Publications

Willink, B., Ware, J., & Svensson, E. I. (2024). Tropical origin, global diversification and dispersal in the pond damselflies (Coenagrionoidea) revealed by a new molecular phylogeny. Systematic Biology, syae004. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae004

Willink, B., Tunström, K., Nilén, S., Chikhi, R., Lemane, T., Takahashi, M., Takahashi, Y., Svensson, E. I., & Wheat, C. W. (2024). The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8, 83–97. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.27.532508

Vicente-Santos, A., Willink, B., Nowak, K., Civitello, D., & Gillespie, T. (2023). Host-pathogen interactions under pressure: A systematic review and meta-analysis of stress-mediated effects on disease dynamics. Ecology Letters, 26, 2003–2020. https://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14319

Willink, B., & Wu, M. Y. (2023). To colour a bird: The evolution of carotenoid-based colouration in passerines is shaped by sexual selection, ecology and life history. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(1), 4–6. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13840

Willink, B. (2022). How signals interact in multimodal displays: Insights from a robotic frog. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(4), 696–700. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13668

Willink, B., Blow, R., Sparrow, D. J., Sparrow, R., & Svensson, E. I. (2021). Population biology and phenology of the colour polymorphic damselfly Ischnura elegans at its southern range limit in Cyprus. Ecological Entomology, 46(3), 601–613. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13006

Blow, R., Willink, B., & Svensson, E. I. (2021). A molecular phylogeny of forktail damselflies (genus Ischnura) reveals a dynamic macroevolutionary history of female colour polymorphisms. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 160, 107134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107134

Svensson, E. I., Willink, B., Duryea, M. C., & Lancaster, L. T. (2020). Temperature drives pre-reproductive selection and shapes the biogeography of a female polymorphism. Ecology Letters, 23(1), 149–159. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13417

Willink, B., Duryea, M. C., Wheat, C., & Svensson, E. I. (2020). Changes in gene expression during female reproductive development in a color polymorphic insect. Evolution, 74(6), 1063–1081. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13979

Willink, B., Duryea, M. C., & Svensson, E. I. (2019). Macroevolutionary Origin and Adaptive Function of a Polymorphic Female Signal Involved in Sexual Conflict. The American Naturalist, 194(5), 707–724. https://doi.org/10.1086/705294

Waller, J. T., Willink, B., Tschol, M., & Svensson, E. I. (2019). The odonate phenotypic database, a new open data resource for comparative studies of an old insect order. Scientific Data, 6(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0318-9

Protti-Sánchez, F., Quirós-Guerrero, L., Vásquez, V., Willink, B., Pacheco, M., León, E., Pröhl, H., & Bolaños, F. (2019). Toxicity and Alkaloid Profiling of the Skin of the Golfo Dulcean Poison Frog Phyllobates vittatus (Dendrobatidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 45(11), 914–925. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-019-01116-x

Willink, B., & Svensson, E. I. (2017). Intra- and intersexual differences in parasite resistance and female fitness tolerance in a polymorphic insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1847), 20162407. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2407

Ellenrieder, N. von, Castro, B. W., & Svensson, E. (2017). Checklist of the dragonflies and damselflies from Guyana (Insecta: Odonata), with new records from the country. Check List, 13(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.2.2104

Ryan, M. J., Latella, I. M., Willink, B., García-Rodríguez, A., & Gilman, C. A. (2015). Notes on the breeding habits and new distribution records of seven species of snakes from southwest Costa Rica. Herpetology Notes, 8, 669–671. https://www.biotaxa.org/hn/article/view/17427/17664

Ryan, M. J., Scott, N. J., Cook, J. A., Willink, B., Chaves, G., Bolaños, F., García-Rodríguez, A., Latella, I. M., & Koerner, S. E. (2015). Too wet for frogs: Changes in a tropical leaf litter community coincide with La Niña. Ecosphere, 6(1), art4. https://doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00352.1

Pröhl, H., & Willink, B. (2015). Ecología y comportamiento de las ranas venenosas del género Oophaga en Costa Rica y Panamá. Alytes, 32(3), 31.

Willink, B., García-Rodríguez, A., Bolaños, F., & Pröhl, H. (2014). The interplay between multiple predators and prey colour divergence. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 113(2), 580–589. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12355

Willink, B., Palmer, M. S., Landberg, T., Vonesh, J. R., & Warkentin, K. M. (2014). Environmental context shapes immediate and cumulative costs of risk-induced early hatching. Evolutionary Ecology, 28(1), 103–116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-013-9661-z

Ryan, M. J., Fuller, M. M., Scott, N. J., Cook, J. A., Poe, S., Willink, B., Chaves, G., & Bolaños, F. (2014). Individualistic Population Responses of Five Frog Species in Two Changing Tropical Environments over Time. PLOS ONE, 9(5), e98351. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098351

Willink, B., Bolaños, F., & Pröhl, H. (2014). Conspicuous displays in cryptic males of a polytypic poison-dart frog. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68(2), 249–261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-013-1640-4

Willink, B., Brenes-Mora, E., Bolaños, F., & Pröhl, H. (2013). Not Everything Is Black and White: Color and Behavioral Variation Reveal a Continuum Between Cryptic and Aposematic Strategies in a Polymorphic Poison Frog. Evolution, 67(10), 2783–2794. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12153

Pröhl, H., Willink, B., & Hauswaldt, S. (2013). Geographic variation in sexual signals and behaviour in two species of poison frogs. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 15(6), 667–687. https://www.evolutionary-ecology.com/abstracts/v15/2839.html

Farji-Brener, A. G., Morueta-Holme, N., Chinchilla, F., Willink, B., Ocampo, N., & Bruner, G. (2012). Leaf-cutting ants as road engineers: The width of trails at branching points in Atta cephalotes. Insectes Sociaux, 59(3), 389–394. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-012-0231-0

Zumbado‐Ulate, H., Bolaños, F., Willink, B., & Soley-Guardia, F. (2011). Population status and natural history notes on the critically endangered stream-dwelling frog Craugastor ranoides (Craugastoridae) in a costa rican tropical dry forest. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 6(3), 455–464. http://herpconbio.org/Volume_6/Issue_3/Zumbado-Ulate_etal_2011.pdf

Zumbado-Ulate, H., & Willink, B. (2011). Craugastor ranoides. Distribution. Herpetological Review, 42(2), 236. https://www.dropbox.com/s/nbf6skgveexbpo1/HR42%282%29OPT.pdf?dl=1