Current Research Interest
Descriptions of new Micrandrena species
Andrena dourada
KRATOCHWIL & SCHEUCHL, 2013: Porto Santo
★ KRATOCHWIL, A. & SCHEUCHL, E. (2013):
Andrena
(Micrandrena)
dourada
nov.sp. from Porto Santo, Madeira Archipelago, Portugal. - Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (1): 755-774.
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Andrena dourada female near nesting site. Andrena dourada female
Andrena cyrenaica
KRATOCHWIL, 2015: Lybia
Andrena orientalis
KRATOCHWIL, 2015: Israel, Syria
★ KRATOCHWIL A. (2015): Revision of the Andrena (Micrandrena) tiaretta group: redescription of A. tiaretta Warncke (1974) and description of two new species (A. cyrenaica nov.sp. and A. orientalis nov.sp.) demarcating the central and eastern part of the range (Libya, Israel, Syria). - Linzer biologische Beiträge 47( 2): 1403-1437. pdf viewAndrena cyrenaica female Andrena orientalis female
The bee fauna of the Madeira Archipelago and the Canary Islands (Hymenoptera, Anthophila): its position in Macaronesia Islands (systematics, taxonomy, endemism, habitat preferences, flower visiting, dispersal)
★ KRATOCHWIL, A., AGUIAR, A. & J. SMIT (2018): Updated checklist of the wild bees of the Madeira Archipelago (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila). - Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2): 1213-1228.
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★ KRATOCHWIL A. & A. SCHWABE (2018): Wild bees (Anthophila) of Porto Santo (Madeira Archipelago) and their habitats: species diversity, distribution patterns and bee-plant network. - Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2): 1229-1247.
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★ KRATOCHWIL, A. & A. SCHWABE (2018): Wild bees (Anthophila) of Macaronesia –biogeographical and evolutionary aspects. - Berichte der Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft 30.
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★ KRATOCHWIL, A., SCHWABE, A. & SCHEUCHL, E. (2014): Andrena
(Suandrena) portosanctana
Cockerell, 1922 and A. (Suandrena) maderensis
Cockerell, 1922 — new taxonomical and ecological data for two closely related endemic bee species of the Madeira Archipelago, Portugal. - Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (2): 1535-1567.
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★ KRATOCHWIL, A. (2014): Suandrena
and Micrandrena
species of the Canary Islands and the Madeira Archipelago – new taxonomic, phylogenetic and biogeographical aspects. - Mitteilungen des Entomologischen Vereins Stuttgart 49 (1): 18-19.
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KRATOCHWIL, A. (2018): Type specimens of Andrena wollastoni
COCKERELL, 1922 (Hymenoptera, Anthophila): deposition, evaluation and designation of a lectotype. - Linzer biologische Beiträge: 50/1: 337-351.
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Female of Andrena
(Suandrena) portosanctana
Cockerell, 1922
visiting Cakile maritima
★ KRATOCHWIL, A., BEIL, M. & SCHWABE, A. (2009): Complex structure of pollinator-plant interaction-webs: random, nested, with gradients or modules? - Apidologie 40 (6): 634-650.
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★BEIL, M., KRATOCHWIL, A., STORM, C. & SCHWABE, A. (2014): Community structure and diversity of vegetation and flower-visiting wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in sandy dry grassland: are there congruent characteristics? - Phytocoenologia 44 (3/4): 175-192.
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Modularity graph (Software NetCutter 1.0; Muller, 2008) of 2004, based on edge-betweenness clustering; Beil et al. 2004.
★KRATOCHWIL, A. & S. KRAUSCH (2016): Bee-plant networks: structure, dynamics and metacommunity concept. - Berichte der Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft 28: 23-40.pdf view
★SCHLEUNING, M, FRÜND, J., SCHWEIGER, O., WELK, E., ALBRECHT, J., ALBRECHT, M., BEIL, M., BENADI, G., BLÜTHGEN, N., BRUELHEIDE, H., BÖHNING-GAESE, K., DEHLING, M., DORMANN, C.F., EXELER, N., FARWIG, N., HARPKE, A., HICKLER, T., KRATOCHWIL, A., KUHLMANN, K., KUHN, I., MICHEZ, D., MUDRI-STOJNIC, S., PLEIN, M., RASMONT, P., SCHWABE, A., SETTELE, J., VUJIC, A., WEINER, C., WIEMERS M. & C. HOF (2016): Mutualistic networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal loss under climate change. - Nature Communications 7: 13965. pdf view,
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