Dr. Frank Jauker

Generally, I am interested in dynamics of community and population structures and the functional consequences. More specifically, my research focusses on the impact of landscape structure and land-use intensity on pollinator communities and the services they provide. Here are my four T s:

T axonomy: Insects; mostly wild bees, hoverflies and solitary wasps.

T hemes: landscape ecology; nature conservation; agri-environmental schemes.

T opics: pollination efficiency measures; plant-pollinator interactions; parasitoid-host interactions; mass-flowering crops (mainly oilseed rape).

T hings I use: pan traps; sweep netting; optical and digital microscopy; flight cages; selfing bags; trap nests; pollen analysis; interaction networks, phytometer arrays.

GreenGrass – Innovative Nutzung des Grünlands im Landschaftsmaßstab

BMBF, 2019-2024, link

Anlage von Schonstreifen im Grünland

Agri-EIP, 2021-2024 , link

BeeContour - Streifenanbausysteme zur Förderung von Bienen und weiteren Bestäuberinsekten in der Agrarlandschaft

BMEL, 2021-2024, link coming soon

• Peer-reviewed

  • Galiana N, Lurgi M, Bastazini VAG, [ Jauker F ], et al. (2022) Ecological network complexity scales with area. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01644-4
  • Allen-Perkins A, Magrach A, Dainese M, [ Jauker F ], et al. (2022)  CropPol: a dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination. Ecology. Accepted Author Manuscript e3614. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3614
  • Baulechner D, Jauker F , Wolters V (2021) Carabid adaptation to a collembolan diet: hunting
    efficiency and nutritional value. Ecological Entomology https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13106

  • Grass I, Albrecht J, Farwig N, Jauker F (2021) Plant traits and landscape simplification drive intraspecific trait diversity of Bombus terrestris in wildflower plantings. Basic and Applied Ecology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.10.002 .

  • Warzecha D, Diekötter T, Wolters V, Jauker F (2021) Spatial configuration and landscape context of wildflower areas determine their benefits to pollinator α- and β-diversity. Basic and Applied Ecology 56:1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.08.001

  • Baumann K, Keune J, Wolters V, Jauker F (2021) Distribution and pollination services of wild bees and hoverflies along an altitudinal gradient in mountain hay meadows. Ecology and Evolution (early view) https://doi.org/ 10.1002/ece3.7924
  • Hutchinson LA, Oliver TH, Breeze TD, [ Jauker F ], et al. (2021) Using ecological and field survey data to establish a national list of the wild bee pollinators of crops . Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 315:107447 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2021.107447
    
  • Jauker F (2020) Bee body size and global change: Growing with the task? Global Change Biology 26:1940-1941 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14967
  • Baulechner D , Jauker F , Neubauer TA , Wolters V (2020) Convergent evolution of specialized generalists: Implications for phylogenetic and functional diversity of carabid feeding groups . Ecology and Evolution 10 : 11100- 11110 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6746

  • Hoffmann US, Jauker F , Diehl E, Mader V, Fiedler D, Wolters V, Diekötter T (2020) The suitability of sown wildflower strips as hunting grounds for spider‑hunting wasps of the genus Trypoxylon depends on landscape context. Journal of Insect Conservation 24:125-131 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-019-00190-6

  • Martin EA, Dainese M, Clough Y, [ Jauker F ], et al. (2019) The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe. Ecology Letters 22:1083-1094 https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13265

  • Woodcock BA, Garratt MPD, Powney GD, [ Jauker F ], et al. (2019) Meta-analysis reveals that pollinator functional diversity and abundance enhance crop pollination and yield. Nature Communications 10:1481. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09393-6

  • Baulechner D, Diekötter T, Wolters V, Jauker F (2019) Converting arable land into flowering fields changes functional and phylogenetic community structure in ground beetles. Biological Conservation 231:51-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.01.005

  • Jauker F , Jauker B, Grass I, Steffan-Dewenter I, Wolters V (2019) Partitioning wild bee and hoverfly contributions to plant–pollinator network structure in fragmented habitats. Ecology 100:e02569.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2569

  • Grass I, Jauker B, Steffan-Dewenter I, Tscharntke T, Jauker F (2018) Past and potential future effects of habitat fragmentation on structure and stability of plant-pollinator and host-parasitoid networks. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:1408-1417. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0631-2

