
Phrudocentra sp., La Selva, Costa Rica. © Gunnar Brehm
Artikel in begutachteten Zeitschriften und Büchern / Articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited books
2011
Brehm G, Bodner F, Strutzenberger P, Hünefeld F, Fiedler K (2011) Neotropical Eois (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): checklist, biogeography, diversity, and description patterns. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 104: 1091-1107.
Strutzenberger P, Brehm G, Fiedler K (2011) DNA barcoding based species delimitation increases species richness count of (Geometridae) moths in a well-studied tropical mountain forest by up to 50%. Insect Science 18: 349-62. doi 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2010.01366.x
Sihvonen P, Mutanen M, Kaila L, Brehm G, Hausmann A, Staude HS (2011) Comprehensive molecular sampling yields a robust phylogeny for geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). PlosOne 6: e20356. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020356
Larsen TH, Brehm G, Navarrete H, Franco P, Gomez H, Mena JL, Morales V, Argollo J, Blacutt K, Canhos V (2011) Range Shifts and Extinctions Driven by Climate Change in the Tropical Andes: Synthesis and Directions. Pp. 47-67 in: Herzog SK, Martínez R, Joergensen PM, Tiessen H (eds) Climate Change and biodiversity in the tropical Andes. Inter-American Institute of Global Change Research and Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, Sao José dos Campos, Brazil, and Paris, France.
Aguirre LF, Anderson EP, Brehm G, Herzog SK, Joergensen PM, Kattan GH, Maldonado M, Martínez R, Mena JL, Pabón JD, Seimon A, Toledo C (2011) Phenology and nterspecific Ecological Interactions of Andean Biota in the Face of Climate Change. Pp. 68-92 in: Herzog SK, Martínez R, Joergensen PM, Tiessen H (eds) Climate Change and biodiversity in the tropical Andes. Inter-American Institute of Global Change Research and Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, Sao José dos Campos, Brazil, and Paris, France.
Beck J, Brehm G, Fiedler K. (2011) Links between the environment, abundance and diversity of Andean moths. Biotropica 43: 208-217. doi 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00689.x
Laurance WF, Useche DC, Shoo, LP, Herzog SK, Kessler M, Escobar F, Brehm G, and 40 authors (2011) Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota. Biological Conservation 144: 548-557. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.10.010.
2010
Brehm G (2010) Diversity of geometrid moths in two Neotropical montane rain forests. In Bruijnzeel LA, Scatena FN, Hamilton LS (eds) Tropical montane cloud forests. Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press. Contents of the book.
Bodner, F, Brehm G, Homeier, J., Strutzenberger P., Fiedler K (2010) Caterpillars and host plant records for 59 species of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) from a montane rainforest in southern Ecuador. Journal of Insect Science 2010; 10: 67.
Rodríguez-Castañeda G, Dyer LA, Brehm G, Connahs H, Forkner RE, Walla TR (2010) Tropical forests are not flat: How mountains affect herbivore diversity. Ecology Letters 13: 1348-1357.
Strutzenberger P, Bodner F, Brehm G, Fiedler K (2010). Molecular phylogeny of Eois: historical signal of wing patterns and host plant use in a group of species rich tropical moths. Zoologica Scripta 39: 609-620.
2009
Axmacher J, Brehm G, Hemp A, Tünte H, Lyaruu HVM, Müller-Hohenstein K, Fiedler K (2009) Determinants of diversity in afrotropical herbivorous insects (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): plant diversity, vegetation structure, or abiotic factors? Journal of Biogeography 36: 337-349.
Brehm G (2009) Patterns of arctiid diversity. Pp. 223-232 in: Conner WE (ed) Tiger Moths and Woolly Bears: Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution of the Arctiidae. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York.
2008
Colwell RK, Brehm G, Cardelús C, Gilman AC, Longino JT (2008) Global warming, elevational range shifts, and lowland biotic attrition in the wet tropics. Science 322: 258-261. link to pdf
Brehm G, Fiedler K, Häuser CL, Dalitz H (2008) Methodological challenges of a megadiverse ecosystem. Pp. 41-47 in: Beck E, Bendix J, Kottke I, Makeschin F, Mosandl R (eds) Gradients in a tropical mountain ecosystem of Ecuador. Springer, Ecological Studies 198.
Brehm G, Homeier J, Fiedler K, Kottke I, Illig J, Nöske NM, Werner F, Breckle S-W (2008) Mountain rain forests in southern Ecuador as a hotspot of biodiversity - limited knowledge and diverging patterns. Pp. 15-24 in: Beck E, Bendix J, Kottke I, Makeschin F, Mosandl R (eds) Gradients in a tropical mountain ecosystem of Ecuador. Springer, Ecological Studies 198.
