Publications 2016

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Kormann, U., Scherber, C., Tscharntke, T., Klein, N., Larbig, M., Valente, J.J., Hadley, A.S., Betts, M.G., 2016. Corridors restore animal-mediated pollination in fragmented tropical forest landscapes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283, 20152347. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.2347

Schlinkert, H., Westphal, C., Clough, Y., Grass, I., Helmerichs, J., Tscharntke, T., 2016. Plant size affects mutualistic and antagonistic interactions and reproductive success across 21 Brassicaceae species. Ecosphere 7, n/a-n/a. doi:10.1002/ecs2.1529


Marthy, W., Clough, Y., Tscharntke, T., 2016. Assessing the biodiversity value of degraded lowland forest in Sumatra, Indonesia. Kukila 19.


Meyer, S.T., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Hertzog, L., Hillebrand, H., Milcu, A., Pompe, S., Abbas, M., Bessler, H., Buchmann, N., De Luca, E., Engels, C., Fischer, M., Gleixner, G., Hudewenz, A., Klein, A.-M., de Kroon, H., Leimer, S., Loranger, H., Mommer, L., Oelmann, Y., Ravenek, J.M., Roscher, C., Rottstock, T., Scherber, C., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Scheu, S., Schmid, B., Schulze, E.-D., Staudler, A., Strecker, T., Temperton, V., Tscharntke, T., Vogel, A., Voigt, W., Weigelt, A., Wilcke, W., Weisser, W.W.,2016. Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity. Ecosphere 7, n/a-n/a. doi:10.1002/ecs2.1619


Hudson, L.N. et al. (>500 co-authors truncated) 2016. The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1002/ece3.2579 Open Access


Morante-Filho, J.C., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Lohbeck, M., Tscharntke, T., Faria, D., 2016. Tropical forest loss and its multitrophic effects on insect herbivory. Ecology 97, 3315-3325. doi:10.1002/ecy.1592


Gossner, M.M., Lewinsohn, T.M., Kahl, T., Grassein, F., Boch, S., Prati, D., Birkhofer, K., Renner, S.C., Sikorski, J., Wubet, T., Arndt, H., Baumgartner, V., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., Börschig, C., Buscot, F., Diekötter, T., Jorge, L.R., Jung, K., Keyel, A.C., Klein, A.-M., Klemmer, S., Krauss, J., Lange, M., Müller, J., Overmann, J., Pasalic, E., Penone, C., Perovic, D.J., Purschke, O., Schall, P., Socher, S.A., Sonnemann, I., Tschapka, M., Tscharntke, T., Türke, M., Venter, P.C., Weiner, C.N., Werner, M., Wolters, V., Wurst, S., Westphal, C., Fischer, M., Weisser, W.W., Allan, E., 2016. Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities. Nature advance online publication. doi:10.1038/nature20575


Geertsema, W., Rossing, W.A., Landis, D.A., Bianchi, F.J., van Rijn, P.C., Schaminée, J.H., Tscharntke, T., van der Werf, W., 2016. Actionable knowledge for ecological intensification of agriculture. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14, 209-216. doi:10.1002/fee.1258


Riechers, M., Noack, E.M., Tscharntke, T., 2016. Experts' versus laypersons' perception of urban cultural ecosystem services. Urban Ecosystems. doi:10.1007/s11252-016-0616-3


Madeira, F., Tscharntke, T., Elek, Z., Kormann, U.G., Pons, X., Rösch, V., Samu, F., Scherber, C., Batáry, P., 2016. Spillover of arthropods from cropland to protected calcareous grassland ? the neighbouring habitat matters. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 235, 127-133. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2016.10.012


Emmerson, M., Morales, M.B., Oñate, J.J., Batáry, P., Berendse, F., Liira, J., Aavik, T., Guerrero, I., Bommarco, R., Eggers, S., Pärt, T., Tscharntke, T., Weisser, W., Clement, L., Bengtsson, J., 2016. How Agricultural Intensification Affects Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, in: Advances in Ecological Research. Elsevier, pp. 43-97.


Nurdiansyah, F., Denmead, L.H., Clough, Y., Wiegand, K., Tscharntke, T., 2016. Biological control in Indonesian oil palm potentially enhanced by landscape context. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 232, 141-149. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2016.08.006


Clough, Y., Krishna, V.V., Corre, M.D., Darras, K., Denmead, L.H., Meijide, A., Moser, S., Musshoff, O., Steinebach, S., Veldkamp, E., Allen, K., Barnes, A.D., Breidenbach, N., Brose, U., Buchori, D., Daniel, R., Finkeldey, R., Harahap, I., Hertel, D., Holtkamp, A.M., Hörandl, E., Irawan, B., Jaya, I.N.S., Jochum, M., Klarner, B., Knohl, A., Kotowska, M.M., Krashevska, V., Kreft, H., Kurniawan, S., Leuschner, C., Maraun, M., Melati, D.N., Opfermann, N., Pérez-Cruzado, C., Prabowo, W.E., Rembold, K., Rizali, A., Rubiana, R., Schneider, D., Tjitrosoedirdjo, S.S., Tjoa, A., Tscharntke, T., Scheu, S., 2016. Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes. Nature Communications 7, 13137. doi:10.1038/ncomms13137


