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64
Citations
15663
World Ranking
1863
National Ranking
684

Overview

Claudio Gratton is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on ecology and insect science.

The scientist has contributed significantly to fields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Insect Science; Genetics; and Plant Science. Their work often intersects with topics such as Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior. Other main research themes include Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Claudio Gratton include Randall D. Jackson, Benjamin Iuliano, Brian J. Spiesman, Jeremy Hemberger, and Christopher J. Kucharik.

Major publication venues where Claudio Gratton's work appears consist of Ecological Applications, Landscape Ecology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, and Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

Recent papers demonstrate the breadth of their research interests and cover various topics in ecology and entomology:

  • Assessing the potential for deep learning and computer vision to identify bumble bee species from images (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Impacts of field-edge flower plantings on pollinator conservation and ecosystem service delivery - A meta-analysis (2021, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment)
  • Temporal Resource (Dis)continuity for Conservation Biological Control: From Field to Landscape Scales (2020, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems)
  • Historical decrease in agricultural landscape diversity is associated with shifts in bumble bee species occurrence (2021, Ecology Letters)
  • Predator preferences shape the diets of arthropodivorous bats more than quantitative local prey abundance (2020, Molecular Ecology)

Best Publications

  • 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

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

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

  • Landscape diversity enhances biological control of an introduced crop pest in the north-central USA.

    M. M. Gardiner;D. A. Landis;C. Gratton;C. D. DiFonzo

  • Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition

    Daniel S. Karp;Rebecca E Chaplin-Kramer;Timothy D. Meehan;Emily A. Martin

  • When natural habitat fails to enhance biological pest control – Five hypotheses ☆

    Teja Tscharntke;Daniel S. Karp;Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer;Péter Batáry

  • Perennial grasslands enhance biodiversity and multiple ecosystem services in bioenergy landscapes.

    Ben P. Werling;Timothy L. Dickson;Rufus Isaacs;Hannah Gaines

  • Agricultural landscape simplification and insecticide use in the Midwestern United States

    Timothy D. Meehan;Ben P. Werling;Douglas A. Landis;Claudio Gratton

  • A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes.

    Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Christina M. Kennedy;Claire Kremen;Péter Batáry

  • Do managed bees have negative effects on wild bees?: A systematic review of the literature.

    Rachel E. Mallinger;Hannah R. Gaines-Day;Claudio Gratton

  • BOTTOM‐UP FORCES MEDIATE NATURAL‐ENEMY IMPACT IN A PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECT COMMUNITY

    Robert F. Denno;Claudio Gratton;Merrill A. Peterson;Gail A. Langellotto

  • Insects as drivers of ecosystem processes

    Louie H Yang;Claudio Gratton

  • Restoration of Arthropod Assemblages in a Spartina Salt Marsh following Removal of the Invasive Plant Phragmites australis

    Claudio Gratton;Robert F. Denno

  • Species richness of wild bees, but not the use of managed honeybees, increases fruit set of a pollinator-dependent crop

    Rachel E. Mallinger;Claudio Gratton

  • Flux of aquatic insect productivity to land: comparison of lentic and lotic ecosystems

    Claudio Gratton;M. Jake Vander Zanden

  • Feeding-induced changes in plant quality mediate interspecific competition between sap-feeding herbivores.

    Robert F. Denno;Merrill A. Peterson;Claudio Gratton;Jiaan Cheng

  • The rise of novelty in ecosystems.

    Volker C. Radeloff;John W. Williams;Brooke L. Bateman;Kevin D. Burke

  • Ecosystem Linkages Between Lakes and the Surrounding Terrestrial Landscape in Northeast Iceland

    Claudio Gratton;Jack Donaldson;M. Jake Vander Zanden

  • Methyl Salicylate Attracts Natural Enemies and Reduces Populations of Soybean Aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Soybean Agroecosystems

    Rachel E. Mallinger;David B. Hogg;Claudio Gratton

  • Landscape composition influences patterns of native and exotic lady beetle abundance

    M M Gardiner;D A Landis;C Gratton;N Schmidt

  • Diverse landscapes have a higher abundance and species richness of spring wild bees by providing complementary floral resources over bees' foraging periods.

    Rachel E. Mallinger;Rachel E. Mallinger;Jason Gibbs;Claudio Gratton

  • PREDATION RISK AFFECTS RELATIVE STRENGTH OF TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP IMPACTS ON INSECT HERBIVORES

    Robert F. Denno;Claudio Gratton;Hartmut Döbel;Deborah L. Finke

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas A. Landis
Douglas A. Landis Michigan State University
Randall D. Jackson
Randall D. Jackson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert F. Denno
Robert F. Denno University of Maryland, College Park
Luísa G. Carvalheiro
Luísa G. Carvalheiro Universidade Federal de Goiás
M. Jake Vander Zanden
M. Jake Vander Zanden University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jay A. Rosenheim
Jay A. Rosenheim University of California, Davis
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer Stanford University
Mattias Jonsson
Mattias Jonsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Rufus Isaacs
Rufus Isaacs Michigan State University

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