Fiedler K, Brehm G, Hilt N, Süßenbach D, Häuser CL (2008) Variation of diversity patterns across moth families along a tropical altitudinal gradient. Pp. 167-180 in: Beck E, Bendix J, Kottke I, Makeschin F, Mosandl R (eds) Gradients in a tropical mountain ecosystem of Ecuador. Springer, Ecological Studies 198.
Nöske NM, Hilt N, Werner FA, Brehm G, Fiedler K, Sipman HJM, Gradstein SR (2008) Disturbance effects on diversity of epiphytes and moths in a montane forest in Ecuador. Basic and Applied Ecology 9 :4-12. doi:10.1016/j.baae.2007.06.014
2007
Brehm G (2007) Contrasting patterns of vertical stratification in two moth families in a Costa Rican lowland rain forest. Basic and Applied Ecology 8: 44-54.
Brehm G, Colwell RK, Kluge J (2007) The role of environment and mid-domain effect on moth species richness along a tropical elevational gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 205-219.
Brehm G, Hartmann T, Willmott KR (2007) Pyrrolizidine alkaloids and pharmacophagous Lepidoptera visitors of Prestonia amabilis (Apocynaceae) in a montane rain forest in Ecuador. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 94: 465-475.
Fiedler K, Brehm G, Hilt N, Süssenbach D, Onore G, Bartsch D, Racheli L, Häuser CL (2007) Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Geometridae, Hedylidae, Pyraloidea, Sphingidae, Saturniidae, and Uraniidae (moths) - Checklist Reserva Biológica San Francisco (Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe, S. Ecuador). Ecotropical Monographs 4: 155-217.
Fiedler K, Hilt N, Brehm G., Schulze CH (2007) Moths at tropical forest margins - how mega-diverse insect assemblages respond to forest disturbance and recovery. Pp. 39-60 in: Tscharntke T, Leuschner C, Zeller M, Guhardja E, Bidin A (eds) The stability of tropical rainforest margins, linking ecological, economic and social constraints of land use and conservation. Springer, Berlin.
Häuser CL, Fiedler K, Bartsch D, Brehm G, Kling M, Süssenbach D, Onore G (2007) Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) - Checklist Reserva Biológica San Francisco (Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe, S. Ecuador). Ecotropical Monographs 4: 145-154.
Hilt N, Brehm G, Fiedler K (2007) Temporal dynamics of rich moth ensembles in the montane forest zone in southern Ecuador. Biotropica 39: 94-104.
2006
Brehm G, Axmacher JC (2006) A comparison of manual and automatic moth sampling methods (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Geometridae) in a rain forest in Costa Rica. Environmental Entomology 35: 754-764.
Hilt N, Brehm G, Fiedler K (2006) Diversity and ensemble composition of geometrid moths along a successional gradient in the Ecuadorian Andes. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22: 155-166.
2005
Brehm G (2005) A revision of the Acrotomodes clota Druce, 1900 species-group (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 115: 75-80. Acrotomodes images
Brehm G, Fiedler K (2005) Diversity and community structure of geometrid moths of disturbed habitat in a montane area in the Ecuadorian Andes. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 38: 1-14.
Brehm G, Pitkin LM, Hilt N, Fiedler K (2005) Tropical Andean rain forests are a global diversity hotspot of geometrid moths. Journal of Biogeography 32: 1621-1627. Resumen en espańol Full species list
Brehm G, Sullivan B (2005) Unusual flight activity of a new species of Hagnagora Druce, 1885 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) from Costa Rica. Entomologische Zeitschrift 115: 256-260.
2004
Axmacher JC, Holtmann G, Scheuermann L, Brehm G, Müller-Hohenstein K, Fiedler K (2004) Diversity of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) along an Afrotropical elevational rainforest transect. Diversity and Distributions 10: 293-302.
Brehm G (2004) A new species of Oenoptila Warren, 1895 from the Andes (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 114: 278-280. Oenoptila images
Brehm G, Fiedler, K. (2004) Bergmann's rule does not apply to geometrid moths along an elevational gradient in an Andean montane rainforest. Global Ecology and Biogeography 13: 7-14.
Brehm G, Fiedler K (2004) Ordinating tropical moth ensembles from an elevational gradient: a comparison of common methods. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20: 165-172.
2003
Brehm G, Fiedler, K. (2003) Faunal composition of geometrid moths changes with altitude in an Andean montane rain forest. Journal of Biogeography 30: 431-440.
Brehm G, Homeier J, Fiedler K. (2003) Beta diversity of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in an Andean montane rainforest. Diversity and Distributions 9: 351-366.
Brehm G, Süssenbach D, Fiedler K (2003) Unique elevational diversity patterns of geometrid moths in an Andean montane rainforest. Ecography 26: 456-466.

Prasinocyma sp., Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. © G. Brehm
Weitere Publikationen / Other publications
Fischer MS, Brehm G, Hoßfeld U (2008) Das Phyletische Museum in Jena. Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum.
Brehm G, Schrumpf M (2006) Seidenschwänze fressen Schnee. Ornithologische Mitteilungen 58: 261-262.
