Search filters

List of works by Nico Blüthgen

<i>Bracon</i> wasps for ecological pest control-a laboratory experiment

scientific article published on 27 May 2021

A Sticky Affair: Resin Collection by Bornean Stingless Bees

scientific article published on 02 July 2009

A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

scientific article published in 2012

A remarkable legion of guests: Diversity and host specificity of army ant symbionts

scientific article published in 2021

An automated device for the digitization and 3D modelling of insects, combining extended-depth-of-field and all-side multi-view imaging. ⬇️

scientific article

Animal-Mediated Ecosystem Process Rates in Forests and Grasslands are Affected by Climatic Conditions and Land-Use Intensity

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

Ant-Plant Mutualism in Hawai‘i? Invasive Ants Reduce Flower Parasitism but also Exploit Floral Nectar of the Endemic Shrub Vaccinium reticulatum (Ericaceae)

scientific article published on 18 July 2011

Anthropogenic disturbance and rainfall variation threaten the stability of plant–ant interactions in the Brazilian Caatinga

scientific article published in 2019

Ants at Plant Wounds: A Little-Known Trophic Interaction with Evolutionary Implications for Ant-Plant Interactions

scientific article

Aphis clerodendri Matsumura (Hemiptera: Aphididae), attendant ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and associates on Clerodendrum (Verbenaceae) in Australia

scientific article published in April 2003

Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Assessing mowing intensity: A new index incorporating frequency, type of machinery, and technique

scientific article published in 2024

Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article

Biological Invasions and Ant- Flower Networks on Islands

Bottom-up control and co-occurrence in complex communities: honeydew and nectar determine a rainforest ant mosaic

scientific article published on 05 July 2004

Chemical profiles of body surfaces and nests from six Bornean stingless bee species

scientific article published on 17 December 2010

Competition can lead to unexpected patterns in tropical ant communities

article

Contrasting effects of grassland management modes on species-abundance distributions of multiple groups

article

Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

scientific article published on 24 June 2021

Contrasting specialization–stability relationships in plant–animal mutualistic systems

scientific article published on 09 April 2013

Correction to: Multiple phenotypic traits as triggers of host attacks towards ant symbionts: body size, morphological gestalt, and chemical mimicry accuracy

scientific article published on 11 January 2022

Crematoenones - a novel substance class exhibited by ants functions as appeasement signal

scientific article

Cross-scale effects of land use on the functional composition of herbivorous insect communities

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Defensive behavior and chemical deterrence against ants in the stingless bee genus <i>Trigona</i> (Apidae, Meliponini)

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

Dependency on floral resources determines the animals' responses to floral scents

scientific article published on August 2010

Dietary and Temporal Niche Differentiation in Tropical Ants-Can They Explain Local Ant Coexistence?

Differences in prey availability across space and time lead to interaction rewiring and reshape a predator–prey metaweb

scientific article published on 19 May 2022

Disentangling a rainforest food web using stable isotopes: dietary diversity in a species-rich ant community

scientific article

Disentangling how urbanisation influences moth diversity in grasslands

scientific article published in March 2024

Diversity and trait composition of moths respond to land-use intensification in grasslands: generalists replace specialists

article

Does prey mobility affect niche width and individual specialization in hunting wasps? A network-based analysis

article

Drought, windthrow and forest operations strongly affect oribatid mite communities in different microhabitats

scientific article published on 18 August 2021

Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2016)

Ecological networks--beyond food webs.

scientific article

Ecological networks: delving into the architecture of biodiversity

scientific article published on 8 January 2014

Ecology: Mammals, interaction networks and the relevance of scale

scientific article published on 12 July 2021

Ecosystem restoration strengthens pollination network resilience and function.

scientific article

Effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance and rainfall on the specialization of ant-plant mutualistic networks in the Caatinga, a Brazilian dry forest

