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Ernesto Gianoli is affiliated with the University of La Serena in Chile. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Genetics.

Their work encompasses multiple topics including Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control.

Gianoli's recent publications include:

  • Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Fungal endophytes can eliminate the plant growth-defence trade-off, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory, 2023, Science
  • Phenotypic plasticity and the leaf economics spectrum: plasticity is positively associated with specific leaf area, 2022, Oikos
  • Trade-off between plant resistance and tolerance to herbivory: Mechanical defenses outweigh chemical defenses, 2022, Ecology

Frequent co-authors of Gianoli include:

  • Víctor M. Escobedo
  • Cristian Salgado-Luarte
  • Gisela C. Stotz
  • Rodrigo S. Ríos
  • Mónica F. Cisternas

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as Oikos, Ecological Entomology, Biological Invasions, New Phytologist, and Annals of Botany.

Best Publications

  • Ecological limits to plant phenotypic plasticity

    Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares;Ernesto Gianoli;José M. Gómez

  • The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change

    Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares;Silvia Matesanz;Francois Guilhaumon;Francois Guilhaumon;Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo

  • Global change and the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in plants

    Silvia Matesanz;Silvia Matesanz;Ernesto Gianoli;Ernesto Gianoli;Ernesto Gianoli;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares

  • Meta‐analysis of Trade‐offs among Plant Antiherbivore Defenses: Are Plants Jacks‐of‐All‐Trades, Masters of All?

    Julia Koricheva;Heli Nykänen;Ernesto Gianoli

  • Ecological and evolutionary impacts of changing climatic variability.

    Diego P. Vázquez;Diego P. Vázquez;Ernesto Gianoli;Ernesto Gianoli;William F. Morris;Francisco Bozinovic

  • Invasive plants do not display greater phenotypic plasticity than their native or non-invasive counterparts: a meta-analysis

    Kattia Palacio‐López;Ernesto Gianoli

  • Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants.

    Gisela C. Stotz;Gisela C. Stotz;Cristian Salgado-Luarte;Víctor M. Escobedo;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares

  • Environmental Heterogeneity and Population Differentiation in Plasticity to Drought in Convolvulus Chilensis (Convolvulaceae)

    Ernesto Gianoli;Marcia González-Teuber

  • Environmental heterogeneity leads to higher plasticity in dry‐edge populations of a semi‐arid Chilean shrub: insights into climate change responses

    Ana Lázaro‐Nogal;Silvia Matesanz;Alice Godoy;Fernanda Pérez‐Trautman;Fernanda Pérez‐Trautman

  • Evolution of a climbing habit promotes diversification in flowering plants

    Ernesto Gianoli

  • Studying phenotypic plasticity: the advantages of a broad approach

    Ernesto Gianoli;Ernesto Gianoli;Ernesto Gianoli;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares

  • Leaf Mimicry in a Climbing Plant Protects against Herbivory

    Ernesto Gianoli;Ernesto Gianoli;Fernando Carrasco-Urra

  • The behavioural ecology of climbing plants

    Ernesto Gianoli

  • Occurrence of the Non-Native Annual Bluegrass on the Antarctic Mainland and Its Negative Effects on Native Plants

    Marco A. Molina-Montenegro;Fernando Carrasco-Urra;Cristian Rodrigo;Peter Convey

  • PLASTICITY OF TRAITS AND CORRELATIONS IN TWO POPULATIONS OF CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS (CONVOLVULACEAE) DIFFERING IN ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY

    Ernesto Gianoli

  • Morphological plasticity in response to shading in three Convolvulus species of different ecological breadth

    Alejandra V. González;Ernesto Gianoli

  • Induction of glandular and non-glandular trichomes by damage in leaves of Madia sativa under contrasting water regimes

    Wilfredo L. Gonzáles;Wilfredo L. Gonzáles;María A. Negritto;Lorena H. Suárez;Ernesto Gianoli

  • Carbon stocks in tropical forests decrease with liana density

    Sandra M. Durán;Ernesto Gianoli;Ernesto Gianoli

  • Anthropogenic fire drives the evolution of seed traits

    Susana Gómez-González;Cristian Torres-Díaz;Carlos Bustos-Schindler;Ernesto Gianoli

  • Phenotypic integration may constrain phenotypic plasticity in plants

    Ernesto Gianoli;Kattia Palacio‐López

  • Abundance of climbing plants in a southern temperate rain forest: host tree characteristics or light availability?

    Fernando Carrasco-Urra;Ernesto Gianoli;Ernesto Gianoli;Ernesto Gianoli

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco A. Molina-Montenegro
Marco A. Molina-Montenegro University of Talca
Fernando Valladares
Fernando Valladares Spanish National Research Council
Hermann M. Niemeyer
Hermann M. Niemeyer University of Chile
James F. Cahill
James F. Cahill University of Alberta
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Lohengrin A. Cavieres
Lohengrin A. Cavieres University of Concepción
Diego P. Vázquez
Diego P. Vázquez National University of Cuyo
François Guilhaumon
François Guilhaumon University of Montpellier
Christopher H. Lusk
Christopher H. Lusk University of Waikato
Oscar Godoy
Oscar Godoy University of Cádiz

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