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  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Mathematics
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Mathematics

Overview

Steinar Engen is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research focuses mainly on environmental science, with a substantial body of work in ecology and related subfields.

Their scientific contributions span across several subfields including ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, global and planetary change, and nature and landscape conservation. The main topics of Engen's work encompass plant and animal studies, animal ecology and behavior studies, evolution and genetic dynamics, animal behavior and reproduction, wildlife ecology and conservation, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, and avian ecology and behavior.

Engen's publications have appeared in a variety of scientific venues, with a notable presence in The American Naturalist, Ecology Letters, Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Ecological Modelling.

  • Density-dependent selection and the maintenance of colour polymorphism in barn owls, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Contrasting patterns of density-dependent selection at different life stages can create more than one fast-slow axis of life-history variation, 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Phenotypic evolution in stochastic environments: The contribution of frequency- and density-dependent selection, 2020, Evolution
  • Consequences of barriers and changing seasonality on population dynamics and harvest of migratory ungulates, 2020, Theoretical Ecology
  • Harvesting can stabilise population fluctuations and buffer the impacts of extreme climatic events, 2022, Ecology Letters

Engen has frequently collaborated with other researchers in the field. Among the most common co-authors are Bernt-Erik Sæther, Vidar Grøtan, Jonathan Wright, Erik Blystad Solbu, and Bart Peeters.

  • Bernt-Erik Sæther
  • Vidar Grøtan
  • Jonathan Wright
  • Erik Blystad Solbu
  • Bart Peeters

Engen is recognized as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in the mathematics category, which indicates a connection to quantitative or theoretical aspects within their research fields.

Best Publications

  • Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation

    Russell Lande;Steinar Engen;Bernt-Erik Sæther

  • Population Dynamical Consequences of Climate Change for a Small Temperate Songbird

    B.-E. Sæther;J. Tufto;S. Engen;K. Jerstad

  • Stochastic Abundance Models: With Emphasis on Biological Communities and Species Diversity

    S. Engen

  • Spatial Scale of Population Synchrony: Environmental Correlation versus Dispersal and Density Regulation.

    Russell Lande;Steinar Engen;Bernt‐Erik Sæther

  • Demographic and Environmental Stochasticity Concepts and Definitions

    Steinar Engen;Oyvind Bakke;Aminul Islam

  • Climate Influences on avian population dynamics

    Bernt-Erik SÆther;William J. Sutherland;Steinar Engen

  • The concept of fitness in fluctuating environments

    Bernt-Erik Sæther;Steinar Engen

  • Optimal Harvesting of Fluctuating Populations with a Risk of Extinction

    Russell Lande;Steinar Engen;Bernt-Erik Saether

  • How Life History Influences Population Dynamics in Fluctuating Environments

    Bernt-Erik Sæther;Tim Coulson;Vidar Grøtan;Steinar Engen

  • THRESHOLD HARVESTING FOR SUSTAINABILITY OF FLUCTUATING RESOURCES

    Russell Lande;Bernt-Erik Sæther;Steinar Engen

  • Generation time and temporal scaling of bird population dynamics.

    Bernt-Erik Sæther;Russell Lande;Steinar Engen;Henri Weimerskirch

  • Demographic characteristics and population dynamical patterns of solitary birds.

    Bernt-Erik Sæther;Steinar Engen;Erik Matthysen

  • Effects of climate change and variability on population dynamics in a long-lived shorebird.

    Martijn van de Pol;Yngvild Vindenes;Bernt-Erik Sæther;Steinar Engen

  • Individual heterogeneity in vital parameters and demographic stochasticity.

    Yngvild Vindenes;Steinar Engen;Bernt‐Erik Sæther

  • Life-History Variation Predicts the Effects of Demographic Stochasticity on Avian Population Dynamics

    BE Saether;S Engen;AP Moller;H Weimerskirch

  • Population dynamic models generating the lognormal species abundance distribution.

    Steinar Engen;Russell Lande

  • Stochastic Dispersal Processes in Plant Populations

    Jarle Tufto;Steinar Engen;Kjetil Hindar

  • Optimal harvesting, economic discounting and extinction risk in fluctuating populations

    Russell Lande;Steinar Engen;Bernt-Erik Saether

  • DEMOGRAPHIC STOCHASTICITY AND ALLEE EFFECTS IN POPULATIONS WITH TWO SEXES

    Steinar Engen;Russell Lande;Bernt-Erik SÆther

  • Extinction in relation to demographic and environmental stochasticity in age-structured models.

    Steinar Engen;Russell Lande;Bernt-Erik Sæther;Henri Weimerskirch

  • ASSESSING THE VIABILITY OF SCANDINAVIAN BROWN BEAR, URSUS ARCTOS, POPULATIONS : THE EFFECTS OF UNCERTAIN PARAMETER ESTIMATES

    Bernt-Erik Sæther;Steinar Engen;Jon E. Swenson;Øyvind Bakke

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernt-Erik Sæther
Bernt-Erik Sæther Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Russell Lande
Russell Lande Imperial College London
Vidar Grøtan
Vidar Grøtan Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
Erik Matthysen
Erik Matthysen University of Antwerp
Nils Chr. Stenseth
Nils Chr. Stenseth University of Oslo
Henri Weimerskirch
Henri Weimerskirch Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Anders Pape Møller
Anders Pape Møller University of Paris-Saclay
Erling Johan Solberg
Erling Johan Solberg Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Jonathan Wright
Jonathan Wright Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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