• Circum-Arctic distribution of chemical anti-herbivore compounds suggests biome-wide trade-off in defence strategies in Arctic shrubs 

      Lindén, Elin; te Beest, Mariska; Aubreu, Ilka; Moritz, Thomas; Sundqvist, Maja K.; Barrio, Isabel C.; Boike, Julia; Bryant, John P.; Bråthen, Kari Anne; Buchwal, Agata; Bueno, C. Guillermo; Currier, Alain; Egelkraut, Dagmar Dorothea; Forbes, Bruce C.; Hallinger, Martin; Heijmans, Monique; Hermanutz, Luise; Hik, David S.; Hofgaard, Annika; Holmgren, Milena; Huebner, Diane C.; Høye, Toke T.; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S.; Kaarlejärvi, Elina; Kissler, Emilie; Kumpula, Timo; Limpens, Juul; Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Normand, Signe; Post, Eric; Rocha, Adrian V.; Schmidt, Niels Martin; Skarin, Anna; Soininen, Eeva M; Sokolov, Aleksandr; Sokolova, Natalia; Speed, James David Mervyn; Street, Lorna E.; Tananaev, Nikita; Tremblay, Jean-Pierre; Urbanowicz, Christine; Watts, David A.; Zimmermann, Heike H.; Olofsson, Johan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Spatial variation in plant chemical defence towards herbivores can help us understand variation in herbivore top–down control of shrubs in the Arctic and possibly also shrub responses to global warming. Less defended, ...
    • Fire and herbivory drive fungal and bacterial communities through distinct above- and belowground mechanisms 

      Vermeire, Marie-Liesse; Thoresen, Joshua; Lennard, Katie; Vikram, Surendra; Kirkman, Kevin P.; Swemmer, Anthony M.; te Beest, Mariska; Siebert, Frances; Gordijn, Paul; Venter, Zander; Brunel, Caroline; Wolfaard, Graeme; Krumins, Jennifer Adams; Cramer, Michael Denis; Hawkins, Heidi-Jane (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Fire and herbivory are important natural disturbances in grassy biomes. Both drivers are likely to influence be- lowground microbial communities but no studies have unravelled the long-term impact of both fire and herbiv- ...
    • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome 

      Bjorkman, Anne D.; Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Elmendorf, Sarah C.; Normand, Signe; Rüger, Nadja; Beck, Pieter S. A.; Blach-Overgaard, Anne; Blok, Daan; Cornelissen, J. Hans C.; Forbes, Bruce C.; Georges, Damien; Goetz, Scott J.; Guay, Kevin C.; Henry, Gregory H.R.; HilleRisLambers, Janneke; Hollister, Robert D.; Karger, Dirk N.; Kattge, Jens; Manning, Peter; Prevéy, Janet S.; Rixen, Christian; Schaepman-Strub, Gabriela; Thomas, Haydn J.D.; Vellend, Mark; Wilmking, Martin; Wipf, Sonja; Carbognani, Michele; Hermanutz, Luise; Lévesque, Esther; Molau, Ulf; Petraglia, Alessandro; Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A.; Spasojevic, Marko J.; Tomaselli, Marcello; Vowles, Tage; Alatalo, Juha M.; Alexander, Heather D.; Anadon-Rosell, Alba; Angers-Blondin, Sandra; te Beest, Mariska; Berner, Logan; Björk, Robert G.; Buchwal, Agata; Buras, Allan; Christie, Katherine; Cooper, Elisabeth J.; Dullinger, Stefan; Elberling, Bo; Eskelinen, Anu; Frei, Esther R.; Grau, Oriol; Grogan, Paul; Hallinger, Martin; Semenschuk, Philipp; Speed, James David Mervyn; Hofgaard, Annika (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The tundra is warming more rapidly than any other biome on Earth, and the potential ramifications are far-reaching because of global feedback effects between vegetation and climate. A better understanding of how environmental ...