Involved in outreach events to the public and activities promoting STEM subjects (including the 'Destination STEMM' program coordinated by the Windsor Fellowship and the Royal Society)
Sofia Gripenberg
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(0118) 378 8075
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Associate Professor
Associate Professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow.
I contribute to research supervision (PhD students, MSc students, undergraduate project students) and teaching.
I contribute to research supervision (PhD students, MSc students, undergraduate project students) and teaching.
Areas of interest
- Community ecology
- Ecology and evolution of plant-enemy interactions
- Tropical forest ecology
Postgraduate supervision
Supervision/co-supervision of the following PhD students:
- Harriet Downey (University of Oxford)
- Gerardo Cerón Martínez (University of Oxford)
- Kristiina Visakorpi (University of Oxford)
Research centres and groups
International Collaborators
- Yves Basset, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama
- S. Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama
- Juha-Pekka Salminen, University of Turku, Finland
- Owen Lewis, University of Oxford
National Collaborators
Background
Esteem Factors:
- Funding (PI or co-I) through the Royal Society, Academy of Finland, NERC
- NERC Peer Review Panel member
- Reviewer for 24 different ISI journals and several funding agencies (e.g. NERC, Czech Academy of Sciences, Agence Nationale de la Recherche; British Ecological Society, Earthwatch)
- Associate Editor of Ecological Entomology and Biotropica
Impact, Enterprise and Outreach
Publications
- Jackson, E. , Wright, S. , Calderón, O. , Bullock, J. , Oliver, T. , Gripenberg, S. (2022) Pre-dispersal seed predation could help explain premature fruit drop in a tropical forest. Journal of Ecology ISSN: 0022-0477 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13867
- Basset, Y. , Jorge, L. , Butterill, P. , Lamarre, G. , Dahl, C. , Ctvrtecka, R. , Gripenberg, S. , Lewis, O. , Barrios, H. , Brown, J. , Bunyavejchewin, S. , Butcher, B. , Cognato, A. , Davies, S. , Kaman, O. , Klimes, P. , Knížek, M. , Miller, S. , Morse, G. , Novotny, V. , Pongpattananurak, N. , Pramual, P. , Quicke, D. , Sakchoowong, W. , Umari, R. , Vesterinen, E. , Weiblen, G. , Wright, S. , Segar, S. (2021) Host specificity and interaction networks of insects feeding on seeds and fruits in tropical rainforests. Oikos ISSN: 1600-0706 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.08152
- Kim, J. , Gripenberg, S. , Karonen, M. , Salminen, J. (2021) Seed tannin composition of tropical plants. Phytochemistry , 187 ISSN: 0031-9422 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.112750
- Brown, J. , Gripenberg, S. , Basset, Y. , Calderon, O. , Simon, I. , Fernandez, C. , Cedeno, M. , Rivera, M. (2020) Host records for tortricidae (lepidoptera) reared from seeds and fruits in Panama. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington , 122 (1). pp. 12-24. ISSN: 2378-6477 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.122.1.12
- Muchane, M. , Sileshi, G. , Gripenberg, S. , Jonsson, M. , Pumarino, L. , Barrios, E. (2020) Agroforestry boosts soil-mediated ecosystem services in the humid and sub-humid tropics: a meta-analysis. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment , 295 ISSN: 0167-8809 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2020.106899
- Visakorpi, K. , Riutta, T. , Malhi, Y. , Salminen, J. , Salinas, N. , Gripenberg, S. (2020) Changes in oak (Quercus robur) photosynthesis after winter moth (Operophtera brumata) herbivory are not explained by changes in chemical or structural leaf traits. PLoS ONE , 15 (1). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228157
