Publications

Geißel, J.P., Espinosa-Novo, N., Giménez, L. et al. (2023). Interactive responses to temperature and salinity in larvae of the Asian brush-clawed crab Hemigrapsus takanoi: relevance for range expansion into the Baltic Sea, in the context of climate change. Biol Invasions  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-024-03279-5

Brinkop, K., Wienhausen, L.M., Sperfeld, E., Wacker, A. (2023) Ingestion and respiration rates of a common coastal mysid respond differently to diurnal temperature fluctuation. Limnology and Oceanography https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12491

Schmeddes, J., Muffler, L., Barbeta, A., Beil, I., Bolte, A., Holm, S., Karitter, P., Klisz, M., Löf, M., Nicolas, M., Peñuelas, J., Vitasse, Y., Weigel, R., Kreyling, J. (2023) High phenottypic variation found withuin the offspring of each mother tree in Fagus sylvatica regardless of the environment or source population. Global Ecology and Biogeography http://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13794

Dahl Borg, M., Kreyling, J., Petters, S., Wang, H., Mortensen, M.S., Maccario, L., Sørensen, S.J., Urich, T., Weigel, R. (2023). Warmer winters result in reshaping of the European beech forest soil microbiome (bacteria, archaea and fungi)—With potential implications for ecosystem functioning. Environmental Microbiology  https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16347

Knobloch, J., Gößeler, S., Fuchs, L.I.R.. Fuß, J., Torres-Oliva, M., Müller, C., Hildebrandt, J.-P. (2023). The Ins and Outs of Urea: Identification of Putative DUR3-like Urea Transporters in the Oligohaline Nerite Snail Theodoxus fluviatilis and Their Expression under Changing Salinities. Physiologia 3, 281-294. https://doi.org/10.3390/physiologia3020020

Hildebrandt, J.-P. (2023) Ecology meets physiology: Phenotypic plasticity and the ability of animals to adjust to changing environmental conditions. Physiologia 3(2):366-380. https://doi.org/10.3390/physiologia3020025.

Reusch, C., Gampe, J., Scheuerlein, A., Dammhahn, M., Grosche, L., Meier, F., Kerth, G. (2023). The risk faced by the early bat: individual plasticity and mortality costs of the timing of spring departure after hibernation. Oikos, 2023: e09654. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09654

Krivek, G., Gillert, A., Harder, M., Fritze, M., Frankowski, K., Timm, L., Meyer-Olbersleben, L., Freiherr von Lukas, U., Kerth, G., van Schaik, J. (2023) BatNet: a deep learning-based tool for automated bat species identification from camera trap images. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rse2.339

Mundinger, C., van Schaik, J., Scheuerlein, A., Kerth, G. (2023). Heat over heritability: Increasing body size in response to global warming is not stabilized by genetic effects in Bechstein's bats. Global Change Biology  https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16824

Stapelfeldt, B., Tress, C., Koch, R., Kerth, G., Scheuerlein A. (2023) Long-term field study reveals that warmer summers lead to larger and longer-lived females only in northern populations of Natterer’s bats. Oecologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05318-9 

Stein, W., Torres, G., Giménez, L., Espinosa-Nova, N., Geißel, JP., Vidal-Gadea, A., Harzsch, S. (2023) Thermal acclimation and habitat-dependent differences in temperature robustness of a crustacean motor circuit. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, section Cellular Neurophysiology. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2023.1263591/abstract

Dorado-Liñán, I., Ayarzagüena, B., Babst, F., Xu, G., Gil, L., Battipaglia, G., Cada, V., Camarero, J.J., Cavin, L., Claessens, H., Drobyshev, I., Garamszegi, B., Grabner, M., Hacket Pain, A., Hartl, C., Hevia, A., Janda, P., Jump, A., Kazimirovic, M., Keren, S., Kreyling, J., Land, A., Latte, N., Levanic, T., van der Maaten, E., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., Menzel, A., Mikolas, M., Motta, R., Muffler, L., Nola, P., Payanatov, M., Petritan, A.M., Petritan, I.C., Popa, I., Prislan, P., Roibu, C., Rydval, M., Sanchez Salguero, R., Scharnweber, T., Staji, B., Svoboda, M., Tegel, W., Theodosiu, M., Toromani, E., Trotsiuk, V., Turcu, D., Weigel, R., Wilmking, M., Zang, C., Zlatanov, T., Trouet, V. (2022). Jet stream position ex-plains regional anomalies in European forest productivity. Nature Communications 12: 5693. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29615-8 Open Access

