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Konrad Fiedler

Konrad Fiedler

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Ecology and Evolution
Austria
2023

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
65
Citations
12246
World Ranking
1824
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Konrad Fiedler is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and is active in research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans numerous subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research topics cover a breadth of ecological and biological areas. These include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management

Konrad Fiedler has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Ecological Entomology
  • Insects
  • Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik (OEGEF)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Ant-associates of Palaearctic lycaenid butterfly larvae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae; Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) - a review", 2024, published in Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik (OEGEF)
  • "A climate-induced tree species bottleneck for forest management in Europe", 2024, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "From diverse to simple: butterfly communities erode from extensive grasslands to intensively used farmland and urban areas", 2022, published in Biodiversity and Conservation
  • "Moths are strongly attracted to ultraviolet and blue radiation", 2021, published in Insect Conservation and Diversity
  • "Climatic and edaphic controls over tropical forest diversity and vegetation carbon storage", 2020, published in Scientific Reports

Throughout their career, Fiedler has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Patrick Strutzenberger, Elia Guariento, Britta Uhl, Mirko Wölfling, and Carlo L. Seifert.

Best Publications

  • Does the DNA barcoding gap exist? - a case study in blue butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).

    Martin Wiemers;Konrad Fiedler

  • Disentangling a rainforest food web using stable isotopes: dietary diversity in a species-rich ant community

    Nico Blüthgen;Nico Blüthgen;Gerhard Gebauer;Konrad Fiedler

  • Systematic, evolutionary, and ecological implications of myrmecophily within the Lycaenidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)

    Konrad Fiedler

  • Bottom‐up control and co‐occurrence in complex communities: honeydew and nectar determine a rainforest ant mosaic

    Nico Blüthgen;Nigel E. Stork;Konrad Fiedler

  • Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Luke P. Shoo;Sebastian K. Herzog

  • Preferences for sugars and amino acids and their conditionality in a diverse nectar-feeding ant community

    Nico Blüthgen;Konrad Fiedler

  • From forest to farmland: diversity of geometrid moths along two habitat gradients on Borneo

    Jan Beck;Christian H. Schulze;K. Eduard Linsenmair;Konrad Fiedler

  • Understorey versus canopy: patterns of vertical stratification and diversity among Lepidoptera in a Bornean rain forest

    Christian H. Schulze;K. Eduard Linsenmair;Konrad Fiedler

  • COMPETITION FOR COMPOSITION: LESSONS FROM NECTAR-FEEDING ANT COMMUNITIES

    Nico Blüthgen;Konrad Fiedler

  • Shifts in species richness, herbivore specialization, and plant resistance along elevation gradients.

    Loïc Pellissier;Konrad Fiedler;Charlotte Ndribe;Anne Dubuis

  • Attraction to light - from how far do moths (Lepidoptera) return to weak artificial sources of light?

    Christine Truxa;Konrad Fiedler

  • Sugar and amino acid composition of ant‐attended nectar and honeydew sources from an Australian rainforest

    Nico Blüthgen;Gerhard Gottsberger;Konrad Fiedler

  • Unique elevational diversity patterns of geometrid moths in an Andean montane rainforest

    Gunnar Brehm;Dirk Süssenbach;Konrad Fiedler

  • Mud-puddling behavior in tropical butterflies : in search of proteins or minerals?

    Jan Beck;Eva Mühlenberg;Konrad Fiedler

  • Response of the copper butterfly Lycaena tityrus to increased leaf nitrogen in natural food plants: evidence against the nitrogen limitation hypothesis

    Klaus Fischer;Konrad Fiedler

  • Beta diversity of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in an Andean montane rainforest

    Gunnar Brehm;Jürgen Homeier;Konrad Fiedler

  • Montane Andean rain forests are a global diversity hotspot of geometrid moths

    Gunnar Brehm;Linda M. Pitkin;Nadine Hilt;Konrad Fiedler;Konrad Fiedler

  • Disturbance effects on diversity of epiphytes and moths in a montane forest in Ecuador

    Nicole M. Nöske;Nadine Hilt;Florian A. Werner;Gunnar Brehm

  • Determinants of diversity in afrotropical herbivorous insects (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) : plant diversity, vegetation structure or abiotic factors?

    Jan C. Axmacher;Gunnar Brehm;Andreas Hemp;Henry Tünte

  • Faunal composition of geometrid moths changes with altitude in an Andean montane rain forest

    Gunnar Brehm;Konrad Fiedler

  • Sex‐related differences in reaction norms in the butterfly Lycaena tityrus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

    Klaus Fischer;Konrad Fiedler

Frequent Co-Authors

Gunnar Brehm
Gunnar Brehm Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Klaus Fischer
Klaus Fischer University of Greifswald
Jan C. Axmacher
Jan C. Axmacher University College London
Ulrich Maschwitz
Ulrich Maschwitz Goethe University Frankfurt
Jan Beck
Jan Beck University of Colorado Boulder
Jürgen Homeier
Jürgen Homeier University of Göttingen
Nico Blüthgen
Nico Blüthgen Technical University of Darmstadt
Peter Proksch
Peter Proksch Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Marion Schrumpf
Marion Schrumpf Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne

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