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Citations
8365
World Ranking
5750
National Ranking
301

Overview

Nina Farwig is affiliated with Philipp University of Marburg in Germany and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research covers diverse topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Farwig has contributed to multiple recent papers focused on ecological and biological science themes. Notable publications include:

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition, 2021, Nature
  • Biodiversity post-2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national-level implementation, 2021, Conservation Letters
  • Limited potential for bird migration to disperse plants to cooler latitudes, 2021, Nature
  • The role of the brown bear Ursus arctos as a legitimate megafaunal seed disperser, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Frugivore-mediated seed dispersal in fragmented landscapes: Compositional and functional turnover from forest to matrix, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Nina Farwig has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Dana G. Schabo, Sascha Rösner, Roland Brandl, Jörg Bendix, and Jörg Albrecht.

The scientist has published regularly in specific academic venues such as Basic and Applied Ecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Functional Ecology, Biological Conservation, and Journal of Avian Biology.

Farwig has also contributed to book publications through the publisher oekom verlag, with titles including "Faktencheck Artenvielfalt," published in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe

    Emily A. Martin;Matteo Dainese;Yann Clough;András Báldi

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • 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

  • Comparing species interaction networks along environmental gradients.

    Loïc Pellissier;Camille Albouy;Camille Albouy;Jordi Bascompte;Nina Farwig

  • Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change

    Matthias Schleuning;Jochen Fründ;Jochen Fründ;Oliver Schweiger;Erik Welk

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

    Sebastian Seibold;Werner Rammer;Torsten Hothorn;Rupert Seidl

  • A comprehensive analysis of autocorrelation and bias in home range estimation

    Michael J. Noonan;Michael J. Noonan;Marlee A. Tucker;Christen H. Fleming;Christen H. Fleming;Thomas S. Akre

  • Enhanced seed dispersal of Prunus africana in fragmented and disturbed forests

    Nina Farwig;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;Bärbel Bleher

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

  • Imagine a world without seed dispersers: A review of threats, consequences and future directions

    Nina Farwig;Dana G. Berens

  • 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 local disturbance of tropical forests on frugivores and seed removal of a small-seeded afrotropical tree.

    Jasper Mbae Kirika;Nina Farwig;Katrin Böhning-Gaese

  • Isolation from forest reduces pollination, seed predation and insect scavenging in Swiss farmland

    Nina Farwig;Nina Farwig;Debra Bailey;Estée Bochud;John D. Herrmann

  • Ants as indicators of environmental change and ecosystem processes

    Yvonne Tiede;Jan Schlautmann;David A. Donoso;Christine I.B. Wallis

  • Biodiversity post-2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national-level implementation

    Andrea Perino;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira;Maria Felipe-Lucia;HyeJin Kim

  • Forest fragmentation and selective logging have inconsistent effects on multiple animal-mediated ecosystem processes in a tropical forest.

    Matthias Schleuning;Nina Farwig;Marcell K. Peters;Thomas Bergsdorf

  • Conservation value of forest plantations for bird communities in western Kenya

    Nina Farwig;Nixon Sajita;Katrin Böhning-Gaese

  • Human disturbance reduces genetic diversity of an endangered tropical tree, Prunus africana (Rosaceae)

    Nina Farwig;Carsten Braun;Katrin Böhning-Gaese

  • Effects of forest modification on bird community composition and seed removal in a heterogeneous landscape in South Africa

    Eike Lena Neuschulz;Alexandra Botzat;Nina Farwig

Frequent Co-Authors

Katrin Böhning-Gaese
Katrin Böhning-Gaese Goethe University Frankfurt
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Ingo Grass
Ingo Grass University of Hohenheim
Jörg Bendix
Jörg Bendix Philipp University of Marburg
Roland Brandl
Roland Brandl Philipp University of Marburg
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Michael Kessler
Michael Kessler University of Zurich
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum

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