Prof. Dr. Jörns Fickel

Powering endurance: fuel selection in migratory bats

Physiology, ecology and conservation of migratory bats

Behaviour, genetics, and protection of urban and suburban hedgehogs

Comparative environmental epigenomics in wildlife

Inferring genetic patterns of on-going recolonization of Central Europe by elusive, large carnivores using novel SNP marker systems for non-invasive samples

Adaptive genetic variation in mustelid species

Epigenetic stability and plasticity of social environmental effects

Bat immunology

Emerging bacterial infectious agents

Sea eagle health monitoring

Signatures of fe-/male fertility - Using long-term selection for high fertility to decipher the genetics of increased reproductive performance (SOS-FERT)

Paternal epigenetic effects

• Evolution and phylogeography of lago­morphs, ungulates (mainly cervids), and carnivores (mainly felids)
• Evolution of adaptive traits in mammals
• Environmental cues and their impact on epigenetic modifications in mammals

Fickel J, Schmidt A, Putze M, Spittler H, Ludwig A, Streich WJ, Pitra C (2005): Genetic structure of populations of European brown hare: implications for management. The Journal of wildlife management 69 (2), 760-770. Doi.org/10.2193/0022-541X(2005)069[0760:GSOPOE]2.0.CO;2.

Förster DW, Bull JK, Lenz D, Autenrieth M, Paijmans JLA, Kraus RHS, Nowak C, Bayerl H, Kuehn R, Saveljev AP, Sindičić M, Hofreiter M, Schmidt K, Fickel J (2018): Targeted resequencing of coding DNA sequences for SNP discovery in nonmodel species. MOL ECOL RESOUR 18, 1356–1373. Doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12924.

Martins RF, Schmidt A, Lenz D, Wilting A, Fickel J (2018): Human-mediated introduction of introgressed deer across Wallace’s line: Historical biogeography of Rusa unicolor and R. timorensis. ECOL EVOL 8, 1465–1479. Doi:10.1002/ece3.3754.

Paijmans JLA, Fickel J, Courtiol A, Hofreiter M, Förster DW (2016): Impact of enrichment conditions on cross-species capture of fresh and degraded DNA. MOL ECOL RESOUR 16, 42–55. Doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12420.

Pitra C, Fickel J, Meijaard E, Groves C (2004): Evolution and phylogeny of old world deer. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION 33 (3), 880-895. Doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2004.07.013.

Radchuk V, Reed T, Teplitsky C, van de Pol M, Charmantier A, Hassall C, Adamík P, Adriaensen F, Ahola M, Arcese P, Miguel Avilés J, Balbontin J, Berg KS, Borras A, Burthe S, Clobert J, Dehnhard N, de Lope F, Dhondt AA, Dingemanse NJ, Eeva T, Fickel J, Filella I, Fossøy F, Goodenough AE, Hall SJG, Hansson B, Harris M, Hasselquist D, Hickler T, Joshi J, Kharouba H, Gabriel Martínez J, Mihoub J-B, Mills JA, Molina-Morales M, Moksnes A, Ozgul A, Parejo D, Pilard P, Poisbleau M, Rousset F, Rödel M-O, Scott D, Senar JC, Stefanescu C, Stokke BG, Tamotsu K, Tarka M, Tarwater C, Thonicke K, Thorley J, Wilting A, Tryjanowski P, Merilä J, Sheldon B, Møller AP, Matthysen E, Janzen F, Dobson S, Visser ME, Beissinger SR, Courtiol A*, Kramer-Schadt S (2019): Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient. NAT COMM, 10, 3109. Doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-10924-4.

Stillfried M, Fickel J, Börner K, Wittstatt U, Heddergott M, Ortmann S, Kramer-Schadt S, Frantz AC (2017): Do cities represent sources, sinks or isolated islands for urban wild boar population structure? J APPL ECOL 54(1), 272–281. Doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12756.

Weyrich A*, Lenz D, Fickel J (2019): Environmental change-dependent inherited epigenetic response. Genes 10 (1), 4. Doi:10.3390/genes10010004.

Wilting A, Courtiol A, Christiansen P, Niedballa J, Scharf AK, Orlando L, Balkenhol N, Hofer H, Kramer-Schadt S, Fickel J, Kitchener AC (2015): Planning tiger recovery: Understanding intraspecific variation for effective conservation. SCI ADV 1, e1400175. Doi:10.1126/sciadv.1400175.

Wilting A, Sollmann R, Meijaard E, Helgen KM, Fickel J (2012): Mentawai’s endemic, relictual fauna: is it evidence for Pleistocene extinctions on Sumatra? Journal of Biogeography 39 (9), 1608-1620. Doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02717.x.

Last updated on March, 20th 2023.