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Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber ist Professor für Biodiversitätsmonitoring an der Universität Bonn und Leiter des Zentrums für Biodiversitätsmonitoring und Naturschutzforschung (zbm), sowie Stellvertretender LIB-Generaldirektor am Bonner Standort des Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels.
Ein zentrales Thema seiner Forschung ist die Vielfalt des Lebens auf der Erde („Biodiversität“). Dabei gilt sein besonderes Interesse den Auswirkungen von Veränderungen der Biodiversität auf Ökosystemprozesse wie Pflanzen-Insekten-Wechselwirkungen und Pflanzenfraß sowie der Frage, wie dem Verlust an Biodiversität entgegengewirkt werden kann.
Darüber hinaus untersucht Christoph Scherber anthropogene Umweltveränderungen (z. B. Klimawandel, Landnutzungsänderungen, Ressourcenausbeutung und invasive Arten) in einer Vielzahl von Ökosystemen wie Grasland, Ackerland, Heide, Wäldern und Torfmooren, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf Europa liegt, zunehmend aber auch auf anderen Teilen der Welt. Dabei werden insbesondere theoriegeleitete Feldversuche auf Parzellenebene mit Anwendungen im Naturschutz auf Landschaftsebene kombiniert.
Ein wichtiges Ziel ist es, den Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt aufzuhalten und gemeinsam mit Akteuren wie Landwirten oder Partnern aus der Industrie die Kurve wieder nach oben zu lenken.Das Zentrum für Biodiversitätsmonitoring und Naturschutzforschung (zbm) am Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels untersucht die Ursachen und Folgen des globalen Rückgangs der biologischen Vielfalt und entwickelt wissenschaftlich fundierte Strategien zu ihrem Schutz. Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender menschlicher Einflüsse wie Landnutzungsänderungen, Umweltverschmutzung, invasive Arten und Klimawandel erforschen die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des zbm Veränderungen von Ökosystemen in Wiesen und Agrarlandschaften, Mooren, Wäldern und Heidegebieten.
Durch experimentelle Ansätze, automatisierte Methoden der Arterfassung sowie moderne molekulare Verfahren wie DNA-Metabarcoding analysiert das Zentrum Wechselwirkungen zwischen Landnutzung, Pflanzen und Tieren. Mithilfe statistischer Modelle identifizieren die Forschenden langfristige Trends und zentrale Treiber des Artenrückgangs. Dabei verbinden sie theoriegeleitete Experimente im kleinen Maßstab mit Anwendungen auf Landschaftsebene und integrieren Daten aus angrenzenden Disziplinen wie Mineralogie und Geologie-Paläontologie.
Ein zentrales Ziel des zbm ist die Überführung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse in konkrete Handlungsoptionen. Mit evidenzbasierten Lösungsansätzen für Naturschutz und nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung steht das Zentrum im aktiven Austausch mit Klimaforschung, Politik, NGOs sowie Akteurinnen und Akteuren aus Agrar- und Umweltpraxis.
Projekte
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PhenoRob2 - Robotik und Phänotypisierung für nachhaltige Pflanzenproduktion
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber
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BUGSI
Leitung: Dr. Ameli Kirse
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LEPO - Schmetterlinge als Bestäuber und ihre wichtigsten Lebensräume in Deutschland
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber
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Tr.i.fl.e - Tracking insects on flowers with e-DNA
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber
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NaPA - Naturverträgliche Landwirtschaft
Leitung: Dr. Tamara Hartke
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FlowerBeet
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber
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BioMonitor4CAP
Leitung: Dr. Ameli Kirse
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GIBBS (Ganzheitliches Biodiversitätsmanagement in der Baustoffindustrie)
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber
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DynaCom
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber
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DIVERSify
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber
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BALIN - Insektenschutz am Bahnhof durch Reduzierung der Lichtverschmutzung
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber
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SPRINT
Leitung: Dr. David Ott
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KennArt
Leitung: Albia Consul
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FINKA - Förderung von Insekten im Ackerbau
Leitung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber
Publikationen
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2026/09
Optimised light sources reduce nocturnal insect attraction at railway stations
Biological conservation, 321
2026/09
