Koptur, Suzanne

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Article
- 2021
  
  Weeds Enhance Pollinator Diversity and Fruit Yield in Mango. Insects. 12.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/insects12121114 Web of Science: 000737564300001
- 2021
  
  In remembrance of Victor Rico Gray (1951-2021): An astonishing tropical ecologist. Biotropica. 53:1238-1243.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/btp.12987 Web of Science: 000666591400001
- 2021
  
  Chemotaxonomic investigation of Apocynaceae for retronecine-type pyrrolizidine alkaloids using HPLC-MS/MS. Phytochemistry. 185.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.112662 Web of Science: 000639166000005
- 2021
  
  Do Morning Butterfly Visitors Benefit a Night-Flowering Hawkmoth Pollinated Plant. Castanea. 86:100-111.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2179/0008-7475.86.1.100 Web of Science: 000662033200007
- 2020
  
  Scientific Note: Insects associated with Guettarda scabra in Everglades National Park, Florida. Castanea. 85:155-158.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2179/0008-7475.85.1.155 Web of Science: 000540840500012
- 2020
  
  Are Native Palms "Pollinator Hogs"? A Field Experiment in Pine Rocklands of Southern Florida. Natural Areas Journal. 40:142-149.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3375/043.040.0205 Web of Science: 000524488500005
- 2020
  
  A fishing expedition to discover the pollinators of several subtropical Apocynaceae. Applications in Plant Sciences. 8.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/aps3.11326 Web of Science: 000513210000001
- 2019
  
  MYSTERY HERBIVORE OF CHARISMATIC EPIPHYTE DISCOVERED ON ANDROS. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 73:73-77.
  Web of Science: 000503001100001
- 2019
  
  Contrasting Pollination Systems of Wild Unction and Devil's Potato Root (Apocynaceae) on San Salvador: Preliminary Observations and Analyses. Castanea. 84:81-92.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2179/0008-7475.84.1.81 Web of Science: 000469214200007
- 2019
  
  The diversity and evolution of pollination systems in large plant clades: Apocynaceae as a case study. Annals of Botany. 123:311-325.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcy127 Web of Science: 000462548600007
- 2018
  
  Pollination Ecology of Three Sympatric Palms of Southern Florida Pine Rocklands. Natural Areas Journal. 38:15-25.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3375/043.038.0104 Web of Science: 000422864600003
- 2017
  
  Exploring whether and how ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) affect reproductive fitness in Senna mexicana var. chapmanii (Fabaceae). Florida Entomologist. 100:539-545.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1653/024.100.0308 Web of Science: 000411133700007
- 2017
  
  Habitat Differences in Morphology and Reproductive Allocation in Guettarda scabra (Rubiaceae). Castanea. 82:51-57.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2179/16-115 Web of Science: 000418932100001
- 2017
  
  The FIU Nature Preserve: Achieving Biological Conservation Through Diversification of Stakeholders. Southeastern Naturalist. 16:94-108.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1656/058.016.0sp1011 Web of Science: 000411136200009
- 2017
  
  The Schaus Swallowtail Habitat Enhancement Project: An Applied Service-Learning Project Continuum from Biscayne National Park to Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Southeastern Naturalist. 16:26-46.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1656/058.016.0sp1007 Web of Science: 000411136200005
- 2017
  
  Mortal combat between ants and caterpillars: an ominous threat to the endangered Schaus swallowtail butterfly (Heraclides aristodemus ponceanus) in the Florida Keys, USA. Journal of Insect Conservation. 21:689-702.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10841-017-0012-1 Web of Science: 000407822900010
- 2017
  
  The effects of habitat fragmentation on the reproduction and abundance of Angadenia berteroi. Journal of Plant Ecology. 10:340-348.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtw024 Web of Science: 000402091500009
- 2017
  
  Changing light conditions in pine rockland habitats affect the intensity and outcome of ant-plant interactions. Biotropica. 49:83-91.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/btp.12363 Web of Science: 000394429600012
- 2016
  
  Butterflies visit more frequently, but bees are better pollinators: the importance of mouthpart dimensions in effective pollen removal and deposition. AoB PLANTS. 8.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plw001 Web of Science: 000376446200001
- 2015
  
  The Influence of Host Plant Extrafloral Nectaries on Multitrophic Interactions: An Experimental Investigation. PLoS ONE. 10.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138157 Web of Science: 000361792100032
- 2015
  
  Quantity over quality: light intensity, but not red/far-red ratio, affects extrafloral nectar production in Senna mexicana var. chapmanii. Ecology and Evolution. 5:4108-4114.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1644 Web of Science: 000362090700021
- 2015
  
