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• Eilersen, A., Bjørnstad, O. N., Li, R., Schreiber, S. J., Pei, Z. & Stenseth, N. C. (2025). Epidemic evolutionarily stable strategies within an age-structured host population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (12), e2418170122

• Bokma, F., Tsuboi, M. & Stenseth, N. C. (2025). Brain-body coevolution in incipient versus established primate species—evaluating Simpson’s “most important distinction”. Evolution, 79(2), 319–323

• Qin, C., Yang, B., Bräuning, A., Ljungqvist, F. C., Osborn, T. J., Shishov, V., He, M., Kang, S., Schneider, L., Esper, J., Büntgen, U., Grießinger, J., Huang, D., Zhang, P., Talento, S., Xoplaki, E., Luterbacher, J., & Stenseth, N. C. (2024). Persistent humid climate favored the Qin and Western Han Dynasties in China around 2,200 y ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(1)

• Pei, S., Yu, P., Raghwani, J., Wang, Y., Liu, Z., Li, Y., Cheng, Y., Lin, Q., Song, C., Dharmarajan, G., Faust, C. L., Tian, Y., Xu, Y., Liang, Y., Qu, J., Wei, J., Li, S., Zhang, T., Ma, C., Bharti, N., Cazelles, B., Yang, R., Pybus, O. G., Dobson, A. P., Stenseth, N. C. & Tian, H. (2024). Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 9 (pp.99-110)

• McGuire, J. L., Lawing, A. M., Díaz, S. & Stenseth, N. C. (2023). The past as a lens for biodiversity conservation on a dynamically changing planet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120(7) 

• Yang, L., Wang, Z., Wang, L., Vrancken, B., Wang, R., Wei, Y., Rader, B., Wu, C.-H. Chen, Y., Wu, P., Li, B., Lin, Q., Dong, L., Cui, Y., Shi, M., Brownstein, J. S., Stenseth, N. C., Yang, R. & Tian, H. (2023). Association of vaccination, international travel, public health and social measures with lineage dynamics of SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120 (33)

• Xu, L., Wang, Q., Yang, R., Ganbold, D., Tsogbadrakh, N., Dong, K., Liu, M., Altantogtokh, D., Liu, Q., Undrakhbold, S., Boldgiv, B., Liang, W. & Stenseth, N. C. (2023). Climate-driven marmot-plague dynamics in Mongolia and China. Scientific Reports 13 (1), 1190

• Jenny L. McGuire, A. Michelle Lawing, Sandra Díaz, and Nils Chr. Stenseth (2023). The past as a lens for biodiversity conservation on a dynamically changing planet. PNAS 120 (7) e2201950120

• Daoping Wang, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Tianyang Lei, Yida Sun, Jingwen Huo, Qi Hao, Zhao Zeng, Shupeng Zhu, Stéphane Hallegatte, Ruiyun Li, Dabo Guan & Nils Chr. Stenseth (2023). Supply chains create global benefits from improved vaccine accessibility. Nature Communications, 14, 1569.

• Colin A. Chapman, Claire A. Hemingway, Dipto Sarkar, Jan F. Gogarten, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2022). Altmetric scores in conservation science have gender and regional biases. Conservation & Society 20 (3). 

• Rawshan Ara Begum, Robert Lempert, Ali Elham, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Thomas Bernauer, Wolfgang Cramer, Xuefeng Cui, Katharine Mach, Gustavo Nagy, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Raman Sukumar, Philippus Wester (2022). Point of departure and key concepts. The IPCC Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, Cambridge University Press. 

• Addisu Mekonnen, Colleen Downs, Edu O. Effiom, Mohamed Kibaja, Michael J .Lawes, Patrick Omeja, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Onja Razafindratsima, Dipto Sarkar, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Colin A. Chapman (2022). Can I afford to publish? A dilemma for African scholars. Ecology letters 25 (4).

• Guha Dharmarajan, Ruiyun Li, Emmanuel Chanda, Katharine R. Dean, Rodolfo Dirzo, Kjetill S. Jakobsen, Imroze Khan, Herwig Leirs, Zheng-Li Shi, Nathan D. Wolfe, Ruifu Yang, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2022). The animal origin of major human infectious diseases: what can past epidemics teach us about preventing the next pandemic? Zoonoses 2 (1).

• Mauricio Lima, Eugenia M Gayo, Sergio A. Estay, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2022). Population Principles, Climate Change, and the “Collapse” of the Rapa Nui Society. The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Towards an Integrative Interdisciplinary Framework, Springer International Publishing.

