2019-present: Post-Doctoral researcher, Department of Ecology, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
2018-2019: Post-Doctoral researcher, Department of Zoology, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic. 2017-2018: Post-Doctoral Internship, Department of Ecology, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
2015-2018: Post-Doctoral researcher, Department of Animal Biology, University of Campinas, Brazil
Community Ecology and Biodiversity, Ecological interactions, Ecophylogenetics, Functional traits, Statistical modeling
Jorge, L.R., Cordeiro-Estrela, P., Klaczko, L.B., Moreira, G.R.P., Freitas, A.V.L., 2011. Host-plant dependent wing phenotypic variation in the neotropical butterfly Heliconius erato. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 102, 765–774. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01610.x
Perre, P., Jorge, L.R., Lewinsohn, T.M., Zucchi, R.A., 2014. Morphometric differentiation of fruit fly pest species of the Anastrepha fraterculus group (Diptera: Tephritidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 107, 490–495. https://doi.org/10.1603/AN13122
Faria, F.A., Perre, P., Zucchi, R.A., Jorge, L.R., Lewinsohn, T.M., Rocha, A., Torres, R. da S., 2014. Automatic identification of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae). Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation 25, 1516–1527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2014.06.014
Jorge, L.R., Prado, P.I., Almeida-Neto, M., Lewinsohn, T.M., 2014. An integrated framework to improve the concept of resource specialisation. Ecol Lett 17, 1341–1350. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12347
Lewinsohn, T.M., Attayde, J.L., Fonseca, C.R., Ganade, G., Jorge, L.R., Kollmann, J., Overbeck, G.E., Prado, P.I., Pillar, V.D., Popp, D., others, 2015. Ecological literacy and beyond: Problem-based learning for future professionals. Ambio 44, 154–162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0539-2
Nobre, P.A.F., Bergamini, L.L., Lewinsohn, T.M., Jorge, L.R., Almeida-Neto, M., 2016. Host-Plant Specialization Mediates the Influence of Plant Abundance on Host Use by Flower Head-Feeding Insects. Environmental Entomology 45, 171–177. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvv177
Perre, P., Faria, F.A., Jorge, L.R., Rocha, A., Torres, R.S., Souza-Filho, M.F., Lewinsohn, T.M., Zucchi, R.A., 2016. Toward an Automated Identification of Anastrepha Fruit Flies in the fraterculus group (Diptera, Tephritidae). Neotrop Entomol 45, 554–558. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-016-0403-0
Gossner, M.M., Lewinsohn, T.M., Kahl, T., Grassein, F., Boch, S., Prati, D., Birkhofer, K., Renner, S.C., Sikorski, J., Wubet, T., Arndt, H., Baumgartner, V., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., Börschig, C., Buscot, F., Diekötter, T., Jorge, L.R., Jung, K., Keyel, A.C., Klein, A.-M., Klemmer, S., Krauss, J., Lange, M., Müller, J., Overmann, J., Pašalić, E., Penone, C., Perović, D.J., Purschke, O., Schall, P., Socher, S.A., Sonnemann, I., Tschapka, M., Tscharntke, T., Türke, M., Venter, P.C., Weiner, C.N., Werner, M., Wolters, V., Wurst, S., Westphal, C., Fischer, M., Weisser, W.W., Allan, E., 2016. Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities. Nature 540, 266–269. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20575
Bergamini, L.L., Lewinsohn, T.M., Jorge, L.R., Almeida-Neto, M., 2017. Manifold influences of phylogenetic structure on a plant-herbivore network. Oikos 126, 703–712. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.03567
Jorge, L.R., Novotny, V., Segar, S.T., Weiblen, G.D., Miller, S.E., Basset, Y., Lewinsohn, T.M., 2017. Phylogenetic trophic specialization: a robust comparison of herbivorous guilds. Oecologia 185, 551–559. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-3980-7
Sanz-Veiga, P.A., Ré Jorge, L., Benitez-Vieyra, S., Amorim, F.W., 2017. Pericarpial nectary-visiting ants do not provide fruit protection against pre-dispersal seed predators regardless of ant species composition and resource availability. PLOS ONE 12, e0188445. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188445
Rech, A.R., Jorge, L.R., Ollerton, J., Sazima, M., 2018. Pollinator availability, mating system and variation in flower morphology in a tropical savanna tree. Acta Botanica Brasilica 32, 462–472. https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-33062018abb0220
Redmond, C.M., Auga, J., Gewa, B., Segar, S.T., Miller, S.E., Molem, K., Weiblen, G.D., Butterill, P.T., Maiyah, G., Hood, A.S.C., Volf, M., Jorge, L.R., Basset, Y., Novotný, V., 2019. High specialization and limited structural change in plant-herbivore networks along a successional chronosequence in tropical montane forest. Ecography 42, 162–172. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03849
Seifert, C.L., Volf, M., Jorge, L.R., Abe, T., Carscallen, G., Drozd, P., Kumar, R., Lamarre, G.P.A., Libra, M., Losada, M.E., Miller, S.E., Murakami, M., Nichols, G., Pyszko, P., Šigut, M., Wagner, D.L., Novotný, V., 2020b. Plant phylogeny drives arboreal caterpillar assemblages across the Holarctic. Ecology and Evolution 10, 14137–14151. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7005
Seifert, C.L., Lamarre, G.P.A., Volf, M., Jorge, L.R., Miller, S.E., Wagner, D.L., Anderson-Teixeira, K.J., Novotný, V., 2020a. Vertical stratification of a temperate forest caterpillar community in eastern North America. Oecologia 192, 501–514. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04584-w
