Peer reviewed articles

  1. Pereira P.M., Proença V.,  Belnapp J., Brummitt N., Collen B., Ding H., Gonzalez-Espinosa M., Gregory R.D., Honrado J., Jongman R.H.G., Julliard R., McRae L., Rodrigues P., Opige M., Rodriguez J.P., Schmeller D.S. , van Swaay C., Vieira C. (in press): Global biodiversity monitoring: filling the gaps where it counts the most. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

  2. Dejean T., Miaud C., Schmeller D.S. (2010). Protocole d’hygiène pour limiter la dissémination de la Chytridiomycose lors d’interventions sur le terrain. Bulletin Societe Herpetologique France 134 : 47-50

  3. Schmeller D.S. , Loyau A., Dejean T., Miaud C. (2010 - in press): Using amphibians in lab studies – precautions against the emerging infectious disease Chytridiomycosis. Laboratory Animals.

  4. Vandzinskaite D., Kobierska H., Schmeller D.S. , Grodzińska-Jurczak M. (2010): Cultural Diversity Issues in Biodiversity Monitoring—Cases of Lithuania, Poland and Denmark. Diversity 2 (9) : 1130-114. pdf

  5. Walker S., Bosch J., Gomez V., Garner TJW, Cunningham A., Schmeller D.S. , Ninyerola M., Henk D., Ginestet C., Arthur C-P., Fisher M. (2010): Factors driving pathogenicity versus prevalence of amphibian panzootic chytridiomycosis in Iberia. Ecology Letters 13 (3):  372-382. (DOI-link)

  6. Loyau A., Schmeller D.S. (2009): Polymorphic microsatellites identified by cross-species amplifications in the European Coot Fulica atra. Journal of Ornithology 150 (3): 703 - 707. (DOI-link)

  7. Lepetz V., Massot M., Schmeller D.S. , Clobert J. (2009): Biodiversity monitoring: some proposals to adequately study species’ responses to climate change, Biodiversity and Conservation 18 (12): 3185 - 3203 (DOI-link).

  8. Schmeller D.S. , Henry P.-Y., Julliard R., Clobert J., Gruber B., Dziock F., Lengyel S., Nowicki P., Déri E., Budrys E., Kull T., Tali K., Bauch B., Settele J., van Swaay C., Kobler A., Babij V., Papastergiadou E., Henle K. (2009) Advantages of volunteer-based biodiversity monitoring in Europe. Conservation Biology 23 ( 2): 307 - 316.

  9. Schmeller D.S. (2008): European species and habitat monitoring: where are we now? Biodiversity and Conservation 17 (4): 3321 - 3326 (DOI-link).

  10. Kull T., Sammul M., Kull K., Lanno K., Tali K., Gruber B., Schmeller D.S. , Henle K. (2008) Necessity and reality of monitoring threatened European vascular plants. Biodiversity and Conservation 17 (4): 3383 - 3402 (DOI-link)

  11. Schmeller D.S. , Bauch B., Gruber B., Juškaitis R., Budrys E., Babij V., Lanno K., Sammul M., Varga Z., Henle K. (2008): Determination of conservation priorities in regions with multiple political jurisdictions, Biodiversity and Conservation 17 (4): 3623 - 3630. (DOI-link).

  12. Schmeller D.S. , Gruber B., Bauch B., Lanno K., Budrys E., Babij V., Juškaitis R., Sammul M., Varga Z., Henle K. (2008): Determination of national conservation responsibilities for species conservation in regions with multiple political jurisdictions, Biodiversity and Conservation 17 (4): 3607 - 3622. (DOI-link)

  13. Henry P.-Y., Lengyel S., Nowicki P., Julliard R., Čelik T., Gruber B., Schmeller D.S. , Babij V., Clobert J., Henle K. (2008): Integrating ongoing biodiversity monitoring: potential benefits and methods, Biodiversity and Conservation 17 (4): 3357 - 3382.(link)

  14. Schmeller D.S. , Henle K. (2008): Cultivation of genetically modified organisms – resource needs for monitoring adverse effects on biodiversity. Biodiversity and Conservation 17 (4): 3551 - 3530. (link)

