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Overview

Johan Ehrlén is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and conducts research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work intersects several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology.

The research topics Johan Ehrlén focuses on include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Bryophyte Studies and Records

Ehrlén has published in various scientific venues with multiple publications in journals such as:

  • Journal of Ecology
  • Ecology
  • Oikos
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Johan Ehrlén include:

  • Climate drives among-year variation in natural selection on flowering time, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Changes in forest structure drive temperature preferences of boreal understorey plant communities, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Climate limitation at the cold edge: contrasting perspectives from species distribution modelling and a transplant experiment, 2020, Ecography
  • Phenotypic plasticity masks range-wide genetic differentiation for vegetative but not reproductive traits in a short-lived plant, 2021, Ecology Letters

Frequent collaborators in Ehrlén's research include:

  • Alicia Valdés
  • Ayco J. M. Tack
  • Kristoffer Hylander
  • Bryndís Marteinsdóttir
  • Laura J. A. van Dijk

Best Publications

  • Diversity of ageing across the tree of life

    Owen Jones;Alexander Scheuerlein;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Carlo Giovanni Camarda

  • Seed and microsite limitation of recruitment in plant populations.

    O. Eriksson;J. Ehrlén

  • ELASTICITIES: A REVIEW OF METHODS AND MODEL LIMITATIONS

    Hans de Kroon;Jan M. van Groenendael;Johan Ehrlén

  • Predicting changes in the distribution and abundance of species under environmental change

    Johan Ehrlén;William F. Morris;William F. Morris

  • DISPERSAL LIMITATION AND PATCH OCCUPANCY IN FOREST HERBS

    Johan Ehrlén;Ove Eriksson

  • Global shifts in the phenological synchrony of species interactions over recent decades.

    Heather M. Kharouba;Johan Ehrlén;Andrew Gelman;Kjell Bolmgren

  • Habitat configuration, species traits and plant distributions

    Cecilia Dupré;Johan Ehrlén;Johan Ehrlén

  • How do plant ecologists use matrix population models

    Elizabeth E. Crone;Eric S. Menges;Martha M. Ellis;Timothy Bell

  • The mechanisms causing extinction debts

    Kristoffer Hylander;Johan Ehrlén

  • Ecological and evolutionary consequences of spatial and temporal variation in pre-dispersal seed predation

    Annette Kolb;Johan Ehrlén;Ove Eriksson

  • How perennial are perennial plants

    Johan Ehrlén;Kari Lehtilä

  • Stay or go - how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change

    Bente Jessen Graae;Vigdis Vandvik;W. Scott Armbruster;Wolf L. Eiserhardt;Wolf L. Eiserhardt

  • Colonization-extinction dynamics of an epiphyte metapopulation in a dynamic landscape

    Tord Snäll;Johan Ehrlén;Håkan Rydin

  • Demography of the perennial herb Lathyrus vernus. II. Herbivory and population dynamics.

    Johan Ehrlen

  • Causes and consequences of variation in plant population growth rate: a synthesis of matrix population models in a phylogenetic context

    Yvonne M. Buckley;Satu Ramula;Simon P. Blomberg;Jean H. Burns

  • Influence of habitat quantity, quality and isolation on the distribution and abundance of two epiphytic lichens

    Per Johansson;Johan Ehrlén;Johan Ehrlén

  • Reproductive effort and herbivory timing in a perennial herb: fitness components at the individual and population levels

    María B. García;María B. García;Johan Ehrlén

  • Why do Plants Produce Surplus Flowers? A Reserve-Ovary Model

    Johan Ehrlen

  • Ability of matrix models to explain the past and predict the future of plant populations.

    Elizabeth E. Crone;Martha M. Ellis;William F. Morris;Amanda Stanley

  • Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity

    Annabel L. Smith;Annabel L. Smith;Trevor R. Hodkinson;Jesus Villellas;Jane A. Catford

  • Proximate Limits to Seed Production in a Herbaceous Perennial Legume, Lathyrus Vernus

    Johan Ehrlen

Frequent Co-Authors

Christer Wiklund
Christer Wiklund Stockholm University
Kristoffer Hylander
Kristoffer Hylander Stockholm University
Jon Ågren
Jon Ågren Uppsala University
Zuzana Münzbergová
Zuzana Münzbergová Charles University
Ove Eriksson
Ove Eriksson Stockholm University
Karl Gotthard
Karl Gotthard Stockholm University
William F. Morris
William F. Morris Duke University
Peter A. Hambäck
Peter A. Hambäck Stockholm University
Lars Hedenäs
Lars Hedenäs Swedish Museum of Natural History
Tomáš Herben
Tomáš Herben Charles University

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