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  1. Development, metabolism and nutrient composition of black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens; Diptera: Stratiomyidae) in relation to temperature and diet

    Article • Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, June 2018, Wageningen Academic Publishers

    Dr Søren Toft, Anton Gligorescu

  2. The shield effect: nuptial gifts protect males against pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Søren Toft

  3. Optimal numbers of matings: the conditional balance between benefits and costs of mating for females of a nuptial gift-giving spider

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, January 2015, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  4. Trophic specialisation in a predatory group: the case of prey-specialised spiders (Araneae)

    Article • Biological Reviews, August 2014, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  5. Cold-acclimation increases the predatory efficiency of the aphidophagous coccinellid Adalia bipunctata

    Article • Biological Control, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Søren Toft

  6. Sexual Selection, Ecology, and Evolution of Nuptial Gifts in Spiders

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Søren Toft

  7. Nutritional Aspects of Spider Feeding

    Article • December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  8. Female spiders ignore condition-dependent information from nuptial gift wrapping when choosing mates

    Article • Animal Behaviour, October 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Søren Toft

  9. Tests for attraction to prey and predator avoidance by chemical cues in spiders of the beech forest floor

    Article • Arachnologische Mitteilungen Arachnology Letters, July 2012, Arachnologische Gesellschaft e.v.

    Dr Søren Toft

  10. Parasitoid suppression and life-history modifications in a wolf spider following infection by larvae of an acrocerid fly

    Article • Journal of Arachnology, April 2012, American Arachnological Society

    Dr Søren Toft

  11. Weak responses to dietary enrichment in a specialized aphid predator

    Article • Physiological Entomology, August 2011, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  12. Condition dependence of male nuptial gift construction in the spider Pisaura mirabilis (Pisauridae)

    Article • Journal of Ethology, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  13. Nutrient regulation in a predator, the wolf spider Pardosa prativaga

    Article • Animal Behaviour, May 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Kim Jensen, Dr Søren Toft

  14. Dome-shaped functional response induced by nutrient imbalance of the prey

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Søren Toft

  15. Worthless donations: male deception and female counter play in a nuptial gift-giving spider

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  16. Maternal nutrition affects offspring performance via maternal care in a subsocial spider

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  17. A specialized araneophagic predator's short-term nutrient utilization depends on the macronutrient content of prey rather than on prey taxonomic affiliation

    Article • Physiological Entomology, November 2010, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  18. Prey nutrient composition has different effects on Pardosa wolf spiders with dissimilar life histories

    Article • Oecologia, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Kim Jensen, Dr Søren Toft

  19. Mating duration and sperm precedence in the spider Linyphia triangularis

    Article • Journal of Ethology, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  20. ChemInform Abstract: Branched Long Chain Alkyl Methyl Ethers: A New Class of Lipids from Spider Silk

    Article • ChemInform, August 2010, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  21. The advantage of starving: success in cannibalistic encounters among wolf spiders

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, August 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Christian Bech Christensen, Dr Søren Toft

  22. Protein and carbohydrate composition of larval food affects tolerance to thermal stress and desiccation in adult Drosophila melanogaster

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, April 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Søren Toft

  23. Intraspecific variation in prey quality: a comparison of nutrient presence in prey and nutrient extraction by predators

    Article • Oikos, February 2010, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  24. Nutrient balance affects foraging behaviour of a trap-building predator

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Søren Toft

  25. Nutritional enrichment increases courtship intensity and improves mating success in male spiders

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Søren Toft

  26. Can ant-eatingZodarionspiders (Araneae: Zodariidae) develop on a diet optimal for euryphagous arthropod predators?

    Article • Physiological Entomology, June 2009, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  27. A method of obtaining dietary data for slow worms (Anguis fragilis) by means of non‐harmful cooling and results from a Danish population

    Article • Journal of Natural History, April 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Søren Toft

  28. Balancing of protein and lipid intake by a mammalian carnivore, the mink, Mustela vison

    Article • Animal Behaviour, February 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Søren Toft

  29. Why Do Males of the SpiderPisaura mirabilisWrap Their Nuptial Gifts in Silk: Female Preference or Male Control?

    Article • Ethology, August 2008, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  30. Temperature and prey capture: opposite relationships in two predator taxa

    Article • Ecological Entomology, April 2008, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  31. Prey Preference and Consumption by Some Non-Specialist Harvestman Species (Arachnida: Opiliones)

    Article • Arachnology, March 2008, Arachology

    Dr Søren Toft

  32. Thanatosis as an adaptive male mating strategy in the nuptial gift-giving spider Pisaura mirabilis

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Søren Toft

  33. Dietary and prey-capture adaptations by which Zodarion germanicum, an ant-eating spider (Araneae: Zodariidae), specialises on the Formicinae

    Article • The Science of Nature, November 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  34. NUTRIENT-SPECIFIC COMPENSATION FOLLOWING DIAPAUSE IN A PREDATOR: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTRAGUILD PREDATION

    Article • Ecology, October 2007, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  35. Nuptial gifts of male spiders: sensory exploitation of the female's maternal care instinct or foraging motivation?

