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  1. Recommendations for effective insect conservation in nature protected areas based on a transdisciplinary project in Germany

    Article • Environmental Sciences Europe, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  2. A new sample preparation approach for the analysis of 98 current-use pesticides in soil and herbaceous vegetation using HPLC-MS/MS in combination with an acetonitrile-based extraction

    Article • Chemosphere, August 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  3. Negative spill-over effects of agricultural practices on plant species conservation in nature reserves

    Article • Ecological Indicators, May 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  4. Improving insect conservation management through insect monitoring and stakeholder involvement

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  5. Community engagement and data quality: best practices and lessons learned from a citizen science project on birdsong

    Article • Journal of Ornithology, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  6. The potential of metabarcoding plant components of Malaise trap samples to enhance knowledge of plant-insect interactions

    Article • Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, July 2022, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  7. Raumanalyse der ackerbaulichen Flächennutzung in Naturschutz- und FFH-Gebieten in Deutschland - Ein Beitrag zur Minderung von Biodiversitätsschäden in Schutzgebieten

    Article • Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung (NuL), March 2022, Verlag Eugen Ulmer

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  8. Unravelling the Stability of Nightingale Song Over Time and Space Using Open, Citizen Science and Shared Data

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, February 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  9. Direct pesticide exposure of insects in nature conservation areas in Germany

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  10. Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation

    Article • Conservation Letters, November 2021, Wiley

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  11. Vernetzung und Kooperation ehrenamtlicher und akademischer Forschung im Rahmen des nationalen Biodiversitätsmonitorings - Herausforderungen und Lösungsstrategien

    Article • Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung (NuL), July 2021, Verlag Eugen Ulmer

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  12. Two species? – Limits of the species concepts in the pygmy grasshoppers of the Tetrix bipunctata complex (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae)

    Article • ZooKeys, June 2021, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  13. Diversity of Insects in Nature protected Areas (DINA): an interdisciplinary German research project

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  14. Correlated sexual selection on male genitalia, copulatory performance and nuptial gifts in a bushcricket (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) indicated by allometric scaling

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, May 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  15. Allometric scaling in two bushcricket species (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) suggests sexual selection on song-generating structures

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, September 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  16. Sexual selection on bushcricket genitalia operates in a mosaic pattern

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, February 2020, Wiley

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  17. Adaptive plasticity of bushcricket acoustic signalling in socially heterogeneous choruses

    Article • Animal Behaviour, December 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  18. Demonstrating sexual selection by cryptic female choice on male genitalia: What is enough?

    Article • Evolution, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  19. Adaptive Strategies in Life-History of Bushcrickets (Orthoptera) and Cicadas (Homoptera) to Parasitoids Pressure on Their Acoustic Communication Systems—A Case for Sociality?

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, August 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  20. Female perception of copulatory courtship by male titillators in a bushcricket

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  21. To compete or not to compete: bushcricket song plasticity reveals male body condition and rival distance

    Article • Animal Behaviour, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  22. Seasonal differences in body mass and circulating metabolites in a wing-dimorphic pygmy grasshopper: implications for life history?

    Article • Ecological Entomology, July 2018, Wiley

    Dr Heather G Marco, Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  23. Multiple origin of flightlessness in Phaneropterinae bushcrickets and redefinition of the tribus Odonturini (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea: Phaneropteridae)

    Article • Organisms Diversity & Evolution, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Beata Grzywacz, Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  24. Protein analysis of the spermatophore reveals diverse compositions in both the ampulla and the spermatophylax in a bushcricket

    Article • Physiological Entomology, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  25. Male genital titillators and the intensity of post-copulatory sexual selection across bushcrickets

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, July 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  26. The importance of validated alpha taxonomy for phylogenetic and DNA barcoding studies: a comment on species identification of pygmy grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae)

    Article • ZooKeys, June 2017, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  27. Copulatory courtship by internal genitalia in bushcrickets

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  28. DNA barcoding of crickets, katydids and grasshoppers (Orthoptera) from Central Europe with focus on Austria, Germany and Switzerland

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, December 2016, Wiley

    Matsapume Detcharoen, Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  29. Allometry of male sound‐producing structures indicates sexual selection on wing size and stridulatory teeth density in a bushcricket

    Article • Journal of Zoology, November 2016, Wiley

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  30. Material benefit of mating: the bushcricket spermatophylax as a fast uptake nuptial gift

    Article • Animal Behaviour, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  31. Prolonged copulations as an alternative to male nuptial gift investment in the bushcricket Letana inflata (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)

    Article • Journal of Ethology, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  32. Function of male genital titillators in mating and spermatophore transfer in the tettigoniid bushcricketMetrioptera roeselii

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  33. Copulatory courtship by bushcricket genital titillators revealed by functional morphology, μCT scanning for 3D reconstruction and female sense structures

    Article • Arthropod Structure & Development, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  34. Parasitoid flies exploiting acoustic communication of insects—comparative aspects of independent functional adaptations

