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Karsten Schönrogge is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focused interest in several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Cell Biology.

The main topics in Schönrogge's work cover a variety of ecological and biological studies such as Plant and Animal Studies, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Schönrogge include Nadia Barsoum, Alan J. A. Stewart, Melanie Gibbs, Joan Cottrell, and Liz J. Shaw.

Notable recent papers by Schönrogge and colleagues include:

  • "Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward," 2020, published in Insect Conservation and Diversity
  • "Applying the Convention on Biological Diversity Pathway Classification to alien species in Europe," 2020, published in NeoBiota
  • "Associational resistance to both insect and pathogen damage in mixed forests is modulated by tree neighbour identity and drought," 2020, published in Journal of Ecology
  • "Environmental factors and host genetic variation shape the fungal endophyte communities within needles of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)," 2022, published in Fungal ecology
  • "Root ectomycorrhizal status of oak trees symptomatic and asymptomatic for Acute Oak Decline in southern Britain," 2020, published in Forest Ecology and Management

Schönrogge's research has appeared most frequently in the following publication venues:

  • Insect Conservation and Diversity (3 publications)
  • Fungal ecology (2 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2 publications)
  • NeoBiota (1 publication)
  • Journal of Ecology (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • The adaptive significance of insect gall morphology

    Graham N. Stone;Karsten Schönrogge

  • The Population Biology of Oak Gall Wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

    Graham N Stone;Karsten Schonrogge;Rachel J Atkinson;David Bellido

  • Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward

    Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;Yves Basset;C. Matilda Collins;Simon R. Leather

  • Horizon scanning for invasive alien species with the potential to threaten biodiversity in Great Britain

    Helen E. Roy;Jodey M. Peyton;David C. Aldridge;Tristan Bantock

  • PIPITS: an automated pipeline for analyses of fungal internal transcribed spacer sequences from the Illumina sequencing platform

    Hyun S. Gweon;Anna Oliver;Joanne Taylor;Tim Booth

  • Developing a framework of minimum standards for the risk assessment of alien species

    Helen E. Roy;Wolfgang Rabitsch;Riccardo Scalera;Alan Stewart

  • Queen Ants Make Distinctive Sounds That Are Mimicked by a Butterfly Social Parasite

    Francesca Barbero;Jeremy A Thomas;Simona Bonelli;Emilio Balletto

  • Developing a list of invasive alien species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the European Union

    Helen E. Roy;Sven Bacher;Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Tim Adriaens

  • Can the enemy release hypothesis explain the success of invasive alien predators and parasitoids

    H. E. Roy;L.-J. Lawson Handley;K. Schönrogge;R. L. Poland

  • Host niches and defensive extended phenotypes structure parasitoid wasp communities

    Richard G Bailey;Karsten Schönrogge;James M. Cook;James M. Cook;George Melika

  • When rare species become endangered: cryptic speciation in myrmecophilous hoverflies

    Karsten Schönrogge;Boyd Barr;Judith C. Wardlaw;Emma Napper

  • Parasitoid recruitment to the globally invasive chestnut gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus

    Alexandra Aebi;Karsten Schönrogge;George Melika;Alberto Alma

  • Alien Pathogens on the Horizon: Opportunities for Predicting their Threat to Wildlife

    Helen E. Roy;Helen Hesketh;Bethan V. Purse;Jørgen Eilenberg

  • Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in cynipid oak galls in the West Palaearctic

    Richard R. Askew;George Melika;Juli Pujade-Villar;Karsten Schönrogge

  • Phylogeny and DNA barcoding of inquiline oak gallwasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) of the Western Palaearctic

    Zoltán Ács;Richard J. Challis;Richard J. Challis;Péter Bihari;Mark Blaxter

  • Native and introduced parasitoids attacking the invasive chestnut gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus

    Alexandre Aebi;K Schönrogge;G Melika;A Quacchia

  • Ant benefits in a seed dispersal mutualism

    Nicola Gammans;James M. Bullock;Karsten Schönrogge

  • Reconstructing community assembly in time and space reveals enemy escape in a Western Palearctic insect community.

    Graham N. Stone;Konrad Lohse;James A. Nicholls;Pablo Fuentes-Utrilla

  • Cynipid galls: insect‐induced modifications of plant development create novel plant organs

    L. J. Harper;K. Schönrogge;K. Y. Lim;P. Francis

  • Polymorphic growth rates in myrmecophilous insects

    K. Schonrogge;J.C. Wardlaw;J.A. Thomas;G.W. Elmes

  • Alien herbivores and native parasitoids: rapid developments and structure of the parasitoid and inquiline complex in an invading gall wasp Andricus quercuscalicis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

    K. Schönrogge;G.N. Stone;M.J. Crawley

  • The Ecology and Evolution of Ant–Plant Interactions, Victor Rico-Gray, Paulo S. Oliviera. Chicago University Press, Chicago (2007), Pp. xiii+331. Price £44.50 hardback, £18.00 paperback

    Karsten Schonrogge

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham N. Stone
Graham N. Stone University of Edinburgh
J. A. Thomas
J. A. Thomas University of Oxford
Graham W. Elmes
Graham W. Elmes Natural Environment Research Council
Michael J. Crawley
Michael J. Crawley Imperial College London
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
Helen E. Roy
Helen E. Roy Anglia Ruskin University
Wolfgang Rabitsch
Wolfgang Rabitsch Umweltbundesamt, Austria
Jan Pergl
Jan Pergl Czech Academy of Sciences
Alain Roques
Alain Roques INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Gordon H. Copp
Gordon H. Copp Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

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