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Martin Holmstrup

Martin Holmstrup

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
12287
World Ranking
13156
National Ranking
142

Overview

Martin Holmstrup is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and conducts research primarily in agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. Their work focuses on several subfields, including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, insect science, genetics, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The scientist's research themes extend to insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, physiological and biochemical adaptations, insect and pesticide research, collembola taxonomy and ecology studies, species distribution and climate change, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, and soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics.

Holmstrup has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines (2020), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails (2023), Nature Communications
  • Plant Secondary Compounds in Soil and Their Role in Belowground Species Interactions (2020), Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties (2021), Scientific Data
  • Litter quality, mycorrhizal association, and soil properties regulate effects of tree species on the soil fauna community (2021), Geoderma

Frequent co-authors of Martin Holmstrup include:

  • Stine Slotsbo
  • Wencai Dai
  • Jesper Givskov Sørensen
  • Jérôme Cortet
  • Madhav P. Thakur

Holmstrup's publications are often found in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Journal of Thermal Biology
  • Chemosphere
  • Aquaculture Research

Best Publications

  • Interactions between effects of environmental chemicals and natural stressors: A review

    Martin Holmstrup;Anne-Mette Bindesbøl;Gertie Janneke Oostingh;Albert Duschl

  • Global distribution of earthworm diversity

    Helen R P Phillips;Carlos A Guerra;Marie L C Bartz;Maria J I Briones

  • Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines.

    James A Orr;Rolf D Vinebrooke;Michelle C Jackson;Kristy J Kroeker

  • Reduced N cycling in response to elevated CO2, warming, and drought in a Danish heathland: Synthesizing results of the CLIMAITE project after two years of treatments

    Klaus Steenberg Larsen;Louise C. Andresen;Claus Beier;Sven Jonasson

  • Metabolomic profiling of rapid cold hardening and cold shock in Drosophila melanogaster.

    Johannes Overgaard;Anders Malmendal;Jesper G. Sørensen;Jacob G. Bundy

  • Changes in membrane lipid composition following rapid cold hardening in Drosophila melanogaster

    Johannes Overgaard;Jesper G. Sørensen;Søren O. Petersen;Volker Loeschcke

  • Metabolomic profiling of heat stress: hardening and recovery of homeostasis in Drosophila.

    Anders Malmendal;Johannes Overgaard;Jacob G. Bundy;Jesper G. Sørensen

  • Supercool or dehydrate? An experimental analysis of overwintering strategies in small permeable arctic invertebrates

    Martin Holmstrup;Mark Bayley;Hans Ramløv

  • Effects of acclimation temperature on thermal tolerance and membrane phospholipid composition in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster

    Johannes Overgaard;Aleš Tomčala;Jesper G. Sørensen;Martin Holmstrup

  • Experimental design of multifactor climate change experiments with elevated CO2, warming and drought: the CLIMAITE project

    Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen;Claus Beier;S. Jonasson;M. Holmstrup

  • Interactions between toxic chemicals and natural environmental factors — A meta-analysis and case studies

    Ryszard Laskowski;Agnieszka J. Bednarska;Paulina E. Kramarz;Susana Loureiro

  • Effects of freeze–thaw cycles on microarthropods and nutrient availability in a sub-Arctic soil

    Heidi Sjursen;Anders Michelsen;Martin Holmstrup

  • The terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate biodiversity of the archipelagoes of the Barents Sea; Svalbard, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya

    S.J. Coulson;P. Convey;K. Aakra;L. Aarvik

  • Water vapor absorption in arthropods by accumulation of myoinositol and glucose

    Mark Bayley;Martin Holmstrup

  • Drought acclimation confers cold tolerance in the soil collembolan Folsomia candida.

    M Bayley;S.O Petersen;Thomas Knigge;H.-R Köhler

  • Drought acclimation and lipid composition in Folsomia candida : Implications for cold shock, heat shock and acute desiccation stress

    M Holmstrup;Katarina Hedlund;H Boriss

  • Passive dosing of soil invertebrates with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: limited chemical activity explains toxicity cutoff.

    Philipp Mayer;Martin Holmstrup

  • PHYSIOLOGY OF COLD HARDINESS IN EARTHWORMS

    Martin Holmstrup;Karl Erik Zachariassen

  • Can Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn residues and Bt-corn plants affect life-history traits in the earthworm Aporrectodea caliginosa?

    Maria Laura Vercesi;Paul Henning Krogh;Martin Holmstrup

  • Dehydration of earthworm cocoons exposed to cold: a novel cold hardiness mechanism

    M. Holmstrup;P. Westh

Frequent Co-Authors

Jesper Givskov Sørensen
Jesper Givskov Sørensen Aarhus University
Johannes Overgaard
Johannes Overgaard Aarhus University
Christian Damgaard
Christian Damgaard Aarhus University
Claus Beier
Claus Beier University of Copenhagen
Paul Henning Krogh
Paul Henning Krogh Aarhus University
Volker Loeschcke
Volker Loeschcke Aarhus University
Inger Kappel Schmidt
Inger Kappel Schmidt University of Copenhagen
Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen
Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen Technical University of Denmark
Per Ambus
Per Ambus University of Copenhagen
Philipp Mayer
Philipp Mayer Technical University of Denmark

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