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  Publications (peer-reviewed)

Hoier S, Pfeifle C, von Merten S*, Linnenbrink M*. 2016. Communication at the Garden Fence - Context Dependent Vocalization in Female House Mice. PLoS ONE, 11(3).
* von Merten and Linnenbrink contributed equally to this work.

Zsebők S, Czabán D, Farkas J, Siemers BM, von Merten S. 2015. Acoustic Species Identification of Shrews: Twittering Calls for Monitoring. Ecological Informatics, 27 (2015): 1-10.

von Merten S, Hoier S, Pfeifle C, Tautz D. 2014. A Role for Ultrasonic Vocalisation in Social Communication and Divergence of Natural Populations of the House Mouse. PLoS ONE, 9(5).

von Merten S & Siemers BM. 2012. Exploratory behaviour in shrews: fast-lived Sorex versus slow-lived Crocidura. Animal Behaviour, 84, 29-38.

Page RA*, von Merten S* & Siemers BM. 2012. Associative memory or algorithmic search: a comparative study on learning strategies of bats and shrews. Animal Cognition, 15, 495-504.
* Page and von Merten contributed equally to this work.

Siemers BM, Schauermann G, Turni H & von Merten S. 2009. Why do shrews twitter? Communication or simple echo-based orientation. Biology Letters, 5, 593-596.

Winter Y, von Merten S, Kleindienst HU. 2005. Visual landmark orientation by flying bats at a large-scale touch and walk screen for bats, birds and rodents. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 141, 283-290.

  Invited talks

ZEBinar Series - Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland 15.1.1014: The fast and the furious? Personality differences in European shrew species.

Animal Ecology Seminar - University Potsdam, Germany 4.6.1013: Do Exploration and Learning Strategies relate to Life History Strategies? Studies on shrews and bats.

Workshop Theoretical Biology - MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany 8.3.1013: Ultrasonic Vocalisation Behaviour of Wild House Mice: A basis for mate choice?

Topical meeting about shrews in Germany - AAT, Zella, Germany 1.6.1012: Exploration in shrews: A comparison between the genera Sorex and Crocidura (in German)

Ecology Seminar - University of Ulm, Germany 8.6.2010: Why do shrews twitter - Vocal communication or echo-based orientation?

 

 

New publications

2016
PloS ONE
Context Dependent Vocalization in Female Mice

 

2015
Ecological Informatics
Acoustic Species Identification of Shrews...

 

2014
PloS ONE
Ultrasonic vocalisation ... of the house mouse

 

 

 

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