Lehrstuhl für Tierökologie und Tropenbiologie

Fabian Bötzl

Dr. Fabian Bötzl

Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology
Biocenter, University of Würzburg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Germany
Raum: C018
Telefon: +49 931 31-89637
FabianBötzl

My research focusses on vitalizing agricultural landscapes for biodiversity conservation and natural ecosystem service provision. I am especially interested in the management of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes for ecosystem service provision across spatial and temporal scales. I am interested in and have worked on natural pest control and the effects of landscapes and crop management on the interactions between pests and their natural enemies and biodiversity conservcation in agricultural landscapes across taxa.

Apart from my ecological work, I work on the taxonomy and distribution of tiger beetles (Cicindelidae).

Safeguard: Safeguarding European wild pollinators

https://www.safeguard.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/

since 2024 Postdoc at the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzbug with Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

2021-2024 Postdoc at SLU Department of Ecology, Uppsala, with Ola Lundin

2021 Dr. rer. nat., Ecology, University of Würzburg

2025

Boetzl FA, Malsher G, Bommarco R, Lundin O (2025) Flea beetles in spring oilseed rape differ in phenology and habitat choices for reproduction and overwintering - Implications for pest management. Agricultural and Forest Entomology. DOI: 10.1111/afe.12659

 

2024

Wang K-Y, Boetzl FA, Wiesner J, Li C-D (2024) New records and revised distribution of tiger beetles in China (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). ZooKeys 1210. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1210.127753

Boetzl FA, Knapp M (2024) On the ambivalence of granivorous carabids: Weed seed bank regulators, potential crop pests or both? Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 376: 109226. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2024.109226

Teofilova T, Boetzl FA (2024) A contribution to Bulgarian ground beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae) with the first record of Agonum carbonarium Dejean, 1828 for the country. Historia naturalis bulgarica 46: 215-226. DOI: 10.48027/hnb.46.082

Boetzl FA, Sponsler D, Albrecht M, Batáry P, Birkhofer K, Knapp M, Krauss J, Maas B, Martin EA, Sirami C, Sutter L, Bertrand C, Bosem Baillod A, Bota G, Bretagnolle V, Brotons L, Frank T, Fusser M, Giralt D, González E, Hof AR, Luka H, Marrec R, Nash MA, Ng K, Plantegenest M, Poulin B, Siriwardena GM, Tscharntke T, Tschumi M, Vialatte A, Van Vooren L, Zubair-Anjum M, Entling MH, Steffan-Dewenter I, Schirmel J (2024) Distance functions of carabids in crop fields depend on functional traits, crop type and adjacent habitat: a synthesis. Proceedings B 291: 1-10. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2383

Boetzl FA, Högfeldt C, Malsher G, Jonsson M, Ninkovic V, Sigvald R, Lundin O (2024) Predicting crop injury caused by flea beetles in spring oilseed rape through pest monitoring in the autumn. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 26: 62-69. DOI: 10.1111/afe.12596

 

2023

Lundin O, Boetzl FA, Ward KL, Williams NM (2023) Wildflower plantings have mixed effects on insect herbivores and their natural enemies. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 355: 108587. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2023.108587

Boetzl FA, Bommarco R, Aguilera G, Lundin O (2023) Spatiotemporal isolation of oilseed rape fields reduces insect pest pressure and crop damage. Journal of Applied Ecology 60: 1388-1398. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14424

Vogel C, Poveda K, Iverson A, Boetzl FA, Mkandawire T, Chunga T, Küstner G, Keller A, Bezner Kerr R, Steffan-Dewenter I (2023) The effects of crop type, landscape composition and agroecological practices on biodiversity and ecosystem services in tropical smallholder farms. Journal of Applied Ecology 60: 859-874. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14380

Boetzl FA, Douhan Sundahl A, Friberg H, Viketoft M, Bergkvist G, Lundin O (2023) Undersowing oats with clovers supports pollinators and suppresses arable weeds without reducing yields. Journal of Applied Ecology 60: 614-623. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14361

 

2022

Barber NA, Sauer N, Krauss J, Boetzl FA (2022) Grazing conserves threatened carabid beetles in semi‑natural calcareous grasslands better than mowing, especially at low intensities. Biodiversity and Conservation 31: 2857-2873. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-022-02463-0

Boetzl FA, Krimmer E, Holzschuh A, Krauss J, Steffan-Dewenter I (2022) Arthropod overwintering in agri-environmental scheme flowering fields differs among pollinators and natural enemies. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 330: 107890. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2022.107890

 

2021

Boetzl FA, Krauss J, Heinze J, Hoffmann H, Juffa J, König S, Krimmer E, Prante M, Martin EA, Holzschuh A, Steffan-Dewenter I (2021) A multitaxa assessment of the effectiveness of agri-environmental schemes for biodiversity management. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118: e2016038118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2016038118

