Lillian Jennifer V. Rodriguez, Ph.D. Assistant Professor 5 Ph.D. in Evolutionary and Biodiversity Science, Université de Montpellier (France), 2016 lvrodriguez@up.edu.ph Research Lab: TREE Lab

Biology 260 (Advanced Ecology)
Biology 263 (Advanced Terrestrial Ecology)
Biology 265 (Advanced Biogeography)
Biology 281 (Advanced Biostatistics)
Biology 115 (Taxonomy of Higher Plants)
Biology 160 (Ecology)
Biology 1

Plant ecology, Plant-insect interactions, Philippine fig-wasp systems, Restoration ecology

Earl Terrenz Gigante (M.S. Biology)
Emmanuel Justin Lim (M.S. Biology)
Jayson Mansibang (M.S. Biology)
Eureka Manna Espiritu (B.S. Biology)
Jose Miguel de las Llagas (B.S. Biology)
Sean Luke Madjus (B.S. Biology)

• Enriquez GPL, Rodriguez LJV. 2023. Seed Dispersal by Water, Wind, Birds, and Bats in the Caliraya Watershed, Laguna. Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea, 4(1), 28-42, https://doi.org/10.22920/PNIE.2023.4.1.28

• Kambach S, Condit R, Aguilar S, Bruelheide H, Bunyavejchewin S, Chang-Yang C-H, Chen Y-Y, Chuyong G, Davies SJ, Ediriweera S, Ewango CE, Fernando ES, Gunatilleke N, Gunatilleke S, Hubbell SP, Itoh A, Kenfack D, Kiratiprayoon S, Lin Y-C, Rodriguez LJV, … Rüger N. 2022. Consistency of demographic trade-offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests. Journal of Ecology, 110, 1485– 1496.

• Bascos EMA, Fernando ES, Duya MV, Rodriguez LJV. 2021. Beginnings of a plant parasite: early development of Rafflesia consueloae inside its Tetrastigma host. Planta 254:61.

• Rasplus J‐Y, Rodriguez LJ, Sauné L, Peng Y‐Q, Bain A., Kjellberg F, Harrison RD, Pereira RA, Ubaidillah R, Tollon‐Cordet C, Gautier M, Rossi J‐P,Cruaud A. 2021. Exploring systematic biases, rooting methods and morphological evidence to unravel the evolutionary history of the genus Ficus (Moraceae). Cladistics 37: 402-422.

• Galano JB, Rodriguez LJ. 2021. Exotic Mahogany Leaf Litter Hinders Growth of Philippine Native Tree Seedlings. Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea, 2(2), 76-81.

• Wills C, Wang B, Fang S, Wang Y, Jin Y, Lutz J, …, Rodriguez LJ, et al. 2021. Interactions between all pairs of neighboring trees in 16 forests worldwide reveal details of unique ecological processes in each forest, and provide windows into their evolutionary histories. PLoS Computational Biology 17(4): e1008853.

• Rodriguez LJV, Cruaud A, Rasplus J-Y. 2021. Low Sampling Effort and High Genetic Isolation Contribute to Underdocumented Diversity in Philippine Fig Wasps. Philippine Journal of Science 150 (S1): 173-180.

• Gigante ET, Lim EJ, Crisostomo KG, Cornejo P, Rodriguez LJ. 2021. Increase in humidity widens heat tolerance range of tropical Ceratosolen fig wasps. Ecological Entomology 46: 573-581.

• Davies SJ, Abiem I, Salim KA, Aguilar S, Allen D, Alonso A, Anderson-Teixeira K, Andrade A, Arellano G, Ashton PS, …, Rodriguez LJ, et al. 2021. ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network. Biological Conservation 253: 108907.

• General DEM, Buenavente PAC, Rodriguez LJV. 2020. A preliminary survey of nocturnal ants, with novel modifications for collecting nocturnal arboreal ants. Halteres 11: 1–12.

• Bascos EMA, Rodriguez LJV, Duya MV, Fernando ES, Ong PS. 2019. Philippine Rafflesia: Emerging patterns in floral morphology and distribution. Flora 257: 151409.

• Hogan JA, Zimmerman JK, Thompson J, Uriarte M, Swenson NG, Condit R, Hubbell S, Johnson DJ, Sun IF, Chang-Yang C-H, Su S-H, Ong P, Rodriguez L, Monoy CC, Yap S, Davies SJ. 2018. The frequency of cyclonic wind storms shapes tropical forest dynamism and functional trait dispersion. Forests 9:404.

• Compton SG, Chen X-Y, Chen Y, Hatcher MJ, Peng Y-Q, Quinnell RJ, Rodriguez LJ, Yu H, Ouyang A, Wei F-L, Cai Z-T, Wang R. 2018. Host-parasitoid relationships within figs of an invasive fig tree: a fig wasp community structured by gall size. Insect Conservation and Diversity 11:341-351.

• Rodriguez LJ, Bain A, Chou LS, Conchou L, Cruaud A, Gonzales R, Hossaert-McKey M, Rasplus JY, Tzeng HY, Kjellberg F. 2017. Diversification and spatial structuring in the mutualism between Ficus septica and its pollinating wasps in insular South East Asia. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17:207. doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1034-8

• Rodriguez LJ, Young F, Rasplus J-Y, Kjellberg F, Compton SG. 2017. Constraints on convergence: hydrophobic hind legs allow some male pollinator fig wasps early access to submerged females. Journal of Natural History 51, 761-782. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1293746

• Cruaud P, Rasplus J-Y, Rodriguez LJV, Cruaud A. 2017. High throughput sequencing of multiple amplicons for barcoding and integrative taxonomy. Scientific Reports 7, 41948

• Wang R, Aylwin R, Barwell L, Chen X-Y, Chen Y, Chou L-S, Cobb J, Collette D, Craine L, Giblin-Davis RM, Ghana S, Harper M, Harrison RD, McPherson JR, Peng Y-Q, Pereira RAS, Reyes-Betancort A, Rodriguez LJV, Strange E, van Noort S, Yang H-W, Yu H, Compton SG. 2015. The fig wasp followers and colonists of a widely introduced fig tree, Ficus microcarpa. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 8(4): 322–336. DOI: 10.1111/icad.12111.

• Rodriguez BFPJ, Gonzales RS, Rodriguez LJV. 2015. Fig wasps of Philippine Ficus microcarpa L.: diversity and trophic structure in an urban setting. Philippine Agricultural Scientist 98(1): 15-22 .
  

• Conchou L, Cabioch L, Rodriguez LJV, Kjellberg F. 2014. Daily rhythm of mutualistic pollinator activity and scent emission in Ficus septica: ecological differentiation between co-occurring pollinators and potential consequences for chemical communication and facilitation of host speciation. PLoS ONE 9(8): e103581.
  

• Chun, E.A.C., Luczon, A.U., Panga, F.M., Politado, R.B. and Rodriguez, L.J.V. 2010. Newborn screening: the Philippine context. The Philippine BIOTA 43: 60-81.
  

Resource Person, House of Representatives’ Special Committee on Reforestation
Member, Philippine Plant Conservation Committee of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Academic Representative, Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) of the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park
Editorial Board, Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology, Korea