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  1. Insect declines: Challenges and solutions

    Article • Current Opinion in Insect Science, February 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  2. Lack of spatial coordinate information for an important insect order (Lepidoptera) in a Central European country

    Article • Ecosphere, December 2025, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  3. Edge computer vision produces microarthropod-based high-throughput biodiversity metrics

    Article • September 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  4. Pioneer habitats drive high plant beta diversity and conservation value of mineral extraction sites

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, August 2025, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  5. Leaving synthetic pesticides behind

    Article • Science, May 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  6. Environmental DNA supports importance of heterogeneous pond landscapes for arthropod diversity conservation

    Article • Ecosphere, February 2025, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  7. The clockwork of insect activity: Advancing ecological understanding through automation

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 2025, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  8. Comparing eDNA and Transect Methods for Aquatic Biodiversity Assessment in Lakes and Ponds

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, December 2024, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  9. The FAIR-Device - a non-lethal and generalist semi-automatic Malaise trap for insect biodiversity monitoring: Proof of concept

    Article • March 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  10. Multispecies crop mixtures increase insect biodiversity in an intercropping experiment

    Article • Ecological Solutions and Evidence, July 2023, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  11. Microhabitat conditions remedy heat stress effects on insect activity

    Article • Global Change Biology, April 2023, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  12. Plant genetic diversity affects multiple trophic levels and trophic interactions

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Matteo Dainese, Professor Christoph Scherber

  13. The lipidome of an omnivorous insect responds to diet composition and social environment

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, November 2022, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  14. Intercropping drives plant phenotypic plasticity and changes in functional trait space

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, June 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  15. Plant genetic diversity affects interactions among multiple trophic levels

    Article • May 2022, Research Square

    Matteo Dainese, Professor Christoph Scherber

  16. Towards a multisensor station for automated biodiversity monitoring

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, March 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  17. A universal insect trait tool (ITT, v1.0) for statistical analysis and evaluation of biodiversity research data

    Article • January 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  18. A multifactorial proteomics approach to sex‐specific effects of diet composition and social environment in an omnivorous insect

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, May 2021, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  19. Grain Yield Stability of Cereal-Legume Intercrops Is Greater Than Sole Crops in More Productive Conditions

    Article • Agriculture, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  20. Crop asynchrony stabilizes food production

    Article • Nature, December 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  21. Species–habitat networks elucidate landscape effects on habitat specialisation of natural enemies and pollinators

    Article • Ecology Letters, November 2020, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  22. Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory

    Article • Science Advances, November 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  23. Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber, Wolfgang Wilcke

  24. Growth and survival of the superorganism: Ant colony macronutrient intake and investment

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, July 2020, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  25. Direct and indirect effects of plant diversity and phenoxy herbicide application on the development and reproduction of a polyphagous herbivore

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  26. Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  27. Plant–pollinator interactions along an urbanization gradient from cities and villages to farmland landscapes

    Article • Ecosphere, February 2020, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  28. How much do we really lose?-Yield losses in the proximity of natural landscape elements in agricultural landscapes

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, June 2019, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  29. Insektenvielfalt und ökologische Prozesse in Agrar- und Waldlandschaften

    Article • 0028-0615, June 2019, W. Kohlhammer GmbH

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  30. Crop identity and memory effects on aboveground arthropods in a long‐term crop rotation experiment

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, May 2019, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  31. Connectedness of habitat fragments boosts conservation benefits for butterflies, but only in landscapes with little cropland

    Article • Landscape Ecology, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  32. A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  33. Mapping change in biodiversity and ecosystem function research: food webs foster integration of experiments and science policy

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  34. A barrier island perspective on species–area relationships

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, December 2018, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  35. Novel approaches to sampling pollinators in whole landscapes: a lesson for landscape-wide biodiversity monitoring

    Article • Landscape Ecology, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  36. X-ray computed tomography and its potential in ecological research: A review of studies and optimization of specimen preparation

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, July 2018, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  37. Spatial community turnover of pollinators is relaxed by semi-natural habitats, but not by mass-flowering crops in agricultural landscapes

    Article • Biological Conservation, May 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  38. Winners and losers of national and global efforts to reconcile agricultural intensification and biodiversity conservation

    Article • Global Change Biology, February 2018, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  39. Primary rainforest amount at the landscape scale mitigates bird biodiversity loss and biotic homogenization

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, February 2018, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  40. Linking Compositional and Functional Predictions to Decipher the Biogeochemical Significance in DFAA Turnover of Abundant Bacterioplankton Lineages in the North Sea

