2025

• Marinček P., Leong J.V., Pittet L., Léveillé-Bourret È., Nyma T.,  Tomoshevich M., Banaev E., He L. , Hörandl E., Volf M.,  Wagner N.D.,  (2025)  Spatio-temporal evolution of shrub willows (Salix subgenus Vetrix clade) on a global scale, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 108480, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108480
• Renoult S.A. , Leong J.V., Mezzomo P., Sebek P., Koutecký P., Kukla J., Nguyen P., Moos M., Pokorny V.,  Wagner N.D., Frouz J., van Dam N.M.,  Volf M.,  (2025) Effects of hybridization on chemical diversity and plant-insect herbivore interactions in Salix alba × fragilis, Journal of Experimental Botany, eraf296, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf296
• Mezzomo P., Leong J.V., , Pokorny V.,  Jorge L..R.,  Volfova T., Kozel P.,  Vodrazka P.,Seifert C. L.,  Aurová K.,  Moos M., Engström M.T., Salminen J.P.,  Volf M. (2025) Effects of pronounced seasonal turnover and intraspecific variation in leaf traits on specialization of insect herbivores associated with six Salicaceae hosts. Oecologia 207 : article number: 34.
  DOI: 10.1007/s00442-025-05672-w

• Leong J., Matos Maravi P. F., Núñez R., Nunes R., Liang W., Braby M.F., Doleck T., Aduse-Poku K., Inayoshi Y., Hsu Y.-F., Wahlberg N., Peggie D., et al., Kawahara A.Y., Pierce N., Lohman D. (2025) Around the World in 26 Million Years: Diversification and Biogeography of Pantropical Grass-Yellow Eurema Butterflies (Pieridae: Coliadinae). Journal of Biogeography Early View : DOI: 10.1111/jbi.15107

2024

• Aubona G., Mezzomo P., Sedio B.E., Staab M.,Volf M. (2024) Neighbourhood effects on herbivory damage and chemical profiles in short-rotation coppice willows and their ybrids,  Phytochemistry, 228, 114249,       https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2024.114249
• Ogutcen E., de Lima Ferreira P., Wagner N.D., Marinček P., Leong J.V., Aubona G., Cavender-Bares J., Michálek J., Schroeder L.,  Sedio B.E., Vašut R.J.,  Volf M., (2024) Phylogenetic insights into the Salicaceae: The evolution of willows and beyond. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 108161,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108161
• Mezzomo P., Leong J.V., Vodrážka P., Moos M., Jorge L.R., Volfová T., Michálek J., de L. Ferreira  P., Kozel P., Brian E. Sedio B.E., Volf M., (2024)  Variation in induced responses in volatile and non-volatile metabolites among six willow species: Do willow species share responses to herbivory? Phytochemistry, 114222, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2024.114222
• Marinček P., Léveillé-Bourret É. , Heiduk F., Leong J.V , Bailleul S.M., Volf M., . Wagner N.D. (2024) Challenge accepted: Evolutionary lineages versus taxonomic classification of North American shrub willows (Salix). American Journal of Botany, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16361
• Leong J.V., Mezzomo P.,  Kozel P., Volfová T., de Lima Ferreira P., Seifert C.L., Butterill P.T., Freiberga I., Michálek J.,  Matos-Maraví P.,  Weinhold A., Engström M.T.,  Salminen J-P., Segar S.T., Sedio B.E.,  Volf M. (2024) Effects of individual traits vs. trait syndromes on assemblages of various herbivore guilds associated with central European Salix. Oecologia, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11164786.
• Xiao X., Jorge L.R., Volf M., Moos M., Gélin U., Finnie S., Freiberga I., Jancuchova‐Laskova J. ,  Weiss M., Novotny V., Sam K. (2024) The effect of drought‐induced leaf traits on Ficus leaf palatability is species specific. Ecosphere 15 - 5, e483,     https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4831a
• Volf M., Fontanilla A.M.,  Vanhakylä S.,  Abe T., Libra M., Kogo R., Lilip R. , Kamata N. , Murakami M.,  Novotny V., Salminen J-P. , Segar S. T., (2024) High intraspecific variability and previous experience affect polyphenol metabolism in polyphagous Lymantria mathura caterpillars. Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10973 
• Volf M., Renoult S. A., Panthee S., van Dam N. M., (2024) Quantifying various aspects of chemical diversity in hybrid plants can help understanding ecological consequences of hybridization. American Journal of Botany,  https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16283 
• Seifert C.L., Moos M.,  Volf M. (2024) Different fates of metabolites and small variation in chemical composition characterise frass chemistry in a specialist caterpillar,   Physilogical Entomology, https://doi.org/10.1111/phen.12429
• Molleman F., Mandal M.,  Sokół-Łętowska A.,  Walczak U.,  Volf M., Mallick S., Moos M., Vodrážka P.,  Prinzing A. , Mezzomo P. (2024) Simulated Herbivory Affects the Volatile Emissions of Oak Saplings, while Neighbourhood Affects Flavan-3-ols Content of Their Leaves Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1-12, DOI: 10.1007/s10886-024-01471-4
• Segar S.T., Jorge L.R., Nicholls L., Basset Y., Rota J., Kaman O., Sisol M., Gewa B., Dahl Ch., Butterill P., Mezzomo P., Miller S.E., Weiblen G., Salminen J-P., Novotny V., Volf M., (2024) Species Swarms and their Caterpillar Colonisers: Phylogeny and Polyphenols Determine Host Plant Specificity in New Guinean Lepidoptera, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1308608

