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Sonja Knapp is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their research focuses on Environmental Science, with particular attention to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
  • Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies

Among recent publications, Sonja Knapp contributed to the paper titled A Research Agenda for Urban Biodiversity in the Global Extinction Crisis (2020) published in BioScience. Other notable works in their field include studies published in venues such as Landscape and Urban Planning and Urban Ecosystems. Some selected papers relevant to their thematic area are:

  • Pathways linking biodiversity to human health: A conceptual framework, 2021, Environment International
  • Remote sensing in urban planning: Contributions towards ecologically sound policies?, 2020, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions, 2022, Urban Ecosystems
  • Plant functional traits shape multiple ecosystem services, their trade-offs and synergies in grasslands, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology

Sonja Knapp frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors in related research areas. Frequent collaborators include:

  • J. Scott MacIvor
  • Ingolf Kühn
  • Myla F. J. Aronson
  • Christopher A. Lepczyk
  • Nicholas S. G. Williams

The scientist has published in multiple prominent research venues, including:

  • Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Environment International
  • Urban Ecosystems

Best Publications

  • Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas: perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action

    Nadja Kabisch;Niki Frantzeskaki;Stephan Pauleit;Sandra Naumann

  • Pathways linking biodiversity to human health: A conceptual framework

    Melissa R. Marselle;Terry Hartig;Daniel T.C. Cox;Siân de Bell

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

    Sonja Knapp;Ingolf Kühn;Oliver Schweiger;Stefan Klotz

  • The Bigger, the Better? The Influence of Urban Green Space Design on Cooling Effects for Residential Areas.

    Madhumitha Jaganmohan;Sonja Knapp;Carsten M. Buchmann;Nina Schwarz

  • What ' s on the horizon for macroecology?

    Jan Beck;Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia;Carsten M. Buchmann;Jürgen Dengler

  • Remote sensing in urban planning: Contributions towards ecologically sound policies?

    Thilo Wellmann;Thilo Wellmann;Angela Lausch;Angela Lausch;Erik Andersson;Erik Andersson;Sonja Knapp

  • Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions

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  • Understanding biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships in urban areas: A comprehensive literature review

    Nina Schwarz;Nina Schwarz;Marco Moretti;Miguel N. Bugalho;Miguel N. Bugalho;Zoe G. Davies

  • Changes in the Functional Composition of a Central European Urban Flora over Three Centuries

    Sonja Knapp;Ingolf Kühn;Jens Stolle;Stefan Klotz

  • Phylogenetic and functional characteristics of household yard floras and their changes along an urbanization gradient

    Sonja Knapp;Sonja Knapp;Lucy Dinsmore;Cinzia Fissore;Sarah E Hobbie

  • A Research Agenda for Urban Biodiversity in the Global Extinction Crisis

    Sonja Knapp;Myla F J Aronson;Ela Carpenter;Adriana Herrera-Montes

  • Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

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  • Do protected areas in urban and rural landscapes differ in species diversity

    Sonja Knapp;Sonja Knapp;Ingolf Kühn;Volker Mosbrugger;Volker Mosbrugger;Stefan Klotz

  • Plant functional traits shape multiple ecosystem services, their trade‐offs and synergies in grasslands

    Mario Hanisch;Oliver Schweiger;Anna F. Cord;Anna F. Cord;Martin Volk

  • How species traits and affinity to urban land use control large-scale species frequency

    Sonja Knapp;Ingolf Kühn;Jan P. Bakker;Michael Kleyer

  • Urbanization causes shifts in species' trait state frequencies

    S. Knapp;I. Kühn;R. Wittig;W.A. Ozinga

  • Linking traits of invasive plants with ecosystem services and disservices

    Marija Milanović;Marija Milanović;Sonja Knapp;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Ingolf Kühn;Ingolf Kühn

  • Origin matters: widely distributed native and non-native species benefit from different functional traits.

    Sonja Knapp;Ingolf Kühn

  • Understanding forest health with remote sensing, Part III: Requirements for a scalable multi-source forest health monitoring network based on data science approaches

    Angela Lausch;Erik Borg;Jan Bumberger;Peter Dietrich

  • Testing taxonomic and landscape surrogates for biodiversity in an urban setting

    Claudia Bräuniger;Sonja Knapp;Ingolf Kühn;Stefan Klotz

  • Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity Revealed by a Two-Scale Analysis of Species Functional Uniqueness vs. Redundancy

    Anna Kondratyeva;Sonja Knapp;Walter Durka;Ingolf Kühn

  • Urban land use intensity assessment: The potential of spatio-temporal spectral traits with remote sensing

    Thilo Wellmann;Dagmar Haase;Dagmar Haase;Sonja Knapp;Christoph Salbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Stefan Klotz
Stefan Klotz Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Dagmar Haase
Dagmar Haase Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Angela Lausch
Angela Lausch Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Andrew K. Skidmore
Andrew K. Skidmore University of Twente
Oliver Schweiger
Oliver Schweiger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Jeannine Cavender-Bares University of Minnesota
Volker Mosbrugger
Volker Mosbrugger American Museum of Natural History
Salman Qureshi
Salman Qureshi Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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