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Andreas Prinzing

Andreas Prinzing

Overview

Andreas Prinzing is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research focuses on various aspects of ecology, evolution, and insect science, with an emphasis on forest insect ecology and management, species distribution in relation to climate change, and broader plant and animal ecological dynamics.

Their subfields of study include ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, and insect science. These areas support their exploration of ecological and vegetation dynamics, forest ecology and biodiversity, as well as animal ecology and behavior studies.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Andreas Prinzing are:

  • Search for top-down and bottom-up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe, 2020, published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Herbivory on the pedunculate oak along an urbanization gradient in Europe: Effects of impervious surface, local tree cover, and insect feeding guild, 2022, published in Ecology and Evolution
  • Decomposing drivers in avian insectivory: Large-scale effects of climate, habitat and bird diversity, 2024, published in Journal of Biogeography
  • Disturbed habitats locally reduce the signal of deep evolutionary history in functional traits of plants, 2021, published in New Phytologist
  • What Drives Caterpillar Guilds on a Tree: Enemy Pressure, Leaf or Tree Growth, Genetic Traits, or Phylogenetic Neighbourhood?, 2022, published in Insects

Andreas Prinzing frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Soumen Mallick
  • Freerk Molleman
  • Elena Valdés-Correcher
  • Xoaquín Moreira
  • Luc Barbaro

Their work appears predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Ecology and Evolution, Oecologia, and Global Ecology and Biogeography. These venues reflect their engagement with both preprint platforms and peer-reviewed journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • The niche of higher plants: evidence for phylogenetic conservatism.

    Andreas Prinzing;Walter Durka;Stefan Klotz;Roalnd Brandl

  • Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better)

    Pille Gerhold;James F. Cahill;Marten Winter;Igor V. Bartish

  • Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

    Nicolas Mouquet;Vincent Devictor;Christine N. Meynard;Francois Munoz

  • Are specialists at risk under environmental change? Neoecological, paleoecological and phylogenetic approaches.

    Audrey Colles;Lee Hsiang Liow;Andreas Prinzing

  • Dispersal failure contributes to plant losses in NW Europe.

    Wim A. Ozinga;Wim A. Ozinga;Christine Römermann;Renée M. Bekker;Andreas Prinzing

  • Which species become aliens

    Andreas Prinzing;Walter Durka;Stefan Klotz;Roland Brandl

  • Less lineages – more trait variation: phylogenetically clustered plant communities are functionally more diverse

    Andreas Prinzing;Reineke Reiffers;Wim G. Braakhekke;Stephan M. Hennekens

  • Phylogenetically poor plant communities receive more alien species, which more easily coexist with natives.

    Pille Gerhold;Meelis Pärtel;Oliver Tackenberg;Stephan M. Hennekens

  • Phytophagy on phylogenetically isolated trees: why hosts should escape their relatives.

    Benjamin Yguel;Richard I. Bailey;Richard I. Bailey;N. Denise Tosh;Aude Vialatte;Aude Vialatte

  • Native Fauna on Exotic Trees: Phylogenetic Conservatism and Geographic Contingency in Two Lineages of Phytophages on Two Lineages of Trees

    Martin M. Gossner;Anne Chao;Richard I. Bailey;Andreas Prinzing

  • Dietary niche breadth for Central European birds: correlations with species-specific traits

    Martin Brändle;Andreas Prinzing;Robert Pfeifer;Roland Brandl

  • Assessing the relative importance of dispersal in plant communities using an ecoinformatics approach

    W. A. Ozinga;W. A. Ozinga;S. M. Hennekens;J. H. J. Schaminée;R. M. Bekker

  • Geographic variability of ecological niches of plant species: are competition and stress relevant?

    Andreas Prinzing;Walter Durka;Stefan Klotz;Roland Brandl

  • The trade-off between vegetative and generative reproduction among angiosperms influences regional hydrochorous propagule pressure

    Ger Boedeltje;Ger Boedeltje;Wim A. Ozinga;Andreas Prinzing

  • The Deep Past Controls the Phylogenetic Structure of Present, Local Communities

    Pille Gerhold;Marcos B. Carlucci;Şerban Procheş;Andreas Prinzing

  • Use of Shifting Microclimatic Mosaics by Arthropods on Exposed Tree Trunks

    A. J. Prinzing

  • Corticolous arthropods under climatic fluctuations - compensation is more important than migration

    Andreas Prinzing

  • Ecological theory meets soil ecotoxicology: Challenge and chance.

    Juliane Filser;Hartmut Koehler;Andrea Ruf;Joerg Rombke

Frequent Co-Authors

Wim A. Ozinga
Wim A. Ozinga Wageningen University & Research
Joop H.J. Schaminée
Joop H.J. Schaminée Wageningen University & Research
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Walter Durka
Walter Durka Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Ming Dong
Ming Dong Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stefan Klotz
Stefan Klotz Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Hervé Jactel
Hervé Jactel University of Bordeaux
Sandrine Pavoine
Sandrine Pavoine French National Museum of Natural History
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alain Bouchereau
Alain Bouchereau University of Rennes

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