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Karl Gotthard is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, contributing substantially to both fields.

Their work covers several subfields, with notable activity in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. This broad approach reflects a multidisciplinary engagement with biological and environmental questions.

Main topics in Karl Gotthard's research include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

The scientist has published frequently in several academic venues, with multiple contributions in Functional Ecology, Ecology Letters, Ecology and Evolution, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Notable recent publications by Karl Gotthard include:

  • Evolutionary impacts of winter climate change on insects, 2020, Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • Urbanization extends flight phenology and leads to local adaptation of seasonal plasticity in Lepidoptera, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Thermal performance under constant temperatures can accurately predict insect development times across naturally variable microclimates, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Longer and warmer prewinter periods reduce post-winter fitness in a diapausing insect, 2022, Functional Ecology
  • Variation in butterfly diapause duration in relation to voltinism suggests adaptation to autumn warmth, not winter cold, 2020, Functional Ecology

Karl Gotthard's work is often collaborative, with frequent co-authors including Philipp Lehmann, Christopher W. Wheat, Sören Nylin, Loke von Schmalensee, and Olle Lindestad. These collaborations underscore a networked approach to ecological and evolutionary research.

Best Publications

  • Plasticity in Life-History Traits

    S. Nylin;K. Gotthard

  • Adaptive plasticity and plasticity as an adaptation : a selective review of plasticity in animal morphology and life history

    Karl Gotthard;Sören Nylin

  • Climate-induced phenology shifts linked to range expansions in species with multiple reproductive cycles per year

    Callum J. Macgregor;Chris D. Thomas;David B. Roy;Mark A. Beaumont

  • Adaptive variation in growth rate: life history costs and consequences in the speckled wood butterfly,Pararge aegeria.

    Karl Gotthard;Sören Nylin;Christer Wiklund

  • What limits insect fecundity? Body size- and temperature-dependent egg maturation and oviposition in a butterfly

    David Berger;Richard J Walters;Richard J Walters;Karl Gotthard

  • Increased risk of predation as a cost of high growth rate: an experimental test in a butterfly

    Karl Gotthard

  • The lost generation hypothesis: could climate change drive ectotherms into a developmental trap ?

    Hans Van Dyck;Dries Bonte;Rik Puls;Karl Gotthard

  • Growth strategies of ectothermic animals in temperate environments

    Karl Gotthard

  • Adaptive Growth Decisions in Butterflies

    Karl Gotthard

  • Seasonal plasticity in two satyrine butterflies : state-dependent decision making in relation to daylength

    Karl Gotthard;Soren Nylin;Christer Wiklund

  • Evolutionary impacts of winter climate change on insects.

    Katie Elizabeth Marshall;Karl Gotthard;Caroline Margaret Williams

  • What keeps insects small? : Time limitation during oviposition reduces the fecundity benefit of female size in a butterfly.

    Karl Gotthard;David Berger;Richard Walters

  • Individual state controls temperature dependence in a butterfly (Lasiommata maera).

    Karl Gotthard;Sören Nylin;Christer Wiklund

  • What keeps insects small? - Size dependent predation on two species of butterfly larvae

    David Berger;Richard Walters;Karl Gotthard

  • Energy and lipid metabolism during direct and diapause development in a pierid butterfly.

    Philipp Lehmann;Peter Pruisscher;Diana Posledovich;Mikael Carlsson

  • Genetic variation underlying local adaptation of diapause induction along a cline in a butterfly.

    Peter Pruisscher;Sören Nylin;Karl Gotthard;Christopher W. Wheat

  • Mating success of resident versus non-resident males in a territorial butterfly

    Martin Bergman;Karl Gotthard;David Berger;Martin Olofsson

  • Life history plasticity in the satyrine butterfly Lasiommata petropolitana: investigating an adaptive reaction norm

    K. Gotthard

  • Compensatory responses in lepidopteran larvae: a test of growth rate maximisation

    Toomas Tammaru;Sören Nylin;Kai Ruohomäki;Karl Gotthard

  • REACTION NORMS FOR AGE AND SIZE AT MATURITY IN LASIOMMATA BUTTERFLIES: PREDICTIONS AND TESTS

    Sören Nylin;Karl Gotthard;Christer Wiklund

  • What limits insect fecundity? Body size- and temperature-dependent egg maturation and oviposition

    D. Berger;R. Walters;K. Gotthard

Frequent Co-Authors

Christer Wiklund
Christer Wiklund Stockholm University
Sören Nylin
Sören Nylin Stockholm University
Johan Ehrlén
Johan Ehrlén Stockholm University
Olof Leimar
Olof Leimar Stockholm University
Toomas Tammaru
Toomas Tammaru University of Tartu
Hans Van Dyck
Hans Van Dyck Université Catholique de Louvain
Sami Merilaita
Sami Merilaita University of Turku
Darrell J. Kemp
Darrell J. Kemp Macquarie University
Dries Bonte
Dries Bonte Ghent University
Anssi Laurila
Anssi Laurila Uppsala University

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