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Sergio Rasmann is affiliated with the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on several specialized subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

The scientist's work encompasses numerous topics, notably:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Sergio Rasmann's common coauthors include Emmanuel Défossez, Gaétan Glauser, Luis Abdala-Roberts, Patrice Descombes, and Loïc Pellissier. This network indicates an interdisciplinary approach involving various aspects of ecology and environmental sciences.

Their research has been published repeatedly in several prominent venues, with a concentration on:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Journal of Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Functional Ecology
  • Environmental Science Nano

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Sergio Rasmann include:

  • "Spatial and evolutionary predictability of phytochemical diversity," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The effect of climate change on invasive crop pests across biomes," 2022, Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • "Eight key rules for successful data-dependent acquisition in mass spectrometry-based metabolomics," 2021, Mass Spectrometry Reviews
  • "A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition," 2020, Scientific Data
  • "Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology," 2022, Journal of Ecology

Best Publications

  • Recruitment of entomopathogenic nematodes by insect-damaged maize roots

    Sergio Rasmann;Tobias G. Köllner;Jörg Degenhardt;Ivan Hiltpold

  • Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

    Johan van den Hoogen;Stefan Geisen;Devin Routh;Howard Ferris

  • Herbivory in the Previous Generation Primes Plants for Enhanced Insect Resistance

    Sergio Rasmann;Martin De Vos;Clare L. Casteel;Donglan Tian

  • Toxic cardenolides: chemical ecology and coevolution of specialized plant–herbivore interactions

    Anurag A. Agrawal;Georg Petschenka;Robin A. Bingham;Marjorie G. Weber

  • Climate‐driven change in plant–insect interactions along elevation gradients

    Sergio Rasmann;Loïc Pellissier;Emmanuel Defossez;Hervé Jactel

  • Latitudinal patterns in plant defense: evolution of cardenolides, their toxicity and induction following herbivory

    Sergio Rasmann;Anurag A. Agrawal

  • Trade-offs between constitutive and induced defences drive geographical and climatic clines in pine chemical defences

    Xoaquín Moreira;Xoaquín Moreira;Kailen A. Mooney;Sergio Rasmann;William K. Petry

  • Simultaneous feeding by aboveground and belowground herbivores attenuates plant-mediated attraction of their respective natural enemies.

    Sergio Rasmann;Ted C. J. Turlings

  • Plant diversity effects on insect herbivores and their natural enemies: current thinking, recent findings, and future directions

    Xoaquín Moreira;Luis Abdala-Roberts;Sergio Rasmann;Bastien Castagneyrol

  • Shifts in species richness, herbivore specialization, and plant resistance along elevation gradients.

    Loïc Pellissier;Konrad Fiedler;Charlotte Ndribe;Anne Dubuis

  • The importance of root-produced volatiles as foraging cues for entomopathogenic nematodes

    Ted C. J. Turlings;Ivan Hiltpold;Sergio Rasmann

  • Plant defense against herbivory: progress in identifying synergism, redundancy, and antagonism between resistance traits.

    Sergio Rasmann;Anurag A Agrawal

  • Evidence for adaptive radiation from a phylogenetic study of plant defenses

    Anurag A. Agrawal;Mark Fishbein;Rayko Halitschke;Amy P. Hastings

  • Ecology and evolution of soil nematode chemotaxis.

    Sergio Rasmann;Jared Gregory Ali;Johannes Helder;Wim H. van der Putten

  • In defense of roots: a research agenda for studying plant resistance to belowground herbivory.

    Sergio Rasmann;Anurag A. Agrawal

  • Root signals that mediate mutualistic interactions in the rhizosphere.

    Sergio Rasmann;Ted Cj Turlings

  • Direct and indirect root defences of milkweed (Asclepias syriaca): trophic cascades, trade‐offs and novel methods for studying subterranean herbivory

    Sergio Rasmann;Alexis C. Erwin;Rayko Halitschke;Anurag A. Agrawal

  • Elevational gradients in plant defences and insect herbivory: recent advances in the field and prospects for future research

    Xoaquín Moreira;William K. Petry;Kailen A. Mooney;Sergio Rasmann

  • First insights into specificity of belowground tritrophic interactions

    Sergio Rasmann;Ted C. J. Turlings

  • High elevation Plantago lanceolata plants are less resistant to herbivory than their low elevation conspecifics: is it just temperature?

    Loïc Pellissier;Aurélien Roger;Julia Bilat;Sergio Rasmann;Sergio Rasmann

  • PLANT-MEDIATED INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ABOVE- AND BELOW-GROUND COMMUNITIES Direct and indirect root defences of milkweed (Asclepias syriaca): trophic cascades, trade-offs and novel methods for studying subterranean herbivory

    Sergio Rasmann;Alexis C. Erwin;Rayko Halitschke;Anurag A. Agrawal

Frequent Co-Authors

Gaétan Glauser
Gaétan Glauser University of Neuchâtel
Xoaquín Moreira
Xoaquín Moreira Spanish National Research Council
Luis Abdala-Roberts
Luis Abdala-Roberts National Autonomous University of Mexico
Anurag A. Agrawal
Anurag A. Agrawal Cornell University
Ted C. J. Turlings
Ted C. J. Turlings University of Neuchâtel
Kailen A. Mooney
Kailen A. Mooney University of California, Irvine
Nadir Alvarez
Nadir Alvarez University of Geneva
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Nicole M. van Dam
Nicole M. van Dam Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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