141. José A. Hernández Ugalde, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Bert Kohlmann, Paul D.N. Hebet, Brian V. Brown, James Whitfield, José. L. Fernández-Triana, Roberto Fernández Ugalde, Eugenie Phillips Rodriguez, Ronald Zúñiga, M. Alex Smith, Dirk Steinke, Michael Sharkey, Donald Quicke, Ramya Manjunath, and Robert Puschendorf. 2026. Large-scale DNA barcoding reveals highly distinct insect distribution patterns across Costa Rican ecosystems. Genome. 69: 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1139/gen-2025-0128
140. A.M.M.C. Loureiro,W. Hallwachs,D.H. Janzen, & M.A. Smith, (2026). Heat tolerance decreases and cold tolerance increases with elevation for a species-rich insect family on a tropical volcano, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (31) e2533455123, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2533455123 
139. R.K. Colwell, L.M. Guzman, D. Steinke, A. Chao, D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, A. Baker, J.L. Fernández-Triana, P.DNHebert, F. Joyce, R. Puschendorf, D.L.J. Quicke, R. Rougerie, M.A. Smith, N. Zamora, & M.J. Sharkey (2026). Constructing a lower-bound estimate of the global number of insect species on a hyperdiverse empirical foundation, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (27) e2524283123, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2524283123
138. García-Ruilova, A.B., Donoso, D.A., Basset, Y. et al. Barcoding Megadiversity: An Arthropod Database from Sites in the Neotropical Eastern Pacific Bioregion. Sci Data (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07465-z 

Smith, Alexander; Jacobs, Shoshanah; Myrie Obi, Marsha, 2026, "Replication data for: Pull the plug on “dark taxa”: Uncritical knowledge creation in a complicit academy", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP4/CQRFUM, Borealis, V1, UNF:6:m+D42qH1FPClKNi5B7l1nQ== [fileUNF]

137. Myrie, M., Bohn, S., Wanieck, K., Gillis, D., Jones, A., Clitheroe, H. D., Davies, A., Porter, E., Dowhaniuk, D., Smylitopoulos, C., Benessaiah, K., Smith, M. A., Bazely, D., & Jacobs, S. (2026). Building and sustaining transdisciplinary research teams for environmental justice: Lessons from the manufactured ecosystems project. Equity in Education & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/27526461261447422

Castillo, AH, Jacobs, SR Steinke, Dirk , Smith, M. Alex  2026. Assessment of Leaf-Litter Invertebrate Biodiversity Using High Throughput Sequencing bioRxiv 2026.04.09.717398; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.09.717398  

Shoshanah Jacobs, Chris McCullough, Amanda Ball, M. Alex Smith and Daniel Gillis (2026) Creative inclusion or regressive exclusion? AI and the arms race in teaching and learning. Canadian Association of University Teachers Bulletin. 73(1): 24-25  [pdf]

 136. Fleming AJ, Smith MA, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2025) A new genus and a new species in the tribe Eryciini (Diptera, Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in north-western Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 13: e161853. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e161853
135. Jacobs, S., Zhang, J., Wolf, E., Porter, E., Bohn, S. J., Sparks, A. M., Eggermont, M., Summers, M., Rivera Cárdenas, C. I., Clitheroe, H., Gillis, D., Smith, M. A., Benessaiah, K., Jones, A., Davies, A., Helms, M., Bazely, D., Lipton, M., Dowhaniuk, D., ... Wanieck, K. (2025). Are Ecosystem Services Replaceable by Technology Yet? Bio-Inspired Technologies for Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities. Biomimetics, 10(11), 784. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics10110784​

134, Quicke, D.L.J.; Fleming, A.J.; Wood, D.M.; Woodley, N.E.; Manjunath, R.; Naik, S.; Smith, M.A.; Sharkey, M.J.; Hallwachs, W.; Janzen, D.H.; et al. Tachinid Flies (Diptera), Caterpillar Hosts (Lepidoptera) and Their Food Plants, Reared in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Northwestern Costa Rica: Documenting Community Structure with the Aid of DNA Barcodes. Diversity 2025, 17, 658. https://doi.org/10.3390/d17090658
  • Quicke, Donald L.; Fleming, AJ (Alan J.); Grinsted, Lena; Wood, D. Monty; Woodley, Norman E.; Manjunath, Ramya; Naik, Suresh; Smith, Alexander; Sharkey, Michael J.; Hallwachs, Winnie; Janzen, Daniel, et al., 2025, "Replication data for: Tachinid flies (Diptera), caterpillar hosts (Lepidoptera) and their food plants, reared in the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), north west Costa Rica: Documenting community structure with the aid of DNA barcodes", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/TYDAMS, Borealis, V1, UNF:6:G291Ng5gx2+w4ynNvxnzMw== [fileUNF]
  • Bluesky post about this paper. 

133. Wanieck, K.; Smith, M.A.; Porter, E.; Zhang, J.; Dowhaniuk, D.; Jones, A.; Gillis, D.; Lipton, M.; Myrie, M.H.; Bazely, D.; et al. A Call for Bio-Inspired Technologies: Promises and Challenges for Ecosystem Service Replacement. Biomimetics 2025, 10, 578. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics10090578 ​
132. Quicke, Brown, Hajibabaei, Manjunath, Naik, Ratnasingham, Sones, Jacques, Smith, Zamora, Brown, Matson, Miller, Burns, Goldstein, Metz, Robbins, Solis, Chacon, Espinoza, Picado, Phillips- Rodriguez, Hebert, Janzen, Hallwachs and Butcher (2025) Caterpillar diet breadth in Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), a large and diverse Neotropical wildland in northwestern Costa Rica: toxins, silica, aluminium and sclerophylly. Front. Ecol. Evol. Sec. Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fevo.2025.1647436
  • Quicke, Donald L.; Brown, Allison; Hajibabaei, Mehrdad; Manjunath, Ramya; Naik, Suresh; Ratnasingham, Sujeevan; Sones, Jayme; St. Jacques, Brianne; Smith, Alexander; Zamora, Nelson; Brown, John W.; Matson, Tanner A.; Miller, Scott E.; Burns, John M.; Goldstein, Paul; Metz, Mark A.; Robbins, Robert; Solis, M. Alma; Chacon, Isidro; Espinoza, Bernardo; Picado, Annia; Phillips-Rodriguez, Eugenie; Hebert; Janzen, Daniel; Hallwachs, Winnie; Butcher, Buntika Areekul, 2025, "Replication data for: Caterpillar diet breadth in Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), a large and diverse Neotropical wildland in northwestern Costa Rica: toxins, silica, aluminium and sclerophylly", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/NX043G, Borealis, V1, UNF:6:Rfwz1DtlB//+q49U9GzM0g== [fileUNF]
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​131. Fernandez-Triana JL, Boudreault C, Whitfield JB, Höcherl A, Smith MA, Hallwachs W, Janzen DH (2025) A revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Dolichogenidea Viereck (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in the Neotropical region, with the description of 102 new species. ZooKeys 1237: 1-250. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1237.141007
130.  Loureiro, A.M.M.C. & Smith, M.A. (2025) No evidence of a common pattern of taxon or phylogenetic diversity across elevation for beetle (Coleoptera) families. Ecological Entomology, 50(4): 595-608. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13447
​129. Zuniga, R.,A. A. Valerio, P. Hanson, M. Alex Smith, W. Hallwachs and D. H. Janzen (2024) Cryptic diversity of Leurus wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Metopiinae), parasitoids of caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Zootaxa 5529:10-29 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5529.3.5
128. Underwood, K.D.; Puschendorf, R.; Bilton, D.T.; Hallwachs, W.; Janzen, D.H.; Smith, M.A. Decoding Anotylus (Thomson 1859) Beetle Diversity: DNA and External Morphology Match in Área de Conservaciόn Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Diversity 2024, 16, 441. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16080441 