    Article • Animal Behaviour, February 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Søren Toft

  36. Effects of maternal diet quality on offspring performance in the rove beetle Tachyporus hypnorum

    Article • Ecological Entomology, July 2006, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  37. Death feigning in the face of sexual cannibalism

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2006, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Søren Toft

  38. Nutritional value of cannibalism and the role of starvation and nutrient imbalance for cannibalistic tendencies in a generalist predator

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 2006, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  39. Food preferences and the value of animal food for the carabid beetle Amara similata (Gyll.) (Col., Carabidae)

    Article • Journal of Applied Entomology, December 2005, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  40. The quality of aphids as food for generalist predators: implications for natural control of aphids

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, August 2005, Biology Centre, AS CR

    Dr Søren Toft

  41. EFFECTS OF PREY QUALITY ON THE LIFE HISTORY OF A HARVESTMAN

    Article • Journal of Arachnology, August 2005, American Arachnological Society

    Dr Søren Toft

  42. Microcosm studies on control of aphids by generalist arthropod predators: Effects of alternative prey

    Article • BioControl, October 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  43. Effects of chronic exposure to a toxic prey in a generalist predator

    Article • Physiological Entomology, June 2004, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  44. Effects of prey quality and availability on the life history of a trap-building predator

    Article • Oikos, May 2003, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  45. SPATIAL STRATIFICATION IN LITTER DEPTH BY FOREST-FLOOR SPIDERS

    Article • Journal of Arachnology, April 2003, American Arachnological Society

    Dr Søren Toft

  46. Effects of hunger level and nutrient balance on survival and acetylcholinesterase activity of dimethoate exposed wolf spiders

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, June 2002, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  47. The influence of mixed aphid diets on larval performance of Coccinella septempunctata (Col., Coccinellidae)

    Article • Journal of Applied Entomology, May 2002, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  48. A TEST FOR REPRODUCTIVE SEPARATION OF ALTERNATE GENERATIONS IN A BIENNIAL SPIDER, ARANEUS DIADEMATUS (ARANEAE, ARANEIDAE)

    Article • Journal of Arachnology, January 2002, American Arachnological Society

    Dr Søren Toft

  49. Diet-dependent fecundity of the spiders Atypena formosana and Pardosa pseudoannulata , predators in irrigated rice

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Entomology, November 2001, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft, Lene Sigsgaard

  50. Nutrient composition of the prey's diet affects growth and survivorship of a generalist predator

    Article • Oecologia, April 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  51. The value of three cereal aphid species as food for a generalist predator

    Article • Physiological Entomology, March 2001, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  52. The value of three cereal aphid species as food for a generalist predator

    Article • Physiological Entomology, March 2001, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  53. Artificial selection for aphid tolerance in the polyphagous predator Lepthyphantes tenuis

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, August 2000, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  54. The value of Collembola from agricultural soils as food for a generalist predator

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, August 2000, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  55. Importance of insect prey quality for grey partridge chicks Perdix perdix: a self-selection experiment

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, August 2000, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  56. A TWENTY-YEAR COMPARISON OF EPIGEIC SPIDER COMMUNITIES (ARANEAE) OF DANISH COASTAL HEATH HABITATS

    Article • Journal of Arachnology, June 2000, American Arachnological Society

    Dr Søren Toft

  57. Self-Injection of a Dipteran Parasitoid into a Spider

    Article • The Science of Nature, November 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  58. The value of two Collembola species as food for a linyphiid spider

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, July 1999, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  59. The aggregative numerical response of polyphagous predators to aphids in cereal fields: attraction to what?

    Article • Annals of Applied Biology, June 1999, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  60. Behavioral and ecophysiological responses of a generalist predator to single- and mixed-species diets of different quality

    Article • Oecologia, May 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  61. Growth, development, and survival of a generalist predator fed single- and mixed-species diets of different quality

    Article • Oecologia, May 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  62. Sperm Competition in a Nuptial Feeding Spider, Pisaura Mirabilis

    Article • Behaviour, January 1999, Brill

    Dr Søren Toft

  63. The influence of three cereal aphid species and mixed diet on larval survival, development and adult weight of Coccinella septempunctata

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, December 1998, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  64. Quantifying food limitation of arthropod predators in the field

    Article • Oecologia, June 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  65. No negative sublethal effects of two insecticides on prey capture and development of a spider

    Article • Pesticide Science, March 1998, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  66. Consumption by carabid beetles of three cereal aphid species relative to other prey types

    Article • June 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  67. Acquired food aversion of a wolf spider to three cereal aphids: Intra- and interspecific effects

    Article • June 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  68. Role of granivory and insectivory in the life cycle of the carabid beetle Amara similata

    Article • Ecological Entomology, February 1997, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  69. Limited Prédation Capacity by Generalist Arthropod Predators on the Cereal Aphid,Rhopalosiphum padi

    Article • Biological Agriculture & Horticulture, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Søren Toft

  70. Value of the Aphid Rhopalosiphum padi as Food for Cereal Spiders

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, August 1995, JSTOR

    Dr Søren Toft

  71. Prey preference and egg production of the carabid beetle Agonum dorsale

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, November 1994, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft

  72. Branched long chain alkyl methyl ethers: a new class of lipids from spider silk

    Article • Tetrahedron, July 1993, Elsevier

    Dr Søren Toft, Dr. Stefan Schulz

  73. Identification of a Sex Pheromone from a Spider

    Article • Science, June 1993, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Søren Toft, Dr. Stefan Schulz

  74. Microhabitat identity of two species of sheet-web spiders: field experimental demonstration

    Article • Oecologia, May 1987, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Søren Toft

  75. Grass fields as reservoirs for polyphagous predators (Arthropoda) of aphids (Homopt., Aphididae)

    Article • Journal of Applied Entomology, January 1987, Wiley

    Dr Søren Toft