Tscharntke, T., Karp, D.S., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Batáry, P., DeClerck, F., Gratton, C., Hunt, L., Ives, A., Jonsson, M., Larsen, A., Martin, E.A., Martínez-Salinas, A., Meehan, T.D., O?Rourke, M., Poveda, K., Rosenheim, J.A., Rusch, A., Schellhorn, N., Wanger, T.C., Wratten, S., Zhang, W., 2016. When natural habitat fails to enhance biological pest control ? Five hypotheses. Biological Conservation. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.10.001


Chumacero de Schawe, C., Kessler, M., Hensen, I., Tscharntke, T., 2016. Abundance and diversity of flower visitors on wild and cultivated cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) in Bolivia. Agroforestry Systems. doi:10.1007/s10457-016-0019-8


Culbert, P.D., Dorresteijn, I., Loos, J., Clayton, M.K., Fischer, J., Kuemmerle, T., 2016. Legacy effects of past land use on current biodiversity in a low-intensity farming landscape in Transylvania (Romania). Landscape Ecology. doi:10.1007/s10980-016-0441-3


Steffen Boch, Eric Allan, Klaus Birkhofer, Oliver Bossdorf, Nico Blüthgen, Sabina Christ-Breulmann, Tim Diekötter, Carsten F. Dormann, Martin M. Gossner, Christine Hallmann, Andreas Hemp, Norbert Hölzel, Kirsten Jung, Valentin H. Klaus, Alexandra M. Klein, Till Kleinebecker, Markus Lange, Jörg Müller, Heiko Nacke, Daniel Prati, Swen C. Renner, Christoph Rothenwöhrer, Peter Schall, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Stephanie A. Socher, Teja Tscharntke, Manfred Türke, Christiane N. Weiner, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Catrin Westphal, Volkmar Wolters, Tesfaye Wubet und Markus Fischer, 2016. Extensive and inter-annual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity. Anliegen Natur. 38(1)


Soliveres, S., van der Plas, F., Manning, P., Prati, D., Gossner, M.M., Renner, S.C., Alt, F., Arndt, H., Baumgartner, V., Binkenstein, J., Birkhofer, K., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., Boch, S., Böhm, S., Börschig, C., Buscot, F., Diekötter, T., Heinze, J., Hölzel, N., Jung, K., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Klemmer, S., Krauss, J., Lange, M., Morris, E.K., Müller, J., Oelmann, Y., Overmann, J., Pasalic, E., Rillig, M.C., Schaefer, H.M., Schloter, M., Schmitt, B., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Sikorski, J., Socher, S.A., Solly, E.F., Sonnemann, I., Sorkau, E., Steckel, J., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stempfhuber, B., Tschapka, M., Türke, M., Venter, P.C., Weiner, C.N., Weisser, W.W., Werner, M., Westphal, C., Wilcke, W., Wolters, V., Wubet, T., Wurst, S., Fischer, M., Allan, E., 2016. Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature19092


Nurdiansyah, F., Denmead, L.H., Clough, Y., Wiegand, K., Tscharntke, T. , 2016. Biological control in Indonesian oil palm potentially enhanced by landscape context. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 232, 141-149. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2016.08.006


De Palma, A., Abrahamczyk, S., Aizen, M.A., Albrecht, M., Basset, Y., Bates, A., Blake, R.J., Boutin, C., Bugter, R., Connop, S., Cruz-López, L., Cunningham, S.A., Darvill, B., Diekötter, T., Dorn, S., Downing, N., Entling, M.H., Farwig, N., Felicioli, A., Fonte, S.J., Fowler, R., Franzén, M., Goulson, D., Grass, I., Hanley, M.E., Hendrix, S.D., Herrmann, F., Herzog, F., Holzschuh, A., Jauker, B., Kessler, M., Knight, M.E., Kruess, A., Lavelle, P., Le Féon, V., Lentini, P., Malone, L.A., Marshall, J., Pachón, E.M., McFrederick, Q.S., Morales, C.L., Mudri-Stojnic, S., Nates-Parra, G., Nilsson, S.G., Öckinger, E., Osgathorpe, L., Parra-H, A., Peres, C.A., Persson, A.S., Petanidou, T., Poveda, K., Power, E.F., Quaranta, M., Quintero, C., Rader, R., Richards, M.H., Roulston, T., Rousseau, L., Sadler, J.P., Samnegård, U., Schellhorn, N.A., Schüepp, C., Schweiger, O., Smith-Pardo, A.H., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stout, J.C., Tonietto, R.K., Tscharntke, T., Tylianakis, J.M., Verboven, H.A.F., Vergara, C.H., Verhulst, J., Westphal, C., Yoon, H.J., Purvis, A., 2016. Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes: Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases. Scientific Reports 6, 31153. doi:10.1038/srep31153 Open Access


