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Jan Beck is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research contributions span Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Genetics, and Ecology.

The primary research topics Jan Beck focuses on include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Jan Beck's recent publications reflect the breadth of their work in ecology and biogeography. Notable papers include:

  • Just bird food? - On the value of invertebrate macroecology (2020), published in Frontiers of Biogeography
  • Functional and taxonomic responses of tropical moth communities to deforestation (2021), published in Insect Conservation and Diversity
  • Can you trust comparative trait data based on singleton species? (2024), published in Frontiers of Biogeography

Jan Beck frequently collaborates with other researchers. Co-authors appearing multiple times alongside Beck include Christy M. McCain and Yenny Correa-Carmona, as well as Rodolphe Rougerie, Pierre Arnal, and Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia.

Their work has been published mainly in the journals Frontiers of Biogeography and Insect Conservation and Diversity, with Frontiers of Biogeography hosting two of their articles and Insect Conservation and Diversity one.

Best Publications

  • Spatial bias in the GBIF database and its effect on modeling species' geographic distributions

    Jan Beck;Marianne Böller;Andreas Erhardt;Wolfgang Schwanghart

  • Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations

    Walter Jetz;Melodie A. McGeoch;Robert Guralnick;Simon Ferrier

  • Is there any empirical support for biodiversity offset policy

    Michael Curran;Stefanie Hellweg;Jan Beck

  • Comment on "High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change".

    Robert Tropek;Robert Tropek;Ondřej Sedláček;Jan Beck;Petr Keil;Petr Keil

  • Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression

    L. Mauricio Bini;J. Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Thiago F.L.V.B. Rangel;Thomas S.B. Akre

  • What ' s on the horizon for macroecology?

    Jan Beck;Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia;Carsten M. Buchmann;Jürgen Dengler

  • Widespread winners and narrow-ranged losers: Land use homogenizes biodiversity in local assemblages worldwide.

    Tim Newbold;Lawrence N Hudson;Sara Contu;Samantha L L Hill;Samantha L L Hill

  • From forest to farmland: diversity of geometrid moths along two habitat gradients on Borneo

    Jan Beck;Christian H. Schulze;K. Eduard Linsenmair;Konrad Fiedler

  • A GLOBAL EVALUATION OF METABOLIC THEORY AS AN EXPLANATION FOR TERRESTRIAL SPECIES RICHNESS GRADIENTS

    Bradford A. Hawkins;Fabio S. Albuquerque;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Jan Beck

  • Mud-puddling behavior in tropical butterflies : in search of proteins or minerals?

    Jan Beck;Eva Mühlenberg;Konrad Fiedler

  • Comparing measures of species diversity from incomplete inventories: an update

    Jan Beck;Wolfgang Schwanghart

  • Superstition and belief as inevitable by-products of an adaptive learning strategy

    Jan Beck;Wolfgang Forstmeier

  • Undersampling and the measurement of beta diversity

    Jan Beck;Jeremy D. Holloway;Wolfgang Schwanghart;Wolfgang Schwanghart

  • Online solutions and the ‘Wallacean shortfall’: what does GBIF contribute to our knowledge of species' ranges?

    Jan Beck;Liliana Ballesteros‐Mejia;Peter Nagel;Ian J. Kitching

  • Elevational species richness gradients in a hyperdiverse insect taxon: a global meta-study on geometrid moths

    Jan Beck;Christy M. McCain;Jan C. Axmacher;Louise A. Ashton

  • Mapping the biodiversity of tropical insects: species richness and inventory completeness of African sphingid moths

    Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia;Ian J. Kitching;Walter Jetz;Peter Nagel

  • Feasibility of light-trapping in community research on moths: attraction radius of light, completeness of samples, nightly flight times and seasonality of Southeast-Asian hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)

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  • Midpoint attractors and species richness: Modelling the interaction between environmental drivers and geometric constraints.

    Robert K. Colwell;Robert K. Colwell;Robert K. Colwell;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Louise A. Ashton;Louise A. Ashton;Jan Beck;Jan Beck

  • Beta‐diversity of geometrid moths from northern Borneo: effects of habitat, time and space

    Jan Beck;Chey Vun Khen

  • Predicting climate change effects on agriculture from ecological niche modeling: who profits, who loses?

    Jan Beck

  • Explaining the elevational diversity pattern of geometrid moths from Borneo: a test of five hypotheses

    Jan Beck;Vun Khen Chey

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian J. Kitching
Ian J. Kitching Natural History Museum
Christy M. McCain
Christy M. McCain University of Colorado Boulder
Wolfgang Schwanghart
Wolfgang Schwanghart University of Potsdam
Konrad Fiedler
Konrad Fiedler University of Vienna
K. Eduard Linsenmair
K. Eduard Linsenmair University of Würzburg
Robert K. Colwell
Robert K. Colwell University of Connecticut
Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Hong Qian
Hong Qian Illinois State Museum
Walter Jetz
Walter Jetz Yale University
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora

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