Dr. Guy Pe'er

Group leader Agriculture and Ecosystems and academic Staff


German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
Halle-Jena-Leipzig

Puschstraße 4
04103 Leipzig

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Guy Pe'er

CAP4GI: CAP for Green Infrastructure (GAP für vielfältige Landschaften; BMBF)
AgriDiv (formerly iCAP-BES): How the EU's Common Agricultural Policy affect Biodiversity, Ecosystems and People (iDiv strategic project)
Agroecology-TRANSECT project (Horizon Europe)
UNP+: improving Urban Nature Planning (Horizon Europe)
VielFalterGarten: Citizen Science with butterflies
Israeli Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (BMS-IL) 


Research interests


Understanding and addressing anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity and ecosystems, especially through habitat loss, fragmentation, land-use changes and climate changes. Agriculture, especially intensive agriculture, exerts pressures both on our society and the environment - but how do EU policies address these pressures, and what solutions are fostered to maximise win-wins? Through interdisciplinary research I ask how the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) affects both nature and people as a complex Socio-Ecological System. In projects AgriDiv, CAP4GI, Agroecology-TRANSECT and LAFERIA we focus also on the EU's Nature Restoration Restoration and the Green Deal as a whole, asking how European policies can help expanding good agroecological practices, and benefit farmers and (rural) society.

Our work feeds frequently to the Science-Policy Dialogue, from local to EU levels.

Butterfly monitoring and citizen science: Addressing anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity requires both people and data, to evaluate how what people do affect the environment. Butterflies are superb bioindicators for a range of reasons. Engaging volunteers in observing butterflies helps engaging the public and animating conservation action. As a butterfly expert, I participated in founding the Israeli Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (BMS-IL) in 2009, and since 2020, I'm (co-)leading the German project VielFalterGarten and participating in the EU Horizon Europe project UNP+. In both projects we seek to expand citizen science (butterfly monitoring and action) in urban areas, while in Agroecology-TRANSECT we also try to expand butterfly monitoring in rural areas. Thereby, we try to close knowledge gaps and empower citizens to support evidence-based decision-making.


People and Projects

Agriculture and Ecosystems hub members:

Dr. Elizabeth Finch (Post-doc, project Agroecology-TRANSECT)

Linn Schaan (PhD student, Agroecology-TRANSECT)

Daniel Vedder (PhD student, CAP4GI)

Lea Kolb (PhD student, CAP4GI)

Maria Moosdorf (project assistant, iCAP-BES / Agroecology-TRANSECT)

Marco Matthies (technician, CAP4GI)

Sameer Khatri (intern, ETC-BE / LAFERIA)

Butterfly-related:

Dr. Stefanie Henkel (post-doc, UNP+)

Laura Härter (PhD student, Uni Leipzig)

Friedrich Flämig (student assistant, UNP+, VielFalterGarten)

Yaku Feick (student assistant)

Alumni

Dr. Orr Comay (post-doc, Israeli Butterfly Monitoring Scheme)

Julia Rouet-Leduc (PhD student, with Alfons van der Plas, project GrazeLIFE)

Ariane Chamoin (PhD student, with Etienne Maclouf & Aletta Bonn)

Andrea Büermann (PhD student, with Aletta Bonn, project VielFalterGarten)

Lea Kahoun (M.Sc. student, CAP4GI)

Judith Rakowski (assistant, projects CAP4GI and the Birds@Farmlands project)

Christian Nappert (technician, project VielFalterGarten)

Carla Cerda (assistant, project iCAP-BES)

Klara Bogs (assistant, Agroecology-TRANSECT)


Science-policy and science-communication work

The work in our hub produces policy-relevant knowledge, which we try to communicate and discuss with policymakers and the public.