  15. Lengyel S., Kobler A., Kutnar L., Framstad E., Henry P.-Y., Babij V., Gruber B., Schmeller D.S. , Henle K. (2008): A review and a framework for the integration of biodiversity monitoring at the habitat level, Biodiversity and Conservation 17 (4): 3341 - 3356. (link)

  16. Schmeller D.S. , Palo P.U., Merilä, J. (2008): A contact zone between two distinct Rana temporaria lineages in Northern Germany, Alytes 25 (3/4): 93-98.pdf

  17. Schmeller D.S. , Gruber B., Budrys E., Framstad E., Lengyel S., Henle K. (2008): National responsibilities in European species conservation: a methodological review. Conservation Biology 22 (3): 593 - 601.pdf

  18. Schmeller D.S. , Bauch B., Henle K. (2008): Welche Ergebnisse des EU-Projektes EuMon sind relevant für das GVO-Monitoring? Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 49: 163 - 172. pdf

  19. Pagano A., Lesbarreres D., O’Hara R., Crivelli A., Veith, M., Lodé T., Schmeller D.S. (2008): Geographical and ecological distributions of frog hemiclones suggest occurrence of both “General Purpose Genotype” and “Frozen Niche Variation” clones, Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 46 (2): 162 - 168.  (DOI-link)

  20. Lesbarreres D., Schmeller D.S. , Primmer C., Merilä J. (2007): Genetic benefits in offspring of an amphibian, Heredity 99: 41-46. (DOI-link)

  21. Schmeller D.S., Pagano A., Plenet S., Veith M. (2007): Introducing water frogs - Is there a risk for indigenous species in France? Comptes Rendus Biologies 330: 684-690.pdf

  22. Schmeller D.S. , Schregel J., Veith M. (2007): The importance of heterozygosity in a frog's life, Naturwissenschaften 94: 360 - 366.pdf (DOI-link)

  23. Schmeller, D.S. , Merilä J. (2007): Demographic and genetic estimates of effective population size in the amphibian Rana temporaria. Conservation Biology 21 (1), 142 - 151. pdf

  24. Schmeller D.S., Seitz A., Crivelli A., Veith M. (2005): Crossing species' range borders: interspecies gene exchange mediated by hybridogenesis, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 272 (1572): 1625 - 1631 .pdf (DOI-link)

  25. Schmeller D.S. , O’Hara, R., Kokko, H. (2005): Male adaptive stupidity: Male mating pattern in hybridogenetic frogs, Evolutionary Ecology Research 7: 1039 - 1050. pdf (link to EER)

  26. Palo, J.U., Schmeller, D.S. , Laurila, A., Primmer, C.P., Kuzmin, S.L., and Merilä, J. (2004): High degree of population subdivision in a widespread amphibian. Molecular Ecology 13(9): 2631-2644. pdf

  27. Palo, J.U., Lesbarreres, D., Schmeller, D.S. , Primmer, C.R., And Merilä, J. (2004): Microsatellite marker data suggests sex biased dispersal in the common frog Rana temporaria, Molecular Ecology 13(9): 2865-2869. pdf

  28. Schmeller, D.S. (2004): Tying ecology and genetics of hemiclonally reproducing waterfrogs (Rana, Anura). Annales Zoologici Fennici. 41: 681-687. pdf

  29. Schmeller D. , Crivelli A., Pagano A., Seitz A., and Veith M. (2001): Inheritance in the water frog Rana ridibunda (Pallas, 1771) - Is it mendelian or hemiclonal? Mitteilungen Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Zoologische Reihe (Bull. Zool. Mus. Berlin) 77: 39 - 42.pdf

  30. Schmeller D. , Crivelli A., and Veith M. (2001): Is triploidy indisputably determinable in hybridogenetic hybrids by planimetric analyses of erythrocytes? ? Mitteilungen Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Zoologische Reihe (Bull. Zool. Mus. Berlin) 77: 71 - 77.pdf

  31. Plötner J., Schmeller D. (2001): Some remarks on the current status of water frog research. Mitteilungen Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Zoologische Reihe (Bull. Zool. Mus. Berlin) 77: 3 - 4. pdf

  32. Schmeller D.S. , Crivelli A., Veith M., Seitz A. (2000): Age structure in a hybridogenetic waterfrog-complex. Zoology 103 (Suppl. III 93.1): 50.

