PETER WILF

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Hajek EA, JM Krause, P Wilf, MD Schmitz. Sedimentological controls on plant-fossil preservation in an Eocene caldera-lake fill: a high-resolution, age-constrained record from the Tufolitas Laguna del Hunco, Chubut Province, Argentina. In review. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31223/X5PT31.

Wilf P, RM Kooyman. 2024. Paleobotany reframes the fiery debate on Australia’s rainforest edges. New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20301.

Giraldo, LA, P Wilf, MP Donovan, RM Kooyman, MA Gandolfo. 2024. Fossil insect-feeding traces indicate unrecognized evolutionary history and biodiversity on Australia’s iconic Eucalyptus. New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20316.

Pujana RR, NA Jud, P Wilf, MA Gandolfo. 2024. Lauraceous fossil woods from the early Eocene of Laguna del Hunco, Argentine Patagonia. Alcheringa, https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2024.2426030.

Rossetto-Harris G, P Wilf. 2024. Reassessing floral diversity at Río Pichileufú, earliest middle Eocene of Río Negro, Argentina. Palaeontologia Electronica, 27.3.a49.

Spagnuolo EJ, P Wilf, J-P Zonneveld, D Shaw, Aswan, Y Rizal, Y Zaim, JI Bloch, RL Ciochon. 2024. Giant seeds of an extant Australasian legume lineage discovered in Eocene Borneo (South Kalimantan, Indonesia). International Journal of Plant Sciences 185, 482-502.

Siegert C, MA Gandolfo, P Wilf. 2024. Early Eocene infructescences from Patagonia, Argentina expand the biogeography of Malvoideae (Malvaceae, the mallow family). 2024. American Journal of Botany 111, e16384.

Wilf P, CC González, MA Gandolfo, MC Zamaloa. 2024. Putative Celtis leaves from Eocene Patagonia are allied with Asian Anacardiaceae. Ameghiniana 61, 73–92.

Zonneveld, J-P, Y. Zaim, Y. Rizal, Aswan, DM Boyer, RL Ciochon, T Smith, J Head, P Wilf, JI Bloch. 2024. Avian foraging on an intertidal mudflat succession in the Eocene Tanjung Formation, Asem Asem Basin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Palaios 39, 67–96.

Zonneveld, J-P, N Adani, Aswan, JI Bloch, A Briguglio, RL Ciochon, LJ Cotton, A Hascaryo, J Head, J Luque, N Santodomingo, T Smith, J Todd, P Wilf, Y Rizal, Y Zaim. 2024. Stratigraphy, paleontology and depositional setting of the Upper Eocene (Priabonian) Lower Pagat Member, Tanjung Formation, in the Asem Asem Basin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Journal of Paleontology, in press.

Wilf P. 2023. Presentation of the 2022 Paleontological Society Medal to Conrad C. Labandeira. Journal of Paleontology 97: 1155-1156.

Andruchow-Colombo A, G Rossetto-Harris, TJ Brodribb, MA Gandolfo, P Wilf. 2023. A new fossil Acmopyle with accessory transfusion tissue and potential reproductive buds: direct evidence for ever-wet rainforests in Eocene Patagonia. American Journal of Botany 110, e16221.

Wilf P, RM Kooyman. 2023. Do Southeast Asia's paleo-Antarctic trees cool the planet? New Phytologist 239, 1556–1566.

Wilf P, MR Carvalho, E Stiles. 2023. The end-Cretaceous plant extinction: heterogeneity, ecosystem transformation, and insights for the future. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction 1, e14.

Donovan MP, P Wilf, A Iglesias, NR Cúneo, CC Labandeira. 2023. Insect herbivore and fungal communities on Agathis (Araucariaceae) from the latest Cretaceous to Recent. PhytoKeys 226, 109–158.

Wilf P, A Iglesias, MA Gandolfo. 2023. The first Gondwanan Euphorbiaceae fossils reset the biogeographic history of the Macaranga-Mallotus clade. American Journal of Botany, e16169. [image dataset]

Deanna R, C Martínez, S Manchester, P Wilf, A Campos, S Knapp, FE Chiarini, GE Barboza, G Bernardello, H Sauquet, E Dean, A Orejuela, SD Smith. 2023. Fossil berries reveal global radiation of the nightshade family by the early Cenozoic. New Phytologist 238: 2685-2697.

