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Jacqueline R. Beggs

Jacqueline R. Beggs

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
4712
World Ranking
7377
National Ranking
98

Overview

Jacqueline R. Beggs is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand and has conducted extensive research in agricultural and biological sciences, as well as environmental science. Their academic work spans subfields such as ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, insect science, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their research primarily covers topics including plant and animal studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, insect and pesticide research, ecology and vegetation dynamics, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, plant parasitism and resistance, and species distribution and climate change.

  • Science-based, stakeholder-inclusive and participatory conservation planning helps reverse the decline of threatened species (2021, Biological Conservation)
  • The outlook for control of New Zealand's most abundant, widespread and damaging invertebrate pests: social wasps (2023, New Zealand Science Review)
  • Kua takoto te mānuka: mātauranga Māori in New Zealand ecology (2020, New Zealand Journal of Ecology)
  • Biogeography and anthropogenic impact shape the success of invasive wasps on New Zealand's offshore islands (2020, Diversity and Distributions)
  • Emerging advances in biosecurity to underpin human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health (2023, iScience)

Frequent co-authors include Darren Ward, David E. Pattemore, Ashley N. Mortensen, Margaret C. Stanley, and Julia M. Schmack.

  • Biological Conservation (2 publications)
  • New Zealand Journal of Ecology (2 publications)
  • Diversity and Distributions (2 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (2 publications)
  • Insects (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Ecological effects and management of invasive alien Vespidae

    Jacqueline R. Beggs;Eckehard G. Brockerhoff;Juan C. Corley;Marc Kenis

  • The ecological consequences of social wasps (Vespula spp.) invading an ecosystem that has an abundant carbohydrate resource

    J. Beggs

  • The role of introduced predators and competitors in the decline of kaka (Nestor meridionalis) populations in New Zealand

    P.R. Wilson;B.J. Karl;R.J. Toft;J.R. Beggs

  • Supplementary feeding restructures urban bird communities

    Josie A. Galbraith;Jacqueline R. Beggs;Darryl N. Jones;Margaret C. Stanley

  • The kaka Nestor meridionalis, a New Zealand parrot endangered by introduced wasps and mammals

    Jacqueline R. Beggs;Peter R. Wilson

  • Invasion Success and Management Strategies for Social Vespula Wasps.

    Philip J. Lester;Jacqueline R. Beggs

  • The diversity and origin of exotic ants arriving in New Zealand via human-mediated dispersal

    Darren F. Ward;Jacqueline R. Beggs;Mick N. Clout;Richard J. Harris

  • Declines in common, widespread native birds in a mature temperate forest.

    Graeme P. Elliott;Peter R. Wilson;Rowley H. Taylor;Jacqueline R. Beggs

  • Hairiness: the missing link between pollinators and pollination.

    Jamie R. Stavert;Gustavo Liñán-Cembrano;Jacqueline R. Beggs;Brad G. Howlett

  • Restructuring of Lepidoptera communities by introduced Vespula wasps in a New Zealand beech forest

    Jacqueline R. Beggs;Jo S. Rees

  • Risks and drivers of wild bird feeding in urban areas of New Zealand

    Josie A. Galbraith;Jacqueline R. Beggs;Darryl N. Jones;Ellery J. McNaughton

  • Support for vicariant origins of the New Zealand Onychophora

    Julia Allwood;Julia Allwood;Dianne Gleeson;Georg Mayer;Georg Mayer;Savel Daniels

  • Impacts of exotic invertebrates on New Zealand's indigenous species and ecosystems

    Eckehard G. Brockerhoff;Jacqueline R. Beggs;Laura L. Fagan;Craig B. Phillips

  • THE DIFFICULTY OF REDUCING INTRODUCED WASP (VESPULA VULGARIS) POPULATIONS FOR CONSERVATION GAINS

    J. R. Beggs;H. Moller;P. Alspach

  • A model for the effect of Sphecophaga vesparum vesparum as a biological control agent of the common wasp in New Zealand

    N. D. Barlow;H. Moller;J. R. Beggs

  • New Zealand's Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF) model undermines Maori research

    Tom Roa;Jacqueline R. Beggs;Jim Williams;Henrik Moller

  • Urban Bird Feeders Dominated by a Few Species and Individuals

    Josie A. Galbraith;Josie A. Galbraith;Darryl N. Jones;Jacqueline R. Beggs;Katharina Parry

  • Keystone Species: Competition for Honeydew Among Exotic and Indigenous Species

    Jacqueline Beggs;DA Wardle;DA Wardle

  • Dynamics of common wasps in New Zealand beech forests: a model with density dependence and weather

    N. D. Barlow;J. R. Beggs;J. R. Beggs;M. C. Barron

  • Emerging threats in urban ecosystems: a horizon scanning exercise

    Margaret C Stanley;Jacqueline R Beggs;Imogen E Bassett;Bruce R Burns

Frequent Co-Authors

Ignasi Bartomeus
Ignasi Bartomeus Spanish National Research Council
Darryl Noel Jones
Darryl Noel Jones Griffith University
Henrik Moller
Henrik Moller University of Otago
David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University
Kevin J. Gaston
Kevin J. Gaston University of Exeter
Juan C. Corley
Juan C. Corley Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Philip J. Lester
Philip J. Lester Victoria University of Wellington
Thomas R. Buckley
Thomas R. Buckley Landcare Research
Michael W. Taylor
Michael W. Taylor University of Auckland
Richard A. B. Leschen
Richard A. B. Leschen Landcare Research

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