  33. Gottschalk E., Griebeler E. M., Heidenreich A., Poethke H.-J., Schmeller D.S. (1999): Von der Biologie einer Art zur Ermittlung des Flächenbedarfs einer überlebensfähigen Population - das Beispiel der Westlichen Beißschrecke (Platycleis albopunctata). NNA-Berichte 2/99: 41-45.

  34. Schmeller D.S. , Crivelli A.J., Veith M., And Seitz A. (1999): Hybridogenesis in water frogs. Zoology 102: 35.

  35. Schmeller D.S., Veith M., Seitz A. (1996a): Eine hierarchische Analyse der Populationsstruktur der Heuschreckenart Platycleis albopunctata (GOEZE, 1778). Verh. d. DZG, Bd. 89, p 258, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart.

  36. Schmeller D.S , Veith M., Seitz A. (1996b): Genflußschätzungen und deren Aussagekraft, dargestellt am Beispiel der Westlichen Beißschrecke Platycleis albopunctata (GOEZE, 1778). Articulata 11: 1 - 10.

Articles in books

  1. Veith M., Johannesen J., Nicklas-Görgen B., Schmeller D.S., Schwing U., Seitz A. (1996): Genetics of insect populations in fragmented landscapes - a comparison of species and habitats. In: Settele J, Margules C, Poschlod P, Henle K (eds) Species survival in fragmented landscapes. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London: 344 - 355.

  2. Gottschalk E., Schmeller D.S., Heidenreich A. (1999): Analyse der Gefährdungsursachen von Tiergruppen mittlerer Mobilität am Beispiel der Westlichen Beißschrecke (Platycleis albopunctata). In: Amler K., Bahl A., Henle K., Kaule A., Poschlod P., Settele J. (eds) Popula-tionsbiologie in der Naturschutzpraxis - Isolation, Flächenbedarf und Biotopansprüche von Pflanzen und Tieren. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart: 172 - 179.

  3. Pagano A., Schmeller D. (1999): Is recombination less negligible than previously described in hybridogenetic water frogs? In: Miaud C, Guyétant R (eds) 9th O.G.Meeting - Current studies in Herpetology, Le Bourget du lac, Chambéry, France: 351 - 356. pdf

  4. Müssner, R., Schmeller, D.S. (2004): Strengthening of Integrative Instruments for Biodiversity Conservation. In: Vella, A. (ed) 2005: Biodiversity – our natural capital. Research and actions towards conservation. Valetta , Malta , 178 pp. pdf

  5. Vorburger, C., Schmeller, D.S. , Reyer, H.-U., Guex, G., Hotz, H. (2009). Masked damage: mutational load in hemiclonal water frogs. In: Schoen, I., Van Dijk, P., Martens, K. (eds): Lost Sex – The evolutionary biology of Parthenogenesis. Berlin: Springer Science + Business Media B.V.; pp. 433 - 446.pdf (The full book here)

  6. Plénet S., Joly P., and Schmeller, D.S. (2010). Nouvelle combinaison génétique par hybridiation et accroisement du potentiel invasif, suite à une introduction. In: Les invasions biologiques, une question de natures et de sociétés. edited by R. Barbault and M. Atramentowiczs, (INRA, Versaille): p24.

  7. Henle K., Bauch B., Bell S., Framstad E., Kotarac M., Henry P.Y., Lengyel S., Grobelnik V., and Schmeller D.S. (2010). Observing biodiversity changes in Europe. In: Atlas of biodiversity risk. edited by J. Settele, L. Penev, T. Georgiev, R. Grabbaum, V. Grobelnik, V. Hammen, S. Klotz, M. Kotarac and I. Kühns, (Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow), p 34-37.