  Effect of soil pH on growth, nutrient uptake, and mycorrhizal colonization in exotic invasive Lygodium microphyllum. Plant Ecology. 216:989-998.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11258-015-0484-6 Web of Science: 000356372800007
- 2015
  
  DYNAMIC EXTRAFLORAL NECTAR PRODUCTION: THE TIMING OF LEAF DAMAGE AFFECTS THE DEFENSIVE RESPONSE IN SENNA MEXICANA VAR. CHAPMANII (FABACEAE). American Journal of Botany. 102:58-66.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1400381 Web of Science: 000347915100008
- 2014
  
  Which Factors Explain Reproductive Output of Mauritia flexuosa (Arecaceae) in Forest and Savanna Habitats of Northern Amazonia?. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 175:307-318.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/674446 Web of Science: 000332018800004
- 2013
  
  THE BITING MIDGE, FORCIPOMYIA (MICROHELEA) ERIOPHORA (WILLISTON) (DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE), AN ECTOPARASITE OF LARVAL PHOEBIS SENNAE (PIERIDAE) IN SOUTH FLORIDA. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 67:128-130.
  Web of Science: 000330602600003
- 2013
  
  Nectar secretion on fern fronds associated with lower levels of herbivore damage: field experiments with a widespread epiphyte of Mexican cloud forest remnants. Annals of Botany. 111:1277-1283.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct063 Web of Science: 000319433300021
- 2013
  
  How do habitat and climate variation affect phenology of the Amazonian palm, Mauritia flexuosa?. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 29:255-259.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0266467413000242 Web of Science: 000319689000008
- 2013
  
  NEW FINDINGS ON THE POLLINATION BIOLOGY OF MAURITIA FLEXUOSA (ARECACEAE) IN RORAIMA, BRAZIL: LINKING DIOECY, WIND, AND HABITAT. American Journal of Botany. 100:613-621.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200446 Web of Science: 000315571900015
- 2013
  
  When is local the best paradigm? Breeding history influences conservation reintroduction survival and population trajectories in times of extreme climate events. Biological Conservation. 159:277-284.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.10.022 Web of Science: 000320096300033
- 2011
  
  Alteration of forest structure modifies the distribution of scale insect, Stigmacoccus garmilleri, in Mexican tropical montane cloud forests. Journal of Insect Science. 11.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1673/031.011.12401 Web of Science: 000294996000003
- 2011
  
  The effects of fire and fragmentation on occurrence and flowering of a rare perennial plant. Plant Ecology. 212:1057-1067.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11258-010-9886-7 Web of Science: 000290687700011
- 2011
  
  QBIC, an interdisciplinary and quantitative biological sciences curriculum: Concept to implementation. Journal of Science Education: revista de edicacion en ciencias. 12:11-14.
- 2010
  
  Breeding System of Ruellia succulenta Small (Acanthaceae). Castanea. 75:454-460.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2179/09-030.1 Web of Science: 000287645600006
- 2010
  
  Honeydew foraging by birds in tropical montane forests and pastures of Mexico. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 26:335-341.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0266467409990654 Web of Science: 000277483200009
- 2010
  
  Floral Biology and Breeding System of the Crenulate Leadplant, Amorpha herbacea var. crenulata, an Endangered South Florida Pine Rockland Endemic. Natural Areas Journal. 30:138-147.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3375/043.030.0202 Web of Science: 000277352000003
- 2010
  
  ANTS AND PLANTS WITH EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES IN FIRE SUCCESSIONAL HABITATS ON ANDROS (BAHAMAS). Florida Entomologist. 93:89-99.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1653/024.093.0112 Web of Science: 000275630200012
- 2009
  
  Hanging by a coastal strand: breeding system of a federally endangered morning-glory of the south-eastern Florida coast, Jacquemontia reclinata. Annals of Botany. 104:1301-1311.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcp241 Web of Science: 000272079600005
- 2006
  
  Fuel loads, fire regimes, and post-fire fuel dynamics in Florida Keys pine forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 15:463-478.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1071/WF05100 Web of Science: 000242619400003
- 2005
  
  Bee populations, forest disturbance, and africanization in Mexico. Biotropica. 37:686-692.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2005.00087.x Web of Science: 000233766800022
- 2005
  
  Effects of fire intensity on vital rates of an endemic herb of the Florida Keys, USA. Natural Areas Journal. 25:71-76.
  Web of Science: 000226814500010
- 2004
  
  Estimating aboveground biomass of broadleaved woody plants in the understory of Florida Keys pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 203:319-329.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.07.059 Web of Science: 000225523000025
- 2004
  
  Novel assessments: detecting success in student learning. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2:444-445.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/3868433 Web of Science: 000224352000019
- 2003
  
