Article
Ecology
Laura Anna Maehn, Christian Hof, Roland Brandl, Stefan Pinkert
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between body size and latitude in odonate insects, specifically damselflies and dragonflies. The results show a weak positive relationship between body length and latitude, but contrasting effects of temperature and resource availability. The study emphasizes the importance of body size in determining species distributions and responses to climate change.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Tao Liang, Zi Zhang, Wen-ya Dai, Lei Shi, Chang-hu Lu
Summary: The study found that body size of Chinese lizards is larger in warmer regions, but at the assemblage level, size is correlated with multiple climatic factors and correlations vary within different major groups. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that, except for agamids, there is no significant association between body size and climate for lizards.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Entomology
Ning Kang, Hongying Hu, Zengqian Huang, Shungang Luo, Shuhan Guo
Summary: The size of organisms is closely related to their characteristics and fitness. This study found that two groups of Chalcids showed an increasing trend in body size with increasing elevation, and temperature and precipitation played a crucial role in their size variation. Body size is significantly correlated with insects' longevity, fecundity, metabolic rate, and sex ratio. This research provides insights into the environmental adaptation of parasitoids and confirms the correlation between body size and environmental factors.
Article
Ecology
Yoan Fourcade, Bader H. Alhajeri
Summary: This study investigates the links between environmental factors, body size, range size, and extinction risk in rodents. The results show that body size is mainly influenced by vegetative index rather than latitude/temperature and smaller range size relative to body size is associated with increased risk of extinction.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Jesse M. Alston, Douglas A. Keinath, Craig K. R. Willis, Cori L. Lausen, Joy M. O'Keefe, Janet D. Tyburec, Hugh G. Broders, Paul R. Moosman, Timothy C. Carter, Carol L. Chambers, Erin H. Gillam, Keith Geluso, Theodore J. Weller, Douglas W. Burles, Quinn E. Fletcher, Kaleigh J. O. Norquay, Jacob R. Goheen
Summary: Bergmann's rule, which suggests that larger animals prefer colder areas, affects the variation in body size within species across space and time. This study used Bayesian hierarchical models to test four hypotheses for the variation in body size of 20 bat species in North America. The results showed that spatial variation in body mass was most consistently correlated with mean annual temperature, supporting the heat conservation hypothesis. On the other hand, variation in body mass across time was most consistently correlated with net primary productivity, supporting the resource availability hypothesis. Climate change can influence body size through changes in temperature and resource availability.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Entomology
Jin Kyo Jung, Su Bin Kim, Bo Yoon Seo, Jiwon Kim, Dong-Soon Kim
Summary: The temperature-dependent development of Helicoverpa armigera fed with an artificial diet was studied at different temperatures. The instar pathway (IPW) significantly affected larval development time, with higher IPW leading to longer larval development time. Phenology models were developed based on the combined development time of the fifth-seventh instar. The models showed good performance in predicting the occurrences of pupae and adults.
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
David A. S. Smith, Jon J. Bennie, Ian J. Gordon, Simon Martin, Piera Ireri, Kennedy S. Omufwoko, Richard H. Ffrench-Constant
Summary: The study shows that hybrid effects, Haldane effect and Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller effects can be clearly observed in the African monarch butterfly in both laboratory and field settings, indicating the significance of these effects in different environments.
BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Stefan Pinkert, Roland Brandl, Dirk Zeuss
Article
Ecology
Lea Heidrich, Nicolas Friess, Konrad Fiedler, Martin Braendle, Axel Hausmann, Roland Brandl, Dirk Zeuss
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2018)
Editorial Material
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Stefan Pinkert, Dirk Zeuss
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Gunnar Brehm, Dirk Zeuss, Robert K. Colwell
Article
Ecology
Carsten F. Dormann, Maria Bobrowski, D. Matthias Dehling, David J. Harris, Florian Hartig, Heike Lischke, Marco D. Moretti, Joern Pagel, Stefan Pinkert, Matthias Schleuning, Susanne I. Schmidt, Christine S. Sheppard, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Dirk Zeuss, Casper Kraan
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2018)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Pablo Stelbrink, Stefan Pinkert, Stefan Brunzel, Jeremy Kerr, Christopher W. Wheat, Roland Brandl, Dirk Zeuss
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2019)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Stefan Pinkert, Dirk Zeuss, Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra, Jens Kipping, Viola Clausnitzer, Stefan Brunzel, Roland Brandl
DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS
(2020)
Article
Ecology
Stefan Pinkert, Nicolas Friess, Dirk Zeuss, Martin M. Gossner, Roland Brandl, Stefan Brunzel
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Wouter van der Bijl, Dirk Zeuss, Nicolas Chazot, Kalle Tunstrom, Niklas Wahlberg, Christer Wiklund, John L. Fitzpatrick, Christopher W. Wheat
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Stephan Woellauer, Dirk Zeuss, Falk Haensel, Thomas Nauss
Summary: TubeDB is an easy-to-operate software system designed for geographers, ecologists, and environmental scientists to archive, quality control, query, and further process time-series data from various sensors. It allows users to import raw data formats, create individual processing flows, and access data within a web-based application. TubeDB complements existing time-series databases by providing climate data-specific processing and visualization capabilities, making it a valuable tool for research activities.
COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Stephan Woellauer, Dirk Zeuss, Paul Magdon, Thomas Nauss
Summary: Monitoring biodiversity and its changes over space and time is a key challenge for ecological research. Remote sensing data has been proven to be a powerful complement to field work, and the RSDB serves as an integrative solution for storing and processing various types of remote sensing data, providing over 200 biodiversity-related indices for ecological studies.
Article
Plant Sciences
Eric Martine, Dirk Zeuss, Christian Lampei, Hang Sun, Georg Miehe, Lars Opgenoorth
Summary: The Himalayas and the Hengduan Mountains are hotspots of climatic and species diversity. This study investigates the distribution patterns of semi-arid plant communities and identifies the environmental drivers behind the disjunction of the shrub Rumex hastatus. The results suggest that the South Asian summer monsoon system acts as an ecological barrier maintaining the disjunct distribution of dry river valley-dwelling plants.
NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Fortunata Msoffe, Thomas Nauss, Dirk Zeuss
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS THEORY, APPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT (GISTAM)
(2020)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Stefan Pinkert, Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra, Dirk Zeuss, Christoph Reudenbach, Roland Brandl, Christian Hof