2024

Tremlett, Constance J. ; Chapman, Mark ; Maher, Kathryn H. ; Keller, Alexander ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Peh, Kelvin S.-H. ; Zamora-Gutierrez, Veronica (2024)
High resource overlap and a consistently generalised pattern of interactions in a bat-flower network in a seasonally dry landscape.
In: Ecology and evolution, 14 (10)
doi: 10.1002/ece3.70367
Artikel, Bibliographie

Lerch, Doris ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Mody, Karsten (2024)
Home sweet home: evaluation of native versus exotic plants as resources for insects in urban green spaces.
In: Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 5 (3)
doi: 10.1002/2688-8319.12380
Artikel, Bibliographie

Berger, Johanna L. ; Staab, Michael ; Hartlieb, Margarita ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Wells, Konstans ; Gossner, Martin M. ; Vogt, Juliane ; Achury, Rafael ; Seibold, Sebastian ; Hemp, Andreas ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. ; Blüthgen, Nico (2024)
The day after mowing: time and type of mowing influence grassland arthropods.
In: Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America, 34 (6)
doi: 10.1002/eap.3022
Artikel, Bibliographie

Rappa, Nolan J. ; Staab, Michael ; Ruppert, Laura‐Sophia ; Frey, Julian ; Mello, Marco A. R. ; Klein, Alexandra‐Maria (2024)
Forest structure and heterogeneity increase diversity and alter composition of host–parasitoid networks.
In: Ecological Entomology, 49 (2)
doi: 10.1111/een.13301
Artikel, Bibliographie

Villagómez, Gemma Nydia ; Keller, Alexander ; Rasmussen, Claus ; Lozano, Pablo ; Donoso, David A. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Leonhardt, Sara Diana (2024)
Nutrients or resin? The relationship between resin and food foraging in stingless bees.
In: Ecology and evolution, 14 (2)
doi: 10.1002/ece3.10879
Artikel, Bibliographie

Peralta, Guadalupe ; CaraDonna, Paul J. ; Rakosy, Demetra ; Fründ, Jochen ; Pascual Tudanca, María P. ; Dormann, Carsten F. ; Burkle, Laura A. ; Kaiser-Bunbury, Christopher N. ; Knight, Tiffany M. ; Resasco, Julian ; Winfree, Rachael ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Castillo, William J. ; Vázquez, Diego P. (2024)
Predicting plant-pollinator interactions: concepts, methods, and challenges.
In: Trends in ecology & evolution, 39 (5)
doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.12.005
Artikel, Bibliographie

Lerch, Doris (2024)
Bewertung einheimischer gegenüber exotischer Pflanzen als Nahrungsressource für Insekten auf städtischen Grünflächen.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00024509
Masterarbeit, Erstveröffentlichung, Verlagsversion

Pedersen, Karen M. ; Beeren, Christoph von ; Oggioni, Arianna ; Blüthgen, Nico (2024)
Mammal dung–dung beetle trophic networks: an improved method based on gut-content DNA.
In: PeerJ, 12
doi: 10.7717/peerj.16627
Artikel, Bibliographie

Sanetra, Dennis ; Berger, Johanna ; Hartlieb, Margarita ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Walther, Genevieve ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Staab, Michael (2024)
Disentangling how urbanisation influences moth diversity in grasslands.
In: Insect Conservation and Diversity, 17 (2)
doi: 10.1111/icad.12713
Artikel, Bibliographie

Hoenle, Philipp O. ; Merkel, Christoph ; Donoso, David A. ; Argoti, Adriana A. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Beeren, Christoph von (2024)
Hunting habits die hard: conserved prey preferences in army ants across two distant neotropical rainforests.
In: Ecosphere, 15 (4)
doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4812
Artikel, Bibliographie

Falconí-López, Ana ; Mitesser, Oliver ; Schaefer, H. Martin ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Busse, Annika ; Feldhaar, Heike ; Freile, Juan ; Gelis, Rudy ; Grella, Nina ; Heibl, Christoph ; Kortmann, Mareike ; Newell, Felicity L. ; Rabl, Dominik ; Schleuning, Matthias ; Seibold, Sebastian ; Şekercioğlu, Çağan H. ; Tinoco, Boris A. ; Tremlett, Constance J. ; Müller, Jörg ; Donoso, David A. (2024)
Habitat niches of bird species along a recovery gradient in the Chocó tropical forest.
In: Ecological Indicators, 166
doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112260
Artikel, Bibliographie

Gely, Claire ; Laurance, Susan G. W. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Lach, Lori ; Vogado, Nara O. ; Burwell, Chris J. ; Liddell, Michael J. ; Stork, Nigel E. (2024)
Inferring ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) dietary responses to experimental drought in a tropical rainforest using stable isotopes.
In: Austral Entomology
doi: 10.1111/aen.12712
Artikel, Bibliographie

2023

Müller, Jörg ; Mitesser, Oliver ; Schaefer, H. Martin ; Seibold, Sebastian ; Busse, Annika ; Kriegel, Peter ; Rabl, Dominik ; Gelis, Rudy ; Arteaga, Alejandro ; Freile, Juan ; Leite, Gabriel Augusto ; Melo, Tomaz Nascimento de ; LeBien, Jack ; Campos-Cerqueira, Marconi ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Tremlett, Constance J. ; Böttger, Dennis ; Feldhaar, Heike ; Grella, Nina ; Falconí-López, Ana ; Donoso, David A. ; Moriniere, Jerome ; Buřivalová, Zuzana (2023)
Soundscapes and deep learning enable tracking biodiversity recovery in tropical forests.
In: Nature Communications, 14 (1)
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41693-w
Artikel, Bibliographie

