Publications
2020
Didham RK, Basset Y, Collins CM, Leather SR, Littlewood NA, Menz MHM, Müller J, Packer L, Saunders ME, Schönrogge K, Stewart AJA, Yanoviak SP, Hassall C. (2020) Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward. Insect Conservation and Diversity 13, 103-114.
Doyle T, Hawkes WLS, Massy R, Powney GD, Menz MHM, Wotton KR. (2020) Pollination by hoverflies in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287, 20200508.
Gao B, Wotton KR, Hawkes WLS, Menz MHM, Reynolds DR, Zhai B-P, Hu G, Chapman JW. Adaptive strategies of high-flying migratory hoverflies in response to wind currents. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287, 20200406.
Jeliazkov A, Mijatovic D, … Menz MHM, … Chase JM (80 authors). (2020) A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space. Scientific Data 7, 6.
Prendergast K, Menz MHM, Dixon KW, Bateman PW. (2020) The relative performance of sampling methods for native bees: an empirical test and review of the literature. Ecosphere 11, e03076.
2019
Menz MHM, Reynolds DR, Gao B, Hu G, Chapman JW, Wotton KR. (2019) Mechanisms and consequences of partial migration in insects. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 403.
Wotton KR, Gao B, Menz MHM, Morris RKA, Ball SG, Lim KS, Reynolds DR, Hu G, Chapman JW. (2019) Mass seasonal migrations of hoverflies provide extensive pollination and crop protection services. Current Biology 29, 2167-2173
Dispatch: Gilbert F. Migration: Ecosystem services helicoptered in. Current Biology 29, R697-R699.
Featured in: Science, Science Daily, The New York Times, The Scientist, Phys.org, Discover Magazine
Becciu P, Menz MHM, Aurbach A, Cabrera-Cruz S, Wainwright C, Scacco M, Ciach M, Pettersson LB, Maggini I, Arroyo GM, Buler JJ, Reynolds D and Sapir N. (2019) Environmental effects on flying migrants revealed by radar. Ecography 42, 942–955.
Hüppop O, Ciach M, Diehl R, Reynolds DR, Stepanian PM and Menz MHM. (2019) Perspectives and challenges for the use of radar in biological conservation. Ecography 42, 912-930.
van Klink R, Menz MHM, Baur H, Dosch O, Kühne I, Lischer L, Luka H, Meyer S, Szikora T, Unternährer D, Arlettaz R and Humbert J-Y. (2019) Larval and phenological traits predict insect community response to mowing regime manipulations. Ecological Applications 29, e01900.
Menz MHM, Brown BV, Wotton KR. (2019).Quantification of migrant hoverfly movements (Diptera: Syrphidae) on the West Coast of North America. Royal Society Open Science 6, 190153.
Mirkovic D, Stepanian PM, Wainwright CE, Reynolds DR and Menz MHM. (2019) Characterizing animal anatomy and internal composition for electromagnetic modeling in radar entomology. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 5, 169–179.
Nilsson C, Dokter A, Verlinden L, Shamoun-Baranes J, Schmid B, Desmet P, Bauer S, Chapman JW, Alves JA, Stepanian PM, Sapir N, Wainwright CE, Boos M, Górska A, Menz MHM, Rodrigues P, Leijnse H, Zehtindjiev P, Brabant R, Haase G, Weisshaupt N, Ciach M and Liechti F. (2019) Revealing patterns of nocturnal migration using the European weather radar network. Ecography 42, 876–886.
2018
Dällenbach LJ, Glauser A, Lim KS, Chapman JW, and Menz MHM. (2018) Higher flight activity in the offspring of migrants compared to residents in a migratory insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285, 20172829.
Luder, K., Knop, E. & Menz, M.H.M. Contrasting responses in community structure and phenology of migratory and non‐migratory pollinators to urbanization. Diversity and Distributions 24, 919–927.
Knop, E., Gerpe, C., Ryser, R., Hofmann, F., Menz, M.H.M., Trösch, S., Ursenbacher, S., Zoller, L. & Fontaine, C. Rush hours in flower visitors over a day–night cycle. Insect Conservation and Diversity 11, 267–275.
2017
Bauer, S., Chapman, J., Reynolds, D.R., Alves, J.A., Dokter, A., Menz, M.H.M., Sapir, N., Ciach, M., Pettersson, L.N., Kelly, J.F., Leijnse, H. & Shamoun-Baranes, J. From agricultural benefits to aviation safety – realizing the potential of continent-wide radar networks. BioScience 67, 912–918.
Odermatt, J., Frommen, J.G. & Menz, M.H.M. (2017) Consistent behavioural differences between migratory and resident hoverflies. Animal Behaviour 127, 187–195.
Meyer, S., Unternährer, D., Arlettaz, R., Humbert, J-Y. & Menz, M.H.M. (2017) Promoting diverse communities of wild bees and hoverflies requires a landscape approach to managing meadows. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 239, 376–384.
