Research Interests

• Trophic interactions (parasitoids – hosts)
• Role of species ecological requirements for their evolutionary histories
• Biogeography
• Effect of climate change on mountain insect
• Conservation of grasslands and open-woodlands (autecologies of butterflies,  effect of grassland management on the structure of plant-pollinator networks)
• Behavioural thermoregulation

Publication

• Segar, S. T., Volf, M., Zima Jnr, J., Isua, B., Sisol, M., Sam, L., … & Novotny, V. (2017). Speciation in a keystone plant genus is driven by elevation: a case study in New Guinean Ficus. Journal of evolutionary biology, 30(3), 512-523.
• Colwell, R. K., Gotelli, N. J., Ashton, L. A., Beck, J., Brehm, G., Fayle, T. M., .. Sam, L., … & Klimes, P. (2016). Midpoint attractors and species richness: modelling the interaction between environmental drivers and geometric constraints. Ecology letters, 19(9), 1009-1022.
• Leponce, M., Novotny, V., Pascal, O., Robillard, T., Legendre, F., Villemant, C., …, Sam, L., … & Schmidl, J. (2016). Land module of Our Planet Reviewed–Papua New Guinea: aims, methods and first taxonomical results. Insects of Mount Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, 11-48.
• Van Swaay, C., Regan, E., Ling, M., Bozhinovska, E., Fernandez, M., Marini-Filho, O. J., .. Sam, L, … & Pe’er, G. (2015). Guidelines for standardised global Butterfly Monitoring. Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, Leipzig, Alemania. GEO BON Technical Series, 1, 32.
• Stork, N. E., Stone, M., & Sam, L. (2016). Vertical stratification of beetles in tropical rainforests as sampled by light traps in N orth Q ueensland, A ustralia. Austral ecology, 41(2), 168-178.
• Vlasanek, P., Sam, L., & Novotny, V. (2013). Dispersal of butterflies in a N ew G uinea rainforest: using mark–recapture methods in a large, homogeneous habitat. Ecological entomology, 38(6), 560-569.
• Basset, Y., Eastwood, R., Sam, L., Lohman, D. J., Novotny, V., Treuer, T., Sam, L.,… & Sakchoowong, W. (2013). Cross‐continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in tropical rainforests: implications for biological monitoring. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 6(3), 223-233.
• Basset, Y., Eastwood, R. G., Sam, L., Lohman, D. J., Novotny, V., Treuer, T., … & Sakchoowong, W. (2011). Comparison of rainforest butterfly assemblages across three biogeographical regions using standardized protocols.
• Fayle, T. M., Bakker, L., Cheah, C., Ching, T. M., Davey, A., Dem, F., … & Ligtermoet, E. (2011). A positive relationship between ant biodiversity (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and rate of scavenger-mediated nutrient redistribution along a disturbance gradient in a south-east Asian rain forest. Myrmecological News, 14, 5-12.