Publications of Sybille B. Unsicker

Stein, C.; Unsicker, S. B.; Kahmen, A.; Wagner, M.; Audorff, V.; Auge, H.; Prati, D.; Weisser, W. W.: Impact of invertebrate herbivory in grasslands depends on plant species diversity. Ecology 91 (6), pp. 1639 - 1650 (2010)

Unsicker, S. B.; Franzke, A.; Specht, J.; Köhler, G.; Linz, J.; Renker, C.; Stein, C.; Weisser, W. W.: Plant species richness in montane grasslands affects the fitness of a generalist grasshopper species. Ecology 91 (4), pp. 1083 - 1091 (2010)

Fontana, A.; Reichelt, M.; Hempel, S.; Gershenzon, J.; Unsicker, S. B.: The effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on direct and indirect defense metabolites of Plantago lanceolata L. Journal of Chemical Ecology 35 (7), pp. 833 - 843 (2009)

Heatwole, H.; Unsicker, S. B.; Andriamiarisoa, L.R.; Lowman, M.D.: Vicissitudes of leaves in a tropical rain forest in Madagascar. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25 (6), pp. 615 - 624 (2009)

Hempel, S.; Stein, C.; Unsicker, S.; Renker, C.; Auge, H.; Weisser, W. W.; Buscot, F.: Specific bottom-up effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across a plant-herbivore-parasitoid system. Oecologia 160 (2), pp. 267 - 277 (2009)

Kigathi, R.; Unsicker, S. B.; Reichelt, M.; Kesselmeier, J.; Gershenzon, J.; Weisser, W. W.: Emission of volatile organic compounds after herbivory from Trifolium pratense (L.) under laboratory and field conditions. Journal of Chemical Ecology 35 (11), pp. 1335 - 1348 (2009)

Unsicker, S. B.; Kunert, G.; Gershenzon, J.: Protective perfumes: the role of vegetative volatiles in plant defense against herbivores. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 12 (4), pp. 479 - 485 (2009)

Specht, J.; Scherber, C.; Unsicker, S. B.; Köhler, G.; Weisser, W.: Diversity and beyond: plant functional identity determines herbivore performance. Journal of Animal Ecology 77 (5), pp. 1047 - 1055 (2008)

Unsicker, S.; Köhler, G.; Linz, J.; Stein, C.; Weisser, W. W.: Colour morph related performance in the meadow grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Ecological Entomology 33 (5), pp. 631 - 637 (2008)

Unsicker, S. B.; Oswald, A.; Köhler, G.; Weisser, W. W.: Complementarity effects through dietary mixing enhance the performance of a generalist insect herbivore. Oecologia 156 (2), pp. 313 - 324 (2008)

Mody, K.; Unsicker, S. B.; Linsenmair, K. E.: Fitness related diet-mixing by intraspecific host-plant-switching of specialist insect herbivores. Ecology 88 (4), pp. 1012 - 1020 (2007)

Kahmen, A.; Renker, C.; Unsicker, S. B.; Buchmann, N.: Niche complementarity for nitrogen: An explanation for the biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relationship? Ecology 87 (5), pp. 1244 - 1255 (2006)

Unsicker, S. B.; Baer, N.; Kahmen, A.; Wagner, M.; Buchmann, N.; Weisser, W. W.: Invertebrate herbivory along a gradient of plant species diversity in extensively managed grasslands. Oecologia 150 (2 ), pp. 233 - 246 (2006)

Unsicker, S. B.; Mody, K.: Influence of tree species and compass bearing on insect folivory of nine common tree species in the West African savanna. Journal of Tropical Ecology 21 (2), pp. 227 - 231 (2005)

Medina van Berkum, P.; Albracht, C.; Bröcher, M.; Solbach, M. D.; Stein, G.; Bonkowski, M.; Buscot, F.; Heintz-Buschart, A.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N. et al.; El-Madany, T. S.; Huang, Y.; Kuebler, K.; Meyer, S. T.; Gershenzon, J.; Unsicker, S.: Plant diversity shapes plant volatile emission differently at the species and community level. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)

Medina van Berkum, P.; De Giorgi, F.; Rothe, B.; Durka, W.; Gershenzon, J.; Roscher, C.; Unsicker, S.: Selection strengthens the relationship between plant diversity and the metabolic profile of Plantago lanceolata. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2024)

Heatwole, H.; Unsicker, S.; Lowman, M. D.: Ontogeny of herbivory on leaves in a tropical rain forest in Madagascar. In: Treetops at Risk - Challenges of Global Canopy Ecology and Conservation, pp. 295 - 307 (Eds. Lowman, M. D.; Devy, S.; Ganesh, T.). Springer, Heidelberg (2013)

Specht, J.: Generalist insect herbivore performance in dependence of plant species richness, composition, and quality. Dissertation, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (2012)

Unsicker, S.: Plant-Insect Interactions in grasslands along a gradient of plant species diversity. Dissertation (2006)

Wolf, S.: Role of alcohol dehydrogenases in biosynthesis and downstream signaling of volatile organic compounds in Hordeum vulgare L. Master, Technische Universität München (2016)