Blüthgen, Nico ; Dicks, Lynn V. ; Forister, Matthew L. ; Outhwaite, Charlotte L. ; Slade, Eleanor M. (2023)
Insect declines in the Anthropocene.
In: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 4 (10)
doi: 10.1038/s43017-023-00478-x
Artikel, Bibliographie

Achury, Rafael ; Staab, Michael ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. (2023)
Forest gaps increase true bug diversity by recruiting open land species.
In: Oecologia, 202 (2)
doi: 10.1007/s00442-023-05392-z
Artikel, Bibliographie

Staab, Michael ; Pietsch, Stefanie ; Yan, Haoru ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Cheng, Anpeng ; Li, Yi ; Zhang, Naili ; Ma, Keping ; Liu, Xiaojuan (2023)
Dear neighbor: trees with extrafloral nectaries facilitate defense and growth of adjacent undefended trees.
In: Ecology, 104 (7)
doi: 10.1002/ecy.4057
Artikel, Bibliographie

Staab, Michael ; Gossner, Martin M. ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Achury, Rafael ; Ambarlı, Didem ; Bae, Soyeon ; Schall, Peter ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. ; Blüthgen, Nico (2023)
Insect decline in forests depends on species' traits and may be mitigated by management.
In: Communications biology, 6 (1)
doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-04690-9
Artikel, Bibliographie

Metz, Timo ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Drossel, Barbara (2023)
Shifts from non-obligate generalists to obligate specialists in simulations of mutualistic network assembly.
In: Oikos, 2023 (7)
doi: 10.1111/oik.09697
Artikel, Bibliographie

Hoenle, Philipp O. ; Staab, Michael ; Donoso, David A. ; Argoti, Adriana ; Blüthgen, Nico (2023)
Stratification and recovery time jointly shape ant functional reassembly in a Neotropical forest.
In: Journal of Animal Ecology, 92 (7)
doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13896
Artikel, Bibliographie

Le Provost, Gaëtane ; Schenk, Noëlle V. ; Penone, Caterina ; Thiele, Jan ; Westphal, Catrin ; Allan, Eric ; Ayasse, Manfred ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Boeddinghaus, Runa S. ; Boesing, Andrea Larissa ; Bolliger, Ralph ; Busch, Verena ; Fischer, Markus ; Gossner, Martin M. ; Hölzel, Norbert ; Jung, Kirsten ; Kandeler, Ellen ; Klaus, Valentin H. ; Kleinebecker, Till ; Leimer, Sophia ; Marhan, Sven ; Morris, Kathryn ; Müller, Sandra ; Neff, Felix ; Neyret, Margot ; Oelmann, Yvonne ; Perović, David J. ; Peter, Sophie ; Prati, Daniel ; Rillig, Matthias C. ; Saiz, Hugo ; Schäfer, Deborah ; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael ; Schloter, Michael ; Schöning, Ingo ; Schrumpf, Marion ; Steckel, Juliane ; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf ; Tschapka, Marco ; Vogt, Juliane ; Weiner, Christiane ; Weisser, Wolfgang ; Wells, Konstans ; Werner, Michael ; Wilcke, Wolfgang ; Manning, Peter (2023)
The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales.
In: Nature ecology & evolution, 7
doi: 10.1038/s41559-022-01918-5
Artikel, Bibliographie

Weisser, Wolfgang ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Staab, Michael ; Achury, Rafael ; Müller, Jörg (2023)
Experiments are needed to quantify the main causes of insect decline.
In: Biology letters, 19 (2)
doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0500
Artikel, Bibliographie

Beeren, Christoph von ; Pohl, Sebastian ; Fikáček, Martin ; Kleinfelder, Stephan ; Tishechkin, Alexey K. ; Yamamoto, Shûhei ; Chani‐Posse, Mariana ; Żyła, Dagmara ; Tokareva, Alexandra ; Maruyama, Munetoshi ; Hall, W. Eugene ; Sandoval, Liliana P. ; Kronauer, Daniel J. C. (2023)
Army ant middens – Home and nursery of a diverse beetle fauna.
In: Ecology and Evolution, 13 (9)
doi: 10.1002/ece3.10451
Artikel, Bibliographie

Schuldt, Andreas ; Liu, Xiaojuan ; Buscot, François ; Bruelheide, Helge ; Erfmeier, Alexandra ; He, Jin‐Sheng ; Klein, Alexandra‐Maria ; Ma, Keping ; Scherer‐Lorenzen, Michael ; Schmid, Bernhard ; Scholten, Thomas ; Tang, Zhiyao ; Trogisch, Stefan ; Wirth, Christian ; Wubet, Tesfaye ; Staab, Michael (2023)
Carbon–biodiversity relationships in a highly diverse subtropical forest.
In: Global Change Biology, 29 (18)
doi: 10.1111/gcb.16697
Artikel, Bibliographie

Kalinkat, Gregor ; Rall, Björn C. ; Uiterwaal, Stella F. ; Uszko, Wojciech (2023)
Empirical evidence of type III functional responses and why it remains rare.
In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11
doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1033818
Artikel, Bibliographie

Ruppert, Laura‐Sophia ; Segelbacher, Gernot ; Staab, Michael ; Winiger, Nathalie (2023)
Gauging DNA degradation among common insect trap preservatives.
In: Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 171 (3)
doi: 10.1111/eea.13266
Artikel, Bibliographie

