Johan Ekroos
I am a researcher in ecology and environmental sciences with a special interest in understanding patterns in terrestrial biodiversity using a wide range of study organisms. In this context I am particularly interested in what consequences land-use change has on biotic communities and whether one can find synergies between strategies targeted at biodiversity protection and ecosystem service provision.
I tend to approach the broad research topics outlined above in two general ways. As often as possible I’m combining multiple organism groups in one study design to be able to explain how and why groups with contrasting ecological requirements respond in different ways to changes in landscape properties or lands-use intensity. In this context I have worked with vascular plants, ground beetles, butterflies and geometrid moths, bumblebees, solitary bees, hoverflies and birds. The second approach involves using species-specific traits of organisms, such as mobility, habitat specificity and dependence of insect pollination regarding vascular plants. Using this approach I have studied questions relating to biotic homogenisation of butterfly communities, community composition of plants and plant-pollinator interactions.
More recently I have turned my attention towards the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functions, in particular pollination, and perhaps most importantly, interdisciplinary research projects together with economists, sustainability scientists and social scientists. As a board member in the research school ClimBEco one of my main responsibilities is to introduce enrolled PhD-students to interdisciplinary research and how one can approach complex environmental problems using interdisciplinary research tools. Currently I am also working as an associate editor for the ornithological journal Ornis Fennica.
Publications
Retrieved from Lund University's publications database
Publications
- 2018
- Effects of organic farming on bird diversity in North-West Spain
(2018) Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
Journal article - Intensive management reduces butterfly diversity over time in urban green spaces
(2018) Urban Ecosystems
Journal article - Organic farming supports spatiotemporal stability in species richness of bumblebees and butterflies
(2018) Biological Conservation
Journal article - Predation-mediated ecosystem services and disservices in agricultural landscapes
(2018) Ecological Applications
Journal article - Relationships between multiple biodiversity components and ecosystem services along a landscape complexity gradient
(2018) Biological Conservation
Journal article - Rodents, not birds, dominate predation-related ecosystem services and disservices in vertebrate communities of agricultural landscapes
(2018) Oecologia
Journal article - The impact of sown flower strips on plant reproductive success in Southern Sweden varies with landscape context
(2018) Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
Journal article
- Effects of organic farming on bird diversity in North-West Spain
- 2017
- A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes
(2017) Global Change Biology
Journal article - Ekosystembaserad klimatanpassning : Konceptualisering och kunskapsöversyn
(2017)
Report - Embedding Evidence on Conservation Interventions Within a Context of Multilevel Governance
(2017) Conservation Letters
Journal article - Weak functional response to agricultural landscape homogenisation among plants, butterflies and birds
(2017) Ecography1992-01-01+01:00
Journal article
- A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes
- 2016
- Contrasting effects of field boundary management on three pollinator groups
(2016) Insect Conservation and Diversity
Journal article - Farmland conservation interventions: how to separate the wheat from the chaff
(2016) Landscape Ecology
Review - Looking beyond the mountain: dispersal barriers in a changing world.
(2016) Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Journal article review - Optimizing intermediate ecosystem services in agriculture using rules based on landscape composition and configuration indices
(2016) Ecological Economics
Journal article - Sparing land for biodiversity at multiple spatial scales
(2016) Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Journal article - The effect of ambient temperature on larvae of Scatopsciara cunicularius (Diptera: Sciaridae) feeding on the thallose liverwort Marchantia polymorpha
(2016) European Journal of Entomology
Journal article
- Contrasting effects of field boundary management on three pollinator groups
- 2015
- Changes in butterfly movements along a gradient of land use in farmlands of Transylvania (Romania)
(2015) Landscape Ecology
Journal article - Ecosystem services - current challenges and opportunities for ecological research
(2015) Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Journal article review - Effects of landscape composition and configuration on pollination in a native herb: a field experiment.
(2015) Oecologia
Journal article - Sown flower strips in southern Sweden increase abundances of wild bees and hoverflies in the wider landscape
(2015) Biological Conservation
Journal article
- Changes in butterfly movements along a gradient of land use in farmlands of Transylvania (Romania)
- 2014
- Density of insect-pollinated grassland plants decreases with increasing surrounding land-use intensity.
(2014) Ecology Letters
Journal article - Effects of farming intensity, crop rotation and landscape heterogeneity on field bean pollination
(2014) Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Journal article - Land Sparing Versus Land Sharing: Moving Forward
(2014) Conservation Letters
Journal article review - Landscape-scale crop diversity interacts with local management to determine ground beetle diversity
(2014) Basic and Applied Ecology
Journal article - Optimizing agri-environment schemes for biodiversity, ecosystem services or both?
(2014) Biological Conservation
Journal article - The potential for indirect effects between co-flowering plants via shared pollinators depends on resource abundance, accessibility and relatedness
(2014) Ecology Letters
Journal article - Winners and losers of organic cereal farming in animal communities across Central and Northern Europe
(2014) Biological Conservation
Journal article review
- Density of insect-pollinated grassland plants decreases with increasing surrounding land-use intensity.
- 2013
- Correlations in species richness between taxa depend on habitat, scale and landscape context
(2013) Ecological Indicators
Journal article - Effects of climate change on European ducks: what do we know and what do we need to know?
(2013) Wildlife Biology
Journal article review - Glöm inte vildbina
(2013) Skånes Fria Tidning
Newspaper article - I kväll när jordgubbarna plockas fram, skänk en tanke till de bin och flugor som gjort det möjligt
(2013) Sydsvenskan, Aktuella frågor
Newspaper article - Massdöd av bin hotar jordbruket
(2013) Göteborgsposten
Newspaper article - Trait-dependent responses of flower-visiting insects to distance to semi-natural grasslands and landscape heterogeneity
(2013) Landscape Ecology
Journal article
- Correlations in species richness between taxa depend on habitat, scale and landscape context
- 2012
- Landscape context affects the relationship between local and landscape species richness of butterflies in semi-natural habitats
(2012) Ecography1992-01-01+01:00
Journal article
- Landscape context affects the relationship between local and landscape species richness of butterflies in semi-natural habitats
- 2011
- Importance of set-aside for breeding birds of open farmland in Finland
(2011) Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Journal article
- Importance of set-aside for breeding birds of open farmland in Finland
- 2010
- Homogenization of lepidopteran communities in intensively cultivated agricultural landscapes
(2010) Journal of Applied Ecology
Journal article - Responses in plant and carabid communities to farming practises in boreal landscapes
(2010) Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Journal article
- Homogenization of lepidopteran communities in intensively cultivated agricultural landscapes
- 2008
- Role of organic and conventional field boundaries on boreal bumblebees and butterflies
(2008) Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Journal article
- Role of organic and conventional field boundaries on boreal bumblebees and butterflies