Example videos:

Tree crops are key to advancing SDGs (Press release; Agrecology-TRANSECT)

Video: fallow land is important! (Brachen sind wichtig!) (CAP4GI project; In German)

Butterflies in the city (Schmetterlinge in der Stadt) (VielFalterGarten; In German)


Publications

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2025 (2)

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2024 (6)

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2023 (5)

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2022 (5)

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2021 (9)

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2020 (7)

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2019 (5)

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2018 (5)

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2017 (10)

  • Dislich, C., Keyel, A.C., Salecker, J., Kisel, Y., Meyer, K.M., Auliya, M., Barnes, A.D., Corre, M.D., Darras, K., Faust, H., Hess, B., Klasen, S., Knohl, A., Kreft, H., Meijide, A., Nurdiansyah, F., Otten, F., Pe'er, G., Steinebach, S., Tarigan, S., Tölle, M.H., Tscharntke, T., Wiegand, K. (2017):
    A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system
    Biol. Rev. 92 (3), 1539 - 1569 10.1111/brv.12295
  • Hudson, L.N., Newbold, T., Contu, S., Hill, S.L.L., Lysenko, I., De Palma, A., Phillips, H.R.P., Alhusseini, T.I., Bedford, F.E., Bennett, D.J., Booth, H., Burton, V.J., Chng, C.W.T., Choimes, A., Correia, D.L.P., Day, J., Echeverría-Londoño, S., Emerson, S.R., Gao, D., Garon, M., Harrison, M.L.K., Ingram, D.J., Jung, M., Kemp, V., Kirkpatrick, L., Martin, C.D., Pan, Y., Pask-Hale, G.D., Pynegar, E.L., Robinson, A.N., Sanchez-Ortiz, K., Senior, R.A., Simmons, B.I., White, H.J., Zhang, H., Aben, J., Abrahamczyk, S., Adum, G.B., Aguilar-Barquero, V., Aizen, M.A., Albertos, B., Alcala, E.L., del Mar Alguacil, M., Alignier, A., Ancrenaz, M., Andersen, A.N., Arbeláez-Cortés, E., Armbrecht, I., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Aumann, T., Axmacher, J.C., Azhar, B., Azpiroz, A.B., Baeten, L., Bakayoko, A., Báldi, A., Banks, J.E., Baral, S.K., Barlow, J., Barratt, B.I.P., Barrico, L., Bartolommei, P., Barton, D.M., Basset, Y., Batáry, P., Bates, A.J., Baur, B., Bayne, E.M., Beja, P., Benedick, S., Berg, Å., Bernard, H., Berry, N.J., Bhatt, D., Bicknell, J.E., Bihn, J.H., Blake, R.J., Bobo, K.S., Bóçon, R., Boekhout, T., Böhning-Gaese, K., Bonham, K.J., Borges, P.A.V., Borges, S.H., Boutin, C., Bouyer, J., Bragagnolo, C., Brandt, J.S., Brearley, F.Q., Brito, I., Bros, V., Brunet, J., Buczkowski, G., Buddle, C.M., Bugter, R., Buscardo, E., Buse, J., Cabra-García, J., Cáceres, N.C., Cagle, N.L., Calviño-Cancela, M., Cameron, S.A., Cancello, E.M., Caparrós, R., Cardoso, P., Carpenter, D., Carrijo, T.F., Carvalho, A.L., Cassano, C.R., Castro, H., Castro-Luna, A.A., Cerda, R.B., Cerezo, A., Chapman, K.A., Chauvat, M., Christensen, M., Clarke, F.M., Cleary, D.F.R., Colombo, G., Connop, S.P., Craig, M.D., Cruz-López, L., Cunningham, S.A., D’Aniello, B., D’Cruze, N., da Silva, P.G., Dallimer, M., Danquah, E., Darvill, B., Dauber, J., Davis, A.L.V., Dawson, J., de Sassi, C., de Thoisy, B., Deheuvels, O., Dejean, A., Devineau, J.