2022

Timóteo, Sérgio ; Albrecht, Jörg ; Rumeu, Beatriz ; Norte, Ana C. ; Traveset, Anna ; Frost, Carol M. ; Marchante, Elizabete ; López‐Núñez, Francisco A. ; Peralta, Guadalupe ; Memmott, Jane ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Costa, José M. ; Silva, Luís P. da ; Carvalheiro, Luísa G. ; Correia, Marta ; Staab, Michael ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Farwig, Nina ; Hervías‐Parejo, Sandra ; Mironov, Sergei ; Rodríguez‐Echeverría, Susana ; Heleno, Ruben (2022)
Tripartite networks show that keystone species can multitask.
In: Functional Ecology
doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14206
Artikel, Bibliographie

Staab, Michael ; Achury, Rafael ; Ammer, Christian ; Ehbrecht, Martin ; Irmscher, Veronika ; Mohr, Hendrik ; Schall, Peter ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. ; Blüthgen, Nico (2022)
Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full-factorial experiment.
In: The Journal of animal ecology, 91 (10)
doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13792
Artikel, Bibliographie

Ceron, Karoline ; Provete, Diogo B. ; Pires, Mathias M. ; Araujo, Andréa C. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Santana, Diego J. (2022)
Differences in prey availability across space and time lead to interaction rewiring and reshape a predator-prey metaweb.
In: Ecology, 103 (8)
doi: 10.1002/ecy.3716
Artikel, Bibliographie

Blüthgen, Nico ; Staab, Michael ; Achury, Rafael ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. (2022)
Unravelling insect declines: can space replace time?
In: Biology letters, 18 (4)
doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0666
Artikel, Bibliographie

Hoenle, Philipp O. ; Donoso, David A. ; Argoti, Adriana ; Staab, Michael ; Beeren, Christoph von ; Blüthgen, Nico (2022)
Rapid ant community reassembly in a Neotropical forest: Recovery dynamics and land-use legacy.
In: Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America, 32 (4)
doi: 10.1002/eap.2559
Artikel, Bibliographie

Beeren, Christoph von ; Brückner, Adrian ; Hoenle, Philipp O. ; Ospina-Jara, Bryan ; Kronauer, Daniel J. C. ; Blüthgen, Nico (2022)
Correction to: Multiple phenotypic traits as triggers of host attacks towards ant symbionts: body size, morphological gestalt, and chemical mimicry accuracy.
In: Frontiers in zoology, 19 (1)
doi: 10.1186/s12983-021-00443-8
Artikel, Bibliographie

Scherreiks, Pascal ; Gossner, Martin M. ; Ambarlı, Didem ; Ayasse, Manfred ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Fischer, Markus ; Klaus, Valentin H. ; Kleinebecker, Till ; Neff, Felix ; Prati, Daniel ; Seibold, Sebastian ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. ; Wells, Konstans ; Westphal, Catrin ; Thiele, Jan (2022)
Present and historical landscape structure shapes current species richness in Central European grasslands.
In: Landscape Ecology
doi: 10.1007/s10980-021-01392-7
Artikel, Bibliographie

Hönle, Philipp Otto (2022)
Recovery dynamics of ants in the Ecuadorian Chocó.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00020413
Dissertation, Erstveröffentlichung, Verlagsversion

Golian, Marek ; Bien, Tanja ; Schmelzle, Sebastian ; Esparza-Mora, Margy Alejandra ; McMahon, Dino Peter ; Dreisewerd, Klaus ; Buellesbach, Jan (2022)
Neglected Very Long-Chain Hydrocarbons and the Incorporation of Body Surface Area Metrics Reveal Novel Perspectives for Cuticular Profile Analysis in Insects.
In: Insects, 13 (1)
doi: 10.3390/insects13010083
Artikel, Bibliographie

Wehner, Katja ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Heethoff, Michael (2022)
Drought, windthrow and forest operations strongly affect oribatid mite communities in different microhabitats.
In: Global Ecology and Conservation, 30
doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01757
Artikel, Bibliographie

2021

Simons, Nadja K. ; Felipe-Lucia, María R. ; Schall, Peter ; Ammer, Christian ; Bauhus, Jürgen ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Boch, Steffen ; Buscot, François ; Fischer, Markus ; Goldmann, Kezia ; Gossner, Martin M. ; Hänsel, Falk ; Jung, Kirsten ; Manning, Peter ; Nauss, Thomas ; Oelmann, Yvonne ; Pena, Rodica ; Polle, Andrea ; Renner, Swen C. ; Schloter, Michael ; Schöning, Ingo ; Schulze, Ernst-Detlef ; Solly, Emily F. ; Sorkau, Elisabeth ; Stempfhuber, Barbara ; Wubet, Tesfaye ; Müller, Jörg ; Seibold, Sebastian ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. (2021)
National Forest Inventories capture the multifunctionality of managed forests in Germany.
In: Forest Ecosystems, 8 (1)
doi: 10.1186/s40663-021-00280-5
Artikel, Bibliographie

Melo Teles e Gomes, Inácio José de ; Solar, Ricardo ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Luis Vasconcelos, Heraldo ; Eduarda Basílio Silva, Luíza ; Nunes Oliveira, Karla ; Zacharias Moreira, Marcelo ; Ildefonso Campos, Ricardo (2021)
Multiple effects of mutualistic ants improve the performance of a neotropical ant-plant : a long-term study with the Cecropia-Azteca system.
In: Basic and Applied Ecology, 57
doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2021.09.004
Artikel, Bibliographie

Pedersen, Karen M. ; Blüthgen, Nico (2021)
Seed size and pubescence facilitate secondary dispersal by dung beetles.
In: Biotropica
doi: 10.1111/btp.13052
Artikel, Bibliographie

