Research interests and selected publications

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• Hypotheses and concepts in invasion ecology

Jeschke, J.M., Gómez Aparicio, L., Haider, S., Heger, T., Lortie, C.J., Pyšek, P. & Strayer, D.L. (2012) Taxonomic bias and lack of cross-taxonomic studies in invasion biology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10, 349-350.
 Jeschke, J.M. & Strayer, D.L. (2005) Invasion success of vertebrates in Europe and North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102, 7198-7202.

• Long-term effects of invasive species

Carlsson, N.O.L., Jeschke, J.M., Holmqvist, N. & Kindberg, J. (2010) Long-term data on invaders: when the fox is away, the mink will play. Biological Invasions, 12, 633-641.
 Strayer, D.L., Eviner, V.T., Jeschke, J.M. & Pace, M.L. (2006) Understanding the long-term effects of species invasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21, 645-651.

• Characteristics of invasive species

van Kleunen, M., Dawson, W., Schlaepfer, D., Jeschke, J.M. & Fischer, M. (2010) Are invaders different? A conceptual framework of comparative approaches for assessing determinants of invasiveness. Ecology Letters, 13, 947-958.
 Jeschke, J.M. & Strayer, D.L. (2006) Determinants of vertebrate invasion success in Europe and North America. Global Change Biology, 12, 1608-1619.

• Predator-prey interactions

Jeschke, J.M., Kopp, M. & Tollrian, R. (2004) Consumer-food systems: why type I functional responses are exclusive to filter feeders. Biological Reviews, 79, 337-349.
 Jeschke, J.M., Kopp, M. & Tollrian, R. (2002) Predator functional responses: discriminating between handling and digesting prey. Ecological Monographs, 72, 95-112.

• Behavioral ecology

Jeschke, J.M. & Tollrian, R. (2007) Prey swarming: which predators become confused and why? Animal Behaviour, 74, 387-393.
 Jeschke, J.M., Wanless, S., Harris, M.P. & Kokko, H. (2007) How partnerships end in guillemots Uria aalge: chance events, adaptive change, or forced divorce? Behavioral Ecology, 18, 460-466.

• Conservation biology

Uhlmann, S.S. & Jeschke, J.M. (2011) Comparing factors associated with total and dead sooty shearwater bycatch in New Zealand trawl fisheries. Biological Conservation, 144, 1859-1865.
 Jeschke, J.M. & Strayer, D.L. (2008) Are threat status and invasion success two sides of the same coin? Ecography, 31, 124-130.

Membership in scientific societies 

• Ecological Society of America, Washington, DC
• Gesellschaft für Ökologie, Berlin
• IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG), Rome

Editorial boards

• Basic and Applied Ecology (since 2012)
• Dataset Papers in Ecology (since 2012)
  
• Diversity and Distributions (since 2011)
• Immediate Science Ecology (since 2012)
• ISRN Ecology (since 2010)
• Management of Biological Invasions (2010-2012)
• NeoBiota (since 2010)
• Soil Organisms (since 2007)

Other professional activities 

• Member of working group “Guidance on environmental risk assessment of GM mammals and birds”, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (since 2011)
• External expert for EFSA’s GMO Panel (2010)
• Evaluation committee member of BiodivERsA
• Reviewer of grant proposals for Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Leverhulme Trust
• Reviewer of manuscripts for >40 journals, e.g. American Naturalist, Basic and Applied Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biological Invasions, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Conservation Biology, Diversity and Distributions, Ecological Modelling, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Ecology of Freshwater Fish, Ecosystems, Evolution, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Functional Ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Field Ornithology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Marine and Freshwater Research, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Oecologia, Oikos, PLoS ONE, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Wildlife Research