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Ulrich Maschwitz is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on health professions and the arts and humanities.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Health Professions
  • Arts and Humanities

Within these broader fields, Maschwitz's work further specializes in subfields such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Philosophy

The primary topics addressed in their research involve:

  • Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
  • Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
  • Health, Medicine and Society

Among recent publications, Maschwitz contributed to the following paper:

  • Description of five new weaver ant species of Camponotus subgenus Karavaievia Emery, 1925 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Malaysia and Thailand, with contribution to their biology, especially to colony foundation (2024), published in Internet Archive (Internet Archive)

This particular work includes collaboration with co-authors:

  • Klaus Dumpert
  • A. Weissflog

Publication venues for Maschwitz's work are limited in the recent record, with the Internet Archive (Internet Archive) being noted for the above paper.

Best Publications

  • Studies of a South East Asian ant-plant association: protection of Macaranga trees by Crematogaster borneensis

    Brigitte Fiala;Ulrich Maschwitz;Tho Yow Pong;Andreas J. Helbig

  • Tandem calling: a new kind of signal in ant communication.

    M. Möglich;U. Maschwitz;B. Hölldobler

  • Diversity of ant-plant interactions: protective efficacy in Macaranga species with different degrees of ant association.

    Brigitte Fiala;Harald Grunsky;Ulrich Maschwitz;K. Eduard Linsenmair

  • Diversity, evolutionary specialization and geographic distribution of a mutualistic ant-plant complex: Macaranga and Crematogaster in South East Asia

    Brigitte Fiala;Armin Jakob;Ulrich Maschwitz;K. Eduard Linsenmair

  • Slippery ant-plants and skilful climbers: selection and protection of specific ant partners by epicuticular wax blooms in Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae)

    Walter Federle;Ulrich Maschwitz;Brigitte Fiala;Markus Riederer

  • On benefits of indirect defence: short- and long-term studies of antiherbivore protection via mutualistic ants.

    Martin Heil;Brigitte Fiala;Ulrich Maschwitz;K. Eduard Linsenmair

  • Food body production in Macaranga triloba (Euphorbiaceae): a plant investment in anti-herbivore defence via symbiotic ant partners.

    M. Heil;B. Fiala;K. E. Linsenmair;G. Zotz

  • Studies on the South East Asian ant-plant association Crematogaster borneensis/Macaranga : adaptations of the ant partner

    Brigitte Fiala;Ulrich Maschwitz

  • Molecular Analysis of Phylogenetic Relationships among Myrmecophytic Macaranga Species (Euphorbiaceae)

    Frank R. Blattner;Kurt Weising;Gudrun Bänfer;Ulrich Maschwitz

  • The diversity of ant-associated black yeasts: insights into a newly discovered world of symbiotic interactions

    Hermann Voglmayr;Veronika Mayer;Ulrich Maschwitz;Joachim Moog

  • Food bodies and their significance for obligate ant-association in the tree genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae)

    Brigitte Fiala;Ulrich Maschwitz

  • Alarm Substances and Alarm Behaviour in Social Hymenoptera

    Ulrich W. Maschwitz

  • Extrafloral nectaries in the genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) in Malaysia: comparative studies of their possible significance as predispositions for myrmecophytism

    Brigitte Fiala;Ulrich Maschwitz

  • Communication by tandem running in the ant Camponotus sericeus

    Bert Hölldobler;Michael Möglich;Ulrich Maschwitz

  • The migrating herdsman Dolichoderus (Diabolus) cuspidatus : an ant with a novel mode of life

    Ulrich Maschwitz;Heinz Hänel

  • Comparative studies on the function of the metapleural gland in ants

    Ulrich Maschwitz

  • Foraging strategies and recruitment behaviour in the European harvester ant Messor rufitarsis (F.).

    Michael Hahn;Ulrich Maschwitz

  • Functional analysis of the myrmecophilous relationships between ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and lycaenids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) : II. Lycaenid larvae as trophobiotic partners of ants-a quantitative approach.

    Konrad Fiedler;Ulrich Maschwitz

  • Thrips pollination of the dioecious ant plant Macaranga hullettii (Euphorbiaceae) in Southeast Asia

    Ute Moog;Brigitte Fiala;Walter Federle;Ulrich Maschwitz

  • Der Hochzeitsschwarm der Rossameise Camponotus herculeanus L. (Hym. formicidae)

    Bert Hölldobler;Ulrich Maschwitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Konrad Fiedler
Konrad Fiedler University of Vienna
Bert Hölldobler
Bert Hölldobler Arizona State University
K. Eduard Linsenmair
K. Eduard Linsenmair University of Würzburg
Heike Feldhaar
Heike Feldhaar University of Bayreuth
Karl Eduard Linsenmair
Karl Eduard Linsenmair University of Würzburg
Birgitta Bremer
Birgitta Bremer Stockholm University
Jacques H. C. Delabie
Jacques H. C. Delabie State University of Santa Cruz
Frank R. Blattner
Frank R. Blattner Leibniz Association
Markus Riederer
Markus Riederer University of Würzburg
Hermann Voglmayr
Hermann Voglmayr University of Vienna

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