W. W. Weisser

This paper examines phytochemical diversity (chemodiversity) in plants, discussing its ecological relevance, reviewing methodological practices, and outlining future research directions.

The paper examines how different levels of artificial light at night affect plant growth and aphid colonies, finding that partial light exposure has more severe negative impacts on aphids than full light exposure.

This study shows that beneficial soil bacteria enhance barley resistance to aphids, but the timing of inoculation matters, and this effect is consistent across different climate conditions.

This study examines how geographic variation in tansy's terpenoid chemotypes influences aphid and ant communities across Germany.

This study examines how intraspecific chemical variation in Tanacetum vulgare affects plant growth and reproductive traits in field communities, finding chemotype-specific effects and plot-level trait responses.

The paper tests how chemodiversity in Tanacetum vulgare affects aphid preference, finding that chemotype composition and diversity influence attractiveness differently in two aphid species.

The paper analyzes data from a German malaise trap network to show how temperature and land-cover type influence flying insect biomass and phenology across different regions.

This paper compares biodiversity experiments to real-world plant communities and finds that experimental results are robust to the inclusion of unrealistic communities.