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Overview

Karin Johst is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany, with a primary focus on environmental science. Their research spans multiple related subfields, including global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, insect science, and genetics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and pesticide research
  • Insect and arachnid ecology and behavior
  • Polish socio-economic development

Among their recent research outputs are the following papers:

  • Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem functioning and services across three different time horizons and decision contexts, 2020, Oikos
  • Honey bee colony performance affected by crop diversity and farmland structure: a modeling framework, 2020, Ecological Applications
  • Porównawcza ocena programów analizy żywotności populacji (PVA) w rankingu scenariuszy przekształceń krajobrazu, 2021, DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Porównawcza ocena programów analizy żywotności populacji (PVA) w rankingu scenariuszy przekształceń krajobrazu = A comparative assessment of PVA software packages applied to rank the landscape management scenarios, 2021, Przegląd Geograficzny

Karin Johst frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Volker Grimm
  • Viktoriia Radchuk
  • Kamila W. Franz
  • Jerzy Romanowski
  • Hanna Weise

The venues where Karin Johst's research has been published include:

  • Oikos
  • Ecological Applications
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Przegląd Geograficzny

Best Publications

  • Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change

    Mark C Urban;G Bocedi;A P Hendry;J-B Mihoub;J-B Mihoub

  • Metapopulation persistence in dynamic landscapes: the role of dispersal distance

    Karin Johst;Roland Brandl;Sabine Eber

  • Do simple models lead to generality in ecology

    Matthew R. Evans;Volker Grimm;Karin Johst;Tarja Knuuttila

  • Deleterious Mutations Can Surf to High Densities on the Wave Front of an Expanding Population

    Justin M. J. Travis;Justin M. J. Travis;Tamara Münkemüller;Tamara Münkemüller;Olivia J. Burton;Alex Best;Alex Best

  • Influence of mowing on the persistence of two endangered large blue butterfly species

    Karin Johst;Martin Drechsler;Jeremy Thomas;Josef Settele

  • The extent of functional redundancy changes as species’ roles shift in different environments

    Ingo Fetzer;Ingo Fetzer;Karin Johst;Robert Schäwe;Thomas Banitz

  • FORAGING IN A PATCHY AND DYNAMIC LANDSCAPE: HUMAN LAND USE AND THE WHITE STORK

    Karin Johst;Rolan Brandl;Robert Pfeifer

  • An ecological-economic modelling procedure to design compensation payments for the efficient spatio-temporal allocation of species protection measures

    Karin Johst;Martin Drechsler;Frank Wätzold

  • An agglomeration payment for cost-effective biodiversity conservation in spatially structured landscapes

    Martin Drechsler;Frank Wätzold;Frank Wätzold;Karin Johst;Jason F. Shogren

  • Does Red Noise Increase or Decrease Extinction Risk? Single Extreme Events versus Series of Unfavorable Conditions

    Monika Schwager;Karin Johst;Florian Jeltsch

  • A model-based approach for designing cost-effective compensation payments for conservation of endangered species in real landscapes

    Martin Drechsler;Frank Wätzold;Karin Johst;Holger Bergmann

  • Are spatially correlated or uncorrelated disturbance regimes better for the survival of species

    Karin Johst;Martin Drechsler

  • Extinction Risk in a Temporally Correlated Fluctuating Environment

    Karin Johst;Christian Wissel

  • Which species will succesfully track climate change? The influence of intraspecific competition and density dependent dispersal on range shifting dynamics

    A. S. Best;K. Johst;T. Münkemüller;J. M. J. Travis

  • Biodiversity conservation in dynamic landscapes: trade-offs between number, connectivity and turnover of habitat patches

    Karin Johst;Martin Drechsler;Astrid J. A. van Teeffelen;Florian Hartig

  • Community dynamics under environmental change: How can next generation mechanistic models improve projections of species distributions?

    Alexander Singer;Karin Johst;Thomas Banitz;Mike S. Fowler

  • A Protocol for Better Design, Application, and Communication of Population Viability Analyses

    Guy Pe'er;Guy Pe'er;Yiannis G. Matsinos;Karin Johst;Kamila W. Franz;Kamila W. Franz

  • Model-Based Estimation of Collision Risks of Predatory Birds with Wind Turbines

    Marcus Eichhorn;Karin Johst;Ralf Seppelt;Martin Drechsler

  • Evolution of complex dynamics in spatially structured populations

    Karin Johst;Michael Doebeli;Roland Brandl

  • A Novel, Spatiotemporally Explicit Ecological-economic Modeling Procedure for the Design of Cost-effective Agri-environment Schemes to Conserve Biodiversity

    Frank Wätzold;Martin Drechsler;Karin Johst;Melanie Mewes

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Drechsler
Martin Drechsler Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Volker Grimm
Volker Grimm Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Tamara Münkemüller
Tamara Münkemüller Grenoble Alpes University
Hauke Harms
Hauke Harms Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Andreas Huth
Andreas Huth Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Julian Gutt
Julian Gutt Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Justin M. J. Travis
Justin M. J. Travis University of Aberdeen
Karin Frank
Karin Frank Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Roland Brandl
Roland Brandl Philipp University of Marburg
Christian Wissel
Christian Wissel Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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