Degut, A., Fischer, K., Quque, M., Criscuolo, F., Michalik, P.*, Beaulieu, M.* (2022). Irreversible impact of early thermal conditions: an integrative study of developmental plasticity linked to mobility in a butterfly species. Journal of Experimental Biology 225(3):jeb243724. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243724

Knobloch, J., Müller, C., Hildebrandt, J.P. (2022). Expression levels and activities of energy-yielding ATPases in the oligohaline neritid snail Theodoxus fluviatilis under changing environmental salinities. Biol Open (2022) 11 (2): bio059190. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.059190

Männer, L., Mundinger, C., & Haase, M. (2022). Stay in shape: Assessing the adaptive potential of shell morphology and its sensitivity to temperature in the invasive New Zealand mud snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum through phenotypic plasticity and natural selection in Europe. Ecology and Evolution, 12(10), e9314. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9314 Open Access

Malyshev, A.V., van der Maaten, E., Garthen, A., Maß, D., Schwabe, M., Kreyling, J. (2022). Inter-Individual Budburst Variation in Fagus sylvatica Is Driven by Warming Rate. Frontiers in Plant Science 13:853521. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.853521 Open Access

Martinez del Castillo, E., Zang, C.S., Buras, A., Hacket-Pain, A., Esper, J., Serrano-Notivoli, R., Hartl, C., Weigel, R., Klesse, S., Resco de Dios, V., Scharnweber, T., Dorado-Liñán, I., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., van der Maaten, E., Jump, A., Mikac, S., Banzragch, B.E., Beck, W., Cavin, L., Claessens, H., Čada, V., Čufar, K., Dulamsuren, C., Gricar, J., Gil-Pelegrín, E., Janda, P., Kazimirovic, M., Kreyling, J., Latte, N., Leuschner, C., Longares, L.A., Menzel, A., Merela, M., Motta, R., Muffler, L., Nola, P., Petritan, A.M., Petritan, I.C., Prislan, P., Rubio-Cuadrado, A., Rydval, M., Stajić, B., Svoboda, M., Toromani, E., Trotsiuk, V., Wilmking, M., Zlatanov, T., de Luis, M. (2022) Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests. Communications Biology 5:163 doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03107-3.

Meier, F., Grosche L., Reusch, C., Runkel, V., van Schaik, J., Kerth, G. (2022). Long-term individualized monitoring of sympatric bat species reveals distinct species- and demographic differences in hibernation phenology. BMC Ecol Evo 22, 7.DOI: 10.1186/s12862-022-01962-6 Open Access

Mundinger, C., Fleischer, T., Scheuerlein, A., Kerth, G. (2022). Global warming leads to larger bats with a faster life history pace in the long-lived Bechstein’s bat (Myotis bechsteinii). Commun Biol 5, 682. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03611-6 Open Access

Šargač, Z, Giménez, L, González-Ortegón, E, Harzsch, S, Tremblay, N, Torres, G. (2022). Quantifying the portfolio of larval responses to salinity and temperature in a coastal-marine invertebrate: a cross population study along the European coast. Marine Biology 169 (81). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-022-04062-7 Open Access

Sheffer, M.M., Cordellier, M., Forman, M., Grewoldt, M., Hoffmann, K., Jensen, C., Kotz, M., Král, J., Kuss, A.W., Líznarová, E., Uhl, G. (2022). Identification of sex chromosomes using genomic and cytogenetic methods in a range-expanding spider, Argiope bruennichi (Araneae: Araneidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 136, page 405-416. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blac039

