Research articles

*equal contribution

In review/revision

  1. Kühnhausen, 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 review) Island setting drives plant evolution in tropical Asian rainforests.

    2024

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

  3. 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

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

  5. 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]

  6. 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

  7. 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.

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

  9. 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]

  10. 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]

  11. 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]

  12. 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

  13. 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]

  14. 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]

  15. 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]

  16. 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

  17. 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]

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

  19. 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

  20. 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]

  21. 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]

  22. 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]

  23. 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]

  24. 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

  25. 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]

  26. 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]

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

  28. 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]

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

  30. 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.