Holger Schielzeth - Publications

Varma, M., Winter, G., Rowland, H.M. & Schielzeth, H. (2023). Ontogeny of color development in two green-brown polymorphic grasshopper species. Ecology and Evolution 13: e10712. doi: 10.1002/ece3.10712External link

Winter, G., Varma, M. & Schielzeth, H. (2021). Simple inheritance of color and pattern polymorphism in the steppe grasshopper Chorthippus dorsatus. Heredity 127: 66-78. doi: 10.1038/s41437-021-00433-wExternal link [Open data]External link

Schmoll, T., Rudolfsen, G., Schielzeth, H. & Kleven, O. (2020). Sperm velocity in a promiscuous bird across experimental media of different viscosities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20201031. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1031External link

Schielzeth, H. & Dieker, P. (2020). The green-brown polymorphism of the club-legged grasshopper Gomphocerus sibiricus is heritable and appears genetically simple. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20: 63. doi: 10.1186/s12862-020-01630-7External link

Köhler, G. & Schielzeth, H. (2020). Green-brown polymorphism in alpine grasshoppers affects body temperature. Ecology and Evolution 10: 441-450. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5908External link

Chakrabarty, A. & Schielzeth, H. (2020). Comparative analysis of the multivariate genetic architecture of morphological traits in three species of Gomphocerine grasshoppers. Heredity 124: 367-382. doi: 10.1038/s41437-41019-40276-41431External link

Schweizer, M., Warmuth, V.M., Alaei Kakhki, N., Aliabadian, M., Förschler, M., Shirihai, H., Ewels, P., Gruselius, J., Olsen, R.A., Schielzeth, H., Suh, A. & Burri, R. (2019). Genome-wide evidence supports mitochondrial relationships and pervasive parallel phenotypic evolution in open-habitat chats. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 139: 106568. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106568External link

Chakrabarty, A., van Kronenberg, P., Toliopoulos, N. & Schielzeth, H. (2019). Direct and indirect genetic effects on reproductive investment in a grasshopper. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32: 331-342. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13417External link [Open data]External link

de Villemereuil, P., Morrisey, M., Nakagawa, S. & Schielzeth, H. (2018). Fixed effect variance and the estimation of repeatabilities and heritabilities: Issues and solutions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology doi: 10.1111/jeb.13232External link

Dieker, P., Beckmann, L., Teckentrup, J. & Schielzeth, H. (2018). Spatial analyses of two colour polymorphisms in an alpine grasshopper reveal a role of small-scale heterogeneity. Ecology and Evolution 8: 7273-7284. doi: 10.1002/ece1003.4156External link. [Open data]External link

Köhler, G., Samietz, J. & Schielzeth, H. (2017). Morphological and colour morph clines along an altitudinal gradient in the meadow grasshopper Pseudochorthippus parallelus. PLoS One 12: e0189815. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189815External link [Open data]External link

de Villemereuil, P., Schielzeth, H., Nakagawa, S. & Morrisey, M. (2016). General methods for evolutionary quantitative genetic inference from generalised mixed models. Genetics 204: 1281-1294. doi:10.1534/genetics.115.186536External link [R package QGglmm]External link

Griffin, R.M., Schielzeth, H. & Friberg, U. (2016). Autosomal and X linked additive genetic variation for lifespan and aging: comparisons within and between the sexes in Drosophila melanogaster. G3-Genes Genomes Genetics 6: 3903-3911. doi:10.1534/g3.116.028308External link [Open data]External link   

Griffin, R.M., Le Gall, D., Schielzeth, H. & Friberg, U. (2015). Within-population Y-linked genetic variation for lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 1940-1947. doi:10.1111/jeb.12708External link [Open data]External link

Evans, S.R., Schielzeth, H., Forstmeier, W., Sheldon, B.C. & Husby, A. (2014). Non-autosomal genetic variation in carotenoid coloration. American Naturalist 184: 374-383. doi:10.1086/677397External link [Open data]External link

Lehtovaara, A., Schielzeth, H., Flis, I. & Friberg, U. (2013). Heritability of lifespan is largely sex-limited in Drosophila. American Naturalist 182: 653-665. doi:10.1086/673296External link [Open data]External link