Beeren, Christoph von ; Brückner, Adrian ; Hoenle, Philipp O. ; Ospina-Jara, Bryan ; Kronauer, Daniel J. C. ; Blüthgen, Nico (2021)
Multiple phenotypic traits as triggers of host attacks towards ant symbionts: body size, morphological gestalt, and chemical mimicry accuracy.
In: Frontiers in zoology, 18 (1)
doi: 10.1186/s12983-021-00427-8
Artikel, Bibliographie

Beeren, Christoph von ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Hoenle, Philipp O. ; Pohl, Sebastian ; Brückner, Adrian ; Tishechkin, Alexey K. ; Maruyama, Munetoshi ; Brown, Brian V. ; Hash, John M. ; Hall, W. E. ; Kronauer, Daniel J. C. (2021)
A remarkable legion of guests : diversity and host specificity of army ant symbionts.
In: Molecular ecology, 30 (20)
doi: 10.1111/mec.16101
Artikel, Bibliographie

Blüthgen, Nico ; Staab, Michael (2021)
Ecology : Mammals, interaction networks and the relevance of scale.
In: Current biology : CB, 31 (13)
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.032
Artikel, Bibliographie

Le Provost, Gaëtane ; Thiele, Jan ; Westphal, Catrin ; Penone, Caterina ; Allan, Eric ; Neyret, Margot ; Plas, Fons van der ; Ayasse, Manfred ; Bardgett, Richard D. ; Birkhofer, Klaus ; Boch, Steffen ; Bonkowski, Michael ; Buscot, Francois ; Feldhaar, Heike ; Gaulton, Rachel ; Goldmann, Kezia ; Gossner, Martin M. ; Klaus, Valentin H. ; Kleinebecker, Till ; Krauss, Jochen ; Renner, Swen ; Scherreiks, Pascal ; Sikorski, Johannes ; Baulechner, Dennis ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Bolliger, Ralph ; Börschig, Carmen ; Busch, Verena ; Chisté, Melanie ; Fiore-Donno, Anna Maria ; Fischer, Markus ; Arndt, Hartmut ; Hoelzel, Norbert ; John, Katharina ; Jung, Kirsten ; Lange, Markus ; Marzini, Carlo ; Overmann, Jörg ; Paŝalić, Esther ; Perović, David J. ; Prati, Daniel ; Schäfer, Deborah ; Schöning, Ingo ; Schrumpf, Marion ; Sonnemann, Ilja ; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf ; Tschapka, Marco ; Türke, Manfred ; Vogt, Juliane ; Wehner, Katja ; Weiner, Christiane ; Weisser, Wolfgang ; Wells, Konstans ; Werner, Michael ; Wolters, Volkmar ; Wubet, Tesfaye ; Wurst, Susanne ; Zaitsev, Andrey S. ; Manning, Peter (2021)
Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity.
In: Nature communications, 12 (1)
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23931-1
Artikel, Bibliographie

Pfenninger, Markus ; Reuss, Friederike ; Klebler, Angelika ; Schönnenbeck, Philipp ; Caliendo, Cosima ; Gerber, Susanne ; Cocchiararo, Berardino ; Reuter, Sabrina ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Mody, Karsten ; Mishra, Bagdevi ; Bálint, Miklós ; Thines, Marco ; Feldmeyer, Barbara (2021)
Genomic basis for drought resistance in European beech forests threatened by climate change.
In: eLife, 10
doi: 10.7554/eLife.65532
Artikel, Bibliographie

Lettmann, Jessica ; Mody, Karsten ; Kursch-Metz, Tore-Aliocha ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Wehner, Katja (2021)
Bracon wasps for ecological pest control : a laboratory experiment.
In: PeerJ, 9
doi: 10.7717/peerj.11540
Artikel, Bibliographie

Feit, Benjamin ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Daouti, Eirini ; Straub, Cory ; Traugott, Michael ; Jonsson, Mattias (2021)
Landscape complexity promotes resilience of biological pest control to climate change.
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society, B: Biological sciences, 288 (1951)
doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0547
Artikel, Bibliographie

Fornoff, Felix ; Staab, Michael ; Zhu, Chao-Dong ; Klein, Alexandra-Maria (2021)
Multi-trophic communities re-establish with canopy cover and microclimate in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment.
In: Oecologia, 196 (1)
doi: 10.1007/s00442-021-04921-y
Artikel, Bibliographie

Ambarli, Didem ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Wehner, Katja ; Kämper, Wiebke ; Gossner, Martin M. ; Nauss, Thomas ; Neff, Felix ; Seibold, Sebastian ; Weisser, Wolfgang ; Blüthgen, Nico (2021)
Animal-Mediated Ecosystem Process Rates in Forests and Grasslands are Affected by Climatic Conditions and Land-Use Intensity.
In: Ecosystems, 24 (2)
doi: 10.1007/s10021-020-00530-7
Artikel, Bibliographie

Wehner, Katja ; Schuster, Romina ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Norton, Roy A. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Heethoff, Michael (2021)
How land-use intensity affects sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites in temperate forests and grasslands in Germany.
In: Experimental & applied acarology, 83 (3)
doi: 10.1007/s10493-020-00586-z
Artikel, Bibliographie

Wehner, Katja ; Renker, Carsten ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. ; Blüthgen, Nico (2021)
Narrow environmental niches predict land-use responses and vulnerability of land snail assemblages.
In: BMC ecology and evolution, 21 (1)
doi: 10.1186/s12862-020-01741-1
Artikel, Bibliographie