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  35. Acoustic defence in an insect: characteristics of defensive stridulation and differences between the sexes in the tettigoniid Poecilimon ornatus (Schmidt 1850)

    Article • Zoology, October 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  36. Baseline data for automated acoustic monitoring of Orthoptera in a Mediterranean landscape, the Hymettos, Greece

    Article • Journal of Insect Conservation, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  37. Emerging issues in the evolution of animal nuptial gifts

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  38. Life-history trade-off between macroptery and reproduction in the wing-dimorphic pygmy grasshopperTetrix subulata(Orthoptera Tetrigidae)

    Article • Ethology Ecology & Evolution, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  39. Hybridization of sympatric Calopteryx damselflies in Finland

    Article • Proceedings of Peerage of Science, January 2014, Peerage of Science

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  40. Sensory evolution of hearing in tettigoniids with differing communication systems

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, December 2013, Wiley

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  41. Chromosomal diversification in the flightless Western Mediterranean bushcricket genusOdontura(Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) inferred from molecular data

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, December 2013, Wiley

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann, Beata Grzywacz

  42. Molecular and classical chromosomal techniques reveal diversity in bushcricket genera of Barbitistini (Orthoptera)

    Article • Genome, November 2013, Canadian Science Publishing

    Beata Grzywacz, Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  43. Morphological variation and sex-biased frequency of wing dimorphism in the pygmy grasshopper Tetrix subulata (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae)

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, July 2013, Biology Centre, AS CR

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  44. Spatial organization of tettigoniid auditory receptors: Insights from neuronal tracing

    Article • Journal of Morphology, July 2012, Wiley

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  45. Weighing costs and benefits of mating in bushcrickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), with an emphasis on nuptial gifts, protandry and mate density

    Article • Frontiers in Zoology, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  46. Development, reproductive capacity and diet of the Mediterranean grasshopperArcyptera brevipennis vichetiHarz 1975 (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididae: Gomphocerinae)

    Article • Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N S ), January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  47. Potential and Limits in Detecting Altitudinal Movements of Bats using Stable Hydrogen Isotope Ratios of Fur Keratin

    Article • Acta Chiropterologica, December 2011, Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  48. Increased copulation duration before ejaculate transfer is associated with larger spermatophores, and male genital titillators, across bushcricket taxa

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, June 2011, Wiley

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  49. Changes in the numbers of chromosomes and sex determination system in bushcrickets of the genus Odontura (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae)

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, April 2011, Biology Centre, AS CR

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann, Beata Grzywacz

  50. Thelytokous parthenogenesis and the heterogeneous decay of mating behaviours in a bushcricket (Orthopterida)

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, December 2010, Wiley

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  51. The auditory system of non-calling grasshoppers (Melanoplinae: Podismini) and the evolutionary regression of their tympanal ears

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  52. Lifetime spermatophore investment in natural populations of two closely related bush-cricket species (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Poecilimon)

    Article • Behaviour, January 2010, Brill

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  53. Condition-dependent spermatophore size is correlated with male's age in a bushcricket (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae)

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  54. Understanding nuptial gift size in bush-crickets: an analysis of the genus Poecilimon (Tettigoniidae: Orthoptera)

    Article • Journal of Orthoptera Research, December 2008, Orthopterists' Society

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  55. Variation in body size among populations of the bushcricket Poecilimon thessalicus (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae): an ecological adaptation

    Article • Journal of Orthoptera Research, December 2008, Orthopterists' Society

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  56. Female bushcrickets fuel their metabolism with male nuptial gifts

    Article • Biology Letters, July 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  57. Bushcricket song as a clue for spermatophore size?

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, September 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  58. Sex Differences in “Time Out” from Reproductive Activity and Sexual Selection in Male Bushcrickets (Orthoptera: Zaprochilinae: Kawanaphila mirla)

    Article • Journal of Insect Behavior, March 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  59. Listening when there is no sexual signalling? Maintenance of hearing in the asexual bushcricket Poecilimon intermedius

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  60. Density-dependent plasticity of sequential mate choice in a bushcricket (Orthoptera�:�Tettigoniidae)

    Article • Australian Journal of Zoology, January 2007, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  61. Nuptial feeding is reflected in tissue nitrogen isotope ratios of female katydids

    Article • Functional Ecology, August 2006, Wiley

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  62. Potential lifetime reproductive success of male bushcrickets parasitized by a phonotactic fly

    Article • Animal Behaviour, May 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  63. Review of Biogeography, Host Range and Evolution of Acoustic Hunting in Ormiini (Insecta, Diptera, Tachinidae), Parasitoids of Night-calling Bushcrickets and Crickets (Insecta, Orthoptera, Ensifera)

    Article • Zoologischer Anzeiger, January 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann

  64. Bushcricket song structure and predation by the acoustically orienting parasitoid fly Therobia leonidei (Diptera: Tachinidae: Ormiini)

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, August 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gerlind U.C. Lehmann