Rossetto-Harris G, E Stiles, P Wilf, MP Donovan, X Zou. 2022. Rapid character scoring and tabulation of large leaf-image libraries using Adobe Bridge. Applications in Plant Sciences 10, e11500.

Kooyman RM, SJ Ivory, AJ Benfield, P Wilf. 2022. Gondwanan survivor lineages and the high-risk biogeography of Anthropocene Southeast Asia. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 60, 715-727. (cover article)

Matel TP, MA Gandolfo, EJ Hermsen, P Wilf. 2022. Cunoniaceae infructescences from the early Eocene Laguna del Hunco flora, Patagonia, Argentina. American Journal of Botany 109, 986-1003.

Spagnuolo EJ, P Wilf, T Serre. 2022. Decoding family-level features for modern and fossil leaves from computer-vision heat maps. American Journal of Botany 109, 768-788.

Wilf P, X Zou, MP Donovan, L Kocsis, A Briguglio, D Shaw, JWF Slik, JJ Lambiase. 2022. First fossil-leaf floras from Brunei Darussalam show dipterocarp dominance in Borneo by the Pliocene. PeerJ 10, e12949. [dataset]

Benton MJ, P Wilf, H. Sauquet. 2022. The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity. New Phytologist 233, 2017–2035. (Tansley Review)

Wilf P, SL Wing, HW Meyer, J Rose, R Saha, T Serre, NR Cúneo, MP Donovan, DM Erwin, MA Gandolfo, E González-Akre, F Herrera, S Hu, A Iglesias, KR Johnson, TS Karim, X Zou. 2021. An image dataset of cleared, x-rayed, and fossil leaves vetted to plant family for human and machine learning. PhytoKeys 187, 93–128. [dataset v.2]

Andruchow-Colombo A, P Wilf, IH Escapa. 2021. Reaffirming the phyllocladoid affinities of Huncocladus laubenfelsii (Podocarpaceae) from the early Eocene of Patagonia – a comment on Dörken et al. (2021). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 197, 554-557.

Brea M, A Iglesias, P Wilf, E Moya, MA Gandolfo. 2021 First South American record of Winteroxylon, Eocene of Laguna del Hunco (Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina): new link to Australasia and Malesia. International Journal of Plant Sciences 182, 185-197.

Iglesias A, P Wilf, E Stiles, R Wilf. 2021. Patagonia’s diverse but homogeneous early Paleocene forests: angiosperm leaves from the Danian Salamanca and Peñas Coloradas formations, San Jorge Basin, Chubut, Argentina. Palaeontologia Electronica 24, art. a02.

DeGrange FJ, D Pol, P Puerta, P Wilf. 2021. Unexpected larger distribution of Paleogene stem-rollers (Aves, Coracii): new evidence from the Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Scientific Reports 11, art. 1363.

Gosses J, A Carroll, B Bruck, B Singer, B Jicha, E Aragón, A Walters, P Wilf. 2021. Facies interpretation and geochronology of diverse Eocene floras and faunas, northwest Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin 133, 740-752.

Deanna R, P Wilf, MA Gandolfo. 2020. New physaloid fruit-fossil species from early Eocene South America. American Journal of Botany 107, 1749-1762.

Donovan MP, P Wilf, A Iglesias, NR Cúneo, CC Labandeira. 2020. Persistent biotic interactions of a Gondwanan conifer from Cretaceous Patagonia to modern Malesia. Communications Biology 3, art. 708.

Stiles E, P Wilf, A Iglesias, MA Gandolfo, NR Cúneo. 2020. Cretaceous-Paleogene plant extinction and recovery in Patagonia. Paleobiology 46, 445-469 (Featured Article).

Pujana RR, P Wilf, MA Gandolfo. 2020. Conifer wood assemblage dominated by Podocarpaceae, early Eocene of Laguna del Hunco, central Argentinean Patagonia. Phytokeys 156, 81-102.

Rossetto-Harris G, P Wilf, IH Escapa, A Andruchow-Colombo. 2020. Eocene Araucaria Sect. Eutacta from Patagonia and floristic turnover during the initial isolation of South America. American Journal of Botany 107: 806-832.