Wehner, Katja ; Renker, Carsten ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. ; Blüthgen, Nico (2021)
Narrow environmental niches predict land-use responses and vulnerability of land snail assemblages.
In: BMC Ecology and Evolution, 21 (1)
doi: 10.1186/s12862-020-01741-1
Artikel, Bibliographie

CaraDonna, Paul J. ; Burkle, Laura A. ; Schwarz, Benjamin ; Resasco, Julian ; Knight, Tiffany M. ; Benadi, Gita ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Dormann, Carsten F. ; Fang, Qiang ; Fründ, Jochen ; Gauzens, Benoit ; Kaiser-Bunbury, Christopher N. ; Winfree, Rachael ; Vázquez, Diego P. (2021)
Seeing through the static: the temporal dimension of plant-animal mutualistic interactions.
In: Ecology letters, 24 (1)
doi: 10.1111/ele.13623
Artikel, Bibliographie

Seibold, Sebastian ; Hothorn, Torsten ; Gossner, Martin M. ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Müller, Jörg ; Ambarlı, Didem ; Ammer, Christian ; Bauhus, Jürgen ; Fischer, Markus ; Habel, Jan C. ; Penone, Caterina ; Schall, Peter ; Schulze, Ernst-Detlef ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. (2021)
Insights from regional and short‐term biodiversity monitoring datasets are valuable: a reply to Daskalova et al . 2021.
In: Insect Conservation and Diversity, 14 (1)
doi: 10.1111/icad.12467
Artikel, Bibliographie

Staab, Michael ; Liu, Xiaojuan ; Assmann, Thorsten ; Bruelheide, Helge ; Buscot, François ; Durka, Walter ; Erfmeier, Alexandra ; Klein, Alexandra‐Maria ; Ma, Keping ; Michalski, Stefan ; Wubet, Tesfaye ; Schmid, Bernhard ; Schuldt, Andreas (2021)
Tree phylogenetic diversity structures multitrophic communities.
In: Functional Ecology, 35 (2)
doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13722
Artikel, Bibliographie

Booher, Douglas B. ; Hoenle, Philipp O. (2021)
A new species group of Strumigenys (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Ecuador, with a description of its mandible morphology.
In: ZooKeys, 1036
doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1036.62034
Artikel, Bibliographie

Wehner, Katja ; Schuster, Romina ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Norton, Roy A. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Heethoff, Michael (2021)
How land-use intensity affects sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites in temperate forests and grasslands in Germany.
In: Experimental and Applied Acarology, 83 (3)
doi: 10.1007/s10493-020-00586-z
Artikel, Bibliographie

2020

Thiel, Tatjana ; Gaschler, Sarah ; Mody, Karsten ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Drossel, Barbara (2020)
Impact of herbivore preference on the benefit of plant trait variability.
In: Theoretical Ecology, 14
doi: 10.1007/s12080-020-00487-2
Artikel, Bibliographie

Lösel, Philipp D. ; Kamp, Thomas van de ; Jayme, Alejandra ; Ershov, Alexey ; Faragó, Tomáš ; Pichler, Olaf ; Tan Jerome, Nicholas ; Aadepu, Narendar ; Bremer, Sabine ; Chilingaryan, Suren A. ; Heethoff, Michael ; Kopmann, Andreas ; Odar, Janes ; Schmelzle, Sebastian ; Zuber, Marcus ; Wittbrodt, Joachim ; Baumbach, Tilo ; Heuveline, Vincent (2020)
Introducing Biomedisa as an open-source online platform for biomedical image segmentation.
In: Nature Communications, 11 (1)
doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19303-w
Artikel, Bibliographie

Neumüller, Ulrich ; Burger, Hannah ; Krausch, Sabrina ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Ayasse, Manfred (2020)
Interactions of local habitat type, landscape composition and flower availability moderate wild bee communities.
In: Landscape Ecology
doi: 10.1007/s10980-020-01096-4
Artikel, Bibliographie

Hoenle, Philipp O. ; Lattke, John E. ; Donoso, David A. ; Beeren, Christoph von ; Heethoff, Michael ; Schmelzle, Sebastian ; Argoti, Adriana ; Camacho, Luis ; Ströbel, Bernhard ; Blüthgen, Nico (2020)
Odontomachus davidsoni sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), a new conspicuous trap-jaw ant from Ecuador.
In: ZooKeys, 948
doi: 10.3897/zookeys.948.48701
Artikel, Bibliographie

Mody, Karsten ; Lerch, Doris ; Müller, Ann-Kathrin ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Harnisch, Matthias (2020)
Flower power in the city: Replacing roadside shrubs by wildflower meadows increases insect numbers and reduces maintenance costs.
In: PloS one, 15 (6)
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234327
Artikel, Bibliographie

Schwarz, Benjamin ; Vázquez, Diego P. ; CaraDonna, Paul J. ; Knight, Tiffany M. ; Benadi, Gita ; Dormann, Carsten F. ; Gauzens, Benoit ; Motivans, Elena ; Resasco, Julian ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Burkle, Laura A. ; Fang, Qiang ; Kaiser-Bunbury, Christopher N. ; Alarcón, Ruben ; Bain, Justin A. ; Chacoff, Natacha P. ; Huang, Shuang‐Quan ; LeBuhn, Gretchen ; MacLeod, Molly ; Petanidou, Theodora ; Rasmussen, Claus ; Simanonok, Michael P. ; Thompson, Amibeth H. ; Fründ, Jochen (2020)
Temporal scale‐dependence of plant–pollinator networks.
In: Oikos
doi: 10.1111/oik.07303
Artikel, Bibliographie

