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Johan Ekroos

Johan Ekroos

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
6423
World Ranking
6111
National Ranking
152

Overview

Johan Ekroos is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has a research focus primarily in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their body of work spans several key subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Plant Science.

Their research topics cover a broad range of areas within ecology and environmental studies, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Insect and Pesticide Research

Ekroos has contributed to scientific literature with recent papers that include the following:

  • "Biologia Futura: landscape perspectives on farmland biodiversity conservation," 2020, published in Biologia Futura
  • "Wild bees and hoverflies respond differently to urbanisation, human population density and urban form," 2020, published in Landscape and Urban Planning
  • "Butterfly species' responses to urbanization: differing effects of human population density and built-up area," 2020, published in Urban Ecosystems
  • "Biodiversity decline with increasing crop productivity in agricultural fields revealed by satellite remote sensing," 2021, published in Ecological Indicators
  • "The IPBES regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia," 2023, published in Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Henrik G. Smith
  • Yann Clough
  • Romain Carrié
  • Anna Persson
  • William Sidemo-Holm

Ekroos has published extensively in journals such as:

  • Biological Conservation
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Ecological Applications
  • Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Journal of Applied Ecology

Best Publications

  • A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

    Matteo Dainese;Emily A. Martin;Marcelo A. Aizen;Matthias Albrecht

  • Land Sparing Versus Land Sharing: Moving Forward

    Jörn Fischer;David James Abson;Van Butsic;Van Butsic;M Jahi Chappell;M Jahi Chappell

  • 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

  • Homogenization of lepidopteran communities in intensively cultivated agricultural landscapes

    Johan Ekroos;Janne Heliölä;Mikko Kuussaari

  • The potential for indirect effects between co-flowering plants via shared pollinators depends on resource abundance, accessibility and relatedness

    Luísa Gigante Carvalheiro;Luísa Gigante Carvalheiro;Jacobus Christiaan Biesmeijer;Jacobus Christiaan Biesmeijer;Gita Benadi;Jochen Fründ

  • Optimizing agri-environment schemes for biodiversity, ecosystem services or both?

    Johan Ekroos;Ola Olsson;Maj Rundlöf;Maj Rundlöf;Frank Wätzold

  • Ecosystem services—current challenges and opportunities for ecological research

    Klaus Birkhofer;Eva Diehl;Jesper Andersson;Johan Ekroos

  • Sparing land for biodiversity at multiple spatial scales

    Johan Ekroos;Anja M. Ödman;Georg K. S. Andersson;Klaus Birkhofer

  • Sown flower strips in southern Sweden increase abundances of wild bees and hoverflies in the wider landscape

    Annelie M. Jönsson;Johan Ekroos;Juliana Dänhardt;Georg K.S. Andersson

  • Density of insect-pollinated grassland plants decreases with increasing surrounding land-use intensity

    Yann Clough;Johan Ekroos;András Báldi;Péter Batáry

  • Effects of climate change on European ducks : what do we know and what do we need to know?

    Matthieu Guillemain;Hannu Pöysä;Anthony D. Fox;Céline Arzel

  • Trait-dependent responses of flower-visiting insects to distance to semi-natural grasslands and landscape heterogeneity

    Johan Ekroos;Maj Rundlöf;Maj Rundlöf;Henrik G. Smith

  • Relationships between multiple biodiversity components and ecosystem services along a landscape complexity gradient

    Klaus Birkhofer;Klaus Birkhofer;Georg K.S. Andersson;Georg K.S. Andersson;Janne Bengtsson;Riccardo Bommarco

  • Biologia Futura : landscape perspectives on farmland biodiversity conservation

    Péter Batáry;András Báldi;Johan Ekroos;Róbert Gallé

  • Effects of farming intensity, crop rotation and landscape heterogeneity on field bean pollination

    Georg K.S. Andersson;Johan Ekroos;Martin Stjernman;Maj Rundlöf

  • Looking beyond the mountain: Dispersal barriers in a changing world

    Paul Caplat;Pim Edelaar;Rachael Y. Dudaniec;Andy J. Green

  • A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

    Matteo Dainese;Emily A. Martin;Marcelo A. Aizen;Matthias Albrecht

  • Philopatric predisposition to predation-induced ecological traps: habitat-dependent mortality of breeding eiders.

    Johan Ekroos;Johan Ekroos;Markus Öst;Patrik Karell;Patrik Karell;Kim Jaatinen

  • Wild bees and hoverflies respond differently to urbanisation, human population density and urban form

    Anna S. Persson;Johan Ekroos;Peter Olsson;Henrik G. Smith

  • Declines amongst breeding Eider Somateria mollissima numbers in the Baltic/Wadden Sea flyway

    Johan Ekroos;Anthony D. Fox;Thomas K. Christensen;Ib K. Petersen

  • Responses in plant and carabid communities to farming practises in boreal landscapes

    Johan Ekroos;Terho Hyvönen;Juha Tiainen;Mikko Tiira

  • Land sparing versus land sharing: moving forward.

    J. Fischer;D. J. Abson;V. Butsic;M. J. Chappell

Frequent Co-Authors

Henrik G. Smith
Henrik G. Smith Lund University
Maj Rundlöf
Maj Rundlöf Lund University
Klaus Birkhofer
Klaus Birkhofer Brandenburg University of Technology
Mikko Kuussaari
Mikko Kuussaari Finnish Environment Institute
Yann Clough
Yann Clough Lund University
Luísa G. Carvalheiro
Luísa G. Carvalheiro Universidade Federal de Goiás
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer Stanford University
Riccardo Bommarco
Riccardo Bommarco Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Péter Batáry
Péter Batáry Centre for Ecological Research
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen

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