Dr. Christophe Dominik
Dr. rer. nat.
Postdoctoral researcher
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4 | D-06120 Halle | Germany
Phone: +49 341 6025 4318

Research interests
- Landscape ecology
- Community ecology
- Pollination Ecology
- Pollinator health
- Biological control
- Macroecology
Short CV
2019 - present | Postdoctoral Researcher | Department of Community Ecology (BZF), UFZ |
2012 - 2018 | PhD student/Guest scientist | Department of Computational Landscape Ecology (CLE), UFZ |
2013 - 2014 | Guest scientist | Crop and Environmental Sciences Division (CESD), Internatioal Rice Research Institute (IRRI) |
2011, 2012 | Research Assistant | Littoral, Environment, Geomatique, Teledetection (UMR, LETG), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
2010 | Undergraduate Research student | Peuplements Vegetaux et bio-agresseurs en milieu tropical (UMR PVBMT), Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le developement (CIRAD) |
Projects
ANTENNA: Making technology work for monitoring pollinators (Biodiversa+, 2024 – 2027)
WildPosh: Pan-European assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of chemical stressors on the health of wild pollinators (Horizon Europe, 2024 - 2027)
RestPoll : Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches (Horizon Europe, 2023 - 2027)
MAMBO: Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biodiversity (Horizon Europe, 2022 - 2026)
Safeguard: Safeguarding European wild pollinators (Horizon 2021 - 2025)
iNTERACT : Impacts of landscape structure, floral resources, and land-use intensity on the health of beneficial arthropods in agroecosystems (iDiv Flexpool, 2021)
INTERCEDE: Interactions of farmland biodiversity and agricultural ecosystem services under climate change (UFZ PhD cohort, 2020 - 2023)
VOODOO : Viral eco-evolutionary dynamics of wild and domestic pollinators under global change (Biodiversa, 2020 - 2023)
PoshBee: Pan-European Assessment, Monitoring, and Mitigation of Stressors on the Health of Bees (Horizon 2019 - 2023)
LEGATO : Land-use intensity and ecological engineering - Assessment tools for risks and opportunities in irrigated rice based production systems (BMBF, 2011 - 2016)
ECOSAL-ATLANTIS : Ecotourism in the Atlantic salt-marshes: a strategy for integral and sustainable development (INTERREG, 2007 - 2013)
WildPosh: Pan-European assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of chemical stressors on the health of wild pollinators (Horizon Europe, 2024 - 2027)
RestPoll : Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches (Horizon Europe, 2023 - 2027)
MAMBO: Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biodiversity (Horizon Europe, 2022 - 2026)
Safeguard: Safeguarding European wild pollinators (Horizon 2021 - 2025)
iNTERACT : Impacts of landscape structure, floral resources, and land-use intensity on the health of beneficial arthropods in agroecosystems (iDiv Flexpool, 2021)
INTERCEDE: Interactions of farmland biodiversity and agricultural ecosystem services under climate change (UFZ PhD cohort, 2020 - 2023)
VOODOO : Viral eco-evolutionary dynamics of wild and domestic pollinators under global change (Biodiversa, 2020 - 2023)
PoshBee: Pan-European Assessment, Monitoring, and Mitigation of Stressors on the Health of Bees (Horizon 2019 - 2023)
LEGATO : Land-use intensity and ecological engineering - Assessment tools for risks and opportunities in irrigated rice based production systems (BMBF, 2011 - 2016)
