Peer-reviewed Publications
Robinson, M.L., M. L. Robinson, P. G. Hahn, B. D. Inouye, N. Underwood, S. R. Whitehead, K. C. Abbott, E. M. Bruna, N. I. Cacho, L. A. Dyer, and the Herbivory Variability Collaborative Network (190 co-authors). (2023) Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory. Science, 382(6671).
Robinson, M. L., Weber, M. G., Freedman, M. G., Jordan, E., Ashlock, S., Yonenaga, J., & Strauss, S. Y. (2023). Macroevolution of protective coloration across caterpillars reflects relationships with host plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290(1991).
Robinson, M. L., Schilmiller, A., & Wetzel, W. C. (2022). A domestic plant differs from its wild relative along multiple axes of within-plant trait variability and diversity. Ecology and Evolution, 12(1), e8545.
Robinson, M. L., and Strauss, S. Y. (2020). Generalists are more specialized in low-resource habitats, increasing stability of ecological network structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(4), 2043-2048.
Wetzel, W., Kharouba, H., Robinson, M.L., Holyoak, M., & Karban, R. (2019). Plant trait covariance and nonlinear averaging: a reply to Koussoroplis et al. Rethinking Ecology, 4, 115.
Robinson, M. L., and Strauss, S. Y. (2018). Cascading effects of soil type on assemblage size and structure in a diverse herbivore community. Ecology, 99(8), 1866-1877.
LoPresti, E. F., Robinson, M. L., Krimmel, B. A., & Charles, G. K. (2018). The sticky fruit of manzanita: potential functions beyond epizoochory. Ecology, 99(9), 2128-2130.
LoPresti, E.F., Grof-Tisza, P., Robinson, M., Godfrey, J., and R. Karban. (2017). Entrapped sand as a plant defense: effects on herbivore performance and preference. Ecological Entomology 43(2), 154-161.
Wetzel, W.C., Kharouba, H.M., Robinson, M., Holyoak, M., and R. Karban. (2016). Variability in plant nutrients reduces insect herbivore performance. Nature, 539(7629), 425-427.
LoPresti, E.F., Karban, R., Robinson, M., Grof-Tisza, P., and W. Wetzel. (2016). The natural history supplement: furthering natural history amongst ecologists and evolutionary biologists. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 97(3), 305-310.
Dyer, L.A., Wagner, D.L., Greeney, H.F., Smilanich, A.M., Massad, T.M., Robinson, M. Fox, M., Hazen, R., Glassmire, A., Pardikes, N., Fredrickson, K., Pearson, C., Gentry, G.L., and J.O. Stireman III. (2012). Novel insights into tritrophic interaction diversity and chemical ecology using 16 years of volunteer supported research. American Entomologist, 58(1), 15-19.
Presentations and Seminars
(*indicates invited speaker; ** indicates session organizer)
2022 Georgia State University STEM Week (GSU Perimeter College, Atlanta (Atlanta, GA; virtual)* To warn or to hide: The ecology and evolution of bright coloration in animals
2021 Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting (Denver, CO; virtual)* Plant apparency shapes the distribution of herbivory within and among plant individuals: Data from the Herbivory Variability Network
2021 University of Georgia, EDGE Seminar Series* (Athens, Georgia) From landscapes to individuals: how plant trait variation shapes species interactions across spatial scales
2021 Florida State University, Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series* (virtual) From landscapes to individuals: how plant trait variation shapes species interactions across spatial scales
2021 American Society of Naturalists (Asilomar; virtual) Domestication has altered within-plant trait variability and diversity in Alfalfa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FkSCzKG78o&feature=youtu.be) (find talk @ 1:52:00)
2020 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (Salt Lake City; virtual) ** Domestication selection and shifts in trait within-plant trait variability (Organized Oral Session 067)
2020 Women in Science – Ecology Virtual Conference (virtual) The butterfly girl: how childhood role models and contemporary peers have shaped me as an ecologist
2020 Institution of Science and Technology Austria, IST (Vienna, Austria)* Domestication selection and shifts in trait variability at the within-plant scale
2020 Czech Academy of Sciences, Entomology Department Seminar Series (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic) Within-plant variability: an under-explored trait mediating biotic interactions
2018 Joint Conference on Evolutionary Biology (Montpelier, France) Host plant architecture and evolution of aposematism in larval Lepidoptera (poster)
2018 Czech Academy of Sciences, Entomology Department Seminar Series (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic) When Soils Cascade: Effects of Abiotic Resources on Interactions between Plants, Herbivores, and Natural Enemies
2017 Gordon Research Conference on Plant-Herbivore Interactions (Ventura, CA) Effects of soil heterogeneity on herbivore communities and ecological networks (poster)
2017 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (Portland, OR) Soil variation shapes herbivore-enemy interactions
2016 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) From soils to webs: effects of environmental heterogeneity on herbivore communities and ecological networks
2015 Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, MN) Effects of environmental heterogeneity on trophic communities and structure of ecological networks (student 10-minute talks award)