publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

2024

Dawson, N.M., Coolsaet B., Bhardwaj A., Booker F., Brown D., Lliso B., Loos J., Martin A., Oliva M., Pascual U., Sherpa P., Worsdell T. 2024. Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity, One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.001
Shumi G, Loos J, Fischer J (in press) Applying social-ecological system resilience principles to the context of woody vegetation management in smallholder farming landscapes of the Global South. Ecosystems and People.
Rosa-Schleich J, Loos J, Ferrante M, Musshoff O, Tscharntke T (in press) Mixed farmers' perception of the ecological-economic performance of diversified farming. Ecological Economics.
Giliba RA, Kiffner C, Fust P, Loos J (2024) Using density surface models to assess the ecological effectiveness of a protected area network in Tanzania. Ecosphere. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4840 .

2023

Giliba RA, Kiffner C, Fust P, Loos J (2023) Modelling elephant corridors over two decades reveals opportunities for conserving connectivity across a large protected area network. PLoS ONE 18(10): e0292918.
Kiffner C, Giliba RA, Fust P, Loos J, Waltert M (2023) Assessing protected area effectiveness in western Tanzania: Insights from repeated line transect surveys. African Journal of Ecology 61(4):966-979.
Thomsen S, Loos J, Stewart FA, Piel AK (2023) Wildlife habitat association over a twelve-year period (2008–2020) in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem, western Tanzania. Journal for Nature Conservation 126464.
Frietsch M, Zafra-Calvo N, Ghoddousi A, Loos J (2023) Advancing protected area effectiveness assessments by disentangling social-ecological interactions: A case study from the Luangwa Valley, Zambia. Conservation Science and Practice 5(8):e12974.
Frietsch M, Loos J, Löhr K, Sieber S, Fischer J (2023) Future-proofing ecosystem restoration through enhancing adaptive capacity. Communications Biology. 6(1):377.
Huber JM, Newig J, Loos J (2023) Participation in protected area governance: A systematic case survey of the evidence on ecological and social outcomes. Journal of Environmental Management 15:117593.
Tarchahani A, Loos J (2023) Flowers in the dark: The contribution of rooftop urban agriculture to human well-being in the Ein El-Hilweh Refugee Camp, Lebanon. World Development Sustainability 100057.
Fust P, Loos J (2023) Increasing the accuracy and the efficiency of wildlife census with unmanned aerial vehicles: a simulation study. Wildlife Research 50(12):1008-1020.
Loos J, Benra F, Berbes-Blazquez M, Bremer LL, Chan KMA, Egoh B, Felipe-Lucia M, Geneletti D, Keeler B, Locatelli B, Loft L, Schröter B, Schröter M, Winkler KJ (2023) An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services. Ambio 52:477-488.
Engel TBH, Hoss D, Sabatini FM, Altmann J, Arfin-Khan MAS, Aubin I, Bergmeier E, Černý T, Chytrý M, Dainese M, Dengler J, Dolezal J, Field R, Fischer FM, Huygens D, Jandt U, Jansen F, Jentsch A, Karger DN, Kattge J, Lenoir J, Lens F, Loos J, Niinemets Ü, Overbeck GE, Ozinga WA, Penuelas J, Peyre G, Phillips O, Reich PB, Römermann C, Sandel B, Schmidt M, Schrodt F, Velez-Martin E, Viole C, Pillar V (2023) Traits of dominant plant species drive NDVI in grasslands globally. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32(5):695-706.