2023

• Kawahara A.Y., Storer C., Carvalho A.P.S., Plotkin D.M., Condamine F.L., Braga M.P., Ellis E.A., St Laurent R.A., Li X., Barve V., Cai L., Earl C., Frandsen P.B., Owens H.L., Valencia-Montoya W.A., Aduse-Poku K., Toussaint E.F.A., Dexter K.M., Doleck T., Markee A., Messcher R., Nguyen Y.-L., Badon J.A.T., Benítez H.A., Braby M.F., Buenavente P., Chan W.-P., Collins S., Rabideau Childers R.A., Dankowicz E., Eastwood R., Faltýnek Fric Z., Gott R.J., Hall J.P.W., Hallwachs W., et al., Leong J., Lukhtanov V., Maier C.A., et al., Vlašánek P., Wang H., Warren A., Willmott K., Yago M., et al., Guralnick R.P., Pierce N., Lohman D. (2023) A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins. Nature Ecology & Evolution .DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02041-9
• Volf M.,  Leong J.V.,  de Lima Ferreira P., Volfová T.,  Kozel P., Matos-Maraví P.,  Hörandl E., Wagner N.D., Luntamo N., Salminen J.-P.,  Segar S.T., Sedio B.E. (2023) Contrasting levels of β‐diversity and underlying phylogenetic trends indicate different paths to chemical diversity in highland and lowland willow species, Ecology Letters,  26: 1599-1571. DOI: 10.1111/ele.14273 
• Mezzomo, P., Weinhold, A., Aurová, K., Jorge, L. R., Kozel, P., Michálek, J., Nováková, N., Seifert, C. L., Volfová, T., Engström, M., Salminen, J.-P., Sedio, B. E., & Volf, M. (2023). Leaf volatile and nonvolatile metabolites show different levels of specificity in response to herbivory. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e10123. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10123

2022

• Kozel P.,  Leong JV, Malenovský I.,  Šumpich J., Macek J., Michalek J.,  Novakova N., Sedio BE, Seifert CL, Volf M., (2022) Specialised chemistry affects insect abundance but not overall community similarity in three rare shrub willows: Salix myrtilloides, S. repens and S. rosmarinifolia, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY, 119(1), 368-378.  
• Volf M., Volfová T., Hörandl E., Wagner N.D., Luntamo N.,Salminen J.-P.,  Sedio B. E. (2022) Abiotic stress rather than biotic interactions drives contrasting trends in chemical richness and variation in alpine willows. Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14169 
• Fontanilla A. M.,  Aubona G., Sisol M., Kuukkanen I.,  Salminen J.-P.,  Miller S. E.,  Holloway J. D.,  Novotny V.,  Volf M., Segar S. T., (2022) What Goes in Must Come Out? The Metabolic Profile of Plants and Caterpillars, Frass, And Adults of Asota (Erebidae: Aganainae) Feeding on Ficus (Moraceae) in New Guinea. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-022-01379-x 
• Leong JV, Jorge LR, Seifert CL, Volf M. (2022) Quantity and specialisation matter: Effects of quantitative and qualitative variation in willow chemistry on resource preference in leaf-chewing insects. Insect Conservation and  Diversity.  ​ https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12559
• Volf M, Volfová T, Seifert CL, Ludwig A, Engelmann RA, Jorge LR, Richter R, Schedl A, Weinhold A,  Wirth C, van Dam NM.(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: (4), 729-739. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13943
• Mäntylä E., Jorge L.R., Koane B.,  Sam K.,  Segar S. T., Volf M., Weinhold A., Vojtech Novotny V.. (2022) Ficus trees with upregulated or downregulated defence did not impact predation on their neighbours in a tropical rainforest. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 1-12.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11829-022-09892-2