ECOSAL-ATLANTIS : Ecotourism in the Atlantic salt-marshes: a strategy for integral and sustainable development (INTERREG, 2007 - 2013)
Publications
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2025 (3)
- Lanuza, J.B., Knight, T.M., Montes-Perez, N., Glenny, W.R., Acuña, P., Albrecht, M., Artamendi, M., Badenhausser, I., Bennett, J.M., Biella, P., Bommarco, R., Cappellari, A., Castro, S., Clough, Y., Colom, P., Costa, J., Cyrille, N., de Manincor, N., Dominguez-Lapido, P., Dominik, C., Dupont, Y.L, Feldmann, R., Felten, E., Ferrero, V., Fiordaliso, W., Fisogni, A., FitzPatrick, Ú., Galloni, M., Gaspar, H., Gazzea, E., Goia, I., Gómez-Martínez, C., González-Estévez, M.A., González-Varo, J.P., Grass, I., Hadrava, J., Hautekèete, N., Hederström, V., Heleno, R., Hervias-Parejo, S., Heuschele, J.M., Hoiss, B., Holzschuh, A., Hopfenmüller, S., Iriondo, J.M., Jauker, B., Jauker, F., Jersáková, J., Kallnik, K., Karise, R., Kleijn, D., Klotz, S., Krausl, T., Kühn, E., Lara-Romero, C., Larkin, M., Laurent, E., Lázaro, A., Librán-Embid, F., Liu, Y., Lopes, S., López-Núñez, F., Loureiro, J., Magrach, A., Mänd, M., Marini, L., Beltran Mas, R., Massol, F., Maurer, C., Michez, D., Molina, F.P., Morente-López, J., Mullen, S., Nakas, G., Neuenkamp, L., Nowak, A., O'Connor, C.J., O'Rourke, A., Öckinger, E., Olesen, J.M., Opedal, Ø.H., Petanidou, T., Piquot, Y., Potts, S.G., Power, E.F., Proesmans, W., Rakosy, D., Reverté, S., Roberts, S.P.M., Rundlöf, M., Russo, L., Schatz, B., Scheper, J., Schweiger, O., Serra, P.E., Siopa, C., Smith, H.G., Stanley, D., Ştefan, V., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stout, J.C., Sutter, L., Motivans Švara, E., Świerszcz, S., Thompson, A., Traveset, A., Trefflich, A., Tropek, R., Tscharntke, T., Vanbergen, A.J., Vilà, M., Vujić, A., White, C., Wickens, J.B., Wickens, V.B., Winsa, M., Zoller, L., Bartomeus, I. (2025):
EuPPollNet: a European database of plant-pollinator networks
Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 34 (2), e70000 10.1111/geb.70000 - Lanuza, J.B., Knight, T.M., Montes-Perez, N., Glenny, W.R., Acuña, P., Albrecht, M., Artamendi, M., Badenhausser, I., Bennett, J.M., Biella, P., Bommarco, R., Cappellari, A., Castro, S., Clough, Y., Colom, P., Costa, J., Cyrille, N., de Manincor, N., Dominguez-Lapido, P., Dominik, C., Dupont, Y.L, Feldmann, R., Felten, E., Ferrero, V., Fiordaliso, W., Fisogni, A., FitzPatrick, Ú., Galloni, M., Gaspar, H., Gazzea, E., Goia, I., Gómez-Martínez, C., González-Estévez, M.A., González-Varo, J.P., Grass, I., Hadrava, J., Hautekèete, N., Hederström, V., Heleno, R., Hervias-Parejo, S., Heuschele, J.M., Hoiss, B., Holzschuh, A., Hopfenmüller, S., Iriondo, J.M., Jauker, B., Jauker, F., Jersáková, J., Kallnik, K., Karise, R., Kleijn, D., Klotz, S., Krausl, T., Kühn, E., Lara-Romero, C., Larkin, M., Laurent, E., Lázaro, A., Librán-Embid, F., Liu, Y., Lopes, S., López-Núñez, F., Loureiro, J., Magrach, A., Mänd, M., Marini, L., Beltran Mas, R., Massol, F., Maurer, C., Michez, D., Molina, F.P., Morente-López, J., Mullen, S., Nakas, G., Neuenkamp, L., Nowak, A., O'Connor, C.J., O'Rourke, A., Öckinger, E., Olesen, J.M., Opedal, Ø.H., Petanidou, T., Piquot, Y., Potts, S.G., Power, E.F., Proesmans, W., Rakosy, D., Reverté, S., Roberts, S.P.M., Rundlöf, M., Russo, L., Schatz, B., Scheper, J., Schweiger, O., Serra, P.E., Siopa, C., Smith, H.G., Stanley, D., Ştefan, V., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stout, J.C., Sutter, L., Motivans Švara, E., Świerszcz, S., Thompson, A., Traveset, A., Trefflich, A., Tropek, R., Tscharntke, T., Vanbergen, A.J., Vilà, M., Vujić, A., White, C., Wickens, J.B., Wickens, V.B., Winsa, M., Zoller, L., Bartomeus, I. (2025):