  Breeding system and pollination of a narrowly endemic herb of the Lower Florida Keys: Impacts of the urban-wildland interface. American Journal of Botany. 90:1180-1187.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3732/ajb.90.8.1180 Web of Science: 000184833300009
- 2002
  
  Herbivore-free time? Damage to new leaves of woody plants after Hurricane Andrew. Biotropica. 34:547-554.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1646/0006-3606(2002)034[0547:HFTDTN]2.0.CO;2 Web of Science: 000180539800007
- 2002
  
  Herbivore-free time? Damage to new leaves of woody plants after Hurricane Andrew. Biotropica. 34:547-554.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2002.tb00573.x
- 2001
  
  Warming up to Hotspots. Conservation Biology. 15:542-543.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.015002542.x
- 1998
  
  Effect of seed damage on germination in the common vetch (Vicia sativa L.). American Midland Naturalist. 140:393-396.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(1998)140[0393:EOSDOG]2.0.CO;2 Web of Science: 000076836500020
- 1998
  
  Facultative ant-plant interactions: Nectar sugar preferences of introduced pest ant species in south Florida. Biotropica. 30:179-189.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.1998.tb00053.x Web of Science: 000074462000004
- 1998
  
  Ant protection of the nectaried fern Polypodium plebeium in central Mexico. American Journal of Botany. 85:736-739.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2446544 Web of Science: 000073708300016
- 1996
  
  Effects of artificial defoliation on reproductive allocation in the common vetch, Vicia sativa (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae). American Journal of Botany. 83:886-889.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2446265 Web of Science: A1996UZ12400008
- 1996
  
  Effects of Hurricane Andrew on epiphyte communities within cypress domes of Everglades National Park. Ecology. 77:964-967.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2265516 Web of Science: A1996UC98500030
- 1994
  
  FLORAL AND EXTRAFLORAL NECTARS OF COSTA-RICAN INGA TREES - A COMPARISON OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS AND COMPOSITION. Biotropica. 26:276-284.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2388848 Web of Science: A1994PK38400006
- 1993
  
  PLANTLET FORMATION IN TROPICAL MONTANE FERNS - A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION. American Fern Journal. 83:60-66.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/1547568 Web of Science: A1993LJ85600004
- 1993
  
  FLORAL VARIATION AND DISTYLY IN GUETTARDA-SCABRA (RUBIACEAE). American Journal of Botany. 80:31-40.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2445117 Web of Science: A1993KK57900004
- 1992
  
  PLANTS WITH EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES AND ANTS IN EVERGLADES HABITATS. Florida Entomologist. 75:38-50.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/3495479 Web of Science: A1992HM12500003
- 1988
  
  PHENOLOGICAL STUDIES OF SHRUB AND TREELET SPECIES IN TROPICAL CLOUD FORESTS OF COSTA-RICA. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 4:323-346.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0266467400002984 Web of Science: A1988R290200001
- 1988
  
  INTERACTIONS AMONG VETCHES BEARING EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES, THEIR BIOTIC PROTECTIVE AGENTS, AND HERBIVORES. Ecology. 69:278-283.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/1943183 Web of Science: A1988L798500031
- 1986
  
  ON THE EVOLUTION OF NONSPECIFIC MUTUALISM. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 27:251-267.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1986.tb01736.x Web of Science: A1986A650100003
- 1985
  
  ALTERNATIVE DEFENSES AGAINST HERBIVORES IN INGA (FABACEAE, MIMOSOIDEAE) OVER AN ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT. Ecology. 66:1639-1650.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/1938026 Web of Science: A1985ARY2800025
- 1984
  
  EXPERIMENTAL-EVIDENCE FOR DEFENSE OF INGA (MIMOSOIDEAE) SAPLINGS BY ANTS. Ecology. 65:1787-1793.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/1937775 Web of Science: A1984TU02300010
- 1984
  
  OUTCROSSING AND POLLINATOR LIMITATION OF FRUIT-SET - BREEDING SYSTEMS OF NEOTROPICAL INGA TREES (FABACEAE, MIMOSOIDEAE). Evolution. 38:1130-1143.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2408445 Web of Science: A1984TR39600018
- 1983
  
  FLOWERING PHENOLOGY AND FLORAL BIOLOGY OF INGA (FABACEAE, MIMOSOIDEAE). Systematic Botany. 8:354-368.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2418355 Web of Science: A1983SN52200002
- 1982
  
  NECTARIES IN SOME NEOTROPICAL SPECIES OF POLYPODIUM (POLYPODIACEAE) - PRELIMINARY-OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSES. Biotropica. 14:108-113.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2387739 Web of Science: A1982NT79200004
- 1981
  
  ANTS LIKE FLOWER NECTAR. Biotropica. 13:211-214.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2388126 Web of Science: A1981MQ14200007
- 1979
  