Thiel, Tatjana ; Gaschler, Sarah ; Mody, Karsten ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Drossel, Barbara (2020)
Impact of plant defense level variability on specialist and generalist herbivores.
In: Theoretical Ecology
doi: 10.1007/s12080-020-00461-y
Artikel, Bibliographie

Ekroos, Johan ; Kleijn, David ; Batáry, Péter ; Albrecht, Matthias ; Báldi, András ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Knop, Eva ; Kovács-Hostyánszki, Anikó ; Smith, Henrik G. (2020)
High land-use intensity in grasslands constrains wild bee species richness in Europe.
In: Biological Conservation, 241
doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108255
Artikel, Bibliographie

Wehner, Katja ; Schäfer, Lea ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Mody, Karsten (2020)
Seed type, habitat and time of day influence post-dispersal seed removal in temperate ecosystems.
In: PeerJ, 8
Artikel, Bibliographie

2019

Câmara, Talita ; Leal, Inara R. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Oliveira, Fernanda M. P. ; Arnan, Xavier (2019)
Anthropogenic disturbance and rainfall variation threaten the stability of plant–ant interactions in the Brazilian Caatinga.
In: Ecography, 42 (11)
doi: 10.1111/ecog.04531
Artikel, Bibliographie

Seibold, Sebastian ; Gossner, Martin M. ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Müller, Jörg ; Ambarlı, Didem ; Ammer, Christian ; Bauhus, Jürgen ; Fischer, Markus ; Habel, Jan C. ; Linsenmair, Karl Eduard ; Nauss, Thomas ; Penone, Caterina ; Prati, Daniel ; Schall, Peter ; Schulze, Ernst-Detlef ; Vogt, Juliane ; Wöllauer, Stephan ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. (2019)
Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers.
In: Nature, 574 (7780)
doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1684-3
Artikel, Bibliographie

Feit, Benjamin ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Traugott, Michael ; Jonsson, Mattias (2019)
Resilience of ecosystem processes: a new approach shows that functional redundancy of biological control services is reduced by landscape simplification.
In: Ecology letters, 22 (10)
doi: 10.1111/ele.13347
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Vogt, Juliane ; Klaus, Valentin H. ; Both, Steffen ; Fürstenau, Cornelia ; Gockel, Sonja ; Gossner, Martin M. ; Heinze, Johannes ; Hemp, Andreas ; Hölzel, Nobert ; Jung, Kirsten ; Kleinebecker, Till ; Lauterbach, Ralf ; Lorenzen, Katrin ; Ostrowski, Andreas ; Otto, Niclas ; Prati, Daniel ; Renner, Swen ; Schumacher, Uta ; Seibold, Sebastian ; Simons, Nadja ; Steitz, Iris ; Teuscher, Miriam ; Thiele, Jan ; Weithmann, Sandra ; Wells, Konstans ; Wiesner, Kerstin ; Ayasse, Manfred ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Fischer, Markus ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. (2019)
Eleven years' data of grassland management in Germany.
In: Biodiversity data journal, 7
doi: 10.3897/BDJ.7.e36387
Artikel, Bibliographie

Neff, Felix ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Chisté, Melanie N. ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Steckel, Juliane ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. ; Westphal, Catrin ; Pellissier, Loïc ; Gossner, Martin M. (2019)
Cross-scale effects of land use on the functional composition of herbivorous insect communities.
In: Landscape Ecology, 34 (8)
doi: 10.1007/s10980-019-00872-1
Artikel, Bibliographie

Schmelzle, Sebastian ; Blüthgen, Nico (2019)
Under pressure: force resistance measurements in box mites (Actinotrichida, Oribatida).
In: Frontiers in zoology, 16
doi: 10.1186/s12983-019-0325-x
Artikel, Bibliographie

Busch, Verena ; Klaus, Valentin H. ; Schäfer, Deborah ; Prati, Daniel ; Boch, Steffen ; Müller, Jörg ; Chisté, Melanie ; Mody, Karsten ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Fischer, Markus ; Hölzel, Norbert ; Kleinebecker, Till (2019)
Will I stay or will I go? Plant species‐specific response and tolerance to high land‐use intensity in temperate grassland ecosystems.
In: Journal of Vegetation Science, 30 (4)
doi: 10.1111/jvs.12749
Artikel, Bibliographie

Arnan, Xavier ; Molowny-Horas, Roberto ; Blüthgen, Nico (2019)
Food resource exploitation and functional resilience in ant communities found in common Mediterranean habitats.
In: The Science of the total environment, 684
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.260
Artikel, Bibliographie

Hoenle, Philipp O. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Brückner, Adrian ; Kronauer, Daniel J. C. ; Fiala, Brigitte ; Donoso, David A. ; Smith, M. Alex ; Ospina Jara, Bryan ; Beeren, Christoph von (2019)
Species‐level predation network uncovers high prey specificity in a Neotropical army ant community.
In: Molecular Ecology, 28 (9)
doi: 10.1111/mec.15078
Artikel, Bibliographie

Wehner, Katja ; Renker, Carsten ; Brückner, Adrian ; Simons, Nadja K. ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. ; Blüthgen, Nico (2019)
Land‐use in Europe affects land snail assemblages directly and indirectly by modulating abiotic and biotic drivers.
In: Ecosphere, 10 (5)
doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2726
Artikel, Bibliographie

Happe, Anne-Kathrin (2019)
Managing biological control for fruit production in different European climates.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dissertation, Erstveröffentlichung