Rech, A.R., Achkar, M.T., Jorge, L.R., Armbruster, W.S., Almeida, O.J.G., 2020. The functional roles of 3D heterostyly and floral visitors in the reproductive biology of Turnera subulata (Turneroideae: Passifloraceae). Flora 264, 151559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2020.151559
Araujo, S.B.L., Borges, M.E., Jorge, L.R., Lewinsohn, T.M., Guimarães, P.R., van Baalen, M., 2020. Coevolutionary patterns caused by prey selection. Journal of Theoretical Biology 110327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110327
Leal, C.R.O., Jorge, L.R., de Souza, A.P., Lewinsohn, T.M., Silva-Brandão, K.L., 2020. Characterization of microsatellite loci for three species of Tomoplagia (Diptera: Tephritidae) and absence of cross-species amplification. Appl Entomol Zool. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13355-020-00706-6
Basset, Y., Jorge, L.R., Butterill, P.T., Lamarre, G.P.A., Dahl, C., Ctvrtecka, R., Gripenberg, S., Lewis, O.T., Barrios, H., Brown, J.W., Bunyavejchewin, S., Butcher, B.A., Cognato, A.I., Davies, S.J., Kaman, O., Klimes, P., Knížek, M., Miller, S.E., Morse, G.E., Novotny, V., Pongpattananurak, N., Pramual, P., Quicke, D.L.J., Sakchoowong, W., Umari, R., Vesterinen, E.J., Weiblen, G., Wright, S.J., Segar, S.T., 2021. Host specificity and interaction networks of insects feeding on seeds and fruits in tropical rainforests. Oikos 130, 1462–1476. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08152
Rech, A.R., Ollerton, J., Dalsgaard, B., Ré Jorge, L., Sandel, B., Svenning, J.-C., Baronio, G.J., Sazima, M., 2021. Population-level plant pollination mode is influenced by Quaternary climate and pollinators. Biotropica 53, 632–642. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12905
Sam, K., Kovarova, E., Freiberga, I., Uthe, H., Weinhold, A., Jorge, L.R., Sreekar, R., 2021. Great tits (Parus major) flexibly learn that herbivore-induced plant volatiles indicate prey location: An experimental evidence with two tree species. Ecology and Evolution 11, 10917–10925. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7869
Seifert, C.L., Jorge, L.R., Volf, M., Wagner, D.L., Lamarre, G.P.A., Miller, S.E., Gonzalez-Akre, E., Anderson-Teixeira, K.J., Novotný, V., 2021. Seasonality affects specialisation of a temperate forest herbivore community. Oikos 130, 1450–1461. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08265
Brito, V.L.G., Leite, F.B., Telles, F.J., Jorge, L.R., Sazima, M., 2021. The attractive role of floral elements in heterantherous species without pronounced stamen differences. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 15, 23–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11829-020-09794-1
Kik, A., Adamec, M., Aikhenvald, A.Y., Bajzekova, J., Baro, N., Bowern, C., Colwell, R.K., Drozd, P., Duda, P., Ibalim, S., Jorge, L.R., Mogina, J., Ruli, B., Sam, K., Sarvasy, H., Saulei, S., Weiblen, G.D., Zrzavy, J., Novotny, V., 2021. Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world’s most linguistically diverse nation. PNAS 118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2100096118
Butterill, P., Jorge, L.R., Xing, S., Fayle, T., 2021. LifeWebs: A (global) database of bipartite ecological interaction networks. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75626
Pinheiro, R., Jorge, L.R., Lewinsohn, T., 2021. Classification of Biological Interactions: Challenges in the field and in analysis. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 148–159. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.74375
Brito, V.L.G. de, Leite, F.B., Jorge, L.R., Sazima, M., 2021. Distinct pollen release dynamics between stamens generate division of labour in pollen flowers of two Pleroma species (Melastomataceae). Flora 285, 151961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2021.151961
Alvarenga, A.M.S.B., Borges, M.E., Jorge, L.R., Varassin, I.G., Araújo, S.B.L., 2022. Consumers’ active choice behaviour promotes coevolutionary units in antagonistic networks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 35, 134–145. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13956
Volf, M., Volfová, T., Seifert, C.L., Ludwig, A., Engelmann, R.A., Jorge, L.R., Richter, R., Schedl, A., Weinhold, A., Wirth, C., van Dam, N.M., 2022. A mosaic of induced and non-induced branches promotes variation in leaf traits, predation and insect herbivore assemblages in canopy trees. Ecology Letters 25, 729–739. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13943
Resende Braga, M., Jorge, L.R., Jahn, A.E., Loyola, R., Varela, S., 2022. Future climate change will impact the migration of New World migrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae). Ornithol. Res. 30, 63–74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43388-022-00081-6
Mäntylä, E., Jorge, L.R., Koane, B., Sam, K., Segar, S.T., Volf, M., Weinhold, A., Novotny, V., 2022. Ficus trees with upregulated or downregulated defence did not impact predation on their neighbours in a tropical rainforest. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11829-022-09892-2
Leong, J.V., Jorge, L.R., Seifert, C.L., Volf, M., n.d. Quantity and specialisation matter: Effects of quantitative and qualitative variation in willow chemistry on resource preference in leaf-chewing insects. Insect Conservation and Diversity n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12559
Mentoring
2016-present External examiner in the defense of 3 PhD and 2 Msc students, as well as member of multiple PhD qualifying exam committees