Teja Tscharntke

96.0k total citations · 30 hit papers
410 papers, 51.4k citations indexed

About

Teja Tscharntke is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Teja Tscharntke has authored 410 papers receiving a total of 51.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 296 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 177 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 170 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Teja Tscharntke's work include Plant and animal studies (269 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (177 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (118 papers). Teja Tscharntke is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (269 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (177 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (118 papers). Teja Tscharntke collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Indonesia and United States. Teja Tscharntke's co-authors include Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Carsten Thies, Andreas Kruess, Yann Clough, Jason M. Tylianakis, Andrea Holzschuh, Saul A. Cunningham, Claire Kremen and James H. Cane and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Teja Tscharntke

407 papers receiving 49.1k citations

Hit Papers

Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for w... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2006 2005 2012 2002 2002 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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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.

  1. Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops
    2006 4.9k citations Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Bernard Vaissière et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  2. Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity – ecosystem service management
    2005 3.2k citations Teja Tscharntke, Alexandra‐Maria Klein et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  3. Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification
    2012 1.4k citations Teja Tscharntke, Yann Clough et al. profile →
  4. SCALE-DEPENDENT EFFECTS OF LANDSCAPE CONTEXT ON THREE POLLINATOR GUILDS
    2002 937 citations Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Teja Tscharntke et al. Ecology profile →
  5. Foraging ranges of solitary bees
    2002 855 citations Teja Tscharntke et al. profile →
  6. Mixed biodiversity benefits of agri‐environment schemes in five European countries
    2006 780 citations David Kleijn, Yann Clough et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  7. Habitat modification alters the structure of tropical host–parasitoid food webs
    2007 693 citations Jason M. Tylianakis, Teja Tscharntke et al. profile →
  8. On the relationship between farmland biodiversity and land-use intensity in Europe
    2008 664 citations David Kleijn, Péter Batáry et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  9. Habitat Fragmentation, Species Loss, and Biological Control
    1994 616 citations Andreas Kruess, Teja Tscharntke profile →
  10. Fruit set of highland coffee increases with the diversity of pollinating bees
    2003 613 citations Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  11. Landscape Structure and Biological Control in Agroecosystems
    1999 573 citations Teja Tscharntke et al. profile →
  12. Multifunctional shade-tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes - a review
    2011 554 citations Teja Tscharntke, Yann Clough et al. Journal of Applied Ecology profile →
  13. Functional group diversity of bee pollinators increases crop yield
    2008 535 citations Teja Tscharntke, Jason M. Tylianakis et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  14. Mass flowering crops enhance pollinator densities at a landscape scale
    2003 531 citations Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Teja Tscharntke et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  15. Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale
    2007 524 citations Teja Tscharntke, Riccardo Bommarco et al. profile →
  16. Effects of habitat isolation on pollinator communities and seed set
    1999 522 citations Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Teja Tscharntke profile →
  17. Does conservation on farmland contribute to halting the biodiversity decline?
    2011 519 citations David Kleijn, Teja Tscharntke et al. profile →
  18. Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices
    2015 513 citations Vesna Gagić, Ígnasi Bartomeus et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  19. Spillover edge effects: the dispersal of agriculturally subsidized insect natural enemies into adjacent natural habitats
    2006 501 citations Jason M. Tylianakis, Teja Tscharntke et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  20. Implications of agricultural transitions and urbanization for ecosystem services
    2014 484 citations Teja Tscharntke et al. profile →
  21. Landscape-moderated biodiversity effects of agri-environmental management: a meta-analysis
    2010 469 citations Péter Batáry, David Kleijn et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  22. Spillover of functionally important organisms between managed and natural habitats
    2011 444 citations Andrea Holzschuh, Alexandra‐Maria Klein et al. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment profile →
  23. Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization
    2015 422 citations Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Christoph Scherber et al. profile →
  24. Agricultural landscape simplification reduces natural pest control: A quantitative synthesis
    2016 399 citations Teja Tscharntke, Wolfgang W. Weisser et al. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment profile →
  25. Bee pollination improves crop quality, shelf life and commercial value
    2013 395 citations Andrea Holzschuh, Yann Clough et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  26. Beyond organic farming – harnessing biodiversity-friendly landscapes
    2021 350 citations Teja Tscharntke, Ingo Graß et al. profile →
  27. How urbanization is driving pollinator diversity and pollination – A systematic review
    2019 288 citations Arne Wenzel, Ingo Graß et al. profile →
  28. Ecological-economic trade-offs of Diversified Farming Systems – A review
    2019 256 citations Teja Tscharntke et al. profile →
  29. Landscape configurational heterogeneity by small-scale agriculture, not crop diversity, maintains pollinators and plant reproduction in western Europe
    2018 211 citations Teja Tscharntke, Yann Clough et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  30. Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta‐analysis
    2024 48 citations Teja Tscharntke, Eleanor M. Slade et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Teja Tscharntke Germany 112 31.7k 20.2k 18.1k 17.6k 10.7k 410 51.4k
Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter Germany 88 26.1k 0.8× 16.7k 0.8× 12.8k 0.7× 12.9k 0.7× 5.7k 0.5× 303 35.9k
Claire Kremen United States 75 23.6k 0.7× 16.3k 0.8× 8.3k 0.5× 12.6k 0.7× 4.8k 0.5× 173 36.8k
Alexandra‐Maria Klein Germany 59 16.7k 0.5× 11.3k 0.6× 6.3k 0.3× 8.2k 0.5× 2.6k 0.2× 211 22.8k
Simon G. Potts United Kingdom 73 23.0k 0.7× 15.6k 0.8× 7.9k 0.4× 10.8k 0.6× 2.6k 0.2× 240 29.2k
David M. Richardson South Africa 115 18.0k 0.6× 9.1k 0.4× 29.4k 1.6× 15.8k 0.9× 19.1k 1.8× 509 52.4k
David A. Wardle Sweden 103 15.3k 0.5× 7.3k 0.4× 25.4k 1.4× 17.1k 1.0× 23.1k 2.2× 414 61.9k
Petr Pyšek Czechia 105 19.8k 0.6× 8.7k 0.4× 26.5k 1.5× 19.3k 1.1× 18.0k 1.7× 488 49.8k
Robert J. Hijmans United States 51 10.1k 0.3× 2.0k 0.1× 11.2k 0.6× 7.3k 0.4× 13.1k 1.2× 136 39.3k
Michel Loreau France 88 14.5k 0.5× 3.9k 0.2× 24.6k 1.4× 6.6k 0.4× 20.9k 2.0× 289 49.5k
Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca Brazil 35 10.3k 0.3× 1.9k 0.1× 11.7k 0.6× 4.7k 0.3× 12.4k 1.2× 76 34.2k