Bald V & Boetzl FA, Krauss J (2021) Where do hamsters go after cereal harvest? A case study. Basic and Applied Ecology 54: 98-107. DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2021.04.008

Gebert J, Matalin AV, Boetzl FA (2021) Revision of the Palearctic Cicindela campestris species complex—Part 1: On the taxonomy, identification and ecology of Cicindela herbacea Klug, 1832 and Cicindela javetii Chaudoir, 1861 (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). Zootaxa 4990: 469–510. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.3.3 

Nelson M, Hosler SC, Boetzl FA, Jones HP, Barber NA (2021) Reintroduced grazers and prescribed fire effects on beetle assemblage structure and function in restored grasslands. Ecological Applications 31: e02217. DOI: 10.1002/eap.2217

 

2020

Boetzl FA, Schuele M, Krauss J, Steffan‐Dewenter I (2020) Pest control potential of adjacent agri‐environment schemes varies with crop type and is shaped by landscape context and within‐field position. Journal of Applied Ecology 57: 1482-1493. DOI:  10.1111/1365-2664.13653

Boetzl FA, Franzen M (2020) Taxonomy and distribution of Cylindera germanica (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Middle East with the description of two new subspecies (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). Zootaxa 4809: 095–110. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4809.1.5

 

2019

Boetzl FA, Konle A, Krauss J (2019) Aphid cards –useful model for assessing predation rates or bias prone nonsense? Journal of Applied Entomology 144: 74-80.  DOI: 10.1111/jen.12692

Boetzl FA, Krimmer E, Krauss J,  Steffan‑Dewenter I (2019) Agri-environmental schemes promote ground dwelling predators in adjacent oilseed rape fields: diversity, species traits and distance-decay functions. Journal of Applied Ecology 56: 10-20. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13162 

Toshima N, Weigelt MK, Weiglein A, Boetzl FA, Gerber B (2019)  An amino-acid mixture can be both rewarding and punishing to larval Drosophila. Journal of Experimental Biology: DOI: 10.1242/jeb.209486 

 

2018

Ala-Honkola O, Kauranen H, Tyukmaeva V, Boetzl FA, Hoikkala A, Schmitt T (2018) Diapause affects cuticular hydrocarbon composition and mating behavior of both sexes in Drosophila montana. Insect Science. DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.12639

Boetzl FA, Ries E, Schneider G, Krauss J (2018) It’s a matter of design—how pitfall trap design affects trap samples and possible predictions. PeerJ  6: e5078. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5078

 

2016

Schneider G, Krauss J, Boetzl FA, Fritze MA, Steffan‑Dewenter I (2016) Spillover from adjacent crop and forest habitats shapes carabid beetle assemblages in fragmented semi‑natural grasslands. Oecologia 182: 1141-1150. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3710-6

Boetzl FA, Schneider G, Krauss J (2016) Asymmetric carabid beetle spillover between calcareous grasslands and coniferous forests. Journal of Insect Conservation 20: 49-57. DOI: 10.1007/s10841-015-9838-6 

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Non international journal articles & reports:

Friberg H, Rosenqvist H, Boetzl F, Lundin O (2023) Hållbart växtskydd : möjliga indikatorer och ekonomiska aspekter av diversifiering. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. DOI: 10.54612/a.16lr9mr84t

Boetzl FA, Krauss J, Holzschuh A, Steffan-Dewenter I (2021) Diversität braucht Kontinuität–wie Blühflächen die Artenvielfalt fördern können. ANLiegen Natur 43. PDF.

Hoffmann H, Boetzl FA, Medger G, Rolke D, Benisch C (2021) Beitrag zum Vorkommen und Ausbreitung des Trauer-Rosenkäfers Oxythyrea funesta (Poda, 1761)(Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) in Deutschland: ein Citizen-Science-Projekt. Beiträge zur Entomologie / Contributions to Entomology 71: 137-146. DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.71.1.137-146

Boetzl FA, Krauss J, Steffan-Dewenter I (2019) Mehr als nur „Bienenweide“ – wie Agrarumweltmaßnahmen bei der natürlichen Schädlingskontrolle helfen. ANLiegen Natur 41. PDF.

Boetzl FA (2018) Agonum (Olisares) viridicupreum (GOEZE, 1777) – in Ostbayern übersehen? (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Nachrichtenblatt der Bayerischen Entomologen  67: 100-102.

Hoffmann H, Boetzl FA (2018) Erstnachweis von Astrapaeus ulmi (Rossi, 1790) in Bayern (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 128: 227-229.