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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (* EQUAL CONTRIBUTION)
2026
49. Zembold K, Westphal C, Hass AL, Buchtal K, Liebke DF, Wollenweber M, Zhang Q, Arimond I, Schüler S, Ferrante M. Landscape diversity increases aphid predation but not predator abundance in wheat fields,
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 412, 110710.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2026.110710.
48. Geisthoff, AM, Ferrante M, & Kämper W. Ethephon as a bloom-delaying agent for frost-sensitive tree crop flowers at risk from a changing climate. BMC Plant Biology, 26(1), 1163.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-026-09346-4
2025
47. Tscharntke T et al. Beyond flower strips – restoring biodiversity needs more landscape heterogeneity. Biological Conservation 312, 111474.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111474
46. Ferrante M*, Liebke FD*, Wollenweber M, Zembold K, Arimond I, Schüler S, Hass AL & Westphal C. Landscape diversity and spontaneous grass margins promote spider functional diversity in wheat fields. Functional Ecology 39, 3152-3163.
http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70150
45. Ferrante M & Lövei GL. The sentinel approach to quantify ecosystem function intensities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 16, 2305-2317.
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70143
44. Zhang, Q, Westphal, C, Schweiger, SE, & Ferrante M. Optimizing the design of flower areas to enhance their effectiveness in supporting ground‐active predators: A meta‐analysis across Europe. Journal of Applied Ecology 62, 2701-2712.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70138
43. Ferrante M. The niche concept in a changing world. Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1, 419.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00060-x
42. Ferrante M*, Kirsch F* & Westphal C. Stable pollinator communities in different white clover populations suggest potential win-win scenarios for crop yield and biodiversity. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment, 378, 109295.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.109295
2024
41. Ferrante M, Howe AG & Lövei GL. Experimental considerations support the use of artificial sentinel prey—a comment on Rodriguez-Campbell et al. Journal of Biogeography 51, 2152-2155.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14978
40. Rosa-Schleich J, Loos J, Ferrante M, Mußhoff O & Tscharntke T. Mixed farmers' perception of the ecological-economic performance of diversified farming. Ecological Economics 220, 108174.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108174
39. Lövei GL & Ferrante M. The use and future prospects of non-lethal methods in entomology. Annual Review of Entomology 69, 183198.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-120220-024402
38. Ferrante M*, Schulze M* & Westphal C. Hedgerows can promote predation rates in wheat fields in homogeneous landscapes. Journal of Environmental Management 349, 119498.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119498
2023
37. Lamelas-Lopez L, Ferrante M, Borges PA, do Rosário IA & Neves V. Nest predation of Cory's shearwater Calonectris borealis (Aves, Procellariiformes) by introduced mammals on Terceira Island, Azores. Biodiversity Data Journal 11, e112871.
https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e112871
36. Robinson M, et al. Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain variability in global herbivory. Science 382, 679-683.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh8830
35. Ganem Z*, Ferrante M*, Lubin Y, Steinpress IA, Gish M, Sharon R, Harari AR, Keasar T & Gavish-Regev E. Effects of natural habitat and season on cursorial spider assemblages in Mediterranean vineyards. Insects 14, 782.
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14100782
34. Ferrante M, Lavigne L, Caballero M, Tarantino E, Horta Lopes D, Monjardino P, Lövei GL & Borges PAV. Flowering coriander (Coriandrum sativum) strips do not enhance ecosystem services in Azorean orchards. Insects 14, 634.
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14070634
33. Lövei GL, Ferrante M, Möller D, Möller G & Vincze E. The need for a (non-destructive) method revolution in entomology. Biological Conservation 282, 110075
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110075
32. Ferrante M, Lövei, GL, Nunes R, Monjardino P, Lamelas-López L, Möller D, Soares AO & Borges PAV. Gains and losses in ecosystem services and disservices after converting native forest to agricultural land on an oceanic island. Basic and Applied Ecology 68, 1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2022.11.010
2022
31. Valdes-Correcher E, et al. Herbivory on the pedunculate oak along an urbanization gradient in Europe: effects of impervious surface, local tree cover and insect feeding guild. Ecology & Evolution 12, e8709.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8709
30. Ferrante M, Lamelas-López L, Nunes R, Monjardino P, Lopes DJH, Soares AO, Lövei GL & Borges PAV. A simultaneous assessment of multiple ecosystem services and disservices in vineyards and orchards on Terceira Island, Azores. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment 330, 107909.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.107909
29. Ferrante M, Nunes R, Lamelas-López L, Lövei GL & Borges PAV. A novel morphological phenotype does not ensure reduced biotic resistance on an oceanic island. Biological Invasions 24, 987-997.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02686-2
2021
28. Borges PAV, et al. Monitoring Arthropods in Azorean Agroecosystems: the project AGRO-ECOSERVICES. Biodiversity Data Journal 9, e77548.
