Werner Ulrich

Publications

• Factors influencing the precision of species richness estimation in Japanese vascular plants
• Intraspecific Trait Variability Determines Understorey Plant Community Assembly
• Inter‐ and intraspecific spatial distributions, spatial segregation by dominants and emergent neutrality in understorey plants
• Estimating species relative abundances from museum records
• Colonization of axenic beet by rhizosphere bacteria takes place in discreet phases regardless of bioinculation with next generation bioinoculant
• Molecular biogeography of the fungus-dwelling saproxylic beetle Bolitophagus reticulatus indicates rapid expansion from glacial refugia
• Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity
• Agricultural intensification drives butterfly decline
• Species–area relationships in continuous vegetation: Evidence from Palaearctic grasslands
• Ecological drift and competitive interactions predict unique patterns in temporal fluctuations of population size
• Viral diversity of house mice in New York City
• Toward a standardized quantitative and qualitative insect monitoring scheme
• Island-mainland lepidopteran assemblies: a blue-print for species conservation in fragmented habitats
• Empty forests: safeguarding a sinking flagship in a biodiversity hotspot
• Bi-dimensional null model analysis of presence-absence binary matrices
• Multiple filters affect tree species assembly in mid-latitude forest communities
• Evolution of contact and alarm calls in the Kenyan endemic Hinde’s babbler (Aves: Passeriformes)
• Ecosystem functions in natural and anthropogenic ecosystems across the East African coastal forest landscape
• The relevance of cloud forest fragments and their transition zones for butterfly conservation in Taita Hills, Kenya
• Effects of vineyard inter-row management on the diversity and abundance of plants and surface-dwelling invertebrates in Central Romania
• Seasonality overrides differences in butterfly species composition between natural and anthropogenic forest habitats
• Can additive beta diversity be reliably partitioned into nestedness and turnover components?
• Tillage intensity and herbicide application influence surface-active springtail (Collembola) communities in Romanian vineyards
• A forest canopy as a living archipelago: Why phylogenetic isolation may increase and age decrease diversity
• Environmentally and behaviourally mediated co-occurrence of functional traits in bird communities of tropical forest fragments
• Urban springtail species richness decreases with increasing air pollution
• Documenting the chronology of ecosystem health erosion along East African rivers
• Upscaling biodiversity: estimating the species–area relationship from small samples
• From biodiversity to health: Quantifying the impact of diverse ecosystems on human well‐being
• Succession matters: Community shifts in moths over three decades increases multifunctionality in intermediate successional stages
• Simple null model analysis subsumes a new species co‐occurrence index: A comment on Mainali et al. (2022)
• Does intraspecific trait variability affect understorey plant community assembly?
• Environmental drivers and spatial scaling of species abundance distributions in Palaearctic grassland vegetation
• β-diversity decreases with increasing trophic rank in plant – arthropod food chains on lake islands
• Reconsidering the Price equation: a new partitioning based on species abundances and trait expression
• Latitudinal gradients of reproductive traits in Japanese woody plants
• Long-term large-scale decline in relative abundances of butterfly and burnet moth species across south-western Germany
• Species richness correlates of raw and standardized co-occurrence metrics
• Neutral colonisations drive high beta-diversity in cavernicole springtails (Collembola)
• Functional traits and environmental characteristics drive the degree of competitive intransitivity in European saltmarsh plant communities
• Environmental filters shaping angiosperm tree assembly along climatic and geographic gradients
• Environmental correlates of community structure in springtails (Collembola) from Romanian caves
• The two-parameter Weibull distribution as a universal tool to model the variation in species relative abundances
• Increasing ecological multifunctionality during early plant succession
• Directional changes of species spatial dispersion and realized environmental niches drive plant community assembly during early plant succession
• Butterflies in corridors: quality matters for specialists
• Compensatory effects stabilize the functioning of Baltic brackish and salt marsh plant communities
• Do agricultural environments increase the reproductive success of White Stork Ciconia ciconia populations in South-Western Poland?
