Search Results - "Knop, Eva"
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Biotic homogenization of three insect groups due to urbanization
Published in Global change biology (01-01-2016)“…Cities are growing rapidly, thereby expected to cause a large‐scale global biotic homogenization. Evidence for the homogenization hypothesis is mostly derived…”
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landscape ecology approach identifies important drivers of urban biodiversity
Published in Global change biology (01-04-2015)“…Cities are growing rapidly worldwide, yet a mechanistic understanding of the impact of urbanization on biodiversity is lacking. We assessed the impact of…”
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Impact of artificial light at night on diurnal plant-pollinator interactions
Published in Nature communications (16-03-2021)“…Artificial light at night has rapidly spread around the globe over the last decades. Evidence is increasing that it has adverse effects on the behavior,…”
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Artificial light at night as a new threat to pollination
Published in Nature (London) (10-08-2017)“…The pollination service provided by nocturnal flower visitors is disrupted near streetlamps, which leads to a reduced reproductive output of the plant that…”
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Sensory pollution by artificial light: Implications for ecology and evolution
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The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: a quantitative synthesis
Published in Ecology letters (01-10-2020)“…Floral plantings are promoted to foster ecological intensification of agriculture through provisioning of ecosystem services. However, a comprehensive…”
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Effects of urbanization on direct and indirect interactions in a tri-trophic system
Published in Ecological applications (01-04-2016)“…While effects of urbanization on species assemblages are receiving increasing attention, effects on ecological interactions remain largely unexplored. We…”
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Different roles of concurring climate and regional land-use changes in past 40 years’ insect trends
Published in Nature communications (12-12-2022)“…Climate and land-use changes are main drivers of insect declines, but their combined effects have not yet been quantified over large spatiotemporal scales. We…”
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Phylogeographic past and invasive presence of Arion pest slugs in Europe
Published in Molecular ecology (01-11-2016)“…Arion vulgaris (syn. A. lusitanicus) is the most destructive pest slug in Europe. The species has been regarded a classic case of an ongoing biological…”
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Patterns of high-flying insect abundance are shaped by landscape type and abiotic conditions
Published in Scientific reports (13-09-2023)“…Insects are of increasing conservation concern as a severe decline of both biomass and biodiversity have been reported. At the same time, data on where and…”
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Pollen load, pollen species diversity and conspecific pollen carried by pollinators across 24-hour cycles
Published in Basic and applied ecology (01-08-2024)“…Plant-pollinator interactions are key for the reproduction of wild plants and for food security. However, the role nocturnal pollinators play in wild plant…”
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11 Pressing Research Questions on How Light Pollution Affects Biodiversity
Published in Frontiers in ecology and evolution (08-12-2021)“…Artificial light at night (ALAN) is closely associated with modern societies and is rapidly increasing worldwide. A dynamically growing body of literature…”
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Slimy invasion: Climatic niche and current and future biogeography of Arion slug invaders
Published in Diversity & distributions (01-11-2018)“…Aim The current volume of global trade has led to an unprecedented rate of biological invasions, causing severe problems to native ecosystems. The knowledge of…”
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Interactive effects of landscape context constrain the effectiveness of local agri-environmental management
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-06-2012)“…1. Ecological theory predicts that the effectiveness of local agri-environmental management to enhance species richness at field scales will be the highest at…”
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Endozoochory by slugs can increase bryophyte establishment and species richness
Published in Oikos (01-03-2015)“…Herbivory can affect plant community composition and diversity by removing biomass and reducing light competition. Herbivory may particularly benefit low…”
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Effectiveness of the Swiss Agri-Environment Scheme in Promoting Biodiversity
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-02-2006)“…1. Increasing concern over the loss of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes was one of the reasons for the introduction of agri-environment schemes in…”
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Gastropod seed dispersal: an invasive slug destroys far more seeds in its gut than native gastropods
Published in PloS one (25-09-2013)“…Seed dispersal is one of the most important mechanisms shaping biodiversity, and animals are one of the key dispersal vectors. Animal seed dispersal can…”
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Effect of conservation management on bees and insect-pollinated grassland plant communities in three European countries
Published in Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (15-02-2010)“…It is now widely accepted that agricultural intensification drives the decline of biodiversity and related ecosystem services like pollination. Conservation…”
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Bimodal activity of diurnal flower visitation at high elevation
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-10-2021)“…Successful pollination in animal‐pollinated plants depends on the temporal overlap between flower presentation and pollinator foraging activity. Variation in…”
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Rush hours in flower visitors over a day–night cycle
Published in Insect conservation and diversity (01-05-2018)“…Most research on pollination has focussed on a subset of insect taxa within a narrow time window during daylight hours. As a consequence, we have a limited…”
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