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:
- Eleanor Jackson
- Deepa Manikkath Haridas (main supervisor: Dr Glyn Barrett)
Teaching
I give lectures in Introduction to Evolutionary Processes (BI1EAD) and Ecology (BI1EC2) and supervise undergraduate research projects in Ecology and Evolution (BI3PROA) and MSc projects in Entomology (BIMEPRO)
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
National Collaborators
- Owen Lewis, University of Oxford
Member of the Ecology Research Group
Background
Esteem Factors:
- Funding (PI or co-I) through the Royal Society, Academy of Finland, NERC, and the Leverhulme Trust
- NERC Peer Review Panel member
- Reviewer for >30 ISI journals and several funding agencies (e.g. NERC, Czech Academy of Sciences, Agence Nationale de la Recherche; British Ecological Society, Swedish Research Council)
- 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 , 110 (4). pp. 751-761. 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 , 130 (9). pp. 1462-1476. 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