Barreda VD, MC Zamaloa, MA Gandolfo, C Jaramillo, P Wilf. 2020. Early Eocene spore and pollen assemblages from the Laguna del Hunco fossil-lake beds, Patagonia, Argentina. International Journal of Plant Sciences 181: 594-615.

Kooyman RM, J Watson, P Wilf. 2020. Protect Australia’s Gondwana rainforests. Science 367: 1083 (Letter).

Wilf P. 2020. Eocene “Chusquea” fossil from Patagonia is a conifer, not a bamboo. Phytokeys 139: 77-89.

Bippus AC, IH Escapa, P Wilf, AMF Tomescu. 2019. Fossil fern rhizomes as a model system for biotic interactions across geologic time: Evidence from Patagonia. PeerJ 7, e8244.

Wilf P, KC Nixon, MA Gandolfo, NR Cúneo. 2019. Eocene Fagaceae from Patagonia and Gondwanan legacy in Asian rainforests. Science 364, eaaw5139. [Figshare image library] [Technical Response]

Kooyman RM, RJ Morley, DM Crayn, EM Joyce, M Rossetto, JWF Slik, JS Strijk, T Su, J-YS Yap, P Wilf. 2019. Origins and assembly of Malesian rainforests. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, v. 50, p. 119-143.

Andruchow-Colombo A, P Wilf, IH Escapa. 2019. A South American fossil relative of Phyllocladus: Huncocladus laubenfelsii gen. et sp. nov. (Podocarpaceae), from the early Eocene of Laguna del Hunco, Patagonia, Argentina. Australian Systematic Botany, v. 32, p. 290-309.

Andruchow-Colombo A, IH Escapa, RJ Carpenter, RS Hill, A Iglesias, A Abarzua, P Wilf. 2019. Oldest record of scale-leaved Podocarpaceae, early Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Alcheringa, v. 43, p. 127-145.

Jud NA, A Iglesias, P Wilf, MA Gandolfo. 2018. Fossil moonseeds from the Paleogene of West Gondwana (Patagonia, Argentina). American Journal of Botany, v. 105, p. 927-942.

Escapa IH, A Iglesias, P Wilf, SA Catalano, MA Caraballo-Ortiz, NR Cúneo. 2018. Agathis trees of Patagonia’s Cretaceous-Paleogene death landscapes and their evolutionary significance. American Journal of Botany, v.108, p. 1345-1368.

Donovan MP, A Iglesias, P Wilf, CC Labandeira, NR Cúneo. 2018. Diverse plant-insect associations from the latest Cretaceous and early Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Ameghiniana, v. 55, p. 303-338.

Carpenter RJ, A Iglesias, P Wilf. 2018. Early Cenozoic vegetation in Patagonia: new insights from organically preserved plant fossils (Ligorio Márquez Formation, Argentina). International Journal of Plant Sciences, v. 179, p. 115-135.

Jud NA, MA Gandolfo, A Iglesias, P Wilf. 2018. Fossil flowers from the early Palaeocene of Patagonia, Argentina with affinity to Schizomerieae (Cunoniaceae). Annals of Botany, v. 121, p. 431-442.

Wilf P, MP Donovan, NR Cúneo, MA Gandolfo. 2017. The fossil flip-leaves (Retrophyllum, Podocarpaceae) of southern South America. American Journal of Botany, v. 104, p. 1344-1369. [supplemental image library on Figshare]

Wright I, Ning D, Maire V, Prentice IC, Westoby M, Diaz S, Gallagher RV, Jacobs BF, Kooyman R, Law EA, Leishman MR, Niinemets Ü, Reich PB, Sack L, Villar R, Wang H, Wilf P. 2017. Global climatic drivers of leaf size. Science, v. 357, p. 917-921.

Wu J-Y, Wilf P, Ding S-T, An P-C, Dai J. 2017. Late Miocene Cyclocarya (Juglandaceae) from southwest China and its biogeographic implications. International Journal of Plant Sciences, v. 178, p. 580-591.

Jud NA, MA Gandolfo, A Iglesias, P Wilf. 2017. Flowering after disaster: early Danian buckthorn (Rhamnaceae) flowers and leaves from Patagonia. PLoS One, 12: e0176164.