  • Warzecha D, Diekötter T, Wolters V, Jauker F (2018) Attractiveness of wildflower mixtures for wild bees and hoverflies depends on some key plant species. Journal of Insect Conservation and Diversity 11:32-41. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12264

  • Hoffmann US, Jauker F , Lanzen J, Warzecha D, Wolters V, Diekötter T (2018) Prey-dependent benefits of sown wildflower strips on solitary wasps in agroecosystems. Journal of Insect Conservation and Diversity 11:42-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12270

  • Zou Y, Bianchi FJJA; Jauker F , Xiao H, Chen J, Cresswell J, Luo S, Huang J, Deng X, Hou L, van der Werf W (2017) Landscape effects on pollinator communities and pollination services in small-holder agroecosystems. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 246:109-116.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2017.05.035

  • Gorenflo A, Diekötter T, van Kleunen M, Wolters V, Jauker F (2017) Contrasting pollination efficiency and effectiveness among flower visitors of Malva sylvestris , Borago officinalis and Onobrychis viciifolia . Journal of Pollination Ecology 21:62-70. Link
  • Zou Y, Xiao H, Bianchi FJJA, Jauker F , Luo S, van der Werf W (2017) Wild pollinators enhance oilseed rape yield in small-holder farming systems in China. BMC Ecology 17:6.
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-017-0116-1
  • Jauker F , Speckmann M, Wolters V (2016) Intra-specific body size determines pollination effectiveness. Basic and Applied Ecology 17:714-719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2016.07.004
  • Warzecha D, Diekötter T, Wolters V, Jauker F (2016) Intraspecific body size increases with habitat fragmentation in wild bee pollinators. Landscape Ecology 31: 1449–1455.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-016-0349-y
  • Grass I, Albrecht J, Jauker F , Diekötter T, Warzecha D, Wolters V, Farwig N (2016) Much more than bees - Wildflower plantings support highly diverse flower-visitor communities from complex to structurally simple agricultural landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 225: 45-53.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2016.04.001
  • Rader R, Bartomeus I, Garibaldi L, [ Jauker F ], et al (2016) Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113:146-151. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517092112
  • John K, Jauker F , Marxsen J, Zaitsev AS, Wolters V (2015) Earthworm bioturbation stabilizes carbon in non-flooded paddy soil at the risk of increasing methane emissions under wet soil conditions. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 91: 127-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.08.033
  • Kleijn D, Winfree R, Bartomeus I, [ Jauker F ], et al (2015) Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/ncomms8414
  • Diekötter T, Peter F, Jauker B, Wolters V, Jauker F (2014) Mass-flowering crops increase richness of cavity-nesting bees and wasps in modern agro-ecosystems. Global Change Biology – Bioenergy 6:219-226. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12080
  • Jauker B, Krauss J, Jauker F , Steffan-Dewenter I (2013) Linking life history traits to pollinator loss in fragmented calcareous grasslands. Landscape Ecology 28:107–120.
    https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s10980-012-9820-6
  • Jauker F , Peter F, Wolters V, Diekötter T (2012) Early reproductive benefits of mass-flowering crops to the solitary bee Osmia rufa outbalance post-flowering disadvantages. Basic and Applied Ecology 13: 268–276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2012.03.010
  • Jauker F , Bondarenko B, Becker HC, Steffan-Dewenter I (2012) Pollination efficiency of wild bees and hoverflies provided to oilseed rape. Agriculture and Forest Entomology 14: 81–87.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-9563.2011.00541.x
  • Diekötter T, Kadoya T, Peter F, Wolters V, Jauker F (2010) Oilseed rape crops distort plant-pollinator interactions. Journal of Applied Ecology 47:209-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01759.x
  • Jauker F , Diekötter T, Schwarzbach F, Wolters V (2009) Pollinator dispersal in an agricultural matrix: opposing responses of wild bees and hoverflies to landscape structure and distance from main habitat. Landscape Ecology 24:547-555. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-009-9331-2
  • Meyer B, Jauker F , Steffan-Dewenter I (2009) Contrasting resource-dependent responses of hoverfly richness and density to landscape structure. Basic and Applied Ecology 10:178-186.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2008.01.001
  • Jauker F , Wolters V (2008) Hover flies are efficient pollinators of oilseed rape. Oecologia 156: 819-823. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-008-1034-x