Söllinger, A., Séneca, J., Borg Dahl, M., Motleleng, L.L., Prommer, J., Verbruggen, E., Sigurdsson, B.D., Janssens, I., Penuelas, J., Urich, T., Richter, A., Tveit, A. (2022). Down-regulation of the bacterial protein biosynthesis machinery in response to weeks, years, and decades of soil warming. Science Advances 8 (12): eabm3230. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm3230

Stapelfeldt, B., Scheuerlein, A.,  Tress, C., Koch, R., Tress, J., Kerth, G. (2022). Precipitation during two weeks in spring influences reproductive success of first-year females in the long-lived Natterer’s bat. Royal Society Open Science 9: 211881. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211881 Open Access

Wiesenthal, A.A.,  Müller, C., Albrecht, D., Hildebrandt, J.-P. (2022). Differences in the expression of soluble proteins in freshwater- and brackish water-ecotypes of the snail Theodoxus fluviatilis. Invertebrate Biology, e12381. https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12381 Open Access

Zacharias, M., Pampuch, T., Dauphin, B., Opgenoorth, L., Roland, C., Schnittler, M.,Wilmking, M., Bog, M., Heer, K. (2022): Genetic basis of growth reaction to drought stress differ in contrasting high-latitude treeline ecotones of a widespread conifer. Molecular ecology 31(20), 5165-5181, https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16648

Dagamac, N.H.A., Bauer, B., Woyzichovski, J., Shchepin, O.N., Novozhilov, Y.K., Schnittler, M. (2021): Where do nivicolous myxomycetes occur? – Modeling the potential worldwide distribution of Physarum albescens. Fungal Ecology, 53: 101079, doi: 10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101079

Grimm, M., Grube, M., Schiefelbein, U., Zühlke, D., Bernahrdt, J., Riedel, K., (2021): The Lichens´Microbiota, Still a Mystery? Front Microbio. Frontiers; 2021;12:623839.  Front Microbio. Frontiers. 2021;12:623839 

Lehnen, L., Jan, P.L., Besnard, A.L., Fourcy D., Kerth G., Biedermann, M., Nyssen, P., Schorcht, W., Petit, E.J., Puechmaille, S.J. (2021). Genetic diversity in a long-lived mammal is explained by the past’s demographic shadow and current connectivity. Molecular Ecology. 2021;30:5048–5063. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16123

Gurskaya, M. A., Lange, J., Kukarskih, V.V., Buras, A., Wilmking, M. (2021) Stationarity of climate-growth response is only marginally influenced by the soil moisture regime in Western Siberia. Dendrochronologia Volume 69: 125873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125873

Hernandez-Montero, J.R., Adam M., Kerth G. (2021). Are echo-reflective cues effective to attract bats to newly placed artificial roosts? Acta Chiropterologica 23 (1):199-205. https://doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2021.23.1.016

Krivek, G., Schulze, B., Poloskei, P. Z., Frankowski, K., Mathgen, X., Douwes, A., van Schaik, J. (2021). Camera traps with white flash are a minimally invasive method for long‐term bat monitoring. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 8 (3): 284-296. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.243

Lehnen, L., Jan, P. L., Besnard, A. L., Fourcy, D., Kerth, G., Biedermann, M., ... Puechmaille, S. J. (2021). Genetic diversity in a long‐lived mammal is explained by the past’s demographic shadow and current connectivity. Molecular Ecology 2021;00:1–16. DOI: 10.1111/mec.16123

Lembrechts, J.J., et 108 al. including Kreyling, J., Muffler, L., Weigel, R. et Lenoir, J. (2021). Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology 28 (9): 2843-3160. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16060. Open Access

Männer, L., Schell, T., Provataris, P., Haase, M., Greve, C. (2021). Inference of DNA methylation patterns in mollusks. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 376: 20200166. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0166

