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Jochen Krauss is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany and is active in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on topics such as Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Insect and Pesticide Research, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control.

Recent publications by Jochen Krauss include:

  • "Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "A multitaxa assessment of the effectiveness of agri-environmental schemes for biodiversity management" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity" (2023, Nature Sustainability)
  • "Pest control potential of adjacent agri-environment schemes varies with crop type and is shaped by landscape context and within-field position" (2020, Journal of Applied Ecology)
  • "Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality" (2021, Ecosystem Services)

Krauss collaborates frequently with a group of coauthors who have contributed significantly to their body of work. Notable coauthors include Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Andrea Holzschuh, Fabian A. Boetzl, Gaëtane Le Provost, and Margot Neyret.

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as the Journal of Applied Ecology, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Global Change Biology, and Biodiversity and Conservation, reflecting a focus on ecological and environmental research.

Best Publications

  • Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation.

    Mikko Kuussaari;Riccardo Bommarco;Risto K. Heikkinen;Aveliina Helm

  • Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time‐delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels

    Jochen Krauss;Riccardo Bommarco;Moisès Guardiola;Risto K. Heikkinen

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

    Santiago Soliveres;Fons van der Plas;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati

  • Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

    Martin M. Gossner;Martin M. Gossner;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Tiemo Kahl;Fabrice Grassein

  • Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization

    Sagrario Gámez-Virués;David J. Perović;Martin M. Gossner;Carmen Börschig

  • Author Sequence and Credit for Contributions in Multiauthored Publications

    Teja Tscharntke;Michael E. Hochberg;Tatyana A. Rand;Vincent H. Resh

  • The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe

    Emily A. Martin;Matteo Dainese;Yann Clough;András Báldi

  • Life-history traits predict species responses to habitat area and isolation: a cross-continental synthesis

    Erik Öckinger;Oliver Schweiger;Thomas O. Crist;Diane M. Debinski

  • How does landscape context contribute to effects of habitat fragmentation on diversity and population density of butterflies

    Jochen Krauss;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Teja Tscharntke

  • A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes.

    Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Christina M. Kennedy;Claire Kremen;Péter Batáry

  • Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity.

    Eric Allan;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati

  • Effects of habitat area, isolation, and landscape diversity on plant species richness of calcareous grasslands

    Jochen Krauss;Alexandra-Maria Klein;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Teja Tscharntke

  • Altitude acts as an environmental filter on phylogenetic composition, traits and diversity in bee communities

    Bernhard Hoiss;Jochen Krauss;Simon G. Potts;Stuart Roberts

  • 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

  • Symbiosis between grasses and asexual fungal endophytes.

    Christine B Müller;Jochen Krauss

  • Butterfly and plant specialists suffer from reduced connectivity in fragmented landscapes

    Sabrina V. Brückmann;Jochen Krauss;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

  • Decreased Functional Diversity and Biological Pest Control in Conventional Compared to Organic Crop Fields

    Jochen Krauss;Jochen Krauss;Iris Gallenberger;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

  • Configurational landscape heterogeneity shapes functional community composition of grassland butterflies

    David Perović;Sagrario Gámez-Virués;Carmen Börschig;Alexandra-Maria Klein

  • Traits of butterfly communities change from specialist to generalist characteristics with increasing land-use intensity

    Carmen Börschig;Alexandra-Maria Klein;Alexandra-Maria Klein;Henrik von Wehrden;Jochen Krauss

  • Understanding extinction debts: spatio–temporal scales, mechanisms and a roadmap for future research

    Ludmilla Figueiredo;Jochen Krauss;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Juliano Sarmento Cabral

  • Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

    Santiago Soliveres;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati;Martin M. Gossner

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter University of Würzburg
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Alexandra-Maria Klein
Alexandra-Maria Klein University of Freiburg
Catrin Westphal
Catrin Westphal University of Göttingen
Christine B. Müller
Christine B. Müller University of Zurich
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Riccardo Bommarco
Riccardo Bommarco Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Martin J. Mueller
Martin J. Mueller University of Würzburg

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