2022

Wurz A, Grass I, Lees D, Rakotomalala A, Szabolcs S, Martin D, Osen K, Loos J, Benasoavina E, Alexis T, Tscharntke T (2022) Land-use change differentially affects endemic, forest and open-land butterflies in Madagascar. Journal of Insect Conservation 15(5): 606-620.
Norström AV, Agarwal B, Balvanera P, Baptiste B, Bennett EM, Brondízio E, Biggs R, Campbell B, Carpenter SR, Castilla JC, Castro AJ, Cramer W, Cumming GS, Felipe-Lucia M, Fischer J, Folke C, DeFries R, Gelcich S, Groth J, Speranza CI, Jacobs S, Hofmann J, Hughes TP, Lam DPA, Loos J, Manyani A, Martín-López B, Meacham M, Moersberger H, Nagendra H, Pereira L, Polasky S, Schoon M, Schultz L, Selomane O, Spierenburg M (2022) The programme on ecosystem change and society (PECS)–a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus. Ecosystems and People 18(1):598-608.
Giliba RA, Fust P, Kiffner C, Loos J (2022) Multiple anthropogenic pressures challenge the effectiveness of protected areas in western Tanzania. Conservation Science and Practice. 2022:e12684.
Ficiciyan AM, Loos J, Tscharntke T (2022) Better performance of organic than conventional tomato varieties in single and mixed cropping. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 46:491-509.
Ghoddousi A, Loos J, Kümmerle T (2022) An Outcome-oriented, Social-ecological Framework for Assessing Protected Area Effectiveness. BioScience 72(2):201-12.
Topp EN, Tscharntke T, Loos J (2022): Fire and landscape context shape plant and butterfly diversity in a South African shrubland. Diversity & Distributions 28 (3):357-371.
Topp EN, Loos J, Martin-Lopez B (2022) Decision-making for nature’s contributions to people in the Cape Floristic Region: the role of values, knowledge and rules. Sustainability Science 17:739–760.
Loos J, Schröer C, Becker T, Kastal A, Kortmann E, Dolek M (2021) Mosaic landscapes provide conservation pockets for an endangered species: Colias myrmidone in Romania. Insect Conservation & Diversity 15 (3):359-369.

2021

Schoon M, Chapman M, Loos J, Speranza CI, Carr Kelman C, Aburto J, Alexander S, Baggio J, Brady U, Cockburn J, Cundill Kemp G, Garcia Lopez G, Hill R, Robinson C, Thondlana G, Trimble M, Whittaker D (2021) On the Frontiers of Collaboration and Conflict: How Context Influences the Success of Collaboration. Ecosystems & People 17:383-99.
Nippen P, Dolek M, Loos J (2021) Preserving Colias myrmidone in European cultural landscapes: requirements for the successful development from egg to higher larval stages at a Natura 2000 site in Romania. Journal of Insect Conservation 25:643-655.
Loos J, Krauss J, Lyons A, Föst S, Ohlendorf C, Racky S, Röder M, Hudel L, Herfert L, Tscharntke T (2021) Local and landscape responses of biodiversity in calcareous grassland fragments. Biodiversity and Conservation 30:2415-2432.
Burghardt S, Topp EN, Esler K, Loos J (2021) Limited knowledge flow among stakeholders of critically endangered renosterveld in South Africa. Ecology and Society 26(3):17.
Loos J (2021) Reconciling conservation and development in protected areas of the Global South. Basic and Applied Ecology 54:108-118.
Loos J, Gallersdörfer J, Hartel T, Dolek M, Sutcliffe L (2021) Limited effectiveness of EU policies to conserve an endangered species of high nature value farmland in Romania. Ecology and Society 26(3):3.
Riechers M, Loos J, Balázsi Á, García-Llorente M, Bieling C, Burgos-Ayala A, Chakroun L, Mattijssen TJ, Muhr MM, Pérez-Ramírez I, Raatikainen KJ (2021) Key advantages of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations. Ecosystems and People 17(1):205-14.
Ficiciyan AM, Loos J, Tscharntke T (2021): Similar yield benefits of hybrid, conventional, and organic tomato and sweet pepper varieties under well-watered and drought-stressed conditions. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5, 41.

2020

Talanow K, Topp EN, Loos J, Martin-Lopez B (2020) Farmers’ perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies in South Africa’s Western Cape. Journal of Rural Studies 81:203-219.
Fischer J, Riechers M, Loos J, Martin-Lopez B, Temperton V (2020) Making the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration a social-ecological endeavour. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36(1):20-28.
Höppner O, Loos J (2020) Das Eiablageverhalten des Großen Feuerfalters (Lycaena dispar rutilus) in der Kulturlandschaft Siebenbürgens, Rumänien. Oedippus 37:5-13.
Loos J, Vizauer TC, Kastal A, Davies M, Hedrich H, Dolek M (2020) A highly-endangered species on the edge: distribution, habitat use and outlook for Colias myrmidone in newly established Natura 2000 areas in Romania. Environment, Development and Sustainability 22:2399-2414.
Fust P, Loos J (2020): Development perspectives for the application of autonomous, unmanned aerial systems (UASs) in wildlife conservation. Biological Conservation 241:108380.

