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Overview

Jens Dauber is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany. Their research primarily centers on topics within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Specific subfields include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Plant Science; Insect Science; Nature and Landscape Conservation; and Genetics.

The scientist's work covers various research topics such as Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Insect and Pesticide Research, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems.

Frequently collaborating co-authors with Dauber include J. Thiele, Josef Settele, Maria Busse, Sebastian Klimek, and Diana E. Bowler.

Jens Dauber has published papers in several academic venues. The frequent venues of publication include:

  • Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik (OEGEF)
  • Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Some recent representative publications featuring Dauber's contributions are:

  • The little things that run the world revisited: a review of ant-mediated ecosystem services and disservices (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), 2023, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik (OEGEF)
  • Effective Biodiversity Monitoring Needs a Culture of Integration, 2020, One Earth
  • Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Proposal for an EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme, 2021, Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
  • Functional groups of wild bees respond differently to faba bean Vicia faba L. cultivation at landscape scale, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology

Best Publications

  • Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

    Gian Reto Walther;Alain Roques;Philip E. Hulme;Martin T. Sykes

  • Soil invertebrates as ecosystem engineers: Intended and accidental effects on soil and feedback loops

    Pascal Jouquet;Jens Dauber;Jan Lagerlöf;Patrick Lavelle

  • Landscape structure as an indicator of biodiversity: matrix effects on species richness

    Jens Dauber;Michaela Hirsch;Dietmar Simmering;Rainer Waldhardt

  • Landscape context of organic and conventional farms: influences on carabid beetle diversity

    Tobias Purtauf;Indra Roschewitz;Jens Dauber;Carsten Thies

  • 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

  • The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

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

  • Effects of patch size and density on flower visitation and seed set of wild plants: a pan-European approach

    Jens Dauber;Jens Dauber;Jens Dauber;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer;Doreen Gabriel;William E. Kunin

  • The impact of biomass crop cultivation on temperate biodiversity.

    Jens Dauber;Michael B. Jones;Jane C. Stout

  • Local vs. landscape controls on diversity: a test using surface‐dwelling soil macroinvertebrates of differing mobility

    Jens Dauber;Tobias Purtauf;Andreas Allspach;Johannes Frisch

  • Bioenergy from “surplus” land: environmental and socio-economic implications

    Jens Dauber;Chris Brown;Ana Luisa Fernando;John Finnan

  • The response of carabids to landscape simplification differs between trophic groups

    Tobias Purtauf;Jens Dauber;Volkmar Wolters

  • Edge effects on ant community structure and species richness in an agricultural landscape

    Jens Dauber;Volkmar Wolters

  • Microbial activity and functional diversity in the mounds of three different ant species

    Jens Dauber;Volkmar Wolters

  • Effective Biodiversity Monitoring Needs a Culture of Integration

    Hjalmar S. Kühl;Hjalmar S. Kühl;Diana E. Bowler;Diana E. Bowler;Diana E. Bowler;Lukas Bösch;Helge Bruelheide;Helge Bruelheide

  • Effect of historic landscape change on the genetic structure of the bush-cricket Metrioptera roeseli

    Stephanie I. J. Holzhauer;Klemens Ekschmitt;Anna-Christine Sander;Jens Dauber

  • Landscape effects on recolonisation patterns of spiders in arable fields

    S. Öberg;S. Mayr;J. Dauber

  • Evaluating Effects of Habitat Loss and Land-Use Continuity on Ant Species Richness in Seminatural Grassland Remnants

    Jens Dauber;Jens Dauber;Jan Bengtsson;Lisette Lenoir

  • Consequential life cycle assessment of biogas, biofuel and biomass energy options within an arable crop rotation

    David Styles;James Gibbons;Arwel P. Williams;Jens Dauber

  • High Nature Value farming: From indication to conservation

    Michael W. Strohbach;Marina L. Kohler;Jens Dauber;Sebastian Klimek

  • Colonization of temperate grassland by ants

    Jens Dauber;Volkmar Wolters

Frequent Co-Authors

Volkmar Wolters
Volkmar Wolters University of Giessen
Jane C. Stout
Jane C. Stout Trinity College Dublin
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Katrin Böhning-Gaese
Katrin Böhning-Gaese Goethe University Frankfurt
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Tim Newbold
Tim Newbold University College London
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Tony R. Walker
Tony R. Walker Dalhousie University
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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