• 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, ...
    • Grazing and warming effects on shrub growth and plant 

      Løkken, Jørn Olav; Hofgaard, Annika; Dalen, Linda; Hytteborn, Håkan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Questions: Vegetation in the forest–tundra ecotone faces changes in both climate and land‐use. While climate warming is an important driver of vegetation growth and composition, herbivory may have opposing effects. In ...
    • Gut microbiome biogeography in reindeer supersedes millennia of ecological and evolutionary separation 

      Kamenova, Stefaniya; de Muinck, Eric; Veiberg, Vebjørn; Utsi, Tove Hilde Ågnes; Steyaert, Sam; Albon, Steve; Loe, Leif Egil; Trosvik, Pål (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Ruminants are dependent on their gut microbiomes for nutrient extraction from plant diets. However, knowledge about the composition, diversity, function, and spatial structure of gut microbiomes, especially in wild ruminants, ...
    • How to induce defense responses in wild plant populations? Using bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) as example 

      Seldal, Tarald; Hegland, Stein Joar; Rydgren, Knut; Rodriguez-Saona, Cesar; Töpper, Joachim Paul (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 ...
    • Impact of Multiple Ecological Stressors on a Sub-Arctic Ecosystem: No Interaction Between Extreme Winter Warming Events, Nitrogen Addition and Grazing 

      Bokhorst, Stef; Berg, atty P.; Edvinsen, Guri K.; Ellers, Jacintha; Heitman, Amber; Jaakola, Laura; Mæhre, Hanne K.; Phoenix, Gareth K.; Tømmervik, Hans; Bjerke, Jarle W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      Climate change is one of many ongoing human-induced environmental changes, but few studies consider interactive effects between multiple anthropogenic disturbances. In coastal sub-arctic heathland, we quantified the ...