Key publications of the last three years

Reprints available upon request (For a complete list of publications please visit the websites of our staff members).

• Truxa C. & K. Fiedler (2012): Attraction to light – from how far do moths (Lepidoptera) return to weak artificial sources of light? European Journal of Entomology (2012), 109(1): 77–84. Link to article

• Truxa, C. & Fiedler, K. (2012): Down in the flood? How moth communities are shaped in temperate floodplain forests. Insect Conservation and Diversity. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00177.x. Early View

• Strutzenberger, P., Brehm, G., Bodner, F., & Fiedler, K. (2010): Molecular phylogeny of Eois (Lepidoptera, Geometridae): evolution of wing patterns and host plant use in a species rich group of Neotropical moths. – Zool. Scripta 39 (6): 603-620. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00440.x

• Schulze, C. H., Schneeweihs, S., & Fiedler, K. (2010): The potential of land-use systems for maintaining tropical forest butterfly diversity. – Pp. 74-96 in: Tscharntke, T., Leuschner, C., Veldkamp, E., Faust, H., Guhardja, E., & Bidin, A. (eds.): Tropical rainforests and agroforests under global change – ecological and socio-economic valuations. Springer, Berlin. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00493-3_3

• Wiemers, M., Keller, A. & Wolf, M. (2009): ITS2 secondary structure improves phylogeny estimation in a radiation of blue butterflies of the subgenus Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatus). – BMC Evol. Biol. 9: 300

• Tamara Fellner, Volker Borovsky & Konrad Fiedler (2009): First records of the dacetine ant species Pyramica argiola (Emery, 1869) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Austria. - Myrmecological News 12: 167-169. More Information

• Beck J. & Fiedler K. (2009): Adult life spans of butterflies (Lepidoptera:
  Papilionoidea + Hesperioidea): broadscale contingencies with adult and larval traits in multi-species comparisons. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2009, 96, 166–184. pdf

• Axmacher J. C. , Brehm G., Hemp A.,Tünte H., Lyaruu H. V.M., Müller-Hohenstein K. & Fiedler K. (2009): Determinants of diversity in afrotropical herbivorous insects (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): plant diversity, vegetation structure or abiotic factors? Journal of Biogeography doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01997.x

• Nöske N. M., Hilt, N., Werner, F. A., Brehm, G., Fiedler, K., Sipman, H.J.M. & Gradstein, S. R. (2008): Disturbance effects on diversity of epiphytes and moths in a montane forest in Ecuador. Basic and Applied Ecology 9: 4-12. doi:10.1016/j.baae.2007.06.014

• Fiedler, K., Brehm, G., Hilt, N., Süssenbach, D., & Häuser, C. L. (2008): Variation of diversity patterns across moth families along a tropical elevational gradient. – Pp. 167-179 in: BECK, E., BENDIX, J., KOTTKE, I., MAKESCHIN, F., & MOSANDL, R. (eds.), Gradients in a tropical mountain ecosystem of Ecuador. Ecol. Studies 198, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. More information

• K. Fiedler, F. Kuhlmann, B.C. Schlick-Steiner, F.M. Steiner and G. Gebauer (2007): Stable N-isotope signatures of central European ants - assessing positions in a trophic gradient. Insect. Soc. 54: 393-402. doi:10.1007/s00040-007-0959-0