  FACULTATIVE MUTUALISM BETWEEN WEEDY VETCHES BEARING EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES AND WEEDY ANTS IN CALIFORNIA. American Journal of Botany. 66:1016-1020.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2442565 Web of Science: A1979HR90200003
- EFFECTS OF FLORIVORY ON THE POLLINATION OF FLOWERS: AN EXPERIMENTAL FIELD STUDY WITH A PERENNIAL PLANT. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 171:283-292.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/650154 Web of Science: 000274602500006
- FLORAL BIOLOGY AND BREEDING SYSTEM OF ANGADENIA BERTEROI (APOCYNACEAE): WHY DO FLOWERS OF THE PINELAND GOLDEN TRUMPET PRODUCE FEW FRUITS?. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 172:378-385.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/658153 Web of Science: 000292654700007
Book
- 2017
  
  Ant-plant interactions: Impacts of humans on terrestrial ecosystems
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/9781316671825
- 2017
  
  Preface: Ants and Plants: A prominent interaction in a changing world
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/9781316671825.001
Book Chapter
- 2017
  
  Extrafloral nectary-mediated interactions between insects and plants. 81-130.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1201/9781351271004
- 2017
  
  Playing the system: The impacts of invasive ants and plants on facultative ant-plant interactions. 249-266.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/9781316671825.013
- 2005
  
  Nectar as fuel for plant protectors. 75-108.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511542220.004
Conference
- 2020
  
  Do Diurnal Floral Visitors Increase the Fruit-set of a Sphingophilous Plant?: The Case of the Rough-leaf Velvetseed (Rubiaceae). Integrative and Comparative Biology. E395-E395.
  Web of Science: 000536432401777
- 2009
  
  Effects of Pesticides on the Arthropod Community in the Agricultural Areas near the Everglades National Park. PROCEEDINGS OF THE FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, VOL 130, 2017. 429-437.
  Web of Science: 000550189200100
- 1991
  
  EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES OF HERBS AND TREES - MODELING THE INTERACTION WITH ANTS AND PARASITOIDS. 213-230.
  Web of Science: A1991BV72N00015
- 1987
  
  DEFINITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF UNUSUAL HETEROSTYLY IN GUETTARDA-SCABRA (L) VENT (RUBIACEAE). American Journal of Botany. 624-624.
  Web of Science: A1987H370900081
- 1987
  
  IS EXTRAFLORAL NECTAR PRODUCTION AN INDUCIBLE ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE. American Journal of Botany. 643-643.
  Web of Science: A1987H370900131
- 1986
  
  INTERACTIONS BETWEEN VETCHES BEARING EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES, THEIR BIOTIC PROTECTIVE AGENTS, AND HERBIVORES. American Journal of Botany. 671-671.
  Web of Science: A1986C700200190
- 1985
  
  THE RELATIVE BENEFIT FROM DIFFERENT GUILDS OF BIOTIC PROTECTIVE AGENTS AND MAINTENANCE OF A TRAIT PROMOTING PROTECTION IN PLANTS. Biometrics. 338-338.
  Web of Science: A1985AJT3500181
Note
- 1989
  
  MIMICRY OF FLOWERS BY PARASITOID WASP PUPAE. Biotropica. 93-95.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2388450 Web of Science: A1989U013600017
Other Scholarly Work
- 2018
  
  The Influence of Host Plant Extrafloral Nectaries on Multitrophic Interactions: An Experimental Investigation (vol 10, e0138157, 2015). PLoS ONE.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202836 Web of Science: 000442800100136
- 2013
  
  The diversity, ecology and evolution of extrafloral nectaries: current perspectives and future challenges. Annals of Botany. 1243-1250.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct109 Web of Science: 000319433300018
- 2006
  
  H. G. Baker - Biographical memoirs. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 335-339.
  Web of Science: 000241371700006
Review
- 2017
  
  Dead land walking: the value of continued conservation efforts in South Florida's imperiled pine rocklands. Biodiversity and Conservation. 3241-3253.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10531-017-1433-6 Web of Science: 000415281600001
- 2017
  
  The use of extrafloral nectar in pest management: overcoming context dependence. Journal of Applied Ecology. 489-499.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12778 Web of Science: 000397930300016

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- Florida Carribean Consortium for Agriculture Education and Hispanic Workforce Development awarded by National Institute of Food & Agriculture 2011 - 2016
- Curriculum Enrichment, Instrumentation and Experiential Learning in Agroecology. awarded by National Institute of Food & Agriculture 2008 - 2013
- Curricular Develpment and Capacity Building in Agroecology Sciences. awarded by U.S. Department of Agriculture 2006 - 2008

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