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Speaker • Data Science • Sensing & Action • Predators & Prey • Bats & Insects • Bioacoustics

PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
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(40) Hubancheva A, Senderov V, Nowotny M, Schöneich S, Goerlitz HR: Bush-crickets show lifelong flexibility in courtship signals to match predation threat. [free pre-print]
(39) Iturralde-Polit P, Araya-Salas M, Goerlitz HR* [*joint senior author] , Chaverri G*: Variation in echolocation call emission of Neotropical insect-eating bats in response to shifting ambient temperatures
2023
(38) Lewaznik D*, Ratcliffe J*, Etzler E, Goerlitz HR** [**joint senior author] & Jacobsen L** (online): Stealth-echolocation in aerial-hawking bats reflects a history of substrate-gleaning. Current Biology 33(23): 2508-5214
(37) de Framond L, Beleyur T, Lewanzik D*, Goerlitz HR* (2023): Calibrated microphone array recordings reveal that a gleaning bat emits low-intensity echolocation calls even in open-space habitat. J Exp Biol 226(18): jeb245801. [free full text] [pdf]
(36) Hubanchenva A, Bozicevic V, Moriniere J*, Goerlitz HR* (2023): DNA metabarcoding data from faecal samples of the lesser (Myotis blythii) and the greater (Myotis myotis) mouse-eared bats from Bulgaria. Metabarcoding & Metagenomics 7:121–134. [free full text] [pdf]
(35) de Framond L, Reininger V, Goerlitz HR (2023): Temperate bats may alter calls to partially compensate for weather-induced changes in detection distance. J Acoust Soc Am 153:5: 2867. [free full text] [pdf] [Scilight Lay Summary]
(34) Stidsholt L, Hubancheva A, Greif S, Goerlitz HR, Johnson M, Yovel Y & Madsen PT (2023): Echolocating bats prefer a high risk-high gain foraging strategy to increase prey profitability. eLife 12:e84190. [free full text]
2021
(33) Stidsholt L, Johnson M, Goerlitz HR & Madsen PT (2021): On-board tags show that echolocating bats decouple sound production from wingbeats to increase sensory flow during prey capture in the wild. iScience 24(8): 102896. [free full text] [pdf]
(32) Stidsholt L, Greif S, Goerlitz HR, Beedholm K, Macaulay J, Johnson M & Madsen PT (2021): Hunting bats adjust their echolocation to receive weak prey echoes for clutter reduction. Science Advances 7(10): eabf1367. [free full text] [pdf]
(31) Voigt CC, Russo D & Runkel V & Goerlitz HR (2021): Limitations of acoustic monitoring at wind turbines to evaluate fatality risk of bats. Mammal Review, DOI: 10.1111/mam.12248. [free full text] [pdf]
(30) Lewanzik D & Goerlitz HR (2021): Task-dependent vocal adjustments to optimize biosonar-based information acquisition. Journal of Experimental Biology 224(1): jeb234815. [full text]
2020
(29) Gomes D & Goerlitz HR (2020): Individual differences show that only some bats can cope with noise-induced masking and distraction. PeerJ 8: e10551. [free full text] [pdf]
(28) Hügel T & Goerlitz HR (2020): Light might suppress both types of sound-evoked antipredator flight in moths. Ecology and Evolution 10(23): 13134-13142. [free full text] [pdf]
(27) Goerlitz HR*, ter Hofstede HM* & Holderied WM (2020): Neural representation of bat predation risk and evasive flight in moths: a modelling approach. Journal of Theoretical Biology 486: 110082. [full text]
(26) Straka T*, Schultz S*, Greif S*, Goerlitz HR** [**joint senior author] & Voigt CC** (2020): The effect of cave illumination on bats. Global Ecology and Conservation 21: e00808. [free full text] [pdf]
2019
(25) Beleyur T & Goerlitz HR (2019): Modelling active sensing reveals continued echo detection even in large groups of bats. PNAS 116(52): 26662-26668.
(24) Hügel T & Goerlitz HR (2019): Species-specific strategies increase unpredictability of escape flight in eared moths. Functional Ecology 33(9): 1674-1683.
(23) Batstone K, Flood G, Beleyur T, Larsson V, Goerlitz HR, Oskarsson M, Åström K (2019): Robust self-calibration of constant offset time-difference-of-arrival. ICASSP 2019 – 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 4410-4414.
(22) Lewanzik D, Sundaramurthy AK & Goerlitz HR (2019): Insectivorous bats integrate social information about species identity, conspecific activity and prey abundance to estimate the cost-benefit ratio of interactions. Journal of Animal Ecology 88(10): 1462-1473.
(21) Baier AL, Wiegrebe L* & Goerlitz HR* (2019): Echo-imaging exploits an environmental high-pass filter to access spatial information with a non-spatial sensor. iScience 14: 335-344.
2018
(20) Egert-Berg K*, Hurme E*, Greif S*, Goldstein A, Harten L, Herrera-M LG, Flores-Martinez JJ, Valdés AT, Jonston DS, Eitan O, Borissov I, Shipley JR, Medellin RA, Wilkinson GS, Goerlitz HR, Yovel Y (2018): Resource ephemerality drives social foraging in bats. Current Biology 28(22): 3667-3673.