Krause JM, WC Clyde, M Ibañez-Mejia, MD Schmitz, T Barnum, ES Bellosi, P Wilf. 2017. New age constraints for early Paleogene strata of central Patagonia, Argentina: implications for the timing of South American land mammal ages. GSA Bulletin, v. 129, p. 886-903.

Wilf P, MR Carvalho, MA Gandolfo, NR Cúneo. 2017. Eocene lantern fruits from Gondwanan Patagonia and the early origins of Solanaceae. Science, v. 355, p. 71-75. [full-text & reprint] [supplemental image library on Figshare]

Donovan MP, A Iglesias, P Wilf, CC Labandeira, NR Cúneo. 2016. Rapid recovery of Patagonian plant-insect associations after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. Nature Ecology & Evolution, v. 1, art. 12, doi:10.1038/s41559-016-0012.

Wilf P, DW Stevenson, NR Cúneo. 2016. The last Patagonian cycad, Austrozamia stockeyi gen. et sp. nov., early Eocene of Laguna del Hunco, Chubut, Argentina. Botany, v. 94. p. 817-829.

Wilf, P, S Zhang, S Chikkerur, SA Little, SL Wing, T Serre. 2016. Computer vision cracks the leaf code. PNAS, v. 113, p. 3305-3310.

Wilf P, Escapa IH. 2016. Molecular dates require geologic testing. New Phytologist, v. 209, p. 1359-1362.

Elliott SJ, CL Grettenberger, MP Donovan, P Wilf, RC Walter, DJ Merritts. 2016. Riparian and valley-margin hardwood species of pre-colonial Piedmont forests: A preliminary study of subfossil leaves from White Clay Creek, southeastern Pennsylvania, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica 19.1.2A, 1-26.

Su T, P Wilf, Y Huang, S Zhang, Z Zhou. 2015. Peaches preceded humans: fossil evidence from SW China. Nature Scientific Reports 5, art. 16794.

Wilf P, CC Labandeira. 2015. The fossil record of mutualisms. Pp. 39-41 in Mutualism, ed. JL Bronstein, Oxford University Press. Viewable on Google Books.

Merkhofer L, P Wilf, MT Haas, RM Kooyman, L Sack, C. Scoffoni, NR Cúneo. 2015. Resolving Australian analogs for an Eocene Patagonian paleorainforest using leaf size and floristics. American Journal of Botany, v. 102, p. 1160-1173.

Comer EE, RL Slingerland, JM Krause, A Iglesias, WC Clyde, MS Raigemborn, P Wilf. 2015. Sedimentary facies and depositional environments of diverse early Paleocene floras, north-central San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina. Palaios, v. 30, p. 553-573 (cover article).

Wilf P, Escapa IH. 2015. Green Web or megabiased clock? Plant fossils from Gondwanan Patagonia speak on evolutionary radiations. New Phytologist, v. 207, p. 283-290 (invited Tansley Insight).

Villar de Seoane L, NR Cúneo, I Escapa, P Wilf, MA Gandolfo. 2015.Ginkgoites patagonica (Berry) comb. nov. from the Eocene of Patagonia, last ginkgoalean record in South America. International Journal of Plant Sciences, v. 176, p. 346-363.

Kooyman RM, Wilf P, Barreda, VD, Carpenter RJ, Jordan GJ, Sniderman JMK, Allen A, Brodribb TJ, Crayn D, Feild TS, Laffan SW, Lusk CH, Rossetto M, Weston PH. 2014. Paleo-Antarctic rainforest into the modern Old World tropics: the rich past and threatened future of the 'southern wet forest survivors.' American Journal of Botany, v. 101, p. 2121-2135.

Su T, P Wilf, H Xu, Z-K Zhou. 2014. Miocene leaves of Elaeagnus(Elaeagnaceae) from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, its modern center of diversity and endemism. American Journal of Botany, v. 101, p. 1350-1361.

Little SA, WA Green, SL Wing, P Wilf. 2014. Reinvestigation of leaf rank, an underappreciated component of Leo Hickey’s legacy. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, v. 55, p. 79-87.

Carpenter RJ, P Wilf, JG Conran, NR Cúneo. 2014. A Paleogene trans-Antarctic distribution for Ripogonum (Ripogonaceae: Liliales)?Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 17, article 17.3.39A.

