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List of works by Klaus Birkhofer

A framework to identify indicator species for ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes

scientific article published in 2018

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

scientific article published in 2012

A replicated study on the response of spider assemblages to regional and local processes

scientific article published on 7 April 2022

Agri-environmental schemes affect the trophic niche size and diet of common carabid species in agricultural landscapes

scientific article published on 16 September 2018

Agricultural Land Use Determines the Trait Composition of Ground Beetle Communities

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

Agricultural land use affects abundance and dispersal tendency of predatory arthropods

scientific article published on 05 November 2016

An estimated 400-800 million tons of prey are annually killed by the global spider community

scientific article published on 14 March 2017

Arable weeds in organically managed wheat fields foster carabid beetles by resource- and structure-mediated effects

scientific article published in 2011

Arthropod food webs in organic and conventional wheat farming systems of an agricultural long-term experiment: a stable isotope approach

scientific article published on 26 January 2011

Assessing spatiotemporal predator–prey patterns in heterogeneous habitats

scholarly article by Klaus Birkhofer et al published September 2010 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Assessing spider diversity on the forest floor: expert knowledge beats systematic design

article by Elvira Sereda et al published April 2014 in Journal of Arachnology

Bericht vom 24. Europäischen Kongress der Arachnologie in Bern (25.–29.8.2008)

scientific article published in 2008

Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article

Can δD and δ18O stable isotopes be used to detect long-range dispersal among carabid beetles?

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

Characterisation of Metarhizium majus (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) isolated from the Western Cape Province, South Africa

scientific article published on 19 February 2021

Climatic conditions and functional traits affect spider diets in agricultural and non‐agricultural habitats worldwide

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Contrasting diversity patterns of epigeic arthropods between grasslands of high and low agronomic potential

scientific article published in 2010

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

scientific article published on 24 June 2021

Conventional agriculture and not drought alters relationships between soil biota and functions

scientific article published on 14 December 2021

Corrigendum to “Landscape and management effects on structure and function of soil arthropod communities in winter wheat” [Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 137 (1–2) (2010) 108–112]

scientific article published in 2014

Crop diversity benefits carabid and pollinator communities in landscapes with semi‐natural habitats

scientific article published in 2020

Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Density-dependent and -independent effects on the joint use of space by predators and prey in terrestrial arthropod food-webs

scientific article published on 27 October 2011

Design and Manual to Construct Rainout-Shelters for Climate Change Experiments in Agroecosystems

scholarly article published on 22 March 2018

Diet of generalist predators reflects effects of cropping period and farming system on extra- and intraguild prey

scientific article

Distance functions of carabids in crop fields depend on functional traits, crop type and adjacent habitat: a synthesis

scientific article published on 10 January 2024

Disturbance by invasive pathogenic fungus alters arthropod predator–prey food‐webs in ash plantations

scientific article

Ecosystem services—current challenges and opportunities for ecological research

scientific article published in 2015

Effects of extreme climatic events on small-scale spatial patterns: a 20-year study of the distribution of a desert spider

scientific article

Effects of post-mining forest restoration and alternative land uses on ground-dwelling arthropods in Ghana

scientific article published in 2023

Effects of predator specialization, host plant and climate on biological control of aphids by natural enemies: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 30 January 2013

Effects of simulated drought on biological soil quality, microbial diversity and yields under long-term conventional and organic agriculture

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Environmental and anthropogenic effects on the nesting patterns of Nigeria–Cameroon chimpanzees in North‐West Cameroon

scientific article published in 2021

Fallows and permanent grasslands conserve the species composition and functional diversity of carabid beetles and linyphiid spiders in agricultural landscapes

scientific article published in 2021

Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

scientific article published on 20 January 2022

Fertilization Rapidly Alters the Feeding Activity of Grassland Soil Mesofauna Independent of Management History

scientific article published in 2022

General relationships between abiotic soil properties and soil biota across spatial scales and different land-use types

scientific article

Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Global distribution of earthworm diversity

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Grassy margins along organically managed cereal fields foster trait diversity and taxonomic distinctness of arthropod communities

scientific article published on 24 August 2013

Habitat heterogeneity induces rapid changes in the feeding behaviour of generalist arthropod predators

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Habitat structure and prey aggregation determine the functional response in a soil predator–prey interaction

article

Human Activity and Forest Degradation Threaten Populations of the Nigeria–Cameroon Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) in Western Cameroon

scientific article published in 2021

Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

scientific article published on 17 November 2014

Interaction between hunting strategy, habitat type and stratum drive intraguild predation and cannibalism

scientific article published in 2021

Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity

scientific article

Land use at different spatial scales alters the functional role of web-building spiders in arthropod food webs

scientific article published on 28 December 2015

Land-use effects on the functional distinctness of arthropod communities

scientific article published in 2015

Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

scientific article

Land-use type and intensity differentially filter traits in above- and below-ground arthropod communities

scientific article

Landscape and management effects on structure and function of soil arthropod communities in winter wheat

scientific article published in 2010

Landscape configuration affects herbivore-parasitoid communities in oilseed rape.

