First Name: James D.Last Name: AckermanPublications: YearPublication 1975"Reproductive Biology of Goodyera oblongifolia (orchidaceae)" in Madrono 1976"Biosystematic studies in the genus Piperia (Orchidaceae)" in Theses and Projects 1977"Biosystematics of the genus Piperia Rydb. (Orchidaceae)" in Botanical Journal 1979"Dodsonia, a new Ecuadorian genus of the zygopetalinae (orchidaceae)" in Selbyana 1979"Pollination biology of Listera Cordata (Orchidaceae)" in American Journal of Botany 1980"The Effectiveness of Fungus Gnats as Pollinators" in American Journal of Botany 1981"Pollination biology of Calypso bulbosa var. occidentals (orchidaceae): a food-deception system" in Madrono 1981"Pollen Morphology of the Chloraeinae (Orchidaceae: Diurideae) and related subtribes" in American Journal of Botany 1981"Two new species of the chondrorhyncha complex (orchidaceae: zygopetalinae)" in Selbyana 1982"Stratum, Tree, and Flower Selection by Tropical Bees: Implications for the Reproductive Biology of Outcrossing Cochlospermum Vitifolium in Panama" in Ecology 1982"Food-Foraging Behavior of Male Euglossini (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Vagabonds or Trapliners?" in Biotropica 1983"Diversity and Seasonality of Male Euglossine Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Central Panamá" in Ecology 1983"On the Evidence for a Primitively Epiphytic Habit in Orchids" in Systematic Biology 1983"Euglossine bee pollination of the orchid, Cochleanthes Lipscombiae: a food source mimic" in American Journal of Botany 1983"Specificity and mutual dependency of the orchid-euglossine bee interaction" in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 1985"Longevity of Euglossine Bees" in Biotropica 1986"Relative pollinator effectiveness and evolution of floral traits of Spathiphyllum Friedrichsthalii (Araceae)" in American Journal of Botany 1986"Two new species of epidendrum with lateral inflorescences" in Selbyana 1986"Coping with the epiphytic existence: pollination strategies" in Selbyana 1987"Limitations to Fruit Production in Ionopsis utricularioides (Orchidaceae)" in Biotropica 1987"Long-Term Ecology of Euglossine Orchid-Bees (Apidae: Euglossini) in Panama" in Oecologia 1989"Limitations to Sexual Reproduction in Encyclia krugii (Orchidaceae)" in Systematic Botany 1989"Asynchronous Phenologies of a Neotropical Orchid and Its Euglossine Bee Pollinator" in Ecology 1989"Geographic and Seasonal Variation in Fragrance Choices and Preferences of Male Euglossine Bees" in Biotropica 1990"Short- and Long-Term Limitations to Fruit Production in a Tropical Orchid" in Ecology 1991"Patterns and Maintenance of Extraordinary Variation in the Caribbean Orchid, Tolumnia (Oncidium) variegata" in Systematic Botany 1991"Ecological Effects of Hurricanes" in Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 1992"Effects of display size, flowering phenology, and nectar availability on effective visitation frequency in Comparettia Falcata (Orchidaceae)" in American Journal of Botany 1992"Immediate Impact of Hurricance Hugo on a Puerto Rican Rain Forest" in Ecology 1993"Orchid-Phorophyte Relationships in a Forest Watershed in Puerto Rico" in Journal of Tropical Ecology 1993"A New Species of Lepanthes (Orchidaceae) from Puerto Rico" in Brittonia 1993"The Effects of a Rust Infection on Fitness Components in a Natural Population of Tolumnia variegata (Orchidaceae)" in Oecologia 1994"Factors associated with a rust infection (Sphenosphora saphena) in an epiphytic orchid (Tolumnia variegata)" in American Journal of Botany 1994"A Meager Nectar Offering by an Epiphytic Orchid is Better than Nothing" in Biotropica 1996An Orchid Flora of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands 1996"Fruit set in a deceptive orchid: The effect of flowering phenology, display size, and local floral abundance" in American Journal of Botany 1996"Review of Orchids of Jamaica" in Systematic Botany 1996"The Maturation of a Flora: Orchidaceae of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands" in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1996"Seedling establishment in an epiphytic orchid: an experimental study of seed limitation" in Oecologia 1997"Variation in pollinator abundance and selection on fragrance phenotypes in an epiphytic orchid" in American Journal of Botany 1998"Evolutionary potential in orchids: patterns and strategies for conservation" in Selbyana 1998"The cost of selfing in Encyclia cochleata (Orchidaceae)" in Plant Systematics and Evolution 1999"Genetic Variation in a Widespread, Epiphytic Orchid: Where is the Evolutionary Potential?" in Systematic Biology 1999"A Nectar Reward: Is More Better?" in Biotropica 2000"Reproduction in an Orchid Can Be Resource-Limited over Its Lifetime" in Biotropica 2001"Biogeography of the Antilles Based on a