Dislich, C., Keyel, A.C., Salecker, J., Kisel, Y., Meyer, K.M., Auliya, M., Barnes, A.D., Corre, M.D., Darras, K., Faust, H., Hess, B., Klasen, S., Knohl, A., Kreft, H., Meijide, A., Nurdiansyah, F., Otten, F., Peer, G., Steinebach, S., Tarigan, S., Tölle, M.H., Tscharntke, T., Wiegand, K. 2017. A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system. Biol Rev 92, 1539?1569. doi:10.1111/brv.12295 Open Access


Toledo-Hernández, M., Denmead, L.H., Clough, Y., Raffiudin, R., Tscharntke, T., 2016. Cultural homegarden management practices mediate arthropod communities in Indonesia. J Insect Conserv 1-10. doi:10.1007/s10841-016-9871-0


Hanspach, J., Loos, J., Dorresteijn, I., Abson, D.J., Fischer, J., 2016. Characterizing social-ecological units to inform biodiversity conservation in cultural landscapes. Diversity Distrib. 22, 853-864. doi:10.1111/ddi.12449



Darras, K., Pütz, P., Fahrurrozi, Rembold, K., Tscharntke, T.. Measuring Sound Detection Spaces for Acoustic Animal Sampling and Monitoring. Biological Conservation 201 (September 2016): 29-37. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.06.021.



Prabowo, W.E., Darras, K., Clough, Y., Toledo-Hernandez, M., Arlettaz, R., Mulyani, Y.A., Tscharntke, T. Bird Responses to Lowland Rainforest Conversion in Sumatran Smallholder Landscapes, Indonesia. PLOS ONE 11, no. 5 (May 25, 2016): e0154876. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154876. Open Access


Schlinkert H, Ludwig M, Batáry P, Holzschuh A, Kovács-Hostyánszki A, Tscharntke T, Fischer C (2016): Forest specialist and generalist small mammals in forest edges and hedges. Wildlife Biology 22 (3): 86-94. Open Access


Drescher J, Rembold K, Allen K, Beckschäfer P, Buchori D, Clough Y, Faust H, Fauzi AM, Gunawan D, Hertel D, Irawan B, Jaya INS, Klarner B, Kleinn C, Knohl A, Kotowska MM, Krashevska V, Krishna V, Leuschner C, Lorenz W, Meijide A, Melati D, Nomura M, Pérez-Cruzado C, Qaim M, Siregar IZ, Steinebach S, Tjoa A, Tscharntke T, Wick B, Wiegand K, Kreft H, Scheu S (2016): Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 371: 20150275; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0275.


Normann C, Tscharntke T, Scherber C (2016): How forest edge - center transitions in the herb layer interact with beech dominance versus tree diversity. Plant Ecol: doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtw004.


Grass I, Albrecht J, Jauker F, Diekötter T, Warzecha D, Wolters V, Farwig N (2016): Much more than bees - Wildflower plantings support highly diverse flower-visitor communities from complex to structurally simple agricultural landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 225: 45-53.


Motzke I, Klein A-M, Saleh S, Wanger T, Tscharntke T (2016): Habitat management on multiple spatial scales can enhance bee pollination and crop yield in tropical homegardens. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 223: 144-151.


Gras P, Tscharntke T, Maas B, Tjoa A, Hafsah A, Clough Y (2016): How ants, birds and bats affect crop yield along shade gradients in tropical cacao agroforestry. Journal of Applied Ecology 53: 953-963.


Venjakob C, Klein A-M, Ebeling A., Tscharntke T, Scherber C (2016): Plant diversity increases spatio-temporal niche complementarity in plant-pollinator interactions. Ecol Evol 6: 2249-2261. doi:10.1002/ece3.2026


Tiede J, Wemheuer B, Traugott M, Daniel R, Tscharntke T, Ebeling A, Scherber C (2016): Trophic and Non-Trophic Interactions in a Biodiversity Experiment Assessed by Next-Generation Sequencing. PlosOne 11(2): http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148781.


Rusch A, Chaplin-Kramer R, Gardiner MM, Hawro V, Holland J, Landis D, Thies C, Tscharntke T, Weisser WW, Winqvist C, Woltz M, Bommarco R (2016): Agricultural landscape simplification reduces natural pest control: A quantitative synthesis. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 221: 198-204.


Williams-Guillén K, Olimpi E, Maas B, Taylor PJ, Arlettaz R (2016): Bats in the Anthropogenic Matrix: Challenges and Opportunities for the Conservation of Chiroptera and Their Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes. C.C. Voigt and T. Kingston (eds.): Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9_6.


Normann C, Tscharntke T, Scherber C (2016): Interacting effects of forest stratum, edge and tree diversity on beetles. Forest Ecology and Management 361: 421-431.


Riechers M, Barkmann J, Tscharntke T (2016): Perceptions of cultural ecosystem services from urban green. Ecosystem Services 17: 33-39.