Publications

Wepfer P.H, Nakajima Y, Mikheyev A., Economo E.P. & S. Mitarai (2022). The oceanographic isolation of the Ogasawara Islands and genetic divergence in a reef-building coral. Journal of Biogeography, 49, 11. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14475

Wepfer P.H., Yuichi Nakajima, Makamas Sutthacheep, Veronica Radice, Zoe Richards, Put Ang, Atsushi Fujimura, Mareike Sudek, James Reimer, Allen Chen, Tullia Isatto Teraneo, Robert Toonen, Alexander S. Mikheyev, Evan P. Economo, Satoshi Mitarai (2020). The biogeographic evolution of the coral genus Galaxea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 151, 106905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106905

Wepfer P.H, Nakajima Y, Hui S.C.F, Mitarai S & E.P. Economo. (2019) The Metacommunity Ecology of coral-hosted symbionts (Symbiodiniaceae). Marine Ecology Progress Series 633 (2020): 71-87.

Wepfer P.H. (2018) Spatial genetic structure in the coral genus Galaxea (Euphyllidae) and their associated Symbiodinium communities. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, 904-0495, Japan (PhD. Thesis).

Nakajima, Y., Wepfer, P.H., Suzuki, S., Zayasu, Y., Shinzato, C., Satoh, N., & Mitarai, S. (2017) Microsatellite markers for multiple Pocillopora genetic lineages offer new insights about coral popu-lations. Scientific reports, 7(1), 6729.

Wepfer P.H, Guénard B. & E.P. Economo (2016) Influences of climate and historical land connectiv-ity on ant species composition in East Asiea. Journal of Biogeography, doi:10.1111/jbi.12762.

Wepfer P.H., Linder H.P. (2014) The taxonomy of Flagellaria (Flagellariaceae). Australian Journal of Systematic Botany: 27(3), 159-179.

Wepfer P.H. (2012) Systematics and Taxonomic Review of Flagellaria. University of Zurich, Switzer-land. Master thesis.

Selected conference presentations
Wepfer P.H., Yuichi Nakajima, Makamas Sutthacheep, Veronica Radice, Zoe Richards, Put Ang, Atsu-shi Fujimura, Mareike Sudek, James Reimer, Allen Chen, Tullia Isatto Teraneo, Robert Toonen, Al-exander S. Mikheyev, Evan P. Economo, Satoshi Mitarai; The Phytogeography of Galaxea. 4th Asia-Pacific Coral Reef Symposium, June 8th 2018, Marco Polo Plaza Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines. (Talk)

Wepfer P.H, Guénard B. & E.P. Economo, Untangling the effects of climate and historical/current spatial connectivity on ant faunal dissimilarity in the Japanese Archipelago and surrounding re-gions. IBS 2015, 7th Biennial Conference of the International Biogeography Society, 9th-11th January, Bayreuth, Germany (Poster)

Wepfer P.H., Linder H.P. Flagellaria – the unknown sister of the grasses. Biology Conference 2012, 8- 10th February, Fribourg, Switzerland. (Poster)