Publications of Holger R. Goerlitz

Iturralde Polit, P.; Araya-Salas, M.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Chaverri, G.: Variation in echolocation call emission of Neotropical insect-eating bats in response to shifting ambient temperatures. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)

de Framond, L.; Beleyur, T.; Lewanzik, D.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Calibrated microphone array recordings reveal that a gleaning bat emits low-intensity echolocation calls even in open-space habitat. The Journal of Experimental Biology 226 (18), jeb245801 (2023)

de Framond, L.; Reininger, V.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Temperate bats may alter calls to partially compensate for weather-induced changes in detection distance Scilight. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153 (5), pp. 2867 - 2877 (2023)

Hubancheva, A.; Bozicevic, V.; Morinière, J.; Goerlitz, H. R.: DNA metabarcoding data from faecal samples of the lesser (Myotis blythii) and the greater (Myotis myotis) mouse-eared bats from Bulgaria. Metabarcoding and Metagenomics 7, pp. 121 - 134 (2023)

Lewanzik, D.; Ratcliffe, J. M.; Etzler, E. A.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Jakobsen, L.: Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry. Current Biology 33 (23), pp. 5208 - 5214.e3 (2023)

Stidsholt, L.; Hubancheva, A.; Greif, S.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Johnson, M.; Yovel, Y.; Madsen, P. T.: Echolocating bats prefer a high risk-high gain foraging strategy to increase prey profitability. eLife 12, e84190 (2023)

Lewanzik, D.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Task-dependent vocal adjustments to optimize biosonar-based information acquisition. The Journal of Experimental Biology 224 (1), jeb234815 (2021)

Stidsholt, L.; Greif, S.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Beedholm, K.; Macaulay, J.; Johnson, M.; Madsen, P. T.: Hunting bats adjust their echolocation to receive weak prey echoes for clutter reduction. Science Advances 7 (10), eabf1367 (2021)

Stidsholt, L.; Johnson, M.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Madsen, P. T.: Wild bats briefly decouple sound production from wingbeats to increase sensory flow during prey captures. iScience 24 (8), 102896 (2021)

Voigt, C. C.; Russo, D.; Runkel, V.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Limitations of acoustic monitoring at wind turbines to evaluate fatality risk of bats. Mammal Review 51 (4), pp. 559 - 570 (2021)

Goerlitz, H. R.; ter Hofstede, H. M.; Holderied, M. W.: Neural representation of bat predation risk and evasive flight in moths: A modelling approach. Journal of Theoretical Biology 486, 110082 (2020)

Gomes, D. G. E.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Individual differences show that only some bats can cope with noise-induced masking and distraction. PeerJ 8, e10551 (2020)

Hügel, T.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Light might suppress both types of sound‐evoked antipredator flight in moths. Ecology and Evolution 10 (23), pp. 13134 - 13142 (2020)

Straka, T. M.; Greif, S.; Schultz, S.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Voigt, C. C.: The effect of cave illumination on bats. Global Ecology and Conservation 21, e00808 (2020)

Baier, L.; Wiegrebe, L.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Echo-imaging exploits an environmental high-pass filter to access spatial information with a non-spatial sensor. iScience 14, pp. 335 - 344 (2019)

Beleyur, T.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Modeling active sensing reveals echo detection even in large groups of bats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (52), pp. 26662 - 26668 (2019)

Hügel, T.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Species‐specific strategies increase unpredictability of escape flight in eared moths. Functional Ecology 33 (9), pp. 1674 - 1683 (2019)

Lewanzik, D.; Sundaramurthy, A. K.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Insectivorous bats integrate social information about species identity, conspecific activity, and prey abundance to estimate cost‐benefit ratio of interactions. Journal of Animal Ecology 88 (10), pp. 1462 - 1473 (2019)

Egert-Berg, K.; Hurme, E.; Greif, S.; Goldshtein, A.; Harten, L.; Luis Gerardo M., H.; Flores-Martinez, J. J.; Valdes, A. T.; Johnston, D. S.; Eitan, O. et al.; Borissov, I.; Shipley, J. R.; Medellin, R. A.; Wilkinson, G. S.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Yovel, Y.: Resource ephemerality drives social foraging in bats. Current Biology 28 (22), pp. 3667 - 3673 (2018)

Goerlitz, H. R.: Weather conditions determine attenuation and speed of sound: Environmental limitations for monitoring and analyzing bat echolocation. Ecology and Evolution 8 (10), pp. 5090 - 5100 (2018)

Goerlitz, H. R.: Akustische Tarnkappen und gespitzte Ohren. Jahrbuch - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2018)

Lattenkamp, E. Z.; Kaiser, S.; Kaucic, R.; Großmann, M.; Koselj, K.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Environmental acoustic cues guide the biosonar attention of a highly specialised echolocator. The Journal of Experimental Biology 221 (8), jeb165696 (2018)

