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Ralph Tiedemann

Ralph Tiedemann

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
6850
World Ranking
4903
National Ranking
260

Overview

Ralph Tiedemann is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Genetics, Aquatic Science, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics covered in Tiedemann's research include fish biology, ecology, and behavior, as well as studies related to fish biology and ecology. Other areas of focus are fish ecology and management, genetic diversity and population structure, marine animal studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics, and general plant and animal studies.

Recent scholarly contributions by Ralph Tiedemann comprise the following papers:

  • A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide, 2020, Nature
  • Movement-mediated community assembly and coexistence, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Temperature-dependent life history and transcriptomic responses in heat-tolerant versus heat-sensitive Brachionus rotifers, 2020, Scientific Reports

Tiedemann has frequent collaborative relationships with several researchers, including Frank Kirschbaum, Katja Havenstein, Guntram Weithoff, Florian Jeltsch, and Alice B. Dennis.

The scientist regularly publishes in various academic venues, with a notable number of publications in:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Comparative Physiology A
  • Scientific Reports
  • Molecular Ecology

Best Publications

  • Phylogenomic analyses unravel annelid evolution

    Torsten H. Struck;Christiane Paul;Natascha Hill;Stefanie Hartmann

  • Human evolution in a variable environment: the amplifier lakes of Eastern Africa

    Martin H. Trauth;Mark A. Maslin;Alan L. Deino;Annett Junginger

  • Toxic hydrogen sulfide and dark caves: phenotypic and genetic divergence across two abiotic environmental gradients in Poecilia mexicana.

    Michael Tobler;Michael Tobler;Thomas J. DeWitt;Ingo Schlupp;Francisco J. García de León

  • A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide.

    Luis Valente;Albert B. Phillimore;Martim Melo;Martim Melo;Ben H. Warren

  • Movement-mediated community assembly and coexistence.

    Ulrike E. Schlägel;Volker Grimm;Volker Grimm;Niels Blaum;Pierluigi Colangeli

  • Audience effect alters mating preferences in a livebearing fish, the Atlantic molly, Poecilia mexicana

    Martin Plath;Martin Plath;Dennis Blum;Ingo Schlupp;Ralph Tiedemann

  • Bisoniana 117. Mitochondrial DNA-RFLP analysis reveals liw levels of genetic variation in European bison Bison bonasus

    Ralph Tiedemann;Karl Nadlinger;Zdzisław Pucek

  • Hidden diversity in diatoms of Kenyan Lake Naivasha: a genetic approach detects temporal variation.

    Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring;Laura S. Epp;Martin H. Trauth;Ralph Tiedemann

  • Electrifying love: electric fish use species-specific discharge for mate recognition

    Philine G.D Feulner;Martin Plath;Jacob Engelmann;Frank Kirschbaum;Frank Kirschbaum

  • Local adaptation and pronounced genetic differentiation in an extremophile fish, Poecilia mexicana, inhabiting a Mexican cave with toxic hydrogen sulphide.

    M. Plath;J. S. Hauswaldt;K. Moll;M. Tobler;M. Tobler

  • Myzostomida: a link between trochozoans and flatworms?

    Igor Eeckhaut;Damhnait McHugh;Patrick Mardulyn;Ralph Tiedemann

  • Ten polymorphic autosomal microsatellite loci for the Eider duck Somateria mollissima and their cross‐species applicability among waterfowl species (Anatidae)

    K. B. Paulus;R. Tiedemann

  • Adaptive radiation in African weakly electric fish (Teleostei: Mormyridae: Campylomormyrus): a combined molecular and morphological approach.

    Philine G.D. Feulner;Frank Kirschbaum;Frank Kirschbaum;Victor Mamonekene;V. Ketmaier

  • Mitochondrial Control Region and microsatellite analyses on harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) unravel population differentiation in the Baltic Sea and adjacent waters.

    Annika Wiemann;Liselotte W. Andersen;Per Berggren;Ursula Siebert

  • Mitochondrial Genome and Nuclear Sequence Data Support Myzostomida As Part of the Annelid Radiation

    Christoph Bleidorn;Igor Eeckhaut;Lars Podsiadlowski;Nancy Schult

  • Molecular and cytogenetic evidence for cryptic speciation within a rare endemic Malagasy lemur, the Northern Sportive Lemur (Lepilemur septentrionalis)

    I.B. Ravaoarimanana;R. Tiedemann;D. Montagnon;Y. Rumpler

  • The genetic structure of natural and reintroduced roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) populations in the Alps and central Italy, with reference to the mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of Europe.

    C. Vernesi;E. Pecchioli;D. Caramelli;R. Tiedemann

  • What determines the densities of feeding birds on tidal flats? A case study on Dunlin, Calidris alpina, in the Wadden Sea

    Georg Nehls;Ralph Tiedemann

  • Environmental variability in Lake Naivasha, Kenya, over the last two centuries

    Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring;Annett Junginger;Lydia A. Olaka;Ralph Tiedemann

  • Genetic analysis of a successful repatriation programme : giant Galapagos tortoises

    Michel Milinkovitch;Daniel Monteyne;James J.P. Gibbs;Thomas T.H. Fritts

  • Isolation and characterization of thirteen polymorphic microsatellite markers from the bluestriped snappers Lutjanus kasmira and L. Bengalensis

    Mariangela Bonizzoni;Jerome Bourjea;Bin Chen;B. J. Crain

  • Quaternary Science Reviews Volume 29, Issues 23–24, November 2010, Pages 2981–2988 Cover image Human evolution in a variable environment: the amplifier lakes of Eastern Africa

    Eric O Odada;Lydia A Olaka;Mark A Maslin;Moses Lesoloyia

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Plath
Martin Plath Universidade de São Paulo
Ingo Schlupp
Ingo Schlupp University of Oklahoma
Christoph Bleidorn
Christoph Bleidorn University of Göttingen
Michael Tobler
Michael Tobler Kansas State University
Ursula Siebert
Ursula Siebert University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Martin H. Trauth
Martin H. Trauth University of Potsdam
Michel C. Milinkovitch
Michel C. Milinkovitch University of Geneva
Günther B. Hartl
Günther B. Hartl Kiel University
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam
Florian Jeltsch
Florian Jeltsch University of Potsdam

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