
Postal address
Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Room: B.00.12
Contact details
Email: monica.farfan@idiv.de
Phone: +49 341 9733277
Websites
Research Interests
Soil Ecology, Soil Health Policy, Mite Community Ecology, IPM (Integrated Pest Management), Food web Ecology
Publications
Farfan, M. A., Guerra, C., Hedlund, K., Ingimarsdóttir, M., Barrios, E., Cox, N., Dahlberg, A., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Eisenhauer, N., Lundesjö, M., Orgiazzi, A., Parnell, J., Potapov, A., Ramirez, K., Raschmanová, N., Russell, D., Wall, D., & Zaytsev, A. (2024). Preliminary assessment of the knowledge gaps to improve nature conservation of soil biodiversity. Soils for Europe, 1, e118853. https://doi.org/10.3897/soils4europe.e118853
van der Putten, W. H., Bardgett, R. D., Farfan, M., Montanarella, L., Six, J., & Wall, D. H. (2023). Soil biodiversity needs policy without borders. Science, 379(6627), 32–34. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn7248
Farfan, M. A., Coffey, J., & Schmidt-Jeffris, R. A. (2021a). Evaluation of Tarsonemus bilobatus and Podosphaera xanthii as suitable resources for Proprioseiopsis mexicanus in cucurbit systems in the Southeast USA. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 85(1), 31–40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-021-00658-8
Farfan, M. A., Coffey, J., & Schmidt-Jeffris, R. A. (2021b). Suitability of food resources for Proprioseiopsis mexicanus, a potentially important natural enemy in eastern USA agroecosystems. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 84(1), 121–134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-021-00622-6
Schmidt-Jeffris, R. A., Coffey, J. L., Miller, G., & Farfan, M. A. (2021). Residual activity of acaricides for controlling spider mites in watermelon and their impacts on resident predatory mites. Journal of Economic Entomology, 114(2), 818–827. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toaa320
Wise, D. H., & Farfan, M. A. (2021). Effects of enhanced productivity of resources shared by predators in a food‐web module: Comparing results of a field experiment to predictions of mathematical models of intra‐guild predation. Ecology and Evolution, 11(23), 17417–17427. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8375
Farfan, M. A., & Schmidt-Jeffris, R. A. (2019). Biodiversity of Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Annual Specialty Crop Systems: The Current State of Knowledge Worldwide and the Need for Study in North America. In M. J. Skvarla, R. Ochoa, J. C. Verle Rodrigues, & H. J. Hutcheson (Eds.), Contemporary Acarology (pp. 93–117). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17265-7_6
McCary, M. A., Mores, R., Farfan, M. A., & Wise, D. H. (2016). Invasive plants have different effects on trophic structure of green and brown food webs in terrestrial ecosystems: A meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters, 19(3), 328–335. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12562
Farfan, M., & Klompen, H. (2012). Phoretic mite associates of millipedes (Diplopoda, Julidae) in the northern Atlantic region (North America, Europe). International Journal of Myriapodology, 7, 69–91. https://doi.org/10.3897/ijm.7.3064
Davis, A. Y., Belaire, J. A., Farfan, M. A., Milz, D., Sweeney, E. R., Loss, S. R., & Minor, E. S. 2012. Green infrastructure and bird diversity across an urban socioeconomic gradient. Ecosphere. 3:art105. https://doi.org/10.1890/ES12-00126.1