, R. M., Reynolds, G. & Novotny, V. 2015. Whole-ecosystem experimental manipulations of tropical forests TREE 30, 334–346. [ pdf file ]

Forister, M. L., Novotny, V., Panorska, A. K., Baje, L., Basset, Y., Butterill, P. T., Cizek, L., Coley, P. D., Dem, F., Diniz, I. R., Drozd, P., Fox, M., Glassmire, A., Hazen, R., Hrcek, J., Jahner, J. P., Kaman, O., Kozubowski, T. J., Kursar, T. A., Lewis, O. T., Lill, J., Marquis, R. J., Miller, S. E., Morais, H. C., Murakami, M., Nickel, H., Pardikes, N., Ricklefs, R. E., Singer, M. S., Smilanich, A. M., Stireman, J. O., Villamarín-Cortez, S., Vodka, S., Volf, M., Wagner, D. L., Walla, T., Weiblen, G. D. & Dyer, L. A. 2015. The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores. PNAS 112, 442-447 [ pdf file ]

Klimes P, Fibich P, Idigel C, Rimandai M (2015) Disentangling the Diversity of Arboreal Ant Communities in Tropical Forest Trees. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0117853.

Kolesik, P. & Butterill, P. T. 2015. New gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Papua New Guinea. Austral Entomology 54: 79-86, doi: 10.1111/aen.12095. [ pdf file ]

Le Cesne, M., Wilson, S. W., Soulier-Perkins, A. 2015. Elevational gradient of Hemiptera (Heteroptera, Auchenorrhyncha) on a tropical mountain in Papua New Guinea. PeerJ 3:e978; DOI 10.7717/peerj.978

Miller, S. E., Rosati, M. E., Gewa, B., Novotny, V., Weiblen, G. D. & Hebert, P. D. N. 2015. DNA Barcodes of Lepidoptera Reared from Yawan, Papua New Guinea. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 117, 247-250. [ pdf file ]

Novotny, V. & Toko, P. 2015. Ecological research in Papua New Guinean rainforests: insects, plants and people. Pp.71-85 in Bryan, J. E. & Shearman, P. L. (Eds.) The State of the Forests of Papua New Guinea 2014. Measuring change over period 2002-2014. University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby. ISBN 978-9980-89-106-8 [ pdf file ]

Percy, D. M., Butterill, P. T. & Malenovsky, I. 2015. Three new species of gall-forming psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from Papua New Guinea, with new records and notes on related species. J. Nat. Hist., http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1104394 [ pdf file ]

Sam, K., Koane, B. & Novotny, V. 2015. Herbivore damage increases avian and ant predation of caterpillars on trees along a complete elevational forest gradient in Papua New Guinea. Ecography, 38, 293–300, doi: 10.1111/ecog.00979 [ pdf file ]

Vincent, J. B., Henning, B., Saulei, S., Sosanika, G. & Weiblen, G. D. 2015. Forest carbon in lowland Papua New Guinea: Local variation and the importance of small trees. Austral Ecology 40, 151-159 [ pdf file ]

Vlasanek, P. & Novotny, V. 2015. Demography and mobility of three common understory butterfly species from tropical rain forest of Papua New Guinea. Population Ecology 57, 445-455. DOI 10.1007/s10144-015-0480-7. [ pdf file ]

Ctvrtecka, R., Sam, K., Brus, E., Weiblen, G. D. & Novotny, V. 2014. Frugivorous weevils are too rare to cause Janzen–Connell effects in New Guinea lowland rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 30, 521-535. [ pdf file ]

Nieves-Aldrey, J. L. & Butterill, P. T. 2014. First evidence of cynipids from the Oceanian Region: the description of Lithonecrus papuanus, a new genus and species of cynipid inquiline from Papua New Guinea (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Synergini). Zootaxa, 3846, 221-234.

Sam, K. & Koane, B. 2014. New avian records along the elevational gradient of Mt. Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of the British Ornithologist’s Club 134, 116-133.

Toussaint, E. F. A., Hall, R., Monaghan, M. T., Sagata, K., Ibalim, S., Shaverdo, H. V., Vogler, A. P., Pons, J. & Balke, M. 2014. The towering orogeny of New Guinea as a trigger for arthropod megadiversity. Nature Communications 5, Article No. 4001, doi:10.1038/ncomms5001 [ pdf file ]

Whitfeld, T. J. S., Lasky, J. R., Damas, K., Sosanika, G., Molem, K. & Montgomery, R. A. 2014. Species richness, forest structure, and functional diversity during succession in the New Guinea lowlands. Biotropica, 46, 538–548, [ pdf file ]

Baje, L., Stewart, A. J. A. & Novotny, V. 2014. Mesophyll cell-sucking herbivores (Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) on rainforest trees in New Guinea: local and regional diversity of a taxonomically unexplored guild. Ecological Entomology 39, 325-333 [ pdf file ]

Dem, F., Stewart, A. J. A., Gibson, A., Weiblen, G. D. & Novotny, V. Low host specificity in species-rich assemblages of xylem- and phloem-sucking herbivores (Auchenorrhyncha) in a New Guinea lowland rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 29, 467-476 [ pdf file ]