Donovan M, P Wilf, CC Labandeira, KR Johnson, DJ Peppe. 2014 Novel insect leaf-mining after the end-Cretaceous extinction and the demise of Cretaceous leaf miners, Great Plains, USA. PloS One, v. 9, e103542.

Carvalho MR, P Wilf, H Barrios, ED Currano, DM Windsor, CA Jaramillo, CC Labandeira. 2014. Insect leaf-chewing damage tracks herbivore richness in modern and ancient forests. PloS One, v. 9, e94950.

Wilf P, IH Escapa, NR Cúneo, RM Kooyman, KR Johnson, A Iglesias. 2014. First South American Agathis (Araucariaceae), Eocene of Patagonia. American Journal of Botanyv. 101, p. 156-179. [original 1200 dpi figures on figshare]

Clyde WC, P Wilf, A Iglesias, RL Slingerland, T Barnum, PK Bijl, TJ Bralower, H Brinkhuis, EE Comer, BT Huber, M Ibañez-Mejia, BR Jicha, JM Krause, JD Schueth, BS Singer, MS Raigemborn, MD Schmitz, A Sluijs, MC Zamaloa. 2014. New age constraints for the Salamanca Formation and lower Río Chico Group in the western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: implications for K/Pg extinction recovery and land mammal age correlations. Geological Society of America Bulletinv. 126, p. 289-306.

Cornwell WK, et al. (26 authors). 2014. Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages. Journal of Ecologyv. 102, p. 345-356.

Wilf P. 2014, Commentary on K.J. Niklas, B.H. Tiffney, A.H. Knoll, 1983, Patterns in vascular land plant diversification, Nature 303:614-616, p. 36 inFoundations of Macroecology, F.A. Smith, J.L. Gittleman, J.H. Brown, eds., University of Chicago Press.

Elliott SJ, P Wilf, RC Walter, DJ Merritts. 2013. Subfossil leaves reveal a new upland floral component of the pre-European Piedmont landscape, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. PloS One, v. 8, e79317.

Knight CL, P Wilf. 2013. Rare leaf fossils of Monimiaceae and Atherospermataceae (Laurales) from Eocene Patagonian rainforests and their biogeographic significance. Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 16, article 26A, 39 p.

Carvalho MR, P Wilf, MA Gandolfo, EJ Hermsen, KR Johnson, NR Cúneo. 2013. First record of Todea (Osmundaceae) in South America, from the early Eocene paleorainforests of Laguna del Hunco (Patagonia, Argentina).American Journal of Botanyv. 100, p. 1831-1848.

Macphail M, RJ Carpenter, A Iglesias, P Wilf. 2013. First fossil evidence for Wollemi Pine-type pollen (Dilwynites: Araucariaceae) in South America. PloS One, 8: e69281, 8 p.

Wilf, P., N.R. Cúneo, I.H. Escapa, D. Pol, M.O. Woodburne. 2013. Splendid and seldom isolated: the paleobiogeography of Patagonia. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 41, p. 561-603. [pdf, html]

Barreda V.D., N.R. Cúneo, P. Wilf, E.D. Currano, R.A. Scasso, H. Brinkhuis. 2012. Cretaceous/Paleogene floral turnover in Patagonia: drop in diversity, low extinction, and a Classopollis spike. PLoS One, v. 7, e52455 (8 p.). [pdf, html]

Barclay, R.S., P. Wilf, D.L. Dilcher, J.C. McElwain. 2012. The Cuticle Database Project, version 1.1, The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute of Pennsylvania State University.

Wilf, P. 2012. Rainforest conifers of Eocene Patagonia: attached cones and foliage of the extant southeast-Asian and Australasian genus Dacrycarpus(Podocarpaceae). American Journal of Botany, v. 99, p. 562-584 (cover article). [original 1200 dpi figures on figshare]

Sauquet, H., S.Y.W. Ho, M.A. Gandolfo, G.J. Jordan, P. Wilf, D.J. Cantrill, M. Bayly, L. Bromham, G. Brown, R.J. Carpenter, D.M. Lee, D. Murphy, J.M. Kale Sniderman, F. Udovicic. 2012. Testing the impact of calibration on molecular divergence times using a fossil-rich group: the case of Nothofagus(Fagales). Systematic Biology, v. 61, p. 289-313 (cover article). [pdf, html, supplement]

