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Gerald Kerth is affiliated with the University of Greifswald in Germany and has a significant research presence in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work focuses predominantly on ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics, with substantive contributions to bat biology and ecology studies.

The scientist has published extensively in subfields such as Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Developmental Biology, and Genetics. Their research topics primarily cover bat biology and ecology, species distribution and climate change, wildlife ecology and conservation, animal behavior and reproduction, animal vocal communication and behavior, animal ecology and behavior studies, and physiological and biochemical adaptations.

Kerth's recent papers include:

  • Long-term field studies in bat research: importance for basic and applied research questions in animal behavior, 2022, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Global warming leads to larger bats with a faster life history pace in the long-lived Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii), 2022, Communications Biology
  • Long-term individualized monitoring of sympatric bat species reveals distinct species- and demographic differences in hibernation phenology, 2022, BMC Ecology and Evolution
  • 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, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Consequences of fragmentation for Neotropical bats: The importance of the matrix, 2020, Biological Conservation

Kerth frequently collaborates with colleagues including Alexander Scheuerlein, Jaap van Schaik, Carolin Mundinger, Frauke Meier, and Christine Reusch. These collaborations have contributed to the depth and breadth of their scientific output.

Publications are often found in respected venues such as Oecologia, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Royal Society Open Science, Animal Conservation, and Molecular Ecology. The scientist has multiple papers published in Oecologia and Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, which indicates a consistent research focus within these journals.

Their work addresses important scientific questions related to animal behavior, bat ecology, and environmental responses to climate factors such as global warming, illustrating trends in body size and mortality risks in bat species. Kerth's long-term monitoring and field studies contribute to both basic and applied research in animal behavior.

Best Publications

  • Causes and Consequences of Sociality in Bats

    Gerald Kerth

  • FISSION, FUSION AND NONRANDOM ASSOCIATIONS IN FEMALE BECHSTEIN'S BATS (MYOTIS BECHSTEINII)

    Gerald Kerth;Barbara Konig

  • Day roost selection in female Bechstein's bats (Myotis bechsteinii): a field experiment to determine the influence of roost temperature.

    Gerald Kerth;Klaus Weissmann;Barbara König

  • Bats are able to maintain long-term social relationships despite the high fission–fusion dynamics of their groups

    Gerald Kerth;Nicolas Perony;Frank Schweitzer

  • Collective decision-making and fission–fusion dynamics: a conceptual framework

    Cédric Sueur;Andrew King;Larissa L. Conradt;Gerald G. Kerth

  • Information transfer about roosts in female Bechstein's bats: an experimental field study.

    Gerald Kerth;Karsten Reckardt

  • A comparative analysis of specialization and extinction risk in temperate-zone bats.

    Kamran Safi;Gerald Kerth

  • Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) reveals that female Bechstein's bats live in closed societies.

    Gerald Kerth;Frieder Mayer;Barbara König

  • Extreme sex-biased dispersal in the communally breeding, nonmigratory Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii).

    G. Kerth;F. Mayer;E. Petit

  • Group decision making in fission-fusion societies: evidence from two-field experiments in Bechstein's bats.

    Gerald Kerth;Cornelia Ebert;Christine Schmidtke

  • Species-specific barrier effects of a motorway on the habitat use of two threatened forest-living bat species

    Gerald Kerth;Gerald Kerth;Markus Melber

  • Mean colony relatedness is a poor predictor of colony structure and female philopatry in the communally breeding Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii)

    Gerald Kerth;Kamran Safi;Barbara König

  • Roosting together, foraging apart : Information transfer about food is unlikely to explain sociality in female Bechstein's bats (Myotis bechsteinii)

    Gerald Kerth;Michael Wagner;Barbara König

  • Roost selection and roost switching of female Bechstein’s bats ( Myotis bechsteinii ) as a strategy of parasite avoidance

    Karsten Reckardt;Gerald Kerth;Gerald Kerth

  • EVOLUTION OF REPEATED SEQUENCE ARRAYS IN THE D-LOOP REGION OF BAT MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

    Gerald S. Wilkinson;Frieder Mayer;Gerald Kerth;Barbara Petri

  • Growing old, yet staying young: The role of telomeres in bats’ exceptional longevity

    Nicole M. Foley;Graham M. Hughes;Zixia Huang;Michael Clarke

  • High gene diversity at swarming sites suggest hot spots for gene flow in the endangered Bechstein’s bat.

    Gerald Kerth;Andreas Kiefer;Carsten Trappmann;Manfred Weishaar

  • Sex differences in population genetics, home range size and habitat use of the parti-colored bat (Vespertilio murinus, Linnaeus 1758) in Switzerland and their consequences for conservation

    Kamran Safi;Barbara König;Gerald Kerth;Gerald Kerth

  • Secretions of the interaural gland contain information about individuality and colony membership in the Bechstein's bat

    Kamran Safi;Gerald Kerth

  • A novel resource–service mutualism between bats and pitcher plants

    T. Ulmar Grafe;Caroline R. Schöner;Gerald Kerth;Anissa Junaidi

  • Roosting together, foraging apart: information transfer about food is unlikely to explain sociality in female Bechstein's bats

    Gerald Kerth;Michael Wagner;Barbara Konig;C Springer-Verlag

Frequent Co-Authors

Dina K. N. Dechmann
Dina K. N. Dechmann Max Planck Society
Elisabeth K. V. Kalko
Elisabeth K. V. Kalko University of Ulm
Kamran Safi
Kamran Safi Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Philippe Christe
Philippe Christe University of Lausanne
Hugo Rebelo
Hugo Rebelo University of Lisbon
Cédric Sueur
Cédric Sueur University of Strasbourg
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner TU Dresden
Emma C. Teeling
Emma C. Teeling University College Dublin
Marc-André Selosse
Marc-André Selosse University of Gdańsk
Mylene M. Mariette
Mylene M. Mariette Deakin University

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