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206

Overview

Sönke Eggers is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a specialization in ecology and related subfields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, they explore several subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Insect Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Their research topics cover a range of areas, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Sönke Eggers has coauthored publications with several researchers, most frequently collaborating with:

  • Julian Klein
  • Matthew Hiron
  • Matthew Low
  • Jörgen Sjögren
  • Eva Lindberg

Their work has appeared in various scientific journals and publishing venues, including:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
  • Biological Conservation
  • PLoS ONE
  • Ecology and Evolution

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Sönke Eggers are:

  • Hybrid bioacoustic and ecoacoustic analyses provide new links between bird assemblages and habitat quality in a winter boreal forest, 2021, Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
  • Do biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments inform stakeholders how to simultaneously conserve biodiversity and increase ecosystem service provisioning in grasslands?, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • What is good for birds is not always good for lichens: Interactions between forest structure and species richness in managed boreal forests, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Remotely sensed forest understory density and nest predator occurrence interact to predict suitable breeding habitat and the occurrence of a resident boreal bird species, 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Tree species identity and composition shape the epiphytic lichen community of structurally simple boreal forests over vast areas, 2021, PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Persistent negative effects of pesticides on biodiversity and biological control potential on European farmland

    Flavia Geiger;Jan Bengtsson;Frank Berendse;Wolfgang W. Weisser

  • How Agricultural Intensification Affects Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    M. Emmerson;M.B. Morales;J.J. Oñate;P. Batáry

  • Predation risk induces changes in nest-site selection and clutch size in the Siberian jay

    Sönke Eggers;Michael Griesser;Magdalena Nystrand;Jan Ekman

  • Mixed effects of organic farming and landscape complexity on farmland biodiversity and biological control potential across Europe

    Camilla Winqvist;Jan Bengtsson;Tsipe Aavik;Frank Berendse

  • Agricultural intensification and biodiversity partitioning in European landscapes comparing plants, carabids, and birds

    Andreas Flohre;Christina Fischer;Tsipe Aavik;Jan Bengtsson

  • Predator-induced plasticity in nest visitation rates in the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus)

    Sönke Eggers;Michael Griesser;Jan Ekman

  • Rainfall during parental care reduces reproductive and survival components of fitness in a passerine bird.

    Meit Öberg;Debora Arlt;Tomas Pärt;Ane Timenes Laugen;Ane Timenes Laugen

  • Response of ground-nesting farmland birds to agricultural intensification across Europe: Landscape and field level management factors

    Irene Guerrero;Manuel B. Morales;Juan J. Oñate;Flavia Geiger

  • Predator-induced reductions in nest visitation rates are modified by forest cover and food availability

    Sönke Eggers;Sönke Eggers;Michael Griesser;Michael Griesser;Jan Ekman

  • Fighting to stay: the role of sibling rivalry for delayed dispersal

    Jan Ekman;Sönke Eggers;Michael Griesser

  • Queuing for preferred territories: delayed dispersal of Siberian jays

    Jan Ekman;SÖnke Eggers;Michael Griesser;HÅkan Tegelström

  • Habitat‐specific differences in adult survival rates and its links to parental workload and on‐nest predation

    Matthew Low;Debora Arlt;Sönke Eggers;Tomas Pärt

  • The multifunctional roles of vegetated strips around and within agricultural fields

    Neal Haddaway;Neal Haddaway;Colin David Brown;Jacqui Eales;Sönke Eggers

  • Landscape composition influences farm management effects on farmland birds in winter: A pan-European approach

    Flavia Geiger;Geert R. de Snoo;Geert R. de Snoo;Frank Berendse;Irene Guerrero

  • Nest predation and habitat change interact to influence Siberian jay numbers

    Sönke Eggers;Michael Griesser;Tommy Andersson;Jan Ekman

  • DELAYED DISPERSAL: LIVING UNDER THE REIGN OF NEPOTISTIC PARENTS

    Jan Ekman;Vittorio Baglione;Sönke Eggers;Michael Griesser

  • Impact of forestry practices on fitness correlates and population productivity in an open-nesting bird species

    Michael Griesser;Michael Griesser;Magdalena Nystrand;Sönke Eggers;Jan Ekman

  • Bird diversity relates to agri-environment schemes at local and landscape level in intensive farmland

    Matthew Hiron;Åke Berg;Sönke Eggers;Jonas Josefsson

  • Social constraints limit dispersal and settlement decisions in a group-living bird species

    Michael Griesser;Michael Griesser;Magdalena Nystrand;Sönke Eggers;Jan Ekman

  • The relationship of bird diversity to crop and non-crop heterogeneity in agricultural landscapes

    Matthew Hiron;Åke Berg;Sönke Eggers;Åsa Berggren

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomas Pärt
Tomas Pärt Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Michael Griesser
Michael Griesser University of Konstanz
Jan Ekman
Jan Ekman Uppsala University
Jan Bengtsson
Jan Bengtsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jaan Liira
Jaan Liira University of Tartu
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Frank Berendse
Frank Berendse Wageningen University & Research
Manuel B. Morales
Manuel B. Morales Autonomous University of Madrid
Riccardo Bommarco
Riccardo Bommarco Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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