Invited Review: Jacobs S., Porter E., Dowhaniuk D., Lipton M., Bazely D., Smith MA., Zampaki, N., Karpouzou, P., Eggermont M., Helms M., Summers M., Jones A., Smylitopoulos C., Clitheroe H., Davies A., Hinds M., Gillis D., Rivera C., Banessaiah K., and Wanieck K. 2024 Can Manufactured Ecosystems fully replace ecosystem services? Zygote Quarterly. 35(1) 40-53.

127.  Seymour, M. et al. (2024) Global arthropod beta-diversity is spatially and temporally structured by latitude. Commun Biol 7, 552  https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06199-1

Smith, Alexander, 2024, "Temperature along an field-forest ecotone in Guelph Ontario: the Dairy Bush", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/M5HIRK, Borealis, V1. Dataset.

​Smith, Alexander, 2023, "Temperature, precipitation and soil characteristics of Volcan Cacao - Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/LQYQJZ, Borealis, V2, UNF:6:tBxW5aqQ9mNDdyIsHRxwvw== [fileUNF]. Dataset. 

     -  An article on the GDFCF website about some of the data from this release: Hearing, and Visualizing, Climate Change in ACG
​     -  A poem from the Micro Climate series about the changing climate on top of these tropical volcanos: 
​     -  The GDFCF newsletter for spring 2024 includes a visualisation of data from La Cima.  
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126. Smith, M Alex.; Warne, Connor; Pare, Kate; Dolson, Sarah; Loewen, Elyssa; Jones, Kelsey; McPhee, Megan; Stitt, Lauren; Janke, Lauren; Smith, Rebecca M.; Coatsworth, H; Loureiro, Alexandre M, M, C.; Solis, A.; Viquez, C. F.; Rodriguez, J.; Fernandez-Triana, J.; Sharkey, M. J.; Whitfield, J.; Masis, A.; Chavarria, M. M.; Blanco, R.; Chavarria, F.; Phillips-Rodriguez, E.; Fernandez, R.; Garcia, D.; Pereira, G.; Ramirez, H.; Pereira, M.; Hallwachs, Winnie.; Janzen, Daniel. H. (2023). Communities of Small Terrestrial Arthropods Change Rapidly Along a Costa Rican Elevation Gradient. In: Myster, R.W. (eds) Neotropical Gradients and Their Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22848-3_10 (copy on ResearchGate)

125. Edwards AW, Harrison XA, Smith MA, Chavarría Díaz MM, Sasa M, Janzen DH, Hallwachs W, Chaves G, Fernández R, Palmer C, Wilson C, North A, Puschendorf R. 2023. Amphibian diversity across three adjacent ecosystems in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. PeerJ 11:e16185 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16185

124. Sharkey, M. J., Baker, A., McCluskey, K., Smith, A., Naik, S., Ratnasingham, S., Manjunath, R., Perez, K., Sones, J., D’Souza, M., St. Jacques, B., Hajibabaei, M., Whitfield, J., Arias, D., Solis, A., Metz, M., Burns, J., Zuñiga, R., Phillips-Rodriguez, E., Espinoza, B., Chacon, I., Hebert, P., Hallwachs, W., & Janzen, D. (2023). Minimalist revision of Mesochorus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Mesochorinae) from Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with 158 new species and host records for 129 species. Revista De Biología Tropical, 71(S2), 1–174. https://doi.org/10.15517/rev.biol.trop..v71iS2.56316
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123. Fernandez-Triana JL, Shimbori EM, Whitfield JB, Penteado-Dias AM, Shaw SR, Boudreault C, Sones J, Perez K, Brown A, Manjunath R, Burns JM, Hebert PDN, Smith MA, Hallwachs W, Janzen DH (2023) A revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Alphomelon Mason with the description of 30 new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). ZooKeys 1175: 5-162. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1175.105068

122. Fleming A, Woodley N, Smith MA, Hallwachs W, Janzen DH (2023) Revision of Belvosia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) and 33 new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica with a key to known North and Mesoamerican species. Biodiversity Data Journal 11: e103667. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e103667

121. Sääksjärvi IE, Kaunisto KM, Sharkey M, Stedenfeld S, Smith MA, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2022) Cryptic biodiversity of tropical hesperiid caterpillar-attacking parasitoid wasps: three new species of Creagrura Townes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cremastinae) from Costa Rica and Perú. Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e91486. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e91486​
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120. Rost-Komiya B, Smith MA, Rogy P, Srivastava DS (2022) Do bromeliads affect the arboreal ant communities on orange trees in northwestern Costa Rica?. PLOS ONE 17(7): e0271040. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271040​

119. Sharkey MJ, Tucker EM, Baker A, Smith MA, Ratnasingham S, Manjunath R, Hebert P, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2022) More discussion of minimalist species descriptions and clarifying some misconceptions contained in Meier et al. 2021. ZooKeys 1110: 135-149. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1110.85491

118. Basset, Y., et al. Comparison of traditional and DNA metabarcoding samples for monitoring tropical soil arthropods (Formicidae, Collembola & Isoptera). (2022) Scientific Reports 12, 10762. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14915-2

117. Greyson-Gaito, C.J., Dolson, S.J., Forbes, G., Lamb, R., MacKinnon, W.E., McCann, K.S. et al. (2022) Phylogenetic community structure and stable isotope analysis of the parasitoid community associated with Eastern spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Agricultural and Forest Entomology, https://doi.org/10.1111/afe.12508

