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78
Citations
24704
World Ranking
910
National Ranking
64

Overview

Ulrich Brose is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, contributing extensively to understanding ecological processes and biodiversity.

The main subfields of study in Brose's work include:

  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Global and Planetary Change

Their research addresses key topics such as:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

Brose has published in several frequent venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology Letters
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Brose include:

  • "Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory," 2020, Science Advances
  • "The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning," 2021, Basic and Applied Ecology
  • "RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time-series to study global change ecology in riverine systems," 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "The geography of metapopulation synchrony in dendritic river networks," 2021, Ecology Letters

Frequent collaborators working with Ulrich Brose include:

  • Myriam R. Hirt
  • Benoît Gauzens
  • Benjamin Rosenbaum
  • Nico Eisenhauer
  • Remo Ryser

Best Publications

  • Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures

    J. Tews;U. Brose;V. Grimm;K. Tielbörger

  • Food webs: reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity

    Ross M. Thompson;Ulrich Brose;Jennifer A. Dunne;Robert O. Hall

  • Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes

    Ingo Grass;Ingo Grass;Christoph Kubitza;Christoph Kubitza;Vijesh V. Krishna;Marife D. Corre

  • CONSUMER–RESOURCE BODY-SIZE RELATIONSHIPS IN NATURAL FOOD WEBS

    Ulrich Brose;Tomas Jonsson;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Philip Warren

  • Allometric scaling enhances stability in complex food webs

    Ulrich Brose;Richard J. Williams;Neo D. Martinez

  • Automated image-based tracking and its application in ecology

    Anthony I. Dell;John A. Bender;Kristin Branson;Iain D. Couzin

  • Universal temperature and body-mass scaling of feeding rates.

    Björn C. Rall;Ulrich Brose;Martin Hartvig;Martin Hartvig;Gregor Kalinkat;Gregor Kalinkat

  • Temperature, predator-prey interaction strength and population stability

    Björn Christian Rall;Olivera Vucic-Pestic;Roswitha B. Ehnes;Mark Emmerson

  • ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS: SENSITIVITY TO SAMPLE COVERAGE AND INSENSITIVITY TO SPATIAL PATTERNS

    Ulrich Brose;Neo D. Martinez;Richard J. Williams

  • Global distribution of earthworm diversity

    Helen R P Phillips;Carlos A Guerra;Marie L C Bartz;Maria J I Briones

  • More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs.

    Sonia Kéfi;Sonia Kéfi;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Evie A. Wieters;Evie A. Wieters;Sergio A. Navarrete

  • Consequences of tropical land use for multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

    Andrew D. Barnes;Malte Jochum;Steffen Mumme;Noor Farikhah Haneda

  • Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs.

    Eric L. Berlow;Jennifer A. Dunne;Neo D. Martinez;Philip B. Stark

  • Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stability

    Sonja B. Otto;Björn C. Rall;Ulrich Brose

  • Body‐mass constraints on foraging behaviour determine population and food‐web dynamics

    Ulrich Brose

  • Energy Flux: The Link between Multitrophic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

    Andrew D. Barnes;Andrew D. Barnes;Malte Jochum;Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Nico Eisenhauer

  • Warming up the system: higher predator feeding rates but lower energetic efficiencies

    Olivera Vucic-Pestic;Roswitha B. Ehnes;Björn C. Rall;Ulrich Brose

  • Bottom-up control of carabid beetle communities in early successional wetlands: mediated by vegetation structure or plant diversity?

    U. Brose

  • Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes.

    Yann Clough;Yann Clough;Vijesh V. Krishna;Marife D. Corre;Kevin Darras

  • Allometric functional response model: body masses constrain interaction strengths.

    Olivera Vucic-Pestic;Björn C. Rall;Gregor Kalinkat;Ulrich Brose

  • ARTICLE Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures

    J. Tews;U. Brose;V. Grimm;M. C. Wichmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Björn C. Rall
Björn C. Rall University of Konstanz
Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
Neo D. Martinez
Neo D. Martinez Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University
Eric L. Berlow
Eric L. Berlow University of California, Merced
Richard J. Williams
Richard J. Williams Vibrant Data Labs
Owen L. Petchey
Owen L. Petchey University of Zurich
Yann Clough
Yann Clough Lund University
Christian Mulder
Christian Mulder University of Catania
Jes Hines
Jes Hines German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research

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