2019

Manning P, Loos J, Barnes AD, Batáry P, Bianchi FJJA, Buchmann N, De Deyn GB, Ebeling, A, Eisenhauer N, Fischer M, Fründ J, Grass I, Isselstein J, Jochum M, Klein AM, Klingenberg EOF, Landis DA, Lepš J, Lindborg R, Meyer ST, Temperton V, Westphal C, Tscharntke T (i2019): Transferring biodiversity ecosystem function research to the management of ‘real world’ ecosystems. Advances in Ecological Research 61: 323-356.
Lang A, Kallhardt F, Lee MS, Loos J, Molander M, Muntean J, Pettersson L, Rákosy L, Stefanescu C, Antoine M (2019): Monitoring environmental effects on farmland Lepidoptera: does necessary sampling effort vary between different bio-geographic regions in Europe? Ecological Indicators 102: 791-800.
Grass I, Loos J, Baensch S, Batáry P, Librán-Embid F, Ficiciyan A, Klaus F, Riechers M, Rosa J, Tiede J, Udy K, Westphal C, Wurz A, Tscharntke T (2019): Land-sharing/-sparing connectivity landscapes for ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation. People and Nature 1:262–272.
Rosa-Schleich J, Loos J, Mußhoff O, Tscharntke T (2019): Ecological-economic trade-offs of Diversified Farming Systems – A review. Ecological Economics 160: 251-263.
Topp EN, Loos J (2019): Fragmented Landscape, Fragmented Knowledge: A Synthesis of Renosterveld Ecology and Conservation. Environmental Conservation 46(2):171-179.
Leventon J, Velten S, Loos J, Fischer J, Newig J (2019): Landscape Scale Biodiversity Governance: Scenarios for reshaping spaces of governance. Environmental Policy and Governance 29(3):170-184.