Management of wetlands in mining sites conserves habitat for threatened amphibians
Journal for Nature Conservation, 93
2026/06
Anteil dunkelgrau gefärbter Kreuzottern von 2010–2024 in einem Moor in Nordwestdeutschland. Feldherpetologisches Magazin
Feldherpetologisches Magazin, 23
2026/06
Maßnahme 61: Forschung für mehr Naturschutz. „Insektenschutz an Bahnhöfen durch insektenfreundliche Beleuchtung“ (BALIN)
2026/04
Monitoring technologies in farmland biodiversity: Outlook from BioMonitor4CAP project
2026/04
Insecticide‐level pest control provided by in‐field flower strips
Journal of applied ecology, 4, 63
2026/04
Combining Time-Stamped Insect Sampling With eDNA-Metabarcoding of Guano to Reconstruct Community Interactions
Ecology and Evolution, 4, 16
2026/03
Pesticides but not microplastics affect pollination in rape seed production in China
Environmental Research Food Systems, 1, 3
2026/02
Insect declines: Challenges and solutions
Current Opinion in Insect Science
2026/01
Optimised light sources reduce nocturnal insect attraction at railway stations
2026/01
Global evidence that plant diversity suppresses pests and promotes plant performance and crop production
Nature Ecology & Evolution
2025/12
Lack of spatial coordinate information for an important insect order (Lepidoptera) in a Central European country
Ecosphere, 12, 16
2025/11
Scientists’ warning: we must change paradigm for a revolution in toxicology and world food supply
Environmental Sciences Europe, 1, 37
2025/11
Toward a global repository of insect traits ( )
Insect Conservation and Diversity
2025/10
The Bug‐Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on Plant Communities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems
Ecology and Evolution, 10, 15
2025/09
Edge computer vision produces microarthropod-based high-throughput biodiversity metrics
2025/09
Edge computer vision produces microarthropod-based high-throughput biodiversity metrics
bioRxiv
2025/08
Pioneer habitats drive high plant beta diversity and conservation value of mineral extraction sites
Journal of applied ecology, n/a, n/a
2025/05
Understanding biodiversity effects on trophic interactions with a robust approach to path analysis
Cell Reports Sustainability, 5, 2
2025/05
Leaving synthetic pesticides behind
Science, 6748, 388
2025/03
Reduzierter Einsatz von Pflanzenschutzmitteln in der Agrarlandschaft: Strategien aus Sicht der Biodiversitätsforschung
2025/03
Identifying conservation hotspots and assessing species commonness and rarity: Baseline arthropod diversity in German nature reserves via national Malaise trap monitoring
Insect Conservation and Diversity
2025/02
Environmental supports importance of heterogeneous pond landscapes for arthropod diversity conservation
Ecosphere, 2, 16
2025/02
Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms
Nature communications, 1, 16
2025/01
Morphospace disparity and species diversity in Sri Lankan phytophagous scarab beetles—A comparison by forest types, altitude and sites
Ecological Entomology
2025/01
The clockwork of insect activity: Advancing ecological understanding through automation
Journal of Animal Ecology
2024/12
Comparing and Transect Methods for Aquatic Biodiversity Assessment in Lakes and Ponds
Molecular Ecology resources, 3, 25
2024/12
The Field Automatic Insect Recognition‐Device—A Non‐Lethal Semi‐Automatic Malaise Trap for Insect Biodiversity Monitoring: Proof of Concept
Ecology and Evolution, 12, 14
2024/10
Entwicklung eines nichtletalen Monitoringsystems zur Erfassung von Insektenbiodiversität in landwirtschaftlichen Produktionssystemen
2024/06
Lichtblick für die Biodiversität: Insektenfreundliche Beleuchtung von Bahnhöfen. In: Jahresbericht 2024 Deutsches Zentrum für Schienenverkehrsforschung beim Eisenbahn-Bundesamt. 2024, S.27-28
2024/04
Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture
Science, 6691, 384
2024/03
Leibniz Research Network Biodiversity. (2024). 10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science 2024 (Version 1). Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
2024/03
The FAIR-Device-a non-lethal and generalist semi-automatic Malaise trap for insect biodiversity monitoring: Proof of concept
bioRxiv
2024/00
Diversification mitigates pesticide but not microplastic effects on bees without compromising rapeseed yield in China
bioRxiv
2023/12
Species richness promotes plant productivity by suppressing plant antagonists
2023/12
taxalogue: a toolkit to create comprehensive CO1 reference databases
PeerJ, 11
2023/12
Metabarcoding of trap nests reveals differential impact of urbanization on cavity‐nesting bee and wasp communities
Molecular Ecology, 23, 32
2023/11
Recommendations for effective insect conservation in nature protected areas based on a transdisciplinary project in Germany
Environmental Sciences Europe, 1, 35
2023/11
Convergent patterns in multitrophic biodiversity effects on yield across ecosystems
Science China Life Sciences, 11, 66
2023/07
Microhabitat conditions remedy heat stress effects on insect activity
Global Change Biology, 13, 29
2023/07
