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Rieta Gols is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, focusing primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work extends into several subfields, including Plant Science, Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Ecology.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics connected to insect and plant interactions as well as ecological dynamics. Main topics addressed include:

  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Insect Pest Control Strategies
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management

Rieta Gols has contributed to multiple publications within notable academic journals, frequently collaborating with other researchers. The most common venues for publication include:

  • Animal Behaviour
  • Oecologia
  • New Phytologist
  • Journal of Thermal Biology
  • Journal of Pest Science

Frequent co-authors working alongside Rieta Gols are:

  • Jeffrey A. Harvey
  • Marcel Dicke
  • Joop J. A. van Loon
  • Melissah Rowe
  • Erik H. Poelman

Some recent papers featuring Rieta Gols' contributions include:

  • "Scientists' warning on climate change and insects" (2022), published in Ecological Monographs
  • "International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery" (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Climate change-mediated temperature extremes and insects: From outbreaks to breakdowns" (2020), published in Global Change Biology
  • "The Biology and Ecology of Parasitoid Wasps of Predatory Arthropods" (2022), published in Annual Review of Entomology
  • "Insect egg-killing: a new front on the evolutionary arms-race between brassicaceous plants and pierid butterflies" (2020), published in New Phytologist

Best Publications

  • Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

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  • Plant Interactions with Multiple Insect Herbivores: From Community to Genes

    Jeltje M Stam;Anneke Kroes;Yehua Li;Rieta Gols

  • Jasmonic Acid and Herbivory Differentially Induce Carnivore-Attracting Plant Volatiles in Lima Bean Plants

    Marcel Dicke;Rieta Gols;Daniel Ludeking;Maarten A. Posthumus

  • Crop Domestication and Its Impact on Naturally Selected Trophic Interactions

    Yolanda H. Chen;Rieta Gols;Betty Benrey

  • International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

    Jeffrey A. Harvey;Robin Heinen;Inge Armbrecht;Yves Basset

  • Climate change‐mediated temperature extremes and insects: From outbreaks to breakdowns

    Jeffrey A. Harvey;Robin Heinen;Rieta Gols;Madhav P. Thakur

  • Genetic variation in defense chemistry in wild cabbages affects herbivores and their endoparasitoids

    Rieta Gols;R. Wagenaar;Tibor Bukovinszky;Nicole M. van Dam

  • Interactions over four trophic levels: foodplant quality affects development of a hyperparasitoid as mediated through a herbivore and its primary parasitoid

    Jeffrey A. Harvey;Nicole M. Van Dam;Rieta Gols

  • Performance of generalist and specialist herbivores and their endoparasitoids differs on cultivated and wild Brassica populations.

    Rieta Gols;Tibor Bukovinszky;Nicole M. van Dam;Marcel Dicke

  • Plant Volatiles Induced by Herbivore Egg Deposition Affect Insects of Different Trophic Levels

    Nina E. Fatouros;Dani Lucas-Barbosa;Berhane T. Weldegergis;Foteini G. Pashalidou

  • Root herbivores influence the behaviour of an aboveground parasitoid through changes in plant‐volatile signals

    Roxina Soler;Jeffrey A. Harvey;Andre F. D. Kamp;Louise E. M. Vet

  • Plant-mediated effects in the Brassicaceae on the performance and behaviour of parasitoids

    Rieta Gols;Jeffrey A. Harvey

  • Ecological and phytohormonal aspects of plant volatile emission in response to single and dual infestations with herbivores and phytopathogens

    Camille Ponzio;Rieta Gols;Corné M. J. Pieterse;Marcel Dicke

  • Variation in plant volatiles and attraction of the parasitoid Diadegma semiclausum (Hellén).

    T. Bukovinszky;R. Gols;M. A. Posthumus;L. E. M. Vet

  • Jasmonate and ethylene signaling mediate whitefly-induced interference with indirect plant defense in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Peng‐Jun Zhang;Colette Broekgaarden;Si‐Jun Zheng;Tjeerd A. L. Snoeren

  • Direct and indirect chemical defences against insects in a multitrophic framework

    Rieta Gols

  • Induction of direct and indirect plant responses by jasmonic acid, low spider mite densities, or a combination of jasmonic acid treatment and spider mite infestation.

    Rieta Gols;Mara Roosjen;Herman Dijkman;Marcel Dicke

  • Symbionts protect aphids from parasitic wasps by attenuating herbivore-induced plant volatiles.

    Enric Frago;Mukta Mala;Berhane T. Weldegergis;Chenjiao Yang

  • Consequences of constitutive and induced variation in plant nutritional quality for immune defence of a herbivore against parasitism

    Tibor Bukovinszky;Erik H. Poelman;Rieta Gols;Georgios Prekatsakis

  • Jasmonic acid induces the production of gerbera volatiles that attract the biological control agent Phytoseiulus persimilis

    R. Gols;M.A. Posthumus;M. Dicke

  • Development of the parasitoid, Cotesia rubecula (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Pieris rapae and Pieris brassicae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): evidence for host regulation

    Jeffrey A Harvey;Mark A Jervis;Rieta Gols;Nanqing Jiang

  • Flavonoids from cabbage are feeding stimulants for diamondback moth larvae additional to glucosinolates: Chemoreception and behaviour

    Joop J. A. van Loon;Chen Zhu Wang;Jens Kvist Nielsen;Rieta Gols

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey A. Harvey
Jeffrey A. Harvey Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Marcel Dicke
Marcel Dicke Wageningen University & Research
Louise E. M. Vet
Louise E. M. Vet Wageningen University & Research
Erik H. Poelman
Erik H. Poelman Wageningen University & Research
Joop J. A. van Loon
Joop J. A. van Loon Wageningen University & Research
Nicole M. van Dam
Nicole M. van Dam Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Paul J. Ode
Paul J. Ode Colorado State University
Arjen Biere
Arjen Biere Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Jonathan Gershenzon
Jonathan Gershenzon Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
James M. Bullock
James M. Bullock UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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