    Article • Microorganisms, November 2017, MDPI AG

    Professor Christoph Scherber, Professor Rolf Daniel

  41. Creation of forest edges has a global impact on forest vertebrates

    Article • Nature, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber, Professor Carlos A. Peres, PhD Nicolas Urbina-Cardona, Dr DANILO Bandini RIBEIRO

  42. Gut microbiomes of mobile predators vary with landscape context and species identity

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2017, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  43. Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber, Wolfgang Wilcke

  44. Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity

    Article • Ecosphere, December 2016, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber, Wolfgang Wilcke

  45. Spillover of arthropods from cropland to protected calcareous grassland – the neighbouring habitat matters

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, November 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  46. Consistent drivers of plant biodiversity across managed ecosystems

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  47. Plant diversity increases spatio-temporal niche complementarity in plant-pollinator interactions

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  48. Trophic and Non-Trophic Interactions in a Biodiversity Experiment Assessed by Next-Generation Sequencing

    Article • PLOS One, February 2016, PLOS

    Professor Christoph Scherber, Professor Rolf Daniel

  49. Interacting effects of forest stratum, edge and tree diversity on beetles

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, February 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  50. Corridors restore animal-mediated pollination in fragmented tropical forest landscapes

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  51. How forest edge–center transitions in the herb layer interact with beech dominance versus tree diversity

    Article • Journal of Plant Ecology, January 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  52. Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2015, Nature

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  53. Functional trait diversity across trophic levels determines herbivore impact on plant community biomass

    Article • Ecology Letters, October 2015, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  54. Insect responses to interacting global change drivers in managed ecosystems

    Article • Current Opinion in Insect Science, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  55. Using multi-level generalized path analysis to understand herbivore and parasitoid dynamics in changing landscapes

    Article • Landscape Ecology, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  56. Biodiversity conservation across taxa and landscapes requires many small as well as single large habitat fragments

    Article • Oecologia, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  57. Local and landscape management drive trait-mediated biodiversity of nine taxa on small grassland fragments

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, March 2015, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  58. Towards an Integration of Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning and Food Web Theory to Evaluate Relationships between Multiple Ecosystem Services

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber, Prof Christian Mulder

  59. 10 Years Later

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber, Prof Christian Mulder, Corinne Vacher

  60. Plant Diversity Impacts Decomposition and Herbivory via Changes in Aboveground Arthropods

    Article • PLOS One, September 2014, PLOS

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  61. How do edge effect and tree species diversity change bird diversity and avian nest survival in Germany’s largest deciduous forest?

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  62. Landscape composition and configuration differently affect trap-nesting bees, wasps and their antagonists

    Article • Biological Conservation, April 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  63. BIOFRAG - a new database for analyzing BIOdiversity responses to forest FRAGmentation

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr DANILO Bandini RIBEIRO, Professor Christoph Scherber, Professor Carlos A. Peres, PhD Nicolas Urbina-Cardona

  64. Functional beetle diversity in managed grasslands: effects of region, landscape context and land use intensity

    Article • Landscape Ecology, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  65. Effects of tree and herb biodiversity on Diptera, a hyperdiverse insect order

    Article • Oecologia, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  66. Disentangling direct and indirect effects of experimental grassland management and plant functional-group manipulation on plant and leafhopper diversity

    Article • BMC Ecology, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  67. Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Christoph Scherber, Professor Rolf Daniel

  68. The relationship between tree species richness, canopy space exploration and productivity in a temperate broad-leaf mixed forest

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber, Dr Matthew Joseph Cashman

  69. Functionally and phylogenetically diverse plant communities key to soil biota

    Article • Ecology, August 2013, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  70. Plant–animal interactions in two forest herbs along a tree and herb diversity gradient

    Article • Plant Ecology & Diversity, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  71. Multi-factor climate change effects on insect herbivore performance

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, April 2013, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  72. Slug responses to grassland cutting and fertilizer application under plant functional group removal

    Article • Acta Oecologica, April 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  73. Grassland management for stem-boring insects: Abandoning small patches is better than reducing overall intensity

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  74. Landscape composition, connectivity and fragment size drive effects of grassland fragmentation on insect communities

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  75. A comparison of the strength of biodiversity effects across multiple functions

    Article • Oecologia, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Wolfgang Wilcke, Professor Christoph Scherber, PD Dr. Jussi Baade

