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Katja Poveda is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant number of publications in this field. Subfields of their study include Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Genetics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work encompasses several main topics that include Plant and Animal Studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Insect and Pesticide Research, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Agricultural Innovations and Practices.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Katja Poveda are:

  • Interaction diversity explains the maintenance of phytochemical diversity, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Diet diversity and pesticide risk mediate the negative effects of land use change on solitary bee offspring production, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Models of natural pest control: Towards predictions across agricultural landscapes, 2021, Biological Control
  • Natural habitat partially mitigates negative pesticide effects on tropical pollinator communities, 2021, Global Ecology and Conservation
  • The effects of crop type, landscape composition and agroecological practices on biodiversity and ecosystem services in tropical smallholder farms, 2023, Journal of Applied Ecology

Frequent co-authors with whom Katja Poveda has collaborated include:

  • Heather Grab
  • Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
  • Tim Luttermoser
  • Mattias Jonsson
  • Aaron L. Iverson

Their research contributions have appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, among which the most common are:

  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • PLoS ONE
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology Letters
  • Ecological Applications

Best Publications

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

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

  • Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition

    Daniel S. Karp;Rebecca E Chaplin-Kramer;Timothy D. Meehan;Emily A. Martin

  • When natural habitat fails to enhance biological pest control – Five hypotheses ☆

    Teja Tscharntke;Daniel S. Karp;Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer;Péter Batáry

  • 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

  • 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

  • Agriculturally dominated landscapes reduce bee phylogenetic diversity and pollination services

    Heather Grab;Michael G. Branstetter;Nolan Amon;Nolan Amon;Katherine R. Urban-Mead

  • Herbivory‐mediated pollinator limitation: negative impacts of induced volatiles on plant–pollinator interactions

    André Kessler;Rayko Halitschke;Katja Poveda

  • Domestication impacts on plant-herbivore interactions: a meta-analysis

    Susan R. Whitehead;Martin M. Turcotte;Katja Poveda

  • Effects of below- and above-ground herbivores on plant growth, flower visitation and seed set

    Katja Poveda;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Stefan Scheu;Teja Tscharntke

  • Diversification practices: their effect on pest regulation and production

    Katja Poveda;María Isabel Gómez;Eliana Martínez

  • Landscape simplification decreases wild bee pollination services to strawberry

    Heather Connelly;Katja Poveda;Gregory Loeb

  • Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes : Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases

    Adriana De Palma;Adriana De Palma;Stefan Abrahamczyk;Marcelo A. Aizen;Matthias Albrecht

  • Effects of decomposers and herbivores on plant performance and aboveground plant-insect interactions

    Katja Poveda;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Stefan Scheu;Teja Tscharntke

  • The raison d'être of chemical ecology

    Robert A. Raguso;Anurag A. Agrawal;Angela E. Douglas;Georg Jander

  • Landscape simplification and altitude affect biodiversity, herbivory and Andean potato yield

    Katja Poveda;Eliana Martínez;Monica F. Kersch‐Becker;Maria A. Bonilla

  • Landscape simplification reduces classical biological control and crop yield

    Heather Grab;Bryan Danforth;Katja Poveda;Greg Loeb

  • Temporally dependent pollinator competition and facilitation with mass flowering crops affects yield in co-blooming crops

    Heather Grab;Eleanor J. Blitzer;Bryan Danforth;Greg Loeb

  • The eco-evolutionary impacts of domestication and agricultural practices on wild species.

    Martin M. Turcotte;Hitoshi Araki;Daniel S. Karp;Katja Poveda

  • The enemy as ally: herbivore-induced increase in crop yield

    Katja Poveda;Katja Poveda;María Isabel Gómez Jiménez;André Kessler

  • Interaction diversity explains the maintenance of phytochemical diversity

    Susan R. Whitehead;Susan R. Whitehead;Ethan Bass;Alexsandra Corrigan;André Kessler

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter University of Würzburg
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Tim Newbold
Tim Newbold University College London
Samantha L. L. Hill
Samantha L. L. Hill World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
André Kessler
André Kessler Cornell University
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Marcelo A. Aizen
Marcelo A. Aizen National University of Comahue

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