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Effects of native pollinator specialization, self-compatibility and flowering duration of European plant species on their invasiveness elsewhere

article

Eleven years' data of grassland management in Germany

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Extrafloral nectaries in an Australian rainforest: structure and distribution

scientific article published in 2003

Floral Scent Terpenoids Deter the Facultative Florivore<i>Metrioptera bicolor</i>(Ensifera, Tettigoniidae, Decticinae)

scientific article published in 2010

Floral scents repel facultative flower visitors, but attract obligate ones

scientific article (publication date: May 2010)

Flower power in the city: Replacing roadside shrubs by wildflower meadows increases insect numbers and reduces maintenance costs

scientific article published on 09 June 2020

Flowers with poricidal anthers and their complex interaction networks-Disentangling legitimate pollinators and illegitimate visitors

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Foliage-dwelling ants in a neotropical savanna: effects of plant and insect exudates on ant communities

scientific article published on 18 March 2016

Food and Shelter: How Resources Influence Ant Ecology

Food resource exploitation and functional resilience in ant communities found in common Mediterranean habitats

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Foraging loads of stingless bees and utilisation of stored nectar for pollen harvesting

scientific article published on 15 January 2007

Forest gaps increase true bug diversity by recruiting open land species

scientific article published in 2023

Functional and phylogenetic diversity of plant communities differently affect the structure of flower-visitor interactions and reveal convergences in floral traits

article

Functional complementarity and specialisation: The role of biodiversity in plant–pollinator interactions

scientific article published on 10 December 2010

Functional structure and specialization in three tropical plant-hummingbird interaction networks across an elevational gradient in Costa Rica

article

Generalist social bees maximize diversity intake in plant species-rich and resource-abundant environments

scientific article published in March 2017

Genetic relatedness and chemical profiles in an unusually peaceful eusocial bee.

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

Genomic basis for drought resistance in European beech forests threatened by climate change

article by Markus Pfenninger et al published 16 June 2021 in eLife

Global dung webs: high trophic generalism of dung beetles along the latitudinal diversity gradient

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

Grassland management intensification weakens the associations among the diversities of multiple plant and animal taxa

article

Hawaiian ant–flower networks: nectar-thieving ants prefer undefended native over introduced plants with floral defenses

article

Herbicide application as a habitat restoration tool: impact on native island plant communities

scientific article published on 19 June 2015

High diversity stabilizes the thermal resilience of pollinator communities in intensively managed grasslands

scientific article

High land-use intensity in grasslands constrains wild bee species richness in Europe

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Host specificity in a diverse Neotropical tick community: an assessment using quantitative network analysis and host phylogeny

scientific article

How land-use intensity affects sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites in temperate forests and grasslands in Germany

scientific article published on 10 February 2021

How landscape, pollen intake and pollen quality affect colony growth in Bombus terrestris

scientific article published in 2016

How plants shape the ant community in the Amazonian rainforest canopy: the key role of extrafloral nectaries and homopteran honeydew

scientific article

Impact of herbivore preference on the benefit of plant trait variability

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Impact of plant defense level variability on specialist and generalist herbivores

scientific article published in 2020

Indices, Graphs and Null Models: Analyzing Bipartite Ecological Networks

article

Influence of Prey Availability in the Dissimilarity of Predator–Prey Interactions

scientific article published in July 2022

Insights from regional and short‐term biodiversity monitoring datasets are valuable: a reply to Daskalova <i>et al</i>. 2021

scientific article published in 2021

Integrating network ecology with applied conservation: a synthesis and guide to implementation

scientific article published on 10 July 2015

Intensive land use drives small-scale homogenization of plant- and leafhopper communities and promotes generalists

scientific article

Interaction between flowers, ants and pollinators: additional evidence for floral repellence against ants

scientific article published on 27 November 2006

Interactions between weaver ants Oecophylla smaragdina, homopterans, trees and lianas in an Australian rain forest canopy

article

Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity

scientific article

Interspecific Aggression and Resource Monopolization of the Invasive Ant Anoplolepis gracilipes in Malaysian Borneo