(19) Goerlitz HR (2018): Weather conditions determine attenuation and speed of sound: environmental limitations for monitoring and analysing bat echolocation. Ecology and Evolution 8(10): 5090-5100.
(18) Lattenkamp EZ, Kaučič R, Kaiser S, Großmann M, Koselj K* & Goerlitz HR* (2018): Environmental acoustic cues guide the biosonar attention of a highly specialised echolocator. Journal of Experimental Biology 221(8): jeb165696.
(17) Lewanzik D & Goerlitz HR (2018): Continued source level reduction during attack in the low-amplitude bat Barbastella barbastellus prevents moth evasive flight. Functional Ecology 32(5): 1251-1261.
2017
(16) Hügel T, van Meir V, Munoz-Meneses A, Clarin B-M, Siemers BM & Goerlitz HR (2017): Does similarity in call structure or foraging ecology explain interspecific information transfer in wild Myotis bats? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71: 168.
2015
(15) Luo L, Goerlitz HR, Brumm H & Wiegrebe L (2015): Linking the sender to the receiver: vocal adjustments by bats to maintain signal detection in noise. Scientific Reports 5: 18556.
2014
(14) Luo L, Koselj K, Zsebok S, Siemers BM & Goerlitz HR (2014): Global warming alters sound transmission: differential impacts on the prey detection ability of echolocating bats. The Journal of the Royal Society Interface 11: 20130961.
(13) Clarin BM, Bitzilekis E, Siemers BM & Goerlitz HR (2014): Personal messages reduce vandalism and theft of unattended scientific equipment. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5(2): 125-131.
(12) Clare EL, Goerlitz HR, Drapeau VA, Holderied MW, Adams AM, Nagel J, Dumont ER, Hebert PDN & Fenton MB (2014): Trophic niche flexibility in Glossophaga soricina: how a nectar seeker sneaks an insect snack. Functional Ecology 28(3): 632-641.
2013
(11) ter Hofstede HM*, Goerlitz HR* [joint first author], Ratcliffe JM, Holderied MW** & Surlykke A** (2013): The simple ears of noctuoid moths are finely tuned to the calls of their sympatric bat community. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 3954-3962.
(10) Dorado-Correa AM, Goerlitz HR & Siemers BM (2013): Interspecific acoustic recognition in two European bat communities. Frontiers in Physiology 4: 192.
2012
(9) Goerlitz HR*, Genzel D* & Wiegrebe L (2012): Bats’ avoidance of real and virtual objects: implications for the sonar coding of object size. Behavioural Processes 89(1): 61-67.
2011
(8) ter Hofstede HM*, Goerlitz HR* [joint first author], Montealegre-Z F., Robert D & Holderied MW (2011): Tympanal mechanics and neural responses in the ears of a noctuid moth. Naturwissenschaften, 98(12): 1057-1061.
2010
(7) Goerlitz HR*, ter Hofstede HM*, Zeale MRK*, Jones G & Holderied MW (2010): An aerial-hawking bat uses stealth echolocation to counter moth hearing. Current Biology 20(17): 1568–1572.
(6) Goerlitz HR, Geberl C & Wiegrebe L (2010): Sonar detection of jittering real targets in a free-flying bat. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 128(3): 1467–1475.
2008
(5) Goerlitz HR, Greif S & Siemers BM (2008): Cues for acoustic detection of prey: insect rustling sounds and the influence of walking substrate. Journal of Experimental Biology 211(17): 2799–2806.
(4) Goerlitz HR, Hübner M & Wiegrebe L (2008): Comparing passive and active hearing: Spectral analysis of transient sounds in bats. Journal of Experimental Biology 211(12): 1850–1858.
2007
(3) Siemers BM, Goerlitz HR, Robsomanitrandrasana E, Piep M, Ramanamanjato J-B, Rakotondravony D, Ramilijaona O & Ganzhorn JU (2007): Sensory basis of food detection in wild Microcebus murinus. International Journal of Primatology 28(2): 291–304.
(2) Goerlitz HR & Siemers BM (2007): Sensory ecology of prey rustling sounds: acoustical features and their classification by wild Grey Mouse Lemurs. Functional Ecology 21(1): 143–153.
2003
(1) Schill RO, Görlitz HR & Köhler H-R (2003): Laboratory simulation of a mining accident: acute toxicity, hsc/hsp70 response, and recovery from stress in Gammarus fossarum (Crustacea, Amphipoda) exposed to a pulse of cadmium. Biometals 16(3): 391–401.
Habilitation
2021: Goerlitz HR (2021): Multi-species Acoustic Information Networks: from Neurons to Predator-Prey Communities. Habilitation thesis for the Venia Legendi in Zoology. Under evaluation at the Faculty for Biology, LMU Munich
Dissertation
2008: Goerlitz HR (2008): Perceptual strategies in active and passive hearing of neotropical bats. Dissertation, Faculty for Biology, LMU Munich




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