Correction to EuPPollNet: a European database of plant-pollinator networks
Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 34 (3), e70014 10.1111/geb.70000 - Tourbez, C., Gekière, A., Bottero, I., Chauzat, M.-P., Cini, E., Corvucci, F., de Miranda, J.R., di Prisco, G., Dominik, C., Grillenzoni, F.V., Hodge, S., Kiljanek, T., Knauer, A., Laurent, M., Martínez-López, V., Raimets, R., Schwarz, J.M., Senapathi, D., Serra, G., Tamburini, G., Wintermantel, D., Brown, M.J.F., Albrecht, M., Costa, C., De la Rúa, P., Klein, A.-M., Mänd, M., Potts, S.G., Rundlöf, M., Schweiger, O., Stout, J.C., Michez, D. (2025):
Variation in the pollen diet of managed bee species across European agroecosystems
Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 383 , art. 109518 10.1016/j.agee.2025.109518
2024 (9)
- Askri, D., Pottier, M., Arafah, K., Voisin, S.N., Hodge, S., Stout, J.C., Dominik, C., Schweiger, O., Tamburini, G., Pereira-Peixoto, M.H., Martínez López, V., De la Rúa, P., Cini, E., Potts, S.G., Schwarz, J.M., Knauer, A.C., Albrecht, M., Raimets, R., Karise, R., di Prisco, G., Ivarsson, K., Svensson, G., Ronsevych, O., Knapp, J.L., Rundlöf, M., Onorati, P., de Miranda, J.R., Bocquet, M., Bulet, P. (2024):
A blood test to monitor bee health across a European network of agricultural sites of different land-use by MALDI BeeTyping mass spectrometry
Sci. Total Environ. 929 , art. 172239 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172239 - Babin, A., Schurr, F., Delannoy, S., Fach, P., Nguyet, M.H.T.N., Bougeard, S., de Miranda, J.R., Rundlöf, M., Wintermantel, D., Albrecht, M., Attridge, E., Bottero, I., Cini, E., Costa, C., De la Rúa, P., di Prisco, G., Dominik, C., Dzul, D., Hodge, S., Klein, A.-M., Knapp, J., Knauer, A.C., Mänd, M., Martínez-López, V., Medrzycki, P., Pereira-Peixoto, M.H., Potts, S.G., Raimets, R., Schweiger, O., Senapathi, D., Serrano, J., Stout, J.C., Tamburini, G., Brown, M.J.F., Laurent, M., Rivière, M.-P., Chauzat, M.-P., Dubois, E. (2024):
Distribution of infectious and parasitic agents among three sentinel bee species across European agricultural landscapes
Sci. Rep. 14 , art. 3524 10.1038/s41598-024-53357-w - Laurent, M., Bougeard, S., Caradec, L., Ghestem, F., Albrecht, M., Brown, M.J.F., De Miranda, J., Karise, R., Knapp, J., Serrano, J., Potts, S.G., Rundlöf, M., Schwarz, J., Attridge, E., Babin, A., Bottero, I., Cini, E., De la Rúa, P., di Prisco, G., Dominik, C., Dzul, D., García Reina, A., Hodge, S., Klein, A.M., Knauer, A., Mand, M., Martínez López, V., Serra, G., Pereira-Peixoto, H., Raimets, R., Schweiger, O., Senapathi, D., Stout, J.C., Tamburini, G., Costa, C., Kiljanek, T., Martel, A.-C., Le, S., Chauzat, M.-P. (2024):
Novel indices reveal that pollinator exposure to pesticides varies across biological compartments and crop surroundings
Sci. Total Environ. 927 , art. 172118 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172118 - Liu, Y., Dunker, S., Durka, W., Dominik, C., Heuschele, J.M., Honchar, H., Hoffmann, P., Musche, M., Paxton, R.J., Settele, J., Schweiger, O. (2024):
