Carsten Thies

19.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
54 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Carsten Thies is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Carsten Thies has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 29 papers in Insect Science and 25 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Carsten Thies's work include Plant and animal studies (38 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (25 papers) and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (23 papers). Carsten Thies is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (38 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (25 papers) and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (23 papers). Carsten Thies collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United Kingdom. Carsten Thies's co-authors include Teja Tscharntke, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Andreas Kruess, Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Indra Roschewitz, Martin H. Schmidt, C. Burger, Doreen Gabriel, Tobias Purtauf and Matthias Schaefer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Ecology and Ecology Letters.

In The Last Decade

Carsten Thies

54 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity – ecosystem service management

2005 3.2k citations Teja Tscharntke, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter et al. profile →
SCALE-DEPENDENT EFFECTS OF LANDSCAPE CONTEXT ON THREE POLLINATOR GUILDS

2002 937 citations Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Carsten Thies et al. profile →
Landscape Structure and Biological Control in Agroecosystems

1999 573 citations Carsten Thies, Teja Tscharntke profile →
Agricultural landscape simplification reduces natural pest control: A quantitative synthesis

2016 399 citations Adrien Rusch, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer et al. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carsten Thies Germany	36	6.3k	4.7k	4.1k	4.0k	2.3k	54	10.4k
Richard F. Pywell United Kingdom	50	4.8k 0.8×	3.0k 0.6×	4.4k 1.1×	3.5k 0.9×	3.0k 1.3×	220	10.4k
Andreas Kruess Germany	18	3.9k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	3.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	20	7.2k
Andrea Holzschuh Germany	37	5.1k 0.8×	3.3k 0.7×	2.7k 0.6×	2.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	58	7.2k
Péter Batáry Hungary	47	3.9k 0.6×	2.0k 0.4×	3.8k 0.9×	2.0k 0.5×	2.9k 1.3×	165	8.5k
Saul A. Cunningham Australia	45	9.7k 1.5×	6.7k 1.4×	3.7k 0.9×	4.6k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	134	13.4k
V. K. Brown United Kingdom	61	6.4k 1.0×	3.5k 0.7×	6.7k 1.6×	5.5k 1.4×	4.8k 2.1×	187	14.4k
Claudio Gratton United States	51	3.5k 0.6×	3.5k 0.7×	1.9k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	160	7.7k
Riccardo Bommarco Sweden	60	9.9k 1.6×	7.4k 1.6×	5.1k 1.2×	5.6k 1.4×	2.9k 1.3×	168	16.1k
Ben A. Woodcock United Kingdom	41	3.7k 0.6×	2.7k 0.6×	2.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.4×	1.7k 0.8×	125	7.0k
Jason M. Tylianakis New Zealand	51	6.9k 1.1×	3.6k 0.8×	5.2k 1.3×	4.1k 1.0×	4.0k 1.8×	131	12.7k

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Thies, Carsten, et al.. (2023). Bodeneigenschaften und landwirtschaftliche Erträge auf der ALEGrO-Erdkabeltrasse. 1 indexed citations

Rusch, Adrien, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, Mary M. Gardiner, et al.. (2016). Agricultural landscape simplification reduces natural pest control: A quantitative synthesis. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 221. 198–204. 399 indexed citations breakdown →

Simon, Judy, et al.. (2016). Forest defoliator pests alter carbon and nitrogen cycles. Royal Society Open Science. 3(10). 160361–160361. 19 indexed citations

Gagić, Vesna, et al.. (2013). Community variability in aphid parasitoids versus predators in response to agricultural intensification. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 7(2). 103–112. 11 indexed citations

Armengot, Laura, F. Xavier Sans, Christina Fischer, et al.. (2012). The β‐diversity of arable weed communities on organic and conventional cereal farms in two contrasting regions. Applied Vegetation Science. 15(4). 571–579. 33 indexed citations

Vidal, Stefan, et al.. (2012). Farming practices change food web structures in cereal aphid–parasitoid–hyperparasitoid communities. Oecologia. 171(1). 249–259. 47 indexed citations

Tscharntke, Teja, Péter Batáry, Yann Clough, et al.. (2012). 2 Combining Biodiversity Conservation with Agricultural Intensification. SPIE eBooks. 7–15. 6 indexed citations

Gagić, Vesna, et al.. (2012). Agricultural intensification and cereal aphid–parasitoid–hyperparasitoid food webs: network complexity, temporal variability and parasitism rates. Oecologia. 170(4). 1099–1109. 82 indexed citations

Thies, Carsten, Sebastian Haenke, Christoph Scherber, et al.. (2011). The relationship between agricultural intensification and biological control: experimental tests across Europe. Ecological Applications. 21(6). 2187–2196. 153 indexed citations

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Holzschuh, Andrea, et al.. (2010). Crop–noncrop spillover: arable fields affect trophic interactions on wild plants in surrounding habitats. Oecologia. 166(2). 433–441. 29 indexed citations

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Thies, Carsten, et al.. (2010). Changes in herbivore control in arable fields by detrital subsidies depend on predator species and vary in space. Oecologia. 163(4). 1033–1042. 27 indexed citations

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Stoll, Peter, et al.. (2009). Spatial aggregation facilitates coexistence and diversity of wild plant species in field margins. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 11(2). 127–135. 40 indexed citations

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Thies, Carsten, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, & Teja Tscharntke. (2008). Interannual landscape changes influence plant–herbivore–parasitoid interactions. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 125(1-4). 266–268. 72 indexed citations

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Vollhardt, Ines M.G., Teja Tscharntke, Felix Wäckers, Felix J.J.A. Bianchi, & Carsten Thies. (2008). Similar diversity of cereal aphid parasitoids in simple and complex landscapes.. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 1 indexed citations

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Hambäck, Peter A., et al.. (2007). Top‐down and bottom‐up effects on the spatiotemporal dynamics of cereal aphids: testing scaling theory for local density. Oikos. 116(12). 1995–2006. 20 indexed citations

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Gabriel, Doreen, Indra Roschewitz, Teja Tscharntke, & Carsten Thies. (2006). BETA DIVERSITY AT DIFFERENT SPATIAL SCALES: PLANT COMMUNITIES IN ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL AGRICULTURE. Ecological Applications. 16(5). 2011–2021. 222 indexed citations

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Roschewitz, Indra, et al.. (2005). The influence of landscape context and farming practices on parasitism of cereal aphids. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 108(3). 218–227. 157 indexed citations

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Purtauf, Tobias, Indra Roschewitz, Jens Dauber, et al.. (2005). Landscape context of organic and conventional farms: Influences on carabid beetle diversity. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 108(2). 165–174. 219 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Martin H., et al.. (2003). Relative importance of predators and parasitoids for cereal aphid control. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 270(1527). 1905–1909. 282 indexed citations

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Thies, Carsten, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, & Teja Tscharntke. (2003). Effects of landscape context on herbivory and parasitism at different spatial scales. Oikos. 101(1). 18–25. 377 indexed citations

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