Gerald Kerth

6.2k total citations
114 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Gerald Kerth is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald Kerth has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 60 papers in Ecology and 26 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Gerald Kerth's work include Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (94 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (33 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (26 papers). Gerald Kerth is often cited by papers focused on Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (94 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (33 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (26 papers). Gerald Kerth collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Brunei. Gerald Kerth's co-authors include Barbara König, Kamran Safi, Frieder Mayer, Éric Petit, Jaap van Schaik, Nicolas Perony, Frank Schweitzer, Elisabeth K. V. Kalko, Caroline R. Schöner and Dina K. N. Dechmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gerald Kerth

111 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gerald Kerth Germany 38 3.7k 2.5k 1.2k 804 734 114 4.5k
William L. Gannon United States 16 2.6k 0.7× 4.1k 1.6× 604 0.5× 1.0k 1.3× 837 1.1× 38 5.8k
Gary F. McCracken United States 44 4.1k 1.1× 3.4k 1.4× 1.2k 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 1.2k 1.7× 125 6.2k
Frieder Mayer Germany 31 2.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 569 0.5× 934 1.2× 787 1.1× 88 3.3k
Sonia Kleindorfer Australia 34 2.1k 0.6× 2.2k 0.9× 807 0.7× 445 0.6× 334 0.5× 165 3.6k
Robert S. Sikes United States 19 3.1k 0.8× 5.5k 2.2× 422 0.4× 1.5k 1.9× 1.2k 1.6× 34 7.7k
Craig K. R. Willis Canada 40 4.0k 1.1× 2.4k 1.0× 570 0.5× 935 1.2× 467 0.6× 116 5.2k
Ben J. Hatchwell United Kingdom 49 5.4k 1.5× 4.9k 2.0× 852 0.7× 1.2k 1.5× 447 0.6× 150 7.6k
Dina K. N. Dechmann Germany 31 2.0k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 575 0.5× 299 0.4× 287 0.4× 111 2.8k
Nancy B. Simmons United States 36 3.7k 1.0× 2.1k 0.8× 277 0.2× 645 0.8× 997 1.4× 167 5.2k
Charles R. Brown United States 36 2.8k 0.8× 3.2k 1.3× 280 0.2× 604 0.8× 308 0.4× 141 4.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerald Kerth

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald Kerth

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gerald Kerth. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gerald Kerth based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Gerald Kerth. Gerald Kerth is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Kerth, Gerald, et al.. (2025). One Species Hibernates Shorter, the Other Longer: Rapid but Opposing Responses to Warming Climate in Two Sympatric Bat Species. Global Change Biology. 31(10). e70531–e70531. 1 indexed citations
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Kerth, Gerald, et al.. (2025). In‐situ responses of temperate‐zone bats to climate change. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1546(1). 23–34. 2 indexed citations
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Scheuerlein, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Automated long‐term monitoring of RFID‐tagged individuals reveals high hibernaculum site fidelity in Daubenton's bats and Natterer's bats. Animal Conservation. 28(3). 401–409. 2 indexed citations
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Biedenweg, Doreen, Anne Balkema‐Buschmann, Dominic Mokbel, et al.. (2024). Thermomechanical properties of bat and human red blood cells—Implications for hibernation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(43). e2405169121–e2405169121. 1 indexed citations
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Kerth, Gerald, et al.. (2024). Optimally warm roost temperatures during lactation do not improve body condition in a long-lived bat. Biology Letters. 20(10). 20240346–20240346. 3 indexed citations
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Schaik, Jaap van, et al.. (2023). Heat over heritability: Increasing body size in response to global warming is not stabilized by genetic effects in Bechstein's bats. Global Change Biology. 29(17). 4939–4948. 7 indexed citations
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Reusch, Christine, Alexander Scheuerlein, Jutta Gampe, et al.. (2023). The risk faced by the early bat: individual plasticity and mortality costs of the timing of spring departure after hibernation. Oikos. 2023(4). 4 indexed citations
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Fritze, Marcus, et al.. (2023). BatNet: a deep learning‐based tool for automated bat species identification from camera trap images. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9(6). 759–774. 7 indexed citations
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Kerth, Gerald, et al.. (2023). Counting in the dark: estimating population size and trends of bat assemblages at hibernacula using infrared light barriers. Animal Conservation. 26(5). 701–713. 8 indexed citations
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Gogarten, Jan F., et al.. (2023). Artificially raised roost temperatures lead to larger body sizes in wild bats. Current Biology. 33(18). 3977–3984.e4. 9 indexed citations
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Foley, Nicole M., Graham M. Hughes, Zixia Huang, et al.. (2018). Growing old, yet staying young: The role of telomeres in bats’ exceptional longevity. Science Advances. 4(2). eaao0926–eaao0926. 104 indexed citations
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Zhu, Anting, Rodrigo Ligabue‐Braun, Stefan Bartram, et al.. (2017). Coprophagous features in carnivorous Nepenthes plants: a task for ureases. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 11647–11647. 15 indexed citations
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Schöner, Caroline R., et al.. (2015). How a pitcher plant facilitates roosting of mutualistic woolly bats. Evolutionary ecology research. 16(7). 581–591. 12 indexed citations
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Kerth, Gerald, et al.. (2010). Communally breeding bats use physiological and behavioural adjustments to optimise daily energy expenditure. Die Naturwissenschaften. 97(4). 353–363. 71 indexed citations
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Kerth, Gerald. (2010). Group decision-making in fission–fusion societies. Behavioural Processes. 84(3). 662–663. 23 indexed citations
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Kerth, Gerald. (2008). Animal Sociality: Bat Colonies Are Founded by Relatives. Current Biology. 18(17). R740–R742. 23 indexed citations
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Safi, Kamran & Gerald Kerth. (2007). Comparative Analyses Suggest That Information Transfer Promoted Sociality in Male Bats in the Temperate Zone. The American Naturalist. 170(3). 465–472. 72 indexed citations

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