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Rüdiger Riesch is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields including Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on various subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Insect Science. The main topics covered in their research include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Genetic diversity and population structure, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Rüdiger Riesch has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Environmental Pollution

Recent notable papers include:

  • Water pollution affects fish community structure and alters evolutionary trajectories of invasive guppies (Poecilia reticulata), 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Off to new shores: Climate niche expansion in invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia spp.), 2021, Ecology and Evolution
  • A century later: Adaptive plasticity and rapid evolution contribute to geographic variation in invasive mosquitofish, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Climatic similarity and genomic background shape the extent of parallel adaptation in Timema stick insects, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Investigating the effects of tree species diversity and relative density on bird species richness with acoustic indices, 2023, Ecological Indicators

Riesch's frequent co-authors include Martin Plath, Patrik Nosil, Zachariah Gompert, Víctor Soria-Carrasco, and Jonas Jourdan. Collaborations with these researchers have contributed to several studies and publications.

Best Publications

  • Cultural traditions and the evolution of reproductive isolation: ecological speciation in killer whales?

    Rüdiger Riesch;Lance G. Barrett-Lennard;Graeme M. Ellis;John K. B. Ford

  • Transitions between phases of genomic differentiation during stick-insect speciation

    Rüdiger Riesch;Moritz Muschick;Dorothea Lindtke;Romain Villoutreix

  • Life on the edge: hydrogen sulfide and the fish communities of a Mexican cave and surrounding waters

    Michael Tobler;Michael Tobler;Ingo Schlupp;Ingo Schlupp;Katja U. Heubel;Rüdiger Riesch

  • Stability and group specificity of stereotyped whistles in resident killer whales, Orcinus orca, off British Columbia

    Rüdiger Riesch;John K.B. Ford;Frank Thomsen

  • Toxic hydrogen sulfide and dark caves: life-history adaptations in a livebearing fish (Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliidae)

    Rüdiger Riesch;Martin Plath;Ingo Schlupp

  • Long-term balancing selection on chromosomal variants associated with crypsis in a stick insect.

    Dorothea Lindtke;Dorothea Lindtke;Kay Lucek;Kay Lucek;Víctor Soria-Carrasco;Romain Villoutreix

  • Survival in an extreme habitat: the roles of behaviour and energy limitation

    Martin Plath;Martin Plath;Martin Plath;Michael Tobler;Michael Tobler;Rüdiger Riesch;Rüdiger Riesch;Francisco J. García de León

  • Natural and sexual selection against immigrants maintains differentiation among micro-allopatric populations.

    M. Tobler;R. Riesch;C. M. Tobler;T. Schulz-Mirbach

  • Predation’s Role in Life-History Evolution of a Livebearing Fish and a Test of the Trexler-DeAngelis Model of Maternal Provisioning

    Rüdiger Riesch;Ryan A. Martin;R. Brian Langerhans

  • Selection on a Genetic Polymorphism Counteracts Ecological Speciation in a Stick Insect

    Aaron A. Comeault;Samuel M. Flaxman;Ruediger Riesch;Ruediger Riesch;Emma Curran

  • Speciation by selection: A framework for understanding ecology's role in speciation

    R. Brian Langerhans;Rüdiger Riesch

  • Colonisation of toxic environments drives predictable life-history evolution in livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae).

    Rüdiger Riesch;Rüdiger Riesch;Martin Plath;Ingo Schlupp;Michael Tobler

  • Extreme environments and the origins of biodiversity: Adaptation and speciation in sulphide spring fishes.

    Michael Tobler;Joanna L. Kelley;Martin Plath;Rüdiger Riesch

  • GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION AND SELECTION AGAINST MIGRANTS IN EVOLUTIONARILY REPLICATED EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS

    Martin Plath;Markus Pfenninger;Hannes Lerp;Rüdiger Riesch;Rüdiger Riesch

  • Variation along the shy–bold continuum in extremophile fishes (Poecilia mexicana, Poecilia sulphuraria)

    Ruediger Riesch;Virginia Duwe;Nina Herrmann;Lisa Padur

  • Brain size variation in extremophile fish: local adaptation versus phenotypic plasticity

    C. Eifert;M. Farnworth;T. Schulz-Mirbach;R. Riesch;R. Riesch

  • Unique evolutionary trajectories in repeated adaptation to hydrogen sulphide-toxic habitats of a neotropical fish (Poecilia mexicana).

    Markus Pfenninger;Simit Patel;Lenin Arias-Rodriguez;Barbara Feldmeyer

  • Convergent life-history shifts: toxic environments result in big babies in two clades of poeciliids.

    Rüdiger Riesch;Martin Plath;Francisco J. García de León;Ingo Schlupp

  • Locally adapted fish populations maintain small-scale genetic differentiation despite perturbation by a catastrophic flood event

    Martin Plath;Bernd Hermann;Christiane Schröder;Rüdiger Riesch

  • Two endemic and endangered fishes, Poecilia sulphuraria (Alvarez, 1948) and Gambusia eurystoma Miller, 1975 (Poeciliidae, Teleostei) as only survivors in a small sulphidic habitat

    M Tobler;R Riesch;F J Garcia de León;I Schlupp

  • Data from: Transitions between phases of genomic differentiation during stick-insect speciation

    Rüdiger Riesch;Moritz Muschick;Dorothea Lindtke;Romain Villoutreix

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Plath
Martin Plath Universidade de São Paulo
Ingo Schlupp
Ingo Schlupp University of Oklahoma
Michael Tobler
Michael Tobler Kansas State University
Patrik Nosil
Patrik Nosil University of Sheffield
Jeffrey L. Feder
Jeffrey L. Feder University of Notre Dame
Bernard J. Crespi
Bernard J. Crespi Simon Fraser University
Rebecca J. Safran
Rebecca J. Safran University of Colorado Boulder
R. Brian Langerhans
R. Brian Langerhans North Carolina State University
Bruno Streit
Bruno Streit Goethe University Frankfurt
Markus Pfenninger
Markus Pfenninger Goethe University Frankfurt

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