Karsten Schönrogge

TL;DR: It is suggested that the hypothesis that selection imposed by enemies remains the most probable adaptive explanation for the evolution of diversity in insect galls has yet to be tested explicitly, and the requirements for an appropriate cross-species analysis are discussed.

TL;DR: This work assesses the importance of gall traits in structuring oak cynipid communities and summarize the evidence for bottom-up and top-down effects across trophic levels, and identifies major unanswered questions and suggest approaches for the future.

TL;DR: The aim was to consider IAS that were likely to impact on native biodiversity but were not yet established in the wild in Great Britain, and a novel extension of the consensus method for horizon scanning was developed which coupled consensus methods with rapid risk assessment.

TL;DR: PIPITS is the first automated bioinformatics pipeline dedicated for fungal ITS sequences which incorporates ITSx to extract subregions of ITS and exploits the latest RDP Classifier to classify sequences against the curated UNITE fungal data set.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify seven key challenges in drawing robust inference about insect population declines: establishment of the historical baseline, representativeness of site selection, robustness of time series trend estimation, mitigation of detection bias effects, and ability to account for potential artefacts of density dependence, phenological shifts and scale-dependence in extrapolation from sample abundance to population level inference.