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Thomas Hovestadt

Thomas Hovestadt

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
6556
World Ranking
6347
National Ranking
333

Overview

Thomas Hovestadt is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany and works primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research covers several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The main topics of Hovestadt's work include Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Circadian Rhythm and Melatonin, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Impact of Light on Environment and Health, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hovestadt underline a focus on ecological and environmental interactions with biological rhythms and land use. Notable publications include:

  • Women temporarily synchronize their menstrual cycles with the luminance and gravimetric cycles of the Moon (2021, Science Advances)
  • Disentangling effects of climate and land use on biodiversity and ecosystem services-A multi-scale experimental design (2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Disentangling effects of climate and land use on biodiversity and ecosystem services - a multi-scale experimental design (2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • The rising moon promotes mate finding in moths (2022, Communications Biology)
  • Shedding light with harmonic radar: Unveiling the hidden impacts of streetlights on moth flight behavior (2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hovestadt include Oliver Mitesser, Jörg Müller, Jacqueline Degen, Mona Storms, and Andreas Jechow. These collaborations suggest ongoing research partnerships in related ecological and environmental studies.

The scientist publishes regularly in a number of venues, with Ecology and Evolution featuring the highest number of their publications, followed by Oikos, Science Advances, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Best Publications

  • Costs of dispersal

    Dries Bonte;Hans Van Dyck;James M Bullock;Aurélie Coulon

  • Specialization, constraints, and conflicting interests in mutualistic networks.

    Nico Blüthgen;Florian Menzel;Thomas Hovestadt;Brigitte Fiala

  • Forecasting plant migration rates: managing uncertainty for risk assessment

    S. I. Higgins;J. S. Clark;R. Nathan;T. Hovestadt

  • Evolution of density–and patch–size–dependent dispersal rates

    Hans Joachim Poethke;Thomas Hovestadt

  • Modelling dispersal: an eco-evolutionary framework incorporating emigration, movement, settlement behaviour and the multiple costs involved

    Justin M. J. Travis;Karen Mustin;Kamil A. Bartoń;Tim G. Benton

  • Evidence based conservation of butterflies

    J. A. Thomas;D. J. Simcox;T. Hovestadt

  • Evolution of reduced dispersal mortality and 'fat-tailed' dispersal kernels in autocorrelated landscapes.

    Thomas Hovestadt;Stefan Messner;Joachim Poethke Hans

  • Evolution of dispersal polymorphism and local adaptation of dispersal distance in spatially structured landscapes

    Dries Bonte;Thomas Hovestadt;Hans-Joachim Poethke

  • Local extinction and the evolution of dispersal rates: Causes and correlations

    Hans J. Poethke;Thomas Hovestadt;Oliver Mitesser

  • Specialization and phenological synchrony of plant–pollinator interactions along an altitudinal gradient

    Gita Benadi;Thomas Hovestadt;Thomas Hovestadt;Hans-Joachim Poethke;Nico Blüthgen

  • Why are metapopulations so rare

    Emanuel A. Fronhofer;Alexander Kubisch;Frank M. Hilker;Thomas Hovestadt

  • Annual dynamics of wild bee densities: attractiveness and productivity effects of oilseed rape

    Verena Riedinger;Oliver Mitesser;Thomas Hovestadt;Thomas Hovestadt;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

  • Butterfly dispersal in inhospitable matrix: rare, risky, but long-distance

    Piotr Nowicki;Vladimir Vrabec;Birgit Binzenhöfer;Johann Feil

  • Evolution of sex-biased dispersal: The role of sex-specific dispersal costs, demographic stochasticity, and inbreeding

    Andreas Gros;Thomas Hovestadt;Hans Joachim Poethke

  • The relative contribution of individual and kin selection to the evolution of density-dependent dispersal rates

    Hans J. Poethke;Brenda Pfenning;Thomas Hovestadt

  • From random walks to informed movement

    Emanuel A. Fronhofer;Thomas Hovestadt;Hans‐Joachim Poethke

  • Patch density, movement pattern, and realised dispersal distances in a patch-matrix landscape—a simulation study

    S. Hein;B. Pfenning;T. Hovestadt;H.-J. Poethke

  • Seed dispersal mechanisms and the vegetation of forest islands in a West African forest-savanna mosaic (Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast)

    Thomas Hovestadt;Paul Yao;K. Eduard Linsenmair

  • Kin Competition as a Major Driving Force for Invasions

    Alexander Kubisch;Emanuel A. Fronhofer;Hans Joachim Poethke;Thomas Hovestadt

  • Movement patterns of the bush cricket Platycleis albopunctata in different types of habitat: matrix is not always matrix

    Silke Hein;Julia Gombert;Thomas Hovestadt;Hans‐Joachim Poethke

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Joachim Poethke
Hans Joachim Poethke University of Würzburg
Dries Bonte
Dries Bonte Ghent University
Calvin Dytham
Calvin Dytham University of York
Nico Blüthgen
Nico Blüthgen Technical University of Darmstadt
Emanuel A. Fronhofer
Emanuel A. Fronhofer University of Montpellier
J. A. Thomas
J. A. Thomas University of Oxford
Andrea Holzschuh
Andrea Holzschuh University of Würzburg
María del Mar Delgado
María del Mar Delgado Spanish National Research Council
Justin M. J. Travis
Justin M. J. Travis University of Aberdeen
Charlotte Helfrich-Förster
Charlotte Helfrich-Förster University of Würzburg

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