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Susanne Wurst is a researcher affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Their work primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with focus areas including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Insect Science.

Their research contributions cover a range of topics related to ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal interactions, plant parasitism and resistance, land use and ecosystem services, as well as insect-plant interactions and control.

Among the recent publications authored or co-authored by Susanne Wurst are:

  • Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Super-predation and intraguild interactions in a multi-predator-one-prey system alter the abundance and behaviour of green peach aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) (2020, The Canadian Entomologist)
  • While shoot herbivores reduce, root herbivores increase nutrient enrichment's impact on diversity in a grassland model (2021, Ecology)
  • While shoot herbivores reduce, root herbivores increase nutrient enrichment's impact on diversity in a grassland model (2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research))

Frequent coauthors of Susanne Wurst include:

  • Michael Crawford
  • Ulrike E. Schlägel
  • Volker Grimm
  • Florian Jeltsch
  • Gaëtane Le Provost

Key publication venues where Susanne Wurst's work appears include:

  • Nature Communications
  • The Canadian Entomologist
  • Ecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The scope of Susanne Wurst's research reflects a comprehensive engagement with multiple aspects of ecological science, particularly the dynamics of vegetation and interactions within ecosystems under different environmental influences. This includes examining the contrasting effects of herbivores above and below ground and how land-use intensity impacts biodiversity.

Best Publications

  • Choosing and using diversity indices: Insights for ecological applications from the German Biodiversity Exploratories

    E. Kathryn Morris;E. Kathryn Morris;Tancredi Caruso;François Buscot;François Buscot;Markus Fischer

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

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

  • 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

  • Priming and memory of stress responses in organisms lacking a nervous system.

    Monika Hilker;Jens Schwachtje;Margarete Baier;Salma Balazadeh

  • Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

    Santiago Soliveres;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati;Martin M. Gossner

  • Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

    Gaëtane Le Provost;Jan Thiele;Catrin Westphal;Caterina Penone

  • Combined effects of earthworms and vesicular–arbuscular mycorrhizas on plant and aphid performance

    Susanne Wurst;Dereje Dugassa‐Gobena;Reinhard Langel;Michael Bonkowski

  • Root herbivore identity matters in plant-mediated interactions between root and shoot herbivores

    Susanne Wurst;Wim H. van der Putten

  • Indirect effects of earthworms (Aporrectodea caliginosa) on an above-ground tritrophic interaction

    Susanne Wurst;Susanne Wurst;T.Hefin Jones;T.Hefin Jones

  • Effects of earthworms and organic litter distribution on plant performance and aphid reproduction.

    Susanne Wurst;Reinhard Langel;August Reineking;Michael Bonkowski

  • Effects of earthworms on above- and belowground herbivores

    Susanne Wurst

  • A fungal endophyte helps plants to tolerate root herbivory through changes in gibberellin and jasmonate signaling

    Marco Cosme;Marco Cosme;Marco Cosme;Jing Lu;Jing Lu;Matthias Erb;Matthias Erb;Michael Joseph Stout

  • Land-use type and intensity differentially filter traits in above- and below-ground arthropod communities

    Klaus Birkhofer;Klaus Birkhofer;Martin M. Gossner;Tim Diekötter;Claudia Drees

  • Do endogeic earthworms change plant competition? A microcosm study

    Susanne Wurst;Reinhard Langel;Stefan Scheu

  • Microorganisms and nematodes increase levels of secondary metabolites in roots and root exudates of Plantago lanceolata.

    S. Wurst;R. Wagenaar;A. Biere;W.H. Van der Putten

  • Independent effects of arbuscular mycorrhiza and earthworms on plant diversity and newcomer plant establishment

    Susanne Wurst;Kristin Gebhardt;Matthias C. Rillig

  • Do plant- and soil-mediated legacy effects impact future biotic interactions?

    Susanne Wurst;Takayuki Ohgushi

  • Interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, rhizobacteria, soil phosphorus and plant cytokinin deficiency change the root morphology, yield and quality of tobacco

    Marco Cosme;Susanne Wurst

  • Intraspecific variation in plant defense alters effects of root herbivores on leaf chemistry and aboveground herbivore damage.

    Susanne Wurst;Nicole M. Van Dam;Fernando Monroy;Arjen Biere

  • Earthworms and litter distribution affect plant-defensive chemistry.

    Susanne Wurst;Dereje Dugassa-Gobena;Stefan Scheu

  • Earthworms counterbalance the negative effect of microorganisms on plant diversity and enhance the tolerance of grasses to nematodes

    Susanne Wurst;Bas Allema;Henk Duyts;Wim H. Van Der Putten

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias C. Rillig
Matthias C. Rillig Freie Universität Berlin
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Daniel Prati
Daniel Prati University of Bern
Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
Tesfaye Wubet
Tesfaye Wubet Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Klaus Birkhofer
Klaus Birkhofer Brandenburg University of Technology
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Steffen Boch
Steffen Boch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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