Fornoff, Felix ; Klein, Alexandra-Maria ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Staab, Michael (2019)
Tree diversity increases robustness of multi-trophic interactions.
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1898)
doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2399
Artikel, Bibliographie

Happe, Anne-Kathrin ; Alins, Georgina ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Boreux, Virginie ; Bosch, Jordi ; García, Daniel ; Hambäck, Peter A. ; Klein, Alexandra-Maria ; Martínez-Sastre, Rodrigo ; Miñarro, Marcos ; Müller, Ann-Kathrin ; Porcel, Mario ; Rodrigo, Anselm ; Roquer-Beni, Laura ; Samnegård, Ulrika ; Tasin, Marco ; Mody, Karsten (2019)
Predatory arthropods in apple orchards across Europe: Responses to agricultural management, adjacent habitat, landscape composition and country.
In: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 273
doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2018.12.012
Artikel, Bibliographie

Plas, Fons van der ; Allan, Eric ; Fischer, Markus ; Alt, Fabian ; Arndt, Hartmut ; Binkenstein, Julia ; Blaser, Stefan ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Böhm, Stefan ; Hölzel, Norbert ; Klaus, Valentin H. ; Kleinebecker, Till ; Morris, Kathryn ; Oelmann, Yvonne ; Prati, Daniel ; Renner, Swen C. ; Rillig, Matthias C. ; Schaefer, H. Martin ; Schloter, Michael ; Schmitt, Barbara ; Schöning, Ingo ; Schrumpf, Marion ; Solly, Emily F. ; Sorkau, Elisabeth ; Steckel, Juliane ; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf ; Stempfhuber, Barbara ; Tschapka, Marco ; Weiner, Christiane N. ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. ; Werner, Michael ; Westphal, Catrin ; Wilcke, Wolfgang ; Manning, Peter ; Nichols, Elizabeth (2019)
Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity-multifunctionality relationships.
In: Journal of Applied Ecology, 56 (1)
doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13260
Artikel, Bibliographie

2018

Felipe-Lucia, María R. ; Soliveres, Santiago ; Penone, Caterina ; Manning, Peter ; Plas, Fons van der ; Boch, Steffen ; Prati, Daniel ; Ammer, Christian ; Schall, Peter ; Gossner, Martin M. ; Bauhus, Jürgen ; Buscot, Francois ; Blaser, Stefan ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Frutos, Angel de ; Ehbrecht, Martin ; Frank, Kevin ; Goldmann, Kezia ; Hänsel, Falk ; Jung, Kirsten ; Kahl, Tiemo ; Nauss, Thomas ; Oelmann, Yvonne ; Pena, Rodica ; Polle, Andrea ; Renner, Swen ; Schloter, Michael ; Schöning, Ingo ; Schrumpf, Marion ; Schulze, Ernst-Detlef ; Solly, Emily ; Sorkau, Elisabeth ; Stempfhuber, Barbara ; Tschapka, Marco ; Weisser, Wolfgang W. ; Wubet, Tesfaye ; Fischer, Markus ; Allan, Eric (2018)
Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services.
In: Nature communications, 9 (1)
Artikel, Bibliographie

Baumgarten Rosumek, Félix (2018)
From field to fat – Integrating approaches to unveil use of trophic resources by tropical and temperate ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dissertation, Erstveröffentlichung

Mesquita-Neto, José N. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Schlindwein, Clemens (2018)
Flowers with poricidal anthers and their complex interaction networks-Disentangling legitimate pollinators and illegitimate visitors.
In: Functional Ecology, 32 (10)
doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13204
Artikel, Bibliographie

Frank, Kevin ; Brückner, Adrian ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Schmitt, Thomas (2018)
In search of cues: dung beetle attraction and the significance of volatile composition of dung.
In: Chemoecology, 28 (4-5)
doi: 10.1007/s00049-018-0266-4
Artikel, Bibliographie

Costa, Fernanda V. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Viana-Junior, Arleu B. ; Guerra, Tadeu J. ; Di Spirito, Laura ; Neves, Frederico S. (2018)
Resilience to fire and climate seasonality drive the temporal dynamics of ant-plant interactions in a fire-prone ecosystem.
In: Ecological Indicators, 93
doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.05.001
Artikel, Bibliographie

Frank, Kevin ; Krell, Frank-Thorsten ; Slade, Eleanor M. ; Raine, Elizabeth H. ; Chiew, Li Yuen ; Schmitt, Thomas ; Vairappan, Charles S. ; Walter, Philippe ; Blüthgen, Nico (2018)
Global dung webs: high trophic generalism of dung beetles along the latitudinal diversity gradient.
In: Ecology letters, 21 (8)
doi: 10.1111/ele.13095
Artikel, Bibliographie

Câmara, Talita ; Leal, Inara R. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Oliveira, Fernanda M. P. ; Queiroz, Rubens T. de ; Arnan, Xavier (2018)
Effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance and rainfall on the specialization of ant-plant mutualistic networks in the Caatinga, a Brazilian dry forest.
In: The Journal of animal ecology, 87 (4)
Artikel, Bibliographie

Frank, Kevin (2018)
Land-use responses of dung beetle communities and their ecosystem services.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dissertation, Erstveröffentlichung

Chiste, Melanie N. ; Mody, Karsten ; Kunz, Gernot ; Gunczy, Johanna ; Blüthgen, Nico (2018)
Intensive land use drives small-scale homogenization of plant- and leafhopper communities and promotes generalists.
In: Oecologia, 186 (2)
doi: 10.1007/s00442-017-4031-0
Artikel, Bibliographie