2021 ​

• Abe T., Volf M., Libra M., Kumar R., Abe H., Fukushima H., Lilip R., Salminen J.-P., Novotný V., Kamata N., Murakami M. (2021) Effects of plant traits on caterpillar communities depend on host specialisation. Insect Conservation and Diversity 14: 756-767. DOI: 10.1111/icad.12510
• Seifert C. L., Ré Jorge L., Volf M., Wagner D.L., Lamarre G., Miller S., Gonzalez-Akre E., Anderson-Teixeira K., Novotný V. (2021) Seasonality affects specialisation of a temperate forest herbivore community. Oikos 130: 1450-1461. DOI: 10.1111/oik.08265
• Volf M., Weinhold A., Seifert C. L., Holicová T., Uthe H., Alander E., Richter R., Salminen J.-P., Wirth C., van Dam N.M. (2021) Branch-localized induction promotes efficacy of volatile defences and herbivore predation in trees. Journal of Chemical Ecology 47: 99-111. DOI: 10.1007/s10886-020-01232-z
• Wagner N.D., Volf M., Hörandl E. (2021) Highly Diverse Shrub Willows (Salix L.) Share Highly Similar Plastomes. Frontiers in Plant Science 12: 662715. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.662715

​2020

• Klimm F.S., Weinhold A., Volf M. (2020) Volatile production differs between oak leaves infested by leaf-miner Phyllonorycter harrisella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) and galler Neuroterus quercusbaccarum (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). European Journal of Entomology 117: 101-109. DOI: 10.14411/eje.2020.011
• Mottl O., Fibich P., Klimeš P., Volf M., Tropek R., Anderson-Teixeira K., Auga J., Blair T., Butterill P. T., Carscallen G., Gonzalez-Akre E., Goodman A., Kaman O., Lamarre G., Libra M., Losada M.E., Manumbor M., Miller S., Molem K., Nichols G., Plowman N., Redmond C. M., Seifert C. L., Vrána J., Weiblen G., Novotný V. (2020) Spatial covariance of herbivorous and predatory guilds of forest canopy arthropods along a latitudinal gradient. Ecology Letters 23: 1499–1510. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13579
• Sam K., Koane B., Sam L., Mrázová A., Segar S. T., Volf M., Moos M., Šimek P., Sisol M., Novotný V. (2020) Insect herbivory and herbivores of Ficus species along a rain forest elevational gradient on Papua New Guinea. Biotropica 52: 263-276. DOI: 10.1111/btp.12741
• Seifert C. L., Lamarre G., Volf M., Ré Jorge L., Miller S., Wagner D.L., Anderson-Teixeira K., Novotný V. (2020) Vertical stratification of a temperate forest caterpillar community in eastern North America. Oecologia 192: 501-514. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-019-04584-w
• Seifert C. L., Volf M., Ré Jorge L., Abe T., Carscallen G., Drozd P., Kumar R., Lamarre G., Libra M., Losada M.E., Miller S., Murakami M., Nichols G., Pyszko P., Šigut M., Wagner D.L., Novotný V. (2020) Plant phylogeny drivers arboreal caterpillar assemblages across the Holartic. Ecology and Evolution 10: 14137-14151. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7005
• Volf M., Laitila J., Kim J., Sam L., Sam K., Isua B., Sisol M., Wardhaugh C. W., Vejmělka F., Miller S., Weiblen G., Salminen J.-P., Novotný V., Segar S. T. (2020) Compound specific trends of chemical defence in Ficus along an elavational gradient reflect a complex selective landscape. Journal of Chemical Ecology 46: 442-454. DOI: 10.1007/s10886-020-01173-7
• Volf M., Wirth C., van Dam N.M. (2020) Localized defense induction in trees: a mosaic of leaf traits promoting variation in plant traits, predation, and communities of canopy arthropods? American Journal of Botany 107: 1-4. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1457

2019

• Redmond C. M., Auga J., Gewa B., Segar S. T., Miller S., Molem K., Weiblen G., Butterill P. T., Maiyah G., Hood A.S.C., Volf M., Jorge L.R., Basset Y. F., 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. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.03849
• Segar S. T., Volf M., Sisol M., Pardikes N., Souto-Vilarós D. (2019)  Chemical cues and genetic divergence in insects on plants: conceptual cross pollination between mutualistic and antagonistic systems. Current Opinion in Insect Science 32: 83-90.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2018.11.009 
• Volf M., Klimeš P., Lamarre G., Redmond C. M., Seifert C. L., Abe T., Auga J., Anderson-Teixeira K., Basset Y. F., Beckett S., Butterill P. T., Drozd P., Gonzalez-Akre E., Kaman O., Kamata N., Laird-Hopkins B., Libra M., Manumbor M., Miller S., Molem K., Mottl O., Murakami M., Nakaji T., Plowman N., Pyszko P., Šigut M., Šipoš J., Tropek R., Weiblen G., Novotný V. (2019) Quantitative assessment of plant-arthropod interactions in forest canopies: A plot-based approach. PLOS One 14: e0222119. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222119
• Volf M., Salminen J.-P., Segar S. T. (2019) Evolution of defences in large tropical plant genera: perspectives for exploring insects diversity in a tri-trophic context. Current Opinion in Insects Science 32: 91-97. DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2018.12.005