2018

Schüler S, Bienwald L, Loos J, Lakner S (2018): Wahrnehmung und Anpassungsverhalten der Landwirte an Greening: eine qualitative Studie in Südniedersachsen. Berichte über Landwirtschaft 96 (3):1-21.
Bruelheide H, Dengler J, Purschke O, Lenoir J, Jiménez-Alfaro B, Hennekens S, Botta-Dukát Z, Chytry M, Field R, Jansen F, Kattge J, Pillar V, Schrodt F, Mahecha M, Peet R, Sandel B, van Bodegom P, Altman J, Alvarez Davila E, Khan MASA, Attorre F, Aubin I, Baraloto C, Barroso J, Bauters M, Bergmeier E, Biurrun I, Bjorkman A, Blonder B, Čarni A, Cayuela L, Černý T, Cornelissen JHC, Craven D, Dainese M, Derroire G, De Sanctis M, Díaz S, Doležal J, Farfan-Rios W, Feldpausch T, Fenton N, Garnier E, Guerin G, Gutiérrez Á, Haider S, Hattab T, Henry G, Hérault B, Higuchi P, Hölzel N, Homeier J, Jentsch A, Jürgens N, Kącki Z, Karger DN, Kessler M, Kleyer M, Knollová I, Korolyuk A, Kühn I, Laughlin D, Lens F, Loos J, Louault F, Lyubenova M, Malhi Y, Marcenò C, Mencuccini M, Müller J, Munzinger J, Myers-Smith I, Neill D, Niinemets Ü, Orwin K, Ozinga W, Penuelas J, Pérez-Haase A, Petřík P, Phillips O, Pärtel M, Reich P, Römermann C, Rodrigues A, Sabatini F, Sardans J, Schmidt M, Seidler G, Silva Espejo J, Silveira M, Smyth A, Sporbert M, Svenning J-C, Thomas-Caesar R, Tang Z, Tsiripidis I, Vassilev K, Violle C, Virtanen R, Weiher E, Welk E, Wesche K, Winter M, Wirth C, Jandt U (2018): Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution Nature Ecology & Evolution 2(12):1906-17.
Topp E & Loos J (2018): Local and landscape level variables influence butterfly diversity in critically endangered South African renosterveld. Journal of Insect Conservation 23:225–237.
Ficiciyan AM, Loos J, Sievers-Glotzbach S, Tscharntke T (2018): More than yield: ecosystem services of traditional versus modern crop varieties revisited. Sustainability 10: 2834.
Loos J (2018) People as landscapes´ caretakers: How landscape stewardship links knowledge and value diversity to the global sustainability agenda. A book review of “The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship” by Claudia Bieling & Tobias Plieninger. Biological Conservation 223:181-183.
Loos J, von Wehrden H (2018) Beyond Biodiversity Conservation: Land Sharing Constitutes Sustainable Agriculture in European Cultural Landscapes. Sustainability 10: 1395.
Vassilev K, Ruprecht E, Alexiu V, Becker T, Beldean M, Biță-Nicolae C, Csergő AM, Dzhovanova I, Filipova E, Frink JP, Gafta D, Georgieva M, Germany M, Goia I, Gumus M, Hennekens SM, Janišová M, Knollová I, Koleva V, Kostadinova S, Kuzmanović N, Loos J, Mardari C, Michl T, Neblea MA, Nicoară RI, Novák P, Öllerer K, Onete M, Palpurina S, Paulini I, Pedashenko H, Pușcaș M, Roman A, Šibík J, Sîrbu C, Stancu D, Sutcliffe LME, Szabó A,Tomescu CV, Totev E, Tsvetanov B, Turtureanu PD, Vassileva P, Velev N, Dengler J (2018) The Romanian Grassland Database (RGD): historical background, current status and future perspectives. Phytocoenologia 1:91-100.
Dorresteijn I, Nimmo DG, Loos J, Hanspach J, Moga CI, David A, Ernst LM, Fischer J (2018): A new world for old landscapes: Land-use intensification and bird conservation in a traditional farming landscape. North-Western Journal of Zoology14(2): e171605.
Horcea-Milcu AI, Abson DJ, Dorresteijn I, Loos J, Hanspach J, Fischer J (2018): The role of co-evolutionary development and value change debt in navigating transitioning cultural landscapes: the case of Southern Transylvania. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 61(5/6): 800-817.

2017

Schröter M, Stumpf KH, Loos J,van Oudenhoven APE, Böhnke-Henrichs A, Abson DJ (2017): Refocusing ecosystem services towards sustainability, Ecosystem Services 25:35-43
Culbert PD, Dorresteijn I, Loos J, Clayton MK, Fischer J, Kuemmerle T (2017): Legacy effects of past land use on current biodiversity in a low-intensity farming landscape in Transylvania (Romania). Landscape Ecology 32(2):429-44.

2016

Hanspach J, Loos J, Dorresteijn I, Abson DJ, Fischer J (2016): Characterising social-ecological units to inform biodiversity conservation in cultural landscapes. Diversity & Distributions 22:853–864.

2015

Dorresteijn I, Loos J, Hanspach J, Fischer J (2015): Social-ecological drivers facilitating biodiversity conservation in traditional farming landscapes. Environmental Health and Sustainability 1(8):28.
Hanspach J, Loos J, Dorresteijn I, von Wehrden H, Moga CI, David A (2015): Functional diversity and trait composition of butterfly and bird communities in farmlands of Central Romania. Environmental Health and Sustainability 1(10):32.
Jew EKK, Loos J, Dougill AJ, Sallu SM, Benton TG (2015): Butterfly communities in miombo woodland: range extensions and responses to land cover change and woodland utilisation. Biological Conservation 192: 436-444.
Dorresteijn I, Teixeira L, von Wehrden H, Loos J, Hanspach J, Stein JAR, Fischer J (2015): Landscape-scale conservation is needed to prevent biodiversity loss in traditional farming regions: the case of the Corncrake (Crex crex). Landscape Ecology 30:1483-1495.
Loos J, Milcu-Horcea AI, Kirkland P, Hartel T, Ferencz M, Fischer J (2015): Challenges for biodiversity monitoring using citizen science in transitioning social-ecological systems. Journal for Nature Conservation 26: 45–48.
Loos J, Hanspach J, von Wehrden H, Beldean M, Moga CI, Fischer J (2015): Developing robust field survey protocols in landscape ecology: A case study on birds, plants and butterflies. Biodiversity and Conservation 24: 33-46.
Loos J, Kuussaari M, Ekroos J, Hanspach J, Fust P, Jackson L, Fischer J (2015): Changes in butterfly movements along a gradient of land use in farmlands of Transylvania (Romania). Landscape Ecology, 30: 625-635.
Zimmermann H, Loos J, von Wehrden H, Fischer J (2015): Aliens in Transylvania: risk maps of invasive alien plant species in Central Romania. Neobiota 24:55-65.