Multispecies crop mixtures increase insect biodiversity in an intercropping experiment
Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 3, 4
2023/03
The impact of pesticides on non-target organisms
2023/00
Trophic interactions affecting biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships
2022/12
Agroecology – Reconciling biodiversity and production in farming systems
65
2022/12
Improving insect conservation management through insect monitoring and stakeholder involvement
2, 32
2022/11
The lipidome of an omnivorous insect responds to diet composition and social environment
11, 12
2022/11
Plant genetic diversity affects multiple trophic levels and trophic interactions
Nature communications, 1, 13
2022/06
Intercropping drives plant phenotypic plasticity and changes in functional trait space
Basic and applied ecology, 61
2022/03
Towards a multisensor station for automated biodiversity monitoring
Basic and applied ecology, 59
2022/01
A universal insect trait tool (ITT, v1.0) for statistical analysis and evaluation of biodiversity research data
2022/00
Understanding and monitoring chemical and biological soil degradation
Advances in understanding soil degradation
2022/00
Analyzing Bird and Bat Activity in Agricultural Environments using AI-driven Audio Monitoring
2021/10
Crop diversity effects on temporal agricultural production stability across European regions
Regional Environmental Change, 96, 21
2021/10
Who is the culprit: Is pest infestation responsible for crop yield losses close to semi‐natural habitats?
Ecology and Evolution, 19, 11
2021/08
Functional trait dimensions of trophic metacommunities
Ecography, 10, 44
2021/06
Exploring agricultural landscapes: recent progress and opportunities for Eurasia
Exploring and Optimizing Agricultural Landscapes
2021/06
A grid-based sampling approach to insect biodiversity monitoring in agricultural landscapes
2021/06
Optimizing agricultural landscapes: Measures towards prosperity and sustainability
2021/06
Soil microbial biomass and enzyme kinetics for the assessment of temporal diversification in agroecosystems
Basic and applied Ecology, 53
2021/06
Intercropping in high input agriculture supports arthropod diversity without risking significant yield losses
Basic and applied ecology, 53
2021/05
A multifactorial proteomics approach to sex-specific effects of diet composition and social environment in an omnivorous insect
Ecology and Evolution
2021/05
Calibrating and testing APSIM for wheat-faba bean pure cultures and intercrops across Europe
Field crops research, 264
2021/03
Grain yield stability of individual cereal-legume mixtures grown across Europe.
Aspects of Applied Biology, 146, 241-248.
2021/03
Grain yield stability of cereal-legume intercrops is greater than sole crops in more productive conditions
Agriculture, 3, 11
2021/01
Multi-dimensional trait space in cereal-legume mixtures: an analysis across environments and plant teams.
Intercropping for Sustainability: Research Developments and their Application, Aspects of Applied Biology, 146, 429-432.
2020/12
Crop asynchrony stabilizes food production
Nature, 588
2020/12
Seasonal variation in the diet of the serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus): A high-resolution analysis using DNA metabarcoding
Basic and applied Ecology, 49
2020/11
Handbook for trait assessment in agricultural plant teams.
Deliverable Report D2. 2 (D17) Handbook of Protocols to Assess Traits in Plant Teams. Developed by the EU-H2020 Project DIVERSify, Grant Agreement Number 727824, 110pp.
2020/11
Species–habitat networks elucidate landscape effects on habitat specialisation of natural enemies and pollinators
Ecology letters, 2, 24
2020/11
Biodiversity enhances the multitrophic control of arthropod herbivory
Science advances, 45, 6
2020/10
Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 12, 4
2020/07
Growth and survival of the superorganism: Ant colony macronutrient intake and investment
Ecology and Evolution
2020/04
Diet composition and social environment determine food consumption, phenotype and fecundity in an omnivorous insect
Royal Society open science, 4, 7
2020/04
Direct and indirect effects of plant diversity and phenoxy herbicide application on the development and reproduction of a polyphagous herbivore
Scientific reports, 10
2020/02
Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands
Nature Ecology and Evolution
2020/01
Düngung: Kuhfladen und Pferdeäpfel
Insektenatlas - Daten und Fakten über Nütz- und Schädlinge in der Landwirtschaft
2020/00
DIVERSify Handbook for trait assessment in agricultural plant teams. Deliverable report D2. 2 (D17)
2020/00
Plant-pollinator interactions along an urbanization gradient from cities and villages to farmland landscapes
Ecosphere, 2, 11
2020/00
Multitrophic energy dynamics (energy-use efficiency, energy flow, and energy storage) in the Jena Experiment (Main Experiment). PANGAEA
2019/09
Influence of temporal diversification on aboveground arthropods
First European Conference on Crop Diversification
2019/08
Insect diversity and ecological processes in agricultural and forest landscapes.