Land use affects dung beetle communities and their ecosystem service in forests and grasslands

scholarly article by Kevin Frank et al published June 2017 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Land use imperils plant and animal community stability through changes in asynchrony rather than diversity

scientific article

Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

scientific article published on 22 June 2015

Land use intensification results in abrupt transitions between contrasting grassland states

Land use intensity in grasslands: Changes in biodiversity, species composition and specialisation in flower visitor networks

scientific article published on 28 September 2010

Land-use impacts on plant-pollinator networks: interaction strength and specialization predict pollinator declines

scientific article

Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

scientific article

Landscape complexity promotes resilience of biological pest control to climate change

scientific article published on 26 May 2021

Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

Land‐use in Europe affects land snail assemblages directly and indirectly by modulating abiotic and biotic drivers

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published in May 2016

Logging and forest edges reduce redundancy in plant-frugivore networks in an old-growth European forest

article

Losers, winners, and opportunists: How grassland land-use intensity affects orthopteran communities

article published in 2016

Measuring specialization in species interaction networks

scientific article

Morphological traits determine specialization and resource use in plant–hummingbird networks in the neotropics

article

Multiple effects of mutualistic ants improve the performance of a neotropical ant-plant: A long-term study with the Cecropia-Azteca system

scientific article published on 27 September 2021

Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Multiple phenotypic traits as triggers of host attacks towards ant symbionts: body size, morphological gestalt, and chemical mimicry accuracy

scientific article published on 19 September 2021

Narrow environmental niches predict land-use responses and vulnerability of land snail assemblages

scientific article published on 01 February 2021

National Forest Inventories capture the multifunctionality of managed forests in Germany

scientific article published on 27 January 2021

Negative effects of forest gaps on dung removal in a full‐factorial experiment

scientific article published in 2022

Networking Agroecology

scientific article published in 2013

Nutrient concentrations and fibre contents of plant community biomass reflect species richness patterns along a broad range of land-use intensities among agricultural grasslands

article

Nutrient quality of vertebrate dung as a diet for dung beetles

scientific article published on 22 September 2017

Nutrients or resin? – The relationship between resin and food foraging in stingless bees

scientific article published in 2024

Odontomachus davidsoni sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), a new conspicuous trap-jaw ant from Ecuador

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Patterns and dynamics of neutral lipid fatty acids in ants - implications for ecological studies

scientific article

Phytochemical cues affect hunting-site choices of a nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis) but not a crab spider (Misumena vatia)

article

Pollen amino acids and flower specialisation in solitary bees

scientific article published on 18 January 2010

Pollinator diversity and specialization in relation to flower diversity

scientific article published in 2010

Population dynamics of plant and pollinator communities: stability reconsidered.

scientific article published on 19 December 2011

Population structure and intraspecific aggression in the invasive ant species Anoplolepis gracilipes in Malaysian Borneo

scientific article

Potential role of environmentally derived cuticular compounds in stingless bees

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

Predatory arthropods in apple orchards across Europe: Responses to agricultural management, adjacent habitat, landscape composition and country

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Preferences for sugars and amino acids and their conditionality in a diverse nectar-feeding ant community

scientific article published on 27 December 2004

Present and historical landscape structure shapes current species richness in Central European grasslands

scientific article published on 12 January 2022

Resilience of ecosystem processes: a new approach shows that functional redundancy of biological control services is reduced by landscape simplification

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Resilience to fire and climate seasonality drive the temporal dynamics of ant-plant interactions in a fire-prone ecosystem

scientific article published in 2018

Responses to olfactory signals reflect network structure of flower-visitor interactions

scientific article

Seed size and pubescence facilitate secondary dispersal by dung beetles

scientific article published on 06 December 2021

Seed type, habitat and time of day influence post-dispersal seed removal in temperate ecosystems

