List of works by Rolf Anker Ims

A screening for canine distemper virus, canine adenovirus and carnivore protoparvoviruses in Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) and red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) from Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Norway

scientific article published in 2018

Additive Partitioning of Diversity Reveals No Scale-dependent Impacts of Large Ungulates on the Structure of Tundra Plant Communities

article

An Arctic predator-prey system in flux: climate change impacts on coastal space use by polar bears and ringed seals

scientific article

Analysing diet of small herbivores: the efficiency of DNA barcoding coupled with high-throughput pyrosequencing for deciphering the composition of complex plant mixtures

scientific article

Anisotropic patterned population synchrony in climatic gradients indicates nonlinear climatic forcing.

scientific article published in July 2008

Anti-parasite treatment and blood biochemistry in raptor nestlings

scientific article published in 2017

Arctic Small Rodents Have Diverse Diets and Flexible Food Selection

scientific article

Arctic ecosystem structure and functioning shaped by climate and herbivore body size

article by Pierre Legagneux et al published 23 March 2014 in Nature Climate Change

Are endoparasites of common shrews (Sorex araneus) sensitive to tree species conversion in sub-Arctic birch forests?

Are population outbreaks in sub-arctic geometrids terminated by larval parasitoids?

scientific article published on 5 March 2010

Assessing the causes of breeding failure among the rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) during the nestling period

scientific article published in 2012

Biodiversity, distributions and adaptations of Arctic species in the context of environmental change

scientific article

Blood plasma clinical-chemical parameters as biomarker endpoints for organohalogen contaminant exposure in Norwegian raptor nestlings.

scientific article published on 24 March 2012

Can Reindeer Overabundance Cause a Trophic Cascade?

Carnivore conservation in practice: replicated management actions on a large spatial scale

scientific article published in 2013

Changed Arctic-alpine food web interactions under rapid climate warming: implication for ptarmigan research

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Climate change and outbreaks of the geometrids Operophtera brumata and Epirrita autumnata in subarctic birch forest: evidence of a recent outbreak range expansion

scientific article

Climate change and the ecology and evolution of Arctic vertebrates

scientific article

Climate events synchronize the dynamics of a resident vertebrate community in the high Arctic

scientific article

Collapse of an arctic bird community resulting from ungulate-induced loss of erect shrubs

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Collapsing population cycles

scientific article published on 11 January 2008

Community-wide mesocarnivore response to partial ungulate migration

article

Complementary impacts of small rodents and semi-domesticated ungulates limit tall shrub expansion in the tundra

scientific article published in 2013

Congruent responses to weather variability in high arctic herbivores

scientific article

Continental-scale travelling waves in forest geometrids in Europe: an evaluation of the evidence

scientific article published on 16 January 2016

Declining willow ptarmigan populations: The role of habitat structure and community dynamics

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Demographic responses of a site-faithful and territorial predator to its fluctuating prey: long-tailed skuas and arctic lemmings

scientific article published on 15 October 2013

Density-Dependent Melanism in Winter Moth Larvae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): A Countermeasure Against Parasitoids?

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Density-dependent melanism in sub-arctic populations of winter moth larvae (Operophtera brumata)

article

Determinants of Competitive Success in Clethrionomys Rufocanus.

scientific article published in December 1987

Determinants of lemming outbreaks

scientific article

Diet, nesting density, and breeding success of rough-legged buzzards (Buteo lagopus) on the Nenetsky Ridge, Arctic Russia

scholarly article by Ivan G Pokrovsky et al published 25 December 2013 in Polar Biology

Disentangling the importance of interspecific competition, food availability, and habitat in species occupancy: Recolonization of the endangered Fennoscandian arctic fox

article

Do sub-Arctic winter moth populations in coastal birch forest exhibit spatially synchronous dynamics?

article

Ecological and spatial factors drive intra- and interspecific variation in exposure of subarctic predatory bird nestlings to persistent organic pollutants

scientific article published on 28 April 2013

Ecological dynamics across the Arctic associated with recent climate change

scientific article

Ecosystem drivers of an Arctic fox population at the western fringe of the Eurasian Arctic

scientific article published in 2017

Ecosystem-based monitoring in the age of rapid climate change and new technologies