Miller, B.P, Sinclair, E.A., Menz, M.H.M., Elliott, C.P., Bunn, E., Commander, L.E., Dalziell, E., David, E., Davis, B., Erickson, T.E., Golos, P., Krauss, S.L., Lewandrowski, L., Mayence, C.E., Merino-Martín, L., Merritt, D.J., Nevill, P., Phillips, R.D., Ritchie, A.L., Ruoss, S. & Stevens, J.C. A framework for the practical science necessary to restore sustainable, resilient and biodiverse ecosystems. Restoration Ecology 25, 605–617.
2016
David, E., Dixon, K.W. & Menz, M.H.M. (2016) Cooperative Extension: A Model Of Science–Practice Integration for Ecosystem Restoration. Trends in Plant Science 21. 410–417
Weinstein, A.M., Davis, B.J., Menz, M.H.M., Dixon, K.W. & Phillips, R.D. (2016) The behaviour of sexually deceived ichneumonid wasps and its implications for pollination in Cryptostylis (Orchidaceae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 119, 283–298.
2015
Menz, M.H.M., Brown, G.R., Dixon, K.W. & Phillips, R.D. (2015) Absence of nectar resource partitioning in a community of parasitoid wasps. Journal of Insect Conservation 19, 703–711.
Menz, M.H.M., Phillips, R.D., Anthony, J.M., Bohman, B., Dixon, K.W. & Peakall, R. (2015) Ecological and genetic evidence for cryptic ecotypes in a rare sexually deceptive orchid, Drakaea elastica. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 177, 124–140.
Phillips, R.D., Peakall, R., Retter, B.A., Montgomery, K., Menz, M.H.M., Davis, B.J., Hayes, C., Brown, G.R., Swarts, N.D. & Dixon, K.W. (2015) Pollinator rarity as a threat to a plant with a specialized pollination system. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 179, 511–525.
Tomlinson, S. & Menz, M.H.M. (2015) Does metabolic rate and evaporative water loss reflect differences in migratory strategy in sexually dimorphic hoverflies? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 190, 61–67.
2014
Thoma, M. & Menz, M.H.M. (2014) The Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana wintering in West Africa, and its status as a passage migrant in Mauritania. Malimbus 36, 13–31
Bohmann, B., Phillips, R.D., Menz, M.H.M., Berntsson, B.W., Flemetti, G.R., Barrow, R.A., Dixon, K.W. & Peakall, R. (2014) Discovery of pyrazines as pollinator sex pheromones and orchid semiochemicals: implications for the evolution of sexual deception. New Phytologist 203, 939–952.
Commentary by Ayasse & Dötterl, New. Phyt. 203, 710–712
Phillips, R.D., Steinmeyer, F., Menz, M.H.M., Erickson, T.E. & Dixon, K.W. (2014) Changes in the composition and behaviour of a pollinator guild with plant population size and the consequences for plant fecundity. Functional Ecology 28, 846–856.
2013
Menz, M.H.M., Dixon, K.W. & Hobbs, R.J. (2013) Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration. Science 339, 526–527.
Menz, M.H.M., Phillips, R.D., Dixon, K.W., Peakall, R. & Didham, R.K. (2013) Mate-searching behaviour of common and rare wasps and the implications for pollen movement of the sexually deceptive orchids they pollinate. PLoS ONE, 8(3): e59111.
2012
Menz, M.H.M. & Arlettaz, R. (2012) The precipitous decline of the ortolan bunting: time to build on scientific evidence to inform conservation management. Oryx 46, 122–129.
2011
Menz, M.H.M., Phillips, R.D., Winfree, R., Kremen, C., Aizen, M.A., Johnson, S.D. & Dixon, K.W. (2011) Reconnecting plants and pollinators: challenges in the restoration of pollination mutualisms. Trends in Plant Science 16, 4–12 (cover article).
2009
Menz, M.H.M., Brotons, L. & Arlettaz, R. (2009) Habitat selection by Ortolan Buntings Emberiza hortulana in post-fire succession in Catalonia: implications for the conservation of farmland populations. Ibis 151, 752–761.
Menz, M.H.M., Mosimann-Kampe, P. & Arlettaz, R. (2009) Foraging habitat selection in the last Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana population in Switzerland: final lessons before extinction. Ardea 97, 323–333.
Menz, M.H.M. (2009) New records of Hypolimnas bolina nerina (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from the Pilbara region, Western Australia. Australian Entomologist 36, 49–50.
Reichlin, T.S., Schaub, M., Menz, M.H.M., Mermod, M., Portner, P., Arlettaz, R. & Jenni, L. (2009) Migration patterns of Hoopoe (Upupa epops) and Wryneck (Jynx torquilla): an analysis of European ring recoveries. Journal of Ornithology 150, 393–400.
2007
Menz, M.H.M. & Barnett, B.C. (2007) Lechenaultia divaricata (Goodeniaceae) from the Great Victoria Desert, a new species record for Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 25, 255–257.
2006
Menz, M.H.M. & Cullen, P.P. (2006) Occurrence of the Barking Gecko Underwoodisaurus milii (Bory 1825) (Gekkonidae) in the Pilbara Region, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 89, 89–90.
Popular Articles
Hobbs, R., Menz, M., Dixon, K. (2013) How can global restoration targets best be met? Decision Point 68, 4-5 (April 2013).
Menz, M. (2011) The importance of pollinators in ecological restoration: it’s about the birds and the bees. For People and Plants 75, 24-25 (Spring 2011)