Dorothea Nolte

Universität Hildesheim · Biology

Reintroduction of grazing to counteract insect decline will lead to an increase of semi-open habitats. Semi-open habitats are highly heterogeneous, consisting of a mosaic of patches of trees or shrubs embedded in a matrix dominated by dwarf shrubs or grasses. Despite a lack of evidence, structural heterogeneity is expected to allow many species to...

Biodiversity face ever-increasing threats from the consequences of various human activities Conservation corridors have long been considered a viable solution to help counteract biodiversity loss. However, corridors simultaneously increase fragmentation for non-target habitats. To overcome this challenge, semi-open habitats, which are a mixture of...

In times of insect decline, long-term data become more and more important. Such data allow insights into long-term trends and an analysis of possible drivers underlying temporal changes of community and population structure. Using data from 25 years of continuous ground beetle trapping in an ancient woodland located in a large nature reserve in Nor...

Many insect species have specific habitat preferences, which often even differ for larval instars and imagines within a species. In these cases, the two habitats have to be in close proximity to each other. The habitats in question, e. g. dung and dead wood, are often in decline due to land-use changes and anthropogenic impacts. The processes leadi...

The worldwide biodiversity crisis is ongoing. To slow down, or even halt future species loss it is important to identify potential drivers of extinction risk. Species traits can help to understand the underlying process of extinction risk. In a comprehensive study on 464 carabid beetle species, we used ordinal logistic regression to analyze the rel...

• The drastic insect decline has received increasing attention in scientific as well as in public media. Long‐term studies of insect diversity trends are still rare, even though such studies are highly important to assess extent, drivers and potential consequences of insect loss in ecosystems. • To gain insights into carabid diversity trends of anc...

Community metrics describing the structuring of ecological communities, such as nestedness and the potential linkages between functional traits and the occurrence of species, might hold important information for biodiversity conservation. The order in which species are ranked in nested communities, as well as species traits determining community co...

Two new species of the genus Lebistina Motschulsky, 1864 are described: Lebistina rehagei Assmann, Starke & Terlutter, sp. n., type locality: Kenya: north of Ngomeni. Members of this macropterous species are distinguished from all other known species of the genus by their elytral coloration pattern, large body length, shape of the median lobe of th...

Two new species of the genus Lebistina Motschulsky, 1864 are described: Lebistina rehagei Assmann, Starke & Terlutter, sp. n., type locality: Kenya: north of Ngomeni. Members of this macropterous species are distinguished from all other known species of the genus by their elytral coloration pattern, large body length, shape of the median lobe of th...

Context Hemipteran pests cause significant yield losses in European cereal fields. It has been suggested that local management interventions to promote natural enemies are most successful in simple landscapes that are dominated by large arable fields. Objectives We study how farming category (conventional, new and old organic fields) and landscape...

The density and spatial distribution of individuals within populations are some of the most important species-related parameters in modern ecology, population biology and conservation biology. Environmental changes can cause changes both in population density and in the spatial distribution of the species and these parameters are important for the...