• Constraints on the distribution of species abundances indicate universal mechanisms of community assembly
• Latitudinal gradients and scaling regions in trait space: Taylor’s power law in Japanese woody plants
• Landscape complexity is not a major trigger of species richness and food web structure of European cereal aphid parasitoids
• Species interactions and random dispersal rather than habitat filtering drive community assembly during early plant succession
• Drones for butterfly conservation: larval habitat assessment with an unmanned aerial vehicle
• Influence of tree plantations on the phylogenetic structure of understorey plant communities
• Butterfly community shifts over two centuries
• Lyons et al. reply
• Contrasting patterns of species richness and functional diversity in bird communities of east African cloud forest fragments
• Landscape structure and agricultural intensification are weak predictors of host range and parasitism rate of cereal aphids
• Non-random patterns in viral diversity
• Trophic generalism at the population level in ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
• Functional traits drive ground beetle community structures in Central European forests: Implications for conservation
• A comprehensive framework for the study of species co-occurrences, nestedness and turnover
• Environmental correlates of species rank - abundance distributions in global drylands
• Wing morphology is linked to stable isotope composition of nitrogen and carbon in ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
• Large-scale phylogenetic structure of European springtails (Collembola) depends on species range size and postglacial colonization history
• Competitive interactions change the pattern of species co-occurrences under neutral dispersal
• Environmental filtering triggers community assembly of forest understorey plants in Central European pine stands
• Lyons et al. reply
• Spatial distribution of functional traits indicates small scale habitat filtering during early plant succession
• An Inverse Elevational Species Richness Gradient of Caucasian Vascular Plants and Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)
• Patterns of contact call differentiation in the panmictic East African Abyssinian White-eye Zosterops abyssinicus (Aves: Passeriformes)
• Matrix models for quantifying competitive intransitivity from species abundance data
• Managing towards extinction: Diverging developments of plant and ground beetle assemblages following restoration of calcareous grasslands
• Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts
• Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands
• Evolution along the Great Rift Valley: Phenotypic and genetic differentiation of East African white-eyes (Aves, Zosteropidae)
• Temporal patterns of energy equivalence in temperate soil invertebrates
• Prevalence, virulence, and antimicrobial resistance of campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli in white stork ciconia ciconia in Poland
• Non-neutrality in forest communities: Evolutionary and ecological determinants of tree species abundance distributions
• Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness
• Sex-related variation in δ15N values of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae): A case study
• A generalized approach to the modeling of the species-area relationship
• Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands
• Latitudinal trends in body length distributions of European darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae)
• The evolution of contact calls in isolated and overlapping populations of two white-eye congeners in East Africa (Aves, Zosterops)
• Small-scale spatial variability in phylogenetic community structure during early plant succession depends on soil properties
• Climatic correlates of body size in European tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
• Lowland panmixia versus highland disjunction: Genetic and bioacoustic differentiation in two species of East African White-eye birds
• Palaearctic biogeography revisited: Evidence for the existence of a North African refugium for Western Palaearctic biota
• Soil conditions and phylogenetic relatedness influence total community trait space during early plant succession
• Population signatures of large-scale, long-term disjunction and small-scale, short-term habitat fragmentation in an Afromontane forest bird
• High niche overlap in the stable isotope space of ground beetles
• Out of the alps: The biogeography of a disjunctly distributed mountain butterfly, the almond-eyed ringlet Erebia alberganus (Lepidoptera, Satyrinae)
• Longitudinal gradients in the phylogenetic community structure of European Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) do not coincide with the major routes of postglacial colonization
• Pattern detection in null model analysis
• From southern refugia to the northern range margin: Genetic population structure of the common wall lizard, Podarcis muralis
• Allele elimination recalculated: Nested subset analyses for molecular biogeographical data
• Assemblages of bats are phylogenetically clustered on a regional scale
• Climatic and geographic correlates of global forest tree species-abundance distributions and community evenness
• The tangled link between β- and γ-diversity: a Narcissus effect weakens statistical inferences in null model analyses of diversity patterns