-L., Diekötter, T., Dolia, J.V., Domínguez, E., Dominguez-Haydar, Y., Dorn, S., Draper, I., Dreber, N., Dumont, B., Dures, S.G., Dynesius, M., Edenius, L., Eggleton, P., Eigenbrod, F., Elek, Z., Entling, M.H., Esler, K.J., de Lima, R.F., Faruk, A., Farwig, N., Fayle, T.M., Felicioli, A., Felton, A.M., Fensham, R.J., Fernandez, I.C., Ferreira, C.C., Ficetola, G.F., Fiera, C., Filgueiras, B.K.C., Fırıncıoğlu, H.K., Flaspohler, D., Floren, A., Fonte, S.J., Fournier, A., Fowler, R.E., Franzén, M., Fraser, L.H., Fredriksson, G.M., Freire Jr., G.B., Frizzo, T.L.M., Fukuda, D., Furlani, D., Gaigher, R., Ganzhorn, J.U., García, K.P., Garcia-R, J.C., Garden, J.G., Garilleti, R., Ge, B.-M., Gendreau-Berthiaume, B., Gerard, P.J., Gheler-Costa, C., Gilbert, B., Giordani, P., Giordano, S., Golodets, C., Pe'er, G., Gomes, L.G.L., Gould, R.K., Goulson, D., Gove, A.D., Granjon, L., Grass, I., Gray, C.L., Grogan, J., Gu, W., Guardiola, M., Gunawardene, N.R., Gutiérrez, A.G., Gutiérrez-Lamus, D.L., Schweiger, O., Haarmeyer, D.H., Hanley, M.E., Hanson, T., Hashim, N.R., Hassan, S.N., Hatfield, R.G., Hawes, J.E., Hayward, M.W., Hébert, C., Helden, A.J., Henden, J.-A., Henschel, P., Hernández, L., Herrera, J.P., Herrmann, F., Herzog, F., Higuera-Diaz, D., Hilje, B., Höfer, H., Hoffmann, A., Horgan, F.G., Hornung, E., Horváth, R., Hylander, K., Isaacs-Cubides, P., Ishida, H., Ishitani, M., Jacobs, C.T., Jaramillo, V.J., Jauker, B., Jiménez Hernández, F., Johnson, M.F., Jolli, V., Jonsell, M., Juliani, S.N., Jung, T.S., Kapoor, V., Kappes, H., Kati, V., Katovai, E., Kellner, K., Kessler, M., Kirby, K.R., Kittle, A.M., Knight, M.E., Knop, E., Kohler, F., Koivula, M., Kolb, A., Kone, M., Kőrösi, Á., Krauss, J., Kumar, A., Kumar, R., Kurz, D.J., Kutt, A.S., Lachat, T., Lantschner, V., Lara, F., Lasky, J.R., Latta, S.C., Laurance, W.F., Lavelle, P., Le Féon, V., LeBuhn, G., Légaré, J.-P., Lehouck, V., Lencinas, M.V., Lentini, P.E., Letcher, S.G., Li, Q., Litchwark, S.A., Littlewood, N.A., Liu, Y., Lo-Man-Hung, N., López-Quintero, C.A., Louhaichi, M., Lövei, G.L., Lucas-Borja, M.E., Luja, V.H., Luskin, M.S., MacSwiney, M.C., Maeto, K., Magura, T., Mallari, N.A., Malone, L.A., Malonza, P.K., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Mandujano, S., Måren, I.E., Marin-Spiotta, E., Marsh, C.J., Marshall, E.J.P., Martínez, E., Martínez Pastur, G., Mateos, D.M., Mayfield, M.M., Mazimpaka, V., McCarthy, J.L., McCarthy, K.P., McFrederick, Q.S., McNamara, S., Medina, N.G., Medina, R., Mena, J.L., Mico, E., Mikusinski, G., Milder, J.C., Miller, J.R., Miranda-Esquivel, D.R., Moir, M.L., Morales, C.L., Muchane, M.N., Muchane, M., Mudri-Stojnic, S., Munira, A.N., Muoñz-Alonso, A., Munyekenye, B.F., Naidoo, R., Naithani, A., Nakagawa, M., Nakamura, A., Nakashima, Y., Naoe, S., Nates-Parra, G., Gutierrez, D.A.N., Navarro-Iriarte, L., Ndang’ang’a, P.K., Neuschulz, E.L., Ngai, J.T., Nicolas, V., Nilsson, S.G., Noreika, N., Norfolk, O., Noriega, J.A., Norton, D.A., Nöske, N.M., Nowakowski, A.J., Numa, C., O’Dea, N., O’Farrell, P.J., Oduro, W., Oertli, S., Ofori-Boateng, C., Oke, C.O., Oostra, V., Osgathorpe, L.M., Otavo, S.E., Page, N.V., Paritsis, J., Parra-H, A., Parry, L., Pearman, P.B., Pelegrin, N., Pélissier, R., Peres, C.A., Peri, P.L., Persson, A.S., Petanidou, T., Peters, M.K., Pethiyagoda, R.S., Phalan, B., Philips, T.K., Pillsbury, F.C., Pincheira-Ulbrich, J., Pineda, E., Pino, J., Pizarro-Araya, J., Plumptre, A.J., Poggio, S.L., Politi, N., Pons, P., Poveda, K., Power, E.F., Presley, S.J., Proença, V., Quaranta, M., Quintero, C., Rader, R., Ramesh, B.R., Ramirez-Pinilla, M.P., Ranganathan, J., Rasmussen, C., Redpath-Downing, N.A., Reid, J.L., Reis, Y.T., Benayas, J.M.R., Rey-Velasco, J.C., Reynolds, C., Ribeiro, D.B., Richards, M.H., Richardson, B.A., Richardson, M.J., Ríos, R.M., Robinson, R., Robles, C.A., Römbke, J., Romero-Duque, L.P., Rös, M., Rosselli, L., Rossiter, S.J., Roth, D.S., Roulston, T.H., Rousseau, L., Rubio, A.V., Ruel, J.-C., Sadler, J.P., Sáfián, S., Saldaña-Vázquez, R.A., Sam, K., Samnegård, U., Santana, J., Santos, X., Savage, J., Schellhorn, N.A., Schilthuizen, M., Schmiedel, U., Schmitt, C.B., Schon, N.L., Schüepp, C., Schumann, K., Scott, D.M., Scott, K.A., Sedlock, J.L., Seefeldt, S.S., Shahabuddin, G., Shannon, G., Sheil, D., Sheldon, F.H., Shochat, E., Siebert, S.J., Silva, F.A.B., Simonetti, J.A., Slade, E.M., Smith, J., Smith-Pardo, A.H., Sodhi, N.S., Somarriba, E.J., Sosa, R.A., Soto Quiroga, G., St-Laurent, M.-H., Starzomski, B.M., Stefanescu, C., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stouffer, P.C., Stout, J.C., Strauch, A.M., Struebig, M.J., Su, Z., Suarez-Rubio, M., Sugiura, S., Summerville, K.S., Sung, Y.-H., Sutrisno, H., Svenning, J.-C., Teder, T., Threlfall, C.G., Tiitsaar, A., Todd, J.H., Tonietto, R.K., Torre, I., Tóthmérész, B., Tscharntke, T., Turner, E.C., Tylianakis, J.M., Uehara-Prado, M., Urbina-Cardona, N., Vallan, D., Vanbergen, A.J., Vasconcelos, H.L., Vassilev, K., Verboven, H.A.F., Verdasca, M.J., Verdú, J.R., Vergara, C.H., Vergara, P.M., Verhulst, J., Virgilio, M., Vu, L.V., Waite, E.M., Walker, T.R., Wang, H.-F., Wang, Y., Watling, J.I., Weller, B., Wells, K., Westphal, C., Wiafe, E.D., Williams, C.D., Willig, M.R., Woinarski, J.C.Z., Wolf, J.H.D., Wolters, V., Woodcock, B.A., Wu, J., Wunderle Jr., J.M., Yamaura, Y., Yoshikura, S., Yu, D.W., Zaitsev, A.S., Zeidler, J., Zou, F., Collen, B., Ewers, R.M., Mace, G.M., Purves, D.W., Scharlemann, J.P.W., Purvis, A. 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    The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project
    Ecol. Evol. 7 (1), 145 - 188 10.1002/ece3.2579
  • Lakner, S., Müller, R., Bontzorlos, V., Clough, D., Moreira, F., Azam, C., Berger, J., Bezak, P., Bonn, A., Hansjürgens, B., Hartmann, L., Kleemann, J., Lomba, A., Sahrbacher, A., Schindler, S., Schleyer, C., Schüler, S., Sirami, C., von Meyer-Höfer, M., Zinngrebe, Y., Pe'er, G., Passoni, G., Schmidt, J. (2017):
    Is the CAP fit for purpose? An evidence-based fitness check assessment. Working paper
    German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle, Jena, Leipzig, 20 pp. 10.13140/RG.2.2.11705.26725
  • Menger, J., Magnusson, W.E., Anderson, M.J., Schlegel, M., Pe'er, G., Henle, K. (2017):
