Jacobus C. Biesmeijer

23.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
102 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

Jacobus C. Biesmeijer is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 59 papers in Insect Science and 42 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jacobus C. Biesmeijer's work include Plant and animal studies (92 papers), Insect and Pesticide Research (55 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (41 papers). Jacobus C. Biesmeijer is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (92 papers), Insect and Pesticide Research (55 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (41 papers). Jacobus C. Biesmeijer collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany. Jacobus C. Biesmeijer's co-authors include Simon G. Potts, William E. Kunin, Oliver Schweiger, Peter Neumann, Claire Kremen, Josef Settele, Stuart P. M. Roberts, Menno Reemer, Tom D. Breeze and R.M.J.C. Kleukers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Jacobus C. Biesmeijer

99 papers receiving 14.6k citations

Hit Papers

Global pollinator decline... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2010 2006 2016 2008 2013 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers
    2010 4.5k citations Simon G. Potts, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer et al. profile →
  2. Parallel Declines in Pollinators and Insect-Pollinated Plants in Britain and the Netherlands
    2006 2.3k citations Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Stuart P. M. Roberts et al. profile →
  3. Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being
    2016 1.3k citations Simon G. Potts, Vera Lúcia Imperatriz-Fonseca et al. Nature profile →
  4. MEASURING BEE DIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN HABITATS AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS
    2008 614 citations Riccardo Bommarco, Simon G. Potts et al. profile →
  5. Combined effects of global change pressures on animal-mediated pollination
    2013 314 citations Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Riccardo Bommarco et al. profile →
  6. Global agricultural productivity is threatened by increasing pollinator dependence without a parallel increase in crop diversification
    2019 246 citations Marcelo A. Aizen, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jacobus C. Biesmeijer Netherlands 48 13.1k 9.1k 5.8k 5.2k 3.4k 102 15.1k
Rachael Winfree United States 42 11.5k 0.9× 7.0k 0.8× 3.7k 0.6× 5.7k 1.1× 4.1k 1.2× 67 13.1k
Neal M. Williams United States 47 12.3k 0.9× 7.4k 0.8× 3.8k 0.7× 6.7k 1.3× 4.4k 1.3× 109 14.2k
Saul A. Cunningham Australia 45 9.7k 0.7× 6.7k 0.7× 3.8k 0.6× 4.6k 0.9× 3.7k 1.1× 134 13.4k
Nico Blüthgen Germany 52 11.2k 0.9× 4.2k 0.5× 4.4k 0.8× 5.7k 1.1× 5.5k 1.6× 197 14.1k
Marcelo A. Aizen Argentina 57 14.1k 1.1× 6.8k 0.7× 4.2k 0.7× 7.6k 1.4× 6.4k 1.9× 192 16.9k
Riccardo Bommarco Sweden 60 9.9k 0.8× 7.4k 0.8× 3.0k 0.5× 5.6k 1.1× 5.1k 1.5× 168 16.1k
Oliver Schweiger Germany 43 8.3k 0.6× 4.9k 0.5× 3.5k 0.6× 2.9k 0.6× 4.4k 1.3× 98 11.9k
Alexandra‐Maria Klein Germany 59 16.7k 1.3× 11.3k 1.2× 5.5k 1.0× 8.2k 1.6× 6.3k 1.8× 211 22.8k
Jane Memmott United Kingdom 53 8.5k 0.7× 3.6k 0.4× 2.0k 0.4× 5.2k 1.0× 5.0k 1.5× 126 12.0k
Laurence Packer Canada 45 6.4k 0.5× 4.2k 0.5× 3.5k 0.6× 2.0k 0.4× 1.8k 0.5× 174 8.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacobus C. Biesmeijer

