@article{SteinStenchlyCoulibalyetal.2018,
  author    = {Stein, Katharina and Stenchly, Kathrin and Coulibaly, Drissa and Pauly, Alain and Dimobe, Kangbeni and Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf and Konat{\´e}, Souleymane and Goetze, Dethardt and Porembski, Stefan and Linsenmair, K. Eduard},
  title     = {Impact of human disturbance on bee pollinator communities in savanna and agricultural sites in Burkina Faso, West Africa},
  series = {Ecology and Evolution},
  volume    = {8},
  journal   = {Ecology and Evolution},
  doi       = {10.1002/ece3.4197},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-239999},
  pages     = {6827-6838},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {All over the world, pollinators are threatened by land-use change involving degradation of seminatural habitats or conversion into agricultural land. Such disturbance often leads to lowered pollinator abundance and/or diversity, which might reduce crop yield in adjacent agricultural areas. For West Africa, changes in bee communities across disturbance gradients from savanna to agricultural land are mainly unknown. In this study, we monitored for the impact of human disturbance on bee communities in savanna and crop fields. We chose three savanna areas of varying disturbance intensity (low, medium, and high) in the South Sudanian zone of Burkina Faso, based on land-use/land cover data via Landsat images, and selected nearby cotton and sesame fields. During 21 months covering two rainy and two dry seasons in 2014 and 2015, we captured bees using pan traps. Spatial and temporal patterns of bee species abundance, richness, evenness and community structure were assessed. In total, 35,469 bee specimens were caught on 12 savanna sites and 22 fields, comprising 97 species of 32 genera. Bee abundance was highest at intermediate disturbance in the rainy season. Species richness and evenness did not differ significantly. Bee communities at medium and highly disturbed savanna sites comprised only subsets of those at low disturbed sites. An across-habitat spillover of bees (mostly abundant social bee species) from savanna into crop fields was observed during the rainy season when crops are mass-flowering, whereas most savanna plants are not in bloom. Despite disturbance intensification, our findings suggest that wild bee communities can persist in anthropogenic landscapes and that some species even benefitted disproportionally. West African areas of crop production such as for cotton and sesame may serve as important food resources for bee species in times when resources in the savanna are scarce and receive at the same time considerable pollination service.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{LapuenteArandjelovicKuehletal.2020,
  author    = {Lapuente, Juan and Arandjelovic, Mimi and K{\"u}hl, Hjalmar and Dieguez, Paula and Boesch, Christophe and Linsenmair, K. Eduard},
  title     = {Sustainable Peeling of Kapok Tree (Ceiba pentandra) Bark by the Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) of Como{\´e} National Park, Ivory Coast},
  series = {International Journal of Primatology},
  volume    = {41},
  journal   = {International Journal of Primatology},
  issn      = {0164-0291},
  doi       = {10.1007/s10764-020-00152-9},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-232581},
  pages     = {962-988},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Primates often consume either bark or cambium (inner bark) as a fallback food tocomplete their diet during periods of food scarcity. Wild chimpanzees exhibit greatbehavioral diversity across Africa, as studies of new populations frequently reveal.Since 2014, we have been using a combination of camera traps and indirect signs tostudy the ecology and behavior of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Como{\´e}National Park, Ivory Coast, to document and understand the behavioral adaptations thathelp them to survive in a savanna-forest mosaic landscape. We found that Como{\´e}chimpanzees peel the bark of the buttresses of kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) trees to eatthe cambium underneath. Individuals of all sex/age classes across at least six neigh-boring communities peeled the bark, but only during the late rainy season andbeginning of the dry season, when cambium may represent an important fallback food.Baboons (Papio anubis) also target the same trees but mainly eat the bark itself. Mostof the bark-peeling wounds onCeibatrees healed completely within 2 years, seeminglywithout any permanent damage. We recorded chimpanzees visiting trees in early stagesof wound recovery but leaving them unpeeled. Only 6\% of peeled trees (N= 53) werereexploited after a year, suggesting that chimpanzees waited for the rest of the trees toregrow the bark fully before peeling them again, thus using them sustainably. Manyhuman groups of hunter-gatherers and herders exploited cambium sustainably in thepast. The observation that similar sustainable bark-peeling behavior evolved in bothchimpanzees and humans suggests that it has an important adaptive value in harshenvironments when other food sources become seasonally scarce, by avoiding thedepletion of the resource and keeping it available for periods of scarcity.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MeucheBrusaLinsenmairetal.2013,
  author    = {Meuche, Ivonne and Brusa, Oscar and Linsenmair, K. Eduard and Keller, Alexander and Pr{\"o}hl, Heike},
  title     = {Only distance matters - non-choosy females in a poison frog population},
  series = {Frontiers in Zoology},
  volume    = {10},
  journal   = {Frontiers in Zoology},
  number    = {29},
  issn      = {1742-9994},
  doi       = {10.1186/1742-9994-10-29},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-122617},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Background: Females have often been shown to exhibit preferences for certain male traits. However, little is known about behavioural rules females use when searching for mates in their natural habitat. We investigated mate sampling tactics and related costs in the territorial strawberry poison frog (Oophaga pumilio) possessing a lek-like mating system, where both sequential and simultaneous sampling might occur. We continuously monitored the sampling pattern and behaviour of females during the complete period between two successive matings. Results: We found no evidence that females compared males by visiting them. Instead females mated with the closest calling male irrespective of his acoustic and physical traits, and territory size. Playback experiments in the natural home ranges of receptive females revealed that tested females preferred the nearest speaker and did not discriminate between low and high call rates or dominant frequencies. Conclusions: Our results suggest that females of O. pumilio prefer the closest calling male in the studied population. We hypothesize that the sampling tactic in this population is affected by 1) a strongly female biased sex ratio and 2) a low variance in traits of available males due to strong male-male competition, preventing low quality males from defending a territory and mating.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MaschwitzFialaLinsenmair1992,
  author    = {Maschwitz, Ulrich and Fiala, Brigitte and Linsenmair, K. Eduard},
  title     = {A new ant-tree from SE Asia: Zanthoxylum myriacanthum (Rutaceae), the Thorny Ivy-Rue},
  isbn      = {0025-1291},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-42967},
  year      = {1992},
  abstract  = {Zanthoxylum myriacanthum, a small Rutaceous tree growing mainly in secondary hill forests in SE Asia, is a true myrmecophyte. It possesses stem domatia in the form of hollow branches with slitlike openings. Branch hollows and entrance slits are produced by the plant itself through pith degene~.tion ?u.d growth proceSses. If the entrance is not kept open by ants it closes again by growth ol the surrounding tissue after some time. The domatia are colonized opportunistic ally by different arboreous ants, e.g. Crematogaster and Campono tus. Additionally many small extrafloral nectaries are found on the leaflets of Zanthoxylum myriacanthum. Judging from herbarium studies and literature records at least four more true ant trees are found in the genus Zanthoxylum namely Z. rhetsa in SE Asia, Z. conspersipunctatum, Z. pluviatile and Z. vinkii in New Guinea. We could not confirm ant inhabitation in Drypetes pendula (Euphorbiaceae) on the Malay Peninsula, which has also been recorded to be an anttree.},
  language  = {en}
}