Eco-evolutionary processes shaping floral nectar sugar composition
Sci. Rep. 14 , art. 13856 10.1038/s41598-024-64755-5 - Maurer, C., Martínez-Núñez, C., Dominik, C., Heuschele, J., Liu, Y., Neumann, P., Paxton, R.J., Pellissier, L., Proesmans, W., Schweiger, O., Szentgyörgyi, H., Albrecht, M. (2024):
Landscape simplification leads to loss of plant-pollinator interaction diversity and flower visitation frequency despite buffering by abundant generalist pollinators [Dataset]
Dryad 10.5061/dryad.1zcrjdg0b - Maurer, C., Martínez-Núñez, C., Dominik, C., Heuschele, J., Liu, Y., Neumann, P., Paxton, R.J., Pellissier, L., Proesmans, W., Schweiger, O., Szentgyörgyi, H., Vanbergen, A., Albrecht, M. (2024):
Landscape simplification leads to loss of plant-pollinator interaction diversity and flower visitation frequency despite buffering by abundant generalist pollinators
Divers. Distrib. 30 (9), e13853 10.1111/ddi.13853 - Nicholson, C.C., Knapp, J., Kiljanek, T., Albrecht, M., Chauzat, M.-P., Costa, C., De la Rúa, P., Klein, A.-M., Mänd, M., Potts, S.G., Schweiger, O., Bottero, I., Cini, E., de Miranda, J.R., di Prisco, G., Dominik, C., Hodge, S., Kaunath, V., Knauer, A., Laurent, M., Martínez-López, V., Medrzycki, P., Pereira-Peixoto, M.H., Raimets, R., Schwarz, J.M., Senapathi, D., Tamburini, G., Brown, M.J.F., Stout, J.C., Rundlöf, M. (2024):
Pesticide use negatively affects bumble bees across European landscapes
Nature 628 (8007), 355 - 358 10.1038/s41586-023-06773-3 - Sponsler, D., Dominik, C., Biegerl, C., Honchar, H., Schweiger, O., Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2024):
High rates of nectar depletion in summer grasslands indicate competitive conditions for pollinators
Oikos 2024 (9), e10495 10.1111/oik.10495 - Sponsler, D., Dominik, C., Biegerl, C., Honchar, H., Schweiger, O., Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2024):
High rates of nectar depletion in summer grasslands indicate competitive conditions for pollinators [Dataset]
Dryad 10.5061/dryad.sf7m0cgf7
2023 (2)
- Bottero, I., Dominik, C., Schweiger, O., Albrecht, M., Attridge, E., Brown, M.J.F., Cini, E., Costa, C., De la Rúa, P., de Miranda, J.R., di Prisco, G., Dzul Uuh, D., Hodge, S., Ivarsson, K., Knauer, A.C., Klein, A.-M., Mänd, M., Martínez-López, V., Medrzycki, P., Pereira-Peixoto, H., Potts, S., Raimets, R., Rundlöf, M., Schwarz, J.M., Senapathi, D., Tamburini, G., Talavan, E.T., Stout, J.C. (2023):
Impact of landscape configuration and composition on pollinator communities across different European biogeographic regions
Front. Ecol. Evol. 11 , art. 1128228 10.3389/fevo.2023.1128228 - Høye, T., August, T., Balzan, M.V., Biesmeijer, K., Bonnet, P., Breeze, T., Dominik, C., France, G., Joly, A., Kalkman, V., Kissling, W.D., Metodiev, T., Moeslund, J., Potts, S., Roy, D., Schweiger, O., Senapathi, D., Settele, J., Stoev, P., Stowell, D. (2023):
Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biоdiversity (MAMBO)
Res. Ideas Outcomes 9 , 169 - 199 10.3897/rio.9.e116951
2022 (3)
- Dominik, C., Seppelt, R., Horgan, F., Settele, J., Václavík, T. (2022):
Landscape heterogeneity filters functional traits of rice arthropods in tropical agroecosystems
Ecol. Appl. 32 (3), e2560 10.1002/eap.2560 - Gérard, M., Baird, E., Breeze, T., Dominik, C., Michez, D. (2022):
Impact of crop exposure and agricultural intensification on the phenotypic variation of bees
Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 338 , art. 108107 10.1016/j.agee.2022.108107 - Hodge, S., Schweiger, O., Klein, A.-M., Potts, S.G., Costa, C., Albrecht, M., de Miranda, J.R., Mand, M., De la Rúa, P., Rundlöf, M., Attridge, E., Dean, R., Bulet, P., Michez, D., Paxton, R.J., Babin, A., Cougoule, N., Laurent, M., Martel, A.-C., Paris, L., Rivière, M.-P., Dubois, E., Chauzat, M.-P., Arafah, K., Askri, D., Voisin, S.N., Kiljanek, T., Bottero, I., Dominik, C., Tamburini, G., Pereira-Peixoto, M.H., Wintermantel, D., Breeze, T.D., Cini, E., Senapathi, D., di Prisco, G., Medrzycki, P., Hagenbucher, S., Knauer, A., Schwarz, J.M., Raimets, R., Martínez-López, V., Ivarsson, K., Hartfield, C., Hunter, P., Brown, M.J.F., Stout, J.C. (2022):
Design and planning of a transdisciplinary investigation into farmland pollinators: rationale, co-design, and lessons learned
Sustainability 14 (17), art. 10549 10.3390/su141710549
2021 (1)
- Vanderplanck, M., Michez, D., Albrecht, M., Attridge, E., Babin, A., Bottero, I., Breeze, T., Brown, M., Chauzat, M.-P., Cini, E., Costa, C., De la Rua, P., de Miranda, J.R., di Prisco, G., Dominik, C., Dzul, D., Fiordaliso, W., Gennaux, S., Ghisbain, G., Hodge, S., Klein, A.-M., Knapp, J., Knauer, A., Laurent, M., Lefebvre, V., Mänd, M., Martinet, B., Martinez-Lopez, V., Medrzycki, P., Pereira Peixoto, M.H., Potts, S.G., Przybyla, K., Raimets, R., Rundlöf, M., Schweiger, O., Senapathi, D., Serrano, J., Stout, J.C., Straw, E.A., Tamburini, G., Toktas, Y., Gérard, M. (2021):
Monitoring bee health in European agro-ecosystems using wing morphology and fat bodies
One Ecosyst. 6 , e63653 10.3897/oneeco.6.e63653
2018 (2)
- Dominik, C., Seppelt, R., Horgan, F.G., Settele, J., Václavík, T. (2018):
Landscape composition, configuration, and trophic interactions shape arthropod communities in rice agroecosystems
J. Appl. Ecol. 55 (5), 2461 - 2472 10.1111/1365-2664.13226 - Settele, J., Heong, K.L., Kühn, I., Klotz, S., Spangenberg, J.H., Arida, G., Beaurepaire, A., Beck, S., Bergmeier, E., Burkhard, B., Brandl, R., Bustamante, J.V., Butler, A., Cabbigat, J., Le, X.C., Catindig, J.L.A., Ho, V.C., Le, Q.C., Dang, K.B., Escalada, M., Dominik, C., Franzén, M., Fried, O., Görg, C., Grescho, V., Grossmann, S., Gurr, G.M., Hadi, B.A.R., Le, H.H., Harpke, A., Hass, A.L., Hirneisen, N., Horgan, F.G., Hotes, S., Isoda, Y., Jahn, R., Kettle, H., Klotzbücher, A., Klotzbücher, T., Langerwisch, F., Loke, W.-H., Lin, Y.-P., Lu, Z., Lum, K.-Y., Magcale-Macandog, D.B., Marion, G., Marquez, L., Müller, F., Nguyen, H.M., Nguyen, Q.A., Nguyen, V.S., Ott, J., Penev, L., Pham, H.T., Radermacher, N., Rodriguez-Labajos, B., Sann, C., Sattler, C., Schädler, M., Scheu, S., Schmidt, A., Schrader, J., Schweiger, O., Seppelt, R., Soitong, K., Stoev, P., Stoll-Kleemann, S., Tekken, V., Thonicke, K., Tilliger, B., Tobias, K., Trisyono, Y.A., Dao, T.T., Tscharntke, T., Le, Q.T., Türke, M., Václavík, T., Vetterlein, D., Villareal, S., Vu, K.C., Vu, Q., Weisser, W.W., Westphal, C., Zhu, Z., Wiemers, M. (2018):
Rice ecosystem services in South-east Asia. Editorial
Paddy Water Environ. 16 (2), 211 - 224 10.1007/s10333-018-0656-9
2017 (1)
- Dominik, C., Seppelt, R., Horgan, F.G., Marquez, L., Settele, J., Václavík, T. (2017):
Regional-scale effects override the influence of fine-scale landscape heterogeneity on rice arthropod communities
Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 246 , 269 - 278 10.1016/j.agee.2017.06.011