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

Seeing through the static: the temporal dimension of plant-animal mutualistic interactions

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Shifts from non‐obligate generalists to obligate specialists in simulations of mutualistic network assembly

scientific article published in 2023

Societies drifting apart? Behavioural, genetic and chemical differentiation between supercolonies in the yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes

scientific article

Specialization and interaction strength in a tropical plant-frugivore network differ among forest strata

scientific article

Specialization and phenological synchrony of plant-pollinator interactions along an altitudinal gradient

scientific article

Specialization of mutualistic interaction networks decreases toward tropical latitudes

scientific article

Specialization of oribatid mites to forest microhabitats—the enigmatic role of litter

scientific article published in 2016

Specialization on traits as basis for the niche‐breadth of flower visitors and as structuring mechanism of ecological networks

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Specialization, constraints, and conflicting interests in mutualistic networks

scientific article

Species abundance and asymmetric interaction strength in ecological networks

scientific article published in July 2007

Species abundance and asymmetric interaction strength in ecological networks

article

Species-level predation network uncovers high prey specificity in a Neotropical army ant community

scientific article published on 02 May 2019

Stratification and recovery time jointly shape ant functional reassembly in a Neotropical forest

scientific article published on 7 February 2023

Studying the Complex Communities of Ants and Their Symbionts Using Ecological Network Analysis

scientific article published on March 2016

Surface area - volume ratios in insects

scientific article published on 28 May 2016

The day after mowing: Time and type of mowing influence grassland arthropods

scientific article published in 2024

The relation between circadian asynchrony, functional redundancy, and trophic performance in tropical ant communities.

scientific article

The relationship between epicuticular long-chained hydrocarbons and surface area - volume ratios in insects (Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera).

scientific article

The same, but different: pollen foraging in honeybee and bumblebee colonies

scientific article published on 20 December 2011

The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales

scientific article published in 2022

Thermal Characterization of European Ant Communities Along Thermal Gradients and Its Implications for Community Resilience to Temperature Variability

scientific article published in 2015

Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity-multifunctionality relationships

article by Fons van der Plas et al published 27 August 2018 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Tree Species Composition and Harvest Intensity Affect Herbivore Density and Leaf Damage on Beech, Fagus sylvatica, in Different Landscape Contexts

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Tree diversity alters the structure of a tri-trophic network in a biodiversity experiment

scientific article published in 2014

Tree diversity and nectar composition affect arthropod visitors on extrafloral nectaries in a diversity experiment

article

Tree diversity increases robustness of multi-trophic interactions

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

Tree resin composition, collection behavior and selective filters shape chemical profiles of tropical bees (Apidae: Meliponini)

scientific article published in 2011

Tripartite networks show that keystone species can multitask

preprint

Trophobioses on Borneo Climbing Bamboo – diversity and ecology of ant-hemipteran associations on Dinochloa trichogona (Poaceae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2007

Tropical parabiotic ants: Highly unusual cuticular substances and low interspecific discrimination

scientific article published on 20 October 2008

Under pressure: force resistance measurements in box mites (Actinotrichida, Oribatida)

scientific article published on 04 July 2019

Uniting pattern and process in plant-animal mutualistic networks: a review

scientific article published on 21 March 2009

Unravelling insect declines: can space replace time?

scientific article published on 20 April 2022

Unveiling community patterns and trophic niches of tropical and temperate ants using an integrative framework of field data, stable isotopes and fatty acids

scientific article published on 22 August 2018

Using ecophysiological traits to predict climatic and activity niches: lethal temperature and water loss in Mediterranean ants

scientific article published in 2015

What do interaction network metrics tell us about specialization and biological traits?

scientific article

When can plant-pollinator interactions promote plant diversity?

scientific article

Will I stay or will I go? Plant species‐specific response and tolerance to high land‐use intensity in temperate grassland ecosystems

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Paulina is supported by:

About Paulina

Help