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Heike Feldhaar is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, and Ecology.

Themes within their work cover various topics, including Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties.

Heike Feldhaar has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • Stable isotopes: past and future in exposing secrets of ant nutrition, 2024, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik (OEGEF)
  • Soundscapes and deep learning enable tracking biodiversity recovery in tropical forests, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Pollutants and Their Interaction with Diseases of Social Hymenoptera, 2020, Insects

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their notable co-authors include Jörg Müller, Anja Holzinger, Oliver Otti, Dimitri Seidenath, and Christian Laforsch.

Heike Feldhaar's work has been published in several recurring venues, among which are SSRN Electronic Journal, Ecology and Evolution, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

    Heike Feldhaar

  • Nutritional upgrading for omnivorous carpenter ants by the endosymbiont Blochmannia

    Heike Feldhaar;Josef Straka;Markus Krischke;Kristina Berthold

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Food and shelter: how resources influence ant ecology

    Nico Blüthgen;Heike Feldhaar

  • Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

    Gaëtane Le Provost;Jan Thiele;Catrin Westphal;Caterina Penone

  • Insects as hosts for mutualistic bacteria.

    Heike Feldhaar;Roy Gross

  • Bacterial microbiota associated with ants of the genus Tetraponera

    Sascha Stoll;Juergen Gadau;Roy Gross;Heike Feldhaar

  • Immune reactions of insects on bacterial pathogens and mutualists

    Heike Feldhaar;Roy Gross

  • Unifying external and internal immune defences

    Oliver Otti;Simon Tragust;Heike Feldhaar

  • Insights into the microbial world associated with ants.

    Evelyn Zientz;Heike Feldhaar;Sascha Stoll;Roy Gross

  • Bacteriocyte dynamics during development of a holometabolous insect, the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus

    Sascha Stoll;Heike Feldhaar;Martin J Fraunholz;Roy Gross

  • Relevance of the endosymbiosis of Blochmannia floridanus and carpenter ants at different stages of the life cycle of the host.

    Evelyn Zientz;Ivo Beyaert;Roy Gross;Heike Feldhaar

  • Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity.

    Simon Thorn;Anne Chao;Kostadin B. Georgiev;Kostadin B. Georgiev;Jörg Müller;Jörg Müller

  • Stable isotopes: past and future in exposing secrets of ant nutrition (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Heike Feldhaar;Gerhard Gebauer;Nico Blüthgen

  • Clouded leopard phylogeny revisited: support for species recognition and population division between Borneo and Sumatra.

    Andreas Wilting;Valerie A. Buckley-Beason;Heike Feldhaar;Juergen Gadau

  • Interspecific Aggression and Resource Monopolization of the Invasive Ant Anoplolepis gracilipes in Malaysian Borneo

    Jochen Drescher;Heike Feldhaar;Heike Feldhaar;Nico Blüthgen

  • Endosymbiont Tolerance and Control within Insect Hosts

    Carolin Ratzka;Roy Gross;Heike Feldhaar

  • Lifelong commitment to the wrong partner: hybridization in ants

    Heike Feldhaar;Susanne Foitzik;Jürgen Heinze

  • Population structure and intraspecific aggression in the invasive ant species Anoplolepis gracilipes in Malaysian Borneo.

    Jochen Drescher;Nico Blüthgen;Heike Feldhaar

  • Pollutants and Their Interaction with Diseases of Social Hymenoptera.

    Heike Feldhaar;Oliver Otti

  • Enhancing the structural diversity between forest patches—A concept and real‐world experiment to study biodiversity, multifunctionality and forest resilience across spatial scales

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  • Transcriptional profiling of the endosymbiont Blochmannia floridanus during different developmental stages of its holometabolous ant host.

    Sascha Stoll;Heike Feldhaar;Roy Gross

  • Patterns of the Crematogaster-Macaranga association: The ant partner makes the difference

    Heike Feldhaar;Brigitte Fiala;Rosli Bin Hashim;Ulrich Maschwitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy Gross
Roy Gross University of Würzburg
Mark-Oliver Rödel
Mark-Oliver Rödel Museum für Naturkunde
Nico Blüthgen
Nico Blüthgen Technical University of Darmstadt
Ulrich Maschwitz
Ulrich Maschwitz Goethe University Frankfurt
Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Juergen Gadau
Juergen Gadau University of Münster
Thomas Dandekar
Thomas Dandekar University of Würzburg
Konstans Wells
Konstans Wells Swansea University

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