Browsing Høgskulen på Vestlandet by Journals "Ecology and Evolution"
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How to induce defence responses in wild plant populations? Using bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) as example
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Inducible plant defense is a beneficial strategy for plants, which imply that plants should allocate resources from growth and reproduction to defense when herbivores attack. Plant ecologist has often studied defense ... -
Interactions between body size, abundance, seasonality, and phenology in forest beetles
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Abstract Body size correlates with a large number of species traits, and these relationships have frequently been used to explain patterns in populations, communities, and ecosystems. However, diverging patterns occur, ... -
The MIAmaxent R package: Variable transformation and model selection for species distribution models
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The widely used “Maxent” software for modeling species distributions from presence‐only data (Phillips et al., Ecological Modelling, 190, 2006, 231) tends to produce models with high‐predictive performance but low‐ecological ... -
Molecular and ecological plant defense responses along an elevational gradient in a boreal ecosystem
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Plants have the capacity to alter their phenotype in response to environmental factors, such as herbivory, a phenomenon called phenotypic plasticity. However, little is known on how plant responses to herbivory are modulated ... -
Multiannual effects of induced plant defenses: Are defended plants good or bad neighbors?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Defenses induced by herbivore feeding or phytohormones such as methyl jasmonate (MeJA) can affect growth, reproduction, and herbivory, not only on the affected individual but also in its neighboring plants. Here, we report ... -
Nest building in titmice Paridae: Selectivity in bryophyte use
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In many bird species, reproductive success is dependent on nest quality. However, detailed data on nest composition are scarce, and quantitative analyses have generally used only rough categories, without species identification. ... -
Saproxylic beetles' morphological traits and higher trophic guilds indicate boreal forest naturalness
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Forests contribute to numerous ecosystem functions and services and contain a large proportion of terrestrial biodiversity, but they are being negatively impaced by anthropogenic activities. Forests that have never been ... -
Use climatic space-for-time substitutions with care: Not only climate, but also local environment affect performance of the key forest species bilberry along elevation gradient
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)An urgent aim of ecology is to understand how key species relate to climatic and environmental variation, to better predict their prospects under future climate change. The abundant dwarf shrub bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus ...