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Overview

Jeffrey A. Harvey is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily lies within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a substantial focus on subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Genetics, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers a diverse range of topics centered on plant and animal studies, insect-plant interactions and control, plant parasitism and resistance, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, as well as spider taxonomy and behavior studies.

Jeffrey A. Harvey has published research in multiple venues, frequently contributing to journals such as:

  • Animal Behaviour
  • Global Change Biology
  • Annual Review of Entomology
  • The Central European Review of Economics and Management
  • Journal of Thermal Biology

Their recent papers include:

  • "Scientists' warning on climate change and insects", 2022, Ecological Monographs
  • "International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery", 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Climate change-mediated temperature extremes and insects: From outbreaks to breakdowns", 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "The Biology and Ecology of Parasitoid Wasps of Predatory Arthropods", 2022, Annual Review of Entomology
  • "Extrinsic Inter- and Intraspecific Competition in Parasitoid Wasps", 2021, Annual Review of Entomology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Rieta Gols
  • Jacintha Ellers
  • Robin Heinen
  • Madhav P. Thakur
  • Wim H. van der Putten

Best Publications

  • Linking above- and belowground multitrophic interactions of plants, herbivores, pathogens, and their antagonists

    Wim H. Van der Putten;Louise E.M. Vet;Jeffrey A. Harvey;Felix L. Wäckers

  • The Life-cycle

    Mark A. Jervis;Michael J. W. Copland;Jeffrey A. Harvey

  • Life-history strategies in parasitoid wasps: a comparative analysis of ‘ovigeny’

    Mark A. Jervis;George E. Heimpel;Peter N. Ferns;Jeffrey A. Harvey

  • Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

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  • Resource acquisition, allocation, and utilization in parasitoid reproductive strategies

    Mark A. Jervis;Jacintha Ellers;Jeffrey A. Harvey

  • Intrinsic inter- and intraspecific competition in parasitoid wasps.

    Jeffrey A. Harvey;Erik H. Poelman;Toshiharu Tanaka

  • Factors affecting the evolution of development strategies in parasitoid wasps: the importance of functional constraints and incorporating complexity

    Jeffrey A. Harvey

  • Successful range-expanding plants experience less above-ground and below-ground enemy impact

    Tim Engelkes;Elly Morriën;Koen J. F. Verhoeven;T. Martijn Bezemer

  • Response of Native Insect Communities to Invasive Plants

    T.M. Bezemer;J.A. Harvey;J.T. Cronin

  • International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

    Jeffrey A. Harvey;Robin Heinen;Inge Armbrecht;Yves Basset

  • Climate change‐mediated temperature extremes and insects: From outbreaks to breakdowns

    Jeffrey A. Harvey;Robin Heinen;Rieta Gols;Madhav P. Thakur

  • FLEXIBLE LARVAL GROWTH ALLOWS USE OF A RANGE OF HOST SIZES BY A PARASITOID WASP

    Jeffrey A. Harvey;Ian F. Harvey;David J. Thompson

  • Genetic variation in defense chemistry in wild cabbages affects herbivores and their endoparasitoids

    Rieta Gols;R. Wagenaar;Tibor Bukovinszky;Nicole M. van Dam

  • THE DEVELOPMENTAL STRATEGIES OF ENDOPARASITOID WASPS VARY WITH HOST FEEDING ECOLOGY

    Jeffrey A. Harvey;Michael R. Strand

  • Root herbivore effects on above-ground herbivore, parasitoid and hyperparasitoid performance via changes in plant quality

    Roxina Soler;T. Martijn Bezemer;Wim H. Van Der Putten;Louise E. M. Vet

  • Interactions over four trophic levels: foodplant quality affects development of a hyperparasitoid as mediated through a herbivore and its primary parasitoid

    Jeffrey A. Harvey;Nicole M. Van Dam;Rieta Gols

  • Soil community composition drives aboveground plant-herbivore-parasitoid interactions

    T. M. Bezemer;G. B. De Deyn;T. M. Bossinga;N. M. Van Dam

  • Performance of generalist and specialist herbivores and their endoparasitoids differs on cultivated and wild Brassica populations.

    Rieta Gols;Tibor Bukovinszky;Nicole M. van Dam;Marcel Dicke

  • Trophic interactions in a changing world

    W.H. Van der Putten;P.C. de Ruiter;T.M. Bezemer;J.A. Harvey

  • Loss of lipid synthesis as an evolutionary consequence of a parasitic lifestyle.

    Bertanne Visser;Cécile Le Lann;Frank J. den Blanken;Jeffrey A. Harvey

  • Divergent composition but similar function of soil food webs of individual plants: plant species and community effects

    T. M. Bezemer;M. T. Fountain;J. M. Barea;S. Christensen

  • Dynamic effects of parasitism by an endoparasitoid wasp on the development of two host species : implications for host quality and parasitoid fitness

    Jeffrey A. Harvey

Frequent Co-Authors

Rieta Gols
Rieta Gols Wageningen University & Research
Louise E. M. Vet
Louise E. M. Vet Wageningen University & Research
Marcel Dicke
Marcel Dicke Wageningen University & Research
T. Martijn Bezemer
T. Martijn Bezemer Leiden University
Arjen Biere
Arjen Biere Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Jacintha Ellers
Jacintha Ellers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Erik H. Poelman
Erik H. Poelman Wageningen University & Research
Nicole M. van Dam
Nicole M. van Dam Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Wim H. van der Putten
Wim H. van der Putten Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Michael R. Strand
Michael R. Strand University of Georgia

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