Why is the world green: testing top-down control of plant-herbivore food webs by experiments with birds, bats and ants

Project Information

BABE

Grant agreement ID: 805189

DOI 10.3030/805189

EC signature date 14 November 2018

Start date 1 December 2018

End date 31 July 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 455 031,75

EU contribution € 1 455 031,75

Coordinated by

BIOLOGICKE CENTRUM AKADEMIE VID CESKE REPUBLIKY VEREJNA VYZKUMNA INSTITUCE
Czechia

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Great Tit (Parus major) Uropygial Gland Microbiomes and Their Potential Defensive Roles

Author(s): Kasun H. Bodawatta, Signe K. Schierbech, Nanna R. Petersen, Katerina Sam, Nick Bos, Knud A. Jønsson, Michael Poulsen
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 11, 2020, Page(s) 1735, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01735

Land use and elevation interact to shape bird functional and phylogenetic diversity and structure: Implications for designing optimal agriculture landscapes

Author(s): Rachakonda Sreekar, Xingfeng Si, Katerina Sam, Jiajia Liu, Salindra Dayananda, Uromi Goodale, Sarath Kotagama, Eben Goodale
Published in: Journal of Applied Ecology, Issue early view, 2021, ISSN 0021-8901
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13927

Compound Specific Trends of Chemical Defences in Ficus Along an Elevational Gradient Reflect a Complex Selective Landscape

Author(s): Martin Volf, Juuso E. Laitila, Jorma Kim, Legi Sam, Katerina Sam, Brus Isua, Mentap Sisol, Carl W. Wardhaugh, Frantisek Vejmelka, Scott E. Miller, George D. Weiblen, Juha-Pekka Salminen, Vojtech Novotny, Simon T. Segar
Published in: Journal of Chemical Ecology, Issue 46/4, 2020, Page(s) 442-454, ISSN 0098-0331
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-020-01173-7

Tracing the early steps of competition-driven eco-morphological divergence in two sister species of passerines

Author(s): Camille Sottas, Jiří Reif, Jakub Kreisinger, Lucie Schmiedová, Katerina Sam, Tomasz S. Osiejuk, Radka Reifová
Published in: Evolutionary Ecology, Issue 34/4, 2020, Page(s) 501-524, ISSN 0269-7653
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-020-10050-4

Great tits ( Parus major ) flexibly learn that herbivore‐induced plant volatiles indicate prey location: An experimental evidence with two tree species

Author(s): Katerina Sam, Eliska Kovarova, Inga Freiberga, Henriette Uthe, Alexander Weinhold, Leonardo R. Jorge, Rachakonda Sreekar
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue early view, 2021, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7869

Species-specific but not phylosymbiotic gut microbiomes of New Guinean passerine birds are shaped by diet and flight-associated gut modifications

Author(s): Kasun H. Bodawatta, Bonny Koane, Gibson Maiah, Katerina Sam, Michael Poulsen, Knud A. Jønsson
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 288/1949, 2021, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0446