Population-level manipulations of field vole densities induce subsequent changes in plant quality but no impacts on vole demography

Importance of study design and robust analyses in ecology - what is the evidence for silica-vole interactions?

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Evidence for Active Uptake and Deposition of Si-based Defenses in Tall Fescue

(2017) Emma McLarnon et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The ecology of herbivore-induced silicon defences in grasses

(2016) Susan E. Hartley et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Silicon-based plant defences, tooth wear and voles

(2016) Ivan Calandra et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Variation in the soil ‘silicon landscape’ explains plant silica accumulation across environmental gradients in Serengeti

(2016) Kathleen M. Quigley et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Density-dependent reproduction causes winter crashes in a common vole population

(2016) Adrien Pinot et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Defending the leaf surface: intra- and inter-specific differences in silicon deposition in grasses in response to damage and silicon supply

(2015) Sue E. Hartley et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Plant-herbivore interactions: silicon concentration in tussock sedges and population dynamics of root voles

(2014) Monika Wieczorek et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effect of the abrasive properties of sedges on the intestinal absorptive surface and resting metabolic rate of root voles

(2014) M. Wieczorek et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Leaf silica concentration in Serengeti grasses increases with watering but not clipping: insights from a common garden study and literature review

(2014) Kathleen M. Quigley et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Silicon, endophytes and secondary metabolites as grass defenses against mammalian herbivores

(2014) Otso Huitu et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Europe-Wide Dampening of Population Cycles in Keystone Herbivores

(2013) T. Cornulier et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid and accurate analyses of silicon and phosphorus in plants using a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer

(2012) Stefan Reidinger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Delayed induced silica defences in grasses and their potential for destabilising herbivore population dynamics

(2012) Jennifer J. H. Reynolds et al.   OECOLOGIA

More than herbivory: levels of silica-based defences in grasses vary with plant species, genotype and location

(2012) Eeva M. Soininen et al.   OIKOS

Interactive effects of plant-available soil silicon and herbivory on competition between two grass species

(2011) Mihail Garbuzov et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Do changes in berry crops drive population fluctuations in small rodents in the southwestern Yukon?

(2010) Charles J. Krebs et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Delayed density-dependent onset of spring reproduction in a fluctuating population of field voles

(2010) Torbjørn Ergon et al.   OIKOS

Silicon-augmented resistance of plants to herbivorous insects: a review

(2009) O.L. Reynolds et al.   ANNALS OF APPLIED BIOLOGY

Impacts of silica-based defences in grasses on the feeding preferences of sheep

(2009) Fergus P. Massey et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Are silica defences in grasses driving vole population cycles?

(2008) F.P Massey et al.   Biology Letters