• Nils Chr. Stenseth, Leif Andersson, Hopi E. Hoekstra (2022). Gregor Johann Mendel and the development of modern evolutionary biology. PNAS 119 (30)

• Xinru Wan, Marcel Holyoak, Chuan Yan, Yvon Le Maho, Rodolfo Dirzo, Charles J. Krebs, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Zhibin Zhang (2022). Broad‐scale climate variation drives the dynamics of animal populations: A global multi‐taxa analysis. Biological Reviews 97 (6).

• Peter J. Fashing, Nga Nguyen, Sebsebe Demissew, Abel Gizaw, Anagaw Atickem, Addisu Mekonnen, Niina O. Nurmi, Jeffrey T. Kerby, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2022) Ecology, evolution, and conservation of Ethiopia’s biodiversity. PNAS 119 (50).

• Katrin Grunert, Helge Holden, Espen R. Jakobsen, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2021). Evolutionarily stable strategies in stable and periodically fluctuating populations: The Rosenzweig–MacArthur predator–prey model. PNAS 118 (4).

• Banzragch Nandintsetseg, Bazartseren Boldgiv, Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais, Enkhbaatar Davaanyam, Altangerel Batbold, Tserenpurev Bat-Oyun, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2021). Risk and vulnerability of Mongolian grasslands under climate change. Environmental Research Letters 16 (3).

• Pablo Manzano, Daniel Burgas, Luis Cadahía, Jussi T. Eronen, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Slimane Bencherif, Øystein Holand, Oula Seitsonen, Bayarmaa Byambaa, Mikael Fortelius, María E Fernández-Giménez, Kathleen A. Galvin, Mar Cabeza, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2021) Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism. One Earth 4 (5).

• Barbara Bramanti, Yarong Wu, Ruifu Yang, Yujun Cuic, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2021). Assessing the origins of the European Plagues following the Black Death: A synthesis of genomic, historical, and ecological information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 118 (36), e2101940118. (Open Access.)

• Ruiyun Li, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2021). Prioritizing vaccination by age and social activity to advance societal health benefits in Norway: a modelling study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 100200, 15 August 2021. (Open Access.)

• Ruiyun Li, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Ottar N. Bjørnstad (2021). A general model for the demographic signatures of the transition from pandemic emergence to endemicity. Science Advances, 7, eabf9040, 11 August 2021 (Open Access.)

• Bao Yang, Chun Qin, Achim Bräuning, Timothy J. Osborn, Valerie Trouet, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Jan Esper, Lea Schneider, Jussi Grießinger, Ulf Büntgen, Sergio Rossi, Guanghui Dong, Mi Yan, Liang Ning, Jianglin Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Suming Wang, Jürg Luterbacher, Edward R. Cook, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2021). Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 118 (30). (Open Access.)

• Nils Chr. Stenseth, Guha Dharmarajan, Ruiyun Li, Zheng-Li Shi, Ruifu Yang and George F. Gao (2021). Lessons Learnt From the COVID-19 Pandemic. Front. Public Health, 2 August 2021. (Open Access.)

• Ruiyun Li, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2021). Switching vaccination among target groups to achieve improved long-lasting benefits. Royal Society Open Science 8 (6), 210292. (Open Access.)

• Steinar Engen, Huaiyu Tian, Ruifu Yang, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Jason D. Whittington, and Nils Chr. Stenseth (2021). The ecological dynamics of the coronavirus epidemics during transmission from outside sources when R₀ is successfully managed below one. Royal Society Open Science 8, 202234. (Open Access.)

• Yonghong Liu, Zengmiao Wang, Benjamin Rader, Bingying Li, Chieh-Hsi Wu, Jason D. Whittington, Pai Zheng, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Ottar N. Bjornstad, John S. Brownstein, and Huaiyu Tian (2021) Associations between changes in population mobility in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and socioeconomic factors at the city level in China and country level worldwide: a retrospective, observational study. The Lancet Digital Health 3 (6), e349-e359. (Open Access)

• Pablo Manzano, Daniel Burgas, Luis Cadahía, Jussi T. Eronen, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, SlimaneBencherif, Øystein Holand, Oula Seitsonen, Bayarmaa Byambaa, Mikael Fortelius, María E. Fernández-Giménez, Kathleen A. Galvin, Mar Cabeza, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2021) Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism. One Earth 4 (5), 651-665.