Lewanzik, D.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Continued source level reduction during attack in the low-amplitude bat Barbastella barbastellus prevents moth evasive flight. Functional Ecology 32 (5), pp. 1251 - 1261 (2018)

Hügel, T.; van Meir, V.; Munoz-Meneses, A.; Clarin, B.-M.; Siemers, B. M.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Does similarity in call structure or foraging ecology explain interspecific information transfer in wild Myotis bats? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71 (11), 168 (2017)

Luo, J.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Brumm, H.; Wiegrebe, L.: Linking the sender to the receiver: Vocal adjustments by bats to maintain signal detection in noise. Scientific Reports 5, 18556 (2015)

Clare, E. L.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Drapeau, V. A.; Holderied, M. W.; Adams, A. M.; Nagel, J.; Dumont, E. R.; Hebert, P. D. N.; Brock Fenton, M.: Trophic niche flexibility in Glossophaga soricina: How a nectar seeker sneaks an insect snack. Functional Ecology 28 (3), pp. 632 - 641 (2014)

Clarin, B.-M.; Bitzilekis, E.; Siemers, B. M.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Personal messages reduce vandalism and theft of unattended scientific equipment. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5 (2), pp. 125 - 131 (2014)

Luo, J.; Koselj, K.; Zsebök, S.; Siemers, B. M.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Global warming alters sound transmission: Differential impact on the prey detection ability of echolocating bats. Interface: Journal of the Royal Society 11 (91), 20130961 (2014)

Dorado-Correa, A. M.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Siemers, B. M.: Interspecific acoustic recognition in two European bat communities. Frontiers in Physiology 4, 192 (2013)

ter Hofstede, H. M.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Ratcliffe, J. M.; Holderied, M. W.; Surlykke, A.: The simple ears of noctuoid moths are tuned to the calls of their sympatric bat community. The Journal of Experimental Biology 216 (21), pp. 3954 - 3962 (2013)

Goerlitz, H. R.; Genzel, D.; Wiegrebe, L.: Bats’ avoidance of real and virtual objects: Implications for the sonar coding of object size. Behavioural Processes 89 (1), pp. 61 - 67 (2012)

ter Hofstede, H. M.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Montealegre-Z, F.; Robert, D.; Holderied, M. W.: Tympanal mechanics and neural responses in the ears of a noctuid moth. Die Naturwissenschaften 98 (12), pp. 1057 - 1061 (2011)

Goerlitz, H. R.; Geberl, C.; Wiegrebe, L.: Sonar detection of jittering real targets in a free-flying bat. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 128 (3), pp. 1467 - 1475 (2010)

Goerlitz, H. R.; ter Hofstede, H. M.; Zeale, M. R. K.; Jones, G.; Holderied, M. W.: An aerial-hawking bat uses stealth echolocation to counter moth hearing. Current Biology 20 (17), pp. 1568 - 1572 (2010)

Goerlitz, H. R.; Greif, S.; Siemers, B. M.: Cues for acoustic detection of prey: Insect rustling sounds and the influence of walking substrate. The Journal of Experimental Biology 211 (17), pp. 2799 - 2806 (2008)

Goerlitz, H. R.; Hübner, M.; Wiegrebe, L.: Comparing passive and active hearing: Spectral analysis of transient sounds in bats. The Journal of Experimental Biology 211 (12), pp. 1850 - 1858 (2008)

Goerlitz, H. R.; Siemers, B. M.: Sensory ecology of prey rustling sounds: Acoustical features and their classification by wild Grey Mouse Lemurs. Functional Ecology 21 (1), pp. 143 - 153 (2007)

Siemers, B. M.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Robsomanitrandrasana, E.; Piep, M.; Ramanamanjato, J.-B.; Rakotondravony, D.; Ramilijaona, O.; Ganzhorn, J. U.: Sensory basis of food detection in wild Microcebus murinus. International Journal of Primatology 28 (2), pp. 291 - 304 (2007)

Schill, R. O.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Köhler, H.-R.: Laboratory simulation of a mining accident: Acute toxicity, hsc/hsp70 response, and recovery from stress in Gammarus fossarum (Crustacea, Amphipoda) exposed to a pulse of cadmium. Biometals 16 (3), pp. 391 - 401 (2003)

Batstone, K.; Flood, G.; Beleyur, T.; Larsson, V.; Goerlitz, H. R.; Oskarsson, M.; Aström, K.: Robust self-calibration of constant offset time-difference-of-arrival. In: Conference proceedings at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019, pp. 4410 - 4414. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019, Brighton, May 12, 2019 - May 17, 2019. (2019)

Goerlitz, H. R.: Multi-species acoustic information networks: From neurons to predator-prey communities. Habilitation, 110 pp., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (2022)