Effects of changes in climate on landscape and regional processes, and feedbacks to the climate system

scientific article

Effects of non-native spruce plantations on small mammal communities in subarctic birch forests

scientific article published in 2010

Effects on the function of Arctic ecosystems in the short- and long-term perspectives

scientific article

Effects on the structure of Arctic ecosystems in the short- and long-term perspectives

scientific article

Endozoochory varies with ecological scale and context

scientific article published in 2007

Escaping parasitism in the selfish herd: age, size and density-dependent warble fly infestation in reindeer

article by Per Fauchald et al published March 2007 in Oikos

Europe-wide dampening of population cycles in keystone herbivores

scientific article

Experimental evidence of a risk-sensitive reproductive allocation in a long-lived mammal

scientific article

Fluctuating asymmetry as an indicator of elevation stress and distribution limits in mountain birch (Betula pubescens)

scientific article published in 2007

Functional responses in polar bear habitat selection

article

Future changes in the supply of goods and services from natural ecosystems: prospects for the European north

scientific article published in 2015

Global warming and effects on the Arctic fox.

scientific article published in January 2008

Growth and reproduction in island and mainland populations of the vole Microtus epiroticus

scientific article published in 1993

Habitat selection by roe deer and sheep: does habitat ranking reflect resource availability?

scientific article published in 1999

Habitats and movement patterns of white whales in Svalbard, Norway in a changing climate

scientific article published in 2018

Harmonizing circumpolar monitoring of Arctic fox: benefits, opportunities, challenges and recommendations

scientific article published in 2017

Haul-out behaviour of the world's northernmost population of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) throughout the year

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

High goose abundance reduces nest predation risk in a simple rodent-free high-Arctic ecosystem

Homage to Hersteinsson and Macdonald: climate warming and resource subsidies cause red fox range expansion and Arctic fox decline

article

How ecological neighbourhoods influence the structure of the scavenger guild in low arctic tundra

scientific article published in 2011

How spatial variation in areal extent and configuration of labile vegetation states affect the riparian bird community in Arctic tundra

scientific article

Ilkka Hanski and Small Mammals: from Shrew Metapopulations to Vole and Lemming Cycles

scholarly article by Heikki Henttonen et al published April 2017 in Annales Zoologici Fennici

Impacts of differential prey dynamics on the potential recovery of endangered arctic fox populations

article

Indirect food web interactions mediated by predator-rodent dynamics: relative roles of lemmings and voles

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Induced Shift in Ecosystem Productivity? Extensive Scale Effects of Abundant Large Herbivores

Intestinal parasites of the Arctic fox in relation to the abundance and distribution of intermediate hosts

scientific article

Intrapopulation variability shaping isotope discrimination and turnover: experimental evidence in arctic foxes

scientific article

Is the heart of Fennoscandian rodent cycle still beating? A 14-year study of small mammals and Tengmalm's owls in northern Norway

scientific article published in 2002

Key findings and extended summaries

scientific article

Long-term Impacts of Contrasting Management of Large Ungulates in the Arctic Tundra-Forest Ecotone: Ecosystem Structure and Climate Feedback

Management decisions and knowledge gaps: learning by doing in a case of a declining population of slavonian grebePodiceps auritus

Multi-annual density fluctuations and habitat size enhance genetic variability in two northern voles

scientific article published in 2009

Nest predation in declining populations of common eiders Somateria mollissima: an experimental evaluation of the role of hooded crows Corvus cornix

article published in 2010

No impact of pupal predation on the altitudinal distribution of autumnal moth and winter moth (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in sub-arctic birch forest

scientific article published on June 2009

Nonstationary spatio-temporal small rodent dynamics: evidence from long-term Norwegian fox bounty data

scientific article

Not only mosses: lemming winter diets as described by DNA metabarcoding

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Numerical responses of saproxylic beetles to rapid increases in dead wood availability following geometrid moth outbreaks in sub-arctic mountain birch forest

scientific article

Outbreaks by canopy-feeding geometrid moth cause state-dependent shifts in understorey plant communities ⬇️

scientific article published on 09 April 2013

Past changes in Arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate and UV radiation

scientific article

Patterns and processes of dispersal behaviour in arvicoline rodents

scientific article published on 29 December 2011

Phase-dependent effect of conservation efforts in cyclically fluctuating populations of arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus)

article published in 2009

Phase-dependent outbreak dynamics of geometrid moth linked to host plant phenology.

scientific article published on 9 September 2009

Phenology and abundance in relation to climatic variation in a sub-arctic insect herbivore-mountain birch system

scientific article published on 8 July 2005

Phenology and cover of plant growth forms predict herbivore habitat selection in a high latitude ecosystem

scientific article

Plasma concentrations of organohalogenated pollutants in predatory bird nestlings: associations to growth rate and dietary tracers

scientific article published on 6 September 2013

Population dynamics of tundra voles in relation to configuration of willow thickets in southern arctic tundra

article

Predation on artificial ground nests in birch forests fragmented by spruce plantations

scientific article published in 2008

Predators and Small Rodent Cycles: An Analysis of a 79-Year Time Series of Small Rodent Population Fluctuations

scientific article published in 1990

Predictions replaced by facts: a keystone species' behavioural responses to declining arctic sea-ice

scientific article

Predictors of plant phenology in a diverse high-latitude alpine landscape: growth forms and topography

