Prof. Dr. Anne-Christine Mupepele
![]() | Anne-Christine Mupepele | ORCID iD: 0000-0003-5671-0963 Web of Science ResearcherID: J-3855-2014 |
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Research
A more recent focus of my research has been on the ecology and effects of soil disturbance on ground-nesting wild bees.
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since 05 2023 | Professor at the University of Marburg, Department of Animal Ecology |
09 2021 - 04 2023 | Junior research group leader funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany under the framework of the "Margarete von Wrangell-Habilitationsprogramm für Frauen" |
2018 - 2021 | Postdoc and Lecturer at the Chair of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg |
01 2020 - 06 2020 | Visiting Postdoc in the Conservation Evidence Group at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge |
10 2019 - 09 2020 | Postdoctoral fellow of STAY! - Stipendium der Neuen Universitätsstiftung Freiburg, Project: Evidence-based practice in insect conservation |
2018 - 2020 | Postdoc at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt (BIK-F) |
2017 - 2018 | Fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) in the interdisciplinary research project "Roma, a genetically isolated population?" |
2016 - 2017 | Lecturer and Researcher at the University College Freiburg, Science and Technology Studies |
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2013 - 2017 | PhD thesis at the University of Freiburg in the department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis with the topic: "Evaluating the evidence of ecosystem-services science" |
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2012 | Diploma Thesis: "Temperate and Tropical Forests - A Comparison of Canopy Spider Communities" |
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2008 - 2012 | Graduate studies in Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Geography/ Climatology and Pharmaceutical Biology at the University of Würzburg |
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2008 | Graduate studies in Aquatic Ecology, University of Oulu, Finland |
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2005 - 2007 | Undergraduate studies in Biology, University of Würzburg |
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Publications
2023
- Mupepele, A.C., von Königslöw, V., Bleile, A.M., Fornoff, F., Fründ, J. & Klein, A.M. (2023): Plant-pollinator interactions in apple orchards from a production and conservation perspective. BioRxiv (preprint). doi: 10.1101/2023.11.20.567831. Link
- Elliott, T., Thompson, A., Klein, A.M., Albert, C., Eisenhauer, N., Jansen, F., Schneider, A., Sommer, M., Straka, T., Settele, J., Sporbert, M., Tanneberger, F. & Mupepele, A.C. (2023): Abandoning grassland management negatively influences plant but not bird or insect biodiversity in Europe. Conservation Science and Practice 5: e13008. online first. doi: 10.1111/csp2.13008. Link
- Amano, T., Berdejo-Espinola, V., Akasaka, M. [..] Mupepele, A.C. et al. & Zamora-Gutierrez, V. (2023): The role of non-English-language science in informing national biodiversity assessments. Nature Sustainability 6: 845-854. online first. doi: 10.1038/s41893-023-01087-8. Link
2022
- Mupepele, A.C. & Dormann, C.F. (2022): Reply to: “Research on agroforestry systems and biodiversity conservation: what can we conclude so far and what should we improve?” by Boinot et al. 2022. BMC Ecology and Evolution 22: 65. Link
- Hauenstein, S., Jassoy, N., Mupepele, A.C., Carroll, T., Kshatriya, M., Beale, C.M. & Dormann, C.F. (2022): A systematic map of demographic data from elephant populations throughout Africa: implications for poaching and population analyses. Mammal Review 52: 438-453. Link
- Orr, M.C., Jakob, M., Harmon-Threatt, A. & Mupepele, A.C. (2022): A review of global trends in the study types used to investigate bee nesting biology. Basic and Applied Ecology 62: 12-21. Link
- Klein, A.M, von Königslöw, V., Mupepele, A., Fornoff, F. & Wintermantel, D. (2022): Blühstreifen, Hecken und Spontanvegetation: Wie können wir Wildbienen im Obstanbau gezielt fördern? In: Eben, A. & Herz, A. (eds.) Online - Fachgespräch zum Thema „Biodiversität im Obstbau“. Journal für Kulturpflanzen 74: 11-18. Link
- Lawer, E.A., Mupepele, A.C., Love Darkoh, E., Farwig, N., Oware, S., Asiedu Larbi, J., Esslaw-Quayson, G. & Klein, A.M. (2022): Logging effects on parasitic infections in a swamp rat (Malacomys edwardsi) in West Africa. Journal of Mammalogy 103: 383–393. Link
2021
- Mupepele, A.C., Keller, M. & Dormann, C.F. (2021): European agroforestry has no unequivocal effect on biodiversity: a time-cumulative meta-analysis. BMC Ecology and Evolution 21: 193. Link
