Alexandra‐Maria Klein

Research interests

Publications

• Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems

  Nature Communications · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09448-8

• A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

  Science Advances · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax0121

• Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

  Science · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat6405

• Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

  Nature Communications · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05421-z

• Biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships depend on identity and number of measured functions

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0391-4

• Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

  Nature · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20575

• Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517092112

• Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization

  Nature Communications · 2015 · 10.1038/ncomms9568

• Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

  Nature Communications · 2015 · 10.1038/ncomms8414

• From research to action: enhancing crop yield through wild pollinators

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1890/130330

• Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical C hina

  Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12126

• Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

  Science · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1230200

• A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems

  Ecology Letters · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12082

• Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes ‐ eight hypotheses

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185x.2011.00216.x

• Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits

  Ecology Letters · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01669.x

• Global growth and stability of agricultural yield decrease with pollinator dependence

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1012431108

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

  Nature · 2010 · 10.1038/nature09492

• How much does agriculture depend on pollinators? Lessons from long-term trends in crop production

  Annals of Botany · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcp076

• Long-Term Global Trends in Crop Yield and Production Reveal No Current Pollination Shortage but Increasing Pollinator Dependency

  Current Biology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.08.066

• Resource Heterogeneity Moderates the Biodiversity-Function Relationship in Real World Ecosystems

  PLoS Biology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060122

• Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2006 · 10.1098/rspb.2006.3721

• Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity – ecosystem service management

  Ecology Letters · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00782.x

• Fruit set of highland coffee increases with the diversity of pollinating bees

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2003 · 10.1098/rspb.2002.2306

• Effects of Land‐Use Intensity in Tropical Agroforestry Systems on Coffee Flower‐Visiting and Trap‐Nesting Bees and Wasps

  Conservation Biology · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.00499.x

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