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Jan C. Axmacher is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Insect Science.

The main topics of their scientific work cover a range of ecological and biological studies, specifically:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Jan C. Axmacher has published extensively in various scholarly venues. Their frequent publication outlets include:

  • Insect Conservation and Diversity
  • Ecological Solutions and Evidence
  • Restoration Ecology
  • Ecological Indicators
  • People and Nature

Some notable recent papers authored by or associated with Axmacher's research network include:

  • Nocturnal pollinators strongly contribute to pollen transport of wild flowers in an agricultural landscape, 2020, Biology Letters
  • Does China's increasing coupling of 'urban population' and 'urban area' growth indicators reflect a growing social and economic sustainability?, 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Moths are strongly attracted to ultraviolet and blue radiation, 2021, Insect Conservation and Diversity
  • Training future generations to deliver evidence-based conservation and ecosystem management, 2021, Ecological Solutions and Evidence
  • Predictability of species diversity by family diversity across global terrestrial animal taxa, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Collaborative work is a significant aspect of their research activity, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Yi Zou
  • Carl D. Sayer
  • Weiguo Sang
  • Yunhui Liu
  • Joshua Elves-Powell

Best Publications

  • Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Luke P. Shoo;Sebastian K. Herzog

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

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

  • A Comparison of Terrestrial Arthropod Sampling Methods

    Zou Yi;Feng Jinchao;Xue Dayuan;Sang Weiguo

  • Determinants of diversity in afrotropical herbivorous insects (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) : plant diversity, vegetation structure or abiotic factors?

    Jan C. Axmacher;Gunnar Brehm;Andreas Hemp;Henry Tünte

  • Diversity of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) along an Afrotropical elevational rainforest transect

    Jan C. Axmacher;Gabriele Holtmann;Luis Scheuermann;Gunnar Brehm

  • 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

  • The role of pond management for biodiversity conservation in an agricultural landscape

    Carl Sayer;Katie Andrews;Ewan Shilland;Nathan Edmonds

  • Large woody debris “rewilding” rapidly restores biodiversity in riverine food webs

    Murray S. A. Thompson;Murray S. A. Thompson;Murray S. A. Thompson;Stephen J. Brooks;Carl D. Sayer;Guy Woodward

  • Invasion pattern of Eupatorium adenophorum Spreng in southern China

    Weiguo Sang;Li Zhu;Jan C. Axmacher

  • Nocturnal pollinators strongly contribute to pollen transport of wild flowers in an agricultural landscape.

    Richard E. Walton;Carl D. Sayer;Helen Bennion;Jan C. Axmacher;Jan C. Axmacher

  • Challenges in developing China's marine protected area system

    Wanfei Qiu;Bin Wang;Peter J.S. Jones;Jan C. Axmacher

  • Effects of Plant Diversity, Vegetation Composition, and Habitat Type on Different Functional Trait Groups of Wild Bees in Rural Beijing.

    Panlong Wu;Jan C Axmacher;Xiao Song;Xuzhu Zhang

  • Does China's increasing coupling of ‘urban population’ and ‘urban area’ growth indicators reflect a growing social and economic sustainability?

    Jinqi Zhao;Yi Xiao;Siqi Sun;Weiguo Sang

  • Diverging diversity patterns of vascular plants and geometrid moths during forest regeneration on Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

    Jan C. Axmacher;Henry Tünte;Marion Schrumpf;Klaus Müller-Hohenstein

  • A Comparison of Manual and Automatic Moth Sampling Methods (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Geometridae) in a Rain Forest in Costa Rica

    Gunnar Brehm;Jan C. Axmacher

  • Habitat type modifies geometry of elevational diversity gradients in geometrid moths (Lepidoptera Geometridae) on Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

    J.C. Axmacher;K. Fiedler

  • Forest vegetation responses to climate and environmental change: A case study from Changbai Mountain, NE China

    Fan Bai;Weiguo Sang;Jan C. Axmacher

  • Securing a Future for China's Wild Plant Resources

    Weiguo Sang;Keping Ma;Jan C. Axmacher

  • Moths are strongly attracted to ultraviolet and blue radiation

    Gunnar Brehm;Julia Niermann;Luisa Maria Jaimes Nino;David Enseling

  • Changes of soil organic carbon in an intensively cultivated agricultural region: A denitrification–decomposition (DNDC) modelling approach

    Yunhui Liu;Zhenrong Yu;Zhenrong Yu;Jian Chen;Jian Chen;Fengrong Zhang

  • Buried alive: Aquatic plants survive in ‘ghost ponds’ under agricultural fields

    Emily Alderton;Carl Derek Sayer;Rachael Davies;Stephen John Lambert

  • Manual versus automatic moth sampling at equal light sources – a comparison of catches from Mt. Kilimanjaro.

    Jan C. Axmacher;Konrad Fiedler

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl D. Sayer
Carl D. Sayer University College London
Marion Schrumpf
Marion Schrumpf Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Konrad Fiedler
Konrad Fiedler University of Vienna
Matt W. Hayward
Matt W. Hayward University of Newcastle Australia
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Gunnar Brehm
Gunnar Brehm Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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