    Environmental characteristics drive variation in Amazonian understorey bird assemblages
    PLOS One 12 (2), e0171540 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0171540
  • Pe'er, G., Lakner, S., Müller, R., Passoni, G., Bontzorlos, V., Clough, D., Moreira, F., Azam, C., Berger, J., Bezak, P., Bonn, A., Hansjürgens, B., Hartmann, L., Kleemann, J., Lomba, A., Sahrbacher, A., Schindler, S., Schleyer, C., Schmidt, J., Schüler, S., Sirami, C., von Meyer-Höfer, M., Zinngrebe, Y. (2017):
    Is the CAP fit for purpose? An evidence-based fitness check assessment
    German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle, Jena, Leipzig, 259 pp.
  • Pe'er, G., Zinngrebe, Y., Hauck, J., Schindler, S., Dittrich, A., Zingg, S., Tscharntke, T., Oppermann, R., Sutcliffe, L., Sirami, C., Schmidt, J., Hoyer, C., Schleyer, C., Lakner, S. (2017):
    Adding some green to the greening: improving the EU's Ecological Focus Areas for biodiversity and farmers
    Conserv. Lett. 10 (5), 517 - 530 10.1111/conl.12333
  • Ripple, W.J., Wolf, C., Newsome, T.M., Galetti, M., Alamgir, M., Crist, E., Mahmoud, M.I., Laurance, W.F., Auliya, M., Droste, N., Egli, L., Everaars, J., Ferreira, C., Friese, K., Henle, K., Kühn, I., Loyau, A., Pe'er, G., Priess, J.A., Schiller, J., Schmeller, D.S., Schröter, M., Spangenberg, J.H., Wiemers, M., and more, (2017):
    World scientists’ warning to humanity: a second notice
    Bioscience 67 (12), 1026 - 1028 10.1093/biosci/bix125
  • Schultz, C.B., Pe'er, B.G., Damiani, C., Brown, L., Crone, E.E. (2017):
    Does movement behaviour predict population densities? A test with 25 butterfly species
    J. Anim. Ecol. 86 (2), 384 - 393 10.1111/1365-2656.12609
  • Zinngrebe, Y., Pe'er, G., Schueler, S., Schmitt, J., Schmidt, J., Lakner, S. (2017):
    The EU’s ecological focus areas – How experts explain farmers' choices in Germany
    Land Use Pol. 65 , 93 - 108 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.03.027
  • Zurita, G.A., Pe'er, G., Bellocq, M.I. (2017):
    Bird responses to forest loss are influence by habitat specialization
    Divers. Distrib. 23 (6), 650 - 655 10.1111/ddi.12559
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2016 (6)

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2015 (2)

  • Jonsson, B.G., Pe'er, G., Svoboda, M. (2015):
    Forests: not just timber plantations
    Nature 521 (7550), 32 10.1038/521032b
  • van Swaay, C., Regan, E., Ling, M., Bozhinovska, E., Fernandez, M., Marini-Filho, O.J., Huertas, B., Phon, C.-K., Körösi, A., Meerman, J., Pe'er, G., Uehara-Prado, M., Sáfián, S., Sam, L., Shuey, J., Taron, D., Terblanche, R., Underhill, L.G. (2015):
    Guidelines for standardised global butterfly monitoring
    GEO BON Technical Series 1
    Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, 25 pp.
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2014 (8)

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2012 (4)

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2011 (4)

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2008 (5)

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