Husby, A., Schielzeth, H., Forstmeier, W., Gustafsson, L. & Qvarnström, A. (2013). Sex chromosome linked genetic variance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism of quantitative traits. Evolution 67: 609-619. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01806.xExternal link [Open data]External link

Bolund, E., Schielzeth, H. & Forstmeier, W. (2011). Correlates of male fitness in captive zebra finches: a comparison of methods to disentangle genetic and environmental effects. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 327. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-327External link

Lutgen, D., Ritter, R., Olsem, R.-A., Schielzeth, H., Gruselius, J., Ewels, P., García, J.T., Shirihai, H., Schweizer, M., Suh, A. & Burri, R. (2020). Linked-read sequencing enables haplotype-resolved resequencing at population scale. Molecular Ecology Resources 20: 1311-1322. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13192External link

Lutgen, D., Ritter, R., Olsem, R.-A., Schielzeth, H., Gruselius, J., Ewels, P., García, J.T., Shirihai, H., Schweizer, M., Suh, A. & Burri, R. (2020). Linked-read sequencing enables haplotype-resolved resequencing at population scale. Molecular Ecology Resources Molecular Ecology Resources 20: 1311-1322. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13192External link

Shah, A., Hoffman, J.I. & Schielzeth, H. (2020). Comparative analysis of genomic repeat content in gomphocerine grasshoppers reveals expansion of satellite DNA and helitrons in species with unusually large genomes. Genome Biology and Evolution 12: 1180–1193. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evaa119External link

Shah, A., Hoffman, J.I. & Schielzeth, H. (2019). Transcriptome assembly for a colour-polymorphic grasshopper (Gomphocerus sibiricus) with a very large genome size. BMC Genomics 20: 370. doi: 10.1186/s12864-019-5756-4External link

Schielzeth, H., Rios Villamil, A. & Burri, R.(2018). Success and failure in replication of genotype-phenotype associations: How does replication help in understanding the genetic basis of phenotypic variation in outbred populations? Molecular Ecology Resources 4: 739-754. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12780External link.

Knief, U., Schielzeth, H., Backström, N., Hemmrich-Stanisak, G., Wittig, M., Franke, A., Griffith, S.C., Ellegren, H., Kempenaers, B. & Forstmeier, W. (2017). Association mapping of morphological traits in wild and captive zebra finches: reliable within but not between populations. Molecular Ecology 26: 1285-1305. doi:10.1111/mec.14009External link. [Open data]External link

Shah, A.B., Schielzeth, H., Albersmeier, A., Kalinowski, J. & Hoffman, J. (2016). High throughput sequencing and graph-based cluster analysis facilitate microsatellite development from a highly complex genome. Ecology and Evolution 6: 5718-5727. doi:10.1002/ece3.2305External link

Knief, U., Schielzeth, H., Ellegren, H., Kempenaers, B. & Forstmeier, W. (2015). A prezygotic transmission distorter acting equally in female and male zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata. Molecular Ecology 24: 3846-3859. doi:10.1111/mec.13281External link [Open data]External link

Schielzeth, H., Streitner, C., Lampe, U., Franzke, A. & Reinhold, K. (2014). Genome size variation affects song attractiveness in grasshoppers: evidence for sexual selection against large genomes. Evolution 68: 3629-3635. doi:10.1111/evo.12522External link [Open data]External link

Schielzeth, H. & Husby, A. (2014). Challenges and prospects in genome-wide QTL mapping of standing genetic variation in natural populations. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1320: 35-57. doi:10.1111/nyas.12397External link

Schielzeth, H., Forstmeier, W., Kempenaers, B. & Ellegren, H. (2012). QTL linkage mapping of wing length in zebra finches using genome-wide SNP markers. Molecular Ecology 21: 229-239. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05365.xExternal link [Open data]External link

Schielzeth, H., Kempenaers, B., Ellegren, H. & Forstmeier, W. (2012). QTL linkage mapping of zebra finch beak color shows an oligogenic control of a sexually selected trait. Evolution 66: 18-30. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01431.xExternal link [Open data]External link

Knief, U., Schielzeth, H., Kempenaers, B., Ellegren, H. & Forstmeier, W. (2012). QTL and quantitative genetic analysis of beak morphology reveals patterns of standing genetic variation in an Estrildid finch. Molecular Ecology 21: 3704-3717. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05661.xExternal link [Open data]External link