2014

Loos J, Turtureanu PD, von Wehrden H, Hanspach J, Dorresteijn I, Frink JP, Fischer J (2014): Plant diversity in a changing agricultural landscape mosaic in Southern Transylvania (Romania). Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 199: 350-357.
Loos J, Dorresteijn I, Fust P, Hanspach J, Rakosy L, Fischer J (2014): Low-intensity agricultural landscapes in Transylvania support high butterfly diversity: Implications for conservation. PLoS One 9(7):e103256 .
Hanspach J, Hartel T, Milcu A, Mikulcak F, Dorresteijn I, Loos J, von Wehrden J, Kuemmerle T, Abson D, Kovács-Hostyánszki A, Báldi A, Fischer J (2014): A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to Southern Transylvania. Ecology & Society 19(4):32.
Sutcliffe LME, Batáry P, Kormann U, Báldi A, Dicks LV, Herzon I, Kleijn D, Tryjanowski P, Apostolova I, Arlettaz R, Ainars Aunins A, Aviron S, Baležentienė L, Čierna-Plassmann M, Fischer C, Gabrielová J, Halada L, Hartel T, Helm A, Hristov I, Jelaska SD, Kaligarič M, Kamp J, Klimek S, Koorberg P, Kovács-Hostyánszki A, Kuemmerle T, Leuschner C, Lindborg R, Loos J, Maccherini S, Marja R, Máthé O, Proença V, Rey-Benayas J, Sans FX, Seifert C, Stalenga J, Timaeus J, Török P, van Swaay C, Viik E, Tscharntke T (2014): East meets west - overcoming the divides in European farmland conservation. Diversity and Distributions 21(6): 722-730.
Loos J, Abson DJ, Chappell MJ, Tichit M, Hanspach J, Mikulcak F, Fischer J (2014): Putting meaning back into sustainable intensification. Frontiers in Ecology & Environment. 12: 356–361.

2013

Hanspach J, Abson DJ, Loos J, Tichit M, Chappell MJ, Fischer, J (2013) Develop, then intensify. Science 341(6147): 713-713.

2012

Loos J, von Wehrden H, Dang K & Ziegler T (2012): Niche segregation in microhabitat use of three sympatric Cyrtodactylus in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Central Vietnam. Herpetological Conservation & Biology 7(1): 101-108.

2011

Loos J, Dayan T, Drescher N, Levanony T, Schacham B, Maza E, Talbi R & Assmann T (2011): Habitat preferences of the Levant Green Lizard Lacerta media israelica (Peters 1964). Zoology in the Middle East 52: 17–28.

Monographs

Loos J, Abson DJ, Dorresteijn I, Hanspach J, Hartel T, Horcea-Milcu AI, Mikulcak F, Fischer J (2016): Sustainable Landscapes in Central Romania. A social-ecological study on the future of Transylvania. Pensoft, Sofia.
Loos J (2015): Prospects for sustainable development: The future of plants and butterflies in Transylvania. Dissertation, Leuphana University, Lüneburg.

Book chapters

Loos J, Batáry P, Grass I, Westphal C, Bänsch S, Bosem Baillod A, Hass A, Rosa J, Tscharntke T (2019): Vulnerability of Ecosystem Services in farmland depends on landscape management. In: Atlas of Ecosystem Services, edited by Klotz S, Bonn A, Seppelt R, Schröter M, Baessler C. Springer.
Attwood SJ, Park SE, Loos J, Phillips M, Mills D, McDougall C (2017): Does sustainable intensification offer a pathway to improved food security for aquatic agricultural system-dependent communities? In: Integrated Systems Research for Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Agriculture. Earthscan.