• Pai Zheng, Zhangjian Chen, Yonghong Liu, Hongbin Song, Chieh-Hsi Wu, Bingying Li, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Huaiyu Tian, Xing Yan, Yuxin Zheng, Nils Chr. Stenseth, and Guang Jia (2021) Association between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and long-term exposure to air pollution: Evidence from the first epidemic wave in China. Environmental Pollution 276, 116682. Open Access.

• Malin L. Pinsky, Anne Maria Eikeset, Cecilia Helmerson, Ian R. Bradbury, Paul Bentzen, Corey Morris, Agata T. Gondek-Wyrozemska, Helle Tessand Baalsrud, Marine Servane Ono Brieuc, Olav Sigurd Kjesbu, Jane A. Godiksen, Julia M. I. Barth, Michael Matschiner, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Kjetill S. Jakobsen, Sissel Jentoft, and Bastiaan Star (2021) Genomic stability through time despite decades of exploitation in cod on both sides of the Atlantic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 13, 2021 118 (15) e2025453118. Open Access.

• Neil Reid, Jon E. Brommer, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Ferdia Marnell, Robbie A. McDonald, and W. Ian Montgomery. (2021) Regime shift tipping point in hare population collapse associated with climatic and agricultural change during the very early 20th century. Global Change Biology, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15652. Open Access.

• Izabela Delabre, Lily O. Rodriguez, Joanna Miller Smallwood, Jörn P.W. Scharlemann, Joseph Alcamo, Alexander S. Antonarakis, Pedram Rowhani, Richard J. Hazell, Dag L. Aksnes, Patricia Balvanera, Carolyn J. Lundquist, Charlotte Gresham, Anthony E. Alexander, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2021) Actions on sustainable food production and consumption for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Science Advances 7 (12), eabc8259 (Open Access)

• Banzragch Nandintsetseg, Bazartseren Boldgiv, Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais, Enkhbaatar Davaanyam, Altangerel Batbold, Tserenpurev Bat-Oyun, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2021) Risk and vulnerability of Mongolian grasslands under climate change. Environmental Research Letters, IOP Publishing, 2021, 16 (3), pp.034035. ff10.1088/1748-9326/abdb5bff (Open Access)

• Katrin Grunert, Helge Holden, Espen R. Jakobsen, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2021) Evolutionarily stable strategies in stable and periodically fluctuating populations: The Rosenzweig–MacArthur predator–prey model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 118 (4) (Open Access)

• Yonglong Lu, Yifu Yang, Bin Sun, Jingjing Yuan, Minzhao Yu, Nils Chr. Stenseth, James M Bullock, Michael Obersteiner (2020) Spatial variation in biodiversity loss across China under multiple environmental stressors. Science advances 6 (47), eabd0952 (Open Access)

• Xavier Vallès, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Christian Demeure, Peter Horby, Paul S. Mead, Oswaldo Cabanillas, Mahery Ratsitorahina, Minoarisoa Rajerison, Voahangy Andrianaivoarimanana, Beza Ramasindrazana, Javier Pizarro-Cerda, Holger C. Scholz, Romain Girod, B. Joseph Hinnebusch, Ines Vigan-Womas, Arnaud Fontanet, David M. Wagner, Sandra Telfer, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Pablo Tortosa, Guia Carrara, Jane Deuve, Steven R. Belmain, Eric D’ortenzio, Laurence Baril (2020) Human plague: An old scourge that needs new answers. PLoS neglected tropical diseases 14 (8), e0008251 (Open Access)

• Mauricio Lima, E.M. Gayo, C. Latorre, C.M. Santoro, S.A. Estay, Núria Cañellas-Boltà, Olga Margalef, Santiago Giralt, Alberto Sáez, Sergi Pla-Rabes, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2020) Ecology of the collapse of Rapa Nui society. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1929), 20200662 (Open Access)

• Qiqi Yang, Xiang Zhao, Philippe Lemey, Marc A. Suchard, Yuhai Bi, Weifeng Shi, Di Liu, Wenbao Qi, Guogang Zhang, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Oliver G Pybus, Huaiyu Tian (2020) Assessing the role of live poultry trade in community-structured transmission of avian influenza in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 117 (11), 5949-5954 (Open Access)

