A new species that we described in 2012, Solanum baretiae (pictured above) was featured in newspapers, magazines, and other news sources around the World, including Scientific American (article and podcast), Our Amazing Planet, The Guardian (UK), History.com, BBC Mundo (Spanish), the Salt Lake Tribune, El Mundo (Spain), Público (Spain), Le Monde (France), Slate Magazine (French edition), Muy Interesante (Argentina), La Tercera (Chile), El Universo (Ecuador), the Annals of Botany, and the University of Cincinnati’s McMicken Monthly.

Solanum baretiae

Piper kelleyi, a species that we described in 2014, is remarkable in that it supports the largest community of specialized insect species including 11 species of specialist herbivores (moth larvae in the genus Eois), and at least 20-30 species of parasitoids that attack the caterpillars.  Press coverage: the Business Standard, the Green Report, Live Science, Nature World News, Scientias, Science, Space, & Robots, sci-news, and Yale Environment 360