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Published manuscripts

  • Duan, M., Liu, Y., Wang, C., Axmacher J.C., Li, L. & Yu, Z.: Diversity of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in cropland and reforested semi-natural habitats along an elevational gradient at Bashang Plateau, Hebei Province, China. – Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology 23, 785-790 (Chinese with English abstract).
  • Liu, Y., Axmacher, J.C., Wang, C., Li, L. & Yu, Z. (2012): Ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages at restored semi-natural habitats and intensively cultivated fields and in Northern China. - Restoration Ecology 20, 234-239.
  • Axmacher, J.C., Liu, Y., Wang, C., Li, L. & Yu, Z. (2011): Spatial α-diversity patterns of diverse insect taxa in Northern China: Lessons for biodiversity conservation. - Biological Conservation 144, 2362-2368.
  • Fan, B., Sang, W., Axmacher, J.C. (2011): Forest vegetation responses to climate and environmental change: A case study from Changbai Mountain, NE China. - Forest Ecology and Management 262, 2052-2060.  
  • Laurance, W.F., Useche, D.C., Shoo, L.P., Herzog, S.K., Kessler, M., Escobar, F., Brehm, G., Axmacher, J.C., Chen, I.C., Gamez, L.A., Hietz, P., Fiedler, K., Pyrcz, T., Wolf, J., Merkord, C.L., Cardelus, C., Marshall, A.R., Ah-Peng, C., Aplet, G.H., Del Coro, A.M., Baker, W.J., Barone, J., Bruehl, C.A., Bussmann, R.W., Cicuzza, D., Eilu, G., Favila, M.E., Hemp, A., Hemp, C., Homeier, J., Huey, R.B., Hurtado, J., Jankowski, J., Kattan, G., Kluge, J., Kroemer, T., Lees, D., Lehnert, M., Longino, J.T., Lovett, J., Marin, P.H., Patterson, B.D., Pearson, R.G., Peh, K. S.-H., Richardson, B., Richardson, M., Samways, M., Senbeta, F., Smith, T.B., Utteridge, T., Watkins, J.E., Wilson, R., Williams, S.E. & Thoma, C.D. (2011): Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota. - Biological Conservation 144, 548-557.
  • Sang, W., Liu, X. & Axmacher, J.C. (2011): Germination and emergence of invasive Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. under changing environmental conditions in China. - Plant Species Biology 26, 125-133.
  • Sang, W., Ma, K. & Axmacher, J.C. (2011): Securing a future for China’s wild plant resources. - BioScience 61, 720-725.   
  • Schrumpf, M., Axmacher, J.C., Zech, W. & Lyaruu, H.V.M. (2011): Net precipitation and soil water dynamics in clearings, old secondary and old growth forests in the mountain rain forest belt at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. - Hydrological Processes 25, 418-428.
  • Schrumpf, M., Lyaruu, H.V.M., Axmacher, J.C., Zech, W. & Bruijnzeel, L.A. (2011): Effects of forest disturbance and regeneration on net precipitation and soil water dynamics in tropical mountain rain forests at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. In: L.A. Bruijnzeel,  F.N. Scatena, & L.S. Hamilton (eds.) Tropical montane cloud forests. Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 491-501.
  • Zou, Y., Feng, J., Xue, D., Sang, W. & Axmacher, J.: (2011) Insect Diversity: Addressing an important but strongly neglected research topic in China. - Journal of Resources and Ecology 2, 380-384.
  • Liu, Y., Axmacher, J.C., Wang, C., Li, L. & Yu, Z. (2010): Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the intensively cultivated agricultural landscape of Northern China – implications for biodiversity conservation. – Insect Conservation and Diversity 3, 34-43.
  • Sang, W., Zhu, L. & Axmacher, J.C. (2010): Invasion pattern of Eupatorium adenophorum Speng in Southern China. – Biological Invasions 12, 1721-1730. 
  • Axmacher, J.C., Brehm, G., Hemp, A., Tünte, H., Lyaruu, H.V.M., Müller-Hohenstein, K. & Fiedler, K. (2009): Determinants of diversity in afrotropical herbivorous insects (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): plant diversity, vegetation structure or abiotic factors? Journal of Biogeography 36, 337-349.
  • Qiu, W., Wang, B., Jones, P.J.S. & Axmacher, J.C. (2009): Challenges in developing China's marine protected area system.Marine Policy 33, 599-605.
  • Axmacher, J.C. & Fiedler, K. (2008): Habitat type modifies geometry of elevational diversity gradients in geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geomtridea) on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Tropical Zoology 21, 243-251.
