Publications 2012

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Tscharntke T (2012): Pflanzenbauliches Handeln bestimmt Biodiversität und assoziierte Ökosystemdienstleistungen in Agrarökosystemen. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Pflanzenbauwissenschaften 24: 17–20.   OPEN ACCESS


Purger JJ, Kurucz K, Csuka SZ, Batáry P (2012): Do different plasticine eggs in artifical ground nests influence nest survival? Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 58 (4): 369–378.  


Batáry P, Kovács-Hostyánszki A, Fischer C, Tscharntke T, Holzschuh A (2012): Contrasting effect of isolation of hedges from forests on farmland vs. woodland birds. Community Ecology 13 (2): 155-161.   Supplementary Information


Tscharntke T, Batáry P, Clough Y, Kleijn D, Scherber C, Thies C, Wanger TC, Westphal C (2012): Combining biodiversity conservation with agricultural intensification. Book chapter in: Lindenmayer D, Cunningham S, Young A (2012) Land Use Intensification. Effects on Agriculture, Biodiversity and Ecological Processes. CRC Press / CSIRO Publishing, ISBN 9780643104075.


Kessler M, Hertel D, Jungkunst HF, Kluge J, Abrahamczyk S, Bos M, Buchori D, Gerold G, Gradstein SR, Köhler S, Leuschner C, Moser G, Pitopang R, Saleh S, Schulze CH, Sporn SG, Steffan-Dewenter I, Tjitrosoedirdjo SS, Tscharntke T (2012):Can Joint Carbon and Biodiversity Management in Tropical Agroforestry Landscapes Be Optimized? PLOS ONE 7. OPEN ACCESS


Jackson LE, Pulleman MM, Brussaard L, Bawa KS, Brown GG, Cardoso IM, de Ruiter PC, García-Barrios L, Hollander AD, Lavelle P, Ouédraogo E, Pascual U, Setty S, Smukler SM, Tscharntke T, Van Noordwijk M (2012): Social-ecological and regional adaptation of agrobiodiversity management across a global set of research regions. Global Environmental Change 22: 623–639.


Ludwig M, Schlinkert H, Holzschuh A, Fischer C, Scherber C, Trnka A, Tscharntke T, Batáry P (2012): Landscape-moderated bird nest predation in hedges and forest edges. Acta Oecologica 45: 50-56. Supplementary Information


Schleuning M, Fründ J, Klein AM, Abrahamczyk S, Alarcón R, Albrecht M, Andersson GKS, Bazarian S, Böhning-Gaese K, Bommarco R, Dalsgaard B, Dehling DM, Gotlieb A, Hagen M, Hickler T, Holzschuh A, Kaiser-Bunbury CN, Kreft H, Morris RJ, Sandel B, Sutherland WJ, Svenning J-C, Tscharntke T, Watts S, Weiner CN, Werner M, Williams NM, Winqvist C, Dormann CF, Blüthgen N (2012): Specialization of Mutualistic Interaction Networks Decreases toward Tropical Latitudes. Current Biology 22: 1–7. Supplementary Information
highlighted in Current Biology | Dispatch: 22, pp. R914-R915 (6 Nov 2012)


Laurance WF et al. (2012): Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. Nature 489: 290-294. DOI:10.1038/nature11318. Supplementary Information


Brown G, Scherber C, Ramos Jr. P, Ebrahim EK (2012): The effects of harvester ant (Messor ebeninus Forel) nests on vegetation and soil properties in a desert dwarf shrub community in north-eastern Arabia. Flora 207: 503–511.


Holzschuh A, Dudenhöffer J-H, Tscharntke T (2012): Landscapes with wild bee habitats enhance pollination, fruit set and yield of sweet cherry. Biological Conservation 153: 101–107.


Guerrero I, Morales MB, Oñate JJ, Geiger F, Berendse F, de Snoo G, Eggers S, Pärt T, Bengtsson J, Clement LW, Weisser WW, Olszewski A, Ceryngier P, Hawro V, Liira J, Aavik T, Fischer C, Flohre A, Thies C, Tscharntke T (2012): Response of ground-nesting farmland birds to agricultural intensification across Europe: Landscape and field level management factors. Biological Conservation 152: 74–80.


Motzke I, Wanger TC, Zanre E, Tscharntke T, Barkmann J (2012): Socio-economic context of forest biodiversity use along a town-forest gradient in Cambodia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 25: 29–45. OPEN ACCESS


Herrmann JD, Kormann U, Schüepp C, Stocker Y, Herzog F, Entling MH (2012): Effects of habitat isolation and predation pressure on an arboreal food-web. Community Ecology 13 (1): 82-87.


Kormann U, Gugerli F, Ray N, Excoffier L, Bollmann K (2012): Parsimony-based pedigree analysis and individual-based landscape genetics suggest topography to restrict dispersal and connectivity in the endangered capercaillie. Biological Conservation 152: 241–252.


Scherber C, Lavandero B , Meyer KM, Perovic D, Visser U , Wiegand K, Tscharntke T (2012): Scale effects in biodiversity and biological control: Methods and statistical analysis. Biodiversity and Insect Pests: Key Issues for Sustainable Management, First Edition. Edited by Gurr GM, Wratten SD, Snyder WE, Read DMY. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Gagic V, Hänke S, Thies C, Scherber C, Tomanovic Z, Tscharntke T (2012): Agricultural intensification and cereal aphid–parasitoid–hyperparasitoid food webs: network complexity, temporal variability and parasitism rates. Oecologia 170: 1099-1109.