Melzer, R.R., Spitzner, F., Šargač, Z., Hörnig, M., Krieger, J., Haug, C., Haug, J.T., Kirchhoff, T., Meth, R., Torres, G., Harzsch, S. (2021) Methods to study organogenesis in decapod crustacean larvae II: analysing cells and tissues. Helgoland marine research 2021 v.75 no.1 pp2 https://doi.org/10.1186/s10152-021-00547-y Open Access

Muffler, L., Schmeddes, J., Weigel, R., Barbeta, A., Beil, I., Bolte, A., Buhk, C., Holm, S., Klein, G., Klisz, M., Löf, M., Penuelas, J., Schneider, L., Vitasse, Y., Kreyling, J. (2021) High plasticity in germination and establishment success in the dominant forest tree Fagus sylvatica across Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30 (8): 1583-1596. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13320 Open Access

Mundinger, C., Scheuerlein, A., Kerth, G. (2021). Long-term study shows that increasing body size in response to warmer summers is associated with a higher mortality risk in a long-lived bat species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1952), 20210508. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0508

Šargač, Z., Giménez, L., Harzsch, S., Krieger, J., Fjordside K, Torres, G. (2021) Contrasting offspring responses to variation in salinity and temperature among coastal populations: a maladaptive ecological surprise? Marine Ecology Progress Series 677: 51–65. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13851 Open Access

Sheffer, M.M., Hoppe, A., Krehenwinkel, H., Uhl, G., Kuss, A.W., Jensen, L., Jensen, C., Gillespie, R.G., Hoff, K. & Prost, S. (2021). Chromosome-level reference genome of the European wasp spider Argiope bruennichi: a resource for studies on range expansion and evolutionary adaptation. GigaScience 10: 1. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaa148

Shchepin, O., Novozhilov, Y., Woyzichovski, J., Bog, M., Prikhodko, I., Federova, N., Gmoshinskiy, V., Borg Dahl, M., Dagamac, N.H.A.,Yajima, Y., Schnittler, M. (2021). Genetic structure of the Protist Physarum Albescens (Amoebozoa) revealed by multiple markers and genotyping by sequencing. Molecular Ecology 31 (1): 372-390. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16239

Stein, S., Harzsch, S. (2021). The Neurobiology of Ocean Change – insights from decapod crustaceans. Zoology: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2020.125887

Tesfay, Y.B., Kreyling, J. (2021) The invasive Opuntia ficus-indica homogenizes native plant species compositions in the highlands of Eritrea. Biological Invasions 23: 433-442. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02373-8 Open Access

Torres, G., Charmantier, G., Wilcokson, D., Harzsch, S.,Giménez, L. (2021) Physiological basis of interactive responses to temperature and salinity in coastal-marine invertebrate: implications for responses to warming.  Ecology & Evolution 11: 7042-7056 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7552

Torres, G., Melzer, R., Spitzner, F., Šargač, Z., Harzsch, S., Gimenez, L. (2021) Methods to study organogenesis in decapod crustacean larvae I: larval rearing, preparation and fixation. Helgoland Marine Research 75:3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s10152-021-00548-x Open Access

Verhaegen, G., Haase, M. (2021). All-inclusive descriptions of new freshwater snail taxa of the hyperdiverse family Tateidae (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda) from the South Island of New Zealand. European Journal of Taxonomy 731: 71–96. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.731.1205 Open Access

Wacker, A., Harzsch, S. (2021) Crustaceans in a changing world. Zoology 146 (2021) 125921 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2021.125921

Weigel, R., Henry, H.A.L., Beil, I., Gebauer, G., Jurasinski, G., Klisz, M., van der Maaten, E., Muffler, L., Kreyling, J. (2021) Ecosystem processes show uniform sensitivity to winter soil temperature change across a gradient from central to cold marginal stands of a ma-jor temperate forest tree. Ecosystems 24: 1545-1560. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00600-4 Open Access.

Zacharias, M., Pampuch, T., Heer, K., Avanzi, C., Würth, D.G., Trouilier, M., Bog, M., Wilmking, M., Schnittler, M. (2021) Population structure and the influence of microenvironment and genetic similarity on individual growth at Alaskan white spruce treelines. Science of The Total Environment, Volume 798, 149267, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149267

Borg-Dahl, M., Persoh, D., Jentsch, A., Kreyling, J. (2020) Root-associated mycobiomes of common temperate plants (Calluna vulgaris and Holcus lanatus) are strongly affected by winter climate conditions. Microbial Ecology  82, 403–415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01667-7 Open Access

Donne, C., Neiman, M., Woodell, J.D., Haase, M., Verhaegen, G. (2020). A layover in Europe: reconstructing the invasion route of asexual lineages of a New Zealand snail to North America. Molecular Ecology. 2020;29:3446–3465 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15569 Open Access

Fischer, K., Kreyling, J., Beaulieu, M., Beil, I., Bog, M., Bonte, D., Holm, S., Knoblauch, S., Koch, D., Muffler, L., Mouginot, P., Paulinich, M., Scheepens, J.F., Schiemann, R., Schmeddes, J., Schnittler, M., Uhl, G., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., Weier, J.M., Wilmking, M., Weigel, R., Gienapp, P. (2020) Species-specific effects of thermal stress on the expression of genetic variation across a diverse group of plant and animal taxa under experimental conditions. Heredity 126: 23-37. DOI: 10.1038/s41437-020-0338-4

Gimenez, L., Exton, M., Spitzner, F., Meth, R., Ecker, U., Jungblut, S., Harzsch, S., Saborowksi, R., Torres, G. (2020). Exploring larval phenology as predictor for range expansion in an invasive species. Ecography 43: 1423-1434 https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04725 Open Access

Günter, F., Beaulieu, M., Freiberg, K.F., Welzel, I., Toshkova, N., Žagar, A.,Simčič, T., Fischer, F. (2020). Clinal variation in investment into reproduction versus maintenance suggests a ‘pace-of-life’syndrome in a widespread butterfly. Oecologia 193 (4), 1011-1020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04719-4 Open Access

Hernández-Montero, J.R., Reusch, C., Simon, R., Schöner C.R., Kerth, G. (2020). Free-ranging bats combine three different cognitive processes for roost localization. Oecologia 4: 979-988. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04634-8

Hernández-Montero, J.R., Schöner C.R., Kerth, G. (2020). No evidence for memory retention of a learned association between a cue and roost quality after hibernation in free-ranging bats. Ethology 7: 761-771. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13029

Kivistik, C., Knobloch, J., Käiro, K., Tammert, H., Kisand, V., Hildebrandt, J.-P., Herlemann, D.P.R. (2020). Impact of salinity on the gastrointestinal bacterial community of Theodoxus fluviatilis. Front Microbiol 11(683). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00683

Lembrechts, J.J., et al. including Muffler, L., Kreyling, J., Schmeddes, J., Trouillier, M., Wilmking, M., Weigel, R., et Nily, I. (2020). Soil temp: a global database of near-surface temperature. Global Change biology 26 (11): 6616-6629 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15123

Mouginot, P., Uhl, G., Toshkova, N., Beaulieu, M. (2020). Differential oxidative costs of locomotory and genital damage in an orb-weaving spider. Journal of Experimental Biology 223 (21), jeb219758. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.219758

Muffler, L., Weigel, R., Hacket-Pain, A.J., Klisz, M., van der Maaten, E., Wilmking, M., Kreyling, J., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M. (2020) Lowest drought sensitivity and decreasing growth synchrony towards the dry distribution margin of European beech. Journal of Biogeography 47:1910–1921.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13884 Open Access

Pampuch, T., Anadon-Rosell, A., Zacharias, M., von Arx, G., Wilmking, M. (2020): Xylem anatomical variability in white spruce at treeline is largely driven by spatial clustering. Frontiers in Plant Science 11, Article 581378, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.581378 Open Access