• Local and regional interspecific abundance - Body weight relationships of ground beetles
• Testing metabolic theory of ecology on the local scale: A preliminary study
• Nestedness analysis as a tool to identify ecological gradients
• Body size and the relative abundance of species
• Species abundance distributions in space and time
• Towards a general species - time - area - sampling effort relationship
• Species-driven phases and increasing structure in early-successional plant communities
• Directional temporal shifts in community structure of butterflies and ground beetles in fragmented oligotrophic grasslands of Central Europe
• A null model algorithm for presence-absence matrices based on proportional resampling
• The shape of the intraspecific metabolic-rate-body-size relationship affects interspecific biomass and abundance distributions of soil animals within a forest ecosystem
• Body weight distributions of European Hymenoptera
• Patterns of abundance and co-occurrence in aquatic plant communities
• Null model tests for niche conservatism, phylogenetic assortment and habitat filtering
• On the meanings of nestedness: Back to the basics
• Drivers of species richness in European Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera)
• Rethinking the relationship between nestedness and beta diversity: A comment on Baselga (2010)
• Ground beetles on islands: On the effects of habitat and dispersal
• Spatial distribution and species co-occurrence in soil invertebrate and plant communities on northern taiga islands
• Spatial patterns in the distribution of European springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola)
• Statistical challenges in null model analysis
• Spatial distributions of European Tenebrionidae point to multiple postglacial colonization trajectories
• Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function
• Spatial distributions of European clearwing moths (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae)
• Over-reporting bias in null model analysis: A response to Fayle and Manica (2010)
• A straightforward computational approach for measuring nestedness using quantitative matrices
• Null model analysis of species associations using abundance data
• Environmental correlates of body size distributions of European springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola)
• Environmental correlates of species richness of Sesiidae (Lepidoptera) in Europe
• A meta-analysis of species-abundance distributions
• Tourism disassembles patterns of co-occurrence and weakens responses to environmental conditions of spider communities on small lake islands
• Species assortment or habitat filtering: A case study of spider communities on lake islands
• Body size distributions of eastern European diptera
• The empirical Bayes approach as a tool to identify non-random species associations
• Island colonization of carabidae: Neutrality or habitat choice?
• Association of Ovalisia rutilans (Fabricius, 1777) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with thermophilous habitats toward its range edge in northern Poland
• A consumer's guide to nestedness analysis
• Environmental correlates of species richness of European springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola)
• A consistent metric for nestedness analysis in ecological systems: Reconciling concept and measurement
• Body size and biomass distributions of carrion visiting beetles: Do cities host smaller species?
• Disentangling community patterns of nestedness and species co-occurrence
• Environmental correlates of species richness of European bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera)
• Diversity of carrion visiting beetles at rural and urban sites
• Body weight distributions of central European Coleoptera
• Are ground beetles neutral?
• Host tree preferences of hermit beetles (Osmoderma eremita Scop., Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in a network of rural avenues in Poland
• Null model analysis of species nestedness patterns
• Sampling design and the shape of species-area curves on the regional scale
• Consumer-resource body-size relationships in natural food webs
• Abundance and co-occurrence patterns of core and satellite species of ground beetles on small lake islands
• Decomposing the process of species accumulation into area dependent and time dependent parts
• Neutral macroecology - Ecology without biology? A review of the neutral model approach
• PatchOccupancy - A FORTRAN program for modelling patterns of species spatial distributions
• Fitting stochastic models of relative abundance distributions to species abundance data
• Parasitoid guilds of the Gottinger Wald: numbers of species, population fluctuations and aggregation - the function of fauna in a mull beechwood 15,Parasitoidgilden des Gottinger Waldes: Zahl der Arten, Populationsschwankungen und Aggregation. (Zur Funktion der Fauna in einem Mullbuchenwald 15)
• Cytoplasmic intermediate filament proteins of invertebrates are closer to nuclear lamins than are vertebrate intermediate filament proteins; sequence characterization of two muscle proteins of a nematode
• Limits to the estimation of species richness: The use of relative abundance distributions
• Regional species richness of families and the distribution of abundance and rarity in a local community of forest Hymenoptera
• Species co-occurrences and neutral models: Reassessing J. M. Diamond's assembly rules
• On the scale dependence of evenness