Novotny, V. & Miller, S. E. 2014. Mapping and understanding the diversity of insects in the tropics: past achievements and future directions. Austral Entomology 53, 259–267 IF 0.884 [ pdf file ]

Pokluda, P., Èížek, L., Støíbrná, E., Drag, L., Lukeš, J., & Novotný, V. Goodbye letter to alcohol: an alternate method for preserving DNA in arthropod samples for taxonomic or ecological research suitable also for mass collecting methods. European Journal of Entomology 111, 175-179 [ pdf file ]

Sam, K., Koane, B., Jeppy, S. & Novotny, V. 2014. Effect of forest fragmentation on bird species richness in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Field Ornithology 85, 152–167 [ pdf file ]

Sam, K., Koane, B. & Novotny, V. 2014. Herbivore damage increases avian and ant predation of caterpillars on trees along a complete elevational forest gradient in Papua New Guinea. Ecography, 37, doi: 10.1111/ecog.00979 [ pdf file ]

Hamilton, A. J., Novotny, V., Waters, E. K., Basset, Y., Benke, K. K., Grimbacher1, P. S., Miller, S. E., Samuelson, G. A., Weiblen, G. D., Yen, J. D. L. & Stork, N. E. 2013. Estimating global arthropod species richness: refining probabilistic models using probability bounds analysis. Oecologia, 171: 357-365, DOI 10.1007/s00442-012-2434-5. IF 3.412 [ pdf file ]

Hrcek, J., Miller, S. E., Whitfield, J. B., Shima, H. & Novotny, V. 2012. Parasitism rate, parasitoid community composition and host specificity on exposed and semi-concealed caterpillars from a tropical rainforest Oecologia, DOI 10.1007/s00442-013-2619-6 IF 3.412 [ pdf file ]

Miller, S. E., Hrcek, J., Novotny, V., Weiblen, G. D. & Hevert, P. D. N. 2013. DNA barcodes of caterpillars (Lepidoptera) from Papua New Guinea. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 115: 107-109. [ pdf file ]

Dahl, C., Richards, S. J. & Novotny, V. 2013. The Sepik River (Papua New Guinea) is not a dispersal barrier for lowland rain-forest frogs. Journal of Tropical Ecology 29, 477–483. [ pdf file ]

Quicke, D. L. J., Smith, M. A., Hrcek, J. & Butcher, B. A. 2013. Cystomastacoides van Achterberg (Braconidae, Rogadinae): first host record and descriptions of three new species from Thailand and Papua New Guinea. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 31, 65-78 [ pdf file ]

Rota, J. & Miller, S. E. 2013. A new genus of metalmark moths (Lepidoptera, Choreutidae) with Afrotropical and Australasian distribution. ZooKeys 355, 29–47 [ pdf file ]

Smith, M. A., Fern, Andez-Triana, J. L. F., Eveleigh, E., Omez, J. G., Guclu, C., Hallwachs, W., Hebert, P. D. N., Hrcek, J., Huber, J. T., Janzen, D. H., Mason, P. G., Miller, S. E., Quicke, D. L. J., Rodriguea, J. J., Rougerie, R. & Shaw, M. R. 2013. DNA barcoding and the taxonomy of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae): impacts after 8 years and nearly 20 000 sequences. Molecular Ecology Resources 13, 168–176 [ pdf file ]

Vlasanek, P., Sam, L. & Novotny, V. (2013) Dispersal of butterflies in a New Guinea rainforest: using mark–recapture methods in a large, homogeneous habitat. Ecological Entomology 38, 560-569 [ pdf file ]

Basset, Y., Eastwood, R., Sam, L., Lohman, D. J., Novotny, V., Treuer, T., Miller, S. E., Weiblen, G. D., Pierce, N. E., Bunyavejchewin, S., Sakchoowong, W., Kongnoo, P., and Osorioarenas, M. A. 2012. Cross-continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in tropical rainforests: implications for biological monitoring. Insect Conservation and Diversity, doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00205.x [ pdf file ]

Basset, Y., Cizek, L., Cuénoud, P., Didham, R. K., Guilhaumon, F., Missa, O., Novotny, V., Odegaard, F., Roslin, T., Schmidl, J., Tishechkin, A. K., Winchester, N. N., Aberlenc, H.-P., Bail, J., Barrios, H., Bridle, J. R., Castano-Meneses, G., Corbara, B., Curletti, G., Debaker, D., Delabie, J. H. C., Dejean, A., Fagan, L. L., Floren, A., Kitching, R. L., Medianero, E., Miller, S. E., Gama de Oliveira, E., Orivel, J. Pollet, M., Ribeiro, S. P., Roisin, Y., Roubik, D. W., Sorensen, L. & Leponce, M. 2012. How many arthropod species live in a tropical forest? Science 338, 1481-1484. IF 31.201 [ pdf file ]

Bito, D., Novotny, V., Burwell, C.J., Nakamura, A., Kitching, R.L. & Odegaard, F. 2011: Predator pressure, herbivore abundance and plant damage along a subtropical altitudinal gradient. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 55, 451-461 [ pdf file ]