Forstmeier, W., Schielzeth, H., Mueller, J.C., Ellegren, H. & Kempenaers, B. (2012). Heterozygosity-fitness correlations in zebra finches: microsatellite markers can be better than their reputation. Molecular Ecology 21: 3237-3249. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05593.xExternal link [Open data]External link

Backström, N., Forstmeier, W., Schielzeth, H., Mellenius, H., Nam, K., Bolund, E., Webster, M.T., Öst, T., Schneider, M., Kempenaers, B. & Ellegren, H. (2010). The recombinational landscape of the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata genome. Genome Research 20: 485-495. doi:10.1101/gr.101410.109External link [Reviewed by the Faculty of 1000]External link

Nam, K., Mugal, C., Nabholz, B., Schielzeth, H., Wolf, J.B.W., Backström, N., Künstner, A., Balakrishan, C.N., Heger, A., Ponting, C.P., Clayton. D.F. & Ellegren, H. (2010). Molecular evolution of genes in avian genomes. Genome Biology 11: R68. doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-6-r68External link

Forstmeier, W., Schielzeth, H., Schneider, M. & Kempenaers, B. (2007). Development of polymorphic microsatellite markers for the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 1026-1028. doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01762.xExternal link

Mutwill, A.M., Schielzeth, H., Richter, S.H., Kaiser, S. & Sachser, N. (2023). Conditional on the social environment? Roots of repeatability in hormone concentrations. Hormones and Behavior 155: 105423. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2023.105423External link

Singh, P., Wolthaus, J., Schielzeth, H. & Müller, C. (2023). State-dependency of behavioural traits is a function of the life-stage in a holometabolous insect. Animal Behaviour 203: 29-39. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.06.013External link 

Winter, G., Wirsching, L. & Schielzeth, H. (2023). Condition-dependence of (un)predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species. Behavioral Ecology 34: 741–750. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arad047External link [Data availability]External link  [Code availability]External link

Takola, E. & Schielzeth, H. (2022). Hutchinson’s ecological niche for individuals. Biology & Philosophy 37: 25. doi: 10.1007/s10539-022-09849-yExternal link

Bračić, M., Bohn, L., Krakenberg, V., von Kortzfleisch, V., Schielzeth, H., Kaiser, S., Sachser, N. & Richter, S.H. (2022). Once an optimist, always an optimist? Studying cognitive judgment bias in mice. Behavioral Ecology 33: 775–788. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arac040External link

Trappes, R., Nematipour, B., Kaiser, M.I., Krohs, U., van Benthem, K.J., Ernst, U.R., Gadau, J., Korsten, P., Kurtz, J., Schielzeth, H., Schmoll, T. & Takola, E. (2022). How individualized niches arise: Mechanisms of niche construction, niche choice, and niche conformance. BioScience 72: 538-548. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biac023External link

Heinze, P., Dieker, P., Rowland, H.M. & Schielzeth, H. (2022). Evidence for morph-specific substrate choice in a green-brown polymorphic grasshopper. Behavioral Ecology 33: 13-26. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arab133External link [Data and code availability]External link

Takola, E., Krause, E.T., Müller, C. & Schielzeth, H. (2021). Novelty at second glance: a critical appraisal of the novel object paradigm based on meta-analysis. Animal Behaviour 180: 123-142. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.07.018External link

Mutwill, A.M., Schielzeth, H., Zimmermann, T.D., Richter, H., Kaiser, S. & Sachser, N. (2021). Individuality meets plasticity: endocrine phenotypes across male dominance rank acquisition in a complex social environment. Hormones and Behavior 131: 104967. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.104967External link [Open data2]External link

Moran, N., Sánchez-Tójar, A., Schielzeth, H. & Reinhold, K. (2020). Poor nutritional condition promotes high-risk behaviours: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Biological Reviews 96: 269-288. doi: 10.1111/brv.12655External link

Krause, E.T., Krüger, O. & Schielzeth, H. (2017). Long-term effects of early nutrition and environmental matching on developmental and personality traits in zebra finches. Animal Behaviour 128: 103-115. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.04.003External link [Open data]External link