scientific article

Landscape simplification promotes weed seed predation by carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

scientific article published in 2013

Land‐use intensity and biodiversity effects on infiltration capacity and hydraulic conductivity of grassland soils in southern Germany

scientific article

Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published in May 2016

Long-term organic farming fosters below and aboveground biota: Implications for soil quality, biological control and productivity

scientific article (publication date: September 2008)

Management intensity and vegetation complexity affect web-building spiders and their prey

scientific article

Management intensity at field and landscape levels affects the structure of generalist predator communities

scientific article

Methods to identify the prey of invertebrate predators in terrestrial field studies

scientific article

Organic farming and heterogeneous landscapes positively affect different measures of plant diversity

scientific article published on 09 September 2014

Perspectives of lignite post-mining landscapes under changing environmental conditions: what can we learn from a comparison between the Rhenish and Lusatian region in Germany?

scientific article published on 10 May 2023

Predation-mediated ecosystem services and disservices in agricultural landscapes

scientific article published on 15 October 2018

Predator body sizes and habitat preferences predict predation rates in an agroecosystem

article by Adrien Rusch et al published May 2015 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Priorities for research in soil ecology.

scientific article

Regional Conditions and Land-Use Alter the Potential Contribution of Soil Arthropods to Ecosystem Services in Grasslands

scholarly article by Klaus Birkhofer et al published 19 January 2016 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Relationships between multiple biodiversity components and ecosystem services along a landscape complexity gradient

scholarly article by Klaus Birkhofer et al published February 2018 in Biological Conservation

Rodents, not birds, dominate predation-related ecosystem services and disservices in vertebrate communities of agricultural landscapes

scholarly article by Matthias Tschumi et al published November 2018 in Oecologia

Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions

scientific article published on 09 February 2020

Severe drought and conventional farming affect detritivore feeding activity and its vertical distribution

scientific article published in 2023

Small-scale spatial pattern of web-building spiders (Araneae) in alfalfa: relationship to disturbance from cutting, prey availability, and intraguild interactions

scientific article published in August 2007

Soil fauna feeding activity in temperate grassland soils increases with legume and grass species richness

scientific article published in 2011

Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

scientific article

Soil microarthropods respond differently to simulated drought in organic and conventional farming systems

scientific article published on 29 June 2021

Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects

scientific article published in February 2020

Sparing Land for Biodiversity at Multiple Spatial Scales

scientific article published in 2016

Spatial distribution of spiders and epedaphic Collembola in an environmentally heterogeneous forest floor habitat

scientific article published on 05 May 2012

Spatial patterns of social spider colonies in Namibia reflect habitat features and dispersal modes

Subsidy from the detrital food web, but not microhabitat complexity, affects the role of generalist predators in an aboveground herbivore food web

scientific article published in 2008

The Evolution of Ecological Diversity in Acidobacteria

scientific article published on 02 February 2022

The Functional Structure of Tropical Plant Communities and Soil Properties Enhance Ecosystem Functioning and Multifunctionality in Different Ecosystems in Ghana

scientific article published on 14 February 2022

The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits

scientific article

The contribution of CAP greening measures to conservation biological control at two spatial scales

scientific article published in 2018

The global relationship between climate, net primary production and the diet of spiders

scientific article published on 24 March 2011

The impact of wildfire and mammal carcasses on beetle emergence from heathland soils

scientific article published in 2022

The invasive pathogenic fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus alters predator–herbivore–ash food webs

scientific article published in 2022

The potato pest Russelliana solanicola Tuthill (Hemiptera: Psylloidea): taxonomy and host-plant patterns

scientific article (publication date: 24 September 2015)

Tool use by Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees for driver ant predation in Kom-Wum Forest Reserve, North-West Region Cameroon

scientific article published in 2023

Towards an Integration of Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning and Food Web Theory to Evaluate Relationships between Multiple Ecosystem Services

scholarly article by Jes Hines et al published 2015 in Advances in Ecological Research

Towards establishment of a centralized spider traits database

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Trade-offs in arthropod conservation between productive and non-productive agri-environmental schemes along a landscape complexity gradient

scientific article published on 03 February 2017

Trophic niche but not abundance of Collembola and Oribatida changes with drought and farming system

scientific article published on 13 January 2022

Trophic structure and major trophic links in conventional versus organic farming systems as indicated by carbon stable isotope ratios of fatty acids

scientific article published on 02 July 2009

Weed Species, Not Mulching, Affect Web‐Building Spiders and Their Prey in Organic Fruit Orchards in South Africa

scientific article published in 2020

Weed species, not mulching, affect web‐building spiders and their prey in organic fruit orchards in South Africa

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Woody elements benefit bird diversity to a larger extent than semi-natural grasslands in cereal-dominated landscapes

scientific article published in 2020

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