6/7, 94
2019/07
Mapping change in biodiversity and ecosystem function research: Food webs foster integration of experiments and science policy
Advances in Ecological Research
2019/06
How much do we really lose?—Yield losses in the proximity of natural landscape elements in agricultural landscapes
Ecology and Evolution
2019/06
Connectedness of habitat fragments boosts conservation benefits for butterflies, but only in landscapes with little cropland
Landscape ecology
2019/05
Insektenvielfalt und ökologische Prozesse in Agrar- und Waldlandschaften
Natur und Landschaft, 6/7, 94
2019/05
Crop identity and memory effects on aboveground arthropods in a long-term crop rotation experiment
Ecology and Evolution
2019/01
A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research
61
2018/12
A barrier island perspective on species-area relationships
Ecology and Evolution
2018/12
Novel approaches to sampling pollinators in whole landscapes: A lesson for landscape-wide biodiversity monitoring
Landscape ecology
2018/07
X-ray computed tomography and its potential in ecological research: A review of studies and optimization of specimen preparation
Ecology and Evolution
2018/05
Spatial community turnover of pollinators is relaxed by semi-natural habitats, but not by mass-flowering crops in agricultural landscapes
Biological conservation, 221
2018/05
Winners and losers of national and global efforts to reconcile agricultural intensification and biodiversity conservation
Global change biology, 5, 24
2018/05
Visualizing predictions from multinomial models in R
Practical Machine Learning in R / Machine Learning Magazine (https://mlmag.co/product/practical-machine-learning-in-r/)
2018/03
Energy flux: the link between multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Trends in ecology & evolution, 3, 33
2018/03
DIVERSify-ing for sustainability using cereal-legume ‘plant teams’
Aspects of Applied Biology, 138
2018/00
Effects of agrobiodiversity on pest control in Vicia faba L.
SYMPOSIUM ON BREEDING FOR DIVERSIFICATION
2017/12
Primary rainforest amount at the landscape scale mitigates bird biodiversity loss and biotic homogenization
Journal of applied ecology
2017/11
Linking compositional and functional predictions to decipher the biogeochemical significance in DFAA turnover of abundant bacterioplankton lineages in the North Sea
Microorganisms, 4, 5
2017/09
Gut microbiomes of mobile predators vary with landscape context and species identity
Ecology and Evolution
2017/06
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: patterns, mechanisms, and open questions
Basic and applied ecology
2017/01
Using R to Interpret Interaction Effects in Statistical Models
Software Developer´s Journal
2017/00
Creation of forest edges has a global impact on forest vertebrates
Nature, 551
2016/12
Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity
Ecosphere, 12, 7
2016/12
Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte zu Klimawandel und Biodiversität
2016/11
Spillover of arthropods from cropland to protected calcareous grassland–the neighbouring habitat matters
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 235
2016/10
How forest edge–center transitions in the herb layer interact with beech dominance versus tree diversity
Journal of Plant Ecology, 5, 9
2016/04
Plant diversity increases spatio‐temporal niche complementarity in plant‐pollinator interactions
Ecology and Evolution, 8, 6
2016/04
Consistent drivers of plant biodiversity across managed ecosystems
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, 1694, 371
2016/02
Networking Our Way to Better Ecosystem Service Provision
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2, 31
2016/02
Trophic and Non-Trophic Interactions in a Biodiversity Experiment Assessed by Next-Generation Sequencing
PloS one, 2, 11
2016/01
Corridors restore animal-mediated pollination in fragmented tropical forest landscapes
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1823, 283
2016/01
Interacting effects of forest stratum, edge and tree diversity on beetles
Forest ecology and management, 361
2016/00
Revisiting species-area-relationships–the case of German barrier islands
2015/12
Functional trait diversity across trophic levels determines herbivore impact on plant community biomass
Ecology letters, 12, 18
2015/12
Using multi-level generalized path analysis to understand herbivore and parasitoid dynamics in changing landscapes
Landscape ecology, 30