Parsimony Analysis of Orchid Distributions" in Journal of Biogeography 2001"Gene flow and effective population size in Lepanthes (Orchidaceae): a case for genetic drift" in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 2002"Diversity and host specificity of endophytic Rhizoctonia-like fungi from tropical orchids" in American Journal of Botany 2002"Composition Patterns of Caribbean Limestone Forests: Are Parsimony, Classification, and Ordination Analyses Congruent?" in Biotropica 2003"Flowering Phenology of Werauhia sintenisii, a Bromeliad from the Dwarf Montane Forest in Puerto Rico: an Indicator of Climate Change?" in Selbyana 2003"Review of Orchids and their conservation" in Madrono 2003"Variación en germinación simbiótica entre semillas de Tolumnia variegata y entre hongos micorrízicos" in Lankesteriana: International Journal on Orchidology 2003"Potencial reproductivo, tasa de crecimiento y ambiente lumínico en Lepanthes rupestris Stimson" in Lankesteriana: International Journal on Orchidology 2004"Does Flower Color Variation Matter in Deception Pollinated Psychilis monensis (Orchidaceae)?" in Oecologia 2004"The Flexible Breeding System of Werauhia sintenisii, a Cloud Forest Bromeliad from Puerto Rico" in Biotropica 2004"Notes on the Caribbean orchid flora. V. New species, combinations and records" in Lankesteriana 2004"Differences in mycorrhizal preferences between two tropical orchids" in Molecular Ecology 2005"Variation in sexual reproduction in orchids and its evolutionary consequences: a spasmodic journey to diversification" in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 2005"Variation in mycorrhizal performance in the epiphytic orchid Tolumnia variegata in vitro: the potential for natural selection" in Evolutionary Ecology 2006"Land-Use History Affects the Distribution of the Saprophytic Orchid Wullschlaegelia calcarata in Puerto Rico's Tabonuco Forest" in Biotropica 2006"Bat Pollination Breakdown in the Caribbean Columnar Cactus Pilosocereus royenii" in Biotropica 2007"Widespread mycorrhizal specificity correlates to mycorrhizal function in the neotropical, epiphytic orchid Ionopsis utricularioides (Orchidaceae)" in American Journal of Botany 2007"Orchids of the West Indies: predictability of diversity and endemism" in Journal of Biogeography 2007"Site Variation in Spatial Aggregation and Phorophyte Preference in Psychilis monensis (Orchidaceae)" in Biotropica 2007"Invasive orchids: weeds we hate to love?" in Lankesteriana: International Journal on Orchidology 2007"Floral color patterns in a tropical orchid: Are they associated with reproductive success?" in Plant Species Biology 2009"Oeceoclades maculata, an alien tropical orchid in a Caribbean rainforest" in Annals of Botany 2010"Riding across the Selection Landscape: Fitness Consequences of Annual Variation in Reproductive Characteristics" in Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences 2010"Reproductive assurance for a rewardless epiphytic orchid in Puerto Rico: Pleurothallis ruscifolia (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae)" in Caribbean Journal of Science 2010"Morphological flexibility across an environmental gradient in the epiphytic orchid, Tolumnia variegata: complicating patterns of fitness" in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 2011"Are deception-pollinated species more variable than those offering a reward?" in Plant Systematics and Evolution 2011"Spatial distribution and performance of native and invasive Ardisia (Myrsinaceae) species in Puerto Rico: the anatomy of an invasion" in Biological Invasions 2011"Consequences of floral visits by ants and invasive honeybees to the hummingbird-pollinated, Caribbean cactus Melocactus intortus" in Plant Species Biology 2012"Can extinction risk help explain plant-pollinator specificity among euglossine bee pollinated plants?" in Oikos 2012"Orchidaceae" in Flora of the Cayman Islands 2012"Biotic versus abiotic pollination in Oeceoclades maculata (Lindl.) Lindl. (Orchidaceae)" in Plant Species Biology 2013"Nutrient limitation restricts growth and reproductive output in a tropical montane cloud forest bromeliad: findings from a long-term forest fertilization experiment" in Oecologia 2013"There goes the neighborhood: apparent competition between invasive and native orchids mediated by a specialist florivorous weevil" in Biological Invasions 2013"Spatial Distribution of Orchid Species in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico" in Carribean Journal of Science 2013"Biology and Impacts of Pacific Island Invasive Species. 