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52
Citations
14641
World Ranking
3396
National Ranking
186

Overview

Klaus Birkhofer is affiliated with Brandenburg University of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Genetics.

Their principal topics of research cover a range of ecological and biological studies including Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

Among their recent scholarly contributions are several papers published between 2020 and 2022. These include:

  • "Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions" (2020) published in Biological Conservation
  • "Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects" (2020) published in Biological Conservation
  • "Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil-associated consumers from protists to vertebrates" (2022) published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "Crop diversity benefits carabid and pollinator communities in landscapes with semi-natural habitats" (2020) published in Journal of Applied Ecology

Birkhofer's frequent coauthors include Radek Michalko, El Aziz Djoudi, Ondřej Košulič, Enrique G. de la Riva, and Fredrik Arvidsson.

Their research has been disseminated consistently through key scientific venues such as Biological Conservation, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Basic and Applied Ecology, and Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Best Publications

  • Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

    Maria A. Tsiafouli;Elisa Thébault;Stefanos P. Sgardelis;Peter C. de Ruiter

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

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

  • Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

    Franciska T. de Vries;Franciska T. de Vries;Elisa Thébault;Elisa Thébault;Mira Liiri;Klaus Birkhofer

  • Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions

    Pedro Cardoso;Philip S. Barton;Klaus Birkhofer;Filipe Chichorro

  • Long-term organic farming fosters below and aboveground biota: Implications for soil quality, biological control and productivity

    Klaus Birkhofer;T. Martijn Bezemer;Jaap Bloem;Michael Bonkowski

  • 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

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

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

  • A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

    Nico Blüthgen;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati;Valentin H. Klaus

  • Global distribution of earthworm diversity

    Helen R P Phillips;Carlos A Guerra;Marie L C Bartz;Maria J I Briones

  • Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

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

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

  • An estimated 400-800 million tons of prey are annually killed by the global spider community.

    Martin Nyffeler;Klaus Birkhofer;Klaus Birkhofer

  • Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects

    Michael J Samways;Philip S. Barton;Klaus Birkhofer;Filipe Chichorro

  • Ecosystem services—current challenges and opportunities for ecological research

    Klaus Birkhofer;Eva Diehl;Jesper Andersson;Johan Ekroos

  • Landscape and management effects on structure and function of soil arthropod communities in winter wheat

    Tim Diekötter;Sabine Wamser;Volkmar Wolters;Klaus Birkhofer

  • General Relationships between Abiotic Soil Properties and Soil Biota across Spatial Scales and Different Land- Use Types

    Klaus Birkhofer;Ingo Schöning;Fabian Alt;Nadine Herold

  • Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

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

  • Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

    Gaëtane Le Provost;Jan Thiele;Catrin Westphal;Caterina Penone

  • Sparing land for biodiversity at multiple spatial scales

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

  • Predator body sizes and habitat preferences predict predation rates in an agroecosystem

    Adrien Rusch;Klaus Birkhofer;Riccardo Bommarco;Henrik G. Smith

  • Management intensity and vegetation complexity affect web-building spiders and their prey

    Eva Diehl;Viktoria L. Mader;Volkmar Wolters;Klaus Birkhofer

  • Arable weeds in organically managed wheat fields foster carabid beetles by resource- and structure-mediated effects

    Eva Diehl;Volkmar Wolters;Klaus Birkhofer

Frequent Co-Authors

Volkmar Wolters
Volkmar Wolters University of Giessen
Henrik G. Smith
Henrik G. Smith Lund University
Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Katarina Hedlund
Katarina Hedlund Lund University
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Daniel Prati
Daniel Prati University of Bern

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