Dahl, C., Kiatik, I., Baisen, I., Bronikowski, E., Fleischer, R. C., McInerny, N.., Lock, J., Novotny, V., Narayan, E. & Hero, J.-M. 2012. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis not found in rainforest frogs along an altitudinal gradient of Papua New Guinea. Herpetological Journal 22, 183-186. IF 0.812 [ pdf file ]

Klimes, P., Idigel, C., Rimandai, M., Fayle, T. M., Janda, M., Weiblen, G. D. & Novotny, V. 2012. Why are there more arboreal ant species in primary than secondary tropical forests? Journal of Animal Ecology 81, 1103–1112. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.02002.x IF 4.937 [ pdf file ]

Laurance, W. F. et al. 2012. Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical protected areas. Nature 489, 290-294 doi:10.1038/nature11318 IF 36.280

Novotny, V., Weiblen, G. D., Miller, S. E. and Basset, Y. 2012. The role of paraecologists in 21st century tropical forest research. Pages 154-157 in M. D. Lowman, T. D. Schowalter, and J. F. Franklin, editors. Methods in forest canopy research. University of California Press, Berkeley. [ pdf file ]

Novotny, V., Miller, S. E., Hrcek, J., Baje, L., Basset, Y., Lewis, O. T., Stewart, A. J. A. & and Weiblen, G. D. 2012. Insects on plants: explaining the paradox of low diversity within specialist herbivore guilds. American Naturalist 179, 351–362. [ pdf file ]

Tvardikova, K. & Novotny, V. 2012. Predation on exposed and leaf-rolling artificial caterpillars in tropical forests of Papua New Guinea. Journal of Tropical Ecology 28, 331-341. IF 1.401 [ pdf file ]

Whitfeld, T. J. S., Novotny, V., Miller, S. E., Hrcek, J., Klimes, P. & Weiblen, G. D. 2012. Predicting tropical insect herbivore abundance from host plant traits and phylogeny. Ecology 93, S211–S223 IF 4.849[ pdf file ]

Basset, Y., Eastwood, R. Sam, L., Lohman D. J., Novotny, V., Treuer, T., Miller, S. E., Weiblen, G. D., Pierce, N. E., Bunyavejchewin, S., Sakchoowong, W. Kongnoo, P. and Osorio-Arenas, M. A. 2011. Comparison of rainforest butterfly assemblages across three biogeographical regions using standardized protocols. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 44, 17-28 [ pdf file ]

Hoch, H. & Dem, F. 2011. Two new species of Bennaria Melichar, 1914 (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Cixiidae, Bennini) from Papua New Guinea. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 58, 251–257 [ pdf file ]

Hrcek, J., Miller, S. E., Quicke, D. L. J., & Smith, M. A. 2011. Molecular detection of trophic links in a complex insect host–parasitoid food web. Molecular Ecology Resources 11: 786–794 [ pdf file ]

Janda, M. & Konecna, M. 2011. Canopy assemblages of ants in a New Guinea rainforest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 27, 83–91 [ pdf file ]

Klimes, P., Janda, M., Ibalim, S., Kua, J. & Novotny, V. 2011. Experimental suppression of ants foraging on rainforest vegetation in New Guinea: testing methods for a whole-forest manipulation of insect communities. Ecological Entomology 36, 94–103. [ pdf file ]

Craft, K. J., Pauls, S. U., Darrow, K., Miller, S. E., Hebert, P. N. D., Helgen, L., Novotny, V., and Weiblen, G. D. (2010) Population genetic differentiation of New Guinea lowland rainforest Lepidoptera. PNAS 107, 5041–5046. [ pdf file ]

Hamilton, A. J., Basset, Y., Benke, K. K., Grimbacher, P. S., Miller, S. E., Novotny, V., Samuelson, G. A., Stork, N. E., Weiblen, G. D. & Yen, J. D. L. (2010) Quantifying uncertainty in estimation of global arthropod species richness. American Naturalist, 176: 90-95 [ pdf file ]

Hulcr, J. & Cognato, A. I. (2010) Repeated evolution of crop theft in fungus-farming ambrosia beetles. Evolution doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01055.x [ pdf file ]

Novotny, V. (2010) Rainforest conservation in a tribal world: why forest dwellers prefer loggers to conservationists. Biotropica, DOI 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00658.x [ pdf file ]

Novotny, V., Miller, S. E., Baje, L., Balagawi, S., Basset, Y., Cizek, L., Craft, K. J., Dem, F., Drew, R. A. I., Hulcr, J., Leps, J., Lewis, O., Pokon, R., Stewart, A. J. A. & Weiblen, G. D. (2010) Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant-herbivore food webs from a tropical forest. Journal of Animal Ecology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01728.x [ pdf file ]

Schindel, D. E. & Miller, S. E. (2010) Provisional Nomenclature. The On-Ramp to Taxonomic Names. In: Systema Naturae 250 – The Linnaean Ark. Ed. A. Polaszek. CRC Press Pp. 109-115. [ pdf file ]