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The unseen threat: indirect pesticide effects are key to realistic ecological assessments of standing small water bodies. Hydrobiologia - Ruf, Lorenz, Trau 2026
Population delimitation in bumble bees - strategies and research gaps. Front Bee Sci 3:1507903 - Gornall, Dauber, Sickel 2025
Unveiling year-round cropland cover by soil-specific spectral unmixing of Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series. Remote Sensing of Environment - Lobert, Schwieder, Alsleben, Brög, Kowalski, Okujeni, Hostert, Erasmi 2025
Konzept für ein Monitoring des Zustands und der Entwicklung der Segetalflora in Deutschland - Ulber, von Redwitz, Gottwald, Wehke, Meyer 2025
Grassland-use intensity maps for Switzerland based on satellite time series: Challenges and opportunities for ecological applications. Remote Sensing Ecol Conserv 10(3): 312-327 - Weber, Schwieder, Ritter, Koch, Psomas, Huber, Ginzler, Boch 2024
Erstnachweis von Bombus argillaceus (Scopoli, 1763) (Hymenoptera, Anthophila) für Deutschland [online]. Ampulex 15: S. 46-49 - Ogan, Guggemoos, Kirsch, Lakemann, Sommerlandt, Witt 2024
Bestäuber im Fokus: Das Hummel-Monitoring in Agrarlandschaften. Biol Unserer Zeit 54(4):327-329 - Sommerlandt, Ogan, Lakemann, Rakosy 2024
MonViA: Biodiversitätsmonitoring in Kleingewässern der Agrarlandschaft Deutschlands: Erste Anwendung und Statusbericht - Ruf, Meinikmann, Trau, Lorenz 2024
The FAIR-Device - a non-lethal and generalist semi-automatic Malaise trap for insect biodiversity monitoring - Chiavassa, Kraft, Noack, Walther, Kirse, Scherber 2024
MonViA Indikatorenbericht 2024 Bundesweites Monitoring der biologischen Vielfalt in Agrarlandschaften. Bonn: BLE, 199p - Klein, Ogan, Tönshoff, Böhner, Dauber, Erasmi, Gocht, Hellwig, Klimek, Krüger, Lakemann, Levers, Lindermann, Richter, Röder, Schwieder, Sickel, Sommerlandt, Stahl, Tebbe et al. 2024
Improving wild bee monitoring, sampling methods and conservation. Basic Appl Ecol 75: 2-11 - Klaus, Ayasse, Classen, Dauber, Diekötter, Everaars, Fornoff, Greil, Hendriksma, Jütte, Klein, Krahner, Leonhardt, Lüken, Paxton, Schmid-Egger, Steffan-Dewenter, Thiele, Tscharntke, Erler, Pistorius 2024
Legacy effects of earthworms on soil microbial abundance, diversity and community dynamics. Soil Biol Biochem 190:109294 - Yang, Schrader, Tebbe 2024
Six steps towards a spatial design for large-scale pollinator surveillance monitoring. Insects 15 (4):229 - Hellwig, Sommerlandt, Grabener, Lindermann, Sickel, Krüger, Dieker 2024
Temporally transferable crop mapping with temporal encoding and deep learning augmentations. Int J Appl Earth Observ Geoinf 129:103867 - Pham, Tetteh, Thiel, Erasmi, Schwieder, Frantz, van der Linden 2024
Abundance estimation with DNA metabarcoding - recent advancements for terrestrial athropods. Metabarcoding & Metagenomics 7:e112290 - Sickel, Zizka, Scherges, Bourlat, Dieker 2023
BEE-quest of the nest: A novel method for eDNA-based, nonlethal detection of cavity-nesting hymenopterans and other arthropods. Environmental DNA 5(6):1163-1176 - Sickel, Kulow, Krüger, Dieker 2023
Bestimmungsschlüssel für Bienen und Wespen in Nisthilfen - Thünen Institut, Wildbienenmonitoring, Lindermann, Grabener, Fornoff, Hopfenmüller, Schiele, Stahl, Dieker 2023
Citizen science's transformative impact on science, citizen empowerment and socio-political processes. Socio-ecol pract res 5(1):11-33 - von Gönner, Herrmann, Bruckermann, Eichinger, Hecker, Klan, Lorke, Richter, Sturm, Voigt-Heucke, Brink, Liedtke, Premke-Kraus, Altmann, Bauhus, Bengtsson, Büermann, Dietrich, Dörler, Eich-Brod et al. 2023
Flower strip effectiveness for pollinating insects in agricultural landscapes depends on established contrast in habitat quality: A meta-analysis. Ecol Solut Evid 4(3):e12261 - Pérez-Sánchez, Schröder, Dauber, Hellwig 2023
What evidence exists on wild-bee trends in Germany? Research protocol for a systematic map. PROCEED, 6 p - Mupepele, Hellwig, Dieker, Klein 2023
Poster: Insektenmonitoring der Zukunft - Sickel, Sittinger, Dieker & Herz 2023Woody semi-natural habitats modulate the effects of field size and functional crop diversity on farmland birds. J Appl Ecol 61 (5):987-999 - Frank, Herzog, Klimek, Schwieder, Tetteh, Böhner, Röder, Levers, Katzenberger, Kreft, Kamp 20242023
Poster: Insect monitoring of the future - Sickel, Sittinger, Dieker & Herz 2023
Poster: Monitoring of habitat diversity - Perić, Schwieder, Uhlott, Ackermann, Pingel, Röder, Golla, Möller & Erasmi 2023
Differentiating the effects of organic management, pesticide reduction, and landscape diversification for arthropod conservation in viticulture - Kaczmarek, Entling & Hoffmann
Livestock density affects species richness and community composition of butterflies: A nationwide study - Kasiske, Dauber et al. 2023
Data set: Geographical hexagonal grid with one square kilometer cell size for Germany - Perić, Neukampf, & Sinn 2022
Quality assurance indicators for environmental citizen science - Richter 2022
Tailored pathways toward revived farmland biodiversity can inspire agroecological action and policy to transform agriculture - Sietz, Klimek & Dauber 2022
Quality assurance indicators for citizen science-based monitoring - Richter 2022
Potentials and Recommendations for Citizen Science in biodiversity research - Richter 2022
Decision-making of citizen scientists when recording species observations - Bowler et al. 2022
Effects of wildflower strips, landscape structure and agricultural practices on wild bee assemblages – A matter of data resolution and spatial scale? - Hellwig et al. 2022
Mowing event detection in permanent grasslands: Systematic evaluation of input features from Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Landsat 8 time series - Lobert et al. 2021
Motivation and support services in citizen science insect monitoring: A cross-country study - Richter et al. 2021
The EU’s Common Agriculture Policy and Sustainable Farming: A statement by scientists - Peer et al. 2020
Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges - Peer et al. 2020
Perspectives on long-term bee vitality monitoring - Hendriksma, Erler und Greil 2020