Gandolfo, M.A., E.J. Hermsen, M.C. Zamaloa, K.C. Nixon, C.C. González, P. Wilf, N.R. Cúneo, K.R. Johnson. 2011. Oldest known Eucalyptus fossils are from South America. PloS One, v. 6, e21084. [pdf, html, supplement]

Little, S.A., S.W. Kembel, P. Wilf. 2010. Paleotemperature proxies from leaf fossils reinterpreted in light of evolutionary history. PloS One, v. 5, e15161.[pdf, html, supplement]

Winkler, I.S., C.C. Labandeira, T. Wappler, P. Wilf. 2010. Distinguishing Agromyzidae (Diptera) leaf mines in the fossil record: new taxa from the Paleogene of North America and Germany and implications for host use evolution and an early origin for the Agromyzidae. Journal of Paleontology, v. 84, p. 935-954. [pdf]

Currano, E.D., C.C. Labandeira, P. Wilf. 2010. Fossil insect folivory tracks paleotemperature for six million years. Ecological Monographs, v. 80, p. 547-567 (cover article). [pdf] [supplement]

Peppe, D.J., D.L. Royer, P. Wilf, E.A. Kowalski. 2010. Quantification of large uncertainties in fossil leaf paleoaltimetry. Tectonics, v. 29, TC3015, doi:10.1029/2009TC002549. [pdf] [supplement]

Wilf, P., B.S. Singer, M.C. Zamaloa, K.R. Johnson, N.R. Cúneo. 2010. Early Eocene 40Ar/39Ar age for the Pampa de Jones plant, frog, and insect biota (Huitrera Formation, Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina).Ameghiniana, v. 47, p. 207-216. [pdf]

Wilf, P., S.A. Little, A. Iglesias, M.C. Zamaloa, M.A. Gandolfo, N.R. Cúneo, K.R. Johnson. 2009. Papuacedrus (Cupressaceae) in Eocene Patagonia, a new fossil link to Australasian rainforests. American Journal of Botany, v. 96, p. 2031-2047 (cover article). [pdf]

Wing, S.L., F. Herrera, C.A. Jaramillo, C. Gómez-N., P. Wilf, C.C. Labandeira. 2009. Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia, are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforest. PNAS, v. 106, p. 18627-18632. [pdf][supporting information, 40 Mb pdf including photos and descriptions]

Wappler, T., E.D. Currano, P. Wilf, J. Rust, C.C. Labandeira. 2009. No post-Cretaceous ecosystem depression in European forests? Rich insect-feeding damage on diverse middle Palaeocene plants at Menat, France. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v. 276, p. 4271-4277. [pdf, html, supplement]

Sarzetti, L.C., C.C. Labandeira, J. Muzón, P. Wilf, N.R. Cúneo, K.R. Johnson, J.F. Genise. 2009. Odonatan endophytic oviposition from the Eocene of Patagonia: the ichnogenus Paleoovoidus and implications for behavioral stasis. Journal of Paleontology, v. 83, p. 431-447. [pdf]

Royer, D.L., R.M. Kooyman, S.A. Little, P. Wilf. 2009. Ecology of leaf teeth: A multi-site analysis from Australian subtropical rainforest. American Journal of Botany, v. 96, p. 738-750. [pdf] [supplemental Appendix S1] [supplemental Appendix S2]

Ellis, B., D. Daly, L.J. Hickey, K.R. Johnson, J. Mitchell, P. Wilf, S.L. Wing. 2009. Manual of Leaf Architecture. Cornell University Press, 190 p. ISBN: 080147518X. Open-access pdf available here, under the following agreement: ”This digital edition of Manual of Leaf Architecture, published by Cornell University Press in association with the New York Botanical Garden Press, is licensed under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0. To reprint this work in whole or in part for commercial purposes, please contact Cornell University Press: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Copyright © 2009 Cornell University.”