​2018

• Volf M. (2018) Differential Response of Herbivores to Plant Defence. In J.-M. Merillon and K. G. Ramawat [eds.], Co-Evolution of Secondary Metabolites, Reference Series in Phytochemistry 1-24. Springer International Publishing.DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76887-8_38-1
• Volf M., Holec M., Holcová D., Jaroš P., Hejda R., Drag L., Blízek J., Šebek P., Čížek L. (2018) Microhabitat mosaics are key to the survival of an endangered ground beetle (Carabus nitens) in its post-industrial refugia. Journal of Insect Conservation 22: 321-328. DOI: 10.1007/s10841-018-0064-x
• Volf M., Segar S. T., Miller S. E., Isua B., Sisol M., Aubona G., Šimek P., Moos M., Laitila J., Kim J., Zima J., Rota J., Weiblen G. D., Wossa S., Salminen J.-P., Basset Y. F., Novotný V. (2018) Community structure of insect herbivores is driven by conservatism, escalation and divergence of defensive traits in Ficus. Ecology Letters 21: 83-92. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12875

​2017

• Biranvand Amir, Nedvěd O., Shakarami Jahanshir, Fekrat Lida, Hamidi Elnaz, Volf M., Hanley Guy A. (2017) The ladybeetle community (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in north east of Iran. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 17: 49-67. 
• Segar S. T., Volf M., Isua B., Sisol M., Redmond C. M., Rosati M., Gewa B., Molem K., Dahl C. N., Holloway J., Basset Y. F., Miller S., Weiblen G., Salminen J.-P., Novotný V. (2017) Variably hungry caterpillars: predictive models and foliar chemistry suggest how to eat a rainforest Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284: article number 20171803. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1803
• Segar S. T., Volf M., Zima J., Isua B., Sisol M., Sam L., Sam K., Souto-Vilarós D., Novotný V. (2017) Speciation in a keystone plant genus is driven by elevation: a case study in New Guinean Ficus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30: 512-523. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13020
• Volf M., Kadlec Jan, Butterill P. T., Novotný V. (2017) Host phylogeny and nutrient content drive galler diversity and abundance on willows. Ecological Entomology 42: 685-688. DOI: DOI: 10.1111/een.12420
• Volf M., Pyszko P., Abe T., Libra M., Kotásková N., Šigut M., Kumar R., Kaman O., Butterill P. T., Šipoš J., Abe H., Fukushima H., Drozd P., Kamata N., Murakami M., Novotný V. (2017) Phylogenetic composition of host plant communities drives plant-herbivore food web structure. Journal of Animal Ecology 86: 556-565. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12646

2016

• Volf M., Redmond C. M., Albert Á., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Biella P., Götzenberger L., Hrázský Z., Janeček Š., Klimešová J., Lepš J., Šebelíková L., Vlasatá T., De Bello F. (2016) Effects of long- and short-term management on the functional structure of meadows through species turnover and intraspecific trait varibility. Oecologia 180: 941-950. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3548-y

2015

• Forister M., Novotný V., Panorska A., Baje L., Basset Y. F., Butterill P. T., Čížek L., Coley P., Dem F., Diniz I., Drozd P., Fox M., Glassmire A., Hazen R., Hrček J., Jahner J., Kaman O., Kozubowski T., Kursar T., Lewis O., Lill J., Marquis R., Miller S., Morais H., Murakami M., Nickel H., Pardikes N., Ricklefs R., Singer M., Smilanich A., Stireman J., Villamarín-Cortez S., Vodka Š., Volf M., Vagner D., Walla T., Weiblen G. D., Dyer L. (2015) The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112: 442-447. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423042112
• ​​​​Volf M., Hrček J., Julkunen-Tiitto R., Novotný V. (2015) To each its own: differential response of specialist and generalist herbivores to plant defence in willows. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 1123-1132. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12349
• Volf M., Julkunen-Tiitto R., Hrček J., Novotný V. (2015) Insect herbivores drive the loss of unique chemical defense in willows. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 156: 88-98. DOI: 10.1111/eea.12312

Popularising papers

• Volf M. (2020) Chemická diverzita rostlin – důsledek závodů ve zbrojení s býložravým hmyzem? Živa 4/2020: 170-172.