Valverde, J.P., Eggert, H., Kurtz, J. & Schielzeth, H. (2017). Condition-dependence and sexual ornamentation: Effects of immune challenges on a highly sexually dimorphic grasshopper. Insect Science 25: 617-630. doi:10.1111/1744-7917.12448External link

Reinhold, K. & Schielzeth, H. (2015). Choosiness, a neglected aspect of preference functions: a review of methods, challenges and statistical approaches. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 201: 171-182. doi:10.1007/s00359-014-0963-6External link

Valverde, K. & Schielzeth, H. (2015). What triggers colour change? Effects of background colour and temperature on the development of an alpine grasshopper. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 168. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0419-9External link [Open data]External link

Benito, M.M., Schielzeth, H., González-Solís, J. & Becker, P.H. (2013). Sex ratio adjustments in common terns: influence of mate condition and maternal experience. Journal of Avian Biology 44: 179-188. doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2012.08001.00024External link

Miranda, A.C., Schielzeth, H., Sonntag, T. & Partecke, J. (2013). Urbanization and its effects on personality traits: a result of microevolution or phenotypic plasticity? Global Change Biology 19: 2634-2644. doi:10.1111/gcb.12258External link [Youtube video about the project]External link

Ramm, S.A., Jonker, R.M., Reinhold, K., Székely, T., Trillmich, F., Schmoll, T., Schielzeth, H. & Freckleton, R.P. (2013). Comment on Bateman in nature: predation on offspring reduces the potential for sexual selection. Science 340: 549. doi:10.1126/science.1233298External link

Bolund, E., Schielzeth, H. & Forstmeier, W. (2010). No heightened condition dependence of zebra finch ornaments: a quantitative genetic approach. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 586-597. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01927.xExternal link

Schielzeth, H., Bolund, E. & Forstmeier, W. (2010). Heritability of and early-environmental effects on variation in mating preferences. Evolution 64: 998-1006. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00890.xExternal link

Bolund, E., Schielzeth, H. & Forstmeier, W. (2012). Singing activity stimulates partner reproductive investment rather than increasing paternity success in zebra finches. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66: 975-984. doi:10.1007/s00265-012-1346-zExternal link

Schielzeth, H., Bolund, E., Kempenaers, B. & Forstmeier, W. (2011). Quantitative genetics and fitness consequences of novelty-seeking in zebra finches. Behavioral Ecology 22: 126-134. doi:10.1093/beheco/arq184External link

Forstmeier, W., Martin, K., Bolund, E., Schielzeth, H. & Kempenaers, B. (2011). Female exprapair mating behavior can evolve via indirect selection on males. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108: 10608-10613. doi:10.1073/pnas.1103195108External link [Reviewed by the Faculty of 1000]External link

Schielzeth, H. & Bolund, E. (2010). Patterns of conspecific brood parasitism in zebra finches. Animal Behaviour 79: 1329-1337. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.03.006External link

Steinmeyer, C., Schielzeth, H., Müller, J.C. & Kempenaers, B. (2010). Variation in sleep behaviour in free-living blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus: effects of sex, age and environment. Animal Behaviour 80: 853-864. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.08.005External link

Bolund E., Schielzeth H. & Forstmeier W. (2009). Compensatory investment in zebra finches: Females lay larger eggs when paired to sexually unattractive males. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276: 707-715. doi:doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1251External link

Schielzeth, H., Burger, C., Bolund, E. & Forstmeier, W. (2008). Sexual imprinting on continuous variation: Do female zebra finches prefer or avoid unfamiliar sons of their foster parents? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1274-1280. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01568.xExternal link

Schielzeth, H., Burger, C., Bolund, E. & Forstmeier, W. (2008). Assortative versus disassortative mating preferences of female zebra finches based on self-referent phenotype matching. Animal Behaviour 76: 1927-1934. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.08.014External link

Bolund, E., Schielzeth, H. & Forstmeier, W. (2007). Intrasexual competition in zebra finches, the role of beak colour and body size. Animal Behaviour 74: 715-724. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.032External link

Koshkina, A.I., Koshkin, A.V., Timoshenko, A.Y., Koshkin, A.A. & Schielzeth, H. (2019). White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala surveys in Kazakhstan suggest larger and apparently increasing Eastern population of an endangered wetland species. Bird Study 66: 111-120. doi: 10.1080/00063657.00062019.01618239External link

Harry, I., Höfer, H., Schielzeth, H. & Assmann, T. (2019). Protected habitats of Natura 2000 do not coincide with important diversity hotspots of arthropods in mountain grasslands. Insect Conservation and Diversity 12: 329-338. doi: 10.1111/icad.12349External link

Köhler, G., Fraulob, M. & Schielzeth, H. (2016). Weinhähnchen und andere bemerkenswerte Heuschreckenarten um Jena/Thüringen (Insecta: Ensifera - Oecanthidae, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalidae). Thüringer Faunistische Abhandlungen 21: 97-108.