Crisp, M., M. Arroyo, L. Cook, M.A. Gandolfo, G. Jordan, M. McGlone, P. Weston, M. Westoby, P. Wilf,  H.P. Linder. 2009. Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale. Nature, v. 458, p. 754-756. [pdf] [supplemental data pdf]

Bennington, J.B., et al. (32 authors). 2009. Critical issues of scale in paleoecology. Palaios (Spotlight), v. 24, p. 1-4. [pdf]

Wilf, P., 2008. Fossil angiosperm leaves: paleobotany’s difficult children prove themselves. Paleontological Society Papers, v. 14, p. 319-333. [pdf]

Royer D.L., J.C. McElwain, J.M. Adams, P. Wilf. 2008. Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate within Acer rubrum and Quercus kelloggiiNew Phytologist, v. 179, p. 808-817. [pdf] [supplemental information]

Wilf, P. 2008. Insect-damaged fossil leaves record food web response to ancient climate change and extinction. New Phytologist (Tansley Review), v. 178, p. 486-502. [pdf]

Currano, E.D., P. Wilf, S.L. Wing, C.C. Labandeira, E.C. Lovelock, D.L. Royer, 2008. Sharply increased insect herbivory during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. PNAS, v. 105, p. 1960-1964[pdf][supplemental data]

Danehy, D.R., P. Wilf, S.A. Little, 2007. Early Eocene macroflora from the Red Hot Truck Stop locality (Meridian, Mississippi, USA). Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 10, article 17A, 31 p. [html] [pdf]

Royer, D.L., L. Sack, P. Wilf, C.H. Lusk, G.J. Jordan, Ü. Niinemets, I.J. Wright, M. Westoby, B. Cariglino, P.D. Coley, A.D. Cutter, K.R. Johnson, C.C. Labandeira, A.T. Moles, M.B. Palmer, F. Valladares, 2007. Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications.Paleobiology, v. 33, p. 574-589. [pdf] [online appendix A] [online appendix B]

Iglesias, A., P. Wilf, K.R. Johnson, A.B. Zamuner, N.R. Cúneo, S.D. Matheos, B.S. Singer, 2007. A Paleocene lowland macroflora from Patagonia reveals significantly greater richness than North American analogs. Geology, v. 35, p. 947-950. [pdf incl. supplemental data]

Labandeira, C.C., Wilf, P., Johnson, K.R., and Marsh, F. 2007. Guide to Insect (and other) Damage Types on Compressed Plant Fossils. Version 3.0. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 25 p. [pdf] (ready to print/laminate for field and lab use)

González, C.C., M.A. Gandolfo, M.C. Zamaloa, N.R. Cúneo, P. Wilf, K.R. Johnson, 2007. Revision of the Proteaceae macrofossil record fromPatagonia, Argentina . Botanical Review, v. 73, p. 235-266. [pdf]

Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, K.R. Johnson, B. Ellis, 2006. Decoupled plant and insect diversity after the end-Cretaceous extinction. Science, v. 313, p. 1112-1115 (in Reports). [pdf] [supplemental data]

Zamaloa, M.C., M.A. Gandolfo, C.C. González, E.J. Romero, N.R. Cúneo, and P. Wilf, 2006. Casuarinaceae from the Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina. International Journal of Plant Sciences, v. 167, p. 1279-1289. [pdf]

Secord, R., P.D. Gingerich, M.E. Smith, W.C. Clyde, P. Wilf, and B.S. Singer, 2006. Geochronology and mammalian biostratigraphy of middle and upper Paleocene continental strata, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. American Journal of Science, v. 306. p. 211-245. [pdf]

Royer, D.L., and P. Wilf, 2006. Why do toothed leaves correlate with cold climates? Gas-exchange at leaf margins provides new insights into a classic paleotemperature proxy. International Journal of Plant Sciences, v. 167, p. 11-18. 
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Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, K.R. Johnson, N.R. Cúneo, 2005. Richness of plant-insect associations in Eocene Patagonia: a legacy for South American biodiversity. PNAS, v. 102, p. 8944-8948.
 