116. Bingham, BE, Rea, V, Robertson, L, Smith, MA, Jacobs, S. Frequency, topic, and preferences: Tracking student engagement with several modalities of student–instructor contact in a first-year course. FEBS Open Bio. 2022; 00: 1– 12. https://doi.org/10.1002/2211-5463.13315 
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115. Sharkey MJ, Baker A, McCluskey K, Smith MA, Naik S, Ratnasingham S, Manjunath R, Perez K, Sones J, D’Souza M, Jacques BS, Hebert P, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2021) Addendum to a minimalist revision of Costa Rican Braconidae: 28 new species and 23 host records. ZooKeys 1075: 77-136. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1075.72197

114. Lisa Robertson, Elizabeth Porter, M. Alex Smith & Shoshanah Jacobs (2021) Evidence-based course modification to support learner-centered and student-driven teaching in a global pandemic: Leveraging digital and physical space for accessible, equitable, and motivating experiential learning and scientific inquiry in a first-year biology course. International Journal of Higher Education https://doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v10n7p96

113. Fleming A, Wood DM, Smith MA, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2021) Revison of Metaplagia Coquillett (Diptera: Tachinidae) with description of five new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e68598. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e68598​

112. Quicke, D.L.J., Fagan-Jeffries, E.P., Jasso-Martínez, J.M., Zaldívar-Riverón, A., Shaw, M.R., Janzen, D.H., Hallwachs, W., Smith, M.A., Hebert, P.D.N., Hrcek, J., Miller, S., Sharkey, M.J., Shaw, S.R. and Butcher, B.A. (2021), A molecular phylogeny of the parasitoid wasp subfamily Rogadinae (Ichneumonoidea: Braconidae) with descriptions of three new genera. Syst Entomol. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12507​

111. Greyson-Gaito, C., McCann, K., Fründ, J., Lucarotti, C., Smith, M., & Eveleigh, E. (2021). Parasitoid community responds indiscriminately to fluctuating spruce budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) and other caterpillars on balsam fir (Pinaceae). The Canadian Entomologist, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2021.14 

110. Jack Pilgrim, Panupong Thongprem, Helen R Davison, Stefanos Siozios, Matthew Baylis, Evgeny V Zakharov, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Jeremy R deWaard, Craig R Macadam, M Alex Smith, Gregory D D Hurst, Torix Rickettsia are widespread in arthropods and reflect a neglected symbiosis, GigaScience, Volume 10, Issue 3, March 2021, giab021, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab021

109. Kaitlyn J. Fleming, James A. Schaefer, Kenneth F. Abraham, M. Alex Smith & David V. Beresford (2021) Evidence for passive dispersal of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the Nearctic boreal forest, Écoscience, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/11956860.2021.1872265

108. Sharkey MJ, Janzen DH, Hallwachs W, Chapman EG, Smith MA, Dapkey T, Brown A, Ratnasingham S, Naik S, Manjunath R, Perez K, Milton M, Hebert P, Shaw SR, Kittel RN, Solis MA, Metz MA, Goldstein PZ, Brown JW, Quicke DLJ, van Achterberg C, Brown BV, Burns JM (2021) Minimalist revision and description of 403 new species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps, including host records for 219 species. ZooKeys 1013: 1-665. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1013.55600​

107. Dolson, S.J., Loewen, E., Jones, K., Jacobs, S.R., Solis, A., Hallwachs, W., Brunke, A.J., Janzen, D.H. and Smith, M.A. (2021), Diversity and phylogenetic community structure across elevation during climate change in a family of hyperdiverse neotropical beetles (Staphylinidae). Ecography.  44: 740-752.  https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05427
  • Cover image for volume 44. 

106. Warne, CPK, Hallwachs, W, Janzen, DH, Smith, MA. (2020) Functional and genetic diversity changes through time in a cloud forest ant assemblage. Biotropica; 52: 1084– 1091. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12882 ​
105. Dolson, SJ, McPhee, M, Vizquez, C, Hallwachs W, DH Janzen and M. Alex Smith (2020) Diversity, abundance, and phylogenetic structure of spiders (Araneae) across a Costa Rican elevation gradient. Biotropica. 52: 1092– 1102. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12874  
  • https://news.uoguelph.ca/2020/12/climate-change-alters-ant-spider-range-and-diversity-u-of-g-studies-find/​
  • Cover image for volume. 
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104. Aaron D. Fairweather, Jake H. Lewis, Laura Hunt, Donald F. McAlpine, M. Alex Smith "Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Rockwood Park, New Brunswick: An Assessment of Species Richness and Habitat," Northeastern Naturalist, 27(3), 576-584, (27 August 2020)  https://doi.org/10.1656/045.027.0316

103. JANZEN, D., W. HALLWACHS, G. PEREIRA, R. BLANCO, A. MASIS, M. M. CHAVARRIA, F. CHAVARRIA, A. GUADAMUZ, M. ARAYA, M. A. SMITH, J. VALERIO, H. GUIDO, E. SANCHEZ, S. BERMUDEZ, K. H. J. PEREZ, R. MANJUNATH, S. RATNASINGHAM, B. ST. JACQUES, M. A. MILTON, J. R. DEWAARD, E. V. ZAKHAROV, S. NAIK, M. HAJIBABAEI, P. D. N. HEBERT, AND M. HASEGAWA. 2020. Using DNA-barcoded Malaise trap samples to measure impact of a geothermal energy project on the biodiversity of a Costa Rican old-growth rain forest. Genome https://doi.org/10.1139/gen-2020-0002.

102. Nisole, A.; Stewart, D.; Kyei-Poku, G.; Nadeau, M.; Trudeau, S.; Huron, P.; Djoumad, A.; Kamenova, S.; Smith, M.A.; Eveleigh, E.; Johns, R.C.; Martel, V.; Cusson, M. (2020). Identification of Spruce Budworm Natural Enemies Using a qPCR-Based Molecular Sorting Approach. Forests  11, 621. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11060621

101. Fleming A, Wood DM, Smith MA, Dapkey T, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2020) Revision of Telothyria van der Wulp (Diptera: Tachinidae) and twenty-five new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica with a key to Mesoamerican species. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e47157. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e47157

100. Fleming A, Wood DM, Smith MA, Dapkey T, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2020) A new genus and new species in the tribe Uramyini (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e48907. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e48907

99. Smith, M.A., Hallwachs, W., Janzen, D.H., Longino, J. T., and M. Branstetter (2020) A subterranean ant Acanthostichus Mayr, 1887 is revealed in Costa Rica. Insectes Sociaux. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-020-00754-9 

98. Rogy, P., Hammill, E., Smith, M.A., Rost-Komiya, B., and D. S. Srivastava (2020) Bromeliads affect the interactions and composition of invertebrates on their support tree. Oecologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04616-w 

97. Carolina Arias-Penna D, Whitfield JB, Janzen DH, Hallwachs W, Dyer LA, Smith MA, Hebert PD.N, Fernández-Triana JL (2019) A species-level taxonomic review and host associations of Glyptapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) with an emphasis on 136 new reared species from Costa Rica and Ecuador. ZooKeys 890: 1-685. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.890.35786  
  • a massive undertaking by Carolina to describe more than 130 new species from Costa Rica and Ecuador.  
  • Zookeys tweeted about the paper here. 

