Publications

129. 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, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13447

Loureiro, Alexandre M. M. C.; Smith, M. Alex, 2025, "Replication data for: No evidence of a common pattern of taxon or phylogenetic diversity across elevation for beetle (Coleoptera) families", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/I1UMKQ, Borealis, V1, UNF:6:NahaRK7Arf9Kqa1/y/c4UQ== [fileUNF]

128. 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

127. 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.

126. 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.

125. 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)

124. 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

123. 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

122. 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

121. 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

120. 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

119. 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

118. 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

117. 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

116. 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

115. 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

114. 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

113. 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

112. 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

111. 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

110. 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

109. 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

108. 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

107. 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

106. 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.

105. 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

An article here about this paper in the Costa Rican newspaper ameliarueda.com.
https://www.ameliarueda.com/nota/cambio-climatico-insectos-montanas-guanacaste-noticias-costa-rica
https://news.uoguelph.ca/2020/12/climate-change-alters-ant-spider-range-and-diversity-u-of-g-studies-find/
Cover image for volume.

104. 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.

103. 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

102. 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.

101. 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

100. 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

99. 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

98. 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

97. 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

96. 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.

95. 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.

94. 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

93. 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.

92. 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.

91. 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

90. 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

89. 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

88. 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

87. 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

86. 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
85. 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/nvx176Smith, 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, V1Loureiro, Alexandre M. M. C.; Smith, M. Alex, 2025, "Replication data for: No evidence of a common pattern of taxon or phylogenetic diversity across elevation for beetle (Coleoptera) families", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/I1UMKQ, Borealis, V1, UNF:6:NahaRK7Arf9Kqa1/y/c4UQ== [fileUNF]

Dan Gibson’s paper on the host specificity of aphids in a sub-arctic environment came out yesterday in #EnvironmentalEntomology! Dan has been working on this project in some form since 2012! Congratulations! 1/nhttps://t.co/r4FdjMJKOM pic.twitter.com/cUMcYqo6vW
— Alex Smith (@Alex_Smith_Ants) November 28, 2017

84. 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

83. 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

82. 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

New paper from @teagalle regarding the use of public #DNAbarcodes to study the macroecology of #parasitoids, latitude & diversity in @FACETSJournal. https://t.co/G2C1MjrOti #OA 1/n pic.twitter.com/GhNWKH5nSB
— Alex Smith (@Alex_Smith_Ants) November 27, 2017

81. 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

80. 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

Has forestry affected @Algonquin_PP arthropods? Paper w 28 student co-authors is out today in @PLOSONE https://t.co/N8OJC4e5J9 pic.twitter.com/tbaLnY40F9
— Alex Smith (@Alex_Smith_Ants) June 2, 2017

79. 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.

Our paper documenting how Twitter helped document range extension of an iconic social parasite ant is out#Polyergus https://t.co/snCFXrUZm6 pic.twitter.com/0MRynyElIp
— Alex Smith (@Alex_Smith_Ants) May 17, 2017

78. 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.

77. 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

76. 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)

75. 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.

74. 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

73. 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

72. 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.

71. 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

70. 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.

69. Smith, M. Alex (2015) Ants, elevation, phylogenetic diversity and community structure. Ecosphere. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00473.1

Prompted by #PleaseCiteMe 2 revisit: Ants, elevation, phylogenetic diversity & community structure https://t.co/hjJezJ7aM0 Here's the story: pic.twitter.com/GI7SEE8uLC
— Alex Smith (@Alex_Smith_Ants) June 29, 2017

68. 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 .

**The 21 authors were the undergraduate students and instructors in the 2012 field course in Arctic Ecology.
Kate and Amanda wrote a post for the ESC blog about this paper: http://escsecblog.com/2015/09/29/from-inquiring-students-to-published-authors-an-adventure-in-the-arctic/
The University of Guelph program Students Promoting Awareness of Research Knowledge (SPARK) wrote an article about this paper for The Ontarian.

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

67. 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

66. 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

65. 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

64. 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

Press release about this species description: Better off apart: Wasp genera Microplitis and Snellenius revised and proved separate

63. 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

62. 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

61. 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

60. 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

59. 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

58. 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

57. 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

56. 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

55. 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

54. 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

53. 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

Chandra's iBOL newsletter article about this paper

52. 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

51. JL Fernandez-Triana, JB Whitfield, MA Smith, Y Braet, W Hallwachs and DH Janzen (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

50. 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

Editor’s Choice for August 2014. Have a read of the associated Journal Blog about this paper.

49. 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

48. 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

47. 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

46. 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.

45. 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.

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., M. Alex Smith, M. J. Sharkey, and D. L. J. Quicke. (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: 1–232

38. E. Karen López-Estrada, Rosa Briceño G., M. Alex Smith , Juliano Fiorelini Nunes, Angélica M. Penteado-Dias, Fadia Sara Ceccarelli, Hans Clebsch , and Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón. 2012 Six new species of Notiospathius (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) from Northwest Venezuela. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 29 : 37-61

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 mi crogastrine 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. Buntika Butcher, M. Alex Smith, Donald Quicke (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 (2011) : 35-42.

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 .

Part of the PLoSONE Barcoding collection.

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.

MAPL paper discussed in the Barcode of Life Blog

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).

One of the top 10 most accessed articles for Frontiers in Zoology in the first month following publication.

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)

Featured in University of Guelph - News Release, At Guelph, Science Daily News, Exchange Morning Post, RedOrbit, ScienceCentric, Discover Magazine - Discoblog, Genome Web, Bio-Medicine, and National Geographic News Watch; EurekAlert AAAS News; Science Daily News; Physorg.com; Bio-Medicine; Newswise Science News; Iconocast; Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News; GeneRef – Science News, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Nanotechnology News; TechNewsWorld; Student-Ready.net; Toronto Seeker; Biology News Net; Huliq News; RichardDawkins.net; Thaindian News; News Post Online; News Track India; Fresh News; freebiotechnology.blogspot; Care2 News Network; Kansas City infoZine News; ScienceDaily: Latest Science News; FDA News: ScienceDaily Top Science Headlines; FirstScience News; Innovations Report; Biotech Science News; Ernst Mayr Library Blog Archive; Kitty Mowmow’s Animal Expo; Examiner.com National; News Locale; Webinidia123.com; 7thSpace Interactive; DrTom Building an Environmental Community; Labspace.net; e! Science News; Inbox Robot: Science & Technology News; newKerala.com; Science Codex; SurfWax Biology News
University of Illinois News Bureau You-Tube Audio Slideshow about this paper and Team Microgastrinae!

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)

One of the first articles featured in the PLoSONE Biodiversity Hub.
One of the featured “case studies” of the taxonomy of the future" - Penev et al. 2008
Featured in: "Blog Around the Clock", "Myrmecos Blog ", "Deep Sea News", "The Other 95%", "PLoSONE Blog", "Open Access News", "Barcode of Life Blog".

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)

One of Molecular Ecology Resources most frequently read papers - 2008.
Featured in the 'Barcode of Life Blog' from November 2007.

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).

Editors selected this article for associated commentary: Miller (2007) DNA barcoding and the renaissance of taxonomy. PNAS 104(12):4775-4776
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