Belinda Kahnt

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 485 citations indexed

About

Belinda Kahnt is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Belinda Kahnt has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 485 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 7 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Belinda Kahnt's work include Plant and animal studies (10 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (7 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (5 papers). Belinda Kahnt is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (10 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (7 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (5 papers). Belinda Kahnt collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and South Africa. Belinda Kahnt's co-authors include Robert J. Paxton, Panagiotis Theodorou, Ivo Große, Rita Radzevičiūtė, Christoph Bleidorn, Martin Husemann, Josef Settele, Guillaume Lentendu, Oliver Schweiger and Tesfaye Wubet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Belinda Kahnt

11 papers receiving 469 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects

2020 260 citations Panagiotis Theodorou, Rita Radzevičiūtė et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Belinda Kahnt Germany	9	363	197	161	148	125	11	485
Gabriella L. Pardee United States	10	396 1.1×	213 1.1×	180 1.1×	155 1.0×	154 1.2×	15	517
Vasuki V. Belavadi India	8	367 1.0×	196 1.0×	201 1.2×	116 0.8×	105 0.8×	25	438
Frazer Sinclair United Kingdom	10	413 1.1×	234 1.2×	190 1.2×	88 0.6×	158 1.3×	23	530
Ashley B. Bennett United States	9	315 0.9×	216 1.1×	187 1.2×	86 0.6×	106 0.8×	11	447
Bärbel Pachinger Austria	11	321 0.9×	214 1.1×	150 0.9×	106 0.7×	92 0.7×	23	405
Oswaldo Cruz‐Neto Brazil	13	436 1.2×	174 0.9×	275 1.7×	118 0.8×	207 1.7×	32	637
Joan Milam United States	8	265 0.7×	168 0.9×	145 0.9×	74 0.5×	172 1.4×	17	419
Steven Falk United Kingdom	8	493 1.4×	292 1.5×	188 1.2×	124 0.8×	171 1.4×	11	598
Jonathan Larson United States	9	306 0.8×	300 1.5×	128 0.8×	112 0.8×	67 0.5×	10	457
Hamutahl Cohen United States	12	255 0.7×	188 1.0×	180 1.1×	107 0.7×	57 0.5×	17	414

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Kahnt, Belinda, Panagiotis Theodorou, Annegret Grimm‐Seyfarth, & Renske E. Onstein. (2023). When lizards shift to a more plant-based lifestyle: The macroevolution of mutualistic lizard-plant-interactions (Squamata: Sauria/Lacertilia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 186. 107839–107839. 3 indexed citations

Kleemann, Janina, Isabell Hensen, Glenda Mendieta‐Leiva, et al.. (2021). Priorities of action and research for the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services in continental Ecuador. Biological Conservation. 265. 109404–109404. 31 indexed citations

Theodorou, Panagiotis, et al.. (2020). Urban fragmentation leads to lower floral diversity, with knock-on impacts on bee biodiversity. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 21756–21756. 64 indexed citations

Theodorou, Panagiotis, Rita Radzevičiūtė, Guillaume Lentendu, et al.. (2020). Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects. Nature Communications. 11(1). 576–576. 260 indexed citations breakdown →

Kahnt, Belinda, Wesley Hattingh, Panagiotis Theodorou, et al.. (2019). Should I stay or should I go? Pollinator shifts rather than cospeciation dominate the evolutionary history of South African Rediviva bees and their Diascia host plants. Molecular Ecology. 28(17). 4118–4133. 11 indexed citations

Kahnt, Belinda, et al.. (2018). Small and genetically highly structured populations in a long-legged bee, Rediviva longimanus, as inferred by pooled RAD-seq. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18(1). 14 indexed citations

Theodorou, Panagiotis, Rita Radzevičiūtė, Belinda Kahnt, et al.. (2018). Genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism scan suggests adaptation to urbanization in an important pollinator, the red-tailed bumblebee ( Bombus lapidarius L.). Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1877). 20172806–20172806. 53 indexed citations

Kahnt, Belinda, Graham A. Montgomery, Elizabeth A. Murray, et al.. (2017). Playing with extremes: Origins and evolution of exaggerated female forelegs in South African Rediviva bees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 115. 95–105. 11 indexed citations

Pauw, Anton, Belinda Kahnt, Michael Kuhlmann, et al.. (2017). Long-legged bees make adaptive leaps: linking adaptation to coevolution in a plant–pollinator network. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1862). 20171707–20171707. 26 indexed citations

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Kahnt, Belinda, Michael Gerth, Robert J. Paxton, Christoph Bleidorn, & Martin Husemann. (2015). The complete mitochondrial genome of the endemic and highly specialized South African bee speciesRediviva intermixta(Hymenoptera: Melittidae), with a comparison with other bee mitogenomes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 116(4). 940–953. 10 indexed citations

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Kahnt, Belinda, Antonella Soro, Michael Kuhlmann, Michael Gerth, & Robert J. Paxton. (2014). Insights into the biodiversity of the Succulent Karoo hotspot of South Africa: the population genetics of a rare and endemic halictid bee, Patellapis doleritica. Conservation Genetics. 15(6). 1491–1502. 2 indexed citations

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