Blüthgen N, Dormann CF, Prati D, Klaus VH, Kleinebecker T, Hölzel N, Alte F, Boch S, Gockel S, Hemp A, Müller J, Nieschulze J, Renner SC, Schöning I, Schumacher U, Socher SA, Wells K, Birkhofer K, Buscot F, OelmannY, Rothenwöhrer C, Scherber C, Tscharntke T, Weinern CN, Fischer M, Kalko EKV, Linsenmair KL, Schulze ED, Weisser WW (2012): A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization. Basic and Applied Ecology 13: 207–220.


Ebeling A, Klein AM, Weisser WW, Tscharntke T (2012): Multitrophic effects of experimental changes in plant diversity on cavity-nesting bees, wasps, and their parasitoids. Oecologia 169: 453–465.


Stevnbak K, Scherber C, Gladbach DJ, Beier C, Mikkelsen TN, Christensen S (2012): Interactions between above- and belowground organisms modified in climate change experiments. Nature Climate Change DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1544. supplements OPEN ACCESS
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Purger JJ, Kurucz K, Tóth A, Batáry P (2012): Coating plasticine eggs can eliminate the overestimation of predation on artificial ground nests. Bird Study 59: 350–352.


Hudewenz A, Klein AM, Scherber C, Stanke L, Tscharntke T, Vogel A, Weigelt A, Weisser WW, Ebeling A (2012): Herbivore and pollinator responses to grassland management intensity along experimental changes in plant species richness. Biological Conservation 150: 42-52.


Concepción ED, Díaz M, Kleijn D, Báldi A, Batáry P, Clough Y, Gabriel G, Herzog F, Holzschuh A, Knop E, Marshall EJP, Tscharntke T, Verhulst J (2012): Interactive effects of landscape context constrain the effectiveness of local agri-environmental management. Journal of Applied Ecology 49: 695–705. Supplementary Material


Tscharntke T, Clough Y, Wanger TC, Jackson L, Motzke I, Perfecto I, Vandermeer J, Whitbread A (2012): Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification. Biological Conservation 151: 53–59.
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Clough Y (2012): A generalized approach to modeling and estimating indirect effects in ecology. Ecology 93(8): 1809-1815.

Körösi A, Örvössy M, Batáry P, Harnos A, Peregovits L (2012): Different habitat selection by two sympatric Maculinea butterflies at small spatial scale. Insect Conservation and Diversity 5: 118–126. OPEN ACCESS

Wielgoss A, Clough Y, Fiala B, Rumede A, Tscharntke T (2012): A minor pest reduces yield losses by a major pest:plant-mediated herbivore interactions in Indonesian cacao. Journal of Applied Ecology 49: 465-473.

Poveda K, Martínez E, Kersch-Becker MF, Bonilla MA, Tscharntke T (2012): Landscape simplification and altitude affect biodiversity, herbivory and Andean potato yield. Journal of Applied Ecology 49: 513–522.

Armengot L, Sans FX, Fischer C, Flohre A, José-María L, Tscharntke T, Thies C (2012): The ß-diversity of arable weed communities on organic and conventional cereal farms in two contrasting regions. Applied Vegetation Science 15: 571–579. DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2012.01190.x. Editors' Award for 2012

Rand TA, van Veen FJF, Tscharntke T (2012): Landscape complexity differentially benefi ts generalized fourth, over specialized third, trophic level natural enemies. Ecography 35: 97–104.

Jauker F, Bondarenko B, Becker HC, Steffan-Dewenter I (2012): Pollination efficiency of wild bees and hoverflies provided to oilseed rape. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 14: 81–87.

Tscharntke T, Tylianakis JM, Rand TA, Didham RK, Fahrig L, Batáry P, Bengtsson J, Clough Y, Crist TO, Dormann CF, Ewers RW, Fründ J, Holt RD, Holzschuh A, Klein AM, Kleijn D, Kremen C, Landis DA, Laurance W, Lindenmayer D, Scherber C, Sodhi N, Steffan-Dewenter I, Thies C, van der Putten WH, Westphal C (2012): Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses. Biological Reviews 87: 661-685.
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Blitzer EJ, Dormann CF, Holzschuh A, Klein A-M, Rand TA, Tscharntke T (2012): Spillover of functionally important organisms between managed and natural habitats. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 146: 34–43.

Batáry P, Holzschuh A, Orci KM, Samu F, Tscharntke T (2012): Responses of plant, insect and spider biodiversity to local and landscape scale management intensity in cereal crops and grasslands. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 146: 130-136. Supplementary Material

Körösi A, Batáry P, Orosz A, Rédei D, Báldi A (2012): Effects of grazing, vegetation structure and landscape complexity on grassland leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) and true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Hungary. Insect Conservation and Diversity 5: 57-66. supplements OPEN ACCESS

Stenchly K, Clough Y, Tscharntke T (2012): Spider species richness in cocoa agroforestry systems, comparing vertical strata, local management and distance to forest. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 149: 189-194.

Rand TA, van Veen FJF, Tscharntke T (2012): Landscape complexity differentially benefits generalized fourth, over specialized third, trophic level natural enemies. Ecography 35: 97–104.