Publications of Gerald Kerth

van Schaik, J.; Kerth, G.: Host social organization and mating system shape parasite transmission opportunities in three European bat species. Parasitology Research 116 (2), pp. 589 - 599 (2017)

van Schaik, J.; Dekeukeleire, D.; Kerth, G.: Host and parasite life history interplay to yield divergent population genetic structures in two ectoparasites living on the same bat species. Molecular Ecology 24 (10), pp. 2324 - 2335 (2015)

van Schaik, J.; Kerth, G.; Bruyndonckx, N.; Christe, P.: The effect of host social system on parasite population genetic structure: Comparative population genetics of two ectoparasitic mites and their bat hosts. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14, 18 (2014)

Kerth, G.; van Schaik, J.: Causes and consequences of living in closed societies: Lessons from a long-term socio-genetic study on Bechstein's bats. Molecular Ecology 21 (3), pp. 633 - 646 (2012)

Kerth, G.; Perony, N.; Schweitzer, F.: Bats are able to maintain long-term social relationships despite the high fission-fusion dynamics of their groups. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1719), pp. 2761 - 2767 (2011)

van Schaik, J.; Bruyndonckx, N.; Kerth, G.; Christe, P.: Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite loci for two species of spinturnicid bat wing mites (spinturnix myoti and spinturnix bechsteini). Acarologia 51 (1), pp. 127 - 131 (2011)

Kerth, G.: Group decision-making in fission-fusion societies. Behavioural Processes 84 (3), pp. 662 - 663 (2010)

Pretzlaff, I.; Kerth, G.; Dausmann, K. H.: Communally breeding bats use physiological and behavioural adjustments to optimise daily energy expenditure. Die Naturwissenschaften 97 (4), pp. 353 - 363 (2010)

Schoener, C. R.; Schoener, M. G.; Kerth, G.: Similar is not the same: Social calls of conspecifics are more effective in attracting wild bats to day roosts than those of other bat species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64 (12), pp. 2053 - 2063 (2010)

Bruyndonckx, N.; Henry, I.; Christe, P.; Kerth, G.: Spatio-temporal population genetic structure of the parasitic mite Spinturnix bechsteini is shaped by its own demography and the social system of its bat host. Molecular Ecology 18 (17), pp. 3581 - 3592 (2009)

Dechmann, D. K. N.; Kalko, E. K. V.; Kerth, G.: All-offspring dispersal in a tropical mammal with resource defense polygyny. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61 (8), pp. 1219 - 1228 (2007)

Dechmann, D. K. N.; Kalko, E. K. V.; König, B.; Kerth, G.: Mating system of a Neotropical roost making bat: The white-throated round-eared bat, Lophostoma silvicolum. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 58 (3), pp. 316 - 325 (2005)

Dechmann, D. K. N.; Kalko, E. K. V.; Kerth, G.: Ecology of an exceptional roost: Energetic benefits could explain why the bat Lophostoma silvicolum roosts in active termite nests. Evolutionary Ecology Research 7, pp. 1037 - 1050 (2004)

Safi, K.; Kerth, G.: A comparative analysis of specialization and extinction risk in temperate-zone bats. Conservation Biology 18 (5), pp. 1293 - 1303 (2004)

Safi, K.; Kerth, G.: Secretions of the interaural gland contain information about individuality and colony membership in the Bechstein’s Bat. Animal Behaviour 65 (2), pp. 363 - 369 (2003)

Kerth, G.; Safi, K.; König, B.: Mean colony relatedness is a poor predictor of colony structure and female philopatry in the communally breeding Bechstein’s bat (Myotis bechsteinii). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 52 (3), pp. 203 - 210 (2002)