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Thomas Wilke is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 68 and 36 publications respectively. Their research spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Pollution, Molecular Biology, and Ocean Engineering.

The main topics addressed by Wilke's work center on Marine and Environmental Studies, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies.

Wilke's recent papers include:

  • Repositories for Taxonomic Data: Where We Are and What is Missing, 2020, Systematic Biology
  • The other side of sea level change, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Reef-building corals act as long-term sink for microplastic, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Interactive effects of microplastic pollution and heat stress on reef-building corals, 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • Current extinction rate in European freshwater gastropods greatly exceeds that of the late Cretaceous mass extinction, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Wilke include:

  • Patrick Schubert
  • Jessica Reichert
  • Maren Ziegler
  • Torsten Hauffe
  • Christian Albrecht

Wilke regularly publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Marine Science, Communications Earth & Environment, The Science of The Total Environment, and the Journal of Great Lakes Research.

Best Publications

  • Responses of reef building corals to microplastic exposure.

    Jessica Reichert;Johannes Schellenberg;Patrick Schubert;Thomas Wilke

  • Ancient Lake Ohrid: biodiversity and evolution

    Christian Albrecht;Thomas Wilke

  • As Time Goes by: A Simple Fool's Guide to Molecular Clock Approaches in Invertebrates*

    Thomas Wilke;Christian Albrecht

  • The solute carrier family SLC10: more than a family of bile acid transporters regarding function and phylogenetic relationships.

    J. Geyer;T. Wilke;E. Petzinger

  • Molecular systematics of Hydrobiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissooidea): testing monophyly and phylogenetic relationships

    Thomas Wilke;George M. Davis;Andrzej Falniowski;Folco Giusti

  • Infraspecific mitochondrial sequence diversity in Hydrobia ulvae and Hydrobia ventrosa (Hydrobiidae: Rissooidea: Gastropoda): Do their different life histories affect biogeographic patterns and gene flow?

    Thomas Wilke;George M. Davis

  • Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years

    Bernd Wagner;Hendrik Vogel;Alexander Francke;Alexander Francke;Tobias Friedrich

  • Impacts of microplastics on growth and health of hermatypic corals are species-specific.

    Jessica Reichert;Angelina L. Arnold;Mia O. Hoogenboom;Patrick Schubert

  • Pushing short DNA fragments to the limit: Phylogenetic relationships of 'hydrobioid' gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea).

    Thomas Wilke;Martin Haase;Robert Hershler;Hsiu-Ping Liu

  • Salenthydrobia gen. nov. (Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae): a potential relict of the Messinian salinity crisis

    Thomas Wilke

  • Rapid evolution of an ancient lake species flock: Freshwater limpets (Gastropoda: Ancylidae) in the Balkan Lake Ohrid

    Christian Albrecht;Christian Albrecht;Sasho Trajanovski;Kerstin Kuhn;Bruno Streit

  • Concurrent evolution of ancient sister lakes and sister species: the freshwater gastropod genus Radix in lakes Ohrid and Prespa

    Christian Albrecht;Christian Wolff;Peter Glöer;Thomas Wilke

  • Discovery of Dreissena rostriformis bugensis (Andrusov 1897) in Western Europe

    Daniel P. Molloy;Abraham bij de Vaate;Thomas Wilke;Laure Giamberini

  • Invasion of ancient Lake Titicaca by the globally invasive Physa acuta (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Hygrophila)

    Christian Albrecht;Oliver Kroll;Edmundo Moreno Terrazas;Thomas Wilke

  • The genus Adriohydrobia (Hydrobiidae: Gastropoda): polytypic species or polymorphic populations?

    T. Wilke;A. Falniowski

  • Snail-Schistosoma, Paragonimus interactions in China: population ecology, genetic diversity, coevolution and emerging diseases

    George M Davis;Thomas Wilke;Yi Zhang;Xing-Jiang Xu

  • Cytochrome oxidase I-based phylogenetic relationships among the Pomatiopsidae, Hydrobiidae, Rissoidae and Truncatellidae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Rissoacea)

    George M Davis;Thomas Wilke;Christina Spolsky;Chi-Ping Qiu

  • Pleistocene phylogeography and phylogenetic concordance in cold-adapted spring snails (Bythinella spp.).

    M. Benke;M. Brändle;C. Albrecht;T. Wilke

  • Repositories for Taxonomic Data: Where We Are and What is Missing.

    Aurélien Miralles;Aurélien Miralles;Teddy Bruy;Teddy Bruy;Katherine Wolcott;Katherine Wolcott;Mark D Scherz

  • Separating historic events from recurrent processes in cryptic species: phylogeography of mud snails (Hydrobia spp.).

    T. Wilke;M. Pfenninger

  • The SCOPSCO drilling project recovers more than 1.2 million years of history from Lake Ohrid

    B. Wagner;T. Wilke;S. Krastel;G. Zanchetta

  • The other side of sea level change

    Matthias Prange;Thomas Wilke;Frank P. Wesselingh;Frank P. Wesselingh

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Albrecht
Christian Albrecht University of Giessen
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Bernd Wagner
Bernd Wagner University of Cologne
Giovanni Zanchetta
Giovanni Zanchetta University of Pisa
Hendrik Vogel
Hendrik Vogel University of Bern
Sebastian Krastel
Sebastian Krastel Kiel University
Christian Wild
Christian Wild University of Bremen
Peter Kämpfer
Peter Kämpfer University of Giessen
Klaus Reicherter
Klaus Reicherter RWTH Aachen University
Roberto Sulpizio
Roberto Sulpizio University of Bari Aldo Moro

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