Brehm G (2003) Host-plant records and illustrations of the larvae of 19 geometrid moth species from a montane rainforest in Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, N.F. 24: 29-34.
Brehm G (2002) Diversity of geometrid moths in a montane rainforest in Ecuador. Dissertation, Universität Bayreuth.
Brehm G, Brehm K (1997) Anmerkungen zur Gefährdung des Mosel-Apollos (Parnassius apollo vinningensis Stichel, 1899) durch den Straßenverkehr - Wie groß sind die Populationen an der Mosel tatsächlich? (Lep., Papilionidae). Melanargia 9: 32-37.
Eitschberger U, Reinhard R, Steiniger H, Brehm G (1991) Wanderfalter in Europa. Zugleich Aufruf für eine internationale Zusammenarbeit an der Erforschung des Wanderphänomens bei den Insekten. Atalanta 22: 1-67, Tafeln I-XVI.
Brehm G (1989) Silage als neues Umweltproblem. Die Heimat 96: 202-210.

Creonpyge creon creon (Hesperiidae), Volcán Poás, Costa Rica. Det. A. Warren, © G. Brehm
Konferenzbeiträge / Conference abstracts
Strutzenberger P, Brehm G, Bodner F, Zimmermann M, Wiemers M, Fiedler K (2008) Molecular phylogeny of Andean Eois moths - implications for the evolution of wing patterns and host plant use. p. 48 Abstracts of the 101st Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft e.V., 19.-22. September 2008, Jena
Colwell RK, Brehm G, Cardelús C, Gilman AC, Longino JT (2007) Modeling and Predicting the Effects of Global Warming on Range Shifts, Biotic Vacuums, and Mountaintop Extinctions in the Tropics. ATBC meeting in Morelia, Mexico.
Brehm G, Colwell RK, Kluge J (2005) The role of environment and mid-domain effect on moth species richness along a tropical elevational gradient. Verhandlungen Gesellschaft für Ökologie 35: 402.
Brehm G, Pitkin LM, Hilt N, Fiedler K (2005) Tropical Andean rain forests are a global diversity hotspot of geometrid moths. Meeting of the Lepidopterists' Society, Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA.
Brehm G (2005) Diversity of geometrid moths in two Neotropical montane rain forests. Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie, Berlin.
Brehm G (2004) Diversity of moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Arctiidae) along an elevational gradient in Costa Rica. Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie, Bayreuth.
Brehm G, Fiedler K (2002) Faunal composition and endemism of geometrid moths in an Ecuadorian montane rainforest. XIII. European Congress of Lepidopterology, Korsřr, Denmark.
Brehm G, Süßenbach D, Fiedler K (2002) Andean montane rainforests are a diversity hotspot of geometrid moths. XIII. European Congress of Lepidopterology, Korsřr, Denmark.
Brehm G, Süßenbach D, Fiedler K (2002) Climate and vegetation influence beta-diversity of a species-rich herbivore taxon in a montane rain-forest. Zoology 105, Supplement V: 72.
Süßenbach D, Brehm G, Fiedler K (2002) Moth diversity in a South Ecuadorian montane rainforest: different families - different patterns. Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie, Göttingen.
Brehm G, Fiedler K (2002) Beta-diversity of geometrid moths along an altitudinal gradient in the Ecuadorian Andes. Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie, Göttingen.
Brehm G, Häuser CL, Hartmann T (2002) A new species of Prestonia (Apocynaceae) containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids and its pharmacophagous Lepidoptera visitors. Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie, Göttingen.
Brehm G, Süßenbach D, Fiedler K, Häuser CL (2001) Nachtfalterdiversität entlang eines Höhengradienten in einem Bergregenwald in Süd-Ecuador - Untersuchungen der Familien Geometridae und Pyralidae. Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie, Bremen. Ausgezeichnet mit Merian-Preis/ Awarded with Merian-Prize.
Brehm G, Fiedler K (2001) Host plant relationships of geometrid moths in an extremely species rich mountain rainforest in South Ecuador. Deutsche Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie, Düsseldorf.
Süßenbach D, Brehm G, Häuser CL, Fiedler K (2001) Assessment of beta diversity with rich, incompletely sampled animal communities. Zoology 104: 22.
Brehm G, Süßenbach D, Fiedler K, Häuser CL (2001) Patterns and determinants of diversity of geometrid moths in the South Ecuadorian Andes. Verhandlungen Gesellschaft für Ökologie 31: 306.
Süßenbach D, Brehm G, Fiedler K (2001) Selection of appropriate beta-diversity measures for species rich tropical arthropod communities. Verhandlungen Gesellschaft für Ökologie 31: 35.
Brehm K, Brehm G (1995) Habitat requirements of the ladybird spider Eresus niger (Petagna, 1787) in North Germany. Workshop European Heathland Network, Santiago de Compostela, Spanien.
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