Henrik G. Smith, Professor
Research interests
My research interest concerns both behavioural and conservation ecology,
but recently especially the interface between the two disciplines. My
post-graduate research has to a large extent concerned evolutionary
conflicts, e.g. sexual conflicts and parent-offspring conflicts, and
their consequences for mating systems and life-history strategies. My
conservation research concerns how antropogenic change of the
environment affects the behaviour of animals and as a consequence their
population dynamics and persistence in heterogeneous landscapes. In my
studies I use both birds and insects as study organisms.
Is the decline of
the house sparrow caused by reduced farmland heterogeneity?
Farming
system transitions, biodiversity change and pollination
Population dynamics and
persistence of birds in heterogeneous agricultural landscapes
Consequences of organic
farming and farmland heterogeneity on foraging, fitness and species
richness of bumblebees and solitary bees
Predicting
effects of agri-environment schemes on bird diversity
Effects of wildlife conservation efforts on a declining farmland bird, the grey partridge, and farmland biodiversity
Long-term effects of the developmental environment on morphology, immunity and ornamentation
Selected publications
Rundlöf, M., Bengtsson, J. & Smith, H.G. 2008. Local and landscape
effects of organic farming on butterfly species richness and abundance.
J. Appl. Ecol., in press.
Öckinger, E., Smith, H.G. 2007.
Semi-natural grasslands as population sources for pollinating insects in
agricultural landscapes. J. Appl. Ecol. 44:50-59.
Smith, H.,
Råberg, L., Ohlsson, T., Granbom, M., Hasselquist, D. 2007. Carotenoid
and protein supplementation have differential effects on pheasant
ornamentation and immunity. J. Evol. Biol. 20:310-319.
Öckinger,
E., Smith, H.G. 2006. Landscape composition affects butterfly species
richness independent of habitat quality. Oecologia 149:526-534.
Rundlöf,
M., Smith, H.G. 2006. The effect of organic farming on biodiversity
depends on landscape context. J. Appl. Ecol. 43:1121-1127.
Pilz,
K., Smith, H.G., Sandell, M., Schwabl, H. 2003. Inter-female variation
in egg yolk androgen allocation in the European starling: Do high
quality females invest more? Anim. Behav., 65:841-850.
Ohlsson,
T., Smith, H.G., Råberg, L., Hasselquist, D. 2002. Pheasant sexual
ornaments reflect nutritional conditions during early growth. Proc. R.
Soc. Lond., 269:21-27.
Smith, H.G., Härdling, R. 2000. Clutch
size evolution under sexual conflict enhances the stability of mating
systems. Proc. R. Soc. B., 267: 2163-2170.
Smith, H.G., Sandell,
M.I.. 1998. Intersexual competition in a polygynous mating system. Oikos
83:484-495.
Sandell, M.I., Smith, H.G. 1996. Already mated
females constrain male mating success in the European starling. Proc. R.
Soc., B. 263:743-747.
Smith, H.G. 1995. Experimental
demonstration of a trade-off between mate attraction and paternal care.
Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Series B, 260:45-51.
Last modified 5 Mar 2010
Department of Ecology Animal Ecology, Lund University Ecology Building
SE-223 62 Lund Sweden tel: +46-46-222 93 79 fax: +46-46-222 47 16
Email:
henrik.smith-at-zooekol.lu.se