Research articles

*equal contribution

In review/revision

  1. Rini, R., Karthikbabu, Lee, R.R.Q., Leong, F.W.S., Sim, H.J., Lim, J.Y. & Lau, O.S. (in press) Plant science for sustainability: by and for future generations. New Phytologist.

  2. Kühnhauser, B.G., Bates, C., Dransfield, J., Geri, C., Henderson, A., Sang, J., Lim, J.Y., Morley, R.J., Rustiami, H., Schley, R.J., Bellot, S., Chomicki, G., Eiserhardt, W.L., Hiscock, S.J. & Baker, W.J. (in press) Island setting drives plant evolution in tropical Asian rainforests. Science.

    2024

  3. Milson, C., Lim, J.Y., Ingram, D. & Edwards, D. (2024) Why climate finance needs to tackle overexploitation of tropical forest wildlife. Conservation Biology, e14406.

  4. Liang, H., McConkey, K. & Lim, J.Y. (2024) From beak to fruit: an Asian hornbill database for frugivory and seed dispersal research. Global Ecology and Conservation [URL] (Part of Special Issue: Hornbill ecology and conservation in times of global change)

    2023

  5. Antonelli, A. et al. (2023) State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [URL],[PDF]

  6. Wölke, F.J.R., Cabral, A., Lim, J.Y., Kissling, W.D. & Onstein, R.K. (2023) Africa as an evolutionary arena for large fruits. New Phytologist, 240, 1574–1586. [URL]

  7. Graham, N.R., Krehenwinkel, H., Lim, J.Y., Staniczenko, P., Callaghan, J., Andersen, J.C., Gruner, D.S. & Gillespie, R.G. (2023) Ecological network structure in response to community assembly processes over evolutionary time. Molecular Ecology, 32, 6489-6506.

    2022

  8. Kennedy, S.R., Lim, J.Y., Adams, S.A., Krehenwinkel, H. & Gillespie, R.G. What is adaptive radiation? Many manifestations of the phenomenon in an iconic lineage of Hawaiian spiders. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 175, 107564.

  9. Hoorn, C. & Lim, J.Y. (2022) The African trees that conquered Asia. Science, 6579, 380–381.

  10. Lim, J.Y.*, Huang, H.*, Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D.J., Baker, W.J., Morley, R.J., Kissling, W.D. & Hoorn, C. (2022) The Cenozoic history of palms: Global diversification, biogeography and the decline of megathermal forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31, 425–439. [URL],[PDF]

  11. Tribble, C.M., Freeman W.A., Landis, M.J., Lim, J.Y., Barido-Sottani, J., Kopperud, B.T., Höhna, S. & May, M.R. (2022) RevGadgets: An R package for visualizing Bayesian phylogenetic analyses from RevBayes. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13, 314—323. [URL]

  12. Lim, J.Y., Patiño, J., Noriyuki, S., Simmari, L.C., Gillespie, R.G. & Krehenwinkel, H. (2022) Semi-quantitative metabarcoding reveals how climate shapes arthropod community assembly along elevation gradients on Hawaii Island. Molecular Ecology, 31, 1416—1429. [URL]

  13. Armstrong, E.E.*, Perez-Lamarque, B.*, Bi, K., Chen, C., Becking, L.E., Lim, J.Y., Linderoth, T., Krehenwinkel, H. & Gillespie, R. (2022) A holobiont view of island biogeography": unrevaling patterns driving the nascent diversification of a Hawaiian spider and its microbial associaties. Molecular Ecology, 31, 1299—1316.

    2021

  14. Lim, J.Y.*, Wasserman, M.D., Veen, J., Després-Einspenner, M. & Kissling, W.D. (2021) Ecological and evolutionary significance of primates' most consumed plant families. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288, 20210737. [URL]

  15. Bogotá‐Ángel, G.*, Huang, H.* et al. (2021) Climate and geological change as drivers of Mauritiinae palm biogeography. Journal of Biogeography, 48, 1001—1022. [URL]

  16. Cannon, C.H. et al. (2021) Extending our scientific reach in arboreal ecosystems for research and management. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4, 712165. [URL]

  17. Song, X., Lim, J.Y., Yang, J. & Luskin, M. (2021) When do Janzen–Connell effects matter? A phylogenetic meta‐analysis of conspecific negative distance and density dependence experiments. Ecology Letters, 24, 608—620. [URL]

    2020

  18. Lim, J.Y., Svenning, J.C., Göldel, B., Faurby, S. & Kissling, W.D. (2020) Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts. Nature Communications, 11, 4904. [URL]