Jovani, R., Schielzeth, H., Mavor, R. & Oro, D. (2012). Specificity of grouping behaviour: comparing colony size frequency distributions for the same seabird species in distant populations. Journal of Avian Biology 43: 397-402. doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2012.05643.xExternal link

Schielzeth, H., Kamp, J., Eichhorn, G., Heinicke, T., Koshkin, M.A., Lachmann, L., Sheldon, R.D. & Koshkin, A.V. (2010). Wader, gull and tern population estimates for a key breeding and stopover site in Central Kazakhstan. Bird Conservation International 20: 186-199. doi:10.1017/S0959270910000031External link

Wißmann, J., Schielzeth, H. & Fartmann, T. (2009). Landscape-scale expansion of Roesel's bush-cricket Metrioptera roeselii (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) at the north-western range limit in Central Europe. Entomologia Generalis 31: 317-326.

Schielzeth, H., Eichhorn, G., Heinicke, T., Kamp, J., Koshkin, M.A., Koshkin, A.V. & Lachmann. L. (2008). Waterbird population estimates for a key staging site in Kazakhstan: a contribution to wetland conservation on the Central Asian flyway. Bird Conservation International 18: 71-86. doi:10.1017/S0959270908000087External link

Watson, M., Wilson, J.M., Koshkin, M., Sherbakov, B., Karpov, F., Gavrilov, A., Schielzeth, H., Brombacher, M., Collar, N.J. & Cresswell, W. (2006). Nest survival and productivity of the critically endangered sociable lapwing Vanellus gregarious. Ibis 148: 489-502. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00555.xExternal link

Schielzeth, H., Lachmann, L., Eichhorn, G. & Heinicke, T. (2003). The white-headed duck Oxyura leucocephala in the Tengiz-Korgalzhyn Region, Central Kazakhstan. Wildfowl 54: 115-129.

Anthes, N., Bergmann, H.-H., Hegemann, A., Jaquier, S., Kriegs, J.O., Pyzhjanov, S.W. & Schielzeth, H. (2004). High diversity, low abundance: Opportunistic acceptance of a low quality waterbird staging site at Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia. Wader Study Group Bulletin 105: 75-83.

Anthes, N., Harry, I., Mantel, K., Müller, A., Schielzeth, H. & Wahl, J. (2002). Notes on migration dynamics and biometry of the wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) at the sewage farm of Münster (NW-Germany). Ring 24: 41-56.

Schielzeth, H. (2001). Zum Auftreten des Kormorans (Phalocrocorax carbo sinensis) in Berlin. Berliner ornithologischer Bericht 11: 160-182.

Fischer, S., Mauersberger, G., Schielzeth, H. & Witt, K. (1992). Erster Brutnachweis des Bindenkreuzschnabels (Loxia leucoptera) in Mitteleuropa. Journal für Ornithologie 133: 197-202. doi:10.1007/BF01639912External link

Huang, Y., Stein, G., Kolle, O., Kübler, K., Schulze, E.-D., Dong, H., Eichenberg, D., Gleixner, G., Hildebrandt, A., Lange, M., Roscher, C., Schielzeth, H., Schmid, B., Weigelt , A., Weisser, W.W., Shadaydeh, M., Denzler, J., Ebeling, A. & Eisenhauer, N. (2023). Enhanced stability of grassland soil temperature by plant diversity. Nature Geoscience 17: 44-50. doi: 10.1038/s41561-023-01338-5External link

Argens, L., Weisser, W.W., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Lange, M., Oelmann, Y., Roscher, C., Schielzeth, H., Schmid, B., Wilcke, W. & Meyer, S.T. (2023). Relationships between ecosystem functions vary among years and plots and are driven by plant species richness. Oikos 2024: e10096. doi: 10.1111/oik.10096External link 