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Biesmeijer, Jacobus C., et al.. (2025). Host Evolutionary History Drives Prokaryotic Diversity in the Globally Distributed Sponge Family Petrosiidae. Molecular Ecology. 34(24). e70186–e70186.
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Biesmeijer, Jacobus C., N. D. Boatman, Giles E. Budge, et al.. (2024). Flowering plant communities mediate the effects of habitat composition and configuration on wild pollinator communities. Functional Ecology. 38(12). 2576–2594. 3 indexed citations
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Pan, Kaixuan, Leon Marshall, G.R. de Snoo, & Jacobus C. Biesmeijer. (2024). Dutch landscapes have lost insect‐pollinated plants over the past 87 years. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61(6). 1323–1333. 5 indexed citations
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Biesmeijer, Jacobus C., et al.. (2023). Are threatened species special? An assessment of Dutch bees in relation to land use and climate. Ecology and Evolution. 13(7). e10326–e10326. 2 indexed citations
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Son, Mikhail O., Matteo Lattuada, Vitaliy V. Anistratenko, et al.. (2021). Decline of unique Pontocaspian biodiversity in the Black Sea Basin: A review. Ecology and Evolution. 11(19). 12923–12947. 16 indexed citations
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Osterman, Julia, Marcelo A. Aizen, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, et al.. (2021). Global trends in the number and diversity of managed pollinator species. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 322. 107653–107653. 110 indexed citations
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Carvalheiro, Luísa G., Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Markus Franzén, et al.. (2019). Soil eutrophication shaped the composition of pollinator assemblages during the past century. Ecography. 43(2). 209–221. 25 indexed citations
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Biesmeijer, Jacobus C., et al.. (2019). Risk of potential pesticide use to honeybee and bumblebee survival and distribution: A country‐wide analysis for The Netherlands. Diversity and Distributions. 25(11). 1709–1720. 22 indexed citations
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Marshall, Leon, et al.. (2019). Grassland management for meadow birds in the Netherlands is unfavourable to pollinators. Basic and Applied Ecology. 43. 52–63. 13 indexed citations
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Kleijn, David, et al.. (2018). Scaling up effects of measures mitigating pollinator loss from local‐ to landscape‐level population responses. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(7). 1727–1738. 40 indexed citations
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Potts, Simon G., Vera Lúcia Imperatriz-Fonseca, Hien T. Ngo, et al.. (2016). Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being. Nature. 540(7632). 220–229. 1344 indexed citations breakdown →
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Senapathi, Deepa, Luísa G. Carvalheiro, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, et al.. (2015). The impact of over 80 years of land cover changes on bee and wasp pollinator communities in England. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1806). 20150294–20150294. 131 indexed citations
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Eskildsen, Anne, Luísa G. Carvalheiro, W. Daniel Kissling, et al.. (2015). Ecological specialization matters: long‐term trends in butterfly species richness and assemblage composition depend on multiple functional traits. Diversity and Distributions. 21(7). 792–802. 93 indexed citations
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Shackelford, Gorm E., Peter Steward, Tim G. Benton, et al.. (2013). Comparison of pollinators and natural enemies: a meta‐analysis of landscape and local effects on abundance and richness in crops. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 88(4). 1002–1021. 186 indexed citations
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Carvalheiro, Luísa G., William E. Kunin, Petr Keil, et al.. (2013). Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW ‐European pollinators and plants. Ecology Letters. 16(7). 870–878. 280 indexed citations
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Polce, Chiara, Mette Termansen, Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, et al.. (2013). Species Distribution Models for Crop Pollination: A Modelling Framework Applied to Great Britain. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e76308–e76308. 56 indexed citations
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Cock, Matthew J.W., Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, R. J. C. Cannon, et al.. (2012). The positive contribution of invertebrates to sustainable agriculture and food security.. CABI Reviews. 1–27. 30 indexed citations
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Rasmussen, Claus, James C. Nieh, & Jacobus C. Biesmeijer. (2010). Foraging Biology of Neglected Bee Pollinators. Psyche A Journal of Entomology. 2010. 1–2. 4 indexed citations
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Bommarco, Riccardo, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Simon G. Potts, et al.. (2010). Dispersal capacity and diet breadth modify the response of wild bees to habitat loss. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 277(1690). 2075–2082. 226 indexed citations
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Keil, Petr, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, A. Barendregt, Menno Reemer, & William E. Kunin. (2010). Biodiversity change is scale‐dependent: an example from Dutch and UK hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae). Ecography. 34(3). 392–401. 33 indexed citations

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