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Prevalence of nest predators in a sub-Arctic ecosystem

Rangifer management controls a climate-sensitive tundra state transition

scientific article

Rapid, landscape scale responses in riparian tundra vegetation to exclusion of small and large mammalian herbivores

article

Rationale, concepts and approach to the assessment

scientific article

Relationships between organohalogen contaminants and blood plasma clinical-chemical parameters in chicks of three raptor species from Northern Norway

scientific article published on 3 October 2009

Resistance of a sub-arctic bird community to severe forest damage caused by geometrid moth outbreaks

article by Ole Petter Laksforsmo Vindstad et al published 1 May 2015 in European Journal of Forest Research

Response of an arctic predator guild to collapsing lemming cycles.

scientific article

Responses in Spatial Organization and Behaviour to Manipulations of the Food Resource in the Vole Clethrionomys rufocanus

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Responses to projected changes in climate and UV-B at the species level

scientific article

Ringed seal post-moulting movement tactics and habitat selection.

scientific article published on 8 November 2007

Rodent population cycle as a determinant of gastrointestinal nematode abundance in a low-arctic population of the red fox

scholarly article published by Rolf Anker Ims in 2019

Rough-legged buzzards, Arctic foxes and red foxes in a tundra ecosystem without rodents

scientific article

SELECTING INDICATOR TRAITS FOR MONITORING LAND USE IMPACTS: BIRDS IN NORTHERN COASTAL BIRCH FORESTS

scientific article published in 2003

Scale-dependent responses of predators and their prey to spruce plantations in subarctic birch forests in winter

article

Seasonal, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Drivers of Diving Behaviour in a Temperate Seal Species Living in the High Arctic

scientific article published on 21 July 2015

Shedding new light on the diet of Norwegian lemmings: DNA metabarcoding of stomach content

article by Eeva M. Soininen et al published 9 May 2013 in Polar Biology

Shifting altitudinal distribution of outbreak zones of winter moth Operophtera brumata in sub-arctic birch forest: a response to recent climate warming?

article

Shrub patch configuration at the landscape scale is related to diversity of adjacent herbaceous vegetation

scientific article published in 2013

Small rodents in the shrub tundra of Yamal (Russia): Density dependence in habitat use?

Sources of variation in larval parasitism of two sympatrically outbreaking birch forest defoliators

scientific article published in 2012

Sources of variation in small rodent trophic niche: new insights from DNA metabarcoding and stable isotope analysis

scientific article published on 15 May 2014

Spatial and temporal patterns of artificial nest predation in mountain birch forests fragmented by spruce plantations

Spatial distribution of Echinococcus multilocularis, Svalbard, Norway

scientific article published on January 2008

Spatially mismatched trophic dynamics: cyclically outbreaking geometrids and their larval parasitoids

scientific article published on 27 January 2010

Strength of asymmetric competition between predators in food webs ruled by fluctuating prey: the case of foxes in tundra

article

Structural characteristics of a low Arctic tundra ecosystem and the retreat of the Arctic fox

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Synthesis of effects in four Arctic subregions

scientific article

The 'common vole' in Svalbard identified as Microtus epiroticus by chromosome analysis

scientific article published in 1990

The Effect of Habitat Corridors on Rates of Transfer and Interbreeding between Vole Demes

scientific article published in 1999

The Ghost of Development Past: the Impact of Economic Security Policies on Saami Pastoral Ecosystems

scientific article published in 2011

The effects of spatial habitat configuration on recruitment, growth and population structure in arctic Collembola

scientific article published on August 2000

The importance of marine vs. human-induced subsidies in the maintenance of an expanding mesocarnivore in the arctic tundra

scientific article published on 8 April 2011

The importance of willow thickets for ptarmigan and hares in shrub tundra: the more the better?

scientific article

The nature of lemming cycles on Wrangel: an island without small mustelids

scientific article

Toward understanding the effect of top predators on ecosystems

scientific article

Towards good practice guidance in using camera-traps in ecology: influence of sampling design on validity of ecological inferences

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Transferability of biotic interactions: Temporal consistency of arctic plant-rodent relationships is poor

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Uncertainties and recommendations

scientific article

Weak compensation of harvest despite strong density-dependent growth in willow ptarmigan.

scientific article published in February 2004

What Can Stable Isotope Analysis of Top Predator Tissues Contribute to Monitoring of Tundra Ecosystems?

article

What regulate and limit reindeer populations in Norway?

scientific article published in 2007

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