  • Axmacher, J.C., Kühne, L. & Vohland, K. (2008) Notes on α- and β-diversity pattern of selected moth families. In: L. Kühne (ed.) Butterflies and Moth diversity of the Kakamega Forest (Kenya). Brandenburgische Universitätsdruckerei, Potsdam, 35-46.
  • Gu, W., Sang, W., Liang, H. & Axmacher, J.C. (2008): Effects of Crofton weed Ageratina adenophora on assemblages of Carabidae (Coleoptera) in the Yunnan Province, South China. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 124, 173-178.
  • Liu, Y., Axmacher, J.C., Wang. C., Li, L. & Yu, Z. (2007): Ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) inventories: a comparison of light and pitfall trapping. Bulletin of Entomological Research 97, 577-583.
  • Schrumpf, M., Axmacher, J.C. , Zech, W., Lehmann, J. & Lyaruu, H.V.M. (2007): Long-term effects of rainforest disturbance on the nutrient composition of throughfall, litter percolate and soil solution at Mt. Kilimanjaro. Science of the Total Environment 376 (1-3), 241-254.
  • Axmacher, J.C., Scheuermann, L., Schrumpf, M., Lyaruu, H.V.M., Fiedler, K., & Müller-Hohenstein, K. (2006): Effects of fire on the diversity of geometrid moths on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. - In: E. Spehn, M. Liberman & Ch. Körner (eds): Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Chapter 5, 69-75. 
  • Brehm, G. & Axmacher, J.C. (2006): A comparison of manual and automatic moth sampling methods (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Geometridae) in a rain forest in Costa Rica. Environmental Entomology35 (3), 757-764.
  • Liu, Y., Yu, Z., Chen, J., Liu, M., Doluschitz, R. & Axmacher, J.C. (2006): Changes of Soil Organic Carbon in an intensively cultivated agricultural region: A Denitrification-Decomposition (DNDC) modelling approach. Science of the Total Environment 372, 203-214.
  • Liu, Y., Yu, Z., Gu, W. & Axmacher, J.C. (2006): Diversity of carabids (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the desalinized agricultural landscape of Quzhou county, China. - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 113 (1-4), 45-50.
  • Schrumpf, M., Zech, W., Axmacher, J.C. & Lyaruu, H.V.M. (2006): Biogeochemistry of an afrotropical montane rain forest at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. - Journal of Tropical Ecology 22(1), 77-89.
  • Yu, Z., Liu, Y. & Axmacher, J.C. (2006): Field margins as rapidly evolving local diversity hospots for ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Northern China. The Coleoperists Bulletin 60 (2), 135-143.
  • Axmacher, J.C. & Fiedler, K. (2004): Manual versus automatic moth sampling at equal light sources – a comparison of catches from Mt. Kilimanjaro. - Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 58(4), 196-202.
  • Axmacher, J.C., Holtmann, G., Scheuermann, L., Brehm, G., Müller-Hohenstein, K. & Fiedler, K. (2004): Diversity of geometrid moths along an Afrotropical altitudinal rainforest transect. - Diversity and Distributions 10(4) , 293-302.
  • Axmacher, J.C., Tünte, H., Schrumpf, M., Müller-Hohenstein, K., Lyaruu, H.V.M. & Fiedler, K. (2004): Diverging diversity patterns of vascular plants and geometrid moths during forest regeneration on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. - Journal of Biogeography31(6) , 895-904.
  • Axmacher, J.C. , Tünte, H. & Schrumpf, M. (2004): Biodiversitätsuntersuchungen am Kilimanjaro. - Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN): Treffpunkt Biologische Vielfalt 4, 97-102.
  • Schrumpf, M., Lyaruu, H.V.M., Axmacher, J. & Zech, W. (2003): Einfluss des Störungsgrades der Vegetation auf interne Nährstoffkreisläufe und Stoffflüsse in der Bergwaldstufe des Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tansania. - Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 102/2, 399-400.

Manuscripts accepted / in press

  • Sayer, C., Andrews, K., Shilland, E., Edmonds, N., Edmonds-Browne, R., Padmore, I., Emson, D. & Axmacher J.: The role of pond conservation in an agricultural landscape. - Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.
  • Zou, Y., Feng, J., Xue, D., Sang, W. & Axmacher, J.C.: A comparison of terrestrial arthropod sampling methods. - Journal of Resource Ecology.

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