  19. Kattge, J et al. (2020) TRY plant trait database—enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology, 26, 119—188. [URL]

  20. Norder, S. et al. (2020) Global change in microcosms: Environmental and societal predictors of land cover change on the Atlantic Ocean Islands. Anthropocene, 30, 100424. [URL]

    2019

  21. Kissling, W.D., Baslev, H., Baker, W.J., Dransfield, J., Göldel, B., Lim, J.Y., Onstein, R.E. & Svenning, J.C. (2019) PalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database of palms worldwide. Scientific Data, 6, 1—13. [URL]

  22. Lim, J.Y., Marshall, C.R., Zimmer, E.A. & Wagner, W.L. (2019) Multiple colonizations of the Pacific by Peperomia (Piperaceae): Complex patterns of long‐distance dispersal and parallel radiations on the Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Biogeography, 46, 2651—2662. [URL]

  23. Krehenwinkel, H., Pomerantz. A., Henderson, J.B., Kennedy, S.R., Lim, J.Y., Swamy. V., Shoobridge, J.D., Graham, N.R., Patel, N.H., Gillespie, R.G. & Prost, S. (2019) Nanopore sequencing of long ribosomal DNA amplicons enables portable and simple biodiversity assessments with high phylogenetic resolution across broad taxonomic scale. Gigascience, 8, giz006. [URL]

  24. Andersen, J.C., Oboyski, P., Davies, N., Charlat, S., Ewing, C., Meyer, C., Krehenwinkel, H., Lim, J.Y., Noriyuki, S., Ramage, T., Gillespie, R.G. & Roderick, G.K. (2019) Categorization of species as native or nonnative using DNA sequence signatures without a complete reference library. Ecological Applications, 29, e01914. [URL]

  25. Kennedy, S., Lim, J.Y., Clavel, J., Krehenwinkel, H. & Gillespie, R.G. (2019) Spider webs, stable isotopes and molecular gut content analysis: Multiple lines of evidence support trophic niche differentiation in a community of Hawaiian spiders. Functional Ecology, 33, 1722—1733. [URL],[PDF]

    Before 2018

  26. Krehenwinkel, H., Wolf, M., Lim, J.Y., Simison, B., Rominger, A.R. & Gillespie, R.G. (2017) Estimating and mitigating amplification bias in qualitative and quantitative arthropod metabarcoding, Scientific Reports, 7, 17668. [URL],[PDF]

  27. Graham, N.R., Gruner, D.S., Lim, J.Y. & Gillespie, R.G. (2017) Island ecology and evolution: Challenges in the Anthropocene, Environmental Conservation, 44, 323—325. [URL]

  28. Lim, J.Y. & Marshall, C.R. (2017) The true tempo of evolutionary radiation and decline, Nature, (543) 710—713. [URL]

  29. Rominger, A.J.*, Goodman, K.R.*, Lim, J.Y.*, Armstrong, E., Bennett, G.M., Brewer, M.S., Cotoras, D.D., Ewing, C.P., Harte, J., Martinez, N., O’Grady, P., Percy, D., Price, D., Roderick, G.K., Shaw, K., Valdovinos, F.S., Gruner, D.S. & Gillespie, R.G. (2015) Community assembly on isolated islands: Macroecology meets evolution. Global Ecology & Biogeography, (25) 769—780. [URL]

  30. Lim, J.Y., Fine, P.V.A., & Mittelbach, G.G. (2015) Assessing the latitudinal gradient in herbivory. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 24, 1106—1112. [URL]

  31. Lim, J., Crawley, M.J., De Vere, N., Rich, T. & Savolainen, V. (2014) A phylogenetic analysis of the British flora sheds light on the evolutionary and ecological factors driving plant invasions, Ecology and Evolution, 4, 4258—4269. [URL]

Reports and Whitepapers contributed to

  • Antonelli, A. et al. (2023) State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [URL]

  • Ananthanarayanan, S. & Ang, A. (2024) Singapore Terrestrial Conservation Plan. Singapore Terrestrial Conservation Committee, Singapore. [URL]

Books / book chapters

  • Gillespie, R.G., Lim, J.Y. & Rominger, A.J. (2020) The Theory of Evolutionary Biogeography. In The Theory of Evolution: Principles, Concepts, and Assumptions (Schneider, S. & Mindel, D.P. eds.). University of Chicago Press.

  • Lim, J. & Sreekar, R. (2024) Turnover. In Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 3rd edition, vol. 6, pp.739-753 (Scheiner, S.M. eds.). Elsevier.