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Stefan Lötters

Stefan Lötters

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
7517
World Ranking
5072
National Ranking
264

Overview

Stefan Lötters is affiliated with the University of Trier in Germany and specializes primarily in Environmental Science with a notable focus on Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Their research spans multiple interconnected subfields including Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, as well as Vector-borne Infectious Diseases.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Michael Veith, Amadeus Plewnia, Daniela C. Rößler, Philipp Böning, and Alisha Jung, indicating consistent collaborative efforts within their academic network.

Stefan Lötters has published work in a range of journals, with recurring appearances in venues such as the Journal of Biogeography, PLoS ONE, and Zootaxa. Contributions are also found in Communications Earth & Environment and Diversity and Distributions.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • "Ongoing harlequin toad declines suggest the amphibian extinction crisis is still an emergency," 2023, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Shifting aspect or elevation? The climate change response of ectotherms in a complex mountain topography," 2020, Diversity and Distributions

Other notable co-authored papers relevant to interdisciplinary research, although not by Lötters themselves, provide context to the field's connectivity but focus on adjacent research areas such as immunodeficiency are less central to Lötters' own publications.

Best Publications

  • Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders

    A. Martel;M. Blooi;C. Adriaensen;P. Van Rooij

  • Catastrophic Population Declines and Extinctions in Neotropical Harlequin Frogs (Bufonidae: Atelopus)1

    Enrique La Marca;Karen R. Lips;Stefan Lötters;Robert Puschendorf

  • Confronting Amphibian Declines and Extinctions

    Joseph R. Mendelson;Karen R. Lips;Ronald W. Gagliardo;George B. Rabb

  • High Levels of Diversity Uncovered in a Widespread Nominal Taxon: Continental Phylogeography of the Neotropical Tree Frog Dendropsophus minutus

    Marcelo Gehara;Marcelo Gehara;Andrew J. Crawford;Andrew J. Crawford;Victor G. D Orrico;Ariel Rodríguez

  • Niche shift versus niche conservatism? Climatic characteristics of the native and invasive ranges of the Mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus)

    Dennis Rödder;Stefan Lötters

  • Alien invasive slider turtle in unpredicted habitat: a matter of niche shift or of predictors studied?

    Dennis Rödder;Sebastian Schmidtlein;Michael Veith;Stefan Lötters

  • Global Amphibian Extinction Risk Assessment for the Panzootic Chytrid Fungus

    Dennis Rödder;Jos Kielgast;Jon Bielby;Sebastian Schmidtlein

  • Phylogeography of Ptychadena mascareniensis suggests transoceanic dispersal in a widespread African‐Malagasy frog lineage

    Miguel Vences;Joachim Kosuch;Mark-Oliver Rödel;Stefan Lötters

  • Questions concerning the potential impact of glyphosate‐based herbicides on amphibians

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  • Expanding Distribution of Lethal Amphibian Fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in Europe

    Annemarieke Spitzen-van der Sluijs;An Martel;Johan Asselberghs;Emma K. Bales

  • A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical poison frog genus Ranitomeya (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae)

    Jason L. Brown;Evan Twomey;Adolfo Amézquita;Moisés Barbosa De Souza

  • Convergent evolution of aposematic coloration in Neotropical poison frogs: a molecular phylogenetic perspective

    Miguel Vences;Joachim Kosuch;Renaud Boistel;Célio F. B. Haddad

  • Europe Needs a New Vision for a Natura 2020 Network

    Axel Hochkirch;Thomas Schmitt;Joscha Beninde;Marietta Hiery

  • Phylogeny and classification of poison frogs (Amphibia: dendrobatidae), based on mitochondrial 16S and 12S ribosomal RNA gene sequences.

    Miguel Vences;Joachim Kosuch;Stefan Lötters;Alex Widmer

  • Future potential distribution of the emerging amphibian chytrid fungus under anthropogenic climate change.

    Dennis Rödder;Jos Kielgast;Stefan Lötters

  • The link between rapid enigmatic amphibian decline and the globally emerging chytrid fungus.

    Stefan Lötters;Jos Kielgast;Jon Bielby;Sebastian Schmidtlein

  • Cryptic niche conservatism among evolutionary lineages of an invasive lizard.

    Ulrich Schulte;Axel Hochkirch;Stefan Lötters;Dennis Rödder

  • “STRANGERS” IN PARADISE: MODELING THE BIOGEOGRAPHIC RANGE EXPANSION OF THE FORAMINIFERA AMPHISTEGINA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

    Martin R. Langer;Anna E. Weinmann;Stefan Lötters;Dennis Rödder

  • Explanative power of variables used in species distribution modelling: an issue of general model transferability or niche shift in the invasive Greenhouse frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris).

    Dennis Rödder;Stefan Lötters

  • The smell of success: choice of larval rearing sites by means of chemical cues in a Peruvian poison frog

    Lisa M. Schulte;Justin Yeager;Rainer Schulte;Michael Veith

  • Cryobanking of viable biomaterials: implementation of new strategies for conservation purposes

    Dominik Lermen;Brunhilde Blömeke;Robert Browne;Ann Clarke

  • Widespread occurrence of the amphibian chytrid fungus in Kenya

    Jos Kielgast;D. Rödder;M. Veith;S. Lötters

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Veith
Michael Veith University of Trier
Dennis Rödder
Dennis Rödder Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
Benedikt R. Schmidt
Benedikt R. Schmidt University of Zurich
Miguel Vences
Miguel Vences Technische Universität Braunschweig
Sebastian Steinfartz
Sebastian Steinfartz Leipzig University
Axel Hochkirch
Axel Hochkirch Trier University of Applied Sciences
Thomas Schmitt
Thomas Schmitt University of Potsdam
Mark-Oliver Rödel
Mark-Oliver Rödel Museum für Naturkunde
Franco Andreone
Franco Andreone Regione Piemonte
Frank Pasmans
Frank Pasmans Ghent University

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