- Christie, A.P., White, T.B., Martin, P.A., Petrovan, S.O., Bladon, A.J., Bowkett, A.E., Littlewood, N.A., Mupepele, A.C., Rocha, R., Sainsbury, K.A., Smith, R.K., Taylor, N.G. & Sutherland, W.J. (2021): Reducing publication delay to improve the efficiency and impact of conservation science. PeerJ 9: e12245. Link
- Mupepele, A.C., Bruelheide, H., Brühl, C., Dauber, J., Fenske, M., Freibauer, A., Gerowitt, B., Krüß, A., Lakner, S., Plieninger, T., Potthast, T., Schlacke, S., Seppelt, R., Stützel, H., Weisser, W., Wägele, W., Böhning-Gaese, K. & Klein, A.M. (2021): Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes - transformative societal changes needed. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36: 1067-1070. Link
- Sutherland, W.J., Taylor, N.G., […] Mupepele, A.C. et al. & Petrovan, S.O. (2021): A solution scan of societal options to reduce transmission and spread of respiratory viruses: SARS-CoV-2 as a case study. Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity 3: 84-90. Link
- Von Königslöw, V., Mupepele, A.C. & Klein, A.M. (2021): Overlooked jewels: Existing habitat patches complement sown flower strips to conserve pollinators. Biological Conservation 261: 109263. Link
- Mupepele, A.C. (2021): Book review: Ollerton, J. (2021): Pollinators & Pollination: Nature and Society, Pelagic Publishing, Exeter, UK pp. 286. Basic and Applied Ecology 54: 37-38. Link
- Lawer, E.A., Mupepele, A.C. & Klein, A.M. (2021): Artisanal mining impacts small mammals while chainsaw milling is a more sustainable practice in Ghana. Biodiversity and Conservation 30: 295-310. Link
- Heger, T., Aguilar-Trigueros, C.A., […] Mupepele, A.C. et al. & Jeschke, J.M. (2021): The hierarchy-of-hypotheses approach: A synthesis method for enhancing theory development in ecology and evolution. BioScience 71: 337-349. Link
2020
- Mupepele, A.C. & Dormann, C.F. (2020): Evidence ranking needs to reflect causality. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35: 94-95. Link
2019
- Mupepele, A.C., Böhning-Gaese, K., Lakner S., Plieninger, T., Schoof, N. & Klein, A.M. (2019): Insect conservation in agricultural landscapes – An outlook for policy-relevant research. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 4: 342-347. Link
- Mupepele, A.C., Bruelheide, H., Dauber, J., Kruess, A., Potthast, T., Wägele, W. & Klein, A.M. (2019): Insect decline and their drivers: Unsupported conclusions in a poorly performed meta-analysis on trends—A critique of Sánchez-Bayo and Wyckhuys (2019). Basic and Applied Ecology 37: 20-23. Link
- Lawer, E.A., Mupepele, A.C. & Klein, A.M. (2019): Responses of small mammals to land restoration after mining. Landscape Ecology 34: 473-485. Link
- Lautenbach, A., Mupepele, A.C., Dormann, C.F., Lee, H., Schmidt, S., Scholte, S.S.K.; Seppelt, R., van Teeffelen, A.J.A., Verhagen, W. & Volk, V. (2019): Blind spots in ecosystem services research and challenges for implementation. Regional Environmental Change. 19: 2151-2172. Link
2018
- Game, E.T., Tallis, H., Olander, L., Alexander, S.M., Busch, B.J., Cartwright, N., Kalies, E.L., Masuda, Y.J., Mupepele, A.C., Qiu, J., Rooney, R., Sills, E. & Sutherland, W.J. (2018): Cross-discipline evidence principles for sustainability policy. Nature Sustainability 1: 452-454. Link
- Mupepele, A.C., Göbel, A. & Dormann, C.F. (2018): Monitoring, Indikatoren und Berichte: Die Evidenzgrundlage von Biodiversität und Ökosystemdienstleistungen in europäischen Agroforstsystemen. In: Korn, H., Dünnfelder, H. & Schliep, R. (Hrsg.) Treffpunkt Biologische Vielfalt XVI, Interdisziplinärer Forschungsaustausch im Rahmen des Übereinkommens über die biologische Vielfalt. Bfn-Skripten 487: 153-157. Link
- Klein, A.M., Fornoff, F., Mupepele, A.C., Boreux, V. & Pufal, G. (2018): Relevance of wild and managed bees for human well-being. Current Opinion in Insect Science 26: 82-88. Link
2017
- Staubach, F., Buchanan, N., Köttgen, A., Lipphardt, A., Mupepele, A.C., Pfaffelhuber, P., Surdu, M., & Wienroth, M. (2017): Note limitations of DNA legislation. Nature 545: 30. Link
2016
- Mupepele, A.C. & Dormann, C.F. (2016): Influence of forest harvest on nitrate concentration in temperate streams — a meta-analysis. Forests 8: 1–14. Link
- Mupepele, A.C. & Dormann, C.F. (2016): Environmental management: Synthesize evidence to steer decisions. Nature 529: 466–466. Link
- Mupepele, A.C., Walsh, J.C., Sutherland, W.J. & Dormann, C.F. (2016): An evidence assessment tool for ecosystem services and conservation studies. Ecological Application 26: 1295-1301. Link
2014
- Mupepele, A.C., Müller, T., Dittrich, M. & Floren, A. (2014): Are temperate canopy spiders tree-species specific? PLOS ONE 9: e86571 Link