96. Meierotto S, Sharkey MJ, Janzen DH, Hallwachs W, Hebert PDN, Chapman EG, Smith MA (2019) A revolutionary protocol to describe understudied hyperdiverse taxa and overcome the taxonomic impediment. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 66(2): 119-145. https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.66.34683
  • A news release about this study was published on Eurkea News alert here. 
  • Science Daily news release here.
  • Blog on Pensoft here. 
  • ​Tweeted about by NSERC. 

95. Fleming A, Wood D, Smith M, Dapkey T, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2019) Twenty-two new species in the genus Hyphantrophaga Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, with a key to the species of Mesoamerica. Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e29553. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e29553
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94. Moldowan, P. D., Alex Smith, M. , Baldwin, T. , Bartley, T. , Rollinson, N. and Wynen, H. (2019), Nature's pitfall trap: Salamanders as rich prey for carnivorous plants in a nutrient‐poor northern bog ecosystem. Ecology. Jun 5:e02770. doi:10.1002/ecy.2770 [Moldowan and Smith co-first authors]​
  • A Twitter 'Moment' about the story here. 
  • A news article from UofGuelph communications is here. 
  • An article from UofT communications is here. 
  • An article in the New Scientist here. 
  • An article in Newsweek here. 
  • An interview on CBC Radio's As It Happens with Carol Off  (a personal thrill) 
  • Blog post on "In Defense of Plants" here. 
  • Science News Daily post here. 
  • Interview on CBC Kitchener Waterloo "Morning Edition" here. 
  • An article on CTV News here. 
  • An article on Vice News here. 
  • An article on Fox News (!) here. 
  • An article on SyFy Wire here. 
  • An article on Radio Canada International here. 
  • An article on National Geographic here. 
  • An article on Edgy Labs is here. 
  • An article on Global News is here. 
  • An article in the Guardian UK is here. 
  • An article on the Weather Network is here: 
  • An article on Sci News is here. 
  • An article in Science Alert.com is here. 
  • An article in Euro Journal Breaking News is here. 
  • An article in the Daily Mail (!) here. 
  • An article in Nature World News is here. 
  • An article in the Independent UK is here. 
  • An article in Muskoka Region.com is here. 
  • An article in the Guelph Mercury-Tribune.com is here. 
  • An article in Voice of America is here. 
  • An article in Cottage Life Magazine is here. 
  • An article in Mother Nature Network is here.
  • An article in the Smithsonian Magazine is here. 
  • Listen to a podcast by Herpetological Highlights here. 
  • An article by Research2Reality is here. 
  • An article in the Guardian Weekly - June 21 2019 is here. 
  • An article in Science News for Students is here. 
  • An article in the University of Guelph Portico is here. 
  • A thread of Tweets about the story behind the paper here.
  • A blog post on Ontario Parks by Samantha Stephens featuring Amanda Semenuk is here.

93. Philipp O. Hoenle Nico Blüthgen Adrian Brückner Daniel J.C. Kronauer Brigitte Fiala David A. Donoso M. Alex Smith Bryan Ospina Jara Christoph von Beeren Species‐level predation network uncovers high prey specificity in a Neotropical army ant community. Mol Ecol. 2019; 28: 2423– 2440. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15078 .
  • An author summary on the Molecular Ecology Blog is here. 

92. Fleming A, Wood D, Smith M, Dapkey T, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2019) A new species of Trismegistomya Reinhard (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e29130. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e29130

91. Fernandez-Triana J, Boudreault C, Dapkey T, Smith MA, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2019) A revision of Dolichogenidea (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) with the second mediotergite broadly rectangular from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. ZooKeys 835: 87-123. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.835.33440

90. Sharkey MJ, Penteado-Dias AM, Smith MA, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2019) Synopsis of New World Sigalphinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with the description of two new species and a key to genera. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 68: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.68.30131

Abstracts from the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario published in Volume 149 of the Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario
  • Smith, M.A., S. Adamowicz, E. Al-Harazi, L. Alleston, M. Anderson, S. Blanchett, A. Borrelli, K. Drotos, N. Duitschaever, B. Foy, A. Grant, S. Griffiths, A. Heuvelmans, N. Heyblom, J. Hoogenboom, V. Kaniewski, H. Lyttle, D. McIsaac, B. Moy, G. Schneider, A. Semenuk, S. Shrubsole, A. Varsano, E. Vellenga, A. Virostek, B. Wight, and H. Wynen (2019) Feed me Seymour: Using DNA to identify the arthropod prey items of carnivorous plants. POSTER AND PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Journal of the Entomological Society. 149: 61 
  • Dolson, S.J., E. Loewen, W. Hallwachs, D.H. Janzen, and M.A. Smith. (2019). Staphylinid diversity and community structure across a neotropical elevation gradient. POSTER AND PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Journal of the Entomological Society. 149: 55 
  • Janke, L., S.J. Dolson, D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, and M.A. Smith. (2019) How does the lightness of a species assemblage change across elevation? Testing the thermal melanism hypothesis with two abundant and diverse insect families. POSTER AND PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Journal of the Entomological Society. 149: 56 
  • Alaimo J., D. McIsaac, D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, S.J. Dolson, and M.A Smith (2019) How does staphylinid abundance change along a neotropical elevation gradient? POSTER AND PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Journal of the Entomological Society. 149: 52
  • Semenuk A., I. Ostovar, J. Alaimo, D. McIsaac, K. Belanger, S. Clout, and M.A. Smith (2019) How does staphylinid abundance differ between field and forest? POSTER AND PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Journal of the Entomological Society. 149: 53

89. Smith, MA (2018) Janzen's mountain passes hypothesis is comprehensively tested in its fifth decade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.  https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817774115 

88. Smith MA, Smith DR and J deWaard (2018) First report of the Palearctic sawfly Pristiphora subbifida Thomson 1871 (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) in Canada. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario J. Ent. Soc. Ont. 149: 15-19. https://doi.org/10.21083/jeso.v149i0.4019

87. Fleming AJ, Wood DM, Smith MA, Hallwachs W, Janzen DH (2018) Revision of the Mesoamerican species of Calolydella Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) and description of twenty-three new species reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e11223. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e11223

86. Gibson, Daniel, Adamowicz, SJ, Jacobs, SR and M. Alex Smith (2018) Host specificity in sub-arctic aphids. Environmental Entomology. 47(1):77–86 https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvx176
85. ​Fleming AJ, Wood DM, Smith MA, Dapkey T, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2017) A new species of Voria Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e20123. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e20123​

