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Overview

Thomas Schmitt is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and conducts research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Ecological Modeling; Genetics; and Insect Science.

The main topics of their research include Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, and Genetic diversity and population structure.

Frequent publication venues for Thomas Schmitt's work include the Journal of Insect Conservation, Scientific Reports, Biodiversity and Conservation, Landscape Ecology, and the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Thomas Schmitt has collaborated extensively with various researchers. Some of their frequent co-authors are Werner Ulrich, Jan Christian Habel, Patrick Gros, and Mike Teucher.

Their recent scientific papers include:

  • "Climate change drives mountain butterflies towards the summits," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Breakpoints in butterfly decline in Central Europe over the last century," 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Wolbachia affects mitochondrial population structure in two systems of closely related Palaearctic blue butterflies," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Biogeography of Italy revisited: genetic lineages confirm major phylogeographic patterns and a pre-Pleistocene origin of its biota," 2021, Frontiers in Zoology
  • "Evaluation of four different methods for assessing bee diversity as ecological indicators of agro-ecosystems," 2021, Ecological Indicators

Best Publications

  • Molecular biogeography of Europe: Pleistocene cycles and postglacial trends

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  • Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species.

    John H. Werren;Stephen Richards;Christopher A. Desjardins;Oliver Niehuis

  • Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera

    Ralph S. Peters;Lars Krogmann;Christoph Mayer;Alexander Donath

  • What do we need to know about speciation

    Roger Butlin;Allan Debelle;Claudius Kerth;Rhonda R. Snook

  • Ecology and Evolution of Communication in Social Insects

    Sara Diana Leonhardt;Florian Menzel;Volker Nehring;Thomas Schmitt

  • Extra-Mediterranean refugia: The rule and not the exception?

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  • Surface hydrocarbons of queen eggs regulate worker reproduction in a social insect

    Annett Endler;Jürgen Liebig;Thomas Schmitt;Jane E. Parker

  • Biogeographical and evolutionary importance of the European high mountain systems

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  • Mitigating the precipitous decline of terrestrial European insects: Requirements for a new strategy

    Jan Christian Habel;Jan Christian Habel;Michael J. Samways;Thomas Schmitt

  • Butterfly community shifts over two centuries.

    Jan Christian Habel;Andreas Segerer;Werner Ulrich;Olena Torchyk

  • The origin and dynamic evolution of chemical information transfer

    Sandra Steiger;Thomas Schmitt;H. Martin Schaefer

  • The severe decline of butterflies on western German calcareous grasslands during the last 30 years: A conservation problem

    Miriam Wenzel;Thomas Schmitt;Matthias Weitzel;Alfred Seitz

  • Palaearctic biogeography revisited: evidence for the existence of a North African refugium for Western Palaearctic biota

    Martin Husemann;Thomas Schmitt;Frank E. Zachos;Werner Ulrich

  • Disjunct distributions during glacial and interglacial periods in mountain butterflies : Erebia epiphron as an example

    T Schmitt;G M Hewitt;P Müller

  • Europe Needs a New Vision for a Natura 2020 Network

    Axel Hochkirch;Thomas Schmitt;Joscha Beninde;Marietta Hiery

  • Changes of traditional agrarian landscapes and their conservation implications: a case study of butterflies in Romania

    Thomas Schmitt;László Rákosy

  • Agricultural intensification drives butterfly decline

    Jan Christian Habel;Werner Ulrich;Nina Biburger;Sebastian Seibold

  • Behavioural and genetic analyses of Nasonia shed light on the evolution of sex pheromones

    Oliver Niehuis;Jan Buellesbach;Jan Buellesbach;Joshua D. Gibson;Daniela Pothmann

  • The genetic pattern of population threat and loss: a case study of butterflies.

    T. Schmitt;Godfrey Hewitt

  • The fourth paradigm pattern of post-glacial range expansion of European terrestrial species: the phylogeography of the Marbled White butterfly (Satyrinae, Lepidoptera)

    Jan Christian Habel;Thomas Schmitt;Paul Müller

  • Global warming will affect the genetic diversity and uniqueness of Lycaena helle populations

    Jan Christian Habel;Jan Christian Habel;Dennis Rödder;Thomas Schmitt;Gabriel Nève

  • The genetic structure of the mountain forest butterfly Erebia euryale unravels the late Pleistocene and postglacial history of the mountain coniferous forest biome in Europe

    Thomas Schmitt;Karola Haubrich

  • Types of oreal and oreotundral disjunctions in the western Palearctic

    Zoltan S. Varga;Thomas Schmitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Christian Habel
Jan Christian Habel University of Salzburg
Dennis Rödder
Dennis Rödder Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
Michael Veith
Michael Veith University of Trier
Axel Hochkirch
Axel Hochkirch Trier University of Applied Sciences
Martin Konvicka
Martin Konvicka Czech Academy of Sciences
Thorsten Assmann
Thorsten Assmann Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Stefan Lötters
Stefan Lötters University of Trier
Leonardo Dapporto
Leonardo Dapporto University of Florence
Nickolas G. Kavallieratos
Nickolas G. Kavallieratos Agricultural University of Athens
Frank E. Zachos
Frank E. Zachos Natural History Museum Vienna

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