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Björn Martin Siemers

Björn Martin Siemers

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
5975
World Ranking
5386
National Ranking
284

Overview

Björn Martin Siemers is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Health Professions, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broader fields, their work focuses on subfields such as Developmental Biology, Pharmacy, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's recent scholarly output includes a publication titled "Shrew twittering call rate is high in novel environments-a lab-study", published in 2020 in the journal Mammal Research. This study forms part of their contributions to the understanding of animal vocal communication and behaviors.

Frequent themes throughout their work encompass the following topics:

  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies

Collaborations have played a role in their research endeavors. A notable frequent co-author is Sophie von Merten, with whom they have worked on at least one documented paper.

Björn Martin Siemers's contributions have been published in venues such as Mammal Research, reflecting the intersection of biological and ecological investigations.

Best Publications

  • Echolocation signals reflect niche differentiation in five sympatric congeneric bat species

    Björn M. Siemers;Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler

  • Foraging bats avoid noise

    Andrea Schaub;Joachim Ostwald;Björn Martin Siemers

  • Hunting at the highway: traffic noise reduces foraging efficiency in acoustic predators

    Björn Martin Siemers;Andrea Schaub

  • A continental-scale tool for acoustic identification of European bats

    Charlotte L. Walters;Charlotte L. Walters;Charlotte L. Walters;Robin Freeman;Robin Freeman;Alanna Collen;Christian Dietz

  • The communicative potential of bat echolocation pulses.

    Gareth Jones;Björn Martin Siemers

  • The acoustic advantage of hunting at low heights above water: behavioural experiments on the European 'trawling' bats Myotis capaccinii, M. dasycneme and M. daubentonii.

    Björn M. Siemers;Peter Stilz;Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler

  • Natterer's bat (Myotis nattereri Kuhl, 1818) hawks for prey close to vegetation using echolocation signals of very broad bandwidth

    Björn Martin Siemers;Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler

  • Differences in sensory ecology contribute to resource partitioning in the bats Myotis bechsteinii and Myotis nattereri (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

    Björn M. Siemers;Susan M. Swift

  • How anthropogenic noise affects foraging.

    Jinhong Luo;Jinhong Luo;Björn Martin Siemers;Klemen Koselj

  • Echolocation behavior and signal plasticity in the Neotropical bat Myotis nigricans (Schinz, 1821) (Vespertilionidae): a convergent case with European species of Pipistrellus ?

    Bjorn M. Siemers;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko;Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler

  • Innate recognition of water bodies in echolocating bats.

    Stefan Greif;Björn Martin Siemers

  • Is species identity, sex, age or individual quality conveyed by echolocation call frequency in European horseshoe bats?

    Björn M. Siemers;Kristian Beedholm;Christian Dietz;Isabel Dietz

  • Why do shrews twitter? Communication or simple echo-based orientation

    Björn Martin Siemers;Grit Schauermann;Hendrik Turni;Sophie von Merten

  • The sensory basis of roost finding in a forest bat, Nyctalus noctula

    Ireneusz Ruczynski;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko;Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko;Bjorn M. Siemers

  • Cues for acoustic detection of prey: insect rustling sounds and the influence of walking substrate.

    Holger R. Goerlitz;Stefan Greif;Björn Martin Siemers

  • The sensory basis of prey detection in captive-born grey mouse lemurs, Microcebus murinus

    Marcus Piep;Ute Radespiel;Elke Zimmermann;Sabine Schmidt

  • Sensory basis of food detection in wild Microcebus murinus

    Björn Martin Siemers;Björn Martin Siemers;Holger R. Goerlitz;Eric Robsomanitrandrasana;Marcus Piep

  • Great tits search for, capture, kill and eat hibernating bats

    Peter Estok;Sándor Zsebök;Björn Martin Siemers

  • Echolocation by the barbastelle bat, Barbastella barbastellus.

    Annette Denzinger;Björn M. Siemers;Andrea Schaub;Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler

  • WING MEASUREMENT VARIATIONS IN THE FIVE EUROPEAN HORSESHOE BAT SPECIES (CHIROPTERA: RHINOLOPHIDAE)

    Christian Dietz;Isabel Dietz;Björn M. Siemers

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler
Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler University of Tübingen
Elisabeth K. V. Kalko
Elisabeth K. V. Kalko University of Ulm
Christian C. Voigt
Christian C. Voigt Leibniz Association
Kate E. Jones
Kate E. Jones University College London
Robin Freeman
Robin Freeman Zoological Society of London
Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones University of Bristol
Emma C. Teeling
Emma C. Teeling University College Dublin
Michael Hofreiter
Michael Hofreiter University of Potsdam
Markus Fendt
Markus Fendt Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Benedikt Grothe
Benedikt Grothe Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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