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Alexandra-Maria Klein

Alexandra-Maria Klein

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
90
Citations
55826
World Ranking
461
National Ranking
35

Overview

Alexandra-Maria Klein is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a strong focus on ecology, insect science, genetics, plant science, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their work covers a variety of topics including plant and animal studies, insect and pesticide research, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant parasitism and resistance, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, as well as conservation, biodiversity, and resource management.

Recent papers by Alexandra-Maria Klein include the following:

  • International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Critical links between biodiversity and health in wild bee conservation, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Pesticide use negatively affects bumble bees across European landscapes, 2023, Nature
  • Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Exotic garden plants partly substitute for native plants as resources for pollinators when native plants become seasonally scarce, 2020, Oecologia

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexandra-Maria Klein include:

  • Felix Fornoff (28 publications)
  • Matthias Albrecht (22 publications)
  • Michael Staab (22 publications)
  • Simon G. Potts (19 publications)
  • Anina Knauer (16 publications)

Common publication venues for their research include:

  • Basic and Applied Ecology (8 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (7 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (5 publications)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution (4 publications)
  • Forest Ecology and Management (4 publications)

Alexandra-Maria Klein has contributed to book publications with titles such as "Defining Agroecology: A Festschrift for Teja Tscharntke" published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research in 2023, and "Sustainable use and conservation of invertebrate pollinators" published by FAO eBooks in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops

    Alexandra Maria Klein;Bernard E. Vaissière;James H. Cane;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

  • Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity – ecosystem service management

    Teja Tscharntke;Alexandra-Maria Klein;Andreas Kruess;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

  • Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

    Lucas A Garibaldi;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Rachael Winfree;Marcelo A Aizen

  • Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses

    Teja Tscharntke;Jason M. Tylianakis;Tatyana A. Rand;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham

  • Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change.

    Claire Kremen;Neal M. Williams;Marcelo A. Aizen;Barbara Gemmill-Herren

  • Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there general patterns?

    Taylor H. Ricketts;James Regetz;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Saul A. Cunningham

  • A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems

    Christina M. Kennedy;Eric Lonsdorf;Maile C. Neel;Neal M. Williams

  • Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

    Christoph Scherber;Nico Eisenhauer;Nico Eisenhauer;Wolfgang W Weisser;Bernhard Schmid

  • Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits

    Lucas A. Garibaldi;Lucas A. Garibaldi;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Claire Kremen;Juan M. Morales

  • Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

    David Kleijn;Rachael Winfree;Ignasi Bartomeus;Luísa G. Carvalheiro;Luísa G. Carvalheiro

  • Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

    Romina Rader;Ignasi Bartomeus;Lucas A. Garibaldi;Michael P.D. Garratt

  • Fruit set of highland coffee increases with the diversity of pollinating bees.

    Alexandra-Maria Klein;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Teja Tscharntke

  • A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

    Matteo Dainese;Emily A. Martin;Marcelo A. Aizen;Matthias Albrecht

  • How much does agriculture depend on pollinators? Lessons from long-term trends in crop production

    Marcelo A. Aizen;Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi;Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi;Saul A. Cunningham;Alexandra M. Klein;Alexandra M. Klein

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • Long-term global trends in crop yield and production reveal no current pollination shortage but increasing pollinator dependency.

    Marcelo A. Aizen;Lucas A. Garibaldi;Lucas A. Garibaldi;Saul A. Cunningham;Alexandra M. Klein;Alexandra M. Klein

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

    Nico Blüthgen;Alexandra-Maria Klein;Alexandra-Maria Klein

  • Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

    Martin M. Gossner;Martin M. Gossner;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Tiemo Kahl;Fabrice Grassein

  • Spillover of functionally important organisms between managed and natural habitats

    Eleanor J. Blitzer;Carsten F. Dormann;Andrea Holzschuh;Alexandra-Maria Klein

  • Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization

    Sagrario Gámez-Virués;David J. Perović;Martin M. Gossner;Carmen Börschig

  • From research to action: Enhancing crop yield through wild pollinators

    Lucas A Garibaldi;Luísa G Carvalheiro;Luísa G Carvalheiro;Sara D Leonhardt;Marcelo A Aizen

Frequent Co-Authors

Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter University of Würzburg
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Anne Ebeling
Anne Ebeling Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Claire Kremen
Claire Kremen University of British Columbia
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Nico Blüthgen
Nico Blüthgen Technical University of Darmstadt
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Andreas Schuldt
Andreas Schuldt University of Göttingen

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