Curriculum Vitae
Post-doc 2010 -2011
At Université Laval in Québec, Canada, I studied the effects of herbivory by white-tailed deer on forest regeneration on Anticosti Island. Deer have been introduced to the island in the late 19th century and are now highly abundant and altering the forest community. Boreal forest dominated by Balsam fir and paper birch has been steadily replaced by a "spruce savanna" (Picea glauca, Picea mariana). We studied (1) at what deer densities regeneration of balsam fir is possilbe, and (2) whether deer cause legacy effects after herbivores have been excluded.
PhD 2009
Avoidance and tolerance to avian herbivores in aquatic plants - In this PhD thesis I investigated how aquatic plants cope with herbivores. How may herbivory on belowground propagules differ from grazing on aboveground parts. How is the macrophyte community affected by herbivory? Also, how do competitive relations between plants change a a result of herbivory?
Projects
Selected Publications
Hidding, B., Tremblay, J.-P., Côté, S.D.,Survival and growth of balsam fir seedlings and saplings under multiple controlled ungulate densities. Forest Ecology and Management. Accepted.
Hidding, B., Klaassen, M., de Boer, T., de Vries, P.P., Nolet, B.A., 2012. Aquatic plant shows flexible avoidance by escape from tuber predation by swans. Basic and Applied Ecology 13, 50–58.
Bakker, E.S., Van Donk, E., Declerck, S.A.J., Helmsing, N.R., Hidding, B., Nolet, B.A., 2010. Effect of macrophyte community composition and nutrient enrichment on plant biomass and algal blooms. Basic and Applied Ecology 11, 432–439.
Hidding, B., Bakker, E., Keuper, F., de Boer, T., de Vries, P., Nolet, B., 2010. Differences in tolerance of pondweeds and charophytes to vertebrate herbivores in a shallow Baltic estuary. Aquatic Botany 93, 123–128.
Hidding, B., Brederveld, R., Nolet, B., 2010. How a bottom-dweller beats the canopy: inhibition of an aquatic weed (Potamogeton pectinatus) by macroalgae (Chara spp.). Freshwater Biology 55, 1758–1768.
Hidding, B., Nolet, B.A., de Boer, T., de Vries, P.P., Klaassen, M., 2010. Above- and below-ground vertebrate herbivory may each favour a different subordinate species in an aquatic plant community. Oecologia 162, 199–208.
Hidding, B., Nolet, B.A., de Boer, T., de Vries, P.P., Klaassen, M., 2009. Compensatory growth in an aquatic plant mediates exploitative competition between seasonally tied herbivores. Ecology 90, 1891–1899.
Hidding, B., Nolet, B.A., van Eerden, M.R., Guillemain, M., Klaassen, M., 2009. Changing hiding patterns in fennel pondweed tubers (Potamogeton pectinatus) in relation to predation by Bewick’s swans. Aquatic Botany 91, 321–327.
Smallegange, I.M., Hidding, B., Eppenga, J.M.A., Meer, J. van der, 2008. Optimal foraging and risk of claw damage: How flexible are shore crabs in their prey size selectivity? Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 367, 157–163.
Hidding, B., Michel, E., Natyaganova, A.V., Sherbakov, D.Y., 2003. Molecular evidence reveals a polyphyletic origin and chromosomal speciation of Lake Baikal’s endemic asellid isopods. Molecular Ecology 12, 1509–1514.
Downloads
PhD Thesis:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14692819/Hidding%20-thesis-2009.pdf
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