Michael Staab

The paper examines how moisture affects nesting diversity of bees, wasps, and parasitoids in deadwood, finding that lying deadwood has lower diversity due to higher moisture retention.

The paper examines how functional niche attributes influence species interaction roles in ecological networks, finding that niche variability inversely affects interaction variability and that these effects depend on species biomass and community composition.

The paper examines how multitrophic species interaction networks influence ecosystem multifunctionality and finds that network structure, including niche overlap and linkage density, significantly affects ecosystem function.

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

The paper examines how tree diversity and canopy cover affect host-parasitoid community composition and interaction networks in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment.