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G. Kerth

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h-index: 41
Works: 121
Citations: 5,945

Most-cited papers

Causes and Consequences of Sociality in Bats
G. Kerth
2008307 citations Open access
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Bats are able to maintain long-term social relationships despite the high fission–fusion dynamics of their groups
G. Kerth, N. Perony, F. Schweitzer
2011Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences246 citations Open access
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Collective decision‐making and fission–fusion dynamics: a conceptual framework
C. Sueur, A. King, L. Conradt, G. Kerth +6 more
2011235 citations Open access
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Fission-Fusion Dynamics : New Research Frameworks. Commentaries
F. Aureli, C. Schaffner, C. Boesch, S. Bearder +21 more
2008198 citations
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Species-specific barrier effects of a motorway on the habitat use of two threatened forest-living bat species
G. Kerth, Markus Melber
2009168 citations
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Growing old, yet staying young: The role of telomeres in bats’ exceptional longevity
Nicole M. Foley, Graham M. Hughes, Zi-Xia Huang, Michael Clarke +14 more
2018Science Advances156 citations Open access
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Day roost selection in female Bechstein's bats (Myotis bechsteinii): a field experiment to determine the influence of roost temperature
G. Kerth, Klaus Weissmann, B. König
2017Oecologia152 citations
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Roost selection and roost switching of female Bechstein’s bats (Myotis bechsteinii) as a strategy of parasite avoidance
Karsten Reckardt, G. Kerth
2007Oecologia142 citations Open access
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A novel resource–service mutualism between bats and pitcher plants
T. Grafe, Caroline R. Schöner, G. Kerth, A. Junaidi +1 more
2011Biology Letters93 citations Open access
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Communally breeding bats use physiological and behavioural adjustments to optimise daily energy expenditure
I. Pretzlaff, G. Kerth, K. Dausmann
2010Die Naturwissenschaften92 citations Open access
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Small‐Scale Fragmentation Effects on Local Genetic Diversity in Two Phyllostomid Bats with Different Dispersal Abilities in Panama
Christoph F. J. Meyer, E. Kalko, G. Kerth
200991 citations
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Comparative Analyses Suggest That Information Transfer Promoted Sociality in Male Bats in the Temperate Zone
K. Safi, G. Kerth
2007American Naturalist89 citations Open access
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Causes and consequences of living in closed societies: lessons from a long‐term socio‐genetic study on Bechstein’s bats
G. Kerth, J. van Schaik
2012Molecular Ecology85 citations
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Bats and Roads
J. Altringham, G. Kerth
201672 citations Open access
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Kinship, association, and social complexity in bats
G. Wilkinson, G. Carter, K. Bohn, B. Caspers +9 more
2019Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology70 citations Open access
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Similar is not the same: Social calls of conspecifics are more effective in attracting wild bats to day roosts than those of other bat species
Caroline R. Schöner, Michael G. Schöner, G. Kerth
2010Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology68 citations
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PRINCIPLES AND PATTERNS OF BAT MOVEMENTS: FROM AERODYNAMICS TO ECOLOGY
C. Voigt, Winifred F. Frick, M. Holderied, R. Holland +5 more
2017The Quarterly review of biology62 citations Open access
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Insectivorous bats carry host specific astroviruses and coronaviruses across different regions in Germany
K. Fischer, Veronika M. Zeus, Linda Kwasnitschka, G. Kerth +3 more
2015Infection, Genetics and Evolution59 citations Open access
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Rare catastrophic events drive population dynamics in a bat species with negligible senescence
Toni Fleischer, J. Gampe, A. Scheuerlein, G. Kerth
2017Scientific Reports56 citations Open access
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Spatio‐temporal population genetic structure of the parasitic mite Spinturnix bechsteini is shaped by its own demography and the social system of its bat host
Nadia Bruyndonckx, Isabelle Henry, P. Christe, G. Kerth
2009Molecular Ecology56 citations
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Does the mode of transmission between hosts affect the host choice strategies of parasites? Implications from a field study on bat fly and wing mite infestation of Bechstein's bats
Karsten Reckardt, G. Kerth
200955 citations
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All-offspring dispersal in a tropical mammal with resource defense polygyny
D. Dechmann, E. Kalko, G. Kerth
2007Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology47 citations Open access
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Group decision-making in fission-fusion societies.
G. Kerth
2010Behavioural Processes41 citations
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Communally breeding Bechstein's bats have a stable social system that is independent from the postglacial history and location of the populations
G. Kerth, B. Petrov, A. Conti, Danijela Anastasov +6 more
2008Molecular Ecology40 citations Open access
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The effect of host social system on parasite population genetic structure: comparative population genetics of two ectoparasitic mites and their bat hosts
J. van Schaik, G. Kerth, Nadia Bruyndonckx, P. Christe
2014BMC Evolutionary Biology38 citations Open access
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Host and parasite life history interplay to yield divergent population genetic structures in two ectoparasites living on the same bat species
J. van Schaik, D. Dekeukeleire, G. Kerth
2015Molecular Ecology36 citations
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Roosting behavior and group decision making in 2 syntopic bat species with fission–fusion societies
Daniela Fleischmann, G. Kerth
201434 citations
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Group decision-making in animal societies
G. Kerth
201034 citations
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Animal sociality: bat colonies are founded by relatives.
G. Kerth
2008Current Biology34 citations Open access
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Consequences of fragmentation for Neotropical bats: The importance of the matrix
Stefan Dominik Brändel, T. Hiller, Tanja K Halczok, G. Kerth +2 more
202032 citations Open access
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Comparing survival among species with imperfect detection using multilevel analysis of mark–recapture data: a case study on bats
Elena Papadatou, R. Pradel, M. Schaub, D. Dolch +7 more
201230 citations Open access
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Female Bechstein's bats adjust their group decisions about communal roosts to the level of conflict of interests.
Daniela Fleischmann, I. Baumgartner, Maude Erasmy, Nanette Gries +8 more
2013Current Biology29 citations Open access
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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
Carolin Mundinger, A. Scheuerlein, G. Kerth
2021Proceedings of the Royal Society B28 citations Open access
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Differences in seasonal survival suggest species‐specific reactions to climate change in two sympatric bat species
C. Reusch, J. Gampe, A. Scheuerlein, F. Meier +2 more
2019Ecology and Evolution27 citations Open access
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Conspecific and heterospecific social groups affect each other's resource use: a study on roost sharing among bat colonies
Veronika M. Zeus, Sébastien J. Puechmaille, G. Kerth
201727 citations
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My home is your castle: roost making is sexually selected in the bat Lophostoma silvicolum
D. Dechmann, G. Kerth
200827 citations Open access
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Nest-boxes for Common Swifts Apus apus as compensatory measures in the context of building renovation: efficacy and predictors of occupancy
T. Schaub, P. Meffert, G. Kerth
2015Bird conservation international25 citations Open access
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Genetic diversity is maintained in the endangered New Zealand long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) despite a closed social structure and regular population crashes
Colin F. J. O' Donnell, Sarah Richter, S. Dool, J. Monks +1 more
2016Conservation Genetics24 citations
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Testing the adaptive value of gastropod shell morphology to flow: a multidisciplinary approach based on morphometrics, computational fluid dynamics and a flow tank experiment
G. Verhaegen, H. Herzog, Katrin Korsch, G. Kerth +2 more
2019Zoological Letters23 citations Open access
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Female Bechstein's Bats Share Foraging Sites with Maternal Kin but do not Forage Together with them – Results from a Long‐Term Study
Markus Melber, Daniela Fleischmann, G. Kerth
201323 citations
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Long-term roosting data reveal a unimodular social network in large fission-fusion society of the colony-living Natterer’s bat (Myotis nattereri)
Veronika M. Zeus, C. Reusch, G. Kerth
2018Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology22 citations
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Supply determines demand: influence of partner quality and quantity on the interactions between bats and pitcher plants
Caroline R. Schöner, Michael G. Schöner, G. Kerth, T. Grafe
2013Oecologia20 citations
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Global warming leads to larger bats with a faster life history pace in the long-lived Bechstein’s bat (Myotis bechsteinii)
Carolin Mundinger, T. Fleischer, A. Scheuerlein, G. Kerth
2022Communications Biology19 citations Open access
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Ecological outsourcing: a pitcher plant benefits from transferring pre‐digestion of prey to a bat mutualist
Caroline R. Schöner, Michael G. Schöner, T. Grafe, Charles M. Clarke +3 more
201719 citations
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Long-term field studies in bat research: importance for basic and applied research questions in animal behavior
G. Kerth
2022Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology18 citations Open access
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Evidence for genetic variation in Natterer’s bats (Myotis nattereri) across three regions in Germany but no evidence for co-variation with their associated astroviruses
Tanja K Halczok, K. Fischer, R. Gierke, Veronika M. Zeus +5 more
2017BMC Evolutionary Biology16 citations Open access
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Coprophagous features in carnivorous Nepenthes plants: a task for ureases
Ayufu Yilamujiang, Anting Zhu, R. Ligabue-Braun, S. Bartram +8 more
2017Scientific Reports16 citations Open access
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How a pitcher plant facilitates roosting of mutualistic woolly bats
Yong-Qing Lim, Caroline R. Schöner, Michael G. Schöner, G. Kerth +3 more
201516 citations
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Artificially raised roost temperatures lead to larger body sizes in wild bats.
Carolin Mundinger, Janis M. Wolf, Jan F. Gogarten, Marcel Fierz +2 more
2023Current Biology15 citations Open access
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Comparative phylogeography of a vulnerable bat and its ectoparasite reveals dispersal of a non-mobile parasite among distinct evolutionarily significant units of the host
J. van Schaik, D. Dekeukeleire, S. Gazaryan, I. Natradze +1 more
2018Conservation Genetics15 citations
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