Bakgrunn og aktiviteter
Bente Jessen Graae
Plants are assumed to adapt (stay) or migrate (go) during environmental change. These processes shape plant communities. I study stay or go processes in plant communities - mostly tundra, temperate-boreal forests and tropical savanna. Much of my research has been on colonization patterns but I am also interested in trait variation in relation to climate change. I work both in lab and in the field. I right now work within four networks:
the Fleur network studying the impact of climate change to forest herbs along a latitudinal gradient from France to Northern Sweden see http://www.fleur.ugent.be
the ECOSHRUB network studying the effect of shrub encroachment on community dynamics and ecosystem processes in alpine tundra see http://www.ntnu.edu/biology/ecoshrub
the Stay or Go network where we look at alpine plant communities capacity to persist and to migrate
and the Serengeti Road project is evaluating vegetation and environmental changes as a consequence of the iroad construction in Tanzania.
Vitenskapelig, faglig og kunstnerisk arbeid
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Tidsskriftspublikasjoner
- (2015) Divergent regeneration responses of two closely related tree species to direct abiotic and indirect biotic effects of climate change. Forest Ecology and Management. vol. 342.
- (2014) Snow cover consistently affects growth and reproduction of Empetrum hermaphroditum across latitudinal and local climatic gradients. Alpine Botany. vol. 124 (2).
- (2014) Latitudinal variation in seeds characteristics of Acer platanoides and A. pseudoplatanus. Plant Ecology. vol. 215 (8).
- (2014) Plant movements and climate warming: Intraspecific variation in growth responses to nonlocal soils. New Phytologist. vol. 202 (2).
- (2014) To seed or not to seed in alpine restoration: introduced grass species outcompete rather than facilitate native species. Ecological Engineering: The Journal of Ecotechnology. vol. 64.
- (2014) Rodent population dynamics affect seedling recruitment in alpine habitats. Journal of Vegetation Science. vol. 25 (4).
- (2013) Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature. Journal of Ecology. vol. 101 (3).
- (2013) Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. vol. 110 (46).
- (2013) Climatic control of forest herb seed banks along a latitudinal gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography. vol. 22 (10).
- (2013) Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe. Global Change Biology. vol. 19 (5).
- (2013) Plant community type and small-scale disturbances, but not altitude, influence the invasibility in subarctic ecosystems. New Phytologist. vol. 197 (3).
- (2013) Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat?. New Phytologist. vol. 198 (1).
- (2013) Decoupled phenotypic variation between floral and vegetative traits:distinguishing between developmental and environmental correlations. Annals of Botany. vol. 111 (5).
- (2012) The response of forest plant regeneration to temperature variation along a latitudinal gradient. Annals of Botany. vol. 109.
- (2012) Phosphorus availability and microbial respiration across different tundra vegetation types. Biogeochemistry. vol. 108 (1-3).
- (2012) On the use of weather data in ecological studies along altitudinal and latitudinal gradients. Oikos. vol. 121 (1).
- (2012) Enhanced UV-B and Elevated CO2 Impacts Sub-Arctic Shrub Berry Abundance, Quality and Seed Germination. Ambio. vol. 41.
- (2011) Strong microsite control of seedling recruitment in tundra. Oecologia. vol. 166 (2).
- (2011) Interregional variation in the floristic recovery of post-agricultural forests. Journal of Ecology. vol. 99 (2).
- (2011) Temperature effects on forest herbs assessed by warming and transplant experiments along a latitudinal gradient. Global Change Biology. vol. 17.