Dr. Jessica Abbott
Biological and related sciences , Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary genetics
Agriculture, Biological and related sciences
Landscape Ecology, Agroecology, Pollination Ecology, Tropical Ecology, Sustainability Sciences
Plant-insect interactions, Ecosystem functioning, Ecosystem services, Biodiversity, Biology of bees, Pollination
Ecological Society of America, programme enhancement fund, 2012
Leuphana University of Lüneburg, award for best publisher of the year 2011, 2012
Alexander von Humboldt travel award for field work in California, 2009
Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship in the program Feodor-Lynen, 2007 – 2008
DFG travel award for a international conference in Brazil, 2005
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Programme) graduate fellowship for field work in Indonesia, 2001 – 2002
Biodiversity award from Academy of Science and Literature (Akademie für Wissenschaft und Literatur), 2001
Graduate fellowship from the University of Göttingen, 2000
DAAD award for a practical course in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1997
English, German
Brittain, C., Kremen, C. and Klein, A.M. 2012. Biodiversity buffers pollination in changing environmental conditions. Global Change Biology DOI. 10.1111/gcb.12043.
Klein, A.M. Brittain, C., Hendrix, S.D., Thorp, R., Williams, N. and Kremen, C. 2012. Wild pollination services to California almond rely on semi-natural habitat. Journal of Applied Ecology 49:723-732.
Hudewenz, A., Klein, A.M., Scherber, C., Stanke, L., Tscharntke, T., Vogel, A., Weigelt, A., Weisser, W.W. and Ebeling, A. 2012. Herbivore and pollinator responses to grassland management intensity along experimental changes in plant species richness. Biological Conservation 150:42-52.
Fischer, J., Batáry, P., Bawa, K.S., Brussaard, L., Chappell, M.H., Clough, Y. Daily, G.C., Dorrough, J., Hartel, T., Jackson, L.E., Klein, A.M., Kremen, C., Kuemmerle,T., Lindenmayer, D.B., Mooney, H.A, Perfecto, I., Philpott, S.M., Tscharntke, T., Vandermeer, J., Wanger, T.C. and von Wehrden, H. 2011. Land sparing is a simplistic solution for a complex problem. Science 334:593.
Garibaldi, L.A., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Kremen, C., Morales, J.M., Bommarco, R., Cunningham, S.A., Carvalheiro, L.G., Chacoff, N.P., Dudenhöffer, J.H., Greenleaf, S.S., Holzschuh, A., Isaacs, R., Krewenka, C., Mandelik, Y., Mayfield, M.M., Morandin, L.A., Potts, S.G., Ricketts, T.H., Szentgyörgyi, H., Viana, B.F., Westphal, C., Winfree, R. and Klein, A.M. 2011. Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits. Ecology Letters 14:1062-1072.
Eilers, E.J., Kremen, C., Smith Greenleaf, S., Garber, A.K. and Klein, A.M. 2011. Contribution of pollinator-mediated crops to nutrients in the human food supply. PLoS ONE 6, e21363. doi:10.1371.
Blüthgen, N. and Klein, A.M. 2011. Functional complementarity and specialisation: the role of biodiversity in plant-pollinator interactions. Basic and Applied Ecology 12:282-291.
Olschewski, R. and Klein, A.M. 2011. Ecosystem services between sustainability and efficiency. Sustainability, Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy 7:69-73.
Olschewski, R., Klein, A.M. and Tscharntke, T. 2010. Economic trade-offs between carbon sequestration, timber production, and crop pollination in tropical forested landscapes. Ecological Complexity 7:314-319.
Veddeler, D., Tylianakis, J., Tscharntke, T. and Klein, A.M. 2010. Natural enemy diversity reduces temporal variability in wasp but not bee parasitism. Oecologia 162:755-762.
Eilers, E.J. and Klein, A.M. 2009. Landscape context and management effects on an important insect pest and its natural enemies in almond. Biological Control 51:388-394.
Klein, A.M., Vaissière, B.E., Cane, J., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Cunningham, S.A., Kremen, C. and Tscharntke, T. 2007. Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops. The Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 274:303-313.
Klein, A.M., Steffan-Dewenter, I. and Tscharntke, T. 2003. Fruit set of highland coffee increases with the diversity of pollinating bees. The Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 270:955-961.
Klein, A.M., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Buchori, D. and Tscharntke, T. 2002. Effects of land-use intensity in tropical agroforestry systems on flower-visiting and trap-nesting bees and wasps. Conservation Biology 16:1003-1014.
Global evaluation of bee attractiveness and apicultural relevance of agricultural crops (PI A.M. Klein), in cooperation with by BayerCrop Science, 2012 – 2014
Ecological valuation of crop pollination in traditional Indonesian homegardens (PI A.M. Klein, T. Tscharntke), DFG 2012 – 2015
Leuphana research platform on sustainable biofuel production (PI S. Schaltegger, A.M. Klein), EU 2011 – 2014
Aboveground multi-trophic plant-insect interactions in a Chinese subtropical forest (PI A.M. Klein, N. Blüthgen) of the DFG Forschergruppe "BEF China", DFG 2011 – 2014
Plant-insect interactions, flower traits, and pollination along an experimental plant diversity gradient (PI A.M. Klein, C. Scherber) of the DFG Forschergruppe "The Jena Experiment", DFG 2010 – 2013
Community-mediated mechanisms to stabilize pollination of agricultural production highly dependent on shrinking honey bee populations under global change (PI A.M. Klein), DFG, 2009 – 1013
Biodiversity and its role in the ecosystem services and dis-services concept in agricultural landscapes in Israel (PI A.M. Klein, Y. Mandelik) Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, 2009 – 2012
Multi-trophic interactions of Butterflies along a gradient of management intensity in grasslands and forest (BATMAN) (PI A.M. Klein and J. Krauss) (Biodiveristy Exploratories of the DFG), 2008 – 2012
DFG advisory board for the field "Ecology of agricultural landscapes" (Ökologie von Agrarlandschaften), selected in Dec 2011
Diploma in Biology with specialisation in Tropical Ecology and Conservation Biology at University of Göttingen, Germany
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Biological and related sciences , Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary genetics
Biological and related sciences , Evolution, genomics, bioinformatics
Biological and related sciences , Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microscopy
Biological and related sciences , Microbial bioelectrochemistry, Microbial electrophysiology
In the forests of Southeast China, Freiburg ecologists discovered a new species of wasps that protects its offspring with dead ants. Probably the dead animals' smell wards off predators and parasites.