Other scientific articles

  1. Klaus Henle, William Kunin, Oliver Schweiger, Schmeller Dirk S. , Vesna Grobelnik, Yiannis Matsinos, John Pantis, Lyubomir Penev, Simon G. Potts, Irene Ring, Jukka Similä, Joseph Tzanopoulos, Sybille van den Hove, Michel Baguette, Jean Clobert, Laurent Excoffier, Szabolcs Lengyel, Pascal Marty, Atte Moilanen, Emmanuelle Porcher, David Storch, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Martin T. Sykes, Martin Zobel, Josef Settele (in press): Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales – approach of the SCALES project, GAIA.

  2. Halada L., Jongman R.H.G. , Gerard F. , Whittaker L. , Bunce B., Bauch B., Schmeller, D.S. (2009): The European Biodiversity Observation Network - EBONE. In: J. Hrebícek, J. Hradec, E. Pelikán, O. Mírovský, W. Pillmann, I.Holoubek, T. Bandholtz (eEuropean conference of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU, TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT, Opportunities of SEIS and SISE: Integrating Environmental Knowledge in Europe. Masaryk University, 2009. pdf

  3. Scholz M., Bauch B., Schmeller, D.S. , Henle K. (in press): Methodische Hinweise für den Aufbau von Monitoringprogrammen – Ergebnisse aus dem EU-Projekt EuMon – Biodiversitätsmonitoring in Europa. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt

  4. Schmeller, D.S. (2008): Einheimische Wasserfrösche sind bedroht, Natur in NRW 1 (08): 6. pdf

  5. Schmeller, D.S. (2008): Ursachen für den Verlust der Artenvielfalt, Online dossier Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

  6. Bauch, B., Gruber, B., Schmeller, D.S. (2006): EuMon – Arten- und Lebensraum-Monitoring in Europa, Natur und Landschaft 8: 600.

  7. Schmeller, D.S. , Gruber B., Bauch B., Henle K. (2006) : EuMon – Arten- und Lebensraum-Monitoring in Europa. Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung 12: 35-36.

  8. Schmeller, D.S. (2005): EuMon - Biodiversitäts-Monitoring auf EU-Ebene, UFZeitung, Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle: 29 - 30.

Theses (own and co-supervised)

  1. Schmeller D. (1995): Genetic structure of the grasshopper species Platycleis albopunctata (GOEZE, 1776) under consideration of various environmental factors. Diplomal thesis. University of Mainz, Mainz (Germany).pdf

  2. Schmeller D. (1999): Hemiklonale Vererbung im hybridogenetischen R. grafi-Komplex (Anura: Ranidae). PhD-thesis. University of Mainz, Mainz (Germany). pdf

  3. Birgit Wöste (2000): Fluktuierende Asymmetrie bei Wasserfröschen des PG-Komplexes. Diplomal thesis. University of Mainz, Mainz (Germany).

  4. Maren Evers (2003): Die Vegetationsstruktur auf unterschiedlich alten Lorbeerwaldregenerationsflächen im Norden der Kanareninsel Teneriffa. Diplomal thesis. University of Mainz, Mainz (Germany).pdf


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Articles in the Encyclopedia of Biology (Lexikon der Biologie)

In total I significantly contributed or wrote 50 Articles for the Lexikon der Biologie in the time from 1997 - 2002. These are the keywords:

Allele, Allelhäufigkeit, Biologisches Kleption Konzept, Flaschenhals, Gründereffekt, private Allele, seltene Allele, Coexistenz, Deme, demographische Stochastizität, demographische Zufallsprozesse, Dismigration, Dysgenese, Fixierungsindex, Fragmentation, Genbank, Genetic meltdown, Genfluss, Genhäufigkeit, Habitatinseln, Inselarten, Inselbesiedlung, Inselbiogeographie, Inselfauna, Inselflora, Inselmodelle, Interferenz, Introgression, Inzidenz, Isolation-by-distance, Interdem-Selektion, Massenselektion, Minimum viable Population, Muller's Ratchet, Multilocusgenotyp, Mutations-Selektionsgleichgewicht, Neutralitätshypothese, Optimalhabitat, Patch, Populationsdichte, Populationsdynamik, Populationsfluktuation, Populationsgefährdungsanalyse, Populationsgrösse, Populationsregulation, Spanandrie, Shifting balance Theorie, Tangled Bank-Modell, Tychoparthenogenese, Umweltstochastizität