• W. Ryan Easterday, José Miguel Ponciano, Juan Pablo Gomez, Matthew N Van Ert, Ted Hadfield, Karoun Bagamian, Jason K Blackburn, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Wendy C Turner (2020) Coalescence modeling of intrainfection Bacillus anthracis populations allows estimation of infection parameters in wild populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 117 (8), 4273-4280 (Open Access)

• Pernille Nilsson, Monica H. Solbakken, Boris V. Schmid, Russell J.S. Orr, Ruichen Lv, Yujun Cui, Yajun Song, Yujiang Zhang, Helle T Baalsrud, Ole K. Tørresen, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Ruifu Yang, Kjetill S. Jakobsen, William Ryan Easterday, Sissel Jentoft (2020) The Genome of the Great Gerbil Reveals Species-Specific Duplication of an MHCII Gene. Genome biology and evolution 12 (2), 3832-3849 (Open Access)

• Xiaoqi Zheng, Yonglong Lu, Jingjing Yuan, Yvette Baninla, Sheng Zhang, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Dag O. Hessen, Hanqin Tian, Michael Obersteiner, Deliang Chen (2020) Drivers of change in China’s energy-related CO2 emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 117 (1), 29-36 (Open Access)

• Laurence Baril, Xavier Vallès, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Minoarisoa Rajerison, Maherisoa Ratsitorahina, Javier Pizarro-Cerdá, Christian Demeure, Steve Belmain, Holger Scholz, Romain Girod, Joseph Hinnebusch, Ines Vigan-Womas, Eric Bertherat, Arnaud Fontanet, Yazdan Yazadanpanah, Guia Carrara, Jane Deuve, Eric D'ortenzio, Jose Oswaldo Cabanillas Angulo, Paul Mead, Peter W. Horby (2020) Can we make human plague history? BMJ Global Health 4 (6) (Open Access)

• Colin A. Chapman, Júlio César Bicca-Marques, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Pengfei Fan, Peter J. Fashing, Jan Gogarten, Songtao Guo, Claire A Hemingway, Fabian Leendertz, Baoguo Li, Ikki Matsuda, Rong Hou, Juan Carlos Serio-Silva, Nils Chr. Stenseth (2019) Games academics play and their consequences: how authorship, h-index and journal impact factors are shaping the future of academia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1916), 20192047 (Open Access)
• Meriam Guellil, Oliver Kersten, Amine Namouchi, Stefania Luciani, Isolina Marota, Caroline A. Arcini, Elisabeth Iregren, Robert A. Lindemann, Gunnar Warfvinge, Lela Bakanidze, Lia Bitadze, Mauro Rubini, Paola Zaio, Monica Zaio, Damiano Neri, Nils Chr. Stenseth, and  Barbara Bramanti (2020). A genomic and historical synthesis of plague in 18th century Eurasia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2009677117 (Open Access)
• Nils Chr. Stenseth,  Mark R. Payne, Erik Bonsdorff, Dorothy J. Dankel, Joël M. Durant, Leif G. Anderson, Claire W. Armstrong, Thorsten Blenckner, Ailin Brakstad, Sam Dupont, Anne M. Eikeset, Anders Goksøyr,  Steingrímur Jónsson, Anna Kuparinen, Kjetil Våge, Henrik Österblom, and Øyvind Paasche (2020). Attuning to a changing ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (34) 20363-20371. (Open Access)
• Jan Martin Nordbotten, Folmer Bokma, Jo Skeie Hermansen and Nils Chr. Stenseth (2020). The dynamics of trait variance in multi-species communities. Roy. Soc. Open Science. doi: 10.1098/rsos.200321. (Open Access)
• Joël M. Durant, Kotaro Ono, Nils Chr. Stenseth, and Øystein Langangen (2020). Non‐linearity in interspecific interactions in response to climate change: cod and haddock as an example. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15264 (Open Access)
• Yujun Cui, Boris V. Schmid, Hanli Cao, Xiang Dai, Zongmin Du, W. Ryan Easterday, Haihong Fang, Chenyi Guo, Shanqian Huang, Wanbing Liu, Zhizhen Qi, Yajun Song, Huaiyu Tian, Min Wang, Yarong Wu, Bing Xu, Chao Yang, Jing Yang, Xianwei Yang, Qingwen Zhang, Kjetill S. Jakobsen, Yujiang Zhang, Nils Chr. Stenseth & Ruifu Yang (2020). Evolutionary selection of biofilm-mediated extended phenotypes in Yersinia pestis in response to a fluctuating environment. Nature Communications 11, Article number 281 (Open Access)

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