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Wilf, P., K.R. Johnson, N.R. Cúneo, M.E. Smith, B.S. Singer, and M.A. Gandolfo, 2005, Eocene plant diversity at Laguna del Hunco and Río Pichileufú, Patagonia, Argentina. American Naturalist, v. 165, p. 634-650. 
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Royer, D.L., P. Wilf, D.A. Janesko, E.A. Kowalski, and D.L. Dilcher, 2005, Correlations of climate and plant ecology to leaf size and shape: potential proxies for the fossil record. American Journal of Botany, v. 92. p. 1141-1151.
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Wilf, P., and K.R. Johnson, 2004, Land plant extinction at the end of the Cretaceous: a quantitative analysis of the North Dakota megafloral record.Paleobiology, v. 30, p. 347-368. 
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Greenwood, D.R.,  P. Wilf, S.L. Wing, and D.C. Christophel, 2004, Paleotemperature estimation using leaf-margin analysis: is Australia different? Palaios, v. 19, p. 129-142. [pdf]

Wilf, P., N.R. Cúneo, K.R. Johnson, J.F. Hicks, S.L. Wing, J.D. Obradovich, 2003, High plant diversity in Eocene South America: Evidence from Patagonia. Science, v. 300, p. 122-125 (in Reports). [pdf] [supplemental data]

Huff, P.M., P. Wilf, and E.J. Azumah, 2003. Digital future for paleoclimate estimation from fossil leaves? Preliminary results. Palaios, v. 18, p. 266-274.[pdf] [images and supplemental data].

Wilf, P., K.R. Johnsonand B. T. Huber. 2003. Correlated terrestrial and marine evidence for global climate changes before mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. PNAS 100: 599-604. [pdf] [supplemental data]

C.C. Labandeira, K.R. Johnson, and P. Wilf. 2002. Impact of the terminal Cretaceous event on plant-insect associations. PNAS 99: 2061-2066. [pdf][html] [supplemental data]

Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, K.R. Johnson, P.D. Coley, and A.D. Cutter. 2001. Insect herbivory, plant defense, and early Cenozoic climate change. PNAS98: 6221-6226. [pdf] [html] [supplemental data]

Burnham, R.J., N.C.A. Pitman, K.R. Johnson, and P. Wilf. 2001. Habitat-related error in estimating temperatures from leaf margins in a humid tropical forest. American Journal of Botany 88: 1096-1102. [pdf] [supplemental data]

Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, W.J. Kress, C.L. Staines, D.M. Windsor, A.L. Allen, and K.R. Johnson. 2000. Timing the radiations of leaf beetles: Hispines on gingers from latest Cretaceous to Recent. Science 289: 291-294 (coverarticle). [pdf]

Wilf, P. 2000. Late Paleocene-early Eocene climate changes in southwestern Wyoming: Paleobotanical analysis. Geological Society of America Bulletin112:292-307. [pdf] [supplemental data]

Wilf, P., and C.C. Labandeira. 2000. Effects of Paleocene-Eocene warming on insect herbivory. GFF:122.

Wilf, P., and C.C. Labandeira. 1999. Response of plant-insect associations to Paleocene-Eocene warming. Science 284:2153-2156. [pdf]

Wilf, P., S.L. Wing, D.R. Greenwood, and C.L. Greenwood. 1999. Using fossil leaves as paleoprecipitation indicators: An Eocene example: Reply. Geology27:92. [pdf]

Leaf Architecture Working Group (Ash, A., B. Ellis, L.J. Hickey, K.R. Johnson, P. Wilf, and S.L. Wing). 1999. Manual of Leaf Architecture: Morphological description and categorization of dicotyledonous and net-veined monocotyledonous angiosperms. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. 65 p. [pdf]

Wilf, P., K.C. Beard, K.S. Davies-Vollum, and J.W. Norejko. 1998. Portrait of a late Paleocene (early Clarkforkian) terrestrial ecosystem: Big Multi Quarry and associated strata, Washakie Basin, southwestern Wyoming. Palaios13:514-532. [pdf]

Wilf, P. 1998. Using fossil plants to understand global change: Evidence for Paleocene-Eocene warming in the greater Green River Basin of southwestern Wyoming. Doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 384 p. [48 Mb pdf file now on figshare; contains 38 plates illustrating fossil plants]

Wilf, P., S.L. Wing, D.R. Greenwood, and C.L. Greenwood. 1998. Using fossil leaves as paleoprecipitation indicators: An Eocene example. Geology26:203-206. [pdf]

Wilf, P. 1997. When are leaves good thermometers? A new case for Leaf Margin Analysis. Paleobiology 23:373-390. [pdf] [html]

 

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