https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e77548
27. Ferrante M, Möller D, Möller G, Menares E, Lubin Y & Segoli M. Invertebrate and vertebrate predation rates in a hyper-arid ecosystem following an oil spill. Ecology & Evolution 11, 12153-12160.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.7978
26. Ferrante M, Dangol A, Didi-Cohen S, Winters G, Tzin V & Segoli M. Oil pollution affects the central metabolism of keystone Vachellia (Acacia) trees. Sustainability 66, 6660.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126660
25. Valdes-Correcher E, et al. Search for top-down and bottom-up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30, 651–665.
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13244
24. Möller G, Keasar T, Shapira I, Möller D, Ferrante M & Segoli M. Effect of weed management on the parasitoid community in Mediterranean vineyards. Biology 10, 1.
https://doi.org/10.3390/biology10010007
23. Lamelas López L & Ferrante M. Using camera-trapping to assess grape consumption by vertebrate pests in a World Heritage vineyard region. Journal of Pest Science 94, 585–590.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-020-01267-x
22. Lövei GL, Lang A, Ferrante M & Bacle V. Can the growing of transgenic maize threaten protected Lepidoptera in Europe? Insect Science 28, 1159-1168.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.12849
2020
21. Imboma TS, Ferrante M, You M-S Y, You S & Lövei GL. Diversity of bird communities in tea (Camellia sinensis) plantations in Fujian Province, south-eastern China. Diversity 12, 457.
https://doi.org/10.3390/d12120457
20. Möller DM*, Ferrante M*, Möller GM, Rozenberg T & Segoli M. The impact of terrestrial oil pollution on parasitoid wasps associated with Vachellia trees in a desert ecosystem, Israel. Environmental Entomology 49, 1355–1362.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvaa123
19. Ferrante M, Möller D, Möller G, Lubin Y & Segoli M. Seed predation on oil-polluted and upolluted Vachellia (Acacia) trees in a hyper-arid desert ecosystem. Insects 11, 665.
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11100665
18. Salman I*, Ferrante M*, Möller D, Gavish-Regev E & Lubin Y. Trunk refugia: a simple, inexpensive method for sampling tree trunk arthropods. Journal of Insect Science 20, 5.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieaa012
17. Lubin Y, Ferrante M, Musli I & Lövei GL. Diversity of ground-active spiders in Negev desert habitats. Journal of Arid Environments 183, 104252.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104252
16. Magura T, Ferrante M & Lövei GL. Only habitat specialists become smaller with advancing urbanisation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29, 1978-1987.
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13168
15. González E, Seidl M, Kadlec T, Ferrante M & Knapp M. Distribution of ecosystem services within oilseed rape fields: effects of field defects on pest and weed seed predation rates. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 295, 106894.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2020.106894
14. Castagneyrol B, et al. Can school children support ecological research? Lessons from the ‘Oak bodyguard’ citizen science project. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 5, 10.
http://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.267
13. Kidane D, Ferrante M, Man XM, Liu WX, Wan FH & Yang, N.-W. Cold Storage Effects on Fitness of the Whitefly Parasitoids Encarsia sophia and Eretmocerus hayati. Insects 11, 428.
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11070428
12. Zhang X, Ferrante M, Wan F, Yang N & Lövei GL. The parasitoid Eretmocerus hayati is compatible with barrier cropping to decrease whitefly (Bemisia tabaci MED) densities on cotton in China. Insects 11, 57.
https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11010057
11. Zhang X, Lövei GL, Ferrante M, Yang N & Wan F. The potential of trap and barrier cropping to decrease densities of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) on cotton in China. Pest Management Science 76, 366-374.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.5524
2019
10. Ferrante M, et al. Predation pressure in maize across Europe and Argentina: an intercontinental comparison. Insect Science 26, 545-554.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.12550
2018
9. Kale M, et al. The effect of urbanization on the functional and scale-sensitive diversity of bird assemblages in Central India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 34, 341-350.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467418000317
8. Kale M, et al. Nestedness of bird assemblages along an urbanisation gradient in Central India. Journal of Urban Ecology, 4, juy017.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juy017