  76. Landscape-moderated bird nest predation in hedges and forest edges

    Article • Acta Oecologica, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  77. The effects of harvester ant (Messor ebeninus Forel) nests on vegetation and soil properties in a desert dwarf shrub community in north-eastern Arabia

    Article • Flora, July 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  78. Herbivore and pollinator responses to grassland management intensity along experimental changes in plant species richness

    Article • Biological Conservation, June 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  79. Agricultural intensification and cereal aphid–parasitoid–hyperparasitoid food webs: network complexity, temporal variability and parasitism rates

    Article • Oecologia, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  80. Interactions between above- and belowground organisms modified in climate change experiments

    Article • Nature Climate Change, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  81. Scale Effects in Biodiversity and Biological Control: Methods and Statistical Analysis

    Article • May 2012, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  82. A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, May 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Konstans Wells, Professor Christoph Scherber

  83. Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses

    Article • Biological Reviews, January 2012, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  84. The relationship between agricultural intensification and biological control: experimental tests across Europe

    Article • Ecological Applications, September 2011, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  85. Tree diversity and environmental context predict herb species richness and cover in Germany's largest connected deciduous forest

    Article • Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, May 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  86. Multifunctional shade-tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes - a review

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, January 2011, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  87. Impact of above- and below-ground invertebrates on temporal and spatial stability of grassland of different diversity

    Article • Journal of Ecology, January 2011, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  88. Crop–noncrop spillover: arable fields affect trophic interactions on wild plants in surrounding habitats

    Article • Oecologia, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  89. Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

    Article • Nature, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  90. Methane emissions from tank bromeliads in neotropical forests

    Article • Nature Geoscience, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  91. Diversity Promotes Temporal Stability across Levels of Ecosystem Organization in Experimental Grasslands

    Article • PLOS One, October 2010, PLOS

    Wolfgang Wilcke, Professor Christoph Scherber, PD Dr. Jussi Baade

  92. Functional identity versus species richness: herbivory resistance in plant communities

    Article • Oecologia, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  93. Biodiversity and belowground interactions mediate community invasion resistance against a tall herb invader

    Article • Journal of Plant Ecology, March 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  94. The Jena Experiment: six years of data from a grassland biodiversity experiment

    Article • Ecology, March 2010, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  95. Plant diversity effects on soil microorganisms support the singular hypothesis

    Article • Ecology, February 2010, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  96. Time course of plant diversity effects on Centaurea jacea establishment and the role of competition and herbivory

    Article • Journal of Plant Ecology, January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  97. Biodiversity patterns and trophic interactions in human-dominated tropical landscapes in Sulawesi (Indonesia): plants, arthropods and vertebrates

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  98. Tree diversity drives abundance and spatiotemporal β-diversity of true bugs (Heteroptera)

    Article • Ecological Entomology, December 2009, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  99. Canopy vs. understory: Does tree diversity affect bee and wasp communities and their natural enemies across forest strata?

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, August 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  100. Spatiotemporal changes of beetle communities across a tree diversity gradient

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, July 2009, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  101. Earthworm and belowground competition effects on plant productivity in a plant diversity gradient

    Article • Oecologia, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  102. Empirical and theoretical challenges in aboveground–belowground ecology

    Article • Oecologia, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  103. No interactive effects of pesticides and plant diversity on soil microbial biomass and respiration

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, May 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  104. Sapling herbivory, invertebrate herbivores and predators across a natural tree diversity gradient in Germany’s largest connected deciduous forest

    Article • Oecologia, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  105. Climate change strongly affects interaction between herbivorous insects, plants, and rhizosphere biota

    Article • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, January 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  106. Diversity and beyond: plant functional identity determines herbivore performance

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, September 2008, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  107. Groundwater level controls CO2, N2O and CH4 fluxes of three different hydromorphic soil types of a temperate forest ecosystem

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, August 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  108. EARTHWORMS AND LEGUMES CONTROL LITTER DECOMPOSITION IN A PLANT DIVERSITY GRADIENT

    Article • Ecology, July 2008, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  109. Niche pre-emption increases with species richness in experimental plant communities

    Article • Journal of Ecology, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  110. The effects of plant diversity and insect herbivory on performance of individual plant species in experimental grassland

    Article • Journal of Ecology, September 2006, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  111. Effects of plant diversity on invertebrate herbivory in experimental grassland

    Article • Oecologia, October 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christoph Scherber

  112. The effects of herbivory and competition on the invasive alien plant Senecio inaequidens (Asteraceae)

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, October 2003, Wiley

    Professor Christoph Scherber