Brückner, Adrian (2018)
Resources and oribatid mites: Effects on life history, chemical ecology, biochemistry and food selection.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dissertation, Erstveröffentlichung

Luan Klunk, Cristian ; Hettwer Giehl, Eduardo Luís ; Cortês Lopes, Benedito ; Rottgers Marcineiro, Frederico ; Baumgarten Rosumek, Félix (2018)
Simple does not mean poor: grasslands and forests harbor similar ant species richness and distinct composition in highlands of southern Brazil.
In: Biota Neotropica, 18 (3)
doi: 10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2017-0507
Artikel, Bibliographie

Rosumek, Felix B. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Brückner, Adrian ; Menzel, Florian ; Gebauer, Gerhard ; Heethoff, Michael (2018)
Unveiling community patterns and trophic niches of tropical and temperate ants using an integrative framework of field data, stable isotopes and fatty acids.
In: PeerJ, 6
doi: 10.7717/peerj.5467
Artikel, Bibliographie

Heethoff, Michael ; Brückner, Adrian ; Schmelzle, Sebastian ; Schubert, Mario ; Bräuer, Maria ; Meusinger, Reinhard ; Dötterl, Stefan ; Norton, Roy A. ; Raspotnig, Günther (2018)
Life as a fortress – structure, function, and adaptive values of morphological and chemical defense in the oribatid mite Euphthiracarus reticulatus (Actinotrichida).
In: BMC Zoology, 3
doi: 10.1186/s40850-018-0031-8
Artikel, Bibliographie

2017

Chisté, Melanie Nicole (2017)
Land-use mediated effects on communities and single species of herbivorous insects.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dissertation, Erstveröffentlichung

Mangels, Jule ; Fiedler, Konrad ; Schneider, Florian D. ; Blüthgen, Nico (2017)
Diversity and trait composition of moths respond to land-use intensification in grasslands: generalists replace specialists.
In: Biodiversity and Conservation, 26 (14)
Artikel, Bibliographie

Frank, Kevin ; Brückner, Adrian ; Hilpert, Andrea ; Heethoff, Michael ; Blüthgen, Nico (2017)
Nutrient quality of vertebrate dung as a diet for dung beetles.
In: Scientific reports, 7 (1)
Artikel, Bibliographie

Staab, Michael ; Fornoff, Felix ; Klein, Alexandra-Maria ; Blüthgen, Nico (2017)
Ants at Plant Wounds: A Little-Known Trophic Interaction with Evolutionary Implications for Ant-Plant Interactions.
In: The American naturalist, 190 (3)
Artikel, Bibliographie

Frank, Kevin ; Huelsmann, Marietta ; Assmann, Thorsten ; Schmitt, Thomas ; Blüthgen, Nico (2017)
Land use affects dung beetle communities and their ecosystem service in forests and grasslands.
In: Agriculture Ecosytems & Environment, (243)
Artikel, Bibliographie

Wurmitzer, Christin ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Krell, Frank-Thorsten ; Maldonado, Belen ; Ocampo, Frederico ; Müller, Josef K. ; Schmitt, Thomas (2017)
Attraction of dung beetles to herbivore dung and synthetic compounds in a comparative field study.
In: Chemoecology, 27 (2)
Artikel, Bibliographie

Kaluza, Benjamin F. ; Wallace, Helen ; Keller, Alexander ; Heard, Tim A. ; Jeffers, Bradley ; Drescher, Nora ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Leonhardt, Sara D. (2017)
Generalist social bees maximize diversity intake in plant species-rich and resource-abundant environments.
In: Ecosphere, 8 (3)
Artikel, Bibliographie

Kaiser-Bunbury, Christopher N. ; Mougal, James ; Whittington, Andrew E. ; Valentin, Terence ; Gabriel, Ronny ; Olesen, Jens M. ; Blüthgen, Nico (2017)
Ecosystem restoration strengthens pollination network resilience and function.
In: Nature, 542 (7640)
Artikel, Bibliographie

Staab, Michael ; Methorst, Joel ; Peters, Jan ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Klein, Alexandra-Maria (2017)
Tree diversity and nectar composition affect arthropod visitors on extrafloral nectaries in a diversity experiment.
In: Journal of Plant Ecology, 10 (1)
Artikel, Bibliographie

Kaemper, Wiebke ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Eltz, Thomas (2017)
Bumblebee footprints on bird's-foot trefoil uncover increasing flower visitation with land-use intensity.
In: Agriculture Ecosytems & Environment, 240
Artikel, Bibliographie

Mangels, Jule-Kristin (2017)
Land use and climate change: Anthropogenic effects on arthropod communities and functional traits.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dissertation, Erstveröffentlichung

Rosumek, Félix B. ; Brückner, Adrian ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Menzel, Florian ; Heethoff, Michael (2017)
Patterns and dynamics of neutral lipid fatty acids in ants – implications for ecological studies.
In: Frontiers in Zoology, 14 (1)
doi: 10.1186/s12983-017-0221-1
Artikel, Bibliographie

Nascimento, Fabio S. ; Brückner, Adrian ; Heethoff, Michael ; Blüthgen, Nico (2017)
The relationship between epicuticular long-chained hydrocarbons and surface area - volume ratios in insects (Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera).
In: PLOS ONE, 12 (4)
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175001
Artikel, Bibliographie

Brückner, Adrian ; Klompen, Hans ; Bruce, Andrew Iain ; Hashim, Rosli ; Beeren, Christoph von (2017)
Infection of army ant pupae by two new parasitoid mites (Mesostigmata: Uropodina).
In: PeerJ, 2017
doi: 10.7717/peerj.3870
Artikel, Bibliographie