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All Works

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Ocampo‐Ariza, Carolina, Johannes Wessely, Stefan Dullinger, et al.. (2025). Landscape context influences local management effects on birds and bats in Amazonian cacao agroforestry systems. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 385. 109545–109545. 1 indexed citations
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Ocampo‐Ariza, Carolina, et al.. (2025). Cacao grafting increases crop yield without compromising biodiversity. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(3). 579–592. 2 indexed citations
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Wyckhuys, Kris A. G., Kathryn E. Bushley, Claudio Gratton, et al.. (2025). Restoring functional farmland biodiversity for biological pest control. Trends in Plant Science. 30(10). 1097–1110. 2 indexed citations
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Wenzel, Arne, et al.. (2023). High losses of farmland birds and potential biocontrol along an urbanization gradient in a tropical megacity. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 354. 108571–108571. 2 indexed citations
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Ficiciyan, Anoush, et al.. (2023). Intercropping enhances beneficial arthropods and controls pests: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 356. 108617–108617. 28 indexed citations
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Toledo‐Hernández, Manuel, Teja Tscharntke, Tereza Cristina Giannini, Mirco Solé, & Thomas Cherico Wanger. (2023). Hand pollination under shade trees triples cocoa yield in Brazil’s agroforests. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 355. 108612–108612. 9 indexed citations
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Kreft, Holger, Johannes Ballauff, Dirk Berkelmann, et al.. (2023). Landscape heterogeneity and soil biota are central to multi-taxa diversity for oil palm landscape restoration. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 8 indexed citations
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Wurz, Annemarie, Kristina Osen, Ingo Graß, et al.. (2023). Complementary ecosystem services from multiple land uses highlight the importance of tropical mosaic landscapes. AMBIO. 52(10). 1558–1574. 7 indexed citations
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Librán‐Embid, Felipe, Ingo Graß, Carine Emer, Cristina Ganuza, & Teja Tscharntke. (2021). A plant–pollinator metanetwork along a habitat fragmentation gradient. Ecology Letters. 24(12). 2700–2712. 36 indexed citations
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Wurz, Annemarie, Ingo Graß, Kristina Osen, et al.. (2021). Land‐use intensification increases richness of native and exotic herbaceous plants, but not endemics, in Malagasy vanilla landscapes. Diversity and Distributions. 27(5). 784–798. 17 indexed citations
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Schwab, Dominik, Annemarie Wurz, Ingo Graß, et al.. (2020). Decreasing predation rates and shifting predator compositions along a land‐use gradient in Madagascar's vanilla landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(2). 360–371. 24 indexed citations
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Martin, Dominic A., Kristina Osen, Ingo Graß, et al.. (2020). Land‐use history determines ecosystem services and conservation value in tropical agroforestry. Conservation Letters. 13(5). 92 indexed citations
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Martin, Dominic A., Annemarie Wurz, Kristina Osen, et al.. (2020). Shade-Tree Rehabilitation in Vanilla Agroforests is Yield Neutral and May Translate into Landscape-Scale Canopy Cover Gains. Ecosystems. 24(5). 1253–1267. 21 indexed citations
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Lami, Francesco, Ígnasi Bartomeus, Francesco Boscutti, et al.. (2020). Species–habitat networks elucidate landscape effects on habitat specialisation of natural enemies and pollinators. Ecology Letters. 24(2). 288–297. 33 indexed citations
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Darras, Kevin, Péter Batáry, Brett J. Furnas, et al.. (2018). Comparing the sampling performance of sound recorders versus point counts in bird surveys: A meta‐analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(6). 2575–2586. 110 indexed citations
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Gagić, Vesna, Ígnasi Bartomeus, Tomas Jönsson, et al.. (2015). Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1801). 20142620–20142620. 513 indexed citations breakdown →
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Clough, Yann, Andrea Holzschuh, Doreen Gabriel, et al.. (2007). Alpha and beta diversity of arthropods and plants in organically and conventionally managed wheat fields. Journal of Applied Ecology. 44(4). 804–812. 148 indexed citations
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Tscharntke, Teja. (2007). Stability of tropical rainforest margins : linking ecological, economic and social constraints of land use and conservation. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 125 indexed citations
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Klein, Alexandra‐Maria, Bernard Vaissière, James H. Cane, et al.. (2006). Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 274(1608). 303–313. 4856 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tylianakis, Jason M., Teja Tscharntke, & Alexandra‐Maria Klein. (2006). DIVERSITY, ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION, AND STABILITY OF PARASITOID–HOST INTERACTIONS ACROSS A TROPICAL HABITAT GRADIENT. Ecology. 87(12). 3047–3057. 121 indexed citations

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