- Downey, H. , Lewis, O. , Bonsall, M. , Ward, A. , Gripenberg, S. (2020) Assessing the potential for indirect interactions between tropical tree species via shared insect seed predators. Biotropica , 52 (3). pp. 509-520. ISSN: 1744-7429 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.12759
- Gripenberg, S. , Basset, Y. , Lewis, O. , Terry, J. , Wright, S. , Simon, I. , Fernandez, D. , Cedeno-Sanchez, M. , Rivera, M. , Barrios, H. , Brown, J. , Calderon, O. , Cognato, A. , Kim, J. , Miller, S. , Morse, G. , Pinzon-Navarro, S. , Quicke, D. , Robbins, R. , Salminen, J. , Vesterinen, E. (2019) A highly-resolved food web for insect seed predators in a species-rich tropical forest. Ecology Letters , 22 (10). pp. 1638-1649. ISSN: 1461-0248 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13359
- Visakorpi, K. , Riutta, T. , Martinez-Bauer, A. , Salminen, J. , Gripenberg, S. (2019) Insect community structure covaries with host plant chemistry but is not affected by prior herbivory. Ecology , 100 (8). ISSN: 0012-9658 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2739
- Solé, R. , Gripenberg, S. , Lewis, O. , Markesteijn, L. , Barrios, H. , Ratz, T. , Ctvrtecka, R. , Butterill, P. , Segar, S. , Metz, M. , Dahl, C. , Rivera, M. , Viquez, K. , Ferguson, W. , Guevara, M. , Basset, Y. (2019) The role of herbivorous insects and pathogens in the regeneration dynamics of Guazuma ulmifolia in Panama. Nature Conservation , 32 pp. 81-101. ISSN: 1314-3301 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.32.30108
- Dahl, C. , Ctvrtecka, R. , Gripenberg, S. , Lewis, O. , Segar, S. , Klimes, P. , Sam, K. , Rinan, D. , Filip, J. , Kongnoo, P. , Panmeng, M. , Putnaul, S. , Reungaew, M. , Rivera, M. , Barrios, H. , Davies, S. , Bunyavejchewin, S. , Wright, J. , Weiblen, G. , Novotny, V. , Basset, Y. (2019) The insect-focused classification of fruit syndromes in tropical rainforests: an inter-continental comparison. Biotropica , 51 (1). pp. 39-49. ISSN: 1744-7429 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.12622
- Basset, Y. , Ctvrtecka, R. , Dahl, C. , Miller, S. , Quicke, D. , Segar, S. , Barrios, H. , Beaver, R. , Brown, J. , Bunyavejchewin, S. , Gripenberg, S. , Knizek, M. , Kognoo, P. , Lewis, O. , Pongpattananurak, N. , Pramul, P. , Sakchoowong, W. , Schutze, M. (2019) Insect assemblages attacking seeds and fruits in a rainforest in Thailand. Entomological Science , 22 (2). pp. 137-150. ISSN: 1479-8298 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ens.12346
- Basset, Y. , Miller, S. , Gripenberg, S. , Ctvrtecka, R. , Dahl, C. , Leather, S. , Didham, R. (2019) An entomocentric view of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis. Insect Conservation and Diversity , 12 (1). pp. 1-8. ISSN: 1752-4598 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/icad.12337
- Downey, H. , Lewis, O. , Bonsall, M. , Fernandez, D. , Gripenberg, S. (2018) Insect herbivory on seedlings of rainforest trees: effects of density and distance of conspecific and heterospecific neighbours. Ecology and Evolution , 8 (24). pp. 12702-12711. ISSN: 2045-7758 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4698
- Gripenberg, S. (2018) Do pre-dispersal insect seed predators contribute to maintaining tropical forest plant diversity?. Biotropica , 50 (6). pp. 839-845. ISSN: 1744-7429 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.12602
