Thomas Schmitt

University of Potsdam — Germany

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(144), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(120), Species Distribution and Climate Change(98), Genetic diversity and population structure(71), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy(69)

Publications305 total

The potential role of volatile organic compounds on the colonisation of deadwood by saproxylic beetles
Oecologia·2026Open Access
Review of the genus Hierodula Burmeister (Mantodea: Mantidae) in Iran
Frontiers in Insect Science·2026Open Access
Losses of specialist and expansion of thermophilic generalist macro-moths in nature reserves of Central Europe
Biological Conservation·2025Open Access
Mismatches in the occurrence of endangered butterflies and macro‐moths inside and outside nature reserves
Insect Conservation and Diversity·2025
Phenological plasticity alters community structures of mountain Lepidoptera
Oecologia·2025Open Access
The Grassland Butterfly Index for Germany
Nature Conservation·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Evaluating Habitat Conditions for the Ringlet Butterfly (Erebia pronoe glottis) in a Multi-Use Mountain Landscape in the French Pyrenees
Diversity·2025Open Access
Strengths and shortcomings of citizen science data: lessons from Austrian butterflies
Journal of Insect Conservation·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Selective observation causes differences in citizen science butterfly data
Basic and Applied Ecology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Disturbance of coastal forests in East Africa: elephants promote forest butterflies while human impact supports Savannah species
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Desert biogeography in the Central Saharan highlands: insights from butterflies of the Hoggar Mountains
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society·2025
Organic farming fosters arthropod diversity of specific insect guilds – evidence from metabarcoding
Conservation Genetics·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Population ecology of the apollo butterfly Parnassius Apollo in the Austrian Alps – a mark-release recapture study
Journal of Insect Conservation·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Phenological plasticity alters community structures of alpine Lepidoptera
2025Open Access
Altitudinal distributions of endangered butterflies in the Austrian Alps
Biological Conservation·2025· 1 cited
A checklist of Mantodea for Myanmar with the first record of Schizocephala bicornis (Mantodea, Eremiaphilidae) for the country
ZooKeys·2025Open Access
What makes a habitat suitable for the open-forest specialist rock grayling (Hipparchia alcyone [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)? An ecological comparison between current and historical habitats of a highly endangered butterfly species
Journal of Insect Conservation·2025· 2 cited
Extra-Mediterranean glacial refugia and range dynamics in a groundwater amphipod species, Niphargus fontanus Spence Bate, 1859, in western Central Europe
Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Contrasting and altitude‐specific temporal trends in functional, phylogenetic, and species diversity in Austrian butterfly communities
Oikos·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Phylogeographic analyses reveal recent dispersal and multiple Wolbachia infections of the bright-eyed ringlet Erebia oeme within the European mountain systems
Scientific Reports·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jan Christian Habel(15), Alfred Seitz(10), Werner Ulrich(7), Paul Müller(4), Zoltán Varga(3), Dennis Rödder(3), László Rákosy(3), Matthias Weitzel(2), G. M. Hewitt(2), Patrick Gros(2), KAROLA HAUBRICH(2), Thorsten Aßmann(2), Andreas Gießl(2), Isabell Karl(2), Klaus Fischer(2), Martin Konvička(2), Jan Christian Habel(2), Michael J. Samways(1), Andreas H. Segerer(1), Olena Torchyk(1)