84. Kang I, Chapman EG, Janzen DH, Hallwachs W, Dapkey T, Smith MA, Sharkey MJ (2017) Revision of the species of Lytopylus from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae). ZooKeys 721: 93-158. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.721.20287

​83. Eagalle T and Smith M. Alex. (2017) Diversity of parasitoid and parasitic wasps across a latitudinal gradient: Using public DNA records to work within a taxonomic impediment. FACETS 2: 1–18. doi:10.1139/facets-2016-0061
 82. Fleming A, Wood D, Smith MA, Dapkey T, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2017) Five new species of Vibrissina Rondani (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in Northwestern Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e10967. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e10967

81. Smith MA, Boyd A, Chan A, Clout S, des Brisay P, et al. (2017) Investigating the effect of forestry on leaf-litter arthropods (Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada). PLOS ONE 12(6): e0178568. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178568

​80. M. Alex Smith, J. V. McDonald, M. Kent, E. Morris and J. C. Trager. (2017). The use of social media to document a range extension of an iconic social parasite ant. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 148: 1-5.
79. Fleming A, Wood D, Smith M, Hallwachs W, Janzen D, Dapkey T (2017) Nine new species of Uramya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica, with a key to their identification. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e9649 (07 Mar 2017) https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e9649

Smith, M. Alex (2016). A Nobel prize and the unknown benefits that come from saying yes. Blog of the Entomological Society of Canada. October 26 2016.

78. Quicke, Donald L. J. Belokobylskij, Sergey A. Smith, M. Alex Rota, Jadranka Hrcek, Jan Butcher, Buntika A, Hrcek J, and B. Butcher (2016). A New Genus of Rhysipoline Wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with Modified Wing Venation from Africa and Papua New Guinea, Parasitoid on Choreutidae (Lepidoptera). Annales Zoologici 66(2):173-192. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/00034541ANZ2016.66.2.003

77. Fernandez-Triana JL, Whitfield JB, Smith MA, Dapkey T, Hallwachs W, Janzen DH (2016) Review of the world species ofExoryza (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with description of five new species. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 63(2): 195-210. doi: 10.3897/dez.63.8977
  • In this manuscript, species are named for the philanthropists and school teachers of the children in (75)

76. Fernández-Triana J, Boudreault C, Dapkey T, Smith MA, Rodriguez J, Hallwachs W, Janzen DH (2016) Revision of the genus Promicrogaster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with a key to all species previously described from Mesoamerica. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 50: 25-79. doi:10.3897/JHR.50.8220
  • This fantastic project, where we named 20 new wasp species after Costa Rican schoolchildren, was the subject of an article in the Tico Times. 
  • There was an article written about this project for the UofG News.
  • Spoke with Craig Norris Kitchener-Waterloo CBC morning radio (The Morning Edition) about this work.  They wrote about that here.
  • The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Research News covered this story in August 2016.

75. AJ Fleming, D. Monty Wood, M. Alex Smith, Winnie Hallwachs, Daniel Janzen, Tanya Dapkey (2016) Two new species ofErythromelana Townsend, 1919 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica.Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7386.  http://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=7386

74. Fleming A, Wood D, Smith M, Janzen D, Hallwachs W, Dapkey T (2016) A new species of Phosocephala Townsend, 1908 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7863.doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7863

Jones, K. and M.A. Smith (2016) Staphylinidae across a neotropical elevational gradient : Changes in abundance, morphology and  genetic diversity. Ontario Insects: the newsjournal of the Toronto Entomologists' Association. 21(3):10

73. Corinne Vacher, Alireza Tamaddoni-Nezhad, Stefaniya Kamenova, Nathalie Peyrard, Yann Moalic, Régis Sabbadin, Loïc Schwaller, Julien Chiquet, M. Alex Smith, Jessica Vallance, Virgil Fievet, Boris Jakuschkin, David A. Bohan, (2016) Learning Ecological Networks from Next-Generation Sequencing Data, Advances in Ecological Research, Academic Press, ISSN 0065-2504, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.004.

Smith, M. Alex (2016). Missed Mandate, Missed Biology: The ongoing “Mother Canada” debacle in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Blog of the Entomological Society of Canada. July 06, 2015.

72.  AJ Fleming, D. Monty Wood, M. Alex Smith, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs (2015) Nine new species of Itaplectops(Diptera: Tachinidae) reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with a key toItaplectops species. Biodiversity Data Journal. 3: e4596 (23 Dec 2015) doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4596

71. Henri Goulet, David R. Smith, M. Alex Smith and José Fernández-Triana (2015) New Country Records for Teredon cubensis (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Siricidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 117(4):522-524.

70. Smith, M. Alex (2015) Ants, elevation, phylogenetic diversity and community structure. Ecosphere. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00473.1
 69. Smith, M. Alex, Amanda Boyd, Chris Britton-Foster, Hayley Cahill, Kelsey Desnoyers, Natalie Duitshaever, Dan Gibson, Steve James, Yurak Jeong, Darren Kelly, Eli Levene, Hilary Lyttle, Talia Masse, Kate Pare, Kelsie Paris, Cassie Russell, Eric Scott, Debbie Silva, Megan Sparkes, Kami Valkova S. J. Adamowicz  (2016) The northward distribution of ants forty years later: re-visiting Gregg’s 1969 collections in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. The Canadian Entomologist. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/tce.2015.53 .
Peer-reviewed abstracts from 6th International Barcode of Life Meeting - 2015 - published in Genome

  • Fairweather, A., McAlpine, D., & Smith, M.A. (2015) The effect of anthropogenic disturbance on diversity andphylogenetic structure of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). In Scientific abstracts from the 6th International Barcode of Life Conference (ed. by S.J. Adamowicz), Vol. 58, pp. 216-217. Genome. DOI:10.1139/gen-2015-0087
  • Ho, C. & Smith, M.A. (2015) Impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on arthropod biodiversity and community structure. In Scientific abstracts from the 6th International Barcode of Life Conference (ed. by S.J. Adamowicz), Vol. 58, pp. 227. Genome. DOI:10.1139/gen-2015-0087
  • Pare, K. & Smith, M.A. (2015) By-passing the taxonomic impediment in Neotropical Collembola to measure changes in diversity and phylogenetic structure. In Scientific abstracts from the 6th International Barcode of Life Conference (ed. by S.J. Adamowicz), Vol. 58, pp. 264. Genome. DOI:10.1139/gen-2015-0087
  • Smith, M.A., McPhee, M., Pare, K., Richard, E., Warne, C.P.K., Hallwachs, W., & Janzen, D.H. (2015) Elevation, crypsis, and phylogenetic community structure of Neotropical arthropods. In Scientific abstracts from the 6th International Barcode of Life Conference (ed. by S.J. Adamowicz), Vol. 58, pp. 282. Genome. DOI:10.1139/gen-2015-0087
  • Solecki, A.M., Smith, M.A., Skevington, J.H., & Wheeler, T.A. (2015) Phylogeography of Diptera in northern North American glacial refugia. In Scientific abstracts from the 6th International Barcode of Life Conference (ed. by S.J. Adamowicz), Vol. 58, pp. 282. Genome. DOI:10.1139/gen-2015-0087

