Phyllis D. Coley

16.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
95 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Phyllis D. Coley is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Phyllis D. Coley has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 38 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 36 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Phyllis D. Coley's work include Plant and animal studies (48 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (36 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (21 papers). Phyllis D. Coley is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (48 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (36 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (21 papers). Phyllis D. Coley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Panama and Ecuador. Phyllis D. Coley's co-authors include F. Stuart Chapin, John P. Bryant, Thomas A. Kursar, John A. Barone, A. Elizabeth Arnold, Gregory S. Gilbert, Risto Kalliola, Pekka Niemelä, Yrjö Mäkinen and Jukka Salo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Phyllis D. Coley

93 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Resource Availability and Plant Antiherbivore Defense

1985 3.0k citations Phyllis D. Coley et al. Science profile →
HERBIVORY AND PLANT DEFENSES IN TROPICAL FORESTS

1996 1.4k citations Phyllis D. Coley et al. profile →
River dynamics and the diversity of Amazon lowland forest

1986 611 citations Phyllis D. Coley et al. Nature profile →
Are tropical fungal endophytes hyperdiverse?

2000 606 citations A. Elizabeth Arnold, Phyllis D. Coley et al. profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Phyllis D. Coley

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All Works

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Continuous colonization of the Atlantic coastal rain forests of South America from Amazônia 2025 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·James A. Nicholls, Jens J. Ringelberg, Kyle G. Dexter, Oriane Loiseau, Graham N. Stone, Phyllis D. Coley, Colin E. Hughes, Thomas A. Kursar, Erik J. M. Koenen, Flávia Cristina Pinto Garcia, (unknown), Danilo M. Neves, María‐José Endara, Haroldo Cavalcante de Lima, Catherine Kidner, R. Toby Pennington	2
2	Diversity and divergence: evolution of secondary metabolism in the tropical tree genus Inga 2022 ·New Phytologist ·Dale L. Forrister, María‐José Endara, (unknown), Gordon C. Younkin, (unknown), John Lokvam, Kyle G. Dexter, R. Toby Pennington, Catherine Kidner, James A. Nicholls, Oriane Loiseau, Thomas A. Kursar, Phyllis D. Coley	26
3	The role of plant secondary metabolites in shaping regional and local plant community assembly 2021 ·Journal of Ecology ·María‐José Endara, (unknown), Dale L. Forrister, Kyle G. Dexter, R. Toby Pennington, James A. Nicholls, Oriane Loiseau, Thomas A. Kursar, Phyllis D. Coley	19
4	Phenolics lie at the centre of functional versatility in the responses of two phytochemically diverse tropical trees to canopy thinning 2019 ·Journal of Experimental Botany ·Gerald F. Schneider, Phyllis D. Coley, Gordon C. Younkin, Dale L. Forrister, (unknown), Thomas A. Kursar	9
5	Macroevolutionary patterns in overexpression of tyrosine: An anti‐herbivore defence in a speciose tropical tree genus, Inga (Fabaceae) 2019 ·Journal of Ecology ·Phyllis D. Coley, María‐José Endara, (unknown), Catherine Kidner, James A. Nicholls, R. Toby Pennington, (unknown), (unknown), Maristerra R. Lemes, Graham N. Stone, Thomas A. Kursar	25
6	Herbivores as drivers of negative density dependence in tropical forest saplings 2019 ·Science ·Dale L. Forrister, María‐José Endara, Gordon C. Younkin, Phyllis D. Coley, Thomas A. Kursar	81
7	Consequences of interspecific variation in defenses and herbivore host choice for the ecology and evolution of Inga, a speciose rainforest tree 2018 ·Oecologia ·Phyllis D. Coley, María‐José Endara, Thomas A. Kursar	44
8	Coevolutionary arms race versus host defense chase in a tropical herbivore–plant system 2017 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·María‐José Endara, Phyllis D. Coley, (unknown), James A. Nicholls, Kyle G. Dexter, David A. Donoso, Graham N. Stone, R. Toby Pennington, Thomas A. Kursar	102
9	Bioactivity of Fungal Endophytes as a Function of Endophyte Taxonomy and the Taxonomy and Distribution of Their Host Plants 2013 ·PLoS ONE ·Sarah Higginbotham, A. Elizabeth Arnold, Alicia Ibáñez, Carmenza Spadafora, Phyllis D. Coley, Thomas A. Kursar	83
10	Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications 2007 ·Paleobiology ·Dana L. Royer, Lawren Sack, Peter Wilf, Bárbara Cariglino, Christopher H. Lusk, Ian J. Wright, Mark Westoby, Gregory J. Jordan, Ülo Niinemets, Phyllis D. Coley, Asher D. Cutter, Conrad C. Labandeira, Matthew B. Palmer, Kirk R. Johnson, Angela T. Moles, Fernando Valladares	111
11	Host specificity of Lepidoptera in tropical and temperate forests 2007 ·Nature ·Lee A. Dyer, Michael S. Singer, John T. Lill, John O. Stireman, Grant Gentry, Robert J. Marquis, Robert E. Ricklefs, Harold F. Greeney, David L. Wagner, H. C. Morais, Ivone R. Diniz, Thomas A. Kursar, Phyllis D. Coley	388
12	Allelochemic function for a primary metabolite: the case of l‐tyrosine hyper‐production in Inga umbellifera (Fabaceae) 2006 ·American Journal of Botany ·John Lokvam, Tania Brenes‐Arguedas, J. Scott Lee, Phyllis D. Coley, Thomas A. Kursar	37
13	Contrasting mechanisms of secondary metabolite accumulation during leaf development in two tropical tree species with different leaf expansion strategies 2006 ·Oecologia ·Tania Brenes‐Arguedas, Matthew Horton, Phyllis D. Coley, John Lokvam, (unknown), (unknown), Thomas A. Kursar	44
14	Minor Alkaloids FromGuatteria dumetorumwith Antileishmanial Activity 2006 ·Planta Medica ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Luz Romero, Eduardo Ortega‐Barría, Phyllis D. Coley, Thomas A. Kursar, María V. Heller, William H. Gerwick, Luis Cubilla-Ríos	25
15	CONSTITUENTS OF Hiraea reclinata AND THEIR ANTI-HIV ACTIVITY 2003 ·Revista latinoamericana de química ·Ahmed A. Hussein, (unknown), (unknown), Pablo N. Solís, (unknown), María V. Heller, Phyllis D. Coley	5
16	The effects of weather on fungal abundance and richness among 25 communities in the Intermountain West 2002 ·BMC Ecology ·(unknown), Phyllis D. Coley, Thomas A. Kursar	114
17	A new paradigm for drug discovery in tropical rainforests 1996 ·Nature Biotechnology ·Todd L. Capson, Phyllis D. Coley, Thomas A. Kursar	9
18	What's Up? Perspectives from the First International Forest Canopy Conference at Sarasota, Florida, 1994 1994 ·Margaret D. Lowman, Francis Hallé, (unknown), Phyllis D. Coley, Nalini M. Nadkarni, Geoffrey G. Parker, Kathryn A. Saterson, S. Joseph Wright‬	3
19	Photosynthetic induction times in shade-tolerant species with long and short-lived leaves 1993 ·Oecologia ·Thomas A. Kursar, Phyllis D. Coley	55
20	Photosynthetic induction times in shade-tolerant and short-lived leaves 1991 ·Thomas A. Kursar, Phyllis D. Coley	1

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