10. Iguana iguana, the Green Iguana (Squamata: Iguanidae)" in Pacific Science 2013"Research Group in Orchids, Ecology and Plant Systematics: an inter-institutional initiative for plant conservation and sustainable use in south-west Colombia" in Lankesteriana: International Journal on Orchidology 2013"A New Ornithidium (Orchidaceae: Maxillariinae) from the Massif de la Hotte of Haiti" in Lankesteriana: International Journal on Orchidology 2014Orchid flora of the Greater Antilles 2014"Rapid transformation of orchid floras" in Lankesteriana: International Journal on Orchidology 2014"Biotic resistance and invasional meltdown: consequences of acquired interspecific interactions for an invasive orchid, Spathoglottis plicata in Puerto Rico" in Biological Invasions 2015"Terrestrial orchids in a tropical forest: best sites for abundance differ from those for reproduction" in Ecology 2015"When stable-stage equilibrium is unlikely" in Annals of Botany 2017"Invasive Syzygium jambos trees in Puerto Rico" in Journal of Tropical Ecology 2017"Biotic resistance in the tropics: patterns of seed plant invasions within an island" in Biological Invasions 2017"Quantifying how acquired interactions with native and invasive insects influence population growth rates of a non-indigenous plant" in Biological Invasions 2017"Erratum to: Quantifying how acquired interactions with native and invasive insects influence population growth rates of a non-indigenous plant" in Biological Invasions 2017"Diversification and fruit evolution in eumalvoids (Malvaceae)" in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 2018"Determinants of orchid species diversity in world islands" in The New Phytologist 2018"Best in the company of nearby males: female success in the threatened cycad, Zamia portoricensis" in PeerJ 2019"Land use legacy for a tropical myco-heterotroph: how spatial patterns of abundance, reproductive effort and success vary" in Journal of Plant Ecology 2019"Extremes of forest–urban gradient offer some refuge for alien orchid invasion" in Biological Invasions 2020"Island biogeography of native and alien plant species: Contrasting drivers of diversity across the Lesser Antilles" in Diversity and Distributions 2020"Small Populations on Small Islands: What Chance Does an Orchid Have?" in International Journal of Plant Sciences 2020"A revision of Thespesia and allied genera in Tribe Gossypieae (Malvaceae-Malvoideae)" in Brittonia 2021"Natural history of the often-misunderstood Govenia utriculata (Orchidaceae): discovery of a Mexican population upsets West Indies endemism" in Phytotaxa 2021"Ornamentals lead the way: global influences on plant invasions in the Caribbean" in NeoBiota 2021"Future changes in the distribution of two non-indigenous orchids and their acquired enemy in Puerto Rico" in Biological Invasions 2021"A new species of Eurystyles (Orchidaceae) is exposed by a fierce hurricane in Puerto Rico" in Lankesteriana: International Journal on Orchidology 2021"Explosive range expansion of Eulophia graminea (Orchidaceae) in Puerto Ricio and the West Indies" in Lankesteriana: International Journal on Orchidology 2021"Island Invasions by Introduced Honey Bees: What Can Be Expected for Puerto Rico and the Caribbean?" in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2021"Population projections from holey matrices: Using prior information to estimate rare transition events" in Ecological Modelling 2022"Trick or treat? Pollinator attraction in Vanilla pompona (Orchidaceae)" in Biotropica 2022"Alien species affect the abundance and richness of native species in tropical forests: The role of adaptive strategies" in Ecosphere 2022"A New Miniature Melocactus (Cactaceae) from Puerto Rico" in Carribean Journal of Science 2023"Beyond the various contrivances by which orchids are pollinated: global patterns in orchid pollination biology" in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 2023"Gut microbiota variation of a tropical oil-collecting bee species far exceeds that of the honeybee" in Frontiers in Microbiology 2023"Geographical distribution and detection of two potyviruses occurring in Momordica charantia (Cucurbitaceae) in Puerto Rico" in The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 2023"Sweet as Vanilla hartii: Evidence for a nectar-rewarding pollination mechanism in Vanilla (Orchidaceae) flowers" in Flora 2024"Host suitability for germination differs from that of later stages of development in a rare epiphytic orchid" in Lankesteriana 2024"The origin and speciation of orchids" in New Phytologist 2024"Climate change will likely facilitate invasion of Asian orchid Eulophia graminea into new areas" in Biological Invasions 2024"Temperature seasonality drives taxonomic and functional homogenization of tropical butterflies" in Diversity and Distributions 2024"Habitat affiliation of non-native plant species across their introduced ranges on Caribbean islands" in Biological Invasions 2024"Invasions of the bamboo orchid: performance variability on islands oceans apart" in Biological Invasions