68. Fleming A, Wood D, Janzen D, Hallwachs W, Smith M Alex (2015) Three new species of Trigonospila Pokorny (Diptera: Tachinidae), from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with a key for their identification. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4595. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4595

67. Fleming A, Wood D, Smith M, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2015) Three new species of Ametadoria Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5039. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5039

66. Sharkey, MJ, EG Chapman, DH Janzen, W Hallwachs and M. Alex Smith (2015) Revision of Aphelagathis (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae, Agathidini). Zootaxa 4000 (1): 073–089 (13 Aug. 2015) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4000.1.3

65. Fernandez-Triana JL, Whitfield JB, Smith MA, Kula RR, Hallwachs W, Janzen DH (2015) Revision of the genera Microplitis and Snellenius (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with a key to all species previously described from Mesoamerica. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 62(2): 137-201. doi: 10.3897/dez.62.5276


64. Fleming A, Wood D, Janzen D, Hallwachs W, Smith M. Alex (2015) Seven new species of Spathidexia Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4597. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4597

63. Hansson, C., M. Alex Smith, D. H. Janzen and W. Hallwachs (2015) Integrative taxonomy of New World Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with focus on 55 new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica. ZooKeys 485: 1-236 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.485.9124 

62. Pook, V. G., Chapman, E. G., Janzen, D. H., Hallwachs, W., Smith, M. Alex, Sharkey, M. J. (2015) Polydnavirus gene provides accurate identification of species in the genus Hyposoter (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Insect Conservation and Diversity. http://dx.doi: 10.1111/icad.12118

61. M. Alex Smith, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs and John T. Longino (2015) Observations of Adelomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) reproductive biology facilitated by digital field microscopy and DNA barcoding. The Canadian Entomologist. 147(5):611-616. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/tce.2014.82
  • YouTube video of the first views of an Adelomyrmex colony described in this paper

60. Fernandez-Triana J, Whitfield, JB, Smith, M Alex, Hallwachs W and Janzen DH (2014) Revision of the neotropical genus Sendaphne Nixon (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 41: 1-29. 
doi: 10.3897/JHR.41.8586

59. Fernandez-Triana J, Janzen D, Hallwachs W, Whitfield J, Smith M Alex, Kula R (2014) Revision of the genus Pseudapanteles(Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with emphasis on the species in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica. ZooKeys 446: 1-82. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.446.8195

58. Fleming, AJ, Wood, M, M Alex Smith, DH JanzenW. Hallwachs. (2014) A new species of Cordyligaster Macquart, reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4174 (24 Nov 2014) doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e4174 

57. Fernandez-Triana J, Whitfield, James B., Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie, and Daniel H. Janzen (2014) First record of the genus Venanus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) in Mesoamerica, with the description of two new species from Costa Rica. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4167 doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e4167 

56. Fernandez-Triana J, Penev L, Ratnasingham S, Smith M. Alex, Sones J, Telfer A, deWaard J, Hebert P (2014) Streamlining the use of BOLD specimen data to record species distributions: a case study with ten Nearctic species of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4153. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e4153

55. Fleming, AJ, Wood, M, MA Smith, W. Hallwachs, DH Janzen. (2014) Revision of the New World species of Houghia Coquillett (Diptera, Tachinidae) reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Zootaxa 3858 (1):1-90

54. Moffat, C.E. and M. Alex Smith (2014) Pre-release detection of a biocontrol agent: combining independent and public DNA sequences to identify the first North American record of Aulacidea pilosellae (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Canadian Entomologist. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/tce.2014.48
53. Otis, G. M. Alex Smith and J. Spero. (2014) Lyside sulphur (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): origin and possible modes of transport of an Ontario, Canada specimen. The Canadian Entomologist. 146(6): 671-675 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/tce.2014.18
  • DNA barcoding blog about this paper

52. Fernandez-Triana J, Whitfield J, Smith MA, Braet Y, Hallwachs W, Janzen D (2014) Review of the Neotropical genus Prasmodon (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae), with emphasis on species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 37: 1-52. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.37.6748​ 

51. Smith, M. Alex, D. H. Janzen and W. Hallwachs (2014) Diversity and phylogenetic community structure of ants along a Costa Rican elevational gradient. Ecography 37: 720–731. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00631.x
50. Fernández-Triana J.L.; Whitfield, J.B.; Rodriguez. J.J.; Smith, M.A.; Janzen, D.H.; Hallwachs, W.; Hajibabaei, M.; Burns, J.M.; Solis, M.A.; Brown, J.; Cardinal, S.; Goulet, H.; Hebert, P.D.N. (2014) Review of Apanteles (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica. Zookeys 383: 1–565

49. Smith, M. A., Hallwachs, W, Janzen DH, and R. Blanco Segura (2013) DNA barcoding a collection of ants (Formicidae) from Isla del Coco, Costa Rica. Florida Entomologist. 96 (4), 1500-1507

48. Jose Fernandez-Triana, Sophie Cardinal, James Whitfield, Winnie Hallwachs, M. Alex Smith, Daniel Janzen (2013) A review of the New World species of the parasitoid wasp Iconella (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae). ZooKeys 321 (2013) : 65-87 

47. Quicke, D. L. J. M. Alex Smith, Hrcek, J. and Butcher, B. A. (2013) Cystomastacoides van Achterberg (Braconidae, Rogadinae): first host record and descriptions of two new species from Thailand and Papua New Guinea Journal of Hymenoptera Research 31: 65–78.

46. Julie K. Stahlhut José Fernández-Triana, Sarah J. Adamowicz, Matthias Buck, Henri Goulet, Paul D.N. Hebert, John T. Huber, Mark Merilo, Cory S. Sheffield, Thomas Woodcock, and M. Alex Smith. (2013) Diversity of Hymenoptera and the dominance of parasitoids in a sub-Arctic environment. BMC Ecology 13:2doi: 10.1186/1472-6785-13-2.