- Jeffs, C. , Kennedy, P. , Griffith, P. , Gripenberg, S. , Markesteijn, L. , Lewis, O. (2018) Seed predation by insects across a tropical forest precipitation gradient. Ecological Entomology , 43 (6). pp. 813-822. ISSN: 0307-6946 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.12672
- Visakorpi, K. , Gripenberg, S. , Malhi, Y. , Bolas, C. , Oliveras, I. , Harris, N. , Rifai, S. , Riutta, T. (2018) Small-scale indirect plant responses to insect herbivory could have major impacts on canopy photosynthesis and isoprene emission. New Phytologist , 220 (3). pp. 799-810. ISSN: 0028-646X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.15338
- Zalamea, P. , Dalling, J. , Sarmiento, C. , Arnold, A. , Delevich, C. , Berhow, M. , Ndobegang, A. , Gripenberg, S. , Davis, A. (2018) Dormancy-defense syndromes and tradeoffs between physical and chemical defenses in seeds of pioneer species. Ecology , 99 (9). pp. 1988-1998. ISSN: 0012-9658 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2419
- Basset, Y. , Dahl, C. , Ctvrtecka, R. , Gripenberg, S. , Lewis, O. , Segar, S. , Klimes, P. , Barrios, H. , Brown, J. , Bunyavejchewin, S. , Butcher, B. , Cognato, A. , Davies, S. , Kaman, O. , Knizek, M. , Miller, S. , Morse, G. , Novotny, V. , Pongpattananurak, N. , Pramual, P. , Quicke, D. , Robbins, R. , Sakchoowong, W. , Schutze, M. , Vesterinen, E. , Wang, W. , Wang, Y. , Weiblen, G. , Wright, J. (2018) A cross-continental comparison of assemblages of seed- and fruit-feeding insects in tropical rain forests: faunal composition and rates of attack. Journal of Biogeography , 45 (6). pp. 1395-1407. ISSN: 1365-2699 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13211
- Blanchet, F. , Roslin, T. , Kimura, M. , Huotari, T. , Kaartinen, R. , Gripenberg, S. , Tack, A. , eds. (2018) Related herbivore species show similar temporal dynamics. In: Tylianakis, J. , (eds.) Journal of Animal Ecology , 87 (3). pp. 801-812. ISSN: 0021-8790 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12807
- Gripenberg, S. , Rota, J. , Kim, J. , Wright, S. , Garwood, N. , Fricke, E. , Zalamea, P. , Salminen, J. , eds. (2018) Seed polyphenols in a diverse tropical plant community. In: Bielefeld Nardoto, G. , (eds.) Journal of Ecology , 106 (1). pp. 87-100. ISSN: 0022-0477 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12814
- Jauni, M. , Gripenberg, S. , Ramula, S. (2015) Non-native plant species benefit from disturbance: a meta-analysis. Oikos , 124 (2). pp. 122-129. ISSN: 301299 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.01416
- Pumariño, L. , Sileshi, G. , Gripenberg, S. , Kaartinen, R. , Barrios, E. , Muchane, M. , Midega, C. , Jonsson, M. (2015) Effects of agroforestry on pest, disease and weed control: a meta-analysis. Basic and Applied Ecology , 16 (7). pp. 573-582. ISSN: 1439-1791 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2015.08.006
- Gripenberg, S. , Bagchi, R. , Gallery, R. , Freckleton, R. , Narayan, L. , Lewis, O. (2014) Testing for enemy-mediated density-dependence in the mortality of seedlings: field experiments with five Neotropical tree species. Oikos , 123 (2). pp. 185-193. ISSN: 1600-0706 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00835.x
- Morris, R. , Gripenberg, S. , Lewis, O. , Roslin, T. , eds. (2014) Antagonistic interaction networks are structured independently of latitude and host guild. In: Jordan, F. , (eds.) Ecology Letters , 17 (3). pp. 340-349. ISSN: 1461-0248 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12235
- Bagchi, R. , Gallery, R. , Gripenberg, S. , Gurr, S. , Narayan, L. , Addis, C. , Freckleton, R. , Lewis, O. (2014) Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition. Nature , 506 (7486). pp. 85-88. ISSN: 0028-0836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12911