Sheffer, M.M., Uhl, G., Prost, S., Lueders, T., Urich, T. & Bengtsson, M.M. (2020). Tissue- and population-level microbiome analysis of the wasp spider Argiope bruennichi identifies a novel dominant bacterial symbiont. Microorganisms 8, 8;https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8010008 Open Access

Stapelfeldt, B., Schöner, M., Kerth, G., van Schaik, J. (2020). Slight Increase in Bat Activity after Human Hibernation Count Monitoring of a Bunker Complex in Northern Germany. Acta Chiropterologica, 22(2), 383-390. https://doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2020.22.2.012

Torres, G., Giménez, L. (2020). Temperature modulates compensatory responses to food limitation at metamorphosis in a marine invertebrate. Functional Ecology. 2020;34:1564–1576. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13607 

Verhaegen, G., von Jungmeister, K., Haase, M. (2020). Life history variation in space and time: environmental and seasonal responses of a parthenogenetic invasive freshwater snail in northern Germany. Hydrobiologia 848: 2153-2168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04333-8 Open Access

Wilmking, M., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., van der Maaten, E., Scharnweber, T., Buras, A., Biermann, C., Gurskaya, M., Hallinger, M., Lange, J., Shetti, R., Smiljanic, M., Trouillier, M. (2020). Global assessment of relationships between climate and tree growth. Global Change Biology 26 (6): 3212-3220. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15057 Open Access

Wolz, M., Klockmann, M., Schmitz, T., Pekár, S., Bonte, D., Uhl, G. (2020). Dispersal and life-history traits in a spider with rapid range expansion. Movement Ecology 8, 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-019-0182-4. Open Access

Zeus, V.M.,  Köhler, A., Reusch, C., Fischer, K., Balkema-Buschmann, A, Kerth, G. (2020) Analysis of astrovirus transmission pathways in a free-ranging fission-fusion colony of Natterer’s bats (Myotis nattereri). Behavior Ecology and Sociobiology, 74: 146 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-020-02932-y Open Access

Barbeta, A., Camarero, J.J., Sangüesa-Barreda, G., Muffler, L. & Peñuelas, J. (2018). Contrasting effects of fog frequency on the radial growth of two tree species in a Mediterranean-temperate ecotone. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 264: 297-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.10.020

Dahl, M., Brejnrod, A., Russel, J., Sørensen, S., Schnittler, M. (2019) Different Degrees of Niche Differentiation for Bacteria, Fungi, and Myxomycetes Within an Elevational Transect in the German Alps. Microbial Ecology 78, pages764–780 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-019-01347-1

Fragueira, R. & Beaulieu, M. (2019). Red does not always outperform black: morph-specific behavioural variation in response to environmental changes. Animal Behaviour 148: 81-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.12.006

Jan, P.-L., Lehnen, L., Besnard, A.-L., Kerth, G., Biedermann, M., Schorcht, W., Petit, E.J., Le Gouar, P. , Puechmaille, S.J. (2019). Range expansion is associated with increased survival and fecundity in a long-lived bat species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1906), 20190384. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0384

Klockmann, M. & Fischer, K. (2019). Strong reduction in diapause survival under warm and humid overwintering conditions. Population Ecology 61 (2): 150-159. https://doi.org/10.1002/1438-390X.1016

Krehenwinkel, H., Meese, S., Mayer, C, Ruch, J., Schneider, J., Bilde, T., Künzel, S., Henderson, J., Russack, J., Simison, W.B., Gillespie, R. & Uhl, G. (2019). Cost effective microsatellite isolation and genotyping by high throughput sequencing. Journal of Arachnology 47:190–201.

Kreyling, J., Puechmaille, S.J., Malyshev, A.V. & Valladares, F. (2019). Phenotypic plasticity closely linked to climate at origin and resulting in increased mortality under warming and frost stress in a common grass. Ecology & Evolution. Volume 9 (3): 1344-1352. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4848

Krieger, J. & Spitzner, F. (2019). X-ray microscopy of the larval crustacean brain. In: Sprecher, S. (eds) Brain Development. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2047. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9732-9_14

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