45. Quicke, D. L. J., Smith, M. A., van Achterberg, C., Miller, S. E., & Hrcek, J. (2012). A new genus and three new species of parasitoid wasp from Papua New Guinea and redescription of Trigonophatnus Cameron (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae). Journal of Natural History, 46(21–22), 1369–1385. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.658585

44. Julie K. Stahlhut, Jason Gibbs, Cory S. Sheffield, M. Alex Smith, and Laurence Packer (2012) Wolbachia (Rickettsiales) infections and bee (Apoidea) barcoding: A response to Gerth et al.Systematics and Biodiversity. 10(4):395-401

43. Smith, M. Alex; Fernández-Triana, José; Eveleigh, Eldon; Gómez, Jaime; Guclu, Coskun; Hallwachs, Winnie; Hebert, Paul; Hrcek, Jan; Huber, John; Janzen, Daniel; Mason, Peter; Miller, Scott ; Quicke, Donald; Rodriguez, Josephine; Rougerie, Rodolphe; Shaw, Mark; Varkonyi, Gergely; Ward, Darren; Whitfield, James and Alejandro Zaldivar-Riveron. (2012) DNA barcoding and the taxonomy of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae): impacts after eight years and nearly 20,000 sequences. Molecular Ecology Resources. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12038.

42. Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Don Harvey, Karolyn Darrow, Rodolphe Rougerie, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, M. Alex Smith, Isidro Chacon, Bernardo Espinoza, Bo Sullivan, Thibaud Decaens, Daniel Herbin, Luis Felipe Chavarria, Ruth Franco, Hazel Cambronero, Sergio Rios, Freddy Quesada, Guillermo Pereira, Johan Vargas, Adrian Guadamuz, Roberto Espinoza, Jorge Hernandez, Lucia Rios, Elieth Cantillano, Roster Moraga, Calixto Moraga, Petrona Rios, Manuel Rios, Ricardo Calero, Dinia Martinez, Duvalier Briceño, Minor Carmona, Edwin Apu, Keiner Aragon, Cirilo Umaña, Jose Perez, Ana Cordoba, Pablo Umaña, Gloria Sihezar, Osvaldo Espinoza, Carolina Cano, Elda Araya, Dunia Garcia, Harry Ramirez, Manuel Pereira, Jose Cortez, Mariano Pereira and Paul Hebert. (2012) What happens to the traditional taxonomy when a well-known tropical saturniid moth fauna is DNA barcoded? Invertebrate Systematics. 26, 478–505. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS12038

41. Rodriguez, Josephine; Fernández-Triana, José; Smith, M. Alex; Janzen, Daniel; Hallwachs, Winnie; Erwin, Terry and Whitfield, James. (2012) Extrapolations from field studies and known faunas converge on dramatically increased estimates of global microgastrine parasitoid wasp species richness (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Insect Conservation and Biodiversity. doi: 10.1111/icad.12003.

40. Smith, D.R., D. H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, M. Alex Smith. (2012) Hyperparasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Trigonalidae) reared from dry forest and rain forest caterpillars of Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 29:119-144

39. Butcher, B.A., Smith, M.A., Sharkey, M.J. & Quicke, D.L.J. (2012) A turbo-taxonomic study of Thai Aleiodes (Aleiodes) and Aleiodes (Arcaleiodes) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) based largely on COI barcoded specimens, with rapid descriptions of 179 new species. Zootaxa, 3457 (1), 1–232. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3457.1.1 

38. López-Estrada EK, Briceño RG, Smith MA, Nunes J, Penteado-Días A, Ceccarelli F, Clebsch H, Zaldivar-Riveron A (2012) Seven new species of Notiospathius (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae) from Northwest Venezuela. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 29: 37-61. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.29.3555 

37. Quicke, D. L. J. M. Alex Smith, Miller, S. E., Hrcek, J. and Butcher, B. A. Colastomion Baker (Braconidae, Rogadinae): nine new species from Papua New Guinea reared from Crambidae. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 28:85-121

35. Whitfield, J. H., W. Hallwachs, D. H. Janzen, M. Alex Smith and J. Fernandez-Triana (2012) Mariapanteles (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a new genus of Neotropical microgastrine parasitoid wasp discovered through biodiversity inventory. ZooKeys 208 : 61-80

34. Smith, M. Alex. (2012). Species barcoding. In Daniel Fogel, Sarah Fredericks, Lisa Harrington, & Ian Spellerberg (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Sustainability: Vol. 6. Measurements, Indicators, and Research Methods for Sustainability (pp. 326–328). Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.

33. Smith, M. Alex, and 28 co-authors listed alphabetically. (2012) Wolbachia and DNA barcoding insects: Problems, Patterns and Potential. PLoSONE 7(5):e36514.

32. Quicke, D. L. J., M. Alex Smith, Janzen, D. H., Hallwachs, W., Fernandez-Triana, J., Laurenne, N. M., Zaldivar-Riveron, A., Shaw, M. R., Broad, G. R., Klopfstein, S., Shaw, S. R., Hrcek, J., Hebert, P. D. N., Miller, S. E., Rodriguez, J. J., Whitfield, J. B., Sharkey, M. J., Sharanowski, B. J., Jussila, R., Gauld [Deceased], I. D., Chesters, D. and Vogler, A. P. (2012), Utility of the DNA barcoding gene fragment for parasitic wasp phylogeny (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea): data release and new measure of taxonomic congruence. Molecular Ecology Resources. 12: 676–685.

31. Butcher B, Smith MA, Quicke DJ (2011) A new derived species group of Aleiodes parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae) from Asia with descriptions of three new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 23: 35-42. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.23.1663

30. Sharkey, M. J., Clutts, S., Tucker E. M., Janzen, D. H., Hallwachs, W., Dapkey, T., and Smith, M. Alex. (2011). Lytopylus Förster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae) species from Costa Rica, with an emphasis on specimens reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste. ZooKeys 130: 379–419.

29. Fernandez-Triana*, J. Smith, M. Alex*, Bodreault, C., Goulet, H., Hebert PDN, Smith AC, and Roughley, R. (2011). A poorly known high-latitude parasitoid wasp community: unexpected diversity and dramatic changes through time. PLoS ONE 6(8): e23719 (*these authors made equal contributions and are considered first co-authors)

28. Smith, M. Alex, Eveleigh, ES, McCann, KS, Merilo, MT, McCarthy, PC, Van Rooyen, KI. (2011) Barcoding a quantified food web: crypsis, concepts, ecology and hypotheses. PLoS ONE 6(7): e14424 . 
27. Hrcek, J., Miller, S., Quicke, D. J., and Smith, M. Alex (2011) Molecular detection of trophic links in a complex insect host-parasitoid food web. Molecular Ecology Resources 11(5):786-94 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03016.x. 

COSEWIC. 2010. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Fowler’s Toad Anaxyrus fowleri in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vii + 58 pp. (www.sararegistry.gc.ca/status/status_e.cfm)
  • Authored by David M. Green & M. Alex Smith

26. Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón, Juan José Martínez, Fadia Sara Ceccarelli, Vladimir Salvador De Jesús-Bonilla, Ana Cecilia Rodríguez-Pérez, Andrés Reséndiz-Flores, M. Alex Smith. 2010. DNA barcoding a highly diverse group of parasitoid wasps (Braconidae: Doryctinae) from a Mexican nature reserve. Mitchondrial DNA. 21(S1):18-23.
  • 110228 - Alejandro's article is the most read article on the Mitochondrial DNA website.