• Species area relations generated by theoretical relative abundance distributions: Parameter values, model fit and relation to species saturation studies
• On species-area relationships III: The intercept of the power function and the exponential model
• On species-area relationships I: Fit of power function and exponential model
• Estimating species numbers by extrapolation II: Estimating the adequate sample size
• Temporal stability of community structure of the parasitic hymenoptera in a beech forest on limestone
• Morphology and ecology of the parasitic hymenoptera: Analysis of three morphological parameters and their relationship to environmental factors
• Abundance, biomass and density boundaries in the Hymenoptera: Analysis of the abundance - weight relationship and differences between forest and open landscape habitats
• The Hymenoptera of a dry meadow on limestone: Species composition, abundance and biomass
• Species composition, coexistence and mortality factors in a carrion-exploiting community composed of necrophagous Diptera and their parasitoids (Hymenoptera)
• The density - weight and the biomass - weight distribution can be generated by the species weight distribution together with density fluctuations: Evidence from model species distributions in the Hymenoptera
• The parasitic hymenoptera in a beech forest on limestone I: Species composition, species turnover, abundance and biomass
• The parasitic hymenoptera in a beech forest on limestone III: The role of leaf litter for the parasitod species
• The parasitic hymenoptera in a beech forest on limestone II: Study of the sex ratios and their dependence on ecological factors
• Occurrence of the marbled rose-chafer (Protaetia lugubris Herbst, Coleoptera, Cetoniidae) in rural avenues in northern Poland
• Predicting species numbers using species-area and endemics-area relations
• Dispersal as a key element of community structure: The case of ground beetles on lake islands
• Estimating species numbers by extrapolation: A cautionary note
• The local interspecific abundance - body weight relationship of ground beetles: A counterexample to the common pattern
• Niche segregation and coexistence of parasitic hymenoptera of the Aspilota genus group (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in a beech forest on limestone
• On species-area relationships II: Slope and factor values of power function and exponential model
• Estimating species numbers by extrapolation I: Comparing the performance of various estimators using large model communities
• The contribution of poplar plantations to regional diversity of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in agricultural landscapes
• Frequent and occasional species and the shape of relative-abundance distributions
• Allometric ecological distributions in a local community of Hymenoptera
• Soil-living parasitic Hymenoptera: Comparison between a forest and an open landscape habitat
• Habitat reduction and patterns of species loss
• Species-area relationships of butterflies in Europe and species richness forecasting
• Self-similarity and the species - Area relation of Polish butterflies
• Relative abundance distributions of species: The need to have a new look at them
• Ecological characteristics of rare species: The case of parasitic hymenoptera
• Models of relative abundance distributions II: Diversity and evenness statistics
• Spatial scaling laws and weight dependent distributions in guilds of diptera and parasitic hymenoptera
• Models of relative abundance distributions I: Model fitting by stochastic models
• What is the price of using the Price equation in ecology?
• Synchronous long‐term trends in abundance and compositional variability of butterflies in Central Europe
• Trait driven or neutral: understanding the change in functional trait diversity during early plant succession using Price partitions
• Species richness correlates of raw and standardized co‐occurrence metrics
• Climatic and geographic correlates of global forest tree species–abundance distributions and community evenness
• The tangled link between β‐ and γ‐diversity: a Narcissus effect weakens statistical inferences in null model analyses of diversity patterns
• ‘Null model analyses are not adequate to summarise strong associations: Rebuttal to Ulrich et al. (2022)’ by Mainali & Slud (2023)
• Active around the year: Butterflies and moths adapt their life cycles to a warming world
• Recent increasing homogenisation in Austrian butterfly communities over the past decades
• Rhizosphere bacterial colonization of beet occurs in discrete phases regardless of bioinoculation with the wild sea beet root community
• Climate change and the variability in community structure of Alpine Lepidoptera: unstable spring and fuzzy autumn
• Temporal trends of functional, phylogenetic, and species diversity do not go in par in Austrian butterflies
• Pattern detection in bipartite networks: A review of terminology, applications, and methods
• Intra‐ and inter‐specific variability in the temporal trends of butterfly phenology in the Northern Alps
• Increasing stability of northern Austrian Lepidoptera populations over three decades
• Contrasting and altitude‐specific temporal trends in functional, phylogenetic, and species diversity in Austrian butterfly communities
• Effects of elephants on seed dispersal and germination of Balanites maughamii in the afro-tropical dry coastal forest
• Phenological plasticity alters community structures of alpine Lepidoptera