Ebeling, A., Strauss, A., Adler, P.B., Arnillas, C., Barrio, I., Biederman, L., Borer, E., Bugalho, M., Caldeira, M., Cadotte, M., Daleo, P., Eisenhauer, N., Eskelinen, A., Fay, P., Firn, J., Graff, P., Hagenah, N., Haider, S., Komatsu, K., McCulley, R., Mitchell, C., Moore, J., Pascual, J., Peri, P., Power, S., Prober, S., Risch, A., Roscher, C., Sankaran, M., Seabloom, E., Schielzeth, H., Schutz, M., Speziale, K., Tedder, M., Virtanen, R. & Blumenthal, D. (2022). Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands. Journal of Ecology 110: 327-339. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13801External link

Schielzeth, H. & Wolf, J.B.W. (2021). Community genomics: a community-wide perspective on within-species genetic diversity. American Journal of Botany 108: 2108-2111. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1796External link

Eisenhauer, N., Schielzeth, H., Barnes, A.D., Barry, K., Bonn, A., Brose, U., Bruelheide, H., Buchmann, N., Buscot, F., Ebeling, A., Ferlian, O., Freschet, G.T., Giling, D.P., Hättenschwiler, S., Hillebrand, H., Hines, J., Isbell, F., Koller-France, E., König-Ries, B., de Kroon, H., Meyer, S.T., Milcu, A., Müller, J., Nock, C.A., Petermann, J.S., Roscher, C., Scherber, C., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Schnitzer, S.A., Schuldt, A., Tscharntke, T., Türke, M., van Dam, N.M., van der Plas, F., Vogel, A., Wagg, C., Wardle, D.A., Weigelt, A., Weisser, W.W., Wirth, C. & Jochum, M. (2019). A multitrophic, eco-evolutionary perspective on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research. Advances in Ecological Research 61: 1-54. doi:10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.06.001External link

Pick, J.L., Kasper, C., Allegue, H., Dingemanse, N., Dochtermann, N.A., Laskowski, K.L., Lima, M.R., Schielzeth, H., Westneat, D.F., Wright, J. & Araya-Ajoy, Y.G. (2023). Describing posterior distributions of variance components: Problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14: 2557-2574. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.14200External link 

Schielzeth, H. & Nakagawa, S. (2022). Conditional repeatability and the variance explained by reaction norm variation in random slope models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13: 1214-1223. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13856External link  [Code avilability]External link

Stoffel, M.A., Nakagawa, S. & Schielzeth, H. (2021). partR2: Partitioning R2 in generalized linear mixed models. PeerJ 9: e11414. doi: 10.7717/peerj.11414External link [R package]External link

Westneat, D.F., Araya-Ajoy, Y.G., Allegue, H., Class, B., Dingemanse, N., Dochtermann, N.A., Garamszegi, L.Z., Martin, J.G.A., Nakagawa, S., Réale, D. & Schielzeth, H. (2020). Collision between biological process and statistical analysis revealed by mean centring. Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 2813-2824. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13360External link.

Schielzeth, H., Dingemanse, N., Nakagawa, S., Westneat, D.F., Allegue, H., Teplisky, C., Réale, D., Dochtermann, N.A., Garamszegi, L.Z. & Araya-Ajoy, Y.G. (2020). Robustness of linear mixed-effects models to violations of distributional assumptions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1141-1152. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13434External link

Voelkl, B., Altman, N.S., Forsman, A., Forstmeier, W., Gurevitch, J., Jaric, I., Karp, N.A., Kas, M.J., Schielzeth, H., Van de Casteele, T. & Würbel, H. (2020). Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 21: 384-393. doi: 10.1038/s41583-020-0313-3External link [Essence video]External link

Schielzeth, H. (2020). Varianzdekomposition mit gemischten Modellen zur Analyse von Individualität im Verhalten. Naguib, M. & Krause, E.T. (eds): Methoden der Verhaltensbiologie. pp. 94-99. Springer, Berlin. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-60415-1_8External link

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Schielzeth, H. & Nakagawa, S. (2013). Nested by design: model fitting and interpretation in a mixed model era. Methods in Ecology Evolution 4: 14-24. doi:10.1111/j.2041-210x.2012.00251.xExternal link

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