Nico Blüthgen

This study evaluates frugivory in tropical restoration areas, finding that landscape context and elevation are more influential than restoration strategy.

The paper introduces ForMIX, a new index to quantify land-use intensity in forests using tree species composition, tree removal, deadwood availability, and stand maturity, and demonstrates its effectiveness across different forest types.

The paper predicts trade-offs among nature's contributions to people based on land-use patterns and species movement, finding that mixed forest-grassland areas maximize beneficial contributions and minimize detrimental ones.

The paper shows climate, not latitude, drives plant-pollinator specialisation globally, with specialisation peaking at northern mid-latitudes and declining in warmer, more seasonal climates.

The paper shows acoustic indices can predict recovery of tropical bird communities, including taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic composition, using audio recordings and Hill numbers analysis.

The paper shows that reducing land use increases invertebrate abundance but not diversity in grasslands, with effects influenced by surrounding land use practices.

The paper introduces a large-scale chronosequence in the Ecuadorian Choco to study forest recovery, finding that forest structure, biomass, and species richness increase with regeneration time and approach old-growth levels after decades to centuries.