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  • Wheeler, D. A., Martin-Eberhardt, S. A., & Gilbert, K. J. (2025). Leaf litter capture in the carnivorous pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea: a preliminary study. Journal of Plant Interactions 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2025.2551022 
  • ​Keagy, J., Drummond, C. P., Gilbert, K. J., Grozinger, C. M., Hamilton, J., Hines, H. M., Lasky, J., Logan, C. A., Sawers, R., & Wagner, T. (2025) Landscape transcriptomics as a tool for addressing global change effects across diverse species. Molecular Ecology Resources 25, e13796. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13796
  • Martin-Eberhardt, S.A., Weber, M.G. and Gilbert, K.J. (2025) Anthocyanin impacts multiple plant-insect interactions in a carnivorous plant. The American Naturalist 205(5), pp.502-515.
  • López-González, C., Floc’h, J.B., Renner, T. and Gilbert, K.J. (2025) Species-specific phylloplane responses to changes in external pH. Journal of Experimental Botany, p.eraf157. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf157
  • Gilbert, K.J., Armitage, D., Bauer, U., Fukushima, K., Gaume, L., Love, R., Lin, Q., Liu, S., Martin-Eberhardt, S., Millett, J., Renner, T., Scharmann, M., and Thorogood, T. (2025). Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economics spectrum. Annals of Botany,  135(7): 1261-1280. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf024​
  • Rhee, S.Y., Anstett, D.N., Cahoon, E.B., Covarrubias-Robles, A.A., Danquah, E., Dudareva, N., Ezura, H., Gilbert, K.J., Gutiérrez, R.A., Heck, M. and Lowry, D.B. (2025) Resilient plants, sustainable future. Trends in Plant Science 30(4), pp.382-388.
  • Lin, P.A., Chan, W.P., Cai, L., Hsiao, Y., Dankowicz, E., Gilbert, K.J., Pierce, N.E. and Felton, G. (2025) The Salient Aroma Hypothesis: host plant specialization is linked with plant volatile availability in Lepidoptera. Proceedings B 292(2042), p.20242426.
  • Pan, V.S., Gilbert, K.J., and Wetzel, W.C. (2025) Mean Plant Toxicity Modulates the Effects of Plant Defense Variability. Ecology 106(2): e70012. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70012
  • Pan, V.S., Ghosh, E., Ode, P.J., Wetzel, W.C., Gilbert, K.J., and Pearse, I.S. (2025) Large Differences in Herbivore Performance Emerge From Simple Herbivore Behaviours and Fine-Scale Spatial Heterogeneity in Phytochemistry. Ecology Letters 28: e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70044
  • Saul, F., Scharmann, M., Wakatake, T., Rajaraman, S., Marques, A., Freund, M., Bringmann, G., Channon,
    L., Becker, D., Carroll, E., Low, Y.W., Lindqvist, C., Gilbert, K.J., Renner, T., Masuda, S., Richter, M., Vogg, G., Shirasu, K., Michael, T.P., Hedrich, R., Albert, V.A., and Fukushima, K. (2023) Subgenome dominance shapes novel gene evolution in the decaploid pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis. Nature Plants 9(12): 2000-2015. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01562-2 
  • Guiguet, A., McCartney, N.B., Gilbert, K.J., Tooker, J., Deans, A., Ali, J., and Hines, H. (2023) Extreme
    acidity in a cynipid gall: a potential new defensive strategy against natural enemies. Biology
    Letters, 19(3): 20220513. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0513
  • Gilbert, K.J., Goldsborough, T., Lam, W-N., Leong, F. and Pierce, N.E. (2022) A semi-detritivorous pitcher plant, Nepenthes ampullaria diverges in its regulation of pitcher fluid properties. Journal of Plant Interactions 17(1): 956-966, DOI: 10.1080/17429145.2022.2123567
  • Freund, M., Graus, D., Fleischmann, A., Gilbert, K.J., Lin, Q., Renner, T., Stigloher, C., Albert, A.,
    Hedrich, R., and Fukushima, K. (2022) The digestive systems of carnivorous plants. Plant Physiology 190(1): 44-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac232
  • Gilbert, K.J. and Renner, T. (2021) Acid or base? How do plants regulate the ecology of their phylloplane? AoB PLANTS 13(4): doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plab032
  • Gilbert, K.J. (2020) On the regulation of dissolved oxygen by Nepenthes pitchers. Carnivorous Plants Newsletter 49(4): 157-165. https://cpn.carnivorousplants.org/Article.php/CPNv49n4p157-165
  • Gilbert, K.J., Bittleston, L.S., Naive, M.A.K., Kiszewski, A.E., Buenavente, P.A.C., Lohman, D.J., and Pierce, N.E. (2020) Investigation of an elevational gradient reveals strong differences between bacterial and eukaryotic communities coinhabiting Nepenthes phytotelmata. Microbial Ecology 80: 334-390. doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01503-y
  • Gilbert, K.J., Bittleston, L.S., Tong, W., and Pierce, N.E. (2020) Tropical pitcher plants (Nepenthes) act as ecological filters by altering properties of their fluid microenvironments. Scientific Reports 10: 4431. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61193-x
  • Wang, P., Yao, H., Gilbert, K.J., Lu, Q., Hao, Y., Zhang, Z., and Wang, N. (2018) Glaciation-based isolation contributed to speciation in a Palearctic alpine biodiversity hotspot: Evidence from endemic species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 129: 315–324. doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.09.006
  • Gilbert, K.J., Nitta, J.H., Talavera, G., and Pierce, N.E. (2018) Keeping an eye on coloration: ecological correlates of the evolution of pitcher traits in the genus Nepenthes (Caryophyllales). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 123(2): 321–327. doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blx142
  • Gilbert, K.J., Fahey, T.J., Maerz, J.C., Sherman, R.E., Bohlen, P., Dombroskie, J.J., Groffman, P.M, and Yavitt, J.B. (2014) Exploring carbon flow through the root channel in a temperate forest soil food web. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 76: 45-52. doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.05.005
  • Wronski, T., Gilbert, K., Long, E., Michá, B., Quinn, R., and Hausdorf, B. (2014) Species richness and meta-community structure of land snails along an altitudinal gradient on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 80(2): 161-168. doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyu008
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