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Overview

Oliver Schweiger is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with extensive work in subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, and Genetics.

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy

Oliver Schweiger has published numerous research papers, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Scientific Reports
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Some of the recent notable papers include:

  • Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Pesticide use negatively affects bumble bees across European landscapes, 2023, Nature
  • Plant functional traits shape multiple ecosystem services, their trade-offs and synergies in grasslands, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • A new comprehensive trait database of European and Maghreb butterflies, Papilionoidea, 2020, Scientific Data
  • A complete time-calibrated multi-gene phylogeny of the European butterflies, 2020, ZooKeys

Frequent co-authors working alongside Oliver Schweiger include:

  • Josef Settele
  • Matthias Albrecht
  • Christophe Dominik
  • Marika Mänd
  • Simon G. Potts

Best Publications

  • Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers.

    Simon Geoffrey Potts;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer;Claire Kremen;Peter Neumann

  • Indicators for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: a pan‐European study

    R. Billeter;J. Liira;D. Bailey;R.J.F. Bugter

  • Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale

    Vincent Devictor;Chris van Swaay;Tom Brereton;Lluı´s Brotons

  • Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

    Jeremy T. Kerr;Alana Pindar;Paul Galpern;Laurence Packer

  • How landscape structure, land-use intensity and habitat diversity affect components of total arthropod diversity in agricultural landscapes

    Frederik Hendrickx;Jean-Pierre Maelfait;Walter Van Wingerden;Oliver Schweiger

  • Phylogenetic diversity and nature conservation: where are we?

    Marten Winter;Vincent Devictor;Oliver Schweiger

  • CLIMATE CHANGE CAN CAUSE SPATIAL MISMATCH OF TROPHICALLY INTERACTING SPECIES

    Oliver Schweiger;Josef Settele;Otakar Kudrna;Stefan Klotz

  • Life-history traits predict species responses to habitat area and isolation: a cross-continental synthesis

    Erik Öckinger;Oliver Schweiger;Thomas O. Crist;Diane M. Debinski

  • Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect pollination

    Oliver Schweiger;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer;Riccardo Bommarco;Thomas Hickler

  • Combined effects of global change pressures on animal-mediated pollination

    Juan P. González-Varo;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer;Riccardo Bommarco;Simon G. Potts

  • Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora

    Marten Winter;Oliver Schweiger;Stefan Klotz;Wolfgang Nentwig

  • Climatic risk atlas of European butterflies

    Josef Settele;Otakar Kudrna;Alexander Harpke;Ingolf Kühn

  • Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects

    Panagiotis Theodorou;Panagiotis Theodorou;Rita Radzevičiūtė;Guillaume Lentendu;Guillaume Lentendu;Belinda Kahnt

  • Quantifying the impact of environmental factors on arthropod communities in agricultural landscapes across organizational levels and spatial scales

    O Schweiger;Jean-Pierre Maelfait;W Van Wingerden;Frederik Hendrickx

  • Challenging Urban Species Diversity: Contrasting Phylogenetic Patterns across Plant Functional Groups in Germany

    Sonja Knapp;Ingolf Kühn;Oliver Schweiger;Stefan Klotz

  • Climatic Risk and Distribution Atlas of European Bumblebees

    Pierre Rasmont;Markus Franzén;Thomas Lecocq;Alexander Harpke

  • 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

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

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

  • Effects of landscape structure and land-use intensity on similarity of plant and animal communities

    Carsten F. Dormann;Oliver Schweiger;Isabel Augenstein;Debra Bailey

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Settele
Josef Settele Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Stefan Klotz
Stefan Klotz Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Thomas Hickler
Thomas Hickler Goethe University Frankfurt
Simon G. Potts
Simon G. Potts University of Reading
Felix Herzog
Felix Herzog Agroscope
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Pierre Rasmont
Pierre Rasmont University of Mons
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury

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