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Overview

Nico Blüthgen is affiliated with the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science, Ecology, and Plant Science. The work addresses a range of ecological and biological topics related to plant and animal studies as well as broader ecosystem dynamics.

The main topics covered in Blüthgen's work include:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Blüthgen's recent papers reflect a concentration on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and ecological interactions across temporal and spatial scales. Notable publications include:

  • "Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales," 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Seeing through the static: the temporal dimension of plant-animal mutualistic interactions," 2020, Ecology Letters
  • "Temporal scale-dependence of plant-pollinator networks," 2020, Oikos
  • "Stable isotopes: past and future in exposing secrets of ant nutrition (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)," 2024, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik (OEGEF)

Frequent co-authors contributing to Blüthgen's research output include:

  • Michael Staab
  • Wolfgang W. Weisser
  • Sebastian Seibold
  • Jörg Müller
  • Nadja K. Simons

Publication venues where Blüthgen has frequently contributed include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Oikos, and Insect Conservation and Diversity. This distribution of venues highlights a consistent engagement with journals that focus on ecological and biological sciences.

Overall, Blüthgen's research integrates multiple scales of ecological study, focusing on biodiversity, ecosystem service supply, and species interactions. Their work contributes to advancing understanding across fields closely related to environmental science and biological conservation.

Best Publications

  • Indices, Graphs and Null Models: Analyzing Bipartite Ecological Networks

    Carsten F. Dormann;Jochen Fründ;Nico Blüthgen;Bernd Gruber

  • Measuring specialization in species interaction networks

    Nico Blüthgen;Florian Menzel;Nils Blüthgen

  • Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers

    Sebastian Seibold;Martin M. Gossner;Nadja K. Simons;Nadja K. Simons;Nico Blüthgen

  • Ecological networks--beyond food webs.

    Thomas C. Ings;José M. Montoya;José M. Montoya;Jordi Bascompte;Nico Blüthgen

  • Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

    Eric Allan;Pete Manning;Fabian Alt;Julia Binkenstein

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

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

  • Species abundance and asymmetric interaction strength in ecological networks

    Diego P. Vázquez;Carlos J. Melián;Neal M. Williams;Nico Blüthgen

  • Uniting pattern and process in plant-animal mutualistic networks: a review.

    Diego P. Vázquez;Nico Blüthgen;Luciano Cagnolo;Natacha P. Chacoff

  • Functional complementarity and specialisation: The role of biodiversity in plant–pollinator interactions

    Nico Blüthgen;Alexandra-Maria Klein;Alexandra-Maria Klein

  • 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

  • Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization

    Sagrario Gámez-Virués;David J. Perović;Martin M. Gossner;Carmen Börschig

  • Specialization, constraints, and conflicting interests in mutualistic networks.

    Nico Blüthgen;Florian Menzel;Thomas Hovestadt;Brigitte Fiala

  • What do interaction network metrics tell us about specialization and biological traits

    Nico Blüthgen;Jochen Fründ;Diego P. Vázquez;Florian Menzel

  • Why network analysis is often disconnected from community ecology: A critique and an ecologist's guide

    Nico Blüthgen

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

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

  • Ecosystem restoration strengthens pollination network resilience and function

    Christopher N. Kaiser-Bunbury;James Mougal;Andrew E. Whittington;Terence Valentin

  • Disentangling a rainforest food web using stable isotopes: dietary diversity in a species-rich ant community

    Nico Blüthgen;Nico Blüthgen;Gerhard Gebauer;Konrad Fiedler

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

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

  • Specialization of Mutualistic Interaction Networks Decreases toward Tropical Latitudes

    Matthias Schleuning;Jochen Fründ;Alexandra-Maria Klein;Stefan Abrahamczyk;Stefan Abrahamczyk

  • How plants shape the ant community in the Amazonian rainforest canopy: the key role of extrafloral nectaries and homopteran honeydew.

    Nico Blüthgen;Manfred Verhaagh;William Goitía;Klaus Jaffé

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Alexandra-Maria Klein
Alexandra-Maria Klein University of Freiburg
Daniel Prati
Daniel Prati University of Bern
Steffen Boch
Steffen Boch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Till Kleinebecker
Till Kleinebecker University of Münster
Sara D. Leonhardt
Sara D. Leonhardt Technical University of Munich
Valentin H. Klaus
Valentin H. Klaus Ruhr University Bochum
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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