25. Rougerie, R., Smith, M. Alex, Fernandez- Triana,J., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., and Hebert, PDN. Molecular analysis of parasitoid linkages (MAPL): gut contents of adult parasitoid wasps reveal larval host. Molecular Ecology 20(1):179-86.
24. Smith, M. Alex. (2010). A year in an urban forest: Dairy Bush GigaPan 2009-2010. Proceedings of the Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science, November 11–13 2010.
  • Featured in Science - News Focus - Frenkel KA 2010 Panning for Science. Science 330:748-749. The UoG press release is here.

23. Crozier, R. H., Agapow, P‐M., and M. Alex Smith. (2010) Conservation genetics: from species to habitats. in BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH– SAFEGUARDING THE FUTURE: Outcomes and recommendations of the CBD - COP 9 Associated Meeting Bonn, May 2008, Editor: Jessica M. Reeves. pp 73-79.
  • I was honoured to work with Ross Crozier on this project in 2008 before his untimely death in 2009. This project was the first application of phylogenetic diversity to ants.

22. Smith,M. Alex and Fisher, B. L, (2009) Invasions, DNA barcodes, and rapid biodiversity assessment using ants of Mauritius. Frontiers in Zoology 6:31 (Open Access).
21. Smith, M. Alex, Fernandez-Triana, J, Roughley, R., and Hebert, P. D. N. (2009) DNA barcode accumulation curves for understudied taxa and areas. Molecular Ecology Resources. 9s1:208-216. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02646.x
  • Research referred to in the preface for the special volume of MER dedicated to barcoding research presented at the 2nd Scientific Symposium of the Canadian Barcode of Life Network in Toronto at the Royal Ontario Museum, April 28-29, 2008.

20. Janzen, D. H., and 45 others. (2009) Integration of DNA barcoding into an ongoing inventory of complex tropical biodiversity. Molecular Ecology Resources. 9s1:1-26. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02628.x

19. Smith, M. Alex, Rodriguez, J. J., Whitfield, J. B., Deans, A. R., Janzen, D. H., Hallwachs, W., and Hebert, P. D. N. (2008) Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105 (34):12359-12364. (Open Access) Science - News Focus - "The Little Wasp That Could" by Elizabeth Pennisi. Jan 10 2010. Subscription required.

18. Fisher, B. L, and M. Alex Smith (2008) A Revision of Malagasy Species of Anochetus Mayr and Odontomachus Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PLoS ONE 3(5): e1787. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001787. (Open Access)
17. Smith, M. Alex (2008) Using DNA barcodes to assess identity and diversity of Dendropsophus minutus: Failure? Zootaxa 1691:67-68. (Open Access).

16. Smith, M. Alex, Poyarkov, N., and Hebert, P. D. N. (2008) CO1 DNA barcoding amphibians: take the chance, meet the challenge. Molecular Ecology Resources: 8(2)235-246. doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01964.x. (Link to Journal - subscription required)
15. Smith, M. Alex, Wood, D. M., Janzen, D. L., Hallawachs, W. and Hebert, P. D. N. (2007) DNA barcodes affirm that 16 species of apparently generalist tropical parasitoid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) are not all generalists. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(12):4967-4972. (Open Access).
  • One of the 50 most read articles in PNAS in Spring 2007.

14. Smith, M. Alex, Green, D. M. (2006) Sex, isolation and fidelity: unbiased long distance dispersal in a terrestrial amphibian. Ecography. 29: 649-658. (Link to Journal - subscription required)

13. Hajibabaei, M., Smith, M. Alex, Janzen, D. H., Rodriguez, J. J., Whitfield, J. B., and Hebert, P. D. N. (2006) Identifying specimens with degraded DNA using minimalist barcodes. Molecular Ecology Notes. 6: 959-964. (Link to Journal - subscription required)
  • One of Molecular Ecology Notes most frequently read papers - 2006-2008.

12. Smith, M. Alex, Woodley, N. Hallwachs, W. Janzen, D. H. Hebert, P. D. N. (2006) DNA barcodes reveal cryptic host-specificity within the presumed polyphagous members of a genus of parasitoid flies (Diptera: Tachinidae). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(10):3657-3662. (Open Access).
11. Smith, M. Alex, Fisher, B. L., and Hebert, P. D. N. (2005) DNA barcoding for effective biodiversity assessment of a hyperdiverse arthropod group: the ants of Madagascar. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: B. 360:1828-1834. (Open Access)
  • Collaboration is part of the cover article of the March 2006 issue of Discover.

10. Smith, M. Alex, Green, D. M. (2005) Dispersal and the metapopulation paradigm in amphibian ecology and conservation: Are all amphibian populations metapopulations? Ecography 28(1): 110-128. (Open Access).
  • One of Ecography's most frequently read papers 2006-2013.

09. Smith, M. Alex, Green, D. M. (2005) Bufo fowleri (Fowler's Toad): Predation. Herpetological Review 36(2):159-160. (.pdf)

08. Smith, M. Alex, Green, D. M. (2004) Phylogeography of Bufo fowleri at its northern edge of range. Molecular Ecology 13(12): 3723-3733. (Link to Journal - subscription required)

07. Smith, M. Alex, Berrill, M., and Kapron, C. (2002) Photolyase activity of the embryo and the ultraviolet absorbance of embryo jelly for several Ontario amphibian species. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80:1109-1116 (.pdf)

06. Smith, M. Alex, and Green, D. M. (2002) Bufo fowleri: Predation. Herpetological Review 33(2): 125 (.pdf)

05. Smith, M. Alex (2002) Pseudacris triseriata triseriata: Reproduction. Herpetological Review 33(2): 127 (.pdf)

04. Smith, M. Alex, Kapron, C., and Berrill, M. (2000) Induction of photolyase activity in wood frog (Rana sylvatica) embryos. Photochemistry and Photobiology 72:575-578. (.pdf)

03. Smith, M. Alex (2000) Problems utilizing enzyme sensitive site assays for photorepair of exogenous DNA with cell free extracts made from amphibian embryos. Canadian Journal of Zoology 78:1869-1872.

02. Crump, D., Berrill, M., Coulson, D., Lean, D. R. S., McGillivray, L., and Smith, M. Alex (1999) Sensitivity of eight species of amphibian embryos, tadpoles and larvae to enhanced UV-B radiation in natural pond conditions in Southern Ontario. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77:1956-1966. (.pdf)

01. Smith, M. Alex, and Bidochka, M